S3E19 · The Boys: Theft, BeReal, and Training Updates

Alrighty beautiful people, here we are back in the podcast chairs. We've changed the setup up a little bit just to see how it goes. Mitch hates it. Yeah I had it. I'm somewhere in the middle and no you're literally in the middle. You're literally in the middle. I'm literally in the middle and Tyler's all about it so. I know I like it. I was just sick of having to crank my neck. I always cop the middle seat. Mate you're literally looking at me over your shoulder at the moment so. Sorry. So anyway, so basically the plan for today is we'll jump on, we'll chat about what's been happening, chat about a few exciting things.

Talk about, just talk about what's going on. Anything in front of mind boys? Hold on let me press a button. Let's see what happens. Where's your car dude? Dude, where's my car? Where's your car dude? I'm really happy about this boy. Did I drive last night? I think so. Really? I'm not sure. Dude, where's your car? Dude, it's not fun. Dude, it's not funny dude. The car is gone. Yeah. Dude, where's my car? Shut up dude. True or false, was that you yesterday morning? Don't know. Don't know the reference you're talking about. Dude. Potentially. At 5.15 in the morning.

What a time to be alive. Give us a rundown because. Probably not the words I would use. Give us a rundown. We want to hear everything about it. The Virtus family wants to hear about it. I've deliberately not asked you so I could save it for this. Yes. Wonderful. I've had 30 people in the last 24 hours ask me about this so it's pretty in depth and concise this story. Our 30 listeners are going to get this out. You're going to get more during the week and I can't wait to tell you to shut the fuck up about your car and to stop bringing it up just like you did with my coffee cup.

I think Lucy's coffee cup. That's second of all I've actually heard of it. Don't get me started. I suppose I've heard of it. Rumour has it it's probably still on the four walls or so. I reckon it's in here somewhere. So do I. I reckon Tyler lost it. I reckon he has absolutely a perfect idea of where it is and he just doesn't know. I'm sick of people insulting my intelligence saying are you sure you just didn't leave it at home? Are you sure it's not in your car? Who are you mimicking there? I reckon it's under your seat in the car at home.

Don't insult my intelligence. I don't know. Back on the car. So Mitchell didn't rock up to work yesterday morning. You all thought I was sleeping. Stop standing there. Didn't hear for a couple of hours. So I thought he was sleeping. Thought he was dead for a moment and then got a message. It's nice to know my presence is when it's not here it's felt. It was felt because I had to actually work for a couple of hours. But tell us the story because I got a message at 8.30 saying that you were on the way to Cranbourne police station.

I was already there at that stage. Well I am an organised man so I have all my shit ready before I go to work, close out, keys, phone, wallet, drink bottle, all next to my, all next to each other on the desk. I got out of bed at 4.40 ish, can't really remember. My watch is, I've seen Llama on my watch at the moment so my phone is not in the room, which I've been loving by the way. But I had noticed my phone and keys and wallet weren't there on the desk in the morning. And yeah, neither was my car.

On your desk. Keep a car on your desk. Yeah. We're going to go like that are we. That was low heavy proof. It's so easy. I'm here for it. That sucked. So yeah, didn't have a car. Because obviously, you know, you were in a haze for the first 30 minutes waking up that early. What was... I went for a wander around the estate. Did the heart start pumping? No, not really. Cause like, what can you do in that fucking situation? The last thing I would think though is that someone stole my car. I would just wig out and think, what have I done?

Well the fact that my phone and keys and wallet weren't there on the desk and I was like, oh, okay, I know I put these here. So the nitty gritty is what I actually don't know yet. So he went into your house and had the dog's note that you know about it. Yeah. So the thing came over the back fence and then in the side door and I've never used the side door in my house. So for all I know, it probably was just fucking open. It's definitely locked now though. And yeah, just went on back out.

There was nothing on like the secured... I don't have cameras, my neighbours do, but there's nothing on the front of the house besides my car driving off. So it must've been over the back fence. Cause you've got a side camera, don't you? Nah, nah, I haven't put it in yet. Are you a bit rattled with the fact that someone's in your house while you're sleeping and... Yeah, no, but like... Do you reckon they like looked over you and just like gave you a stroke, gave you a kiss on the cheek? I sleep in my room with the door shut.

So that's why the dogs... Surely they would have heard something. Surely their senses would have been jingling. I mean, you've seen my dogs sleep. They fucking sleep, they're out cold. So yeah, I went for like a half an hour, a little wander around the estate. I don't have a phone or anything. So I was like, well, I can't do anything about this. They'll deal with it. So he stole your phone too, or did he not? Yeah, this is not my phone. This is a borrowed phone with a new SIM. So my old SIM is deactivated by the like serial number.

So you can do that shit now. And then I just got a new SIM with the same number and I'm an adult. So I saved my stuff to the cloud like adults do. He doesn't even know what B-real is, so I'm surprised he knows what the cloud is. These are two completely different conversations. We need to have B-real conversations. It's a later conversation. So yeah, you ticked the legs over around the estate. Yeah, for like half an hour maybe. Yep. Didn't think to shoot me a message, maybe on your laptop. I didn't have my laptop, it was in the car.

So I went food showing the night before and it was after work. So I was food shocked and then my backseat, like all my bags and stuff, because I had the food and stuff on the front seat. So I left my bag in the backseat, which was there when I got my car back. So that didn't change anything. Oh good. But no phone, no keys, no wallet, no laptop. And it's 6am. So not a lot open/not a lot of people awake at that time. So I took me to like the Clyde police station. How many clicks to the Clyde police station?

It was like an hour and 15 walk. It wasn't that bad. I mean, as I said, the amount of people that have been like, what are you stressed? I'm like, what can I do? Fuck it is what it is. It's a choice. You're the freak out or... Exactly. Except my car's gone. Exactly. It's like, what can you fucking do? So there's no point freaking out, stressing balls, running around in circles. Like just fucking, just I'm an action guy. So just go sort it out. So I walked to the police station and yeah, my car was there.

