- Two years ago for the very first time in my life
I started doing full workouts on a regular basis.
And in that time I realized I had three big misconceptions
about working out.
I was a stupid idiot.
Don't talk to yourself that way.
Be kind to yourself.
Intro.
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- [Narrator] There.
That's real balance and poise.
Immunization and regular physical checkups
are only a part of preventive medicine.
Another aspect is keeping yourself in shape.
- Most of my life, especially in my dirty twenties,
I call them just now for the first time,
I didn't really pay attention to fitness.
But you've seen on this channel in recent years,
I've gotten more and more into health,
but I've never on a regular basis did full workouts
until two years ago when I made this video
and decided I'm just gonna go for it.
And I have, almost without fail,
my trainer thinks I'm doing a good job.
- Honestly, I think you've found a very important group.
It feels like you would do this forever.
- That's Nathanuel Frezzell.
He trains me through the app CoPilot,
they're the sponsor of this video.
It may have helped me immensely for real.
I'm not just saying that because they're a sponsor.
I'll talk more about them later.
But as I worked out, I realized
that I had three big misconceptions
that probably kept me from starting.
The first misconception, I'm not ready to work out.
It's complicated, I don't have the equipment,
I don't have a gym membership, I don't know what I'm doing,
I'm not fit enough to start.
Well, the truth is, you're ready right now.
- You can go to the gym. You can be at home.
- I do my workouts at home.
True, I do have equipment and a little area that is my gym.
But when I started I didn't.
Nathanuel just gave me workouts
that required the ground and my body.
Look, I have ground and body.
So I can do that.
Luckily I'm not a floating brain
in the middle of outer space, although someday.
Gradually I did get more equipment
and the workouts got bigger and I got fitter,
which brings up the excuse,
you're not fit enough to start.
- Or that they have to be in a certain level of shape
to start exercising.
- I think that's something that I actually thought
even though it doesn't make sense,
I need to workout to get fit,
but I'm not fit enough to start working out.
So I better work out to get fit,
but I'm not fit enough to start working out, but I
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Start small.
- Lean into the fact that they're out of shape,
it doesn't have to be nine different exercises
in one session.
You can do three different exercises.
It could just be stretching.
Now, we can start wherever it is you want.
- Many years ago a friend told me
that he just started doing 10 pushups at night
before going to bed.
And after a few weeks he started noticing changes.
So I tried, it was my wave dipping my muscle toe
in my fitness pool,
which led to dabbling into all sorts of other fitness crap
over the years, which now led
to the full workouts that I do.
So maybe just find something simple,
do it a teeny bit every day for a while,
just to see how it makes you feel.
This also applies to the next excuse.
I don't know how.
Find something simple and easy that you do know how to do
just to get the ball rolling.
Like right now, if you're able to do a few
or even just one pushup, just where you are.
Go ahead. That's activity.
That would be more exercise than if you didn't do it,
wouldn't that feel nice?
I'm not gonna do it.
I already did my workout today. I'm tired.
Okay. Fine.
Another thing you can do, get help.
I still don't know what I'm doing.
Luckily, I have Nathanuel who does all the thinking for me.
Through CoPilot, which is now on Android,
as well as iPhone, by the way,
it's been made a lot less complicated for me
because I just have you do all the thinking, which is nice
- For sure, so I use the app as well.
And it's hilarious because I am the person
making my own programs most of the time.
- Honestly, I'm not just saying this
because they're a sponsor.
I would not still be doing these workouts probably
if it wasn't for CoPilot.
I certainly wouldn't have been so consistent.
- Yes, I'm wearing the same shirt and the B-roll
that I was wearing when I was talking to the camera.
Because just after that, I wasn't stinky then, don't worry.
It's apparently working for others too.
I have a beard lover's leaderboard with 582 people on it.
What place am I in? 15th?
Can't even be first on my own stupid leaderboard.
Not that I'm competitive at all, really.
Nathanuel crafts my workouts,
the app shows me how to do them.
And I'm talking to him all the time.
This was too hard. This was too easy.
This was just right.
My butt hurts, which my butt never actually hurt,
but my knee is currently hurting
and I've gone through other various pains
'cause I'm an old man
and he'll craft the workout to work around it or fix it.
All I have to do is just move and not think about it.
I love it.
If you'd like to try it, you can click the link below,
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Moving on to the next excuse.
A big one, time.
I forgot to mention time before,
but it's one of the big reasons
people think they're not ready.
Time is quite an issue.
♪ Time after time ♪
Time everyone's day is different.
Everyone's life is different
unless we're talking about parallel universes,
which we're not, or are we?
For some, having a very rigid schedule
like working out every morning or every evening
works very well.
I don't do, I actually don't have a schedule.
My situation's unique. I work at home.
I'm my own boss. I control when I do my work.
I know this isn't gonna apply to everybody,
but here's my experience.
I'm all over the place.
Sometimes I work out in the morning,
often I work out in the afternoons, whenever I feel
like I've gotten enough work done for the day,
or I'll squeeze it in right before bed
if I didn't have time earlier.
Usually I just wait until I feel like it's time to work out.
But I almost never skip a day
unless I absolutely do not have time,
like we're traveling or something.
And it doesn't feel like I have less time to do other stuff.
I'm able to get everything else done that I need to do.
It's Parkinson's law in,
I brought this up during my previous
walking 20,000 steps a day video.
Makes me think of Parkinson's law,
work expands to fill the time allotted.
