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host. Is it Bricky? On this episode our talks on Bricklayer's about diet
and exercise and how we can try and stay on top of both with the
demand of our trade. Enjoy the show. This is the Bricklaying Show from
Fix Radio. Join me again. Is Harrison Elliot, known as the Benchin
Brickey on TikTok and Instagram. How are you doing mate? Hello mate?
Yes, I'm all good, Thank you all good? Yeah? Good lad.
Now I've been following you on Instagram for a little while now and you're
obviously blowing up on TikTok and all that sort of stuff. Not only are
you a bricklayer, but you are quite a big, well set lad,
plenty of muscle on you, things like that. So what we're talking about
today is just fitness and brick lay and how those two go together. Yeah,
So obviously you have been going to the gym for how many years?
Fourteen years we're on now, fourteen long years, yeah, fourteen long years.
And how long have you been a bricklayer for so? Well, I'm
thirty one now. I've been doing it since fifteen on and off, but
probably full time for about seven to eight years now, so I've been training
longer and I've been a brick layer, right, Okay, So have you
found have you found trying to balance obviously your career, which is brick lay
and which is probably one of the most physically demanding trades, and then on
top of that going to the gym and obviously trying to put on as much
muscle as humanly possible. It's it's taken a lot of trial and arrow over
the years, i would say, trying to find sort of the perfect blend
of what's going to work, what it can manage. What you say is
physical trade this, and there's plenty of days where the last thing I really
want to do is go to the gym. So it's kind of just been
aboutablishing a routine for myself that I can stick to. Doesn't impact one or
the other too much. Where you know, I don't go into work and
I'm absolutely batter before I even start eight o'clock. Yeah, and where I
can actually where I can actually manage to get in the gym after work and
I'm actually ready to go as well. So it's been a bit of trying
error. I've got it wrong plenty of times, but it's just about establishing
that routine I could sort of stick too consistently. Yeah, wow, and
that's work. Yeah, you speak about consistency. So what have you found
works best for you? Because at the moment, I mean I go to
the gym as well, not like you, but I do go to the
gym, believing or not. And then I struggle sometimes with just trying to
get my food in within the day because obviously, if you're trying to put
a muscle, obviously you need to get what I need about four thousand calories
a day if I'm actually being serious. And so how are you finding managing
your time between work, eating and then the gym, Like what time are
you going to the gym? What's your meal prep like and things like that.
Yeah. So so my body type and actually quite the opposite. I
need to keep my calories quite low, which would surprise quite a lot of
people because otherwise I just start packing on fat very quickly. So my routine
at works for me is I don't eat breakfasts at all. I haven't done
for the years. I'll have my first meal at eleven when we stop,
and that's the only break we have during the day. I'll have my first
meal then, and I sort of prepped my lunches. On a weekend,
I literally just eat. I eat chicken. They call me the cave man
on side because I just eat a lot of chicken. I reckon five to
six chickens in my snack A bit bit through plenty of fluid. And that's
a big one, A big one that a lot of people met four by
the wayside, is the fluid levels. You know, I never drink at
work. I have a cup of coffee in the morning and then I have
a pre workout when I got home. Yeah, that's that's the big one.
A lot of people tend to ignore is keeping those hydrations level up.
Like a real stupid question, But what's like the importance, Like this isn't
even a question, but like what's the actually importance to keeping fluid levels that
high. Well, I'll give you a quick analogy so you can actually brick
layers. We're not we're not the brightest a bunch of times, but I
need to picture it. Is if you've got if you put a couple of
chicken breasts together, and you and you and you're hydrated, you cover them
in olive oil, those chicken breast slide and lovely over each other when they
when you're dehydrated. That that's that slidiness. If you imagine your muscles,
it's gone. It's like rubbing sandpaper over each other. Yeah, it's a
very easy way I could describe being hydrated versus being dehydrated. So you know,
you're asking your muscles to work sort of a low effort level of day,
but consistently. And then when you go into the gym and you're asking
them to work at a high intensity if you're not hydrated, just you're just
going to reduce your output. That sad. I need to work on that
lot. Then I need to work on that mate briefly. Obviously, I
know if one goes to the gym and f one's got a different sort of
split and some do upper lower. Some do like a full bro split for
those who don't know what a bro split, that's when you do chest on
one day, shoulders on the next, back on the next day. What
sort of split are you running at the moment. So I've been doing the
same split for a very long time now because it just works me and I
do basically, I do two upper and two lower sessions a week, and
I split them into both into like a push pull and I make sure that
I leave you sort of seventy two hours minimum between upper body to lower body,
if that makes sense right. I tend to start off the week with
what I find them most demanding, which would be like a push session.
