EP018: Entering Your Fourth Quarter With Passion and Purpose

Would you trade tomorrow morning for $10 million? That single question exposes the truth most of us avoid: we say health matters, then we treat it like it’s optional. Doug and Ted keep it real on what it actually looks like to pursue healthy aging and a higher quality of life, especially once you hit the fourth quarter of life. 

Doug just turned 60, and we use that milestone to talk about presence. Not “perfect mindfulness,” but the practical kind: stop living in the rearview mirror, stop getting stuck in a scary future, and do what’s right in front of you. We also unpack how phones, screen time, and doomscrolling steal our ability to be present, and why boredom is not a weakness. Your brain needs downtime to restore, imagine, and reset, which makes digital detox and intentional unplugging a real longevity strategy. 

Then we get into the nuts and bolts of consistency and accountability. Ted hits 900 straight days of at least 10,000 steps, and we break down what that streak means, what happens if it ends, and why failure isn’t the enemy. We share our own misses with nutrition plans and goals, plus a definition of consistency we live by: giving 100% of what you have today, even when that “100%” is smaller than yesterday. 

If you’re looking for simple health tips, motivation that lasts, and a mindset built for fitness over 60, hit play. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs a restart, and leave us a review so more people can find The Fourth Quarter.

Transcript

Welcome To The Fourth Quarter

SPEAKER_03 0:08

Wake up, wake up, and listen up. Welcome to the fourth quarter podcast with your hosts, Doug Talmich and Tedania. Tune in as we dive into living your best life in the fourth quarter of your life.

SPEAKER_04 0:22

Hear from health and lifestyle experts, inspirational stories, learn simple steps to keep you motivated or to help get you started. Finally, join us as we coach others live on air who want to begin a healthy lifestyle or just might be stuck and need a breakthrough. Remember, it's never too late to decide to be great. Momentum keeps you motivated, so take a deep breath, lean in, and let's go. Welcome back to the fourth quarter. This is a fun episode. We're gonna have a fun week. We have decided that we need to let our listeners in just a little bit more onto who Doug and Ted are as far as committing to health, how we understand consistency, how we apply it to our lives, how it affects us when we don't fulfill something

Doug Turns 60 And Reframes Aging

SPEAKER_04 1:15

that we said we were gonna do, what we do, how we strategize around that, all those things. But first, Ted, we're gonna start off. I'm gonna start off just celebrating me, Ted. I'm gonna celebrate me. Saturday on May 16th, I turned 60 years old, which officially puts me into the fourth quarter. Into the fourth quarter. So my goals and my my mind shit set mind shit. I'm already in the fourth quarter. That's how it rolls, Ted. The speech starts going first, man. And then the memory. And I'm really committed to speaking to people who are living in overtime, which is 80 and beyond, but which we also include into the fourth quarter, but some people call it overtime. And that's awesome. So yeah, I'm gonna be seeking out and talking to more people who are 70, 80, 90, and just picking their brains and seeking wisdom. Because I, although I feel like I've done a pretty good job setting the foundation to be in the fourth quarter, you know, I'm of a mindset that you can all there's always improvement. There's always improvement somewhere, somehow, whether it's mentally, emotionally, and physically. I think physically, that's the foundation for the mental and emotional. Like if you feel physically good, at least in my opinion and my experience, a lot of times you're mentally mentally, you know, you look at yourself and it just brings a smile, and that brings good, warm, fuzzy feelings to the heart, and you keep on going, you stay motivated. So I'm welcoming myself to the fourth quarter, Ted. What do you got? Welcome, welcome. Thank you, thank you.

SPEAKER_02 2:49

You know, and to make you feel uh I don't know how you're feeling, but you're not only entering your fourth quarter, but technically you've entered your seventh decade.

SPEAKER_04 2:58

So break that down to me, Ted, because what do you mean? This is not my sixth decade, this is seventh decade. This is your seventh decade, man. Okay, this is must be zero to quarter math.

SPEAKER_02 3:07

Give it to me. Zero to ten was your first decade. Okay, to twenty was the second, on and on. So you're actually entering your seventh decade.

SPEAKER_04 3:18

Okay, I'm gonna trust you with the math because I don't have a calculator in front of me. And I just thought I'd make you feel a little bit older. Okay, yeah. Well, you just did. Unless your math is way wrong, you'll go back and look at this, and uh then then we'll see who feels older. No, I'm just kidding.

SPEAKER_01 3:36

Yeah, all right.

