Five Lessons in 50 Years

[00:00:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Welcome to the Aaron LeBauer Show. This is the number one show for passionate physical therapy and healthcare entrepreneurs

[00:00:11] [SPEAKER_00]: looking to level up their income and impact on the world. If that's you, then you're in the right place.

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[00:00:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey, what's up? Welcome back to the Aaron LeBauer Show.

[00:00:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Today is a special edition because it's my 50th birthday.

[00:00:33] [SPEAKER_01]: So this isn't coming out on my birthday. My birthday was probably last week or a week ago.

[00:00:39] [SPEAKER_01]: But today I woke up December 1st.

[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_01]: 50. So congratulations to me.

[00:00:47] [SPEAKER_01]: But you know what? I usually, here's the funny thing is I really, you know, I don't like celebrating my birthday.

[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a few reasons why. I don't like artificial celebrations like Valentine's Day.

[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, like I don't like, I don't want people, what I'm fine with my birthday.

[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the thing is, is 15 years ago when I went to PT school and everyone was like Aaron, are you on the Facebook?

[00:01:13] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, what do you mean the Facebook? You know, I was an adult student. I was 30 something years old and I got on Facebook.

[00:01:19] [SPEAKER_01]: So Facebook's fine. But then all of a sudden Facebook publishes your birthday and everyone who people you don't know

[00:01:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and don't care about you, generally Facebook's telling them to wish you happy birthday and I feel like that's ingenuous.

[00:01:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So I purposely don't publish my birthday on Facebook.

[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_01]: There's also another reason why birthdays have always been weird for me.

[00:01:38] [SPEAKER_01]: When I was racing bikes, I raced bikes from the time I was 17 to 34.

[00:01:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Not every year during that period but there was a good 7-year period where if you know me or you've heard any of this podcast

[00:01:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I was racing pretty seriously. I raced 50 to 80 days a year.

[00:01:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And so what that meant, so in bicycle racing they have different categories.

[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_01]: They have juniors, they have senior men or open senior men and then you've got what they're called 35 and older masters racers.

[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_01]: So 35 and older.

[00:02:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And so your racing age for the year is the age, not how old you are but it's the age you turn that year.

[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And bike racing seasons summer between February and September or January and September.

[00:02:28] [SPEAKER_01]: In California it starts in January.

[00:02:31] [SPEAKER_01]: Some stay to ends in October especially when you're mountain biking or gravel.

[00:02:35] [SPEAKER_01]: But my racing age, my birthday is in December.

[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_01]: So all year long I'm riding down on these handwritten forms because nowadays you have electronic forms.

[00:02:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Handwritten forms that I'm 27 but I was actually 26.

[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_01]: And there was a period of time where people would ask me how old are you.

[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm like, I don't know because for like 10 years, 50 times a year I'm riding down that I'm a year older than I actually was.

[00:03:03] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's another reason like birthdays.

[00:03:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Birthdays are fun and they're great and everything.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: But I also have this weird 80, DHHD, dyslexia neurodivergent brain.

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Those things don't matter to me, at least to other people they matter a whole lot and that gets me in trouble in ways.

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: But it's my 50th birthday.

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Both of my kids called me this morning and my oldest daughter was like,

[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Hey dad, how you doing? Did you wake up feeling any different?

[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_01]: And I was like, no I actually feel pretty the same.

[00:03:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And she's like, did you wake up with arthritis?

[00:03:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is funny because I was like, no I didn't.

[00:03:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like age is just a number and I was like I should share that.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: Because it's funny because like she's joking me because she knows I'm a physical therapist.

[00:03:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And we talk about that all the time but people out there, your patients, clients,

[00:03:51] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe you are like, oh now that I'm older, you know, oh now my body is going to hurt.

[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Now the reason I hurt and can't do things is because I'm older.

[00:03:58] [SPEAKER_01]: That's not really true.

[00:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know I feel better physically in my body in the last years than I did in my 20s.

[00:04:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I've been working on my movement quality and my strength,

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been training with kettlebells and doing some CrossFit and some yoga here and there.

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: But not only yoga and not only weightlifting and not only cycling.

