S3 Weekly Wrap 3 · The Weekly Wrap #3

Beautiful people. Welcome back to the Virtus Performance podcast. Here we are for another weekly wrap and safe to say, apart from this leaf, we have a long awaited guest, not so much guest, but just integral part of the Virtus family, finally joining us. Harvey, how are you little buddy? Oh yeah, and Jazz is here too, which we love. Hello Jazzington. How are you Jazz? I'm well, how are you all? DJ Jazzalicious. Oh gosh, we've started. Jazzy Jeff. My many nicknames, which I think just... Jay Swizzle. I think ever since I've came off podcast, oh not podcast, Placement, I've had about 20 new nicknames as I've walked in the door.

Most have come from Tyler. Yeah, Tyler's got some good ones. What's your favourite Tyler? Jazzington. Jazzington, it's quite funny. Jazzington. It's just easy. Where have you been Jazz? What's been happening? Tell us, fill the people in. Well, I think most people know, but I've been on Placement for, I was on Placement for five weeks. I was MIA, but I'm back. What were you doing on Placement? Where was this particular placement? It was in Cranbourne in a community health centre in a hospital for rehab in cardiac and pulmonary. So my last placement for my masters. You want to explain that?

You've lost Tyler. Yeah. Hard attacks and shit. (laughing) Seriously, that man just drifted off the mania. Which normally occurs. That's quick, that might be a record. What? He was drifting off. Yeah, true. It drifted off when we started. (laughing) Where were we? Cardiac. Cardiacs and shit. Pulmonary. Oh, you remembered. You were listening. Cool. Continue. (laughing) But yeah, I was on Placement. My final one for Tyler was reference. Acute ward. So post cardiac surgery or people that have chronic pulmonary diseases. So they're in there from post-care from the hospital to then get back out into, well, essentially healthy enough to go out and live their life.

And then it's not where it should stop, but it's their first starting, like first phase of the rehab before they head out into their normal life post being in hospital. So very confronting, but a really good experience. How do you go working with that population versus like athletic population or pre-postnatal, those kinds of things as the juxtaposition? What are the day? - Yeah, good use of it. I think it's, we always have to treat the person in front of you and what they need at that current stage. But I think they'll just respecting how, and I mean this with respect, how low level their current function is from a, whether it's- - They're probably not gonna listen, so.

(laughing) - Probably. But for anyone out there with those conditions, I'm especially pulmonary, very debilitating, just being able to see and understand what they are going through. Very low level exercise from a progression standpoint. So even if someone is very new to the gym and the first progression we'd give them is 10 steps down the line from where. So just having a big library of exercises to be able to adjust for people where they're currently at and what they need, but making sure that they feel confident and comfortable where they're at and just, yeah. Which

was really interesting and I learnt a lot out of, but yeah, I don't think it would be the environment for me, just from a sense of what I enjoy and what I love to do, but have taken away a lot of things from that placement, probably my favourite one. And I had a wonderful supervisor, so yeah. - That helps. That's why you three love your job so much, right? (laughing) What? We lost Mitch. (laughing) - I was calculating an accurate response. (laughing) - Yeah, so you're back coaching, back on the floor. How's it been? -

It's been nice to be back and see everyone's faces and Harvey's loving being back and means that he isn't, it doesn't have to be at home for, we're in a small apartment, he gets to come around, run around and I don't know, big words. - Eat plants. - Eat plants, yeah, he's been eating plants and the dirt out of the plant pot, sorry. - Eat plants and take shits. (laughing) - Well. - You just described every vegan ever. (laughing) - Don't start Tyler. (laughing) - Behave. (laughing) Behave. - Oh my God. - Nah. Nothing to add there.

- What about you Tyler? - Plenty to add there, but nothing to add there. - You saw my reference of what you just caused and that would be my mother spitting out her tea. (laughing) The Holocaust last night. (laughing) - Actually? - Yes. (laughing) - Play on, someone do jazz. - We lost her. What about you Tyler? How are you? How's your week been? Tell us, fill us in. - Better than the start of the week or better than seven days ago. Went and sat in a machine the other day and got some pictures taken of the inside of my skull.

(laughing) Big brain. - Was there anything in there? - Yeah, huge. (laughing) - Oh, this huge human. - Uh oh. (laughing) - No, wrong one. (laughing) - Just carry on. - What number are you Jesse? - There we go. - Okay, with me to the right of you. You'll be-- - Yeah, pictures of your brain. - You'll be unblocked once you calm down. - How did you get to that moment? - Was doing some heavy lifting on, I don't know the exact date but it was about a week ago. And getting after it on a hack squat and felt like a bit of a sensation on the top of my skull.