SPEAKER_04 3:37

Well, yeah, yeah. I trust my math. Okay, good, good, good, good. So, Ted, what do you got for me, man? I'm um here I am, 60 years old. I think what is it, day three of or day two, something like that of being 60. And you are approaching 70, right? And that would be your eighth, which will be your which will be according to your math, would be your eighth decade. Correct. What have you learned from 60 to 68, almost 69?

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Well, one thing uh uh I figure I've I've gotta do is I've gotta carry a little bit more of the weight on the podcast because you're probably napping more. So okay, true.

SPEAKER_04 4:18

I I I've got to pick up the slack.

The Power Of Presence

SPEAKER_04 4:20

Yes, you do. Yes, you do. Hey, you know, one of the things I you know, I was reflecting earlier today, and and all weekend long, I had uh beautiful and many moments of intimate encounters with people, small and large intimate encounters, where I could got to have meaningful and deep conversations with impact and just creating some memories. And one of the things I gathered through the conversations this weekend is just the power of presence, you know, and I want to carry that into my fourth quarter, the power of presence. And I think as human beings, we get so stuck on what we did wrong in the past. We're always looking back, and there's nothing back there for us. There's an old, I'm gonna steal this, I didn't make this up, but there's a reason why your rear view mirror is small and your windshield is huge, right? Because you should be most of the time looking forward. Sure, you need to glance back once in a while to remember, to gain some wisdom, but it just needs to be a glance. Most of your focus needs to be moving forward. So leave the past in the past. And the other part is the future. Too many times we're tripping ourselves up thinking, you know, these huge things or these things that we feel are unattainable. And if we could just put all that noise aside, put all that noise aside, focus on what's right in front of us, just do what's right in front of me. Embrace the power of presence. You'll be amazed at how much you have gotten done in a day, in a week, in a month, in a year, in three years, and so forth and so on. And that's where I'm really gonna try to shift my psyche, my mindset, my emotions into the power of the presence. Of course, I'm gonna need to look ahead and project and say, hey, I would love to this goal or that goal or whatever. And but then create a strategy around it, make a plan, bring people alongside me that will hold me accountable, and then

Screens Replace Play And Nature

SPEAKER_04 6:10

sink into the presence and just do what's in front of me. Just do what's in front of me.

SPEAKER_02 6:14

Yeah, it's it's amazing because it's it's more and more difficult to be present now with these mini computers that we carry around with us all day, every day. Yeah. And to kind of put that aside and and try and be present and not not be looking at that constantly. Uh, it'll be very interesting to see what happens with our our kids to a degree, but grandkids who are growing up with that. I mean, it it's crazy how in touch they are with with the phones now and everything that that brings to them, good and bad. I think it's so much more important now. The grandchildren, the young kids are getting out and being in nature much more. That's that's so important for them. It's kind of how we grew up. We we talked about it on a previous episode, how you know we used to go out and be out all day and you know, just doing whatever. And it's just not the case anymore. There's so much more to keep us preoccupied, I guess, that we we've really got to make that effort to detach from the phones, from the computers, from the televisions, and get out, and whether it's playing cards or playing a game or going outside and kicking a ball or whatever. It's it's really interesting. I can remember back when I was coaching that guy I coached with Nick Luzon. He was very involved. I think he was coaching a high school soccer team at the time. And you know, very involved with the youth where we were growing up and coaching them. He one night he said, Come with me. We went to the tennis courts at a local high school, bunch of kids, high school, all high school kids, all athletes, and we went out there, get on the tennis court, get all the kids around. He gets a bag of soccer balls, he dumps them out, he gets a boom box, puts some music on, and says, Go play. And I'll never forget the look on these kids' face. They just said, What do you mean? What do we need to do? What do you want us to do? Wow, he said, I want you to go play. And they said, play what? He goes, figure it out. They were just so confused because everything when they were growing up, at least these kids and my kids included, were in youth sports, very structured, going to practices, going to games, and having somebody tell them what to do constantly. Wow. And they just kind of stood around. And then one of them got on one side of a tennis court and kicked the ball over, and somebody returned it, and somebody else did something else. And before you knew it, they finally started just having fun and just playing and making stuff up. But it was just that look on their face originally was unbelievable that they they just had no idea how to do that. It's stuff that we grew up with. We did all the time, and I just was so impressed that he came up with that. You know, it must have been something that he had seen in his days of coaching that was lacking with these kids, right? But it's just a very cool experience.