[00:04:19] [SPEAKER_01]: And there's some things about my health and body that haven't been great

[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_01]: and things that you know I'm like, oh like I can tell like through my skin and wrinkles and hair

[00:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: like I'm getting old you know or I'm getting seasoned.

[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: You know like a good steak or leather jacket getting patina.

[00:04:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I can see it and you know there's a part of me that likes it a lot.

[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And then there's a part of me that has to come to the terms with it's different

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and you've probably experienced the same.

[00:04:49] [SPEAKER_01]: But no I did not wake up with arthritis.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And age is just a number.

[00:04:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Last year I rode 80 miles in the desert.

[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_01]: I was trying to get to 100.

[00:04:59] [SPEAKER_01]: This year my goal, when I had this goal, I set this about five years ago.

[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I think it was about five years ago.

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: It might have actually been in 2020 which feels like a long.

[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_01]: So five years ago, five or six years ago I started swinging kettlebells.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: In, it was 2019 or 2020.

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember because you know pandemic but somewhere around there I did

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: a wake up warrior program with Garrett J. White.

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[00:05:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And like personal development help you improve your relationships and stuff.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean what?

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: That didn't save my marriage but it made me a better person.

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I've grown tremendously through some of the things that I've done

[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_01]: and that was one of them.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: It didn't fix the problem in my marriage because I wasn't the only

[00:06:00] [SPEAKER_01]: problem in the marriage.

[00:06:03] [SPEAKER_01]: But during that process what he does, we did like a goal planning.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: He's a good coach.

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And so we create these, I'm going to say, impossible goals.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Like what's the impossible goal for your relationships?

[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_01]: For your faith?

[00:06:18] [SPEAKER_01]: For your fitness?

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER_01]: For your business?

[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Etc.

[00:06:21] [SPEAKER_01]: But I actually now have better relationships, closer relationships

[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_01]: with my kids.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Partly they're older and partly I get to spend a lot of time with them.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: But the thing that I set for my body was the impossible goal

[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_01]: was pass the strong first kettlebell certification.

[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay so just a couple things about that.

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: One, the certification is using it if you're under 50 it's

[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_01]: using a 24 kilogram kettlebell which is 53 pound kettlebell.

[00:06:50] [SPEAKER_01]: It's heavy.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: You have to do like five cleans which you bring it from the floor

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: up into your chest.

[00:06:57] [SPEAKER_01]: You have to do five, like you have to demonstrate good form

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: with your squats.

[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Even I think it's a double kettlebell squat and a double

[00:07:05] [SPEAKER_01]: kettlebell deadlift maybe.

[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you have to do five strict presses which is a

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_01]: limiter for me in strength and but that wasn't the big

[00:07:15] [SPEAKER_01]: limiter.

[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_01]: The big limiter for me was going to be the snatch.

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: So the snatch is where the kettlebell goes from the floor.

[00:07:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You're in a little bit of a squat hinge.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_01]: A kettlebell from the floor and it goes all the way over head

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_01]: into a locked out position then back down.

[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not just doing five of them.

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: The test is you have to do 105 minutes which is a lot.

[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's a lot of weight.

[00:07:36] [SPEAKER_01]: 105 minutes and at the time I was like I can't even snatch

[00:07:39] [SPEAKER_01]: 20 kilograms which is the one below that 44 pounds

[00:07:42] [SPEAKER_01]: and then there's the 32 pound 16 kilogram.

[00:07:44] [SPEAKER_01]: At the time I could go in and I could do 16 kilograms

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_01]: 100 times in five minutes.

[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd done it.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: But when I started with kettlebell six years ago,

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I started with the weight that was even lighter.

[00:07:56] [SPEAKER_01]: The I think it was 12 kilograms 25 pounds.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I started with that like that was hard to manage.

[00:08:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And part of this is you know I'm Paul skinny.

[00:08:06] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have like a like a like a bro body.

[00:08:09] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not like a gym bro.

[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Like I had guys that I worked out on my cycling team

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_01]: worked out with who we would go into the gym in the winter

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: to do workouts and like Aaron I can't do that work out

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_01]: with you because I'll get too big and bulky.