Yeah, so that would be for like your upper body would be like any
sort of pressing, bench pressing, et cetera. On leg day would be
sort of squatting, et cetera. That and that's obviously the push and then
I would leave the sort of pull pull days on your bat on like the
back days and sort of the hamstring and calves towards the end of the week.
Find and I just find that I manage that a little bit better.
Some people might be different, but again, a lot of time it's about
finding your own sort of way way around it. Lent, I've done plenty
of bro splits before, but that's just what I've worked for me. I
don't really like training more than four sessions a week because after that I really
start to tierry. And so that's sort of my every feels good with obviously
a demanding job such as brick laying, and then on top of that,
you go into the gym. You say you go four days a week,
which if you found that's probably works best for you. I'll, like you
said, if one's different, but go in probably more than that. Do
you reckon you'll be wasting your time. Really well, you know it's not
that you'd be wasting your time, but it's a lot of the time.
You could you could go gym every day if you want it, but over
time, you just you're not going to recover. And that's the thing a
lot of people miss as well. As recovery is also more important than the
actual training at times. So you've got you've got to give you your body
a chance to recover if you want to adapt, and especially doing what we
do, we do reduce that recovery process because we're on our feet all day,
if you've bent over doing things at your feet, that's that's definitely something
that hampers that. So yeah, it's the recovery is equally is importan training.
No, definitely, Okay, that's quite cool. And I'm just picking
your brain really, mate, I'm reluctant to buy one of your your pet
things. I'm just going to quiz your life on the radio, mate.
I'm just making notes, making notes going back to obviously training and things like
that. Obviously britt Lane's demanding going to the gym is quite demanding, But
do you find going to the gym is actually quite a good way just to
sort out your mental health as well as your physical health. Absolutely, And
to be honest, now, I mean I'm I'm my thirties now, and
you know, my days, my prime days are sort of slowly leaving me.
But yeah, the main, the main reason really I do is it
just keep my head and check. Yeah, it's the massive thing of just
keeping everything taking along, giving you that little bit of structure each day.
Yeah, the physical and mental side of it all sort of comes hand in
hand, I believe. So yeah, to me, it's it's pretty huge
reason that I still am still doing it because you know, at times it
would be very easy just to fall off now and you know, so that
those days are done. But you know when I start doing that, that's
when the head space starts to go all over the place. Yeah, for
me, its hue. I've noticed, like probably over the last two months,
if I've missed out on probably a week or so because I've just not
felt it, actually feel so much worse physically and mentally for it. Then
going back and I'm like, hey, help everyone. You know, it's
it's nice going back to somewhere where you're familiar with, you know everyone,
And it's just like in small community as well, ain't it, which is
also nice? Yeah, definitely. So what would be your advice to a
brickler who wants to improve their health and fitness? Obviously, like you said,
it's a tiring job, but I think it still is quite important to
be constantly trying to improve yourself anyway, whether that's you know, outside of
work or at work. But you know, advice to to a butler who
wants to improve their their health and fitness. The first thing I would say
is a lot of what a lot of the boys don't like here and is
after a certain time of doing this job, it doesn't become quite as stressful
as it was at the start. So you're not really at getting as much
training sort of effect as you think you are when you go to work,
because we're all pretty we're all pretty adapted. After a few years of doing
it, even though it's tiring and the early mornings will get to you,
it's still not you're not really getting masses of physical stimulation. Especially you're not
even laboring, and you've got laborers, et cetera. So so that that
would be that sided you should you should understand that before you even start doing
anything. And I would say, wouldn't just I'd say this to anyone I
want to say it to a bricklayer. It's about it's about finding something you
can stick at continuously. Obviously my form and yours is weight training in the
gym. It doesn't have to be that. It could just be doing six
aside once once or twice a week, going to the gym maybe once or
twice. It's just the fact it's about finding what works for you. You
can't stick to it. If you can't stick to it for more than a
few weeks, it's it's a lost cause. So I mean the way you
know what and what I do, I can stick to this and I haven't
done it for years, and that's sort of that. That's the secret is
finding what works for you, what suits your life. You know, some
people got kids, families, and that's that's a different ball game altogether.
