Surviving America 077: Mental & Physical Endurance

Society in every state is a blessing. A government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil. The future has already used PBN family. What is up? Welcoming to Surviving America Audio only edition. I am your host, James Walton, and we are talking endurance today, mental and physical endurance and the value they're in and tips and techniques and how it. You know, I'll tell you a little bit about my story going from a bum to you know, someone who can push the pace pretty damn good now, you know what that all took decades and experiences, and you know, I'll mind for you all the most valuable diamonds from the last what has been probably twenty years, yeah about a little even little more actually twenty years, twenty some years of you know, just getting better at it. I keep I keep drilling down into the core of what people are doing right now. This is the thing, you know what I mean? I am core mining for sure. You know, why do people act this way? Why do people feel this way? Why do people do these things? Why? Why the depression, why the radical ideology? Why the whole thing? You know what I mean, every everything is a thing, and I don't know, I'm just it's just the way my brain's working right now, you know what I mean, It really is, it's a busy time in life and in my spare time when I have the freedom to think about things. It's it's just that it's, you know, let's get down to figuring it out. So you know, when I tell you these things, it's almost like a warning, you know what I mean, it's like a be prepared something on these core motivations, these core elements of why we feel and behave the way that we feel and behave in the twenty twenties. That's coming. But it's a busy time, you know what I mean. There's a lot going on. There's always a lot going on anymore. In fact, I think that is one of the core problems with our society is, you know, our lack of ability to do nothing and enjoy it. And I mean nothing, you know what I mean. I don't mean. I don't mean play video games. I don't mean watch television. I don't mean, you know, scroll on your phone. I mean the ability to just sit and do nothing. It's a thing. It is a thing, you know what I mean. It's it's an activity. There isn't an activity. There is definitely an activity that is sitting and staring off into nothing. And I think actually that it's probably more important now than ever, because your brain's got to process the whole world, all right. Every day you wake up and by the end of the day you have to process the entire world. You have to well, what's going on in China and Japan and the birth rate and the war and this and that just the United States alone, what's happening in California, what's happening Pennsylvania, what's happening in Maryland's happening DC? Right? Never before, never before, have you had to deal with that level of information. Will suck. And this brings me to the topic of willpower and endurance. You see, because you might hear the word endurance and think, James, I don't want to run five miles every day or whatever. I don't want to run. I don't want to build my endurance. I don't have a good heart and lungs or I don't. I'm happy with how endured I am for my life. I'm not into your physical fitness madness, you know what I mean. I do a couple walks a week and I'm happy leave me alone. But it isn't that simple, you know what I mean. What's being asked of you on a day to day well, what's being taken from you on a day to day basis is in fact your will and your endurance, whether you want to or not, you know what I mean, whether you want to give it or you don't want to give it, it doesn't matter. The very nature of our society today and the flow of information and the digitized gulag of our life is just that right. The world is happening to you. It doesn't matter whether you want it to or not. It doesn't matter if you want to endure it or not. It doesn't matter if you do. I mean, the only thing you can do is sit quietly without it. You know what I mean, because even the sheer distraction of scrolling is enough to break your ill powered down because you have to use energy to process what it is you're seeing. You have to process what you're seeing, and then you also have to keep your wits about you, because scrolling is not a fun it's not an all fun and games thing. Every so often, you know, you'll just get thrown something out of the blue and be like, what was that? Where'd that come from? So your endurance is being tested, whether you like it or not. And from my experience over the last twenty years, going from being a single bum to you know, the single parts not that important, but from being someone who really kind of prided himself in his sloth to someone who now you know, I've honed this thing. I don't know how else to explain it. You know what I mean. I'll go when you're done going. In most people I'm talking to, in most cases, I will be going when you've quit. And it's not a cocky to say, it's just reality. It's just the reality. Like I don't really quit unless I've made a decision to quit something, you know what I mean. But if it's like we have to get through this thing or or you know what I mean, whatever it is, and it just come from hard work, that's all. That's the whole thing that I want you to understand. And me saying that also comes from being around people quitting, you know what I mean, and me going, oh, I see it, it's starting, and then I you know, then they quit and I keep going. In physicality and mentality, right, you just see those things. So we have to go back to garage band days and the power of culture and the people you hang out with. And we had built a world in my band and my friend group that was, you know, the lazy world. It was let's be lazy. Let's give very little effort in everything that we do, especially school, and yeah, let's let's be these sort