[00:08:21] [SPEAKER_01]: They had to do you know because they because in cycling

[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_01]: you don't want to gain 15 pounds of muscle over the winter.

[00:08:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm trying to gain some like strength over the winter

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: but the max I would gain would be like five pounds

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_01]: in two and a half to three months

[00:08:35] [SPEAKER_01]: because I wasn't taking steroids.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I'd lose it all in the endurance rides in January.

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: You know I'm just trying to get more power in my legs

[00:08:45] [SPEAKER_01]: and my teammates would have to do different exercises

[00:08:49] [SPEAKER_01]: because they couldn't they wouldn't push the same like

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_01]: reps and weights that I would with my legs.

[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But again you know I was doing some squats

[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_01]: but mostly machines and that's different

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: when we're talking like a six foot three.

[00:09:04] [SPEAKER_01]: I have this kettlebell that's got to go from the ground

[00:09:06] [SPEAKER_01]: to about seven and a half feet in the air.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you're five five four the weight doesn't have

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: to travel as far and you can get a lot more reps.

[00:09:14] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like I can't do burpees as fast as some short

[00:09:17] [SPEAKER_01]: like guys who are like maybe gymnastics like sized right.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: That's another challenge for me so I'm sitting here

[00:09:24] [SPEAKER_01]: thinking I can't snatch a 20 I'll never be able

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: to do the 24 kilograms like I'll never like

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: that's impossible and I was like I will never

[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_01]: be able to do that.

[00:09:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like I don't see a path that I could

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_01]: that I can do this and so that was my impossible goal

[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_01]: for my fitness is to be strong first kettlebell certified.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: It has nothing to do with strong first.

[00:09:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean there's drag and door as well but you know

[00:09:45] [SPEAKER_01]: strong first is like has a you know I don't know

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: I like their things better it could be it could

[00:09:51] [SPEAKER_01]: have been either right.

[00:09:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I actually have them drag and door kettlebells

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_01]: I have do have one strong first kettlebell

[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_01]: but they only started making them

[00:09:58] [SPEAKER_01]: but it was just past that certification

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: whether it was through drag and door or not.

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_01]: It was really not about the certification

[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_01]: saying Aaron is strong first certified

[00:10:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and as much as saying by time Aaron is 50

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_01]: he's going to be in really good shape

[00:10:10] [SPEAKER_01]: know how to move really well and he's going to be able

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: to do something that most people can't do

[00:10:14] [SPEAKER_01]: and then he didn't even think he can do right.

[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I didn't think I would be able to do that

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_01]: so that's been my goal and I worked with

[00:10:21] [SPEAKER_01]: a kettlebell coach her name was Alicia

[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_01]: her name is Alicia Angelini she's married now

[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_01]: and has a different last name I can't remember

[00:10:29] [SPEAKER_01]: off the top of my head

[00:10:31] [SPEAKER_01]: but I stopped training with her

[00:10:33] [SPEAKER_01]: because she went into PT school

[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_01]: she didn't have time to train me

[00:10:36] [SPEAKER_01]: and then so I started working with Brett Jones

[00:10:39] [SPEAKER_01]: about three years ago

[00:10:41] [SPEAKER_01]: maybe maybe it was two and a half years ago

[00:10:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been working with Brett for over two years

[00:10:47] [SPEAKER_01]: and Brett Jones is the program director

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_01]: for strong first he's the instructor

[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_01]: at FMS at Functional Movement with Grey Cook

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_01]: but

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_01]: 100 snatches in five minutes is tough

[00:11:00] [SPEAKER_01]: even at like a lighter weight

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_01]: because your heart rate just gets

[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_01]: gradually and gradually, quickly higher

[00:11:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and higher and higher

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I did a little bit of a test this week

[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and got my heart rate over 160

[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and that was really tough for me

[00:11:16] [SPEAKER_01]: so here's what happened is I missed the goal

[00:11:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like okay because why 50 years old

[00:11:21] [SPEAKER_01]: well one it's a

[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_01]: half way through 100

[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_01]: but when I'm 50

[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: as of today

[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_01]: past the certification I only need to be able

[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_01]: to snatch a 20 kilogram

