WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.199 --> 00:00:05.160 It's one on top of two wherever you go, So put down the hord, 2 00:00:05.360 --> 00:00:08.880 clean off the trowel and grab a blue because is he the Bricki's on 3 00:00:09.039 --> 00:00:13.080 site from Fix Radio. We're dropping knowledge, hints, tips and big name 4 00:00:13.160 --> 00:00:18.359 guests from the trade, just hopefully not the bricks. This is the brick 5 00:00:18.440 --> 00:00:25.879 Laying Show from Fix Radio. Welcome to the brit Layne Podcast. I'm your 6 00:00:25.920 --> 00:00:29.719 host. Is it Bricky? On this episode our talks on Bricklayer's about diet 7 00:00:29.760 --> 00:00:32.719 and exercise and how we can try and stay on top of both with the 8 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:37.960 demand of our trade. Enjoy the show. This is the Bricklaying Show from 9 00:00:37.960 --> 00:00:42.719 Fix Radio. Join me again. Is Harrison Elliot, known as the Benchin 10 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:46.520 Brickey on TikTok and Instagram. How are you doing mate? Hello mate? 11 00:00:46.560 --> 00:00:49.320 Yes, I'm all good, Thank you all good? Yeah? Good lad. 12 00:00:49.640 --> 00:00:52.799 Now I've been following you on Instagram for a little while now and you're 13 00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:56.200 obviously blowing up on TikTok and all that sort of stuff. Not only are 14 00:00:56.240 --> 00:00:58.840 you a bricklayer, but you are quite a big, well set lad, 15 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:00.960 plenty of muscle on you, things like that. So what we're talking about 16 00:01:02.000 --> 00:01:06.680 today is just fitness and brick lay and how those two go together. Yeah, 17 00:01:06.760 --> 00:01:11.599 So obviously you have been going to the gym for how many years? 18 00:01:11.760 --> 00:01:15.959 Fourteen years we're on now, fourteen long years, yeah, fourteen long years. 19 00:01:15.959 --> 00:01:19.879 And how long have you been a bricklayer for so? Well, I'm 20 00:01:19.920 --> 00:01:22.719 thirty one now. I've been doing it since fifteen on and off, but 21 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:25.959 probably full time for about seven to eight years now, so I've been training 22 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:27.640 longer and I've been a brick layer, right, Okay, So have you 23 00:01:27.799 --> 00:01:33.120 found have you found trying to balance obviously your career, which is brick lay 24 00:01:33.120 --> 00:01:36.879 and which is probably one of the most physically demanding trades, and then on 25 00:01:36.920 --> 00:01:40.879 top of that going to the gym and obviously trying to put on as much 26 00:01:41.000 --> 00:01:46.519 muscle as humanly possible. It's it's taken a lot of trial and arrow over 27 00:01:46.519 --> 00:01:49.680 the years, i would say, trying to find sort of the perfect blend 28 00:01:49.680 --> 00:01:52.400 of what's going to work, what it can manage. What you say is 29 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:56.519 physical trade this, and there's plenty of days where the last thing I really 30 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.519 want to do is go to the gym. So it's kind of just been 31 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:04.239 aboutablishing a routine for myself that I can stick to. Doesn't impact one or 32 00:02:04.239 --> 00:02:07.040 the other too much. Where you know, I don't go into work and 33 00:02:07.040 --> 00:02:09.719 I'm absolutely batter before I even start eight o'clock. Yeah, and where I 34 00:02:09.719 --> 00:02:14.039 can actually where I can actually manage to get in the gym after work and 35 00:02:14.080 --> 00:02:15.319 I'm actually ready to go as well. So it's been a bit of trying 36 00:02:15.439 --> 00:02:20.680 error. I've got it wrong plenty of times, but it's just about establishing 37 00:02:20.680 --> 00:02:23.719 that routine I could sort of stick too consistently. Yeah, wow, and 38 00:02:23.759 --> 00:02:28.120 that's work. Yeah, you speak about consistency. So what have you found 39 00:02:28.120 --> 00:02:30.479 works best for you? Because at the moment, I mean I go to 40 00:02:30.520 --> 00:02:31.919 the gym as well, not like you, but I do go to the 41 00:02:31.919 --> 00:02:37.280 gym, believing or not. And then I struggle sometimes with just trying to 42 00:02:37.280 --> 00:02:38.879 get my food in within the day because obviously, if you're trying to put 43 00:02:38.879 --> 00:02:43.520 a muscle, obviously you need to get what I need about four thousand calories 44 00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:46.840 a day if I'm actually being serious. And so how are you finding managing 45 00:02:46.879 --> 00:02:51.479 your time between work, eating and then the gym, Like what time are 46 00:02:51.479 --> 00:02:53.400 you going to the gym? What's your meal prep like and things like that. 47 00:02:53.439 --> 00:02:58.360 Yeah. So so my body type and actually quite the opposite. I 48 00:02:58.360 --> 00:03:00.520 need to keep my calories quite low, which would surprise quite a lot of 49 00:03:00.520 --> 00:03:06.599 people because otherwise I just start packing on fat very quickly. So my routine 50 00:03:06.599 --> 00:03:08.960 at works for me is I don't eat breakfasts at all. I haven't done 51 00:03:08.960 --> 00:03:13.560 for the years. I'll have my first meal at eleven when we stop, 52 00:03:13.680 --> 00:03:15.919 and that's the only break we have during the day. I'll have my first 53 00:03:15.919 --> 00:03:19.240 meal then, and I sort of prepped my lunches. On a weekend, 54 00:03:19.759 --> 00:03:22.479 I literally just eat. I eat chicken. They call me the cave man 55 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:30.240 on side because I just eat a lot of chicken. I reckon five to 56 00:03:30.319 --> 00:03:37.120 six chickens in my snack A bit bit through plenty of fluid. And that's 57 00:03:37.120 --> 00:03:38.919 a big one, A big one that a lot of people met four by 58 00:03:38.960 --> 00:03:43.400 the wayside, is the fluid levels. You know, I never drink at 59 00:03:43.439 --> 00:03:45.479 work. I have a cup of coffee in the morning and then I have 60 00:03:45.479 --> 00:03:49.080 a pre workout when I got home. Yeah, that's that's the big one. 61 00:03:49.120 --> 00:03:52.639 A lot of people