of people who really enjoy the comforts and the sweetness of life. And you know, the idea of physical strength and physicality it was like kryptonite. You know. It was like, like, the best example I can give you is I failed eleventh and twelfth grade gym and I had to make them up after school by walking the track because of this whole mentality of like, I'm not participating in physical endeavors. You understand, I'm an artiste, I'm a musician. This is what I do. I'm not playing softball or whatever. And this was the mentality, man, until one day I went to Chichester High School. Chichester is a town outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, south east, nearly on the border with Delaware, pretty damn close to Delaware in almost every way, right, or at least on one side. And Chichester was a really it was really cool little place actually, and that's what it was. It was a cool little place. There were strip malls and those kinds of things around, but there was a lot of little like you know, neighborhoods, and you could walk a road Chichester Avenue basically, you know, from Marcus Silk where I lived, through Lynnwood through all the way up to freaking Asten. I would walk that road up and meet my friends. I'd walk that road up my girlfriend, my high school girlfriend, lived on that road, and you know, it was just it was one of those things. This little town had a diner, and what do you think the diner was called. It was called Chai Restaurant. And in fact, my girl, my high school sweetheart, got me a job at Chai Restaurant as a dishwasher. She was also a dishwasher. That was fun, and I worked there, and I worked there, you know, with her, and I even went back there and worked there when we were broken up and moved on in our lives, you know, and we were together a long time for you know, having fallen in love pretty young. I guess we were together about three three and a half years something like that. Most of my high school life, I was in a committed relationship, and yeah, it was you know, she was great. Really, it's a it's a whole dark tale in and of itself. But we had found each other at a very interesting time in our lives, with calamity all around us, and fundamentally were like this shelter for one another in it all. And it was nice. It was a love story, you know, in high school. It was nice. But after we you know, broke up, having betrayed one another, as you know young couples do and all that kind of stuff. It's just we went our separate ways and I wound up back at Chai Restaurant just making money. And Chai Restaurant was exactly across the street, directly across Chai Avenue from Chichester High School, which had a running track. And I don't know what it was I had still to this day, I can't remember. I can't remember what it was, what the motivation was, if it was Dragon ball Z, which was always a part of my love, I don't I don't remember why I decided all of a sudden now at sixteen, seventeen years old or whatever I was, that you should start running. You should, you should, you know care about this aspect of your life all of a sudden, I don't remember what it was, I really don't. Some of it had to have been part of another friend of mine's named John, who has returned in my life in a very funny way. But he was training to go into the army after senior year and I went on a run with him in my then state and it was a good run. I mean it was. It was no joke, and I remember just being you know, flatlined by the guy, watching him take off, stopping halfway up the hill we were running, and waiting for him to run back to me, and then running home with him in the you know, in the death state, in the near death state. So that, I mean, that could have played on my ego a little bit and forced me into this idea that you better get in shape. But suffice it to say, you know, it was it was that time in my life was it was changing. You know. Then I met my wife, and you know, my wife's a D two hockey player in college. Right. She's this little beautiful blue, white, blonde haired Southern girl that if you saw her from afar, you'd be like, yeah, okay, oh that's you mean? Field hockey, right, But you know, fitness was a big part of her life, and I just, I don't know, I fell right into it with her, with the gym and everything, and we just hit it just the right time, you know what I mean. And and before long I was doing a lot of running. And you know the reason I was doing so much running actually, by the time I was about nineteen twenty was a dog named Baxter. Maybe you know what a zombie is when a person dies and is varied. It seems a certain. Voodoo priests who allowed the power to bring him back to life. Horrible, It's worse than horrible because a zombie has no will of his own. You see them sometimes walking around blindly with dead eyes, following orders, not knowing what they do, not caring, you mean, like democrats. So it's two thousand and seven six something around there, and by this point I had met Lady Liberty and we were on the hunt for a dog, and we wanted to poot a puggle or something like that, some kind of cute dog that we could masquerade playing house with in our new apartment. And you know what you do with the dog at that age when you're in a relationship, right, And we wind up at this pet store down the highway in Delaware and we're staring at these this pack of pit bull puppies and we're looking at the price and they don't have the dog that we have, and the pit bull puppies are cheap. And we're in you know, fresh out of college, college debt, the whole thing, not making good money or anything. And we're looking over this scene and we're like, well, there's a boy there we could take. There's one boy. And we wind out. You know, we're at the age where we're leaving with something right, like we want a dog, Like we want our goals to come home with a dog. We're coming home with a dog. And this is a