SPEAKER_04 9:37

That is a cool, you know what? It would be real cool to see that experiment and experience even today, because it just seems like, again, it seems like it's my opinion from what I see that the kids now, even just from three to five years ago, are more inundated with screen time. And it's tough, it's hard. As parents become more pressured at work, both parents are usually both having to get jobs to produce the income and all that, and they're so stressed by the time they get home. It's real simple and real easy to hand a kid an iPad or a phone or the TV to just so the parent could unwind. And and I and again, I don't fault them for saying, Look, I just need 20 minutes of freaking quiet time not helping anybody and just to recharge. So, but there's got to be other ways. And you know, to your point, two things. One, Steve Jobs, Steve Jobs, the the creator of the the iPhone, he did not allow his kids to be on iPads or iPhones and none of that technology stuff, right? This is the creator of the gang product, and that's called just awareness and responsibility. Like he knew how powerful and he had to take responsibility, and it, but he could only take responsibility for his home, for what was going on in his home, and he chose to make sure that his kids were not allowed to have those things. And so, you know, what a great example to follow. Like tech, because technology could be great. I mean, look at all the wonderful things it has done. Okay, I don't want to, this is not bashing internet or technology. There's a lot of great things that technology has done, but you have to be very, very aware of the side effects, right? I mean, they they have this thing called death scrolling now, right? And it's called death scrolling for a reason, man, because time just dies. You know, you could be on social media for I'm just gonna check this quick post out. And the next thing you know, a minimum of an hour has passed. Right. You know, because you just wanted to check out a quick post, or you just wanted to post something real quick. And so you got to be aware of those side effects, and then you have to become very disciplined

Boredom Builds Brains And Discipline

SPEAKER_04 11:50

to combat those and put structure in your life. The other thing I want to share on that note is boredom. I was listening to some to some scripture the other day, and then there was a reflection on it. And in the reflection, this priest was talking about boredom and detachment, that it is so important that we become detached from our phones. We find ways to become detached, to put them down, to set them aside. But the and he realizes, and science backs this up, that we are afraid of boredom. Or I don't know, I don't want to call it afraid. I forget exact the word he used, but we can't handle boredom. Human beings cannot handle having nothing to do. We have to have something. We've gotten ourselves into that state. And but the bad news is that our brain needs boredom. It needs nothing to do because that's where it expands, that's where it explores, that's where it dreams, that's where it restores. And so, you know, and it's our brain gets to do those things that are creative, imaginative, restore, restorative when it's not having the pressures of all these tasks and structures and lists going on and goals and all this other stuff, which are also there, there's a place for all that. But man, we got to start teaching ourselves it's okay to unplug, literally unplug for at least an hour a week, man, if not an hour a day. I mean, that's something I want to work on myself too. And I think I do that pretty well, anyways. When I'm exercising out, you know, I'm kind of unplugged as well. But there's a lot of research and a lot of science around, you

Health Is The Real Wealth

SPEAKER_04 13:25

know, just the brains and all that stuff. So good stuff, man. Good stuff.

SPEAKER_02 13:29

Well, you know, going back, uh just jumping off on Steve Jobs, because I think we've probably all seen those videos of him when he was sick, and you know, he he talked about, you know, his health and and all of that and how important it was. And that's kind of what this whole podcast is about, is you know, extending our lives and being as healthy as possible. And I saw a thing the other day that you know, this real simple question is if I offered you $10 million, would you take it? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, obviously, everybody's gonna say that. And they said the only catch is that you can't wake up tomorrow morning. Oh, wow. You get the $10 million, but you won't wake up tomorrow morning. The point is, you know, obviously you're gonna say no. Right. It's it's not worth it to me. So basically, your health is worth more than $10 million, but we treat our health like it's worthless.

SPEAKER_04 14:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_02 14:32

You know, and then that's huge, you know, the the fast food, the no sleep, the alcohol, the no exercise, chronic stress. You know, you're you're playing Russian roulette with your future. When your health crashes, none of the other stuff that you worry about on a daily basis matters. You know, you'd give it all up to have your health back. Yes, and you know, it's just just amazing. Everybody has a million problems until their health is gone, and they only have one. That's a mic drop right there, man. Isn't it? Yeah, I mean, you think about that, everything else falls away. So, you know, that's kind of been our mission, if you will, on this podcast. Yeah, is creating that healthiest version, whatever that looks like with each person. You know, now that you're in your fourth quarter, uh, you asked me what I've learned, and it's funny because I I've kind of been reflecting on that, and it's interesting if you look at your decades, you know, each decade you can kind of look at, you know, the 20s was kind of fun. Right. Meet somebody, get married, 30s, you're raising kids, 40s. I'm just going by mine, you know, 40s, 50s, you're you're working, working, you know, and that's kind of becomes a priority with a lot of us. You try and spend time with your family, but your focus on on work, you know, into my 60s, it's been you know, retired, and you you start putting things in a different perspective as you get up up there. And you know, the number one is health.