You told me you tried to rob a petrol station. Is that like a fill up and go or like held it up? No, no. So it was left at like a BP. Rewind a little bit. But you, did you walk into the police station? No, I didn't say, dude, where's my car? Is that where you're getting at? No. You walk into the police station and be like, so, uh, that's my car. No, cause I couldn't see it. So I didn't know it. So I walked in. I was like, I'm pretty sure I have my car stolen.

And they're like, you know, what's your retro, subscribe it, blah, blah, blah. And they're like, oh, we got one of them. I was like, oh, that's good. I'll put it back. They were pretty nice about it. And like, I'm pretty nonchalant about most things. They were like, you're right. I was like, yeah, like fuck, whatever. Like it happened. We thought it was just the most elaborate lie ever because you've had some, you've had some doozies, like a tree down in the middle of the road when you're running late. When it's fucking 60k, it rained at 80 mil.

I've never hit a deer. So I started chasing him. I ended up living the stick. There's going to be some fucking roads down the trees down. I'll Steph new and she comes to say why she gets it. So as you, as you're walking will Steph, uh, shout out to Steph coach Steph, Steph coach 6m. Um, I was planning on coming into train, but decided on the extra sleep, which was, was needed. Um, but yeah, Steph just got to it. Coach Steph. Yeah, coach Steph. So I might have to, uh, might have to hire another coach. Um, but as you're walking into the police station, we're like, cause you're a man that lives out of his car.

No, I just have lots of shoes in my car. You're a man that has a floor drove. You have like, there's no clothes in my car at all. There's a hoodie in the front seat that does have a significant amount of things in his car though. So where you're sitting there going, fuck, I've just dropped all this cash it. And that's the first thing I was thinking. Cause they live all my nice stuff. Live at home in the, in my car. I have functional things. Okay. So I've got a casual hoodie cause we've got this one all the time.

It gets a bit hot and heavy. I've got Matt Collins to train it. I've got, um, lifters to train in. I've got footy boots and I got my pair of runners. Okay. It's like they're functional shoes. They're just, I could need them at some stage. So I just live in the car and that was it. So I wasn't, so nothing to worry about laptop. I haven't seen the car market recently. Like part of me thought it was kind of like up a hill or something. Cause you get some money back for cars nowadays. It's true. New car, whatever.

Would insurance cover you for that on a hypothetical say just like torched it? I have no idea. You know, get the old Tyler frost upgrade. The inside job. Yeah. Um, so yeah, it was, it was left at a BP and the guy didn't run it. So there's nothing like that. Okay. So he drove it to a BP, tried to five minutes down the road. Yeah. Yeah. Tried to hold it up. It was unsuccessful. Yeah. And probably couldn't have gone to like the newest BP that it's been over for like six months. Probably some pretty good measures of it.

Um, but yeah, did a runner and left my shit there. So have they caught it? I have no idea. They're like, Oh, do you want to find out this? I was like, no, not really. Like I don't, nothing. It's all left over. They're like, Oh, do you want to find out this? That do you want to know the outcomes? Like not really. Like I got my shit back. Nothing really changed. Had a morning, whatever. It is what it is. That's a good story. And like most people when I have that kind of nonchalantness, they looked at me like I had three heads.

I'm like, no, I don't really care. Like what's it going to change? I mean, it's, it's a good, it's another thing that I don't need to think about. It's a good lesson in controlling what we can. Exactly. Like what was the, uh, yeah, what was the, the wash up? Like getting you get in your castle, getting it obviously do the old fucking forensics and shit like that. And then I just had to wait for them to finish that off. Science and papers released my car and drove to saints. I filmed a reel for one of our players and that was, yeah, it's real life.

Yeah. Back to real life. Literally. She wanted me, she's a sponsor by Under Armour, so she had to put together like a sponsored ad thing. So I filmed that and we trained and it went out. Slept like a baby and here we are. Phenomenal. It is what it is. Like fuck, you can't do anything about it. Great story, but it is a good story. It's like, it's like if you're looking for a reason to be, to not be at work, I mean, it probably checks out. Well, I was laughing cause I was like, you guys just think I'm fucking still asleep.

So I was like, send you a wake up message. And then so my next door neighbors, uh, two of them work not shift. So I knew they weren't home and the other two next to me, I have like, I think they have two or three kids and I was like, Oh yeah, you guys aren't awake. Not whacking on the door. They probably would have been awake to be honest. And like by that stage it was like seven ish before I started like my, my long adventure. It was like seven and I was like, well, it's not really changing.

I think someone's dead doing something at work. So clients are pretty self-sufficient. Someone will be there. Lucky lives two minutes away. Yeah, this is, this is true. And I don't mean it in like a, yeah, you could be right guys. Yeah. I mean this is, this is how the, how we work, right? We figure it out. We figure it out. And then, um, do the best we can. Yeah. Well, I'll buy, you know, holding up BP poorly. Um, it is, it is strange. Wonder why it's picked at your house of all the houses on your street.

I don't know. Next to mine cause they're not shift both of them. And then there's like a Bunnings like state car next to it. So for all we know, he might've tried a few back door and no one else had left the back door unlocked. And he's thinking, what an idiot we're on. Yes, we are on. But also fuck my dogs. Wake up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I reckon, I reckon this one sitting over here, it gives us a, gives an ear full. Yeah. My two out cold gave me nothing. It's great. Um, Tyler, you had a similar, similar experience.

So few weeks ago I went home to Hamilton and do you come from Hamilton? I do come from Hamilton. I come from the six flooded the other day. So yeah, it did flooded about half flooded. It did be wet about half a foot of water. Yes. And flood alert from the Bureau. It caused some headaches. Um, but it was going through the cupboards and found a nice branched spanking new Frank green like coffee cups. Did you steal your, did you steal your mother's Frank green coffee after bitching and moaning that this cost me 70 bucks. I said, do you value that 70 bucks?

