Episode 333: Do you get your car serviced regularly? Do you get a yearly check up at the Doctor? Funnily enough we BJJ Folks never do this when it comes to our physical function for rolling. Many of us do not want to know just how bad our injuries and accumulated damage is so we just ignore it until it's so bad we can't function. But what if it didn't have to come to this? JT & Joey are working a check up, a physical assessment that can let you know where you are at and then what to do about it.
You may not be aware but for every year of BJJ you do there is a slow accumulation of wear and tear but this can be countered with a good routine of maintenance. When was the last time you had a physical check up? This is your call to action to take better care of yourself so you can enjoy training Jiu-jitsu for the long term.
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Episode 333: Do you get your car serviced regularly? Do you get a yearly check up at the Doctor? Funnily enough we BJJ Folks never do this when it comes to our physical function for rolling. Many of us do not want to know just how bad our injuries and accumulated damage is so we just ignore it until it's so bad we can't function. But what if it didn't have to come to this? JT & Joey are working a check up, a physical assessment that can let you know where you are at and then what to do about it.
You may not be aware but for every year of BJJ you do there is a slow accumulation of wear and tear but this can be countered with a good routine of maintenance. When was the last time you had a physical check up? This is your call to action to take better care of yourself so you can enjoy training Jiu-jitsu for the long term.
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Speaker 1:Do you get a yearly checkup? Now? Here's the thing. Bjj is going great, you know, no real injuries, maybe a little bit of lumps and bumps. You're going awesome. You think, oh, grading coming up. But you know, maybe you haven't been to the dentist for a while, maybe you haven't got your car rego just yet. We have yearly checkups for so many other things, people getting their cholesterol checked, their blood pressure checked but we rarely get a body checkup where we actually go. You know, maybe I should get my shoulder checked out. It's, you know, it's a bit sore, it's sore for ages and we just don't do it. And I think this is a massive problem in jiu-jitsu and this is something that we're working on. But I wanted to discuss it because I recently regoed my car and I was Only because you had to. Yeah, I mean, whatever Government's like, you'll go to jail if you don't do this. Yeah, you don't do this, and we are going to suspend your license and you're in big trouble, you know. So we've decided to institute a new law amongst Jiu-Jitsu players you will go to jail unless you start training our program. Sorry guys, we spoke to the governor, the governor of California.
Speaker 1:It's just one of those things. I go to the dentist probably every six months. I don't need a lot of sugar. I brush my teeth, floss, do all the things. I had cavities back in the day and now I barely get any because I pay more attention to it, and so I'm not afraid to go to the dentist, but I'm a bit of a numpty when it comes to my car.
Speaker 1:What about a skin cancer check? Yeah, do that now and again. Yeah, but I'm also not in the sun so much. Farmer Joe, you spend more time in the sun than me. I would say it's true, suburban king, but I could see you with the big hat and the protection as well. I mean, I have it, but you're always exposed. You're an urban man. It's out there. It's what it is. You've got the tan, even though you might go to the doctor and get a blood check or a physical.
Speaker 1:This is not something required for BJJ, as long as you can show up. If you keep showing up, the coach is happy. The coach is not like oh, you appear to be walking with a limp. Someone walks with a limp to the mat. The coach is like my guy. I'm so proud of your fortitude and showing up, even though you can't walk straight. You know, you know, um, not throwing any shade.
Speaker 1:Rafael levado jr I saw that posted a couple of days ago. His man's. He's got a man rolls up on a wheelchair. Well, it's like a walker, but he's sitting in it, okay, yeah, ah, yeah, yeah, yeah, like kind of wheels himself over straight to the mat, hops onto the mat and then, you know, starts rolling with, uh, with rafael, and you know that in the caption he talks about like oh, this is my man, I think it's one of his black belts, right, but he's like dude's knees are a wreck. Like double knee reconstruction coming. Yeah, double knee rico coming. He's got like no meniscuses or some shit. Still trains every day, smashes everyone. You know what a warrior kind of thing, absolutely.