I wouldn't say pop, the word pop's dramatic, but just a really sharp acute sensation. That then like-- - Didn't you just pop to explain your back pain the other day? - Yeah, that was a pop. (laughing) That was a literal pop. - A lot of pops happening in Tyler's body at the minute. - Yeah, but pop in regards to the brain, probably a bit dramatic. And yeah, of course this unbearable headache that sort of lasted for a few minutes and then subsided. Like it was so bad I had to like, 'cause I was training at

any time, I had to like sneak off to the toilet and just like sit down and cradle my head like it was fucked, I didn't want to be doing that on the gym floor and carrying on. And tried to continue my session and then same thing, like next exercise I'd exert and just that same spot would just cause this unbearable headache like I'd never felt before. And you'd also like get a bit of nausea and dizziness as that pain would settle in. But it subsided after a few minutes and then didn't think too much of it.

Well, I did, but I tried not to carry on about it too much. Two days later, tried to train again, exact same thing. Didn't carry on too much. Next day, tried to train again. Five minutes in, exact same thing. So I'm like, right, oh shit, well. It was less the concern of what it could be and more just a fuck, I want to train hard again. Let's get this fixed. So I went and saw a doctor and he was really concerned when I explained what happened in the symptoms I was experiencing, like the dizziness and the intense pain.

Pretty much planted in my head that it may be an unruptured aneurysm. And then I sort of low key started to panic. And then on Monday before I got my scan, sort of that day I was having some mild headaches and sort of was wigging myself out a bit that it could be an aneurysm. - You seemed a little rocks when I saw you. - Convinced myself that it was and was like feeling a bit dizzy and nauseous as well. And then got the scans that day and got the results back that night. And when the report came back that it wasn't a vascular malformation or hemorrhage, I like sort of immediately felt better and still get headaches on exertion.

So that's sort of a little annoying that I don't know what it is, but like that dizziness. - It's good now we can make jokes if we know it's not that serious. - Yeah, like the dizziness and the nauseous and all these other side effects that are probably placebo'd or no-cebo'd myself into having are gone. - So I mean, when you got a monkey with two cymbals just going (clapping) it got in your brain over and over again. It's gotta give you a headache at some point. - Did you see the pictures of my skull, Jesse?

- Yeah, you showed me. - Oh, so you're still on mute. (laughing) - You're laughing the whole time. She's on mute and your microphone is in your fucking mouth. (laughing) - I thought that was you trying to mock him. - I've been losing it over here quietly. - Okay, I wasn't sure if I was the only one that heard this massive breath mid, I don't know how you did that. - Seriously. - You're trying to cure your hiccups again. (laughing) - Pop it Eric, sort him out. - A little bit more on that later, but you're okay.

- Yeah, the only thing that came up on the scan was severe thickening of my sinuses. So the doctor called me up before and said, "Yeah, your head's okay, but your sinuses are fucked." Didn't say fucked, but yeah, so that could be something. - Love that, get a bit of Nasonex in there. - Yeah, a little bit frustrating, though I still can't really train 'cause I'm still getting unbearable headaches. - I love that you went through the full process of not really, really worried about the popping in my head. I just want to train hard. - I wasn't even training.

- So for those out there, if you have a popping in your head, go to the fucking doctor straight away. Don't wait two days and don't wait 'til you try and lift again, but I'm glad you're okay 'cause we're worried. You're a bit rocked. - I was worried, yeah. - Yeah, when I had no context today in the middle of the meeting, I was a bit confused. - Can I just say, when they inject you with the dye for the CT scan, they said, "Oh, this is gonna cause like a hot flush and it's gonna feel like you wet your pants."

- Did you piss yourself? - I went in there knowing that, and still when they injected me, I was like, "Oh God, I had to tap myself down there just to make sure I didn't actually eat his." That's something else. - He was coming, and he was still surprised by it. - That's how intense it is. Yeah, but that was that. So yeah, watch this space over the next couple of weeks. - Did you go down to my friends at Vision Radiology? - Yes, I did. - They have been getting pumped with Berta's staff lately. - Cough.

- Oh mate, I'm on my way back. I'm running tomorrow. - Yay. - Get around me. Thanks Chaz, thanks for being excited. I see nothing for you two. Harvey's excited. - We all get injured, mate. - I know, but it's a big deal, being back running and jumping. - You could do that before. - Feeling good? - No, but just with pain. What are you drinking? - I don't know. It was two bucks a cold. - I don't know. - Is that prime? - No. - 'Cause she thinks that was everything. - Wait, what? - Fuck sea shred.