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Right.

SPEAKER_02 16:13

You know, you look at it, and I was on a little golf trip with some buddies this weekend. One of them, I think, is 70 now, but you know, that's what we talked about. A good portion of the the weekend was just health and different things that we do to stay healthy. And you know, he's doing everything he can, and it's you your your whole perspective changes when you you get up to this age, right? And your priorities change.

SPEAKER_04 16:42

Yeah. You know, so I think that's I feel that happening. Yes, I feel that happening, that that's been happening, but I I definitely hear you that that's probably going to be something that's be will become more prominent as I age, as each, as each year ticks off in my in this decade of life, that health will become important. And man, if I can, if there's the if there's any people that aren't 60 yet that are listening to us, man, get started. Get started, man. What I don't care if it's just walking, if it's just doing sit and stand in front of the TV off the couch, but you're sitting and standing at all the commercials, just start and you'll be amazed at where you are down the road. And and it's it's all worth it in the end. Because you said something earlier, Ted, about you know, extending life, uh, this podcast. But I think we're something a little bit deeper than extending life, because really no one is promised tomorrow. I think we're I think our podcast is really focused on the quality of life. Because, man, if if you knew you only had a year, man, you're gonna you're gonna want it to be the best year you can probably have, you know, to connect, to travel, to do whatever. You know, you don't want to spend a year in bed, you know, taking medications and doing all this other stuff. And sometimes, and I and I get there's some situations and some people who have chronic things that maybe have been handed down to them through hereditary or whatever, but those are far and few. And so I think the bulk of people, they can do something about their situation today, but they've got and it and it's gonna hurt if you haven't done anything in a while. It's gonna hurt, right? It's gonna suck and it's gonna, you know, but sucking is part of it, man. It's all part of it, and it it doesn't suck as much

900 Days Of 10,000 Steps

SPEAKER_04 18:25

as you continue to make progress and move forward. But Ted, speaking of progress and moving forward, you're a one of the things I love about our friendship and and what I get to know about you is, you know, I've been a part of your health journey for what is the last five years, six years, something like that? Seven, uh, seven, seven years. At least.

SPEAKER_03 18:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 18:43

And and not on a you know, random basis. I mean, we check in every week, we talk, and now we have the podcast where we're kind of following up with each other every week and others, you know. So I've gotten to watch, listen. I've I've heard you make multiple goals, I've watched you crush many goals, I've seen you fall short of many goals, I've seen you start things, finish things, get started, and not finish things. Let's let's celebrate something because I believe we are you have had had just hit hit a huge milestone yourself in days, consecutive days walked, and it wasn't just walking. This time you elevated the the goal and added a number. I think it was elevated 10,000 steps was your minimum. Is that correct? Right. Yes. So you set a goal to walk 10,000 steps every day, and I don't think you put a number to that. You but now, how many days has it been that you have walked 10,000 steps minimum?

SPEAKER_02 19:42

And first of all, yeah, I never did put a number to it. The the only number I put to it was one. Right.

SPEAKER_04 19:49

Oh, I like that. Well, let's break that down in a minute. I'm gonna come back to that and and find out why.

SPEAKER_02 19:54

But how many days have you walked? Friday, it was 900 straight days of minimum, which you know, I'm proud of that, proud of that accomplishment because you know I thought back of on it, and I've walked in 110 degree weather in Palm Desert, right? And I've walked in 20 below in Wisconsin and everything in between. I've you know, it's been here, it's been we went went to Europe last summer, and there were there were days, you know, some 900 days, I bet there were at least 60 or 70 of those that I just didn't want to do it, didn't didn't feel like doing it. Not because I was sick or anything, and I've been blessed through those 900 days that I haven't been so sick that I couldn't do it, but there were days I just didn't feel it. I got out and you know, if it was walking in the rain or doing whatever, and managed to get out there, and I'm not sure why. I I you know, I'm a numbers guy, I like streaks, I like to track things and didn't want to let that go. And it's not that I can do that with everything. I mean, I you you mentioned it. I've started and failed many things, you know. I've I set some goals at the start of the year, and I fall short of those at times, and I stop and get restarted. And you know, right now I'm in you know, pretty good shape with all the things I'm trying to do, but it comes and goes. And so I can appreciate like when we're we're coaching people on the podcast and just talking to people in general. I have people that have reached out to me and said, Can you help me just keep me accountable or help motivate me to do this? And I think the fact that I fail as well on on these things, I can be more empathetic to.

