Prepper Fit & Health HOW TO GET IN SHAPE!

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[00:00:33] It is 50, no 60 degrees out in Richmond, Virginia. We're shooting for a high of 62 in May. End of May, okay? Can we stop with the aerosol atmospheric spraying? Can we calm down with the stop global warming dead in its tracks?

[00:00:58] I was listening to The City Prepper. I started watching some different Prepper YouTube videos. I started watching The City Prepper. I watched a handful of his videos, like two videos, and not really watched very many. But anyhow, the whole video was about how hot it's going to be and how hot it is and how hot, hot, hot everything is and how it's going to affect the power grid. And I'm like, this is a good video. You know what I mean?

[00:01:26] Like, we have had the coldest May, I think, ever since I've been here. We had the most snow on the ground ever since I've been in Virginia. I've been like laughing with my parents about it because they've just moved down here. And I've been like, this is not what winter is, okay? It's never like this. So, I don't know what to tell you, but it's pretty crazy. What does show comments on stage mean?

[00:01:57] Ooh, can we auto-populate comments in the stream now? That's kind of cool. So, today's all about Prepper Fit and Health. Prepper Fit and Health is a huge part of preparedness for me. Luckily, it seems to somewhat have caught on. I can't say that it's exactly where I want it to be within the community, but it's a hell of a lot better than it used to be.

[00:02:22] I used to get like all kinds of silly comments from people about how stupid it was to worry about fitness because in SHTF it's all going to be guns and you know, whatever, that kind of stuff. That kind of talk. Because just, you don't realize how much we understand about health now, 10 years later. You know? Guys, I have zero confidence in this new mic setup. None. None.

[00:02:51] I'm trying not to do this number, but I've got the mic setup in such a way that I don't need to be like right on it. Um, as much as I love that. I love that aspect, but. Just how we got it set up. Um. So, we've been on the fitness thing before we were on the prepping thing. My wife really kind of kicked me into gear. I was kind of getting there. Then I met her.

[00:03:20] We kind of kicked it in high gear. Way back 20 plus years ago. You know? Probably the best move I ever made. Period. In terms of like. Health. Was working out.

[00:04:06] And. I've. Probably the most important thing. That you have to understand. That you have to understand. Is. This is. You should do what you want to do. When you. When fitness is concerned. Now, if you don't know anything. Right? If you don't know. What's up? Born to brat. Welcome. Good morning. The big problem is if you don't know what to do. But it's not that big a problem because YouTube is tremendous. Right? Our own prepper fit in health.

[00:04:36] We have a whole prepper fit in health series at PBN family.com. That has stretches and workouts and kettlebell stuff and lots of stuff. The deck of pain. Lots of stuff. Workout routines. Because it's a big deal. I mean, it is. It's a fundamental deal to my preparedness could be. I don't know. Could be. It's definitely top three. I don't know. You know.

[00:05:04] I'm not a big fan of that whole kind of thing. I think day to day really changes how you feel about what's priority one, two and three. Right? If it's pouring down rain outside and the rain barrels are all filled up or whatever the situation is for you. And what it doesn't feel like that much of a priority. You know what I mean? If it's August mid drought season might be a different story. That said.

[00:05:34] There's a lot out there in the YouTube world. You have to look at fitness. As something that you want to do. You know, I get some some flack, not a lot, but I get some flack for. Doing a lot of virtual reality style fitness stuff. I mean, I get it more from my own family than anybody else. Probably it's kind of funny, but we have a different dynamic in our household and it's kind of a fun one.

[00:06:06] But that's all part of doing what it is I want to do every day with fitness. In other words, like if you think I want to get in shape, man, like this is it. Like I've had it. I'm overweight this and that and the other thing. Oh, here's another tidbit in terms of losing weight. For the most of my life, I was like 155. When I hit like my mid 20s had kids, I jumped to 165.

[00:06:33] I started doing the five by five fitness program for a while when I was lifting weights. And in my head, I was gaining weight because I was getting more muscle. But like basically, I'd been around 170 to 175 for the last couple of years. I don't really budge when I hit a weight very often. I stay there for a while.