Kiwi Shred. It's delicious. It was two bucks a cold. - Oh, sea shred. - You know what? - Should you treat yourself? - Has that got fat burners in it? - A bit of caffeine. - So yes. - It just moved away. - Has any of you been through a stage of your supplement journey where you gave fat burners a crack? Not necessarily from a- - No. I don't wanna be leaner perspective just from I wanna see what these do. - Yeah, 'cause that's never been an issue for me. I'm usually on the other end of the spectrum where I'm trying to put on like so.

Nah, not for me. - Never, never. - I tried them once because I was like, I was in that couple of years into PT, if I'm gonna be talking about this stuff to clients, I kinda wanna have a clue what it feels like. It was next level. - So you've tried roids as well then? - No, not yet. Not yet. That's like a mid-40s I reckon when I start to deteriorate more. - Liver King 2.0. - No, I'll tell you about it. I'll talk about it. I think there's scope for that stuff as a- - For roids.

- Not necessarily roids, but for androgynous supplements to- - Want a shovel or a ladder? (laughing) - So maybe, so maybe, yeah. Just push back against the inevitable marching towards our death that we will continue to move towards. I don't know. - But then your pee pee will shrink, won't it? - Maybe, maybe. It might be something that we have to deal with. - Keep it together, Jazz. (laughing) - I'm doing my best right now. - Yeah, how are you, Mitchell? - How am I? On sick leave. I've been on migraines last thing a week. (laughing) - Oh, by the way, I'm gonna be away next week.

I'm gonna be sick, all right. - I've taken one sick day in seven weeks. - No, I actually- - Got some. - I respected the way you went. - Don't know how much I got, but I know I got some. - Yeah, you got a couple. I respected the way you went about it, so carry on. - Yeah, so yeah, bit of a headache. Still been here every day, you know. - No aneurysm? - No aneurysm. (laughing) - Yes. - Not really sure what to do with all this extra sleep I'm getting, though. - Oh, mate's the dream.

- Enjoy it, though. - No, I don't. I don't like getting up at, I got up at like eight o'clock today and I didn't like that. - I hate feeling good. - No, I didn't feel good, though. - Well, you're better off doing, just getting a little bit extra all the time, rather than a lot extra, a little bit at a time. - Nah, I haven't liked it. - I've had two full night sleeps the last two nights, so I am rolling around me. What did you call Lucy before? - Turkey. (laughing) - Lucy and Turkey for fucking not sleeping, the best.

- I said, look, she's being a little turkey. - What are you doing at the minute? - Sitting on a podcast. - What challenge? (laughing) - My friends? - What challenge are you doing at the minute? - I'm doing a 75 day hard, which has not been that hard. - Who is it, Andy Frisella? - Yes. - Yeah. - Yes. - What does it consist of? Fill the paper in. - So, there's a few different iterations of it, but like the original one. 75 days. - You're doing the original one? - Yes, yes, 75 days, two workouts a day, 45 minutes.

One has to be outside. Workouts can constitute what you want it to constitute, whether that's a run, ride, swim, kayak, walk, doesn't matter what you make it. - Hence the kayak, smart. - Yes, hence the kayak. Follow an eating plan, diet, whatever you want, which I do anyway, so that's okay. - Have your oxy shred. - Have my oxy shred. Hey, it's full calories. Read 10 pages of a book every day. - Oh, that makes sense why you're reading a book. - It's all making sense. - What am I missing? Oh, take a progress photo every day and drink a gallon of water, which is 3.8 litres, give or take.

- That's a lot of water. - It is. - Piss and moles? - Yeah, I haven't seen yellow for a week. - Do you feel turgid? Your cells feel turgid? - I feel moist. - I feel moist. - Moist? (laughing) - Okay, Jaz, keep it together. - What book are you reading? - Principles. - Actually, this is a big moment, this is a big moment. I gifted that to you a week after I first read it, what, four or five years ago? - Yeah. - You finally picked it up. - You're only just starting to read it.

- Yeah, I haven't read it. - Take the wins when they happen, Jaz. We celebrate. - When do you get back on the tattoo of Auschwitz? - No. - Speaking of tattoo of Auschwitz, I had a really good chat with Sophie Swanson the other day. I took a photo of her picture that we've got in the gym. I put it next to the dumbbell so it looked like the picture was lifting it, the barbell. Quite amusing. She's going well, she's coming home soon, maybe. - When? - Nah, she's not sure. But she says hello to everyone.