SPEAKER_04 22:00

their struggles at times and and you ted a good can you can you be empathetic Ted I think so I think so I'm just checking Ted because Ted out of the two of us out of the two of us you might look if you saw me and Ted on the street you would say oh I'm not gonna mess with Doug like I've because and I'm not saying that because of me or anything like that that's what I've heard people get intimidated because I'm this bald guy I take it you know I'm a fit and all that other stuff and so they but and they look at Ted Ted Ted is in shape he's a good guy but of the two of us he definitely looks more approachable in my opinion but I'm telling you man when it gets down to coaching I'm the one talking Ted off the off the edge saying Ted Ted okay not everybody can do 900 days like you and they don't know why yet and all that stuff so let's let's go easy on these people Ted yeah yeah I've I I think I'm getting better at it and and I think part of it is because of my failures and what you learn from your your failures yeah whatever it may be I mean it's not the end of the world yeah if you fail yeah I I think I saw something if you know you're not failing you're not trying hard enough because you're you're you're going to fail right you know we start people off on their health journeys with very small goals because we want them to not only be consistent but have that success and feel that every day right but then we we start pushing it

Why Failure Makes You Better

SPEAKER_04 23:35

up and you know sometimes they'll fall short like we do.

SPEAKER_02 23:39

That's not a bad thing.

SPEAKER_04 23:41

No it's not a bad failure is learning failure I think I think somehow some way our society the human brain has adapted that failure is a bad thing it's it's to be avoided it's taboo with you know you're not good enough or worthy if you hit failure or something like that. But it's absolutely necessary failure is so necessary for growth we don't when we're hitting our goals and we're making everything go smooth we're not really learning a lot we're just feeling good. But when we are striving for things that are might be just a little bit outside of our reach and we fall short then then we've learned something you know we can look back and say okay why did I fall short what what do I need to adjust? How do I adapt? And that's where the wisdom comes in from the experience. And so I'm telling you man failure suffering pain those are all necessary things for growth if you want to grow if you want to grow so when you want if if you want to grow then start telling yourself okay I want to fail I want to fail because that's where you're gonna learn and that's where you're gonna learn and it's all good man get comfortable with failing for sure.

SPEAKER_02 24:56

You know I I can remember when I was was coaching soccer the one thing I always told the girls was a loss is only a loss if you don't learn anything. Bam yep you know you can you can lose but if you have figured something out that you did on the field or didn't prepare properly or whatever it may be and you you learn that and you gain that from the loss then you know it was a successful day even though it might not show on the scoreboard you've still seen that. And I actually saw it I remember reading the book uh you know I your son went to de La Salle longest longest winning streak in the history of high school sports yes and I remember reading the the president of the school can't remember who it was one of the priests right brothers yeah brothers and and he said he goes you know this is all great it's brought notoriety to the school that's not not necessarily what we're about there's a lot more to it but he said you know I don't know that losing would be such a bad thing because there's lessons to be learned right and I I agree with that.

SPEAKER_04 26:23

Yeah I mean if you're always winning you're always successful hey that's great but when when that time comes in your life where something goes wrong are you going to be prepared for it if you haven't had those failures along the way right which which brings me back full circle to you and your 900 steps by or 900 days consecutive 10,000 steps by the way for the math of it that's almost two and a half years of just crushing it. And that's that's just you know I don't know that I can or even want to do that but but Ted you and I were talking about that because you were approaching this a couple weeks back and I'm like dang Ted like because as we coach people one of the things we are noticing is that if if someone is not reaching a goal they set for themselves they seem to back off and and give up on the whole process sometimes. And and I had to ask you like Ted what you why why do people think that why do people don't just because you're only failing failure is only a thing if you stop if you quit if you give up but if you didn't reach your mark or your numbers or whatever it is and you get yourself back up and you say okay well I'm gonna keep going and try again then you didn't fail you just learned like you at to your point you know it's it's all as long as we're learning man we're moving but I asked you well how would you feel if you missed hitting that 900 days and you were kind of stumbled on that man and I'm just you know I think it'd be it'd be cool to share with our listeners because we're not machines we're not you and I aren't machines and robots and but to some people they look at or they hear what we're doing and like oh my gosh how do they do that and but we're just you know we have prioritized our health somehow some way and I don't know how we did it or why it's happening but we do do it and we see the value in sharing that journey with others who might want to level up as well.