Speaker 1:But it was also a good example of how we like we do glorify the fucking broken individual. That's like a mess. Their body is an absolute mess and all they're doing is making it more of a mess. Yes, they are also exhibiting great toughness and commitment and all those things right, but you're like I don't think I wouldn't want that for anyone. You don't want that in your life. No, like as, having had knee issues myself, I'm like bro, you just don't want them because that shit will affect your entire life.
Speaker 1:When you drive your car, you have an engine light, you know, you have an oil light and if you have, like, a more advanced car, sometimes they tell you your tire pressure. It tells you like it's pretty amazing now, because back in the day you had to be like a legit mechanic to open up the hood and test out the engine. And don't get me wrong, I'm not saying mechanics today are not skilled. But for example, I've seen I can throw some shade, bro. No, no, no, no. But I've seen my mechanic. He goes, gets out this little computer thing, he opens up this part in the front and he connects his tablet assessor to my car and then runs a diagnostic and it tells him what is wrong with my car. And now obviously he has the skills to go through and fix those problems.
Speaker 1:But technology has brought it a long way. You're like oh, I think it's the carburettor. He's like no, we haven't had those for like 40 years. Dude, righto, cool, I'll just go do the shopping, I'll leave this in the safe hands. Charge me $950 for two hours labor. Fuck, that's what I get. We've touched on it before. If you never go to the dentist, like if you just never go. And now you've got a toothache and you've got sensitivity, you've got problems, fuck, this is going to be expensive. You know you got sensitivity, you got problems. Fuck, this is going to be expensive. You know. You know in yourself you get this dread same way taxes. You haven't done for a couple years, like fuck, it's going to be expensive. You know, like it's always the way. We have this kind of uh, cognitive bias where like nah, if I just put it off, it'll be better later. No, it's not. And what I wanted to say is this this is how it came up.
Speaker 1:Friend of mine was telling me how well their jiu-jitsu was going. It was going good. They're kicking ass. They just started doing more birambolas, more inversions. They're taking people's backs, they're choking people. They're like this is great. And now he's, you know, mid-40s and he's actually starting to. He was, he admitted that his back was hurting more because he's playing a lot more guard and he's inverting more, and it doesn't mean he has a back injury, but he's like oh, my back's always sore, it's always cooked, it's like, once I warm up, I'm good and jujitsu is going great, so I don't care.
Speaker 1:And I said, oh man, um, I just thought about maybe just getting your back checked out. You know, just go to a physio, get a bit of a checkup. Nah, nah, nah, nah, it's fine. Like I'm not injured, not injured. That was the phrase he kept coming up with. And I said, yeah, cool, cool, and I don't wish bad on my man.
Speaker 1:But you might be pre-injury, like there might be a little bit of deterioration there or there might be something that you're brewing up which is going to turn into something more catastrophic later. And if you don't get checked, you don't know. Because we don't have these, we don't have the oil light, we don't have the engine light. So what I wanted to talk about is like how could we institute something? Once a year you go and get your body checked. Just a body check, do a few physical checks, it's all. We're all pretty good here. Continue or hang on a second? This is a problem, we need to sort it out. Continue or hang on a second, this is a problem, we need to sort it out.
Speaker 1:So it has this conversation come up as well. When you go to the doctor, you might think, oh, I'm fine, I've got this pain in the stomach. And then you finally go to the doctor and they're like, ah, there's a lump here. And then you go holy shit, cold sweat. What does that mean? Because it's, you know, we're taught to just soldier on and we're taught to keep going, especially in jujitsu.