[00:11:33] [SPEAKER_01]: because as you can't older

[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_01]: you know they think you're not as strong

[00:11:37] [SPEAKER_01]: but it's which is fair

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I've done this more easily when I was in my 30s

[00:11:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know I didn't try

[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_01]: but when you're 50

[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_01]: the test weight for my body

[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_01]: like weight

[00:11:49] [SPEAKER_01]: you know so under

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_01]: 225 pounds it's

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: 24 kilograms I think if you're a

[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_01]: 225 pound or 250 pound

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: dude it's 28 kilograms

[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_01]: but over 50 years old

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_01]: it drops to 20 kilograms

[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_01]: it's still a tough test

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: but I didn't

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_01]: make the 24 kilograms I was

[00:12:11] [SPEAKER_01]: decently on track to do it but I had a couple things

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_01]: happened this year that took me off track

[00:12:16] [SPEAKER_01]: as you know

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_01]: back in May

[00:12:19] [SPEAKER_01]: I was indoor wave surfing

[00:12:21] [SPEAKER_01]: and hit my head and fell and that

[00:12:23] [SPEAKER_01]: that put a damper on things

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: but then

[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_01]: but I got through the summer

[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I was too busy to go to a

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: course this summer anyways

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: but then I hit my head again at the end of the summer

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and that one messed with my exercise tolerance

[00:12:37] [SPEAKER_01]: more than anything

[00:12:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I hit my head

[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_01]: in I think

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I was in my late 20s racing bikes

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_01]: in Iowa woke up in Iowa and didn't know why I was in Iowa

[00:12:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I had been it was in a bike crash

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: in a bike race

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: that time I just couldn't remember things at the end of the summer

[00:12:52] [SPEAKER_01]: this one is like more affected

[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_01]: vision balance and exercise tolerance

[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_01]: for me

[00:12:58] [SPEAKER_01]: and so I backed way off

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and it was you know the exercises

[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_01]: were the killer

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_01]: killer exercises keep it light and happy

[00:13:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and I've been doing that but that meant

[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I lost momentum which is okay

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's one of those things where it's like I set a goal for myself

[00:13:12] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was really close to it

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: but I didn't quite hit it

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: but guess what

[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_01]: like this week Tuesday

[00:13:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I decided you know what

[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_01]: let me just see what I can do with the 20kg

[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_01]: and I did 80 reps in 4 minutes

[00:13:27] [SPEAKER_01]: and 5 seconds so I was on pace

[00:13:29] [SPEAKER_01]: to hit it

[00:13:30] [SPEAKER_01]: my heart rate got so high

[00:13:32] [SPEAKER_01]: like over 160

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I went mountain monitoring at the time I was able to

[00:13:36] [SPEAKER_01]: see it afterwards and I can kind of feel it

[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I was just like you know what I could finish this

[00:13:40] [SPEAKER_01]: I could do it but I don't really need to push myself

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_01]: to my ultimate limit

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I've done that before in my life

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: no one else is counting on

[00:13:48] [SPEAKER_01]: me doing it this is a me goal

[00:13:50] [SPEAKER_01]: and I knew I just

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: haven't spiked my heart rate that high

[00:13:54] [SPEAKER_01]: in months

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and I just need to do that

[00:13:57] [SPEAKER_01]: you know 3 or 4 more times and I'll have it

[00:14:00] [SPEAKER_01]: like I'm really confident

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got the 20kg

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been confident that I could do it

[00:14:05] [SPEAKER_01]: I tested the summer

[00:14:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and I didn't try to push it

[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was able to do it in like 6 minutes

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_01]: at like 75%

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_01]: effort

[00:14:14] [SPEAKER_01]: so I knew that was going to be something

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I'd be able to do

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: but here's the thing is like I missed the goal

[00:14:20] [SPEAKER_01]: so what I have to do

[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_01]: reset the goal so sometimes in life

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_01]: you crush your goals

[00:14:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and you get lost and you're like

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_01]: what do I do?

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I became a category 1 cyclist

[00:14:31] [SPEAKER_01]: I was like okay never thought I'd be here

[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I lost sight of my goals

[00:14:35] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got in business

[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I've got myself or clients

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: like you get way past something and you're like okay

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_01]: what do I do now?