Yeah, it's just about finding what works for you and what you enjoy as
well for the mental side, what really keeps you ticking, And even if
it's a social aspect, there's so many variables to it. But it's about
finding something that you can do and doing a year's time. I think that's
the best thing I could say. Yeah, definitely, Yeah, because consistency
beats anything. So yeah, it's just about finding what you can stick at
and you not drop off on and and you have you have to try and
arrow that. You can only have so much advice for people. You've got
to find the sort of own way with that. So yeah, no,
definitely, I think what I've found, you know, you know, I've
not been going to the gym as much as you, but what I found.
You do you always look at like information online or you speak to different
people like I'm speaking to you now. And what I found, and as
you've just said, is just figuring it out for yourself. You can follow
a rough guide, you can follow a rough diet or a rough plan of
what you're going to be doing, but trial where it's probably are the best
ways, and then you actually figure out what actually works for you. Yeah.
Absolutely. I mean everyone's individual, everyone's got different things they can keep
with, and you know, there's nothing wrong with not being able to stick
with seven and it's not you know personally, I hate running. Yeah,
I used to to play rugby, but un left I had a ball in
my hand that was not interested and I don't do it now. I don't
run now, and a lot of people would love it, so yeah,
that might be their method. Mine isn't do that. Mine to do what
I enjoy, which is the way training. So yeah, it's just about
you know, giving yourself that chance to experience a few things and for what
you know, when try and work out what is going to be best for
you in the long term. Awesome, I'll tell you what. Then we'll
just leave it there because that's you know, that was a pretty good conversation.
I'm really glad I got to speak to you again. Obviously, and
you know you're actually doing really well at the moment. On you're on social
media. I keep seeing your face pop up everywhere. I'm sick of seeing
myself, to be honest. But anyway, mate, much love, honestly,
great talking to you and I'll speak to rosying okay, lovely, thanks
for the time. Thanks Radio The Bricklaying Show podcast with is He the Bricky
joining me is Ryan Money, a bricklayer who has been on incredible weight loss
journey. So I was reading an article on you in the newspaper The Mirror,
and it mentioned that you had lost seventeen stone, which is an incredible
feat. Tell us about that. Just let's just dive straight into it.
I want to know everything really, So how did that weight loss journey happen?
What did you do? Let's just go well, basically, I was
in a bad way for years. Used to be a big lad growing up,
but never you know, never overly big, just sort of stocky.
Used to play a lot of rugby as a kid, and then things when
that stopped, things to spoiled out of control. I kept eating as a
rugby player would, but I wasn't getting the exercise. If you know,
what I mean. Yeah, before you know it, I went from being
a prop forward to be in a whole front row. So yeah, it
was. It was quite drastically. I just kept going and going, really,
oh my god, that's crazy. Roughly, if you don't mind me
asking, you're roughly do you know how many calories you were having a day?
Or did you ever just not work that out because you didn't want to?
Oh, I don't think they've designed a calculation, oh dear. So
so what led you to embark on this weight lost journey because obviously you've come
so far from So what did you weigh at your heaviest if you don't mind
me asking, Well, the heaviest I've always tried note various diet in over
the years, but never stacked it. But when I actually weighed in,
I weighed in at thirty four and a half stone. That's big. Oh
that's just quite Wait and then you've obviously you've lost seventeen stone. Yeah that's
it, which is a fully grown man and some man, isn't it?
That is so much? Okay? So well, eighteen months so you've lost
so that was almost a stone a month, So that's six kilos a month.
That's some serious going. Okay, So so what changed? So you
got to thirty four stone, obviously you had a weigh in and you thought
something needs to change. What was it? What really motivated you to make
this life decision and go right, let's sort this out right now. Was
it your health? Was it work? What was suffering? What was going
on? Yeah, it was the health which led to work. I've been
very lucky to go through life without any serious health problem, which was which
was bad in a way because I didn't need to change any habits, if
you know what I mean. Yeah, so I started I started about I
started this about four years ago. It's about five years ago. I started
losing a lot of energy. Yeah, I suffered from water attention. So
my legs would be swelling up all throughout the day and it would feel like
they're going to burst almost really, and it was hard to get Yeah,
I couldn't get my jeans on a lot of the time. At the end
of the day, it'd be hard to get my jeans off. And of
course that water has to go somewhere. And when you go to sleep and
you lie down, they say to elevate your legs when you have swelling,
didn't they Of course that would have the same effect. All that fluid would
come out, and then I'd be upsetting like yeah, five, six,
seven, eight, ten times a night, Yeah, going for a week.