I have less time to do the work I need to get done,
so I just do it more efficiently,
less sitting around thinking like, is that good,
should I change that?
whenever I use, I don't have time
as an excuse for something,
it usually just means I don't wanna do it.
A topic I wrote about more in my newsletter
that comes out every Tuesday, Tuesbetter Newsletter,
if you wanna subscribe to that.
But I know if you're at a job where you have to be there
for a certain amount of time,
regardless of how much work you have to do,
it's gonna be different.
All I'm saying is,
if you think you don't have time,
take a closer look at that,
and maybe you have more time than you think you do.
Or maybe you can change things
so that you do have more time.
Maybe not. I don't know.
- [Child] Are you done?
- I'm not done.
- [Child] I'm just gonna wait then for you.
- Okay.
Maybe time is genuinely a problem for you,
and I'm sorry about that.
I'll keep working on my time machine.
(speaks backwards)
I'll keep working on my time machine.
Next big misconception that I had, working out sucks,
it's boring and it's gonna hurt.
Truth, working out feels good.
What do you think people get wrong about exercise?
- People think it has to be hard.
- Yes, it doesn't always feel good.
You're gonna probably feel soreness,
especially early on when you start working out
or whenever you push yourself
significantly further than you're used to.
But now that I'm at the level I'm at,
I'm mostly just trying to maintain and it doesn't hurt,
it actually feels good.
But even when it hurts, it also kind of feels good.
It's like good kind of hurt.
♪ Come on babe make it hurt so good. ♪
Probably not the kind of hurt referred to in that song
depending on what your workouts are.
Why does it feel good?
I don't know, it just kind of feels good
to get your heart rate up and use your whole body
the way Prometheus intended.
Usually feel good to the rest of the day.
It reduces stress and it usually gives me energy.
- Yes, there is types of exercise that are super intense.
That will make you wanna take a nap afterwards.
But for the most part, I use them in place of a nap
and I feel completely refreshed.
Part of the reason why I smile all the time
is because I'm exercising often.
- And it gives me confidence.
I'm not talking about like
confidence yeah!
(grunts)
Talking more about-
- If I was out with my kids and they were like,
dad let's play on this playground,
but I could do it and not have to think twice about,
would my body let me do that?
Yeah, even little things like walking downstairs,
walking upstairs, carrying in all the groceries on one trip.
- And it gives me peace of mind
knowing that I'm doing everything I can for my future health
and preventing future injury hopefully.
Ah, maybe if maybe I need to treat eagles better.
What about boredom?
Doesn't have to be boring.
It's one of the only chances I get
to listen to podcasts and watch Seinfeld reruns.
There are a lot of Seinfeld reruns on TV.
And for what I do for a living, it's nice
to just break up the monotony of sitting at my desk
and do something that doesn't involve any creative thinking
because it's all planned out by Nathanuel.
- I had someone explain it to me
as like a mental pallette cleanser transition
from one activity to the next.
That's actually an excellent way to do it.
- But if it's still boring,
you don't gotta do the regular exercise.
You can just do fun things.
- It's important to find the thing that feels good.
- There are many ways the youngsters get exercised.
This volleyball game is an example.
Swimming, modern dance also is part
of this school's physical education curriculum.
Walking is an excellent exercise too.
- Okay, misconception number three.
Working out is for a certain type of person.
I not some kind of jock. I need some kind of bodybuilder.
I don't care how I look.
It's what's in here that counts, cholesterol, whiskey.
I need some kind of health nut.
I just do what it feels in the moment.
I'm a free spirit.
The truth is, working out doesn't define you.
It can be any one of those things or none at all.
For me these days, it's really none at all.
I don't care about the competitive aspects of it.
I'm not even paying attention to the numbers
because Nathanuel's paying attention to all that for me.
Once in a while, I'll be like,
"Ooh, I can do one more pull up than I could before.
That's cool."
But I'm not gonna fly off the handle about it.
I don't even have any goals at this point
but to just feel good and continue doing it.
For me it's like meditation with more effort
or brushing teeth with more effort,
depending on how you brush your teeth.
You be gentle with your teeth and not too gentle.
Just something I do on a regular basis
for my ongoing health.
Hey Nathan, you'll hit me up with a metaphor.
- [Nathanuel] You get oil changes for your car.
You rotate your tires. That's what we're doing.
We're rotating your tires.
- Nice metaphor.
Though it might not be that way at first,
it does get easier over time
unless you're just constantly going for the gains,
there's nothing wrong with that either.
- Especially the stronger you get,
the less time you need to do the workouts to maintain.
Your workouts more recently have been fairly light,
nothing like what we were doing even like a year ago,
but you probably don't feel like you've lost any strength.
And in fact you probably feel like
in some areas you've gained some.
- Yeah, it's just so much easier to maintain now.
It hasn't taken over my life. It doesn't define me.
Not everything has to be life changing, dammit.
- [Nathanuel] If you are so mountaintop focused,
if you're expecting it to be such a life changing thing,
once you get there, you won't know what to do next,
and you'll go back to whatever lifestyle you've had before.
- In short, it's a pretty simple daily practice
that feels good that I can almost always fit in my schedule
and it's good for me in the long run.
Why not do it?
I guess I could have just said that at the beginning
that would've been the whole video.
Now you would, you wouldn't listened.
Maybe you're not listening now.
Am I just talking to myself here?
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That's fine. No competition.
I keep forgetting that I lied
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(grunts)
Ah!