[00:14:41] [SPEAKER_01]: well like I'm done

[00:14:43] [SPEAKER_01]: you're not done and you just gotta set new goals

[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_01]: so yesterday my daughter, my youngest daughter

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_01]: was like dad did you hit your kettlebell goal

[00:14:49] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was like no not yet

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_01]: she was like oh well you at least need to try

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_01]: she was like don't

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: she was like just do it

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: and don't worry about hitting

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_01]: you know the 5 minute mark

[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_01]: this is my 12 year old

[00:15:01] [SPEAKER_01]: she's like just do it

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_01]: and see how long it takes you

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_01]: oh my gosh so anyways

[00:15:07] [SPEAKER_01]: that's going to be the workout today

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: we'll see

[00:15:11] [SPEAKER_01]: I snatched 24 kilograms a couple times yesterday

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_01]: and I was like ooh this heavy weight

[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_01]: because I haven't snatched it in like 3 or 4 months

[00:15:18] [SPEAKER_01]: but I'm going to do it later today

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: and see where I get

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_01]: so I missed the goal but I did 20 kilograms

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: 80 reps in 4 minutes

[00:15:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and 5 seconds which is on pace

[00:15:28] [SPEAKER_01]: so cool

[00:15:29] [SPEAKER_01]: but what was my goal initially

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_01]: why? it was

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_01]: to be wake up on my 50th birthday

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: be able to tie my shoes

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_01]: not blame my age

[00:15:40] [SPEAKER_01]: for the pain in my body

[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_01]: and I mean I've got visible abs

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have like the big veins on my arms

[00:15:46] [SPEAKER_01]: but I got my forearm veins

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: you know I've always had those

[00:15:50] [SPEAKER_01]: you know I'm

[00:15:51] [SPEAKER_01]: mobile, I'm strong, I'm fit

[00:15:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I can do 5 pull ups yesterday

[00:15:55] [SPEAKER_01]: and most people can't do that

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: most people in America

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: don't

[00:16:01] [SPEAKER_01]: do it, most of the people listening

[00:16:03] [SPEAKER_01]: are probably

[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_01]: health conscious physical therapists

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_01]: whoever

[00:16:09] [SPEAKER_01]: and most physical therapists

[00:16:11] [SPEAKER_01]: probably at 50 years old can't do 5 pull ups

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_01]: and you know 100 snatches

[00:16:16] [SPEAKER_01]: and snatch 24 kilograms

[00:16:17] [SPEAKER_01]: like most people can't do that

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: so my goal was to be

[00:16:20] [SPEAKER_01]: in the best shape and fitness of my life

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not in the absolute best health

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: of my life

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: this whole divorce thing

[00:16:31] [SPEAKER_01]: impacted my mental health

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: quite a bit

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: some days are a lot tougher than they used to be

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_01]: but I got a good therapist

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's like I'm saying

[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_01]: hey at 50 this is the

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: first day of the rest of my life

[00:16:46] [SPEAKER_01]: which is really cool

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_01]: so there's a lot of opportunity out there

[00:16:50] [SPEAKER_01]: no matter how old you are

[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and it's my birthday

[00:16:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I just jotted down

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: like 5 things, actually it's 6

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_01]: but 5 lessons that I've learned

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: these are really short

[00:17:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm just thinking like what's each decade of my life

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_01]: right?

[00:17:04] [SPEAKER_01]: so 5 things that I've learned in the last 50 years

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_01]: number 1 have fun

[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_01]: when you're under 10 all I remember is just like

[00:17:10] [SPEAKER_01]: yeah this is about fun

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: so make sure your life is about fun

[00:17:13] [SPEAKER_01]: number 2 in my teens

[00:17:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I learned that people are mean

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I was bullied in middle school

[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and I've learned this now with my teenagers

[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_01]: like kids don't have filters

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_01]: they can be mean to each other without knowing it

[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_01]: they can be mean to each other and know it

[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_01]: and their brains are fully developed

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_01]: but people are mean

[00:17:34] [SPEAKER_01]: people are rude

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm still learning this

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_01]: but people take things out on others