Yeah, and I just couldn't sleep. I was it was always interrupted,
And of course that led to like me suffering at work basically, Yeah,
ah that massively. Did it get to a point where you couldn't work?
Or are we always able to get to work? Yeah? I always
worked. I've never I haven't had many days off in like the twenty years
I've been doing this now. But like i'd find myself if I was stood
by the mixer knocking up some much. Yeah, I'd find myself nodding off,
stood there with a bucket of water in my hands. Really, you
know you're so deprived of sleep because you can't sleep during the night. Yeah,
I say, yeah if if I work with my dad, So if
my dad was driving us to work, I wouldn't but the whole journey I'd
be conked out in the van all the way there. Wow, that's crazy.
That is okay. So you you got to a certain weight and you
thought, right, my health is all free, and I can't sleep you're
up in the night wei in five times. You know it's no good.
So what did you do? Did you change your diet? Did you start
exercising more? What did you do for exercise? You know, let's yeah,
just tell me. Yeah. Well, I went and joined my local
swimmer World class, okay, because I needed somebody to basically to give me
a plan, you know, because if I have to do it on my
own, I'm boning idol. I wouldn't I wouldn't get it done. So
yeah, I needed someone to weigh me in each week, give me a
you know, something to follow, and then I could do it. And
that's when I found out how much I weigh because I hadn't actually weighed myself
in years because our scales didn't go up that high. So yeah, first
night there when when she weighed me, and it was thirty four and a
half stone, and I nearly had a heart tat there. But and then
then it was just I just started eating correctly. Basically. I went home,
I looked up foods that would help with water attention. So I found
out that tomatoes can help with water attention. And okay, I go through
about a billion packed to tomatoes a week now. I've read two today at
work already. Really yeah, and that that was my go to snack.
So I you know, all that cake and chocolate and crisps, all the
nice but naughty stuff. I traded it all in for tomatoes. So you
say they helped with water retention, as in they hold onto water or they
release waters. Yeah. And then turmics another one as well. I started
taking turmic tablets and interesting concoctions. Yeah, yeah, delicious. So that's
amazing. So you've come this far. How are you finding work now?
Are you watch your sleep like? And how's how's een nowadays for you?
Yeah? Brilliant? Yeah, I'm up. I'm walking a dog at four
am every morning now after getting a good night's sleep. Yeah, I've just
I wake up now and I'm on fire. I'm just ready to go.
Are you're still on this journey at the moment as we speak, You're still
eating tomatoes, You're still having your turmeric? Are you still trying to lose
more? Are you happy how you are now? Yeah? No, I'm
still going four years on and I wait into like actually every Tuesday I go
to my Wimborne and Slim and World Group and Louise weighs me in. I
get all the support I need and yeah, I'm still going and eventually I
want to end up getting my you get awards with swimming well and I want
to get my twenty stone award. That's amazing. Have you found that having
a community behind you has really pushed you forward? Oh? Absolutely? Yeah.
You know you're not in this. You're not on this alone at this
journey, so not only with people like at slim and World. Also my
partner Emmy and my family are a big part of that as well. Oh
that's amazing. That's amazing. You know what advice would you give to anyone
who wants to lose you know, some weight? Biggest advice is just to
bank yourself if the hardest part is admitting that there is a problem. So
you know, no one can do it for you. If you don't start
today, you've got to start tomorrow. So you just want to make today
count. Just back yourself and I'll say you one thing I tell I get
loads of questions from all over the world, basically people that have seen me
in the press, and I just say, there's nothing more admirable than somebody
wants to better themselves. So that's amazing, honestly, truly humbling listening to
you speak. You're not arrogant to anything. You've just done this and it's
been an absolute pleasure speaking to you. Ryan. I'm going to have you
got social media or anything like that, so like I can follow you personally
or do you just stay away from all that? No, I'm on Twitter.
I don't know what my Twitter name is, but yeah, that's fine.
I'll get the I'll get my producer to chat with you and then,
you know, at least I can keep in touching little bit because it's been
fascinating speaking to you and see your progress over the next couple of months and
years. Yeah, Ryan, thank you so much for joining me today.
It's been a true pleasure speaking to you. Best of luck with your way
in tonight and just best best of luck too whatever the future holds for you.
Hopefully lots of tomatoes. Yeah, properly bricking it fixed Radio The Bricklayer
Show. We're Busy the Bricky. Let's welcome to the podcast, Jay the
BRICKI Hi, mate, how are you. I'm good mate? You yeah,
really well, thank you? So Jake, just tell us a little
bit about yourself. Obviously you're a bricklayer whereabouts you're working at the moment,
and I know you're quite big into fitness, so let's have a little chat
about that. Yeah, my I'm twenty two years bricklayer mate time. Yeah.