[00:06:59] But ration to ruin the working out's continued, right? I never stopped working out hard through ration to ruin. But the less eating or not eating brought me back down to like 165. I think it's 167. I last last I checked.

[00:07:20] So, you know, that's just another battle in your own right about working out to lose weight because I work out a lot. Run, you know, kettlebells, weightlifting, boxing, lots of stuff, different stuff. And every week, you know, and none of that stuff really affected my weight much, you know.

[00:07:48] Born to Brad said I cut out sugary drinks and pop. The weight just falls off down 184 to 215. You know, you could be on to something too, Born to Brad. Maybe. See, I don't weigh myself a lot. I'm not one of these fanatic way. I could care less. You know what I mean? I'm little in my mind. I'm little. So, more weight is not a problem. Yeah.

[00:08:14] Like I wouldn't even be that bent out of shape if I weighed 180 pounds so long as I didn't look terrible. You know what I mean? I didn't feel terrible. So, I'm not one of the fanatic aware, you know. But your fitness has to be exactly what it is you want to do every day. I tell people on the Prepper Fit and Health side to work out every day.

[00:08:36] But I tell them a workout might be you and your spouse take a walk two laps around the neighborhood, whatever the situation is, right? Or drive to the river, drive to the park, drive to the whatever, three laps, whatever it is. A walk, in other words. Some days, fitness is a walk. A workout is a walk. Some days, a workout is a stretch.

[00:09:02] Like today, I feel pretty rough. Because, yesterday was Memorial Day. And every Memorial Day, I do the MRF challenge, which is… I mean really, to be honest with you. The MRF challenge isn't really that tough. But for the pull-ups. There's no other day in my life that I ever do 100 pull-ups in one workout. Just never do it. You know, maybe… Top most 40. You know what I mean? Three sets or four sets of 10.

[00:09:33] Something like that. but that's up there for normally you know what i mean it's part of a like a greater back workout so it's not something i do when you do 100 pull-ups you feel it and then you feel it when you're doing 200 push-ups and you know all that kind of stuff and then going and running and all that um so i feel it today man i've been like an overwhelm of tired just tired stayed up too late

[00:10:00] uh been watching mob land with tom hardy that's been kind of fun actually fun i've been very anglo lately i don't know what that is like super anglophile lately i don't know if i'm rooting for england i don't know what it is but all kinds of stuff cool stuff coming out of the uk in my world right now um so first and foremost the biggest thing that you have to understand about fitness

[00:10:28] is it has to be for you it's not i'm gonna go to the gym here's where people always mess up i'm gonna go to the gym uh with my friend after work and we're gonna do it three days a week no you're not because you're gonna get sore and you're gonna say oh i want to take it i think i'm gonna take tomorrow off i'm just a little sore you know what i mean um or what i always see guys do

[00:10:54] what i what i see women do most often i'm not being i'm just telling it like i've seen it throughout the years i've heard people in fitness want to lose weight want to go to the gym years and years and years because they always talk to me about it because i always go i have no special power in fitness but consistency i have no dynamic lift that's impressive i have no

[00:11:18] skills that are impressive and fitness and health i have nothing impressive okay the only thing i have that's impressive is consistency and truth be told that is all you need thanks jferg i got a new light i got a new light that didn't turn me into uh um you know took i took the angelic lighting out let's go

[00:11:47] with that i took the angelic lighting away because we were losing on that i hope i sound good though because i got the microphone on a different setting but nobody's complaining so it must be good um so with ladies i often hear things get busy days get missed i gotta do x y and z i gotta do kids and the dinner i gotta stop and pick you know what i'll go tomorrow i'll go to this seems to

[00:12:13] be like a you know that that kind of downfall is what i see women happen to women most often when they're new on a fitness journey what i see most common with men is something almost to the opposite right uh and it's a it's a rapid fire attack on fitness it's like an all hands on deck attack

[00:12:37] like i went to the gym like six days this week and i'm feeling it man but i'm going six days next week you know what i mean and uh and before long they're going no days any week they burn themselves out i've seen so many guys do that you know and i i you know i cheer them on because it's good you know what i mean like i like to see people going to the one thing i love is seeing