Um, parents aren't coffee drinkers. So I said, Hey, can I take that? Cause I think they got it as a freebie and said, sure. And I took that back to Mornington. So excited to use me. So excited to use my new cup. What did in the cupboard carry on about this cupboard table above the sink in the movement prep area? That was Monday at about 11 AM 100%. Okay. I've tried to find the security footage, but it's like finding a needle in a haystack. It's not going to be done. You went through it in the first place.

I spent about half an hour on it and just, you know, time is money and I could buy five Frank greens with the money of, with the time I've spent trying to find the Frank green I lost that got stolen. Sorry. Um, anyway, 11 AM Monday waxed in the cupboard. First thing Tuesday, probably seven, 8 AM tonguing for a coffee. Can't wait. And it's not there. Gone. So between 3 PM and 8 PM on Monday night, someone took it. Who was coaching? That would be yourself. Yeah. So my first instinct was you've taken it. Second one was me.

So I've dirtied up and censored passive aggressive passive aggressive message passiveness about it in the, uh, communications app notice slack slack just for those that don't know. Um, and you've thrown, you know, I'm throwing some accusations. Absolutely. We need to talk about, talk about that. And the bar was trusted. The trust that has been lost. Yeah. So I could probably take a few pages out of Mitch's book losing his car compared to me losing my Frank green, but that's the principle of the thing. The best part about it was when he said, I was like, what the fuck are you talking about?

First of all, who the fuck is Frank green? Never heard of it. Um, and you have, and you didn't find it. Not for the good people at common folks sorting out with the replacement fresco cap. You're absolutely welcome. Thank you very much. But yeah, I guess that's one extreme to the other. Hey, I, um, yeah, I, I hold the belief that it's somewhere in here. Um, so no, no one. Yeah. I, we've been doing this a long time now. I don't think it was like a malicious thing. I think someone's just taken it like, Oh, Hey, I'll bring that back.

And so, so maybe, maybe it's out there. Maybe if you're listening and you know where Tyler will give us a color, give us a description. Ocean blue, ocean blue. Yeah. That's deep. That's a deep blue. Maybe KP sell it and give it to Christmas and says Salesforce on it. So I would pay good money for someone to bring it back wrapped as a Christmas Christmas gift for Tyler. I will pay good money for someone to do that. I still think it's a bit of a sick joke. And Jeff deck, he's my main culprit. He thinks we still have it.

I organized a new one for you. So I don't give a shit. But I did ride on the new one, but property of Tyler Frosty found. I'm just looking forward for the next week or so for Mitch to get peppered with questions by the members about his losing car. So I can finally say to him, fuck up about your missing car because I haven't brought up my coffee cup at all. People have to field 500 questions. This is a part of jazz's PD as a human is leaning into banter. I'll just accept the fact you just get a little aggressive.

Oh, good. All right. We're 16 minutes, 16 minutes of absolute nonsense. So shall we start talking about some actual things? So they were pretty actual. They were actual. They were actually, that was actually phenomenal. Oh my. The amount of carry on that you've brought about that coffee cup has seriously rocked me. I'm questioning that look that comes with it too. This is serious. I've lost my car. It's the principle of the thing. One thing I want to talk about is our, is the interns that are just finishing up. So I was going to podcast them. Maybe, maybe if any are interesting enough.

I don't want to talk about the individual interns, but I'll kind of want to talk about the last 12 weeks as a whole, what you guys have taken from it, what we've learned from it, what kind of, what the, what the process look like and what the new guys coming in look likes because kind of butcher that a little bit because I, I was having a chat with a few of them this week and one of the constant themes that came up was I wish I had lent in more. I wish I got more out of it.

I wish I knew at the start what I knew now. And I've, I was kind of thinking about it last night, just that idea of like, I wish I got more out of the thing. And one of my responses to a few of them who said similar things were along the lines of like, don't wish you got more out of it because you kind of, you'll get out of it, whatever you put in, but it'll also meet you where you're at. So for example, one of the girls said, Oh, I wish I could do it again.

And I'm like, Hey, you probably can probably probably tee that up. But if you do it a second time, you get more out of it because you have more context and you have more understanding of what's required and what's expected and things like that. And you don't have like a four to six week learning curve at the start of it. And then you've only got those remaining four to six weeks. We've actually got the relationships, you know, what's going on. So yeah. So yeah, I got my, I guess my thought process around that was like,

what advice would you have for someone might be starting a job or might be doing a course or might be doing an internship like ours. What advice would you guys have outside of just dive in or lean in early on? Cause you know, yes, that's somewhat helpful, but it's not super helpful. What usable advice would you guys have? Nine times out of 10, the barriers only exist because you create the barrier. So just tear the barrier down and whatever happens. They're imaginary. It's not a, yeah, it's not a lean in and just do it kind of vibe.

It's, you're making something that's not there. Like it's only awkward if you make it awkward. Like seriously, it's you going to say hello to someone might be quite confronting, but really it's not that fucking hard. And that can be taken to a lot of different things as well as, you know, if you're not so confident in going in one, having a conversation with someone or two, going to correct something that you say is wrong, that's only a barrier because you feel like it's a barrier. How do you break that down? That's the question. Yeah. It's almost like you need to get out of your own way.

And the only way to do that is to almost create, try and create some awareness around like what it is that you do that stops you from doing the things that you want to do. Cause I don't know, I'm a big believer from a personal responsibility standpoint that anything that we don't have the currently don't have the capacity to do that. We're the reason for it. Um, as, as individuals, like it's your fault and it's your responsibility to do something about it. And it's almost like the first step is cultivating a little bit of awareness around what works and what doesn't and what you actually need and what your biases are, which is really hard thing to do.

Like blind spots are called blind spots for a reason because you have no fucking clue they exist. But by asking questions and by being around environments like this one, you can uncover them. Anything right? Any uh, can't buy experience. No, nothing for me. Not very similar to Mitch's. Yeah. You can't, you can't go into environment being ahead of the curve. Yeah. You have to make the curve slow down. You can prepare as well as you can for it. But at the end of the day, you've got to do the reps and you've got to spend the time and you've got to go through it.