tend to ignore is keeping those hydrations level up. 62 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:57.360 Like a real stupid question, But what's like the importance, Like this isn't 63 00:03:57.400 --> 00:04:00.719 even a question, but like what's the actually importance to keeping fluid levels that 64 00:04:00.800 --> 00:04:03.080 high. Well, I'll give you a quick analogy so you can actually brick 65 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:05.800 layers. We're not we're not the brightest a bunch of times, but I 66 00:04:05.879 --> 00:04:09.360 need to picture it. Is if you've got if you put a couple of 67 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:13.479 chicken breasts together, and you and you and you're hydrated, you cover them 68 00:04:13.479 --> 00:04:16.399 in olive oil, those chicken breast slide and lovely over each other when they 69 00:04:16.519 --> 00:04:21.439 when you're dehydrated. That that's that slidiness. If you imagine your muscles, 70 00:04:21.199 --> 00:04:25.519 it's gone. It's like rubbing sandpaper over each other. Yeah, it's a 71 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:31.319 very easy way I could describe being hydrated versus being dehydrated. So you know, 72 00:04:31.360 --> 00:04:36.199 you're asking your muscles to work sort of a low effort level of day, 73 00:04:36.240 --> 00:04:40.040 but consistently. And then when you go into the gym and you're asking 74 00:04:40.040 --> 00:04:43.160 them to work at a high intensity if you're not hydrated, just you're just 75 00:04:43.199 --> 00:04:46.600 going to reduce your output. That sad. I need to work on that 76 00:04:46.720 --> 00:04:51.040 lot. Then I need to work on that mate briefly. Obviously, I 77 00:04:51.040 --> 00:04:54.519 know if one goes to the gym and f one's got a different sort of 78 00:04:54.519 --> 00:04:58.920 split and some do upper lower. Some do like a full bro split for 79 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:00.680 those who don't know what a bro split, that's when you do chest on 80 00:05:00.680 --> 00:05:04.319 one day, shoulders on the next, back on the next day. What 81 00:05:04.399 --> 00:05:09.759 sort of split are you running at the moment. So I've been doing the 82 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:12.800 same split for a very long time now because it just works me and I 83 00:05:12.839 --> 00:05:15.639 do basically, I do two upper and two lower sessions a week, and 84 00:05:15.680 --> 00:05:20.439 I split them into both into like a push pull and I make sure that 85 00:05:20.519 --> 00:05:26.399 I leave you sort of seventy two hours minimum between upper body to lower body, 86 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.040 if that makes sense right. I tend to start off the week with 87 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:31.920 what I find them most demanding, which would be like a push session. 88 00:05:32.160 --> 00:05:34.959 Yeah, so that would be for like your upper body would be like any 89 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:40.920 sort of pressing, bench pressing, et cetera. On leg day would be 90 00:05:40.959 --> 00:05:44.000 sort of squatting, et cetera. That and that's obviously the push and then 91 00:05:44.040 --> 00:05:46.000 I would leave the sort of pull pull days on your bat on like the 92 00:05:46.040 --> 00:05:50.360 back days and sort of the hamstring and calves towards the end of the week. 93 00:05:51.120 --> 00:05:54.759 Find and I just find that I manage that a little bit better. 94 00:05:54.800 --> 00:05:57.519 Some people might be different, but again, a lot of time it's about 95 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.959 finding your own sort of way way around it. Lent, I've done plenty 96 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.240 of bro splits before, but that's just what I've worked for me. I 97 00:06:03.240 --> 00:06:06.759 don't really like training more than four sessions a week because after that I really 98 00:06:06.839 --> 00:06:12.959 start to tierry. And so that's sort of my every feels good with obviously 99 00:06:13.040 --> 00:06:15.720 a demanding job such as brick laying, and then on top of that, 100 00:06:15.800 --> 00:06:17.319 you go into the gym. You say you go four days a week, 101 00:06:17.360 --> 00:06:19.959 which if you found that's probably works best for you. I'll, like you 102 00:06:20.000 --> 00:06:24.199 said, if one's different, but go in probably more than that. Do 103 00:06:24.240 --> 00:06:28.639 you reckon you'll be wasting your time. Really well, you know it's not 104 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:30.240 that you'd be wasting your time, but it's a lot of the time. 105 00:06:30.279 --> 00:06:32.959 You could you could go gym every day if you want it, but over 106 00:06:33.040 --> 00:06:36.040 time, you just you're not going to recover. And that's the thing a 107 00:06:36.040 --> 00:06:40.720 lot of people miss as well. As recovery is also more important than the 108 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:44.439 actual training at times. So you've got you've got to give you your body 109 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:47.120 a chance to recover if you want to adapt, and especially doing what we 110 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.759 do, we do reduce that recovery process because we're on our feet all day, 111 00:06:53.160 --> 00:06:56.279 if you've bent over doing things at your feet, that's that's definitely something 112 00:06:56.319 --> 00:07:00.800 that hampers that. So yeah, it's the recovery is equally is importan training. 