[00:13:02] like big strong dudes i know that sounds hilarious but i do i like going to the gym and seeing big strong guys i'm like look fucking america you know what i mean it looks it looks like power it looks like we we're capable here you know what i mean and uh that you know that's always been my thing i know i don't really shy away or get nervous around guys that are big and strong because it just i don't know i feel like we're on the same team all the time imagine that you know what i mean i always look

[00:13:32] at it as like this is what makes up this country this is what makes everyone everybody looking good strong so that's always been my thing um but that's the way i see people go sort of pitfall most often you know what i mean they go the guys go too too far too fast burn themselves out i don't even want to see the gym i can't walk i can't talk i can't breathe i got sick you know because they go in headlong they don't change diet they don't change that you don't supplement they don't do

[00:13:59] anything like that they just go like you know rev the engine to red line and then burn themselves out and then um yeah a lot of hang-ups that i've always seen women get into is is sort of it's it's a responsibility overload or something like that it's almost like an uh i can't because well i can't do it today because i can't do it because i can't do it because i can't do it

[00:14:25] it seems like when when a lady doesn't want to hit the gym um they get real good at finding reasons why not to you know what i mean just being honest with my own personal experience all of that i can understand every bit of that every every bit of it i love making excuses to not go to the gym

[00:14:52] love it and uh and sometimes i go crazy too like yesterday went crazy um but that's where you're personalized when i say personalized i don't mean scientific fitness scientist figures out just how much food you should eat and how much time you should spend and how much weight you should lift like i'm talking personalized fitness what do you like to do now you have to know what you can do

[00:15:22] right but we are we have arrived at a moment where you can do anything you can learn to do anything you could do tai chi by the end of the week i've never done it i will do it i've just never done it but one of your days can be tai chi you wake up you feel like crap you wake up you didn't sleep good whatever the situation is it's tai chi day it's stretch day it's walk day

[00:15:47] the thing about fitness that people don't get that people don't appreciate is you can turn everything off and that doesn't happen in life much anymore but if you commit yourself to something like a tai chi if you commit yourself to something like a walk like a literal like leave this home right leave this thing at home take a walk for 45 minutes

[00:16:18] you will you will feel the mental digestion begin to happen you won't even believe it to take a walk for 45 minutes is to create a it's almost like a food uh what do they call it food not a food processor garbage disposal starts to run in here sometimes ideas pop up sometimes worries you know burn out that kind

[00:16:43] of stuff it's because what fitness is really doing what i think fitness does like for my wife so much obviously the fitness is important but also i think it gives her a moment to and you know it's me too it gives people a moment to silence everything to put everything down to put ourselves in a position where it's like oh i don't know if i can do this next rep and everything else gets the volume is turned

[00:17:12] down on everything right everything else the volume is turned down on because that's what that's what it requires sometimes you go on a long run and you're really suffering you don't think about all the stuff you get a brief respite from everything you got a bill you don't have the money for it you got this you don't have the time for it you got problems with your spouse you got your kids don't listen

[00:17:39] whatever situation your boss is a retard whatever the situation is um you reach a point where your heart's beating you can't breathe your legs hurt and none of that stuff exists anymore you know what i mean none of it exists it's just you you know what i mean and hopefully i can make it little things

[00:18:06] don't bend over squat oh the fire wolf yeah there's like i said it's a lot more that goes into working out than just like i want to be fit i want to be healthy i want to look good at the beach this stuff in here because you don't appreciate it no one can really fundamentally appreciate how

[00:18:31] distracted they are from life unless you're intentional about it but fitness can pull you out of that you know that's why you feel so good after you feel so good after because you turn the worry machine off for 30 minutes you know what i mean you turn the worry machine off for 45 minutes whatever the situation is so prep or fit in health for me is uh it's the culmination of

[00:18:59] years and years and years of figuring all this out figuring out what kind of workouts i like to do understanding that fitness is not dieting fitness is not a means to an end fitness is a lifestyle choice that is going to make your life better and longer and longer and better for longer

[00:19:27] and you have to get your head into that you have to get your head into like i'm going to work out for the next six months to blank no you're going to work out for the rest of your bloody life because that's what your body requires in once and your mind so once you come to that like once you come to that conclusion then you can say well i better make this as fun as possible you know this better be as fun as possible for me because if it's something i