Speaker 1:And ignoring something which is kind of bugging you in the name of just doing jujitsu better can have really serious consequences for your health. Yeah, I mean, I guess that preemptive approach is we do that with cars. It's like every 10,000 Ks or whatever, right? Or every year, whichever comes, first get your shit serviced. And so it's like get it serviced so that you're not in here getting a new gearbox in three years' time or you're not getting the engine replaced, right, yeah, I think I would imagine that for most people listening, myself included it's like oh yeah, yeah, like maybe some of us do some of those things.
Speaker 1:Okay, like, maybe with your car, maybe you go to the dentist, but like, oh yeah, skin cancer check, fuck, I haven't done that for years, you know. Or like, oh actually, yeah, I haven't been to the physio for ages and my shit's aching. I I wanted to put one thing forward having a regular practice with your strength and or flexibility is like, in a way, like a really good diagnostic tool, because you you're training formalized movements on a regular basis and that gives you that feedback right, like if I can't do, like if I'm in the gym and I can't do something because my lower back's hurting, that day, I'm like fuck, got a lower back thing, better go see the chiro physio, whatever, whereas if I didn't have that practice I'd just be showing back up to jujitsu again being like back's a bit sore, but I know I'm good. After the warmup and then off we go. Yeah, tell me how you feel that plays into the checkup idea. So I think for a lot of people listening to this, they like the idea of going to the gym, but they don't Like many of our, our lovely listeners. We, we still love you, don't worry, but you don't do our program and that's okay, but it's definitely not in your favor, and so for many people out there they might have other stuff they do. That behavior is not in your favor. The program is definitely in your favor. Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:By you, by you neglecting that facet of life, you're doing yourself a disservice, and part of it is the check-in. I know for myself I might have thought, oh man, I went to a wrestling class man, wrestling was so good last night. And then I go to lift my arms up overhead and I'm like, oh, my neck, my shoulder, it's so jacked and I didn't realize until I tried to put my hands above my head. I'm like, wow, overhead pressing is going to be shit today. Turkish get-ups are going to be almost borderline impossible today, and that's the feedback, right. But if you don't have something in your life, and a lot of you don't, you're not getting the feedback. And as long as jiu-jitsu is going good, who cares? Like, jiu-jitsu is good, I'm winning. Yeah, you know. Yeah, because your day-to-day life doesn't expose those things. No, like you can just kind of float through with the sore back or with the tight shoulders and like, do what you need to do and then get to jiu-jitsu and just get through the warm-up and then off we go. Yeah, as humans we are very so if you've got low level pain somewhere over time, you kind of get used to it. It makes you shitty, but you kind of get used to it.
Speaker 1:My mum would always say stuff to me like oh, you're like a bear with a sore head. I'm always growling because I was hungry. I was dieting a lot when I was younger for Taekwondo, but when I was hungry I was just like always had this undercurrent a not nice person. You would have been awesome to be around. I was the worst. I was absolutely the worst person to hang out with. You're a handful.
Speaker 1:When you're well fed, I can't imagine fasting. Yeah, it's not good for anybody, but that's the thing too. If you've got a constant knee ache or a constant neck ache, you're never going to feel really happy and these things pile up and then you don't realize you're being a complete fuckwit until someone's like, hey, man, like what's going on with you, like nothing, I'm doing great at jujitsu, life's good, fucking, leave me alone, hand me a Panadol. And then you do. And then not drug dependency.
Speaker 1:But what really hit me about my caffeine intake and a lot of people don't appreciate this about caffeine it also helps block pain receptors, and so I didn't. For a while there, when I was carrying a few injuries with my hip and my knee, I didn't realize part of the reason why I wanted the caffeine was it did immediately just take the pain down a notch when I had it, and it's not massive, but it takes the edge off. The same way, people who are suffering often drink like, whether it's emotional suffering or physical suffering, it's an aesthetic right. Have that hit takes the edge off. That's this thing. And then eventually it's like one drink isn't doing it. Maybe I need a double shot there, maybe I need three and then maybe yeah, I just, you know, I'm a social, I'm a casual drinker. I just drink five drinks a night and then you know, you find that you're taking Voltaren really regularly and really it's just we're just putting Band-Aids on bullet wounds. I've had a few Voltaren recently and I've been sleeping so good.