113 00:07:00.079 --> 00:07:03.199 No, definitely, Okay, that's quite cool. And I'm just picking 114 00:07:03.199 --> 00:07:10.439 your brain really, mate, I'm reluctant to buy one of your your pet 115 00:07:10.639 --> 00:07:13.480 things. I'm just going to quiz your life on the radio, mate. 116 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:17.959 I'm just making notes, making notes going back to obviously training and things like 117 00:07:17.959 --> 00:07:21.680 that. Obviously britt Lane's demanding going to the gym is quite demanding, But 118 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:25.920 do you find going to the gym is actually quite a good way just to 119 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:30.040 sort out your mental health as well as your physical health. Absolutely, And 120 00:07:30.279 --> 00:07:32.600 to be honest, now, I mean I'm I'm my thirties now, and 121 00:07:33.040 --> 00:07:36.319 you know, my days, my prime days are sort of slowly leaving me. 122 00:07:36.399 --> 00:07:40.199 But yeah, the main, the main reason really I do is it 123 00:07:40.319 --> 00:07:43.199 just keep my head and check. Yeah, it's the massive thing of just 124 00:07:43.319 --> 00:07:47.040 keeping everything taking along, giving you that little bit of structure each day. 125 00:07:47.319 --> 00:07:51.199 Yeah, the physical and mental side of it all sort of comes hand in 126 00:07:51.199 --> 00:07:54.600 hand, I believe. So yeah, to me, it's it's pretty huge 127 00:07:54.920 --> 00:07:57.319 reason that I still am still doing it because you know, at times it 128 00:07:57.360 --> 00:08:00.199 would be very easy just to fall off now and you know, so that 129 00:08:00.240 --> 00:08:03.000 those days are done. But you know when I start doing that, that's 130 00:08:03.000 --> 00:08:07.199 when the head space starts to go all over the place. Yeah, for 131 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:11.399 me, its hue. I've noticed, like probably over the last two months, 132 00:08:11.800 --> 00:08:15.000 if I've missed out on probably a week or so because I've just not 133 00:08:15.079 --> 00:08:18.800 felt it, actually feel so much worse physically and mentally for it. Then 134 00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:20.879 going back and I'm like, hey, help everyone. You know, it's 135 00:08:20.920 --> 00:08:24.720 it's nice going back to somewhere where you're familiar with, you know everyone, 136 00:08:24.800 --> 00:08:26.120 And it's just like in small community as well, ain't it, which is 137 00:08:26.160 --> 00:08:31.080 also nice? Yeah, definitely. So what would be your advice to a 138 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:35.320 brickler who wants to improve their health and fitness? Obviously, like you said, 139 00:08:35.480 --> 00:08:39.519 it's a tiring job, but I think it still is quite important to 140 00:08:39.639 --> 00:08:43.080 be constantly trying to improve yourself anyway, whether that's you know, outside of 141 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:48.200 work or at work. But you know, advice to to a butler who 142 00:08:48.200 --> 00:08:52.000 wants to improve their their health and fitness. The first thing I would say 143 00:08:52.120 --> 00:08:54.360 is a lot of what a lot of the boys don't like here and is 144 00:08:54.519 --> 00:08:58.399 after a certain time of doing this job, it doesn't become quite as stressful 145 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:01.279 as it was at the start. So you're not really at getting as much 146 00:09:01.360 --> 00:09:03.759 training sort of effect as you think you are when you go to work, 147 00:09:03.759 --> 00:09:07.559 because we're all pretty we're all pretty adapted. After a few years of doing 148 00:09:07.600 --> 00:09:11.039 it, even though it's tiring and the early mornings will get to you, 149 00:09:11.120 --> 00:09:16.200 it's still not you're not really getting masses of physical stimulation. Especially you're not 150 00:09:16.240 --> 00:09:20.480 even laboring, and you've got laborers, et cetera. So so that that 151 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:22.799 would be that sided you should you should understand that before you even start doing 152 00:09:22.840 --> 00:09:28.200 anything. And I would say, wouldn't just I'd say this to anyone I 153 00:09:28.200 --> 00:09:30.759 want to say it to a bricklayer. It's about it's about finding something you 154 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:35.000 can stick at continuously. Obviously my form and yours is weight training in the 155 00:09:35.000 --> 00:09:37.600 gym. It doesn't have to be that. It could just be doing six 156 00:09:37.639 --> 00:09:41.200 aside once once or twice a week, going to the gym maybe once or 157 00:09:41.200 --> 00:09:43.320 twice. It's just the fact it's about finding what works for you. You 158 00:09:43.320 --> 00:09:46.279 can't stick to it. If you can't stick to it for more than a 159 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:50.399 few weeks, it's it's a lost cause. So I mean the way you 160 00:09:50.399 --> 00:09:52.399 know what and what I do, I can stick to this and I haven't 161 00:09:52.440 --> 00:09:54.279 done it for years, and that's sort of that. That's the secret is 162 00:09:54.279 --> 00:09:58.919 finding what works for you, what suits your life. You know, some 163 00:09:58.960 --> 00:10:01.320 people got kids, families, and that's that's a different ball game altogether. 164 00:10:01.600 --> 00:10:05.759 Yeah, it's just about finding what works for you and what you enjoy as 165 00:10:05.759 --> 00:10:09.480 well for the mental side, what really keeps you ticking, And even if 166 00:10:09.519 --> 00:10:13.200 it's a social aspect, there's so many variables to it. But it's about 167 00:10:13.480 --> 00:10:16.679 finding something that you can do and doing a year's time. I think that's 168 00:10:16.679 --> 00:10:20.480 the best thing I could say. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, because consistency 169 00:10:20.519 --> 00:10:24.840 beats anything. So yeah, it's just about finding what you can stick at 170 00:10:24.919 --> 00:10:28.799 and you not drop off on and and you have you have to try and 171 00:10:28.879 --> 00:10:31.399 arrow that. You can only have so much advice for people. You've got 172 00:10:31.440 --> 00:10:35.519 to find the sort of own way with that. So yeah, no, 173 00:10:35.600 --> 00:10:39.759 definitely, I think what I've found, you know, you know, I've 174 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.399 not been going to the gym as much as you, but what I found. 