[00:19:56] have to integrate into my life i've got enough things in life that suck this better be fun right so do that you know do that one of the coolest things was during covid when when my wife and i started working out together at home we were working out together occasionally taking a certain class it was called power we were taking power together at the gym and that was fun that was a struggle it

[00:20:22] was fun to work out together um but again if you're smart about fitness then all of these things all of these things start to play together you know what i mean and you start to see insane benefits that never existed in your mind before that are attributed to fitness right like oh eventually if you have kids eventually they get to an age where like

[00:20:49] what can you teach them now here's a great example okay this is so and this i don't know you know like this is a just a byproduct of fitness and self-defense i guess as lifestyle right my son's particularly my youngest but my my oldest used to do it too when he was well he just did tried to take

[00:21:16] me down the other day actually when we were at his uncle's house but anyway um you know the the punching with dad punching on dad that kind of thing is always a thing and lately my youngest has been getting into this little combination mindset right and he's throwing these combinations at my stomach and he started throwing knees and i started to teach him how to

[00:21:39] throw the knee the right way and then he started wanting to jump in knee and uh friday i was like let me show you how to throw the the real flying knee like let me show you how to really throw the thing because it's it's sweet like it's a it's a whole it's a torpedo i mean it's a human torpedo is what it is if you know how to do it right if you can gauge distance and you know how to do it if

[00:22:05] you guys want to learn how to do it i'll put it on the warrior in the garden section i'll teach you how to do the flying knee it's not really that hard um once you get the technique down but then we were out there we were having a good time throwing flying knees at the heavy bag and you know he was getting it and the whole thing is kneeing with the same foot that you jump with you know and it's kind of hard to train your brain that way because you want to jump you want to jump

[00:22:30] with your right knee and then land the knee with your left knee like that's what your brain wants to do but it's just a follow-through with the right knee um but anyway this is one of those byproducts of like weaving all that into your life weaving that fitness and that health and you know being in good enough shape that i can go out there and say like let me knee this heavy bag halfway around this tree

[00:22:56] because when you throw a flying knee you feel you feel like you're really powerful because your whole body weight is going into the tip of the knee then right you're running or you're moving forward exploding forward it's that i mean yeah if the timing is right in a situation like that and you can land something like that it's devastating so again these sort of things show up but they can

[00:23:21] only show up if you're in shape if currently right and and if you you know what the hell you're doing you're never going to know what the hell you're doing when you do new stuff that's the biggest fear about fitness the biggest fear about fitness and the biggest fear about gyms is you go into a gym there's a hundred machines now there's a hundred machines there's kettlebell things there's balls some balls are heavy and hard some balls are soft and heavy there's so much shit

[00:23:50] in the gym now it's ridiculous right and most of the anxiety i think comes from looking at stuff and going like i don't know how to do that right and i don't want to look like an idiot even though nobody's looking at you i mean if you're a guy like me like having shaved mustache hair unkempt whatever nobody's looking at you if you're listening to me and you're gonna wear uh yoga pants and a sports

[00:24:18] bra then you better know your stuff because everybody's gonna be looking at you probably right but the truth of the matter is most people are in there on their grind and they're probably not paying attention to you at all but i know the feeling i definitely know the feeling of like i'm here i'm amongst all these people there's judgment it's nerve-wracking you know what i mean and most people just you got to get over that phase of learning you got to get over that phase of learning

[00:24:46] this is what this machine is for this is what it does this is how it affects me i like it i'm gonna use it you know but i know i know the deal that's why i don't i don't go to the gym every day you know what i mean i love to work out in isolation i love to work out alone i love to work out in extreme heat alone i love that i mean it's there's like a real i talk to my family about it i'm like there's a real

[00:25:14] high percentage that this will be how you find me it'll probably be in august early september maybe something like that on a trail in a field maybe dead of heat exhaustion heat stroke something along those lines because i love it i don't know just what i love but like i said in a in a so let's talk

[00:25:38] about in a given week okay and that's how we'll end this one this is kind of a just a fitness and health rant go to pbnfamily.com even if you're already a member and scroll through that prep or fit and health section check that section out if you're more into into the self-defense aspects of it um then you should check out the warrior in the garden too because the warrior in the garden is a