Yeah. I think Mitch was spot on with the barriers are just perceived barriers. They're, they're actually non-existent. They're fugazi, fugazi, fugazi, fugazi. Um, and it's similar with some of our newer members or members that have been around for a while, like in their fitness journey, like their barriers, whether it be time, you know, they don't like big groups, like whatever the barriers are just perceived. They don't actually exist. What's a, do you have a question for both of you? Do you guys have like a belief or a part of your belief system that over the

last couple of months, couple of years that you've realized, fuck, that was withholding my progress or that was holding me back, stopping me from being able to do the things I wanted to do. Big question for on the cup. More than likely, but I need some time to think about that. Not really. Think about the stage now where like I say, I don't care or it doesn't matter. Not because that's the way I feel about it. I need a better way of saying it, but realistically it's not as important as what you think it is. So like, it doesn't really matter what it is.

It's not life and death. And I'd say this to like, especially teaching at uni recently, a lot of the students have gone, Oh, I'm itchy, very different in the way you teach things and this and that. And I'm like, well, it's not that important. We're not saving lives here. We're playing with barbells cause it's fun. So like why make it stressful, serious? Like it's really not that, not, not, not challenging. It's just not that like life and death. Yeah. But the follow up to that is like, you can't, you can't buy experience lines that you

almost need to go through that decade of playing a trade, you know, learning the nuance, being lost in the ways to kind of get out the other side and kind of go, fuck, none of it really matters. And like, you know, I kind of, I would say I have like a voyeuristic view of the fitness industry or now because we experienced what we experienced in here, but I'll watch and listen to different areas of it on Instagram and podcasts and things like that. But I look at some of the things and some of, and I

know some of them are talking points, but I look at some of the things people are arguing about and I'm just like, who gives a fuck? Not if it matters in the slightest. Like if people are moving, doing things they enjoy, you know, connecting with other people, then we're winning. Yeah. And that's all it needs to be. Yeah. That's probably one of the biggest shifts for me this year. Just lending to that. It doesn't really matter what you do at all. Like what you said, if you're moving and connecting with others, like you're on. Which is like, which is frustrating to get to that point because it's almost like you can't tell someone that they have to find it.

Yeah. Yeah. Well that like there's the experiential learning in it and it's, there's the, you don't get it until you get it. And like, not to say that we're at the finish line because we're going to look back and you know, in three years we're going to look back at maybe a conversation like this and be like, fuck you guys, we're naive. But that's the best part about it. You've got to go down every single rabbit hole to find out that there's nothing down there. Oh, you're just so insignificant to be honest. Like you are. Talk about the meaning of life again.

No. Yes and no, but we're not opening that can of worms, but really like it's not that important. Yes, we're having an impact on so many people's lives, but at the same time it's, we're technically not saving lives even though we are. Yeah. We're not in a life of death moment fleeting. Yeah. Which is why I have such a respect for like ambos and stuff like that because they are, yeah, that shit matters. That's different. There's like the perspective, like I look at what we do is like, you know, it's almost like a consistent longterm

care care based approach where it's just like, just give a little bit of care, you know, guide, guide our members or our community to move in the direction they want. Whereas like what ambos do, what doctors do day in, day out is like a hero approach. It's like where they come in big intervention in the, in the moment to save someone or to fix something or whatever. And then, you know, they give, give them back to the carers. There's almost like two, two styles of, of help in that, in that way. Yeah. I drove as a hobby half the time, half the time.

Most of the time it's like, but you're coming to hang out. We kind of sit here and go like, like what we do is a hobby and in a nutshell it is. And what we do is, isn't a real job. And we've all had that thought pro like thought, or we've talked about it multiple occasions, but outside of like the jobs, like we mentioned that there's actually shit on the line. Most jobs, there's nothing really on the line. Like there's nothing really at stake. Which for me, I look at it as a great opportunity to create the thing you want to create or build the life you want to build.

I'm a little bit nervous before like a business to business meeting, like, like the great man Alex Bowes says to me, the worst thing that can happen with this is you've sat down with someone, made a connection, had a coffee and you turn it, you go around, turn away and that's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Like that is the absolute worst thing that can come from that interaction. A good luck mental, like mental pattern you can like follow in your head is like, alright, what's the worst can happen in this situation? And it might be like

someone's about to run up to an exam or someone's going to do a job interview or someone's going to have a big conversation or a presentation somewhere. What's the worst can happen? I stuff it up. They laugh at me, you know, I learned from it and we move on. What's the best can happen? I nail it. Everything's brilliant. You know, I'm seen as a king among men and we, you know, we move on. Both of those things are like either end of the spectrum. Usually the results can be somewhere in the middle. Maybe you're geared towards positive, maybe you're geared towards negative, but at the end of the day, the main thing is you get to, you'll move on.

Like literally this morning I had a meeting which I, if you had to ask me before that meeting, what's your absolute worst case scenario? Like I would, I would have butchered it. I, I absolutely butchered it. But like we teed up this meeting a few weeks ago and we'd arranged for him to come here. We're gonna have a coffee. I'll run into a slide deck on the, on the big screen. So I'm waiting, I guess about 10 past 11, I'm calling him wondering where he is. And then I go into the Google calendar and I've set it up as a like zoom meeting and I don't know how I've done that.

So I enter the call and he's there and I'm 10 minutes late. So we're already off to a bad start. I don't know how to share screens. I'm fumbling trying to share a screen with this man. And he's got to be gone in 10 minutes. I've got 10 minutes to sort of rip through my presentation and hopefully get him on board. Fumbling through my words cause I'm nervous cause I'm late and I fucked up the screen sharing. And at the end of the 10 minutes, like he was stoked and he's going to try and sell it to his higher ups.

So yeah, despite me butchering it and it being the worst case scenario, it's still being, being in the room for that was actually, was actually enjoyable because I left when you started the conversation. But like from my point of view, you like said, Oh, I don't know where he is. And cause I was like, when's your meeting? And then you're like, Oh shit, it's a zoom meeting. And that was like, tah, suck it, suck it. You won't make that mistake again. And then you jumped on and you're like, you know, you're apologetic, but you were like, you were super approachable and there was just like, Oh man, like, I'm so sorry.