175 00:10:43.440 --> 00:10:46.440 You do you always look at like information online or you speak to different 176 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:50.360 people like I'm speaking to you now. And what I found, and as 177 00:10:50.480 --> 00:10:54.919 you've just said, is just figuring it out for yourself. You can follow 178 00:10:54.919 --> 00:10:56.799 a rough guide, you can follow a rough diet or a rough plan of 179 00:10:56.919 --> 00:11:01.240 what you're going to be doing, but trial where it's probably are the best 180 00:11:01.240 --> 00:11:05.159 ways, and then you actually figure out what actually works for you. Yeah. 181 00:11:05.159 --> 00:11:07.360 Absolutely. I mean everyone's individual, everyone's got different things they can keep 182 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:11.159 with, and you know, there's nothing wrong with not being able to stick 183 00:11:11.200 --> 00:11:15.960 with seven and it's not you know personally, I hate running. Yeah, 184 00:11:16.039 --> 00:11:18.320 I used to to play rugby, but un left I had a ball in 185 00:11:18.320 --> 00:11:20.080 my hand that was not interested and I don't do it now. I don't 186 00:11:20.159 --> 00:11:22.360 run now, and a lot of people would love it, so yeah, 187 00:11:22.440 --> 00:11:26.639 that might be their method. Mine isn't do that. Mine to do what 188 00:11:26.679 --> 00:11:28.440 I enjoy, which is the way training. So yeah, it's just about 189 00:11:28.519 --> 00:11:33.120 you know, giving yourself that chance to experience a few things and for what 190 00:11:33.159 --> 00:11:35.720 you know, when try and work out what is going to be best for 191 00:11:35.759 --> 00:11:39.519 you in the long term. Awesome, I'll tell you what. Then we'll 192 00:11:39.559 --> 00:11:41.120 just leave it there because that's you know, that was a pretty good conversation. 193 00:11:41.320 --> 00:11:43.720 I'm really glad I got to speak to you again. Obviously, and 194 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:48.440 you know you're actually doing really well at the moment. On you're on social 195 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:54.000 media. I keep seeing your face pop up everywhere. I'm sick of seeing 196 00:11:54.000 --> 00:11:56.519 myself, to be honest. But anyway, mate, much love, honestly, 197 00:11:56.559 --> 00:12:00.679 great talking to you and I'll speak to rosying okay, lovely, thanks 198 00:12:00.720 --> 00:12:05.559 for the time. Thanks Radio The Bricklaying Show podcast with is He the Bricky 199 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:11.679 joining me is Ryan Money, a bricklayer who has been on incredible weight loss 200 00:12:11.799 --> 00:12:16.039 journey. So I was reading an article on you in the newspaper The Mirror, 201 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:22.240 and it mentioned that you had lost seventeen stone, which is an incredible 202 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:28.519 feat. Tell us about that. Just let's just dive straight into it. 203 00:12:28.559 --> 00:12:33.879 I want to know everything really, So how did that weight loss journey happen? 204 00:12:33.279 --> 00:12:37.279 What did you do? Let's just go well, basically, I was 205 00:12:37.320 --> 00:12:41.279 in a bad way for years. Used to be a big lad growing up, 206 00:12:41.320 --> 00:12:45.919 but never you know, never overly big, just sort of stocky. 207 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:50.879 Used to play a lot of rugby as a kid, and then things when 208 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:54.399 that stopped, things to spoiled out of control. I kept eating as a 209 00:12:54.440 --> 00:12:58.000 rugby player would, but I wasn't getting the exercise. If you know, 210 00:12:58.000 --> 00:13:01.120 what I mean. Yeah, before you know it, I went from being 211 00:13:01.159 --> 00:13:07.080 a prop forward to be in a whole front row. So yeah, it 212 00:13:07.120 --> 00:13:11.200 was. It was quite drastically. I just kept going and going, really, 213 00:13:11.919 --> 00:13:13.759 oh my god, that's crazy. Roughly, if you don't mind me 214 00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:16.720 asking, you're roughly do you know how many calories you were having a day? 215 00:13:18.240 --> 00:13:20.919 Or did you ever just not work that out because you didn't want to? 216 00:13:20.039 --> 00:13:26.879 Oh, I don't think they've designed a calculation, oh dear. So 217 00:13:26.879 --> 00:13:31.960 so what led you to embark on this weight lost journey because obviously you've come 218 00:13:31.120 --> 00:13:35.840 so far from So what did you weigh at your heaviest if you don't mind 219 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:39.639 me asking, Well, the heaviest I've always tried note various diet in over 220 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:43.480 the years, but never stacked it. But when I actually weighed in, 221 00:13:43.559 --> 00:13:46.360 I weighed in at thirty four and a half stone. That's big. Oh 222 00:13:46.399 --> 00:13:52.360 that's just quite Wait and then you've obviously you've lost seventeen stone. Yeah that's 223 00:13:52.399 --> 00:13:54.919 it, which is a fully grown man and some man, isn't it? 224 00:13:54.960 --> 00:14:03.360 That is so much? Okay? So well, eighteen months so you've lost 225 00:14:03.519 --> 00:14:07.799 so that was almost a stone a month, So that's six kilos a month. 226 00:14:07.960 --> 00:14:11.320 That's some serious going. Okay, So so what changed? So you 227 00:14:11.360 --> 00:14:13.679 got to thirty four stone, obviously you had a weigh in and you thought 228 00:14:15.480 --> 00:14:20.759 something needs to change. What was it? What really motivated you to make 229 00:14:20.799 --> 00:14:24.080 this life decision and go right, let's sort this out right now. Was 230 00:14:24.120 --> 00:14:26.759 it your health? Was it work? What was suffering? What was going 231 00:14:26.799 --> 00:14:30.840 on? Yeah, it was the health which led to work. I've been 232 00:14:30.919 --> 00:14:35.279 very lucky to go through life without any serious health problem, which was which 233 00:14:35.440 --> 00:14:41.320 was bad in a way because I didn't need to change any habits, if 234 00:14:41.320 --> 00:14:45.720 you know what I mean. Yeah, so I started I started about I 235 00:14:45.759 --> 00:14:48.879 started this about four years ago. It's about five years ago. I started 236 00:14:48.879 --> 00:14:52.600 losing a lot of energy. Yeah, I suffered from water attention. So 237 00:14:52.679 --> 00:14:56.360 my legs would be swelling up all throughout the day and it would feel like 238 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:58.679 they're going to burst almost really, and it was hard to get Yeah, 239 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:01.159 