[00:26:04] series that i started a couple years ago maybe that i don't have highlighted as a series on the main page and i probably should it deserves to be a membership series and if you have a punching bag or something you can hit or even if you want a shadow box um it's basically the basic breakdowns of striking you know basic baked that breakdowns of striking not from my perspective but when i learned from a

[00:26:34] i don't know a muay thai champion i don't know i don't have his credentials in front of me but he knew his stuff you know we i went to a mma gym locally and learned how to strike from him primarily primarily from one guy and uh yeah that's what you're getting you know what i mean so in a given week

[00:26:59] right in a given week here are all the things that i might call upon and i want you if you take one thing away from today's show i want you to take this away from today's show do what you like to do when you like to do it right no ifs ands or buts because the worst thing you can do is nothing and that's what will happen if you try to force

[00:27:28] yourself to go to the gym go to the gym go to the gym i gotta go to the gym three days a week five days a week whatever it doesn't matter you're gonna miss days it's not the end of the world if you miss anyway but i'm just saying you have to build a framework you have to build a collection of things that you like to do because then you'll do i know it sounds so dumb to make a list of things you like

[00:27:54] to do and you'll do them if you make a list of things you don't really want to do then chances are you're going to get real good at going oh i gotta repaint the siding on the house tonight i can't do any working out right you get a lot of stuff done none of it'll be fitness um so in a given week uh there is typically at least one day that week that i will work out with lady liberty at least

[00:28:22] one night she's got nothing going on i got nothing going on we're home neither of us have worked out we'll go upstairs i'm talking legitimate workout i don't know where your minds are but we'll go upstairs work out in our bedroom and uh these things are devastating body fit by amy shit sydney i want to say her name sydney cummings but that's not right

[00:28:48] usually look up body fit by amy she's good enough the other girl's even harder that my wife's been doing lately um she's gonna tell you the guys watching she's gonna tell you to use a 10 pound weight or whatever for everything use heavier weight and it's harder right but she'll kill you she'll absolutely kill you you can do that with your kids you can do that with your your wife whatever

[00:29:11] it's fun so that's a given right um trail running is a given trail running is therapy trail running is time to look over the wild uh world around my home right like like the plants at the trails that i run are the same as the plants near my home so it tells me all i need to know about foraging it tells me a

[00:29:38] lot about wildlife where the deer at what are the deer doing right now this kind of stuff right when you run in the woods if you can open your eyes and not be you know some days i am totally distracted though by my phone because trail running along with the foraging in the wildlife situations um can also sometimes be a time to just dissolve into an audiobook sometimes it's just dissolve into

[00:30:02] the changing earth audio drama and run a couple miles and run home and and you know reset the system but every week is at least one at least one run every week you know because it's it's dual therapy and fitness now that the weather's hot there is also a stretch of uh hills in that same park and i'll run

[00:30:30] those hills incessantly maybe about five laps that end with the with the hill run and i don't know how long the hill run is but it's long it's not like a sprint up a 20 foot hill you know what i mean it's it's a long ascent it's brutal that's a given right then we got the home weights the home kettlebells

[00:30:58] these i mean if you have no weights at home i'd highly recommend the home kettlebell seriously the home kettlebell is clutch firewood ford says he runs faster in the woods i believe it yeah the trail running is so so far superior to street running i almost never do it i almost never

[00:31:20] run the street um it's just such a superior thing from the elevation changes to the roots and the rocks and the you know the the ankles and feet get a workout that's totally different than just flat you know um so kettle yeah kettlebells are a must-have you know and and then some days it's

[00:31:48] just calisthenic stuff some days i call it the 50 the 50 is very simple you do 50 of three exercises called a day now we're talking now we're adding things to the puzzle that are not as extreme as going and lifting heavy weights at the gym right which is typically an option also but you see how

[00:32:07] many things we have to choose from now right and we're not even done yet so calisthenics right 50 push-ups 50 squats 50 sit-ups done for the day that's my day sometimes it's a walk sometimes it's a stretch it needs to be a stretch more often i have i i have had a really bad year with yoga