Like I, I butchered this. I thought it was, I thought it was a in-person meeting. And then you're like, dude, how do I share screens? I'm just like, like you look at that and you can put the title, like the titles, the labels, unprofessional and like, you know, unprepared and all of those kinds of things. But on the other side, you look at like, like fun, enjoy. Like you look, you can tell you were like making a joke of it. Easygoing approachable, all of those things. And we go, which would we rather be and which

would we rather the people that were around rather be, and like, I would imagine 95% of people would be like, I want the fun and enjoyable and approachable side. Yeah. I wasn't going to let him see that I was actually sweating balls. But even if you were like, it doesn't matter. Like none of it matters. Life is about perpetually forgetting more than you remember and failing more than you win. I mean, you win some, you lose some. You just want to win more than you lose if you can. Yeah. You're not going to do that though.

Yeah. Good. What else? What have you got for us today? Me? What have I got for us today? He's like, I've got some things. Well, I was just going to pep you about questions about your car and that's sort of what I had to run with. It's about like his obsession with B reel. All right. Social media things. We have hired, we do have a, a lovely new human joining the team in a few weeks. So in preparation, she's a, she's thrown us onto B reel. Can you guys tell me what the fuck B reel is?

She is throwing you onto it. I'm not on it. You are. You are that is not me. It's not verts me. It's all virtue. It's vertex. So what the fuck's B reel. So you know, you can like upload a story to like Instagram, Facebook or whatever. This is essentially one story a day. Yup. And the buzzer goes off at a certain time. It's random. I'm pretty sure Tyler changes system though. He waits till he's in the sauna with a towel. I'm not going to post it to the sauna. I have raced upstairs at my house once or twice to get a photo of a sunset when I'm sitting on the couch.

But it sends you a notification at a certain time, a certain day. It's random and it takes a photo of both your front and back camera at the same time. Okay. So you can't, so what are you doing in the moment where you can, Oh, evidently you can cheat the system. Yes, but that's it. Okay. So it's more of like a snapshot of someone's day completely randomly. And it's a play upon words, which I really like. So it's, it's B reel, but pronounced, but it's like, you know, it's your B reel. Does that make sense? We're looking at it.

It's a references. Yep. Yeah. Oh boy. Dusty mirrors on it. I don't know. I don't know if there's people in their days, you know, so are there comments? Are there like, Oh, you can comment on the above. Now you know you got emojis on your iPhone. Well, we've got real mojis. Oh fuck me. What do you reckon about that? Well, you know, it's just different from getting around the glitz and glam and Photoshop photo grid at Instagram, you know? No, I agree. And I, um, unless you're Tyler, this social media side of things is, is a, I mean it's a big conversation depending on which way we want, which way we want to take a bite.

I look at social media as like, there's just so many now, like with your TikToks and your Instagrams and your snapchats, people are still on Snapchat. Not me. Um, and you're talking group chats and that's it. You seem like the kind of person that would have had a snapchat streak going for several days with a friend. Um, yeah, so it's like, where do you spend your time? And you know, the, but I'm an old 25 year old, he's a young 24 year old, so there's a gap between us all and I'm a sprightly 30 year old.

Um, I've actually trained, actually let's talk about training in a minute. Um, so where, where do you draw the line? Like where you want it? This is it. I've drawn the line as I am only going to be on Instagram for posting face Facebook for Virtus family, which I haven't been on all that much because we haven't really been driving that. Um, and Reddit for content cause you know, what a rabbit hole that place is. Um, but then like, you know, do I get, what's Reddit? Pretty much it's the front page of the internet. Do

I get on, do I get on, um, TikTok to drive it for the, for the kids to get them in the gym or the be reels or whatever? Because people my age, except for fucking Grant Rogers aren't on TikTok. Yeah, that's the thing. You have to stay relevant with the population. You want to stay relevant with, well, this is why you're all washed up with. So there's a difference. The medium is social media, which is actually, I thought I realized earlier this week and it, you know, it's, it's certainly not the main reason, but one of the reasons why I'm all for this is because you don't have to do it now.

Get off social media completely and open that space in my life to spend with the girls or to, you know, watch Yellowstone or to read books. Can you do it when we're trying to have a conversation with you? Yeah. Fuck no. I'll talk about that inability to do multiple things at once. I think that's it. I think that's a strange block. I think that's a strength. I reckon KP might have something different to say about that. So there are two different types of focus, right? So there's, there's single focus where you are honed in on a task and then there is, oh fuck, I forgot what the other one is.

Hey, you're defending yourself here. I know. It's like multiple focus or whatever. So like, and my cough sticks slack for this, but guys are more likely to be single focus and girls are more likely to be everything focused. So, you know, I'll be sitting here and I'm focusing on the one thing in front of me, right? If I get thirsty, I'll zone out and stop talking to you for a second just so I can get some, we know. Whereas, whereas you, you're sitting there and going like cushions are feeling nice, chairs are in the wrong spot.

Like this is happening, this is happening, this is happening. And the way my brain works is if I focus on one thing, I need to be focused on the one thing, which I think is a good thing. I think it's a positive thing. However, what I need to be better at is not starting a thing and focusing on you and then going, oh fuck, I need to do that. I have, I have never met someone, we've known each other for a while now. I have never, ever met someone who has such a good ability to just block everything out.

That's a skill. Why did you say something? It's like 30 seconds later though. Because I'll hear it and then process it really slowly. Are you here? No, I think that's a good thing. But yeah, I, yeah, I guess jumping off social media is like the adult version of running away, but I'm going to run away soon. I'm going to jump off social media. I can't wait. Once George is all set up. I've tried a few times and just keep going back work. I've spent more time on TikTok in the past few weeks and I can't admit it.