She says she's been listening to the podcast, so Sophie, if you hear this, send us a message. Send us a selfie. - She sent me a message yesterday. - She sent me a message yesterday. - She's a good egg. One of the best. Yeah, but anything else, $75,500? - No, that's it. - How many days are you in? - This is day, what are we now, Wednesday? - Yes. - Day nine. - Thoughts on principles, 'cause he's asked me to read it as well, and I haven't. - The first, like, 120 pages is about his life, so it's a small way introduction into something that's relevant, which I haven't really added, 'cause-- - Creates a lot of context.

- Yeah, it does. So I haven't got into the principle part of it yet, to be fair. I haven't just had the experience. I mean, I don't, it's not like I've avoided reading books. I just don't get enjoyment out of it. But doing this, it's, I mean, I set my phone for 20 minutes before I go to bed, so, like, it's just popping that out, so. The first, maybe, the first two days, I noticed a difference in, like, my sleep data. After that, it's been pretty normal compared to what it has been. - Okay. - Which I thought was interesting.

After the first two days, though, I mean, this might make a difference, and then since then, I haven't, not even data-wise or feeling-wise, I don't think I've had a huge difference, but I'm not someone who struggles to go to sleep or stay asleep. So that's something that bodes pretty well for me. - Yep. - The water has definitely been the hardest part. I mean, it's just so much fluid. I would say I'm, like, a two-liter-a-day guy. - Is it adjusted for, it's not adjusted for body weight or anything like that? It's just, this is what you do.

- Yeah. See, I would say I'd have between, like, two and three most days, but, like, that extra, like, liter and a half, like, it adds up. But, I mean, really easy, like, strategy. I got a filtered fridge at home, so it's just cold water straight out of the fridge. That's easy. - Yep. - Down here, we obviously have the cold water bottles in the fridge, so, like, that makes it easier. But a lot of it is just being conscious about what you're doing. I think the most thing, well, the thing I found the hardest

is definitely the water, but also, like, it gave me a nudge to actually, like, create content and, like, put together film and video, which has been fucking exhausting, 'cause I have such a mental block on doing it. Like, I plan it and then do it, but, like, catching up with it, I just, like, forget about, and it's not part of what I usually do. So that's been good, too. Let's maybe do that. Yeah, I just got bored, to be honest, training-wise, like, really. - It's pretty normal. - Yeah, I don't really, I'm not necessarily training for anything.

I mean, I've always kind of trained on and off. - With your coach hat on, has doing this nine days in so we can talk about it again over the next few podcasts, has there been any, like, realisations or any, like, takeaways from a training movement discipline perspective that you'll pass on to your members or clients? - Maybe towards the back of the first week, I noticed that I was a bit social, so I went to the footy both nights and didn't get as much sleep as I would usually, and I got progressively sore throughout the end of the week.

Which is a little bit different now, so I definitely noticed that. But for the training and workout, I'm trying to keep the workouts, like, away from just going for a walk, unless it's a Sunday or Monday, 'cause they're usually in my normal training weekday or my slower days. I'll either go for a long run on a Sunday or lift, but Monday's normally basically a run or nothing. So, like, they're the only two days I'm trying to do a walk as workouts, which I haven't necessarily noticed the toll. I probably take some volume out of each of my sessions, like doing six workouts a week, plus three or four runs, like, that adds up.

Sorry, phone call. - Anyone wanna talk to? - Physio, not my physio. So, yeah, that's, I mean, from a training perspective, I probably just, like, reduce the amount of volume they've been doing, but, like, normally, one of my sessions go for, like, an hour, an hour and 20. - Yep. - It will take, by the time I, 'cause normally I train, obviously, when I'm on the floor, so it takes, you know, a little bit of time coaching-wise, but now, anywhere from, like, 50 to an hour is generally where I've been sitting, minus a warm-up, obviously, but, so, not too much.

I mean, I've probably just been a little bit more strategic because I have a coach hat, yeah. - Yes, and you have to fit it in. - Not going at it, like, just doing two workouts a day and smashing myself and not having any idea of what I'm doing, so, like, a lot of my workouts have been up body-wise and trying to still run, do stuff on legs, so, I mean, that comes from, like, a football thing's use of not doing so much on legs anyway. Get through a lot of calories, like, energy burn-wise, which

I've noticed, like, I was talking to some of the girls yesterday, the AFL girls, and, like, they were saying that they get through anywhere from, like, 2,800 to 32 on Garmin, which is not as accurate as what it would like to be, but give or take, it's, you know, relative over a long period of time, and I'm getting through, like, 38 to 4,200, so, like, that kinda adds up as well, but even eating-wise, like, I don't actually eat much as it is, like, so I think I'm doing, well, no, I'm doing, I'm doing 2,300 calories a day.