[00:32:30] really just shit here with yoga just have not done hardly any of it and i don't know why i don't i i do i don't want to therapize myself on air but that's an option too you know that is an op yoga is unbelievable if you're out there going yoga yuck give it a try go to uh the the one that i use

[00:32:56] and have used for years is fight master yoga fight master yoga was my yogi for a long time she died out of nowhere really crazy just one day she just died and i was like what fight leslie fight master gone okay i got tangled in the fight master yoga because i was searching for yoga for jiu-jitsu i was doing jiu-jitsu and that popped up but i think her kids have taken it over now and it's good

[00:33:27] she does a great 30 days of yoga thing almost every year she's had subsequent years of that so that's a good place to start right the v virtual reality thrill of the fight to online boxing game

[00:33:46] has been probably the the heaviest hitting endurance workout that i do lately and it's so fun it's so fun because you're fighting people online and it's just so fun that you know you don't know what what's coming you don't know what the style is going to be and it's just it's a great time it's brutal i mean it will absolutely kill you if you're not careful i don't even joking i don't mean joking

[00:34:15] like it could probably kill you if you're not uh in shape and you know all that kind of deal could probably kill you but it's options that's the thing i'm sure there's other stuff that i'm not accounting for but you know what i what i'm trying to dictate is you need a list you need a list of things oh firewall forges playing thrill of the fight man dude oh then there's heavy bag

[00:34:44] there's always heavy bag that's usually friday friday is typically heavy bag day because the pit bulls are gone um because the pit bulls they like to they like to hit the heavy bag too heaven help anybody if i start punching on them in my own house it's going to go real bad for them so quickly because my one dog is like a torpedo he comes out of nowhere and jumps on that heavy bag

[00:35:11] and sinks his teeth into that poor thing and just tears it just wants to tear it apart the moment i hit it hit it one time he comes flying starts he i've been going crazy um you need options what's not an option is i'll get to fitness next year i listen to dr ronda patrick she's my nutritionist one day there's two

[00:35:38] things i want to do sorry this show is so long there's two things i want to do number one is i want to do i want to do a show or a series of shows where i really show you guys all of the people that i turn to for advice and guidance in life and this could be this probably could be the same show or the same series but the series i'd like to do is like the thank you world tour or something like

[00:36:07] that like i really in my head lately i've really been mulling over 10 20 probably people that i'd really love to interview just so i could thank them you know what i mean because there's people out there who have really changed my life and have no idea that i exist or that they have helped me in

[00:36:31] any way um you know there's just certain kinds of content that and there's certain kind of content creators out there there's people there's experts there's people who have figured things out that i've latched onto over my life and made like big life decisions based on their expertise that changed my life and in this day and age it's weird because those people used to be like your

[00:36:56] boss or your friend or your uncle or your dad you know what i mean but this day and age those people are people you may never meet or maybe it's an author and you can write them snail mail and tell them you know that kind of thing but yeah so don't want to get off track visit pbnfamily.com member or not check out prep or fit and health our section over there it could be it could be enough

[00:37:22] to get you going it will give you options you will be able to see the types of things that i do that that are way outside the realm of go to gym lift weights right and uh yeah you need options you need fitness and you need options you need to be able to wake up every day and say what do i want to do one through ten what do i want to do today what do i feel like doing today and really just try to

[00:37:47] do something every day if you try to do something every day and you fail twice in a week three times in a week you still hit four workouts that's great i mean it's a great week you know so yeah get your prepper fit and health in order folks and uh can we stop with the global cooling it's it's miserable

[00:38:15] and cloudy again outside it's cold it's cold in may in may 27th it's cold in virginia i should be like i got a button-down shirt and tactical pants on it's ridiculous i'm very nervous about this guys i'm i look this is not the doomsday that most people are thinking about but i think the ice age farmer

[00:38:43] was on to something you remember the we used to broadcast the ice age farmer here you haven't heard from him in a while he's disappeared i think he's fundamentally making enough money with his own community to just do his thing but um yeah i don't like it i don't like it get prepared folks okay i'll talk to you guys tomorrow it's tuesday i don't know what the hell is going to be on the prep

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