And I've never been a TikToker. I'll get you back on it. Actually, one of my favourite things is like, I mean, you know, like a Instagram group chat with Coop and Craig. No one is a bigger fiend for Instagram reels than Greg Day. I swear to God. Every day, 30 reels and they're great content. So it's good. He can curate, curate the Instagram content for us. But yeah, I think it's a, it's a, it's nice every now and again just to take stock and almost audit your life for different areas. Like look at your training, look at your social media use, look at your, what learning things you're doing, you know, look at your food and nutrition.

Who are you hanging out with? Who are you hanging out with? And just take a moment to go, what am I doing? Is this conducive to who I want to be and who I want to become? And if not, change it. Yeah. I won't be getting off anytime soon, but you use it how you want to use it and you make of it what you want. So I just don't want to look at it. Don't look at it. Let's talk about training. You've got a, you've got an off season programme released, haven't you? I have. I have.

I wrote a programme for Darcy and I was like, fuck this is good. So I packaged it up, chucked it on train heroics. So if anyone wants an off season programme, it's there. And I decided that, you know, just to give me flashbacks when I was 19, I'm going to do a 19 year old's programme and it's been fucking great. I'm, what are we? For, I think we're week five. So session three of week five tonight. I have, I was looking at my train heroic stats the other day and I have genuinely almost done more sessions in the last five weeks than I have done for however many weeks proceeded that for this year.

Yeah, that checks out. That checks out. Mitch, you seem to be learning into training and running a heap too. Like there's a wedding on the couple of days ago and I had a few people come up to me and say, is Mitch looking good? Yes and no. I think I've just been, everyone's just a little bit more acutely aware of it. What's your training week look like in the moment? I've run three to four times now that I have healthy knees. Plenty. Shout out Napogezic, period pain. I might get sponsored, seriously. They sorted me out. Uh, yeah.

Run three or four times a week and then lift three or four times. Go for a couple of walks. That's about it. A couple of cylinders, a couple of icees. Nice. Yeah. So I guess the goals of my training are very much to accumulate a bit more mass. I think I've always had reasonably good strength. I've been looking skinny for about 24 years. So we're trying to do something about that. And I've never been a tracker of calories. So I always feel like I've eaten pretty good quality of food and always thought I've eaten enough to, you know, promote that muscle protein synthesis.

But it wasn't until I started tracking earlier this year that he actually realized how little we're eating. So that's probably my advice for someone that's struggling to gain or lose weight. He's actually just track your calories. Even if you don't want to do it long term, just do it for a week, seven days. See, you know, what you're hitting and you'll probably surprise yourself of how much or how little you're eating. So my coach Alex Sandalis has got me on 3000 calories at the moment, which sometimes I really, really struggled to eat. Um, double what I eat.

And I guess one of my values is food quality and health because I think if you're nourishing your body with an abundance of nutrients and, you know, foods that aren't going to promote inflammation, then ultimately your body is going to be operating a lot better. You're going to be recovering better, sleeping better. You know, you're just going to be performing at a higher quality. So I sometimes really struggle to hit those 3000 calories whilst eating some nutrient dense just whole foods. But, um, yeah, it's been a, it's been a learning experience and it's not as hard as what people think it is either.

No, I think it's a skill. It's like I look at it in like, like it's very similar skill to learn like budgeting or just getting control of your finances. It's not, you don't have to follow your budget to a T, but if you have periods of time in your life where you're, you want a specific thing, you want to save for a house or you want to buy a car or you want to have a certain amount of savings or you want to go on holiday, having a budget is really the only way to ensure you're going to get there as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Right? So tracking your calories is the same thing. You have a goal, whether it be bigger, stronger, faster, leaner, lighter, whatever. And if you're not across the data in terms of what change you want to make and then, you know, the, the levers you need to push and pull to make those change, then you're effectively just like throwing shit at a wall and hoping it sticks, which to be honest, isn't the worst approach in the world. Better that than waiting for something to happen. Yeah. If you're, if you're aware of, of what you're doing and like, cause I've tracked calories very small periods of time throughout my life, but I like, it's not that I hate it.

I just can't, it's can't be bothered. So I will go, all right, so what's my goal for the next couple of months. And training wise is just to get back to consistent training. Sure. I'd love to be stronger and a little bit fitter and et cetera, but it's, it's more, it's, I've brought a goals so I can be more relaxed with what I'm putting in my body and the food and you know, I can have a few beers and a few cocktails or whatever and not really, it doesn't matter. I just maybe lean into training a little bit more and eat a little bit better the week after.

But if your goals are specific and you have particular things you want to achieve and you want to do it within a particular timeframe, counting calories budgeting is the only way to do it. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And I think people go wrong with they aren't weighing themselves every single day too. Like that's again, cause I've never really cared about the scale until this year. And you need that, you need that metric to know like actually what's going on in your body. So you need to like lay same time every single day because you know, um, saliva went down the wrong hole.

So there's going to be days where your weight's going to fluctuate. So if you're weighing yourself only on Sundays, for example, there could be a gigantic fluctuation in your weight, which could be for any reason, like the timing of your last meal the day before, whether you've been to the toilet, water weight, et cetera, the food, type of food you've eaten, the carbohydrate context that's going to hold water, stress, all that sort of stuff. So the best way to get a really accurate gauge on what's actually happening with your body is to one, track your

calories and to weigh yourself every single day, preferably at the same time with the same time final meal the night before, which isn't always attainable, but yeah. Yeah. But there's consistency and then get as many data points as possible so that you have more, more data to look at to then make decisions based off. And if, yeah, if that's too stressful for you to do, then you've just got to decide then is it worth the stress? How important to you is your goal? And if it's not that important to you like yourself, then don't do it.

And it's like sometimes I think like, fuck, maybe, maybe I'm just, it's just cop out and I'm, maybe I just need to have a goal, but then I'm like, I don't really care. You don't though. I don't care. Me either. And myself, I'm not that married to my goal at all. I just want to see how much weight I can gain in a 12 month period. If I'm healthy, capable, pick up a heavy deadlift every now and again and run around the football field, then I'm good. Yeah. And I think that. It's even better when you're washed up.