Normally, I stick around, like, 2,100, so I've just bumped it up a little bit to just combat the amount of exercise. So that hasn't been too bad either. I mean, I ate the mind muscle chef meals for lunch as dinner, so, like, that's easy. Cooked myself a nice steak last night, so it's been not as challenging as what some other people might find it, I guess, is probably what I'm trying to say. - What was your underlying reason or justification for doing it? - Content, not even kidding. I just have a big block of, like,

putting together stuff like that, so I saw it, I was like, oh, this seems to be doing pretty well, and I'll do it, and I was bored training-wise, so, yeah, that was kind of it. - Perfect. - Yeah, that was really my only motivators. - Yeah, good. - How's your TikTok coming along? - My walks have been great for TikTok editing. 25-minute TikTok edit walk, it's been great. So those people who do not take a phone with you, suck it up. Utilize your phone better if you're gonna do it. - Yeah. - So it was fun.

Like, last night, I went for a walk at, like, eight o'clock around the block, 25 minutes, got a TikTok editor, but I just posted it, so, like, that's, like, what I use that for as well. - Part of me feels like I'm missing out, not following you on TikTok, slash not having TikTok. - I've deleted it for the fourth time. I'm done, I'm done forever. - I've never had it. - Can you go back to every single time Tyler said that? - I've stopped looking at Instagram, like, so, obviously-- - You haven't stopped posting? -

No, I've been posting some stories and stuff, 'cause one of the things I'm trying to do with Instagram is just use it as, like, a bit of, like, a, I guess, essentially personal Virtus branding, like, another tool to hopefully get people into the gym, part of our community, part of what we're doing. Part of that is showcasing my life, but I've realized I've had to be, I've almost gone the opposite way, where I didn't have it for a while, and then I've kind of had to, like, remind myself to use it, which is kind of completely opposite to every social media that I've ever been on, which is kind of weird.

So, I don't know, it's kind of cool. - I think I'd probably just use my social media as, like, a social check-in for most of the people that are in my network. I mean, I don't post much, full stop. Never have, never will. Like, I don't, from my coaching page aspect, like, I don't even want to post valuable things or celebrate people doing cool stuff or promote, like, something I think's cool, something like that, whereas, like, my personal one, like, I post this every, like, one or two months, maybe. - Your dogs. - A little photo dump.

Oh, so many dog photos. I'll do, like, a little photo dump, or, like, I'll post something today, 'cause, you know, we took the Chi-Tech yesterday, had a drone, so, like, there's some pretty sick photos from that, so, like, I posted that up. - Oh, sick. - You know, really. - How's it yakking? - Yakking, nice, actually. It was, it wasn't, like, glassy, but it was bearable. - Good. It wasn't glassy, it was bearable. - Yeah, I didn't, I got absolutely, well, Darce and I got absolutely rinsed on the, like, first fucking wave out. I just

wasn't really paying attention, 'cause, like, Darce and Beach hadn't been kayaking for ages, so I was, like, trying to look, not look after them, but just, like, get 'em out, basically. - Yeah. - And then, yeah, waves just hit me, like, straight in the nose, and I still got, like, drenched. - Verse updates, gym updates? Anyone? Anyone got anything good? - New VGT block mutual. - Oh, yeah. - There was a few cancellations this morning, I must say. - Absolute cowards. - I can name 'em all. - Yeah, trust me, I looked. - Several people that told me they would be here, and I brought Harvey, had to get him in the car at 4.30.

You know who you are. (laughing) - Dem's fighting words. (laughing) - You all right? You wanna talk about it or not? (laughing) - Say that with me. - She's been wronged. (laughing) How are those assignments going, Jazz? (laughing) - Yep. - But seriously, if you see a session, like, don't look at the session till you get here, right? - Don't do it. - It's not gonna change for a month, so suck it up. - Yeah. - Well, I'm bad at doing change a little bit, but you'll find out that. - So tell us, give us a summary of the next 12 week block of VGT programming.

- I'm gonna do it on a spice chart. This month's about a five out of 10 for spice, give or take. Some people might find it an eight, but in my eyes, it's five. Meaning there's some hard in there, but there's some also nice, easy stuff. Like the Monday session was easy, but it was taxing on the legs. Tuesday session, again, easy, but taxing on the arms. - I did it, changed a bunch of stuff, and my quads are jacked. - Correct, yeah. So it's just, it's like targeted, like I've obviously written it for a reason.