[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_01]: when they aren't able to process

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: that emotion themselves

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: a lot of times

[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_01]: they take things out

[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_01]: and they say things

[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_01]: and do things to other people

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: when they're unable to acknowledge that

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: they have a problem

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_01]: it really is about them and not the other person

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean I really learned that lesson in my teens

[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_01]: I think in my 20s

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_01]: the lesson was explore the world

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: and explore your opportunities

[00:18:08] [SPEAKER_01]: don't stay in Greensboro for your whole life

[00:18:10] [SPEAKER_01]: so I lived in

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: California

[00:18:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Belgium

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Israel

[00:18:18] [SPEAKER_01]: I was a bike messenger

[00:18:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I raced bikes all over the United States

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I tried drugs

[00:18:25] [SPEAKER_01]: like pot

[00:18:28] [SPEAKER_01]: and ecstasy

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: boat parties

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: we did some mushrooms as well

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_01]: went to music festivals

[00:18:35] [SPEAKER_01]: explore the world and your opportunities

[00:18:37] [SPEAKER_01]: because you don't know what you're going to find

[00:18:39] [SPEAKER_01]: but if you stay in a hole

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_01]: you'll never find those things

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: right?

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_01]: my 30s

[00:18:47] [SPEAKER_01]: what I realized was

[00:18:49] [SPEAKER_01]: there's more

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: there's more to life than what most people expect

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_01]: so my 30s is when

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_01]: most people get out of school

[00:18:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and they just get a job

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and they're like oh I'm just going to stand this job forever

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_01]: where I'm going to stand this job until I can get a better job

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: and I can get a job with a window

[00:19:07] [SPEAKER_01]: windows

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: a window cubicle doesn't mean you've made it

[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_01]: there's more to life than most people expect

[00:19:13] [SPEAKER_01]: and I set this expectation for myself

[00:19:16] [SPEAKER_01]: in my 20s

[00:19:17] [SPEAKER_01]: but really I learned this in my 30s

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_01]: my 30s when this happened was

[00:19:20] [SPEAKER_01]: I will be upset with myself

[00:19:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I do the same thing for more than 10 years

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I became a massage therapist

[00:19:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and then within 10 years

[00:19:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I was back into PT school

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: and within 10 years I started business coaching

[00:19:34] [SPEAKER_01]: and

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: now I've got

[00:19:37] [SPEAKER_01]: the opportunities are all opening for me

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm in that mark again

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: where there's other opportunities

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'm waiting for them

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to force it though

[00:19:47] [SPEAKER_01]: but there's more to life than what most people expect

[00:19:50] [SPEAKER_01]: because they're closed off

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: and they have

[00:19:55] [SPEAKER_01]: preconceived notions

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_01]: it's kind of like a person with back pain

[00:19:57] [SPEAKER_01]: they're like well my cousin's got a rupture disc

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and I can never go across it again

[00:20:02] [SPEAKER_01]: people are like oh this is all life has

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_01]: there's so much more to life

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_01]: in my 40s

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: it was about family as your foundation

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_01]: family, kids

[00:20:12] [SPEAKER_01]: people in your life

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: those were my parents

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: there was a time when I didn't have

[00:20:17] [SPEAKER_01]: I had good relationships with my parents

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_01]: but they would annoy me

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: you'd be like oh can't you leave me alone

[00:20:24] [SPEAKER_01]: but I realized that family

[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_01]: is key even though I don't live near a lot of them

[00:20:29] [SPEAKER_01]: and I realized

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_01]: through divorce that rocked my foundation

[00:20:34] [SPEAKER_01]: that rocked my foundation

[00:20:36] [SPEAKER_01]: of the family that I had

[00:20:37] [SPEAKER_01]: but family is important

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_01]: and it looks different for everybody

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: and it will change

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_01]: so in my 50s

[00:20:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't have a lesson from my 50s

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_01]: but this just came to me yesterday

[00:20:49] [SPEAKER_01]: about life

[00:20:51] [SPEAKER_01]: so this is like the

[00:20:53] [SPEAKER_01]: overall lesson is

[00:20:55] [SPEAKER_01]: everyone's got their own hard

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_01]: life is hard, having a job is hard