It doesn't matter what you do. I train when I want just cause I can. Yeah. Like purely. And I think that that's almost like, cause I talking to a few, we've, we've had a nice little influx of, he's struggling today. We've had a nice little influx of new members over the last week or two, which has been really cool. So we've been having a lot of like the initial conversation, like why are you here? What do you want to achieve? You know, what are you, what have you done before and things like that. And there,

it seems like, and obviously these, this is through the lens of Virtus and the people that are coming to us, but it seems like more people are getting back into training as a means within itself rather than a means, means to an end. And I think it's a really important lesson for whatever you do, whether it be reading books or training or, or, you know, doing something at work is like, try and make the thing both a means to an end and a means within itself. So like we want to training, we want to see

strength improvements and we want to be able to run further and we want to be able to do more in the gym, but we also want to enjoy the journey and enjoy the training and enjoy actually experiencing it, connecting with other people and doing it in an environment where we love to be. And all that does is it allows, it's almost like a positive feedback loop where you enjoy the training and it makes you better and it makes you better. So you enjoy the training and then you can walk out of here and go do all the cool shit you want to do.

But that was just a little, a little summary of conversations with a few people. Yeah. Very good. Two healthy knees, couple of healthy shoulders, your calf. Turns out you stop playing football, all your niggles go away. So I've just got to get that. I started doing a little bit of running too by the way. Yeah. The lower shank issue. Feeling good. That's like, that's what brought it to my mind when you said you stopped playing footy or your niggles go away. My lower shank issue is gone. So aggressive shin splints and some Achilles tendinopathy things going on that have all of a sudden vanished when I've stopped pounding my lower limbs.

It sounds like a Ferrari with some I-20 brakes. I don't get it. He's not a Ferrari by any stretch of imagination. Um, where was it going with that? Yeah, so I've started running, so I've never been a runner. Never enjoyed running. Never gone for runs. And I've never been a good runner. And it's because for the outsider looking into the fitness industry, I guess they see the Holy grail of fitness as someone that can run like a marathon runner. I guess for a lot of the general population looking in that aren't within the industry, I think that's what they perceive a really fit, healthy person to be.

But there's not like for me, I prefer sprinting and being able to lift heavy weight and do cool things in that regard. So I've never been a runner, always been quite unfit and people say to me, shouldn't you be fit? You're a personal trainer. What's your line about running if you don't like it Mitchell? Well, people that say they hate running, there's mainly one reason why they hate running. It's because they fucking suck at running. And that's me. No one who's good at running says they hate running. I hate running. Yeah, but you're washed up. I'm good at running.

Yeah, you're washed up. I can still run. I fucking hate running. Got a bit of inspiration the other day. Hence the washed up. Diving back into Brielle, saw Mitch's Brielle the other day. I think it was a Brielle and you were running in the rain and I had a bit of head noise the other week. So I was pissing down rain and went for a run in the rain, ran from my house to Verda's because he's about two K's and it's phenomenal. It's a bit like country music to be fair. It's nothing like country music. No, it never puts you in a bad mood.

Going for a run in the rain never puts you in a bad mood. Yeah, like country music does. I mean country music I probably wouldn't have listened to long enough to be bleeding to shift my mood to good or too bad. So last time I checked last few podcast guests country music I've sold saying that I've been smashing Yellowstone lately because new season a couple of weeks which we love phenomenal show if you haven't watched it but bit of country music in that and every time someone starts singing I think of you and I think it's not fucking wrong.

I don't know I know it hurts people say that. It's not completely wrong. I know and I know it hurts people to say that I'm okay with it. I think it's good to spread the wings from a genre perspective. He's bleeding. You listen to Lime Cordiale, Lime Repeat and Sticky Fingers and that's it. I do not listen to Lime Cordiale. To be fair we used to do the same thing so. Oh yeah, 100%. Remember Young? Does anyone want to listen to The Avalanches? No, you burnt butt for me. Wildflower. Where you at? No, I was going to say where you at now?

Where do you want to be? You two training wise. I mean this is summer now. Summer's coming. You've got no footy. 85 kilos body weight. That's like a, and for no other reason, if you had asked me why 85 kilos, well no other reason I've just never, I've never been 85 kilos. I've barely ever been 80 kilos so why not push it and see if we can push it that far. Deadlifted 220 with the trap bar I'll be at the other day so I'd like to hit a. What's wrong with the trap bar? We get it you mates with Angus Bradley.

You don't have to get shit on, don't worry. That's a shit take by the way. Yeah it was a horrible take but let's not go down that path because that's a can of worms that I'm not ready to answer. Yeah, couldn't be fucked either. So I'd like to hit that with a straight bar. 100 kilo bench press, can barely bench 90 so I'd love to see how far I can push that. Again, it's just a number. Wouldn't matter if it was 99.5. Just, it's just a number. Love that. I just want to train consistently. I

just want to get trained and like this is the, this is the thing that I'm, a lesson that I'm learning and I've learnt over and over again for the last 15 years. It's like it doesn't matter how much of a thing you do, how much reading, how much studying, how much writing, how much training. You've just got to keep doing more of the thing. It's like doing something x amount of times outside of the adaptations that you get from that. It owes you nothing after that. Which is, I think when we're younger we're taught to work hard and head down by month and good things will happen which is true.

100% true. But you have to keep working hard. There's no like finish line. So yeah, I'm trying to look at my training at the moment as like a horizon. It's like I'm looking towards more capacity and stronger, fitter, all that kind of stuff but it's not a next week or next year or even just decade thing. It's just like I just want to keep tipping in a little bit, do a little bit a lot with my training. So at the moment I haven't started running yet which I should have a couple weeks ago but I'm like four strength sessions a week.

Probably squeeze two running sessions into that and just want to feel good. Just want to not be in pain next football season which is probably not going to happen completely. Not the way you play. Nah, I'm going to go outside next year I reckon. Where are you at Mitchell? I don't really have anything in particular. I mean I do but I don't. Not training for anything. I'm not planning on going to play sport again like I'm not. Probably run a marathon, that's on the card. I haven't run a marathon before. I've done a halfs before when I was an athlete.