moment, you know, where in society where pipples are like really still scary and frowned upond and all that kind of stuff. Whatever, who cares. We're taking home a dog, you know, And we named that dog Baxter, and Baxter very quickly showed us that you're gonna be walking me a lot, right, We're gonna be going on adventures, big long walks. You know. There was a time where I was working Saturdays at a restaurant and my Saturday was the day that my wife would take Baxter on these epic, like four hour walks through Brandywine River Park, and you know, it was just it was just the habit that we created. We take them the dog parks, we take them to you know, we did all these things. I started to run with him. I started running with him through Brandywine Park and I started realizing, like, actually I started running with him at a place called Carousel Farms. That was actually where I first started running through woods in a way that was challenging uphills and downhills. And it's really weird, but but he was sort of u It's weird to say, but he was basically like a mentor in many ways because he was a terrier. He never quit, and he loved to run, and he loved to run through the woods and I love to watch him. But I had to keep up with him. And this became a reoccurring theme this dry It's a day off of work to drive to the woods and run. I don't know how far I ran. I have no clue, because it wasn't I wasn't running for miles, I wasn't really running for health. I was running for the sheer joy of it, because it was so fun to run with the dog, and we'd go and we'd find new places and we'd run through the woods and you just had a ball, you know what I mean, We just have a blast. And you know, in doing all that, I started to see like, oh, this is about how much I can do, This is how much I can run. I'd start to develop that relationship with the quitter in my head, you know what I mean, and I'd feel But what was beautiful about running with a dog was that there was always the responsibility tied to it, so that quitting voice wasn't just you're out running on a running track by yourself and no one cares if you quit or not. It's not gonna make any difference, right. It was like, well, you have to at least run back to the car, or you have to at least catch up the backs, right, whatever the situation was. This is really where the running developed, and really where I first started to experience, like, not just the quitting voice in running, because I knew that from a young age. Right, everybody knows that you want to develop a relationship with that quitting voice because you want to recognize it as early as possible. It shows up in every aspect of your life. You just don't know what. You block it out. You don't want to feel weak, you don't know what to admit it. But that quitting voice shows up in everything that you do, and it's it's most loud. It's loud noticed when uh, it's loudest when you're suffering physically. When you're suffering physically, the quitting voice is the loudest. You can really get to know it. You build your will power by standing strong as that thing berates you, as it tells you to make your run shorter, as it tells you to take a different way, as it tells you to go this way instead of that way because it's shorter or easier or slow down. Who cares about making this mile time? It doesn't matter, nothing matters, you're just running. Who cares? Every run that I have, just so you know, like these words happen, These these things happen like they literally every every single run that I do, whether it was running the marathon, training for the marathon, or running two miles that like I might do today, same voice all the time. It's always there. It always pops up. Start running, Start, getting uncomfortable. All the sudden you start making up lies, making up stories, making up things that tell yourself, and trying to quit. And it is amazing. I mean, it's totally real, but it's amazing that it can crop up every time. From there, we moved to Virginia and found new places to run, but executed much the same way. And we were lucky enough to settle into a home And we didn't know it at the time, but we were lucky enough to settle into a home that had a like, a really nice place to run close by. And I don't even know how many hundreds, if not thousands of miles I've put in there with backs. Now without backs, he's long dead and buried with other dogs in his place. Alone. You know, running alone is the probably the if you're interested in building willpower and endurance and fighting the fight that I'm talking about with your or inner voice, running alone is the best. Running alone with no you know, no finish line, none of that kind of stuff, no great platitudes for your family to be hey, dad, did it, none of that stuff, Because that's where you can quit easiest, and if you can, if you can battle through, when you can quit easiest when you can quit with the least repercussions. If you can battle through that man, you're you're making strides now, you know. Now you're making real strides because will power is great. But where it's most effective is when you're alone and in your quiet moments. Right, that's where will power really becomes. Like, that's where all the gems are, That's where all the gold is. Right, You've got to be in that place where if I quit, no one's even going to know it. So who cares? Because that's the voice? You know, I go on to midday run, My wife's at work, my kids are at school. The dogs don't care. They're farting and snoring inside the house. I could walk into those woods and walk out. You know who cares if I quit? It doesn't matter. If I ran halfway and quit, doesn't matter if you know what I mean. And that is the voice, and defeating that voice is what builds your willpower. All of a sudden, in the face of all that, it's okay to quit talk. You can you can rise to the occasion. Right. The thing about that