I started when I was at sixteen. I never wanted to be a
brickler, be fair. I left school with no idea what I wanted to
do. My dad was in the trade. He turned around to me and
just said, look, I think you better get something behind her. So
I looked at being a young kid, it was like, oh, what
can earn me some money? So I picked. I picked bricklaying, and
then I happened to be really good at it. I started I enjoyed it.
I mean I started really enjoying it and starting well I'm sillier now.
Yeah. Well, well you mentioned you never wanted to do, obviously a
brick laying, and now I know what you spoke about me privately before.
What did you actually want to do? I want to be a physiotherapist.
That's my plan. So that's what when I was young. Obviously I didn't
have the grades to do it anyway, but it was always a bit I
didn't have the focus either. I was too young and dumb. Yeah.
Yeah, all young lads are like that, aren't they. They're all just
yeah, you know what I mean. If I could roll back the clock,
I'd probably knuckled down at a little bit. And yeah. But well
you're working towards that now, though, aren't you. Yes mate? Yeah,
So I started up about ten years ago. When I say ten years
ago, it was probably a bit longer than that. When the recession kicked
in, I found myself out of work, so I decided to do a
PT course. Yeah. So I actually worked in a gym for six years.
I was brick laying in the daytime and then training people in the evening.
Really, that's quite cool, it was, but it was it was
hard work. Yeah, yeah, I bet. Well. Well, I
mean I'm a bit like yourself. You've just finished work, haven't you,
And you're on the way to the gym right now, aren't you? Yes
mate? So how do you go on? It's it's to me all right.
People always say to me like, oh, you know, why do
you go to the gym? I mean, to be fair, I started
the gym because of brick Lane, right, Okay, tell me a little
bit more about that. That's an interesting trend. When I started on my
own, so I was probably about nineteen twenty, I started as being self
employed. I finished my apprenticeship and then we went straight on price And obviously
I was trying. I was working really hard, but my body was starting
to break down, even though it's such a young age. Yeah, and
I kept getting issues with my back to the point of where, like I
mean, at one point I thought I was having an arttack. It was
going a bit my back, like my chest and everything. And then I
went to see loads of different people. No one could sort of figure out
what it was. And a physio friend of mine said, look, I
think you need to start strengthening, like strengthening and strengthening your back. So
I started going to the gym and I looked at sort of how the body
works, what I could do, and I see, what is the best
thing I've ever done? Brilliant? Well, you know what, there's a
lot of benefits because obviously you know we're both brick layers. It's a demanding
job. It's quite hard on your body. And then people say, why
you going to the gym after thrashing your body all day at work, you're
only just going to damage it more. But I think it's quite the opposite.
Obviously, I find it quite therapeutic anyway going to the gym just for
mental health reasons and things like that, but it's also nice to see yourself
progress and then it makes you more able. I find at work, you
know you're stronger, you're fitter, you've got more energy and things like that.
You think about it, like, I mean, I've played various sports
down in the years. If you're, for example, if you're a boxer
and you're going into a ring without the correct training and without work using those
muscles and conditioning those muscles to the way that they you know to work and
how they should be, you're going to pick up injuries. You're going to
pick up little niggles along the way, and it's not going to be it's
not nice. Yeah, And effectively with a gym, like what you're doing
is you're creating an injury proof physique. Mm hmm. The longevity in your
career will be will be quite greater because you're less likely to know yourself,
your conditioning, your conditioning your body to be a better version of itself.
So when you do go to work, which is compared to you going to
the gym, pretty light activity. It's a drop in the ocean rather than
you know, going to the gym and that absolutely thrash him for ninety minutes,
which is you know, well that leads to me really onto my next
question. So, you know, as a brick layer, how are you
try and to keep on top of your health and fitness alongside the demands of
the job. You know, what are you're doing to try and help that
you're eating differently compared to just an average show brick lay, you know.