I couldn't get my jeans on a lot of the time. At the end 240 00:15:01.159 --> 00:15:03.519 of the day, it'd be hard to get my jeans off. And of 241 00:15:03.519 --> 00:15:07.919 course that water has to go somewhere. And when you go to sleep and 242 00:15:07.960 --> 00:15:11.440 you lie down, they say to elevate your legs when you have swelling, 243 00:15:11.440 --> 00:15:13.919 didn't they Of course that would have the same effect. All that fluid would 244 00:15:13.960 --> 00:15:16.559 come out, and then I'd be upsetting like yeah, five, six, 245 00:15:16.600 --> 00:15:20.120 seven, eight, ten times a night, Yeah, going for a week. 246 00:15:20.600 --> 00:15:24.840 Yeah, and I just couldn't sleep. I was it was always interrupted, 247 00:15:24.960 --> 00:15:30.240 And of course that led to like me suffering at work basically, Yeah, 248 00:15:30.320 --> 00:15:31.879 ah that massively. Did it get to a point where you couldn't work? 249 00:15:33.039 --> 00:15:37.360 Or are we always able to get to work? Yeah? I always 250 00:15:37.360 --> 00:15:39.720 worked. I've never I haven't had many days off in like the twenty years 251 00:15:39.759 --> 00:15:43.720 I've been doing this now. But like i'd find myself if I was stood 252 00:15:43.720 --> 00:15:48.600 by the mixer knocking up some much. Yeah, I'd find myself nodding off, 253 00:15:48.600 --> 00:15:50.240 stood there with a bucket of water in my hands. Really, you 254 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:54.480 know you're so deprived of sleep because you can't sleep during the night. Yeah, 255 00:15:54.480 --> 00:15:56.519 I say, yeah if if I work with my dad, So if 256 00:15:56.519 --> 00:16:00.039 my dad was driving us to work, I wouldn't but the whole journey I'd 257 00:16:00.080 --> 00:16:04.120 be conked out in the van all the way there. Wow, that's crazy. 258 00:16:04.200 --> 00:16:07.720 That is okay. So you you got to a certain weight and you 259 00:16:07.759 --> 00:16:11.360 thought, right, my health is all free, and I can't sleep you're 260 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:14.919 up in the night wei in five times. You know it's no good. 261 00:16:15.720 --> 00:16:19.120 So what did you do? Did you change your diet? Did you start 262 00:16:19.159 --> 00:16:23.360 exercising more? What did you do for exercise? You know, let's yeah, 263 00:16:23.679 --> 00:16:26.720 just tell me. Yeah. Well, I went and joined my local 264 00:16:26.759 --> 00:16:32.960 swimmer World class, okay, because I needed somebody to basically to give me 265 00:16:33.000 --> 00:16:34.759 a plan, you know, because if I have to do it on my 266 00:16:34.799 --> 00:16:38.320 own, I'm boning idol. I wouldn't I wouldn't get it done. So 267 00:16:38.559 --> 00:16:41.600 yeah, I needed someone to weigh me in each week, give me a 268 00:16:41.639 --> 00:16:44.840 you know, something to follow, and then I could do it. And 269 00:16:44.840 --> 00:16:47.639 that's when I found out how much I weigh because I hadn't actually weighed myself 270 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:52.600 in years because our scales didn't go up that high. So yeah, first 271 00:16:52.679 --> 00:16:56.399 night there when when she weighed me, and it was thirty four and a 272 00:16:56.440 --> 00:17:02.840 half stone, and I nearly had a heart tat there. But and then 273 00:17:03.320 --> 00:17:07.440 then it was just I just started eating correctly. Basically. I went home, 274 00:17:07.519 --> 00:17:10.960 I looked up foods that would help with water attention. So I found 275 00:17:10.960 --> 00:17:14.839 out that tomatoes can help with water attention. And okay, I go through 276 00:17:14.880 --> 00:17:18.200 about a billion packed to tomatoes a week now. I've read two today at 277 00:17:18.240 --> 00:17:23.119 work already. Really yeah, and that that was my go to snack. 278 00:17:23.319 --> 00:17:26.640 So I you know, all that cake and chocolate and crisps, all the 279 00:17:26.720 --> 00:17:32.119 nice but naughty stuff. I traded it all in for tomatoes. So you 280 00:17:32.160 --> 00:17:34.480 say they helped with water retention, as in they hold onto water or they 281 00:17:34.480 --> 00:17:41.559 release waters. Yeah. And then turmics another one as well. I started 282 00:17:41.640 --> 00:17:51.759 taking turmic tablets and interesting concoctions. Yeah, yeah, delicious. So that's 283 00:17:51.799 --> 00:17:55.000 amazing. So you've come this far. How are you finding work now? 284 00:17:55.240 --> 00:17:59.160 Are you watch your sleep like? And how's how's een nowadays for you? 285 00:18:00.279 --> 00:18:03.319 Yeah? Brilliant? Yeah, I'm up. I'm walking a dog at four 286 00:18:03.359 --> 00:18:06.799 am every morning now after getting a good night's sleep. Yeah, I've just 287 00:18:06.839 --> 00:18:08.200 I wake up now and I'm on fire. I'm just ready to go. 288 00:18:08.799 --> 00:18:11.880 Are you're still on this journey at the moment as we speak, You're still 289 00:18:11.880 --> 00:18:15.799 eating tomatoes, You're still having your turmeric? Are you still trying to lose 290 00:18:15.839 --> 00:18:18.920 more? Are you happy how you are now? Yeah? No, I'm 291 00:18:19.000 --> 00:18:23.319 still going four years on and I wait into like actually every Tuesday I go 292 00:18:23.359 --> 00:18:26.720 to my Wimborne and Slim and World Group and Louise weighs me in. I 293 00:18:26.759 --> 00:18:30.720 get all the support I need and yeah, I'm still going and eventually I 294 00:18:30.759 --> 00:18:34.640 want to end up getting my you get awards with swimming well and I want 295 00:18:34.680 --> 00:18:40.319 to get my twenty stone award. That's amazing. Have you found that having 296 00:18:40.519 --> 00:18:45.640 a community behind you has really pushed you forward? Oh? Absolutely? Yeah. 297 00:18:45.400 --> 00:18:48.759 You know you're not in this. You're not on this alone at this 298 00:18:48.839 --> 00:18:52.799 journey, so not only with people like at slim and World. Also my 299 00:18:52.880 --> 00:18:56.079 partner Emmy and my family are a big part of that as well. Oh 300 00:18:56.119 --> 00:19:02.240 that's amazing. That's amazing. You know what advice would you give to anyone 301 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:06.799 who wants to lose you know, some weight? Biggest advice is just to 302 00:19:06.839 --> 00:19:11.279 bank yourself if the hardest part is admitting that