So it's been written that way. The Wednesday is a like full body circuit based, sweaty based, bit of a blowout for people that can't come on Saturdays, to be honest. That's why it exists. The Thursday, again, it's dense. So I guess the next kind of 12 weeks is I'm going to call it density. So this block will kind of progress- - A bit of a Tyler block. - Come again? - A bit of a Tyler block. - Can I elaborate? - 'Cause it's a little dense. - Yeah, I just wanted to make sure- - 'Cause the CT scans, huh?

- Yeah, big brain. - Don't feel good. - Yeah, you can say dense. But I'm going to do it a little different to what I had done it previously. So it's going to be in two week micro blocks. So normally we do four weeks at a time. It's the same. Your RPE and intensity might change based on the week. But for the most part, the contents of it is the same. So for this two weeks, the first week of this week, and then second week of next week, they're the same, but the intensity changes for next week.

And then the week after that, so week three of the block will change slightly, whether that's sets, reps, loads, schemes, exercises, basically whatever I feel like doing, based on feedback or based on intuition or based on just what I want to do. So yeah, it'll be a little bit different. It'll keep it a little bit more stimulating. I mean, as per everyone's program, you're going to have days where people don't rock up for the program. You're going to have days where they'll come in and do the session they want to do if they can't make the other day.

So like normal things. But yeah, for the most part, it's going to be dense and it's going to be a little bit more, not volume heavy, but taxing, should I say. - Someone rated it a six today. - Oh yeah, there you go. It's about all, it's about par, par for the course. I'll take that. Yeah, with every program, it is as hard as you make it. I guess that's a really good point because, and for all the members watching is, every day you come in, we'll meet you where you're at. If you're a bit cooked and you're a bit tired, then we'll back off volume, we'll back off load, we'll give you what you need.

If you come in and you're like, I'm ready to run through a brick wall, then we'll crank the spice meter up, we'll increase the scobles, so to speak, and you can have a crack. So I guess the, if there's an exercise you don't like, we can fucking swap it. If you've got a little niggle, we can change it. Everything is adaptable, that's our job. So just get here, yeah. - Programming is the easiest part of what we do. Changing shit on the fly takes less brain cells than Tyler's. - I was waiting for that. - Well, I'm just looking at the ground.

- Are you good? - I could repeat everything you just said. (all laughing) - You just have nam flashbacks again. - Don't talk about the wall. - Is it Friday, Tyler? - Yeah, well, we're gonna elicit your help in writing a session, spicy session. - Yeah, back to back, and the scobles at the back. - Yeah, but maybe even it's the Monday one as well. - Yeah. - Who knows? Yeah, come together, we'll raise some money, raise nearly a grand for Speak and Share, so no reason we can't come together and donate almost a grand for Good Friday Appeal.

7 to 10, book in, book in, please. (all laughing) - That is gonna be a sound bite, I love that. Bring your friends. - Yeah, book in anyway, especially when it's gonna be flight stick, like on Friday, just book in. Helps us, one, mentally prepare, and two, sort of plan space. Yeah, bring your friends, bring the kids. - He's at home, he's staring at himself in the mirror. He pulls out what if I? He looks at everyone and he looks at the mirror and goes, I see pride, I see power, I see a badass brother. - Don't take no shit off of nobody, correct?

- What movie is that from? - Jazz? - Why did you ask me? You always ask me and you know I'm not gonna know the answer to it. - I don't know either, so. - Actually? - Yeah. - What was it? - Kiss My Lucky Egg Sunka. Cool Runnings, no? - Oh, yeah, but I wouldn't be able to quote anything, I was probably right. - Is that the Bobsled one? - I think I was six when I watched it. - Is that the Bobsled one? Holy shit. - It's more to what I do. - Show my age every now and again with the movies I reference, or you guys just need to watch more movies.

- That is a cult classic. - I've seen it, but I was six. (laughing) - Crikey. - I see pride. (laughing) Yeah, good, get around a fucking good Friday appeal because it's a good Friday appeal, good thing. I had nothing. (laughing) - Oh, Jesus. - Downhill spiral. Anything else? - Merch. - Anything else? I think that's it. Merch, oh, merch, hoodies have been ordered. - Orders are down too, right? - Yeah, correct. If you haven't paid, fucking get on it. Got a couple of exciting things in the works merch-wise, but we've also got some socks, caps, and totes en route.