Yeah, So, I mean I've always been conscious of what I eat,
because I mean you are what you eat anyway, and obviously from a health
standpoint, but there's I think from the brick lay inside of things, it's
really hard, like especially when you're out there. You you know, no
two days are the same. Some days I get up or should I say,
get back from the gym or from work, and I just don't want
to I don't want to do anything. Yeah, but you know, because
I'm physically like battered, yeah, of course, whereas it you know,
I used to use an analogy with my clients, like my PT clients And
I always used to say, like if you went out and bought a million
pound car and you wouldn't you know, and money was no object, you
wouldn't want to go to Aldi to fill it up. Yeah, as in
Aldi the supermarket. You'd want to give it the best possible field that money
could buy it to increase the longevity of that car. And you know,
you see people all the time. They've got their possessions, they've got you
know, we all look after our houses, we all look after you know.
I see people. I mean, I've been there before. You buy
expensive pair of shoes and they get a bit dirty and you're constantly cleaning them.
But your business, your biggest asset is you on your body, your
health, you're well being, And I think people kind of forget that that's
the most important thing no matter how much money or anything you've got. If
you've got health, you know, what's the point in all this materialistic stuff.
And I guess obviously going to the gym and things like that either help
improve your health or prevent issues later on down the road and things like that.
Yeah, I mean, I'll tell you what. You know. You
touched on it earlier with regards to the mental health. Now, I'll be
totally honest, right, And I've always felt I always felt that people used
to use the depression and stuff like that as an excuse not to do things
right. Yeah, until COVID hit, and until so for me, you
know, because I'd never experienced it, I always used to think, is
it really? Is it really that bad? Is it really? But once
they took away the gym from me, Yeah, that one thing that I
obviously I've become so reliant on using for my own mental health, which and
I didn't even realize it. Well, once they took that gym away,
you know, I could then start relating to these people, Oh my god,
like this is real. You know the amount of times you try and
say to people that go into the gym, looking after your body, you
know, look looking at yourself in the mirror and seeing those changes. It
helps your Yeah, it's great for the ego, don't get me wrong.
You look at yourself and you know, but you know, I used to
say to people all the time, you know that there's no problem having a
biscuit. Yeah right, no one, biscuit's not going to make you fat.
But don't sit there and eat the whole packet. Easy done, though,
isn't it. I mean, trust me, mate, I'm nearly faulty
out and it don't get any easier it gets, are there? Yeah?
Yeah, I mean, especially obviously for brick layers, there's a big like
stigma of just going to the pub having like, you know, crap food
all day. You know, It's always been a bit like that, and
I think I feel like nowadays, over the last couple of years, that
stigma of being a brick layer drinking loads and all that shit is actually slowly
changing and people are now trying to be a bit more not body conscious,
but just a bit smarter. And I don't know if it's just because people
are more educated nowadays with social media and everything around them, but people are
a lot more conscious nowadays and what they're putting into the body, regardless of
what trade they are or who they are. They're just thinking a little bit
more. Oh, I won't go out and dink, you know, drink
ten pints and then have a kebab, you know what I mean. There'll
probably just be a tiny bit smarter. And I think that is really important,
especially for brit layers. I think, mate, when I first started
it was, you know, Friday lunch time, finished down the pub,
you know you'd be there still are closing, Do you know what I mean?
Yeah, I don't think you get that anymore. Certainly don't see it
anymore. No, I don't either. I'm not I'm not a massive one
on the pub anyway, but it's pretty rare anyway nowadays I find anyway,
I'll tell you what one final question just before I'll let you go ere.
Any advice be Obviously you've been doing fitness for how many years now? Oh
mate? I've in some capacities since I was like six years old. Mate,
it's been a yes, So you've been doing it pretty much forever in
a day. So any tips or advised to brick layers who want to improve
their fitness? Yeah? Mate, starts small, mm hmmm. And when
you say start small, let's have a little bit of context go on.
So let's say, for arguments sake, someone come to me and said,
ry, I want I want you to help me. I say, right,
first thing. First, let's let's look at the details of actually what
you're eating. So you've got to know what you're eating. A lot of
people actually don't know what's going in and then start off with with little changes
like can I drink a little bit more water? Yeah? Am I eating
enough protein? One thing that a lot of people fail to realize is the
protein is very filling anyway, So if you get in the protein right,
you're less likely to binge on other stuff. Yeah. No, definitely,
and obviously with the hydration as well. And again with the gym. You
know, everyone starts somewhere. You know, there's that want and need to
go in the gym and ego lift and the hardest part is getting started,
I tell you what. Jake, thank you so much coming on today.
Fantastic getting to speak to you and just picureating a little bit more about the
fitness and brit laying Fixed Radio. Thanks for listening. You can find loads
of other great podcasts about trade and construction at Fix Radio dot co dot uk.
I'll see you later.