there is a problem. So 303 00:19:11.319 --> 00:19:14.480 you know, no one can do it for you. If you don't start 304 00:19:14.519 --> 00:19:17.000 today, you've got to start tomorrow. So you just want to make today 305 00:19:17.119 --> 00:19:21.400 count. Just back yourself and I'll say you one thing I tell I get 306 00:19:21.400 --> 00:19:23.640 loads of questions from all over the world, basically people that have seen me 307 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:27.599 in the press, and I just say, there's nothing more admirable than somebody 308 00:19:27.640 --> 00:19:33.920 wants to better themselves. So that's amazing, honestly, truly humbling listening to 309 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:38.519 you speak. You're not arrogant to anything. You've just done this and it's 310 00:19:38.519 --> 00:19:42.319 been an absolute pleasure speaking to you. Ryan. I'm going to have you 311 00:19:42.359 --> 00:19:47.079 got social media or anything like that, so like I can follow you personally 312 00:19:47.279 --> 00:19:51.319 or do you just stay away from all that? No, I'm on Twitter. 313 00:19:51.680 --> 00:19:53.400 I don't know what my Twitter name is, but yeah, that's fine. 314 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:57.279 I'll get the I'll get my producer to chat with you and then, 315 00:19:57.400 --> 00:20:00.000 you know, at least I can keep in touching little bit because it's been 316 00:20:00.559 --> 00:20:07.640 fascinating speaking to you and see your progress over the next couple of months and 317 00:20:07.759 --> 00:20:12.000 years. Yeah, Ryan, thank you so much for joining me today. 318 00:20:12.079 --> 00:20:15.400 It's been a true pleasure speaking to you. Best of luck with your way 319 00:20:15.440 --> 00:20:19.880 in tonight and just best best of luck too whatever the future holds for you. 320 00:20:21.279 --> 00:20:29.640 Hopefully lots of tomatoes. Yeah, properly bricking it fixed Radio The Bricklayer 321 00:20:29.680 --> 00:20:33.240 Show. We're Busy the Bricky. Let's welcome to the podcast, Jay the 322 00:20:33.359 --> 00:20:37.839 BRICKI Hi, mate, how are you. I'm good mate? You yeah, 323 00:20:37.920 --> 00:20:40.759 really well, thank you? So Jake, just tell us a little 324 00:20:40.759 --> 00:20:45.400 bit about yourself. Obviously you're a bricklayer whereabouts you're working at the moment, 325 00:20:45.599 --> 00:20:48.200 and I know you're quite big into fitness, so let's have a little chat 326 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:55.880 about that. Yeah, my I'm twenty two years bricklayer mate time. Yeah. 327 00:20:55.920 --> 00:20:59.200 I started when I was at sixteen. I never wanted to be a 328 00:20:59.200 --> 00:21:02.519 brickler, be fair. I left school with no idea what I wanted to 329 00:21:02.559 --> 00:21:06.799 do. My dad was in the trade. He turned around to me and 330 00:21:06.880 --> 00:21:10.160 just said, look, I think you better get something behind her. So 331 00:21:10.519 --> 00:21:12.720 I looked at being a young kid, it was like, oh, what 332 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:17.319 can earn me some money? So I picked. I picked bricklaying, and 333 00:21:17.400 --> 00:21:22.480 then I happened to be really good at it. I started I enjoyed it. 334 00:21:22.839 --> 00:21:26.319 I mean I started really enjoying it and starting well I'm sillier now. 335 00:21:26.599 --> 00:21:30.480 Yeah. Well, well you mentioned you never wanted to do, obviously a 336 00:21:30.519 --> 00:21:33.160 brick laying, and now I know what you spoke about me privately before. 337 00:21:33.240 --> 00:21:37.920 What did you actually want to do? I want to be a physiotherapist. 338 00:21:37.960 --> 00:21:42.119 That's my plan. So that's what when I was young. Obviously I didn't 339 00:21:42.119 --> 00:21:47.039 have the grades to do it anyway, but it was always a bit I 340 00:21:47.039 --> 00:21:51.079 didn't have the focus either. I was too young and dumb. Yeah. 341 00:21:51.160 --> 00:21:53.200 Yeah, all young lads are like that, aren't they. They're all just 342 00:21:55.079 --> 00:21:57.200 yeah, you know what I mean. If I could roll back the clock, 343 00:21:57.200 --> 00:22:02.519 I'd probably knuckled down at a little bit. And yeah. But well 344 00:22:02.559 --> 00:22:06.200 you're working towards that now, though, aren't you. Yes mate? Yeah, 345 00:22:06.279 --> 00:22:08.559 So I started up about ten years ago. When I say ten years 346 00:22:08.559 --> 00:22:11.720 ago, it was probably a bit longer than that. When the recession kicked 347 00:22:11.759 --> 00:22:17.079 in, I found myself out of work, so I decided to do a 348 00:22:17.119 --> 00:22:21.759 PT course. Yeah. So I actually worked in a gym for six years. 349 00:22:21.960 --> 00:22:25.000 I was brick laying in the daytime and then training people in the evening. 350 00:22:25.359 --> 00:22:30.160 Really, that's quite cool, it was, but it was it was 351 00:22:30.200 --> 00:22:33.640 hard work. Yeah, yeah, I bet. Well. Well, I 352 00:22:33.680 --> 00:22:37.640 mean I'm a bit like yourself. You've just finished work, haven't you, 353 00:22:37.839 --> 00:22:41.319 And you're on the way to the gym right now, aren't you? Yes 354 00:22:41.359 --> 00:22:47.839 mate? So how do you go on? It's it's to me all right. 355 00:22:47.880 --> 00:22:49.079 People always say to me like, oh, you know, why do 356 00:22:49.119 --> 00:22:52.599 you go to the gym? I mean, to be fair, I started 357 00:22:52.599 --> 00:22:56.920 the gym because of brick Lane, right, Okay, tell me a little 358 00:22:56.920 --> 00:23:03.400 bit more about that. That's an interesting trend. When I started on my 359 00:23:03.480 --> 00:23:07.799 own, so I was probably about nineteen twenty, I started as being self 360 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:12.599 employed. I finished my apprenticeship and then we went straight on price And obviously 361 00:23:12.599 --> 00:23:17.759 I was trying. I was working really hard, but my body was starting 362 00:23:17.759 --> 00:23:21.039 to break down, even though it's such a young age. Yeah, and 363 00:23:21.759 --> 00:23:26.119 I kept getting issues with my back to the point of where, like I 364 00:23:26.119 --> 00:23:27.119 mean, at one point I thought I was having an arttack. It was 365 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:30.640 going a bit my back, like