level of willpower is that you can almost you can almost push it out to infinity. You know, I was a guy who ran like five miles a few times a month, which I do that sometimes, like I do the Big Five. I did it Saturday. It was great, and a much more, many more smaller runs throughout the week, right throughout the month. And when I started training for the marathon, I said, all right, well, I've done the five. I know this. This length of running is five miles, so I'm just gonna do it twice, you know. And it was hard, don't get me wrong, but I don't think i'd ever run ten miles before that moment. And I ran to ten miles and then I did it more and more often, and it was just one of those things that was like I came to realize that the physical aspect of running is important. Building, you know, especially if you're coming from zero, but building your endurance to like your heart and lung capacity and muscles and you know, calves and that kind of stuff, and hips, the things that support you while you run, your back shoulders, those kinds of things. Building those things. It's not it's not like, oh, I'm gonna go from five miles to ten miles. I need six months worth of physical training to be prepared for that right, that's not real. Chances are you can run further than you've ever run today, and it would be it would be almost one hundred would be like ninety nine percent matter of willpower, a ninety nine percent a matter of mental endurance, your ability to just tell yourself shut up and keep going because everything else, the discomfort and all that, that's it is real. But it's hardly like gonna stop you Like if I like, I'll give you a thousand dollars if you or I'll give you, you know, a million dollar whether this would be death. So I don't know if if a reward makes sense. But if I told you to go run until your lungs pop and your heart explodes like you're you can can't do it, you know what I mean. You can't run like that. So but I guess what's important about the physical and the mental is your mind will tell you that you can. Your mind will tell you that you're pushing yourself too hard and you're in danger now and the best thing you can do is quit. And that's the tricky thing, man, that's the trickiest part about it all. You know what I mean. But what I want you to take away from this talk is that when you have reached the point when you are working out or running and the body starts saying, now's the time to quit. Oh, let's cut this. You know what, Don't do that last set. You don't need to do that last set. Don't do those last two reps. Don't run that last mile. You're in the pocket. Like, this is where the improvements happen. This is where you make strides. This is where you get greater will power and greater mental endurance. Right, this is the moment because you can push and push and push, and that's what people get confused about. You know, when it comes to strength, It's like I can put a five hundred dollars or five hundred pound bar bell on a bench press, and I don't care how motivated you are, how mentally strong you are, how you know whatever that's gonna crush it's gonna crush you, Right, it's gonna crush you. You're gonna have to have like medical attention. If you somehow get it off of the uh, off of the the whatever it's called that holds it up, if you get it to fall down on top of you, it's probably gonna crush your rib cake, you know what I mean, Like, you can't will yourself to be stronger, especially when it's an exceptional amount of straight in other words, like you use the ten mile analogy, right, I can't be like, you know what, I'm gonna do a set like typically out dead lift like three hundred pounds right for five reps and do five sets. And I couldn't just be like, you know what, today, I'm just gonna deadlift six hundred pounds for five reps and five sets in the same way that you can go I'm gonna run five extra miles today and just push it. See what happens and it actually work. Right. The majority of that is pushing your mental right to tell your physical like, dude, you're gonna be all right. You know you can do this, you can finish this. Stop lying to yourself. So it's a different animal. But the physical is just as important as the mental. It's just harder to make strides. But the whole conversation of endurance comes down to recognizing these things or otherwise you know, who knows what you're up to. If you're doing a runnerun on the block on a regular basis and you feel great, this is fine. There's nothing wrong with this. I'm just talking to you about the most vital sort of characteristics, the most vital things to recognize when you're training. That let you know you're improving. Now, now you've reached the point where you're improving, and when your mind is screaming at you to quit and to give up, you're just getting to work. That's where you're getting to work. Right. It's like, oh, okay, here's where I have to start to tamp this down. And this shows up everywhere in your life. This shows up daily, almost in my life with my wife and kids. Almost every day of my life. There comes a moment, usually in the evening, when everything's done and everything's cleaned up and put away, and homework's done, and that you're right, everything's done, and you're like, you know what, man, I'm just gonna blank. I'm just gonna do blanked for the next until bed time. And then I'll get into the bedtime thing. Several times a week, someone will intervene some my wife, let's go get co I want to go get coffee. You want to do this, you want to do that. The kids, Dad, I want to try this, dad. So this is not working upstairs? Can you help me fix it? Dad? You know what I mean? And in that moment, that same voice that you hear when you're running comes up. Only the stakes are so much higher. Right, you finish your ten mile run because you pushed it, you feel really good. Oh that's great. But if you tell that