SPEAKER_02 28:19

But what would you feel like Ted if you you know you didn't hit that 900 or if tomorrow the streak breaks because you you love streaks what is it about streaks and are you mentally prepared well you know it's funny I I thought about that because we talked about it last week and I've thought about it for a while I think it would depend on why I didn't do it. Okay if I just sat here and watched TV all day because I didn't feel like going out and doing it I'd have regrets about it ending. Yeah if if I got sick and it was something unavoidable that I couldn't do it that's life. I mean you have to you have to deal with it. You know I had done before I started doing the 10,000 steps for a while I was doing a minimum of 1500 I'm not sure why I was on that number but I had done it for quite a while. I mean it was over a hundred days I think I don't remember it's been a few years now but I actually got sick. I think I ended up in the hospital for a day or two and that was when the streak ended. Right so you know I could live with that if that were I remember that were the case. So that's I think that's what it would come down to is the why why why it stopped okay um I I'd have a hard time dealing with it if it was just because I chose not to and and I can see that that's I don't see that ever happening you choosing not to I just I can't see that you know I value my health too much to take it for granted and as long as I'm capable of doing it I want to do it. Yeah that was the same response I remember a friend of mine actually it was Karen who we've been coaching she asked her husband one day at my birthday challenge how long do you think Ted's going to be doing these birthday challenges and he asked me and I said as long as I'm capable of it I mean why would I stop? You know and it's just after you know Betty was on the podcast you know and and my new mantra or my word for the year is more you know she said you do more as you get older not less right right and you know I've kind of gone back and looked at my birthday challenges because when I started I was in my mid-50s wasn't in nearly as good a health as I am now you know it wasn't I didn't prioritize it. You know you're working you're involved in a lot of stuff and it wasn't a priority and I've looked at my challenges over the years they have gotten more I don't want to use the word extreme but more involved I've been doing more of everything and well that's why they're called challenges Ted they're exactly it wouldn't be a challenge if it wasn't challenging you and and you know you got on the start beating that drum last week about doing this 125 mile endurance ride whatever it was Sedona and uh you know which I have no interest in in doing that but it got me it got me thinking so I'm I'm thinking my challenge next year is I'm gonna be turning 70 so I think I am going to challenge myself to walk 70

Bigger Challenges And Staying In Lane

SPEAKER_02 31:50

miles in 70 hours. I like it you know I'm not gonna be up all night that'll give me time to sleep right but what's that almost three days I mean it won't be easy more than anything I think just because you have to protect your feet when I've done other challenges where like I I did 100 000 steps in 24 hours I think I ended up walking 48 miles and man my feet I couldn't have gone another my body felt okay right my feet my feet didn't have another mile in them right so that will be the biggest challenge is is getting prepared for that but I think that'll be a fun one that'll be that'll be cool that'll be interesting commemorate commemorate my 70th birthday with that and I'd what I'd like to do is incorporate it into what I've been doing with my birthday challenges now you know at the park walking around having people join me having that still be you know one of the days so start on a Friday make that Saturday and then finish on Sunday but that's so much fun to have people come out and join in that yeah I'm gonna kind of continue to do that. And 70 will be a big one too. Yeah and I might eliminate the pushups on Saturday. Maybe we can do 70 shots of tequila instead of pushups come on Ted I just entered the fourth quarter I haven't gained that much wisdom yet so speaking of that what uh what would your sixth decade Doug tell his seventh decade Doug I think I would say what I've been saying is just do you find out what you want what makes you happy what brings you joy in your health and how does it impact the people around you and what I mean by that is a lot of times I've been invited to challenges and extreme things and I did them and when they were over they were over like it you know I didn't it didn't give me anything for longevity.

SPEAKER_04 34:00

It was like whether it was a a hundred burpees a day I did a hundred burpees a day for a hundred days and I did it but after it was over like I didn't do any more burpees and and I felt strong and it bring it got me some vitality and all this other stuff and why did I stop you know and maybe because I was doing it for someone else or with someone else and so it would just be to stay in my lane find out who you are and what you want what you love and do things that impact that do things that impact that. And so like I don't do a lot like your your birthday challenge is great because it's tied to our what we do daily anyways is just staying for you got to stay you got to stay fit to do your birthday challenge. You can't just show up to Ted's birthday challenge because and not have walked 20 miles because you're gonna walk about to walk 20 miles minimum and then you're gonna throw down a thousand pushups too so it's not you know you've got to it comes with that quote I like to say is I like to stay ready so I ain't got to get ready. And so when you know in connection to your birthday challenge I stay ready so that when thread when Ted throws down the the challenge it's like sure let's go there's no hesitation there's no question it's just part of my lifestyle. So that's what I would just tell myself is stay in my lane get clear on what I'm doing and why I'm doing it. It doesn't mean I won't join challenges I just want to make sure that they're connected to longevity for me and quality of life and they have a purpose to to my big picture I want to be Betty that 82 year old woman you know hiking and running and and doing all the stuff it's it's funny you say that because as you were just saying that Betty made a comment and I'm trying to recall what it was being involved and and just doing it rather than the outcome was I guess basically enjoying the journey.