my chest and everything. And then I 366 00:23:30.680 --> 00:23:34.759 went to see loads of different people. No one could sort of figure out 367 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:40.440 what it was. And a physio friend of mine said, look, I 368 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:44.839 think you need to start strengthening, like strengthening and strengthening your back. So 369 00:23:45.559 --> 00:23:48.559 I started going to the gym and I looked at sort of how the body 370 00:23:48.599 --> 00:23:52.200 works, what I could do, and I see, what is the best 371 00:23:52.200 --> 00:23:53.960 thing I've ever done? Brilliant? Well, you know what, there's a 372 00:23:55.000 --> 00:23:57.759 lot of benefits because obviously you know we're both brick layers. It's a demanding 373 00:23:57.839 --> 00:24:00.319 job. It's quite hard on your body. And then people say, why 374 00:24:00.359 --> 00:24:04.200 you going to the gym after thrashing your body all day at work, you're 375 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:07.720 only just going to damage it more. But I think it's quite the opposite. 376 00:24:07.759 --> 00:24:11.079 Obviously, I find it quite therapeutic anyway going to the gym just for 377 00:24:11.279 --> 00:24:15.640 mental health reasons and things like that, but it's also nice to see yourself 378 00:24:15.680 --> 00:24:19.720 progress and then it makes you more able. I find at work, you 379 00:24:19.720 --> 00:24:23.200 know you're stronger, you're fitter, you've got more energy and things like that. 380 00:24:25.400 --> 00:24:27.079 You think about it, like, I mean, I've played various sports 381 00:24:27.119 --> 00:24:32.880 down in the years. If you're, for example, if you're a boxer 382 00:24:32.920 --> 00:24:36.920 and you're going into a ring without the correct training and without work using those 383 00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:41.720 muscles and conditioning those muscles to the way that they you know to work and 384 00:24:41.799 --> 00:24:45.519 how they should be, you're going to pick up injuries. You're going to 385 00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:48.039 pick up little niggles along the way, and it's not going to be it's 386 00:24:48.039 --> 00:24:53.359 not nice. Yeah, And effectively with a gym, like what you're doing 387 00:24:53.960 --> 00:25:00.440 is you're creating an injury proof physique. Mm hmm. The longevity in your 388 00:25:00.480 --> 00:25:06.559 career will be will be quite greater because you're less likely to know yourself, 389 00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:11.759 your conditioning, your conditioning your body to be a better version of itself. 390 00:25:11.799 --> 00:25:14.680 So when you do go to work, which is compared to you going to 391 00:25:14.759 --> 00:25:18.400 the gym, pretty light activity. It's a drop in the ocean rather than 392 00:25:18.440 --> 00:25:22.240 you know, going to the gym and that absolutely thrash him for ninety minutes, 393 00:25:22.559 --> 00:25:26.640 which is you know, well that leads to me really onto my next 394 00:25:26.720 --> 00:25:29.920 question. So, you know, as a brick layer, how are you 395 00:25:30.000 --> 00:25:33.599 try and to keep on top of your health and fitness alongside the demands of 396 00:25:33.640 --> 00:25:37.119 the job. You know, what are you're doing to try and help that 397 00:25:37.200 --> 00:25:41.799 you're eating differently compared to just an average show brick lay, you know. 398 00:25:42.279 --> 00:25:45.799 Yeah, So, I mean I've always been conscious of what I eat, 399 00:25:47.359 --> 00:25:52.160 because I mean you are what you eat anyway, and obviously from a health 400 00:25:52.240 --> 00:25:59.559 standpoint, but there's I think from the brick lay inside of things, it's 401 00:25:59.680 --> 00:26:04.400 really hard, like especially when you're out there. You you know, no 402 00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:08.160 two days are the same. Some days I get up or should I say, 403 00:26:08.279 --> 00:26:12.400 get back from the gym or from work, and I just don't want 404 00:26:12.440 --> 00:26:15.920 to I don't want to do anything. Yeah, but you know, because 405 00:26:15.960 --> 00:26:22.440 I'm physically like battered, yeah, of course, whereas it you know, 406 00:26:23.200 --> 00:26:30.000 I used to use an analogy with my clients, like my PT clients And 407 00:26:30.000 --> 00:26:33.200 I always used to say, like if you went out and bought a million 408 00:26:33.240 --> 00:26:38.039 pound car and you wouldn't you know, and money was no object, you 409 00:26:38.039 --> 00:26:41.960 wouldn't want to go to Aldi to fill it up. Yeah, as in 410 00:26:42.079 --> 00:26:47.440 Aldi the supermarket. You'd want to give it the best possible field that money 411 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:51.799 could buy it to increase the longevity of that car. And you know, 412 00:26:51.960 --> 00:26:53.519 you see people all the time. They've got their possessions, they've got you 413 00:26:53.519 --> 00:26:56.839 know, we all look after our houses, we all look after you know. 414 00:26:56.880 --> 00:27:00.279 I see people. I mean, I've been there before. You buy 415 00:27:00.599 --> 00:27:03.160 expensive pair of shoes and they get a bit dirty and you're constantly cleaning them. 416 00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:08.960 But your business, your biggest asset is you on your body, your 417 00:27:08.960 --> 00:27:14.799 health, you're well being, And I think people kind of forget that that's 418 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.559 the most important thing no matter how much money or anything you've got. If 419 00:27:18.599 --> 00:27:23.240 you've got health, you know, what's the point in all this materialistic stuff. 