little voice in your head that wants you to lay on the couch to shut up and get up. You never know what can happen with your family. You never know what you can get into with your child, You never know what you can get into with your wife. But what you do know is that you can let that moment go. You can let that opportunity he go. You can tell them I'm exhausted, honey, I just want to sit here. I'm exhausted. But you know, go upstairs and play, or go outside and play, whatever it is. What you know for sure is that's a moment that disappears. It's poof, it's smoke, it's history. You'll never get it back. You'll want it back in five years, but you'll never be able to get it back. So the stakes are a lot higher in that regard. You know. Now, in order to get up off that couch. I think there's as much physical as there is mental right in order to get that thing done. In order to physically do that thing you want to do when you don't feel like doing it because you're tired already, it comes down to also having the confidence in your physical body. And it has to do with your body's response to it all. Right, your body has a very clear response to it all. Your body knows this guy's gonna lay here. He lays here every night, you know what I mean, Like we don't need to prepare for a battle. Or your body knows this crazy bastard is liable to get up off this couch and go run three miles, like you never know with him, You never know what he's up to, So we better stay on our toes. And I think if you're the former and your body gets into the habit of the former, that's the slow death. Like the slow death is letting your bad physical body know this guy ain't gonna do nothing. He works and then he comes home, then he sits. You know what I mean, he's not. We don't need to generate new this and new that for this guy. We don't need to power up in dorphins and all that kind of stuff to help him out because he's done. You know what I mean, This is what he's gonna work less. He's gonna do less and less and less and less until he's in the grave. I believe that pushing all these things is really what keeps you young man. Keeping your body on notice, you know what I mean, Keeping your brain and your body on notice, and letting them know, like tomorrow I may take you down a road that is you won't even be able to comprehend where we're going tomorrow, Okay, so make sure that you're ready, Like this is the conversation you have with your almost like your spirit is having it with your body in your mind. Right, It's like tomorrow it's going to be ninety eight degrees out and we're going to do something that you might not even think is possible. Those are the kinds of conversations I have with my body in summertime. So it's longevity, man, there's longevity tied into this endurance thing. But there's also quality of life now on the physical side of it. Just like there's a quitting voice, the quitting voice gets backed up by certain conditions, right that happen in your life. Right there are certain conditions that happen while you're running. There's a shortness of breath, there's a cramping, there's a discomfort in the legs, in the nose, pain the thighs and the calves, right, and this stuff all just starts to happen more and more and more until I reach a point where I know, like, the one of the best things that I can do, one of the most pleasurable things that I could do in my life right now, is stop. And when I reach that point of like warming up, right, like that's like the oven has reached temperature, you know what I mean. I know that now I'm at a point where my body is learning and it is most important for me. However long it took to get there. Maybe it took, you know, five minutes to get there, maybe it took fifty minutes to get there, I know that at this point, like we're gonna make shrides here. This is where we make the shrides. This is where we get better. We get better at this place where the mind is telling me, dude, you have to stop, you have to go back, you have to slow down, you have to do all these things. And the body at the same time is also going like the heart is pounding and you're barely breathing and all that kind of stuff, and you're pushing the limit and you're creating a new limit because your body will adapt. That's what your body does. Your body adapts. But it's only going to adapt under pressure. He's not going to adapt if you're like jogging and barely breathing heavy, it's not going to be like, oh, we should learn how to make this guy jog longer. And you know, but if you're wheezing and struggling and suffering and all that's going through your mind is quit, quit, quit, quit, then your body goes. You know, this guy's a real pain in the ass. You know that this guy is a real pain in the ass whole, and we have to figure out how to keep him alive. We have to figure out how to make sure that he can get back home, back to safety, get back to eating food again, breathing again, you know, all that kind of stuff. So I recognize that moment, that moment of like discomfort as now we're working. We've warmed the oven up and now we can do the hard work that's gonna make you know, make you better. And like I said, Saturday was my first big run of the warm season, it might have been my first big run over four miles of twenty twenty six. Right, So you don't know what's gonna happen. You never know, right, Running is weird like that, especially big runs you don't know, Like I know I'm gonna finish. I never don't finish the run, but you just don't know what you're in for. Like where you run is so important, and I would highly recommend that you run cool places like I don't think I run half the miles I've run in my life. If I only had a running track, the best thing to do is to run in the woods or to run challenging landscapes that make it fun and make it inst And this particular five mile ish run is hell. I mean, it's just hell, that's what