Speaker 1:Oh, mate, you know and I'm not saying this to um to shame anybody who's out there just dealing with some shit, you're dealing with it, you're going through it, case in point, right, but how could we not get, how could we unwind that a little bit? Because injury is kind of unavoidable. But if you're on a good streak and you're not injured per se, I think it is worthwhile that we get some kind of a checkup. So the physical checkup is what I'm talking about here. I'm not talking about blood pressure, not talking about cholesterol, not talking about that. That's up to you.
Speaker 1:But I'm saying can you do an astrograph squat? Can you lean forward and touch your toes and not have like really bad back pain? Can you hang from a bar? Because I had a friend of ours in the gym recently, heavyweight, black belt, um, a legend, but I do believe he's bulging disc in his back right because of the way he was described.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't have mri. No, what would your superpower be? Mri vision, baby. Wow, that's how you make some money. Just, yeah, it's a bulge disc. You know L4, l5. That's it. People are like thanks, jtc. You'd be like, oh, no, no, no, money, money, ah, fuck, superpower sucks.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing I said. Well, you know what can help alleviate this pain in your back is hanging, so could you just reach up and hang off the base Like, oh, my shoulder, man, I can't, I just. I was like oh God, man, we're limited, aren't we? And and if you can't lift your arms up overhead or you can't put weight on your hands in a push-up position on the ground because your wrists are so fucking tight and sore, that's a problem. Like we need to start to do things to treat these symptoms of dysfunction. Yep, you know which to? Maybe, if that point didn't hit home for some folks, like the actual fact that you can't place weight on your hand because your wrist is sore, that is not a huge problem. You can work around that.
Speaker 1:But what we know is that by working around that, you are going to cause other issues, and this is the thing. This is why we often nitpick on a small thing like oh, you can't squat, you can't go all the way down, okay, well, that tells us a bit about your hips, maybe the muscles of the back, about your ankles, and over time that's going to start to become a problem over time. So, um, we're kind of trying to treat this shit early on, right before it becomes an actual injury, whether to that area, ie the wrists, or somewhere else like your shoulder, because instead of placing your wrist, you fucking posted, I don't know, on your elbow. No, your shoulders fucked, yeah, your head or something like that, definitely. And look, we are working on a solution, a method for this.
Speaker 1:So right now, we use our standards. We have our six strengths and six mobility exercises that we believe is beneficial for jujitsu people, folks to get on top of, like, get strong at these movements, get flexible at these movements and you're doing good. And even to us individually, it can point out where we're. Maybe not it's difficult to be great at everything. That's totally understandable. You know, we've only got so much time and energy that we can allocate, but what's really good is if something stands out as being so bad, so red flag, that is your low hanging fruit, that is the highest leverage thing you can do. You start to address it and you, you, you address that and then suddenly hang on.
Speaker 1:I addressed my really poor ankle mobility, from not tapping to foot locks, and now my squat's gotten better and now my overall strength is up because I fixed this one thing. It's having carryover benefits, and my goal, our goal, I should say, is to have a very easy system for you to be able to assess where am I at? Am I actually physically deteriorating, even though my jiu-jitsu might be going good? Yeah, and this isn't to make you feel bad, this is just to give you a bit of a feedback. It's a shine a light on some things that you might be oblivious to. Yeah, and this is the.