420 00:27:23.559 --> 00:27:27.160 And I guess obviously going to the gym and things like that either help 421 00:27:27.240 --> 00:27:32.640 improve your health or prevent issues later on down the road and things like that. 422 00:27:33.839 --> 00:27:34.920 Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what. You know. You 423 00:27:34.960 --> 00:27:38.559 touched on it earlier with regards to the mental health. Now, I'll be 424 00:27:38.759 --> 00:27:44.279 totally honest, right, And I've always felt I always felt that people used 425 00:27:44.319 --> 00:27:49.759 to use the depression and stuff like that as an excuse not to do things 426 00:27:49.839 --> 00:27:57.440 right. Yeah, until COVID hit, and until so for me, you 427 00:27:57.480 --> 00:28:00.839 know, because I'd never experienced it, I always used to think, is 428 00:28:00.839 --> 00:28:03.720 it really? Is it really that bad? Is it really? But once 429 00:28:03.720 --> 00:28:08.200 they took away the gym from me, Yeah, that one thing that I 430 00:28:08.440 --> 00:28:14.680 obviously I've become so reliant on using for my own mental health, which and 431 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:17.880 I didn't even realize it. Well, once they took that gym away, 432 00:28:18.720 --> 00:28:21.519 you know, I could then start relating to these people, Oh my god, 433 00:28:21.599 --> 00:28:23.240 like this is real. You know the amount of times you try and 434 00:28:23.240 --> 00:28:27.200 say to people that go into the gym, looking after your body, you 435 00:28:27.240 --> 00:28:32.160 know, look looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing those changes. It 436 00:28:32.400 --> 00:28:34.279 helps your Yeah, it's great for the ego, don't get me wrong. 437 00:28:34.319 --> 00:28:38.279 You look at yourself and you know, but you know, I used to 438 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:41.000 say to people all the time, you know that there's no problem having a 439 00:28:41.039 --> 00:28:45.799 biscuit. Yeah right, no one, biscuit's not going to make you fat. 440 00:28:45.359 --> 00:28:49.240 But don't sit there and eat the whole packet. Easy done, though, 441 00:28:49.240 --> 00:28:52.240 isn't it. I mean, trust me, mate, I'm nearly faulty 442 00:28:52.279 --> 00:28:55.680 out and it don't get any easier it gets, are there? Yeah? 443 00:28:55.720 --> 00:28:59.119 Yeah, I mean, especially obviously for brick layers, there's a big like 444 00:28:59.160 --> 00:29:03.000 stigma of just going to the pub having like, you know, crap food 445 00:29:03.039 --> 00:29:06.359 all day. You know, It's always been a bit like that, and 446 00:29:06.400 --> 00:29:08.720 I think I feel like nowadays, over the last couple of years, that 447 00:29:10.240 --> 00:29:15.440 stigma of being a brick layer drinking loads and all that shit is actually slowly 448 00:29:15.559 --> 00:29:19.200 changing and people are now trying to be a bit more not body conscious, 449 00:29:19.319 --> 00:29:22.319 but just a bit smarter. And I don't know if it's just because people 450 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:26.960 are more educated nowadays with social media and everything around them, but people are 451 00:29:27.000 --> 00:29:32.039 a lot more conscious nowadays and what they're putting into the body, regardless of 452 00:29:32.039 --> 00:29:34.279 what trade they are or who they are. They're just thinking a little bit 453 00:29:34.279 --> 00:29:37.880 more. Oh, I won't go out and dink, you know, drink 454 00:29:37.200 --> 00:29:40.960 ten pints and then have a kebab, you know what I mean. There'll 455 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:45.599 probably just be a tiny bit smarter. And I think that is really important, 456 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:48.680 especially for brit layers. I think, mate, when I first started 457 00:29:48.720 --> 00:29:52.400 it was, you know, Friday lunch time, finished down the pub, 458 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:56.559 you know you'd be there still are closing, Do you know what I mean? 459 00:29:56.799 --> 00:30:00.920 Yeah, I don't think you get that anymore. Certainly don't see it 460 00:30:00.960 --> 00:30:03.359 anymore. No, I don't either. I'm not I'm not a massive one 461 00:30:03.359 --> 00:30:11.000 on the pub anyway, but it's pretty rare anyway nowadays I find anyway, 462 00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:15.480 I'll tell you what one final question just before I'll let you go ere. 463 00:30:17.720 --> 00:30:21.960 Any advice be Obviously you've been doing fitness for how many years now? Oh 464 00:30:22.039 --> 00:30:25.880 mate? I've in some capacities since I was like six years old. Mate, 465 00:30:25.920 --> 00:30:29.680 it's been a yes, So you've been doing it pretty much forever in 466 00:30:29.720 --> 00:30:33.960 a day. So any tips or advised to brick layers who want to improve 467 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:37.480 their fitness? Yeah? Mate, starts small, mm hmmm. And when 468 00:30:37.519 --> 00:30:41.000 you say start small, let's have a little bit of context go on. 469 00:30:42.079 --> 00:30:45.880 So let's say, for arguments sake, someone come to me and said, 470 00:30:45.920 --> 00:30:48.000 ry, I want I want you to help me. I say, right, 471 00:30:48.240 --> 00:30:51.720 first thing. First, let's let's look at the details of actually what 472 00:30:51.720 --> 00:30:53.319 you're eating. So you've got to know what you're eating. A lot of 473 00:30:53.319 --> 00:30:59.599 people actually don't know what's going in and then start off with with little changes 474 00:30:59.640 --> 00:31:03.559 like can I drink a little bit more water? Yeah? Am I eating 475 00:31:03.640 --> 00:31:06.799 enough protein? One thing that a lot of people fail to realize is the 476 00:31:06.839 --> 00:31:10.799 protein is very filling anyway, So if you get in the protein right, 477 00:31:11.240 --> 00:31:15.680 you're less likely to binge on other stuff. Yeah. No, definitely, 478 00:31:15.680 --> 00:31:19.960 and obviously with the hydration as well. And again with the gym. You 479 00:31:21.000 --> 00:31:23.960 know, everyone starts somewhere. You know, there's that want and need to 480 00:31:25.000 --> 00:31:30.519 go in the gym and ego lift and the hardest part is getting started, 481 00:31:30.720 --> 00:31:33.440 I tell you what. Jake, thank you so much coming on today. 482 00:31:33.960 --> 00:31:37.200 Fantastic getting to speak to you and just picureating a little bit more about the 483 00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:41.480 fitness and brit laying Fixed Radio. Thanks for listening. You can find loads 484 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.839 of other great podcasts about trade and construction at Fix Radio dot co dot uk. 485 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:48.039 I'll see you later.