Probably factory in China, Beijing somewhere at the moment, but we'll get there. - Ethically. - Yeah, very ethically sourced. - High quality, et cetera. - Can't confirm. Thanks kids. - Fuck. - Tyler. - There goes the tea. - Ignore that. - I know. - And Kerry just spat out her tea again. - She listens to everyone too. - Yeah, that a girl. - That's the best. - It was good to see her the other day. Miss her. Come back to train. - Thanks for the passion fruits and the tomatoes. They were great. - Tyler hated them.

- What? - Passion fruits were a bit sour. - What? - See, hated them. - They were a bit sour. - Passion fruits. Best sometimes fruit ever. Everyday fruit. - It's not a good thing to get on my mother's bad side. Trust me. What's your favorite? - That's a very gay move. - What's your favorite fruit? - Pineapple. - Mango and passion fruit. - Mm. Blueberries. - Probably raspberries. - Also underrated. - Nashi pears all like been a favorite for a long time. - Not a pair you are. - That's interesting. Why? - Just juicy and yummy.

- Shit. - Such easy laughs to judge these days. Yeah, that's it. We got to bring a friend week in a couple of weeks, but we'll fill you guys in on about that. All members can bring a friend by nothing. Get excited. - That was around 10K last week. - Hey. - Jesse. - Hercules, Hercules. - That's gonna do a half marathon. - Yeah, not for any time soon. October. - Run club. How's run club been going? Couple of weeks in. - Oh, we had our first casualty on the weekend. - Oh no. - What happened?

- We had a direct contact injury. - We had a canine induced ankle sprain. - Yes. - That from all accords has been recovering great. - We got through the session this morning fine. - I need contact. - Dr. Wallace sorting it out. Turns out I do have a first aid kit in my car, which we love. Compression bandage, a bit of elevation. - Did someone get bit? What happened? (laughing) I genuinely just-- - Canine induced ankle sprain. - Come on Tyler, loosen. - Who? Good job. And who got bit? (laughing) Nah, who rolled their ankle?

- Poppy yanks him very quickly in one direction that was perpendicular to the direction she was headed and resulted in a little bit of eversion sprain. Bang bang. She'll be okay. Nothing, a bit of a coddling won't fix. - A bit of a kiss. - Smoothie, elevation. - Yeah. - And patty to the rescue. - Yeah. - Pretty much. - And ice to kill the pain and then fuck the ice off and just get moving. - Pretty much. No, it's been good. We had, I don't count on the weekend, 14, I think. - Yeah, 13 and 14.

- Still be on this Sunday. - Good dad walking from me and Coop, so if anyone wants to come and just walk, come hang out with us. - Michelle Murr, you're on target 'cause you told me to be there with the dog and you weren't, so you're on blast. - Ooh. - Second week in a row. - Ooh. - No, it's good. It'll gain some momentum post-Easter. It's more of just a kind of-- - Is it gonna happen Easter Sunday? - Yeah, I don't do anything Sunday. If you're lucky, I'll bring some eggs. - I

will not be there because-- - I don't need to confirm, I just have a feeling that something will happen in community-based things in Mornington at the park with an Easter egg hunt. - Yeah, maybe. - So I just need to double check that, but as far as I'm aware, yes, we are there. - Put my apologies in for this week. I'll be there next week. - Yeah, it's fine. Tyler, obviously, also on blast. I won't be there. - Oh, yeah. You live nine minute walk from there. Nine minute walk, 900 meter walk. - Sorry, I had an aneurysm.

- I knew that was coming. - Oi, fair call. - Yeah, complete. - Won't be there this Sunday either, but next, I will be there. - Promise? - Your promise? - At this stage. - That's not a promise. - Before we finish up, any athletes you'd like to shout out, give them a pump up, get around them. Members, athletes, humans, canines. - I have heaps when we let these two think first. - I've got Bryony doing some testing tomorrow for her. She's doing really well on your agility and change of direction. We've been working hard with Mitch.

- Yes. - Working hard, getting absolutely punished. - At a girl. - Both, but they both grew hand in hand. - Building capacity, that's what we're here for. - Getting better. - Awesome. - Good. - Someone else going, I need to keep thinking. Mitchell? - Harry Lane. - Oh, you beat me to it. - You were gonna say, that's why I didn't want to go first, but shoulder crew, Harry, Kai, too many shoulders. I fucking hate shoulders. - They just like, leave the shoulders in their sockets, please, like, it's so inconvenient. - I mean, they're poorly designed from a structural perspective, but that's for the big guy upstairs, not me.