Speaker 1:I mean, it's a mechanical thing, right? Yes, it's a mechanical assessment that we're, that we're talking about here, which is like strength and flexibility aside, it's like if you can't just get into certain positions with your body, then you can't, you can't work with them, yes, you can't even strengthen them, you can't even. It's not available to you. Yeah, that's, that's right. And so the and I think for, like people who have been on the mats for a longer period of time, most would be able. This would resonate with them, like yeah, like, I move, like shit, like I'm tight, my back's tight, inverting's hard, squatting's hard. It's like, yeah, like, because you're just becoming tighter and tighter and tighter and that's. You know, you're jiu-jitsu beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:You find a way to work with what you got, but actually in terms of your movement as a human, in a body, uh, it's getting progressively worse. You ain't looking like no panther, no, you're looking. You're looking like fucking yoda, but you haven't got the fucking force to help you. And yoga can move though, right, did that fucking saber fight? And shit. No, no, I'm talking old Yoda, I'm talking just prior to dying Fair, you know, he's got the stick. He might be able to move an X-wing with his mind, but he can barely move his body without a prop. And look at that, michael Mussimucci, power, you need it. It comes from his pasta. Lots of olive oil, I.
Speaker 1:So this is my ideal, because I've seen this, I've seen this and we've seen our friends disable themselves through jiu-jitsu, people who've been stalwart, hardcore warriors, jiu-jitsu to the death. And they just hit a point where they're like, holy shit, I'm in too much pain, I can't do the thing I love anymore, and it's a breaking point really. Then they make a change and it's like holy shit, they're back. They make a change and it's like holy shit, they're back. They make a change or they stop training, that's they basically retire, yeah. And you're like, oh yeah, nah, adapt or die, yeah, and when they adapt, it's incredible because, you know, we, we have a friend who, who did make a change and wow it's, it's so impressive to see them after, do we? Yeah, and uh, our friend, mr Smeba, oh, yes, you know, after so many years of just reject, reject, reject Coach Paulie, and then you know, I was so pleased to hear he'd made the change.
Speaker 1:This is what I feel will be great Technology, because technology does exist. We can rebuild him. You've got a phone. I say, hey, joe, can you do me a squat? I record Joe on the phone and the app, our app, will say hey, this is your squat, it's fucking shit. It'll say here's your ankles, here's the joint ankle, here's the knee, here's the hip, here's your back, here's your score, here's the good, here's the hip, here's your back, here's your score, here's the good, here's what you need to work on and go from there, and we will be able to do that for every major movement we require. This is coming, by the way. This is not there now. No, no, no. But what I'm saying is in terms of the technology. It does exist in other apps and people are using it to improve how people are moving, and this is what I want for jiu-jitsu I want a simple way for people to know how well or not well they're doing and then give them a method for fixing it. Yeah, I mean to us. We know that jiu-jitsu academies don't have any kind of physical screening process. No, for new people signing up. It just, it's just, it might be. Are you dying? Are you pregnant? Did you have heart surgery? Okay, yeah, you're fine. Yeah, um, it come knowing what we know and and also working in gyms and in fitness. It's like man, it's criminal, yeah, it's criminal, that you don't have a process for just checking on that.
Speaker 1:I trained with a guy some years ago. He was a new sign-up. I think he'd done some privates at the gym that I was at. He'd been doing privates for a while and then he joined the classes and he was, you know, like a dad, you know, so middle-aged fella, probably somewhere around where I'm at now, and he was great, but I noticed he always kind of limped around and, um, he was great. But I noticed he always kind of limped around and, um, I kind of just thought he was. He was in his initial kind of couple of months, so he was always just wrecked. He's just putting all of his effort into everything and was always so I thought, oh, he's just living around because he's exhausted.
Speaker 1:But then one day I kind of noticed he walked into the gym with the limp and I was like man, what's going on there? Like we got and I can't remember exactly, but he was like, oh, I had a fucking huge car accident and my back got all fucking compressed and my hips fucked and and I was like, whoa, when was that? He's like I was like a couple years ago and I just sort of quizzed him quickly like are you doing? Did you do a rehab process? Are you doing something about that? Now he was like no, I'm not, no, I'm not, no, I didn't. And I said, do, have you told the coaches here? And he's like, oh, no, I don't think so.