SPEAKER_02 35:53

But she said it much more eloquently I I don't remember what how exactly she worded it but I thought that was pretty cool the way way she said it that you know you just had to had to appreciate what you were doing and enjoy the moment while you were doing it. And that was the experience was was just being involved in it.

SPEAKER_04 36:16

So you know the other thing I would tell myself Ted is that you could you don't have to do so much you know especially with social media one of the reasons you and I started this podcast or another reason that we started this podcast is you can get on Instagram or Facebook and and see a thousand different ways to get in shape lose weight or feel good about yourself and it just noise man. You don't know which way to turn it becomes paralyzing and you and I wanted to get on here to kind of just quiet that down a little bit and say just start start small one step get let's get walking and drink water let's keep it simple and your brain and your body will figure out the rest man you ain't got to follow all this other stuff. Not that those things are it are bad but they can become overwhelming and so you know I would definitely tell myself to just you know find something that works for

Consistency Means 100% Today

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me and be consistent and remember man if I can re tell myself consistency does not mean you're doing the same thing today that you did yesterday or that you hope to do tomorrow that consistency means showing up and giving 100% of what you have today. So if I showed so Ted that for example if I if yesterday I crushed out you know a hundred burpees did a five mile run and did my air bike VO2 max training run and just like numbers off the charts but then the next day I wake up with the flu and I could barely walk you know then I give 100% of what I have that day which is barely walk. Maybe I walk around the block and that's what I gave that was 100% of that day. So a hundred percent today does not have to be a hundred percent of what I'm gonna do tomorrow or 100% yesterday. Consistency is in just showing up and giving what you got and and resting man recovering is so dang important. Yeah yeah we heard that from from Ryan a couple of weeks ago for sure of course a lot of it's self-imposed but uh it causes him to recover but yeah it's just i i saw a quote the other day that uh that just said people people don't change until they realize that the pain of staying the same is worse than the pain of change oh that's a good one that's a good one i mean when you you break that down and you know are you just gonna keep doing what what you're doing at some point that light bulb's got to go on and that's what we've been trying to do is you know just get started no matter what it is yeah you know and again you mentioned it earlier it has to be fun has to be something you enjoy we talked about people dancing in their house if that's what yes they love doing yep you know just structure it make it three songs four songs I'm gonna do this every morning we've talked about it all the time if you like going to the gym go to the gym if you don't if you want to be out in nature so be it just whatever keeps you moving exactly just it's the little things you know I I get to have I have the honor and privilege of having dinner with my dad many nights and he cooks and I eat and clean that's our deal and uh and he's a dang good cook but he's old school cooking man he uses all you know scratch recipes so there's a thousand pots and dishes from his cooking and I'm like damn that's good that's a workout and and every night almost every night he's like just put it in the dishwasher put it in the dishwasher and I tell him I say no dad this is a habit I've created I don't use dishwashers I do it all by hand because that's just a few more extra calories I get to burn standing here and moving my hands and putting dishes back and forth here and there and uh you know but that adds up over a week over a month over a year you know I've burned thousands of extra calories I wouldn't have if I had just thrown stuff in the dishwasher I can tell you those are calories I'm never gonna burn I'm using that dishwasher you go ahead Ted you go ahead I I enjoy doing the dishes there's something peaceful about it. So uh any other wisdom you got or should we go to go to the music? I think that's it man let's see what Ted has yeah this doesn't have to be a super long episode it's you know we wanted our audience to get that to know us a little bit more you know real quick I fail all the time too we talked about your failures but Ted I have set up multiple nutrition plans for myself I've tried intermittent fasting I've tried Optavia I've tried and they all work they all work right it's the consistency component right but I you know and but I have fallen short on all of them on all of them and but I haven't failed Ted I keep learning and so all those things I just mentioned and and other things I still do and I still use be and because I'm still learning I'm still learning how to bring those things into my life and be more consistent through gentleness and love and perseverance.