it is. It's hell because it's one of the only places that I know of where you can run downhill and uphill both ways. It's like the old joke like we walked uphill to school both ways. That's what it's like. Because it's rolling, you know what I mean, It's like rolling elevation change. It's on a pretty much on a main ish. It's on a side road, but it's a very popular side road, and you know, you begin running uphill and then eventually you're running a little bit downhill, but then you go up more right, and on your way back you're running up those downhills and those smaller uphills, like the larger uphills happen at the start, and the smaller uphills on the way back, and those smaller uphills on your way back are hell because you're exhausted. Right, You've already put in two two and a half mile and most of it's running uphill. So what I'm getting at is I never really know how hillacious it's going to be. I know it's going to be hell because it's always hell. Right. I round a certain point and start heading back, And almost every time I start heading back from where I started, it's like, here we go. All those things we just talked about, those moments, the voice, the quitting voice, the body aching, and you know all that. That's where I hit those things. You hit those right there, but you never know to what degree, you know what I mean? It can be really bad. Which wasn't very hot, so I didn't have to battle the heat too. A lot of times the worst is when you have to battle the heat plus the exhaustion. But making my way back, you know, one of the things that struck me was how good I was doing, and I was kind of surprised. I was kind of like, you know, this is pretty surprising. I did not expect to do so well on this first run. But I just think that's a product of, you know, building that endurance. That's a product of building that endurance over time. And none of this is to say one of your biggest goals should be able to be a good runner, right or to find this and unlock some kind of passion in running. My whole reason for doing this is the first show you these things so that you can recognize them and go like, oh, I know where I'm at right now. I remember James telling me, like, when I hit this point, this voice in my head that's telling me to quit his bullshit. It's just my mind trying to get back to comfort, because it really happens in unnecessary times, you know, and I see people give into it a lot. But most importantly, right the battle against endurance is, or the battle to create greater endurance, is about quality of life, because I've done so many things in my life over the last twenty years that required me to tap into these powers that I've unlocked from fighting against the quitting voice and the quitting body, and to build a confidence in the fact that like, peel yourself up off of this bed or up off of this ground and give a little more because you're not gonna die. But what might die is this moment, this opportunity might die and you'll never get that back, right, So in other words, you can feel relaxed, You can give in to your tired for the relaxation feeling, for that good feeling. You can stop running and start breathing again normally for that good feeling. But that's the same good feeling you can get any day, as opposed to recognizing, like, here's an opportunity with someone I love, here's an opportunity with someone who needs help. Here's an opportunity to do a one off thing, and it's just way more valuable than you know, taking a load off for the next fifteen minutes. So I don't like so I can get back this homeostasis because most of the time, when you're exhausted like that, you don't quit and go off into a real enjoyable you know, sort of relaxation or anything. So give it a whorl PBN family, give it a whirl. Try to get to know your quitting voice and understand that endurance. Man, it is a path to well, it's been a path for me to all kinds of great things. But if you don't have endurance and you don't have the will to push forward, I don't think you're gonna develop it in a survival situation. And I can guarantee you you're not gonna develop it when an opportunity comes that you are going to regret missing out on later not to mention maybe most important of all, depending on how you feel about a nice long life. I do believe that telling your body, keeping your body thinking, keeping your body wondering what crazy thing is this guy gonna do to me today? We'll keep it operating at a high level because he knows it has no choice. There's no time to take off. Your body doesn't get a chance to say. What we do now is we sit on the couch from the time we wake up until dinner, and then we get up and make dinner, and then we sit back down on the couch until bed, and then we go to bed. And that is the demand that I need to meet as a body. I think when your body understand we're gonna lift heavy things again today and we're gonna go run places and put tremendous pressure on our skeleton and on our muscles, and I need to make sure that they're dense enough and strong enough to deal with it. And oh my god, when is this guy gonna quit? I really think you build something. Uh that's impressive. I feel phenomenal at an age where a lot of guys tell me, you know, these things will start to go, you'll start to get back pay, and you'll start to get elbow pay, the knees are gonna be you know, terrible at forty and all this kind of stuff. And it's like, I have no inflammation, no pain, no injury, there's no pre existing anything. There's nothing. And I believe it's from that do what you will, PBM family. I hope you enjoyed my little YAP session on endurance. Take away what you will from it. There's a lot of good experience in that in this podcast. Man, stuff that you can you can only get through actually doing. So take those gems that I've mined out for you, and you know put them to good use. I'll talk to you guys soon.