Back in the day. A few years ago now. Like I used to do like 40, 60k weeks. Easy. So getting back to that would be nice. Strength strength, I've always been pretty naturally strong without having to work hard for it which sucks for a lot of people because they don't have that luxury but like even like lifting wise I don't really have any numbers in mind. Health wise, I mean I don't have knee pain anymore so that's a great bonus. I don't have to tick that off anymore. Pain is common but not normal. So if you have pain, fix it.

Did you just ban Patrick? Knees over to his guy? Well I was doing all that shit anyway and it didn't help so I just found an anti-inflammatory that actually gave me no pain so if I don't take him for like 3 days that's when it starts to come back. It's just like dull tendon pain but I mean take one a day. Western medicine is a wonderful thing. Exactly, it's there for a reason and I'm very much in the boat of if you need to take it, just fucking take it. Like yeah you might not want to because XYZ, not looking particular.

But like seriously I have no knee pain and I'm doing more than I have ever done. Takes me back to last year when I was in an ambulance with a dislocated shoulder and he was trying to give me painkillers and I'm like ah nah, there's a time and a place for this and the time and a place is right now. 100% like I'm not married to any of that stuff so like I'm fine taking these and it's not like I rely on them because if I don't need to take them I won't take them. We

actually have a thing at the Saints at the moment, we got bought up last night between the assistant coaches and a few of us others are on like a skin fold challenge. So it's a $1000 buy in. Oh love that. Which has obviously come down from the head coach. Bit of skin in the game. He's on a Fox footy contract so he's got a bit of cash in there. Got me on my little old strength and power budget over here. It's a different world. Yeah dietitian's doing us some skinnies and whoever can take the most percentage off before like Feb I think they were talking about last night.

I got more to play with than they do so. But I'm down like 14 kilos in like 2 and a half months. I'll probably get down to like. Could you slip a dietitian like 200 bucks just to like inflate the numbers a little bit. That doesn't change does it. No just to like get you over the line. Obviously it's win win that shit. Win win anyway. And it's a bit of a healthy band too and it only helps build relationships and things like that. Team morale. Exactly. So I'm sitting at like 108 I think. Probably get down to like 95 maybe.

That positive pressure is brilliant. I was telling the boys at footy I was like we need to do a calendar again because if we do a calendar in August like everyone's got to be fit, lean, healthy by then. So you drink less beers and you do less shit. It's up there. And you actually look after yourself. So just having that thing you go to and the $1000 buy in is a brilliant idea. Like the more of that kind of stuff. Yeah 100%. I like to work in a gym every day. I can do double sessions of honour.

I could sit in a sauna for 3 hours. This is true. But yeah a bit of health for that. But yeah mainly just run a marathon. I'll probably do Melbourne next year. Probably do run Melbourne in July. Do the half in July. And then maybe some of the 2XQ series in like March maybe. I ran 5 guys at the start of the year and that like destroyed me. And I did pretty well at it. But. Accumulate some load would be a good idea. I'm coming to my first summer off ever. You know how this shit works.

You know how stress and adaptation works. Just be patient. I don't practice what I practice. Killis and chin pain is pretty high risk factors for under accumulation of load. Yeah and like this is back to the lesson with the interns before us. Like meet the thing where you're at. Like if you're just getting into running start slow. So I'll be starting with some catch to 1Ks. Why not? But that's it. Seriously it's the easiest place to start. Put the ego on the hook for a little bit. Think like there's no finish line. Infinite game. And just fucking lean in.

But I got 6 months off so lucky me. Just here. It's good for us. Going from I've done a month of 90 hour weeks. Stop that. Just about done with a lot of things. Stop that. It just leads to leaving your fucking back door open. Nah see I think it's always been open cause you know. Play on. Been there for a year. And side door's always been open too. Side door yeah. Any more for any more? What are you watching at the moment? You said Yellowstone? Oh mate. Lord of the Rings, Rings of Power and House of the Dragon.

Their dosage once a week. However there's now 2 one hour holes in my life that aren't going to be filled for another year and a half until they're back. Good time to catch up on the Walking Dead. Season 11 phenomenal. Walking Dead lost me. Spoilers. If you haven't seen season 6 of Walking Dead. Press the skip 10 second button. When uh. Wait what's his name? Who died? Who got hit with the bat? Glenn. Glenn. I was thinking Greg and I was like no he's not Greg. Greg Day. When Glenn died I was like I think you've lost me and I watched another season and I was like done.

And I tried to get into it again because I love having a TV show on the go. Like a TV cinema just fill me up and make me happy. One because it's an escape but I don't know I just love everything about it but yeah I just can't get back into it. What are they up to season 42 now? 11. Phenomenal 2 yeah. There was a bit of a lull between seasons 7 and 10 but 11 is phenomenal. So 4 seasons of shit. If you can persist through 3 seasons of meh then the payoffs well worth it.

I got so much of that shit to watch in 5 months. Lean into TV movies and golf. Still waiting on my new clubs though that's a bit rough. That's a good time to plug the birthday bash. Friday November 11th. You picked up on that did you? Yeah interesting. Oh is that deliberate? Tickets need to be bought by next Friday. You've all got a message. If we don't have enough tickets sold I'm cancelling the birthday bash. No we've covered our deposit don't we? Have we? Yeah. We'll talk about it. I told you do the numbers. Get around it.

Just lots of people just need to buy their tickets. Normal things. You'd be in the same boat for something you were going to. I haven't bought a ticket yet. We need to do that. Beautiful. Any more? No I'm hearing people downstairs trying to open the door but they should know we opened at 3pm and not 2.57. I'm not even a if you're not 10 minutes late you're early person. Can you let us in? Nope. The buttons on the camera so it's been a pleasure lads. Love your work. Good luck getting your car back Mitchell. I have my car back for fucks sake.

Damn. Have a good day.