Speaker 1:And I was, and I was just as a gym owner, I'm like like, not a jiu-jitsu, but I'm like, motherfucker, you are a liability dude, like I would be concerned about you coming to my fucking stretch class, yeah, let alone jumping in and rolling with these cats, yeah, and so you know you can look at it from multiple, multiple perspectives. But every gym owner wants their students to have a positive experience, yeah, and ideally, love the gym and stay at it for a long time. And like, not having something that could identify that someone is actually carrying some major mechanical deficiencies is a real problem. Yeah, um, and probably not a problem you got to deal with, because that guy probably, you know, ended up with a bunch more injuries and then just never showed up again, sure, and in that way, the coach or the gym never got the feedback from old mate yeah, hey, man, that I loved it, but it fucking destroyed my body, destroyed my body. So if you're not hearing that, then you're not putting a process in place. It's like it's a bit of a cycle there.
Speaker 1:And, look, I also have a good friend of mine who's a trainer, who I used to train with back in the days, the early days he had tried BJJ. Not, to my knowledge, I had moved to Melbourne at that time I wasn't even doing BJJ but there's a gym near where we used to live and he had gone there BJJ, let's try this thing out and they were doing guillotines and it cranked his neck and you know he's just a couple sessions into it and so his neck's jacked up. He's a pretty muscular dude. It caused a car accident. He's trying to back up in the car and he couldn't turn his head to shoulder check and he checked his mirror, checked his mirror, couldn't look, backed up and backed into someone. That's five thousand dollars. And he was like, fuck, jujitsu, just to save my life, you know, and that's the thing. Jujitsu increased my car premiums. Fuck, I'm not saying that's the thing. Jiu-jitsu increased my car premiums Fuck, I'm not saying that's the case for everyone.
Speaker 1:But we have survivorship bias. They talk about this in entrepreneurship. You only hear the stories of the successes. There's no highlight podcast on oh, this business failed. After it did this, this business also failed. This one was really good and then went to zero after two years. No, we only hear about the big billion dollar businesses because that sounds cool and entertaining. We don't want the horror stories of who completely fucking fucked it up. But here's the problem. That could be you. You could be that injury horror story which, through no real fault of your own, just weren't managed well enough, weren't helped enough, and that's turned into something which means you never do jujitsu again and maybe you don't live your life quite as athletically as you could in the future. Yeah, man, and I don't want to do a podcast episode about your broken ass. Well, no, no, no, I think what is amazing, don't become another statistic. No, no, not at all. And but what's been cool? Prevail what I've seen yes, gravity must be defeated.
Speaker 1:Um, people going for surgeries because they needed to coming back, following our advice, and now they're back on the mats. There has been at least four discussions like this in our coaching chat as part of our Facebook group of people prevailing through better advice yeah, which is fucking great. Like it's not, like I'm surprised, it's just, it's awesome. Someone goes hey, I just had the hernia surgery and I did what you said and and now I'm back and I feel good. Yeah, and I didn't think this could happen. Yeah, it's, it's, it's. There's sometimes like we give so much advice through our community and through the, through our Instagram and stuff, that sometimes you feel like people even like following what we're doing, what you said, and I'm fucking stoked and I feel great. You're like, oh, wow, yes, yeah, it's awesome. I actually ran into.
Speaker 1:I gotta give a shout out to gee from garage jiu-jitsu. Yeah, my guy, yeah, friend, known gee for a long time um, he, I just chatted to him. He fought at subversion on the weekend and he won one and um, and then we'll have a chat afterwards. And he was like, oh, hey, man, like I've been using the app so good, yeah, and I was like, nah, yeah, really, garage Tuggera is now an Academy subscriber.