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: owning a business is hard

[00:21:00] [SPEAKER_01]: but lemonade is still sweet

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not going to say when you get lemons

[00:21:04] [SPEAKER_01]: make lemonade, no it's lemonade is still sweet

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_01]: life is still sweet

[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_01]: there's so much good opportunity

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: it's just

[00:21:11] [SPEAKER_01]: the hard things are the things that make you better

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: and help you grow

[00:21:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and help you become

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_01]: someone who helps other people

[00:21:20] [SPEAKER_01]: because if you're in this just to help yourself

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_01]: like

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know

[00:21:24] [SPEAKER_01]: there's a

[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I can't remember the Hebrew word for it

[00:21:27] [SPEAKER_01]: but the whole idea around Sadaka

[00:21:29] [SPEAKER_01]: which is not charity

[00:21:31] [SPEAKER_01]: but giving it's like leaving the world a better place

[00:21:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I should remember this

[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_01]: but the whole idea is

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_01]: someone asked me the other day

[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_01]: what's your purpose in life

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: to leave a better path behind me

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_01]: than the one that I went down

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: can I help my kids

[00:21:49] [SPEAKER_01]: get through life in a better way

[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_01]: not give them money but teach them how to

[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_01]: teach them how to make money

[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_01]: teach them how to build a career and a job that they

[00:21:56] [SPEAKER_01]: love, give them the things that I didn't

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_01]: have can I do that for people

[00:22:00] [SPEAKER_01]: in my profession

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: so what I'm trying to do is leave the world a better place

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_01]: like walk by some trash

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_01]: occasionally I'll pick it up

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: you know like

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_01]: that's the deal and so I think that

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_01]: that's for me

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_01]: that's what this is about

[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_01]: having fun, exploring, learning

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: leaving it a better place for the next person

[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_01]: helping the next person along so they can get through it

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_01]: faster or more

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm going to say better

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_01]: they can get through it

[00:22:28] [SPEAKER_01]: in a way that they can

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: come behind me and take what I did

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_01]: and make it even better

[00:22:33] [SPEAKER_01]: make it better for you, make it better for the next person

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I think that's the birthday message

[00:22:38] [SPEAKER_01]: hey it's my birthday

[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_01]: you know what

[00:22:43] [SPEAKER_01]: if you want to do anything

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: make a donation

[00:22:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need presents

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't need birthday wishes

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER_01]: but if you want to do something

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: make a donation, I don't care where

[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_01]: but

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER_01]: I think the world needs more donations as well

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_01]: so for my birthday party

[00:23:00] [SPEAKER_01]: we have a roller skating jam

[00:23:01] [SPEAKER_01]: and just had birthday donations

[00:23:04] [SPEAKER_01]: we've got this

[00:23:05] [SPEAKER_01]: charity here called the

[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Interactive Resource Center

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: they provide resources, clothes

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_01]: job training, computers, internet

[00:23:13] [SPEAKER_01]: things like that for people that are homeless

[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_01]: or close to being homeless

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: and

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: so that's where we donate

[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_01]: that's where I donate money

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_01]: pick one of your choice

[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_01]: and don't donate

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: don't do it for me, do it for the people in your community

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'll see you on the next show

[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_01]: peace out

[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_01]: on this call we'll help you get clear on your goals

[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_01]: identify the obstacles in your way

[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_01]: uncover the hidden opportunities in your business

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_01]: and then we'll map out a three step action plan

[00:24:01] [SPEAKER_01]: so that you have more fun

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: help even more people

[00:24:03] [SPEAKER_01]: make even more money much quicker

[00:24:05] [SPEAKER_01]: and you'll leave the session

[00:24:06] [SPEAKER_01]: feeling clear, confident and excited about taking your physical therapy business to the next level

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_01]: sound good?

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: if that's a yes

[00:24:12] [SPEAKER_01]: just DM me the word call

[00:24:14] [SPEAKER_01]: over on instagram

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'll see you on the next show

[00:24:15] [SPEAKER_01]: at Aaron LeBauer

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: and I'll get back to you with all the details

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_01]: thanks so much and we'll see you next week on the show