- Yep, who else? I mean. - I just want to share Harry for the, for how mature he has been approaching this rehab. Like, you know, it was bound to be named to his captain probably, was on the verge of playing one's footy and just, yeah, had a bit of a setback with the dislocation. Bad news from doc and surgeon, bad news from doc, which, you know, potential surgery, all that kind of stuff, but because he's been showing up and doing the work in the gym for the last couple of years, last 12 months, especially, his function is through the roof.

He's range is good, strength's good, moving well, obviously well-programmed by Mitchell, but just. - No windmills. - No windmills, yeah. - Popped it out last time we did that. (laughing) - Just get in front of the Turkish get-ups, he'll be right. That's my shoulder, shoulder fix, just Turkish get-ups, he'll be okay. But the way he's just shown up, done it, you know, there was obviously the immense disappointment initially, but this is the, this is the thing with sport and, I mean, life, you just, you're gonna get injured. It's gonna happen. How you, you can't do

anything about it, so how you respond to it will determine how quickly you're back and how well you recover, and like, it is a bit of a cop-out going, injuries are just opportunities to get better at other things, but it's true. - You mean that bulletproofing protocol won't? - Oh, no, I mean, you can never, you can never, you can't avoid injuries. Injuries are gonna happen. You can bulletproof as much as you want, but, you know, Luke Shuey's done 4,000 hamstrings, and he spends his whole life trying to make sure he doesn't do more hamstrings, so it just, this is sport, this is life.

- I'll tell you what. - It doesn't always go the way you want it to. - I don't reckon ATG's knee bulletproofing will hold up too well if I just shot someone's knee. (laughing) - Tyler! - Sure. Sure. - Episode six of the Rhodes podcast. - Shout-outs to a couple of my young guys, Nick Beattie and Matilda Argus. Low back stress fractures, tagging it on the chin and just doing what needs to be done. - Yeah. Just keep building function capacity, even around the things you've got going wrong, and you'll, you know, it might suck initially missing out on your sport, but you'll be back at some stage, and you'll learn a lot.

Anyone else? - Lots. Honestly, like, lots. Like, I'm not just sitting-- - Everyone's doing good things. - If you show up, if you turn up and show up, you do good things. Like, it's, the hardest part of Virtus, you, is being here. The hardest part is walking in the door. - Getting here, yep. - Being here, well, depends who's on the floor. (laughing) If it's me, suck shit. If it's Jazz, lucky. (laughing) - Thanks. - The hardest part is getting here. Once you're here, you never have a bad experience about yourself walking out the door. - Just as you're about to open the door, close your eyes and wish for Jazz, and you might get her.

- Just don't check the schedule. Play real late. - Any more for anymore? - I would like to just make a comment of I'm actually not allowed to be nice to anyone anymore. (laughing) - I nearly forgot. - Is Mitch dying? - I nearly forgot, yep. You wanna elaborate, Tyler, or? - I don't know, it's like the 10th time I've had to elaborate today, 'cause it's the 10th time I've heard you say it. (laughing) - You're just not allowed to be nice anymore. - A few months ago, my housemate and Virtus member, M. Webster, I think, was stressed about her doctor exam or something, yeah.

Mitch gave her a nice, oh, he might have hugged her or something, he was nice to her and made her cry. (laughing) - Some nice words, a bit of encouragement. - She didn't get too close, physical touch is not her thing. As you were. - Or yours. - And then the other night, sent me a message about my head, just, you know, hope you're feeling better soon, and then I said to M, "Oh yeah, you're right, "it is a bit weird when Mitch says nice things to you." And then that got through to Mitch, and now, he hasn't-- - First he got thrown on the bus, and now I'm just not gonna be nice.

- He hasn't let me live it down. - Were you the grade four that just threw rocks at the girls you liked? - No, not really, come nuts. - Come nuts, yeah, okay, there you go. Some sort of missile. - Some, yeah. - Yeah, good. - Thanks for being nuts. Get around him. - Live it up where you can, 'cause that's the last thing-- - Back to the fact, is that party of 75 hard? - No, it's not. (laughing) Might be a by-product, you know. - Don't be a C-word. Don't be a C-word, as part of, it's in number six.

- Don't say it, Tyler. - And I was awfully confused. - Don't say it. - Any more for any more? - Jasmine? - No. - Give us closing statements, yes. - Please don't put that on me, no. - Tyler. - That's not a very good closing statement. (laughing) - And we're done. Stay safe team, been a pleasure. - Have a good day. - That's better.