Speaker 1:Oh, with Nick, yeah, man, we were blue belts together, awesome, fucking legend. I saw him on Saturday too. But, yeah, I was like, really, like, I almost didn't believe him. I'm like what programs you've been doing? And he's like your app actually made it really fun for me to go. And he said that mobility thing, man, like my hips, my, my shit's just moving better. And I was like dude, that's so cool, how nice. Yeah, it wasn't just lip service, it was real, yeah. And uh, look, joe is right in saying, and you, you had mentioned kelly starrett had said something similar around the yes, kelly, it was Kelly Starrett.
Speaker 1:He did a podcast with Rogan years ago, back when Starrett was cool. Look, if you haven't heard of the guy. Supple Leopard is still like a pretty solid book, a decent reference book. Yeah, yeah, sure, yeah, he's the guy that introduced lacrosse, balls and bands and mobility in that kind of soft tissue release way and he helped CrossFitters be less broken. He also demonized stretching, which I hold against him. Well, that came a little bit later, but yeah, no, no, that was from the beginning. Really, his whole mantra was don't stretch, stretching doesn't work. Really, yeah, he says it explicitly.
Speaker 1:On that Rogan episode how interesting, I never got that from him but yeah, right, one time, um, but he did, uh, but he did make a good point. He said um, the gym, like, going to the gym and doing weights is your like formalized ballet training, right, and then going and doing crossfit is the? Is the freestyle dance battle? Right, and, and I like that because it it. It's the same with jiu-jitsu, right, jiu-jitsu is your freestyle dance battle. The gym is the formalized stuff.
Speaker 1:It can be sometimes difficult for people to draw the connection like I'm doing this, why do I need to do that? But having this practice of formalized, consistent movements that you do under load in the gym gives us right in in context of today's conversation, a diagnostic tool to be like oh fuck, that feels a bit off, oh, what's going on there? Right. But it also strengthens you through these, this variety of fundamental movement patterns, which then helps you do better when you're doing the freestyle dance battle. Yeah, and people get surprised. You know, people like lifting weights made me stronger, doing flexibility stuff, I'm more flexible.
Speaker 1:What the fuck is this? What is this magical thing you've created? We didn't create shit. What we're doing here is very common sense things.
Speaker 1:But it seems that, in the name of chasing the jujitsu dragon, touching the glory of full of adrenaline fight to the death, roll at your best, diving back takes all the amazingness. We forget that all the other sports we witness, whether it be any kind of football, basketball, any ball sport, any athletic pursuit, there is so much stretching, gym work, meditation, fucking recovery. There's so much that goes behind that. Yet we expect we can go into jujitsu and go absolutely fucking crazy and just do none of that. Do something that's far more demanding than almost any other sport and be like no, I don't need to just support that with anything. Now, as humans, we're not great at taking our own advice. We're really good at helping other people, because sometimes. No, I'm fine, it never happened to me. But yeah, my brother, he needs a cholesterol check.
Speaker 1:I had a cholesterol check a while back and it was high. Actually, about two, three years ago I went to doc dad to get some bloods done. Were you eating your triple butter sandwich at the time? I I actually did. Are you meant to fast? You're meant to. I'm very surprised by that. You're meant to fast before you're getting a blood test. And I fucking forgot. I'm at the cafe eating a ham and cheese croissant and I got a text message reminding me your blood test is today. I was like oh fuck, coffee, I'll just swallow it in one go. It should do the job. Ran. Oh, your blood pressure's up a little. Oh, your cholesterol's high, anyway, but it did make me think.
Speaker 1:You know what I do, even if that was a misread. I do go too hard on it. Why do I consume so much saturated fat, like I eat far more than I need to. Maybe I got to pull that in a little bit. And that's all we're talking about, folks. We're not actually talking about totally revamping your life. We're just talking about get a check, get a checkup, check in with your body and have someone other than yourself, let you know, hey, was that good, or maybe there's room to improve there, because that is what's going to save you the surgery and that's going to save you big pain long term. Yep, there it is. Folks, we love you to bits and we would love you to give us a like, a subscribe and a five-star review. If you do that for us, it shares the love and we appreciate it. Do it.