SPEAKER_02 41:16

And so you know yeah definitely and my workout plan

Songs About Aging And Perspective

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is different now I I do two weighted hit sessions a week I do one VO2 max session a week and I walk once or twice a week and then I ride my bike for play and exercise once a week and it's a great it's it's a great routine I enjoy it I enjoy that's all I got man but let's let's head to the song Ted let's head to the song I got a couple I got a couple for you oh today okay yeah that's a special thing it's your birthday so I got one for you here all right okay I see when I get older losing my head many years from now will you still be sending me Valentine Best A greetings bottle of wine if I be out till quarter to three would you lock the door will you still need me will you still feed me when I'm sixty four losing the hair part uh I'm ahead of schedule on that one yeah you're an overachiever in that department that's it no I just I thought that was fun you saw that was burst before that but uh you know we played a we played a song I think when Liz was on okay and I'm trying to remember the name of it another day old is by by a singer named Eddie Dalton okay and he just has a way of putting things in perspective and the way some of the the way he turns the phrase I guess okay uh is really something and I found another one of his songs and I just wanted to share that one with you a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 43:22

All right all the time but the days went so in the mirror Standing where I used to be. I've had my chair ups and down, lost my way, then turn around. Every road I took, they let me right here to where I am. You still be keeping me up today. Ah didn't notice it baby. Ah I'm just kidding, don't stick to the way to know what they're doing. What the rest of the way? There's still summer roads I be able to take. And I find them somewhere along the way.

SPEAKER_04 45:18

Now, first of all, I don't think I've ever heard of Eddie Dalton before, but I love his voice. It's very smooth, man. His voice is uh smooth like suede shoes on velvet soles, man. That's what came to mind, Ted, okay? Because I can vibe with that boy right there. He sounds smooth as suede shoes with velvet soles. Come on now. That's a beautiful song, man. That was thanks for picking that one out. That was I'm gonna go back and uh look that up on my Spotify and download that.

SPEAKER_02 45:46

Yeah, and you know, there's I I wrote down some of the lines from that that are just just kind of hit hit home for me. You know, one was the the chorus was somewhere along the way, the future became yesterday. Wow. That's just I mean he can turn he can turn a phrase.

SPEAKER_03 46:07

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 46:07

That I mean, if that isn't the truth, yeah, you know, what we were looking at is now now behind us. And uh but the other one I I liked about that because you don't want to you don't want it to be depressing by any means. Right, right. But he you know he said there's still some roads I've yet to take, and I'll find them somewhere along the way. You know, there there is still so much in front of us. No matter how much older we get, yeah, you just keep have to keep looking at the future and appreciating what you have now and and what you have moving forward.

SPEAKER_04 46:44

Yeah. You know, that's a great I was speaking with someone earlier today about some hard times they were going through and and just just their mindset. And I said, you know, your reality is your perspective. It really is that simple. I don't want it to simplify or invalidate the pain or anything like that, but if you can train yourself to look at things that life is happening for you and not to you, then you start finding joy, even in moments of pain. You know, life life is happening for you. And so perspective is powerful. Train your brain, you know. You choose your perspective. We it's a choice, we get to choose it. We get to choose how we see things. It's not easy, and it's not always gonna be fun, but it is possible. Well, my friend Ted, this was a fun, like, cool episode, and I hope it opened the door and let people see who you and I are a little bit more and let them know that we might come up here and talk about science and consistency and all these things, but we have it nowhere near figured out, and we are just a couple of dudes figuring it out with other people alongside of us, really, is what the truth is, right?

SPEAKER_02 47:53

Yeah, absolutely. It's uh it's been a fun journey so far, and looking forward to more of it moving

What’s Next And How To Reach Us

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forward. Yes.

SPEAKER_04 48:01

And next week we have on the nutrition expert, Kevin. Kevin Hall, right?

SPEAKER_02 48:04

Kevin, Kevin Hall. He's gonna talk about peptides and supplements and that type of thing. So looking forward to that. We've got the women from Stretch Vibe in Danville, are gonna come on down the road and talk about you know just the importance of stretching and some of the things that they do and what they see with their clients who are in their fourth quarter, which is a big part of their clientele. I also I mentioned last week that I'd run into the chiropractors that Ryan works with and how it's a a different type of technique that he uses.

SPEAKER_03 48:44

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Deep technique.

SPEAKER_02 48:45

And I was actually at the pri my chiropractor this morning, and I was talking to him about it. He said, you know, I I think that would be great because you know, there isn't just one way to do it. There are different different ways, right? And people need to be exposed to that. You know, as long as you find somebody that you're comfortable with and you know that you trust, like any doctor, you know, it's it's great. So I think that'd be kind of fun to have him on and and get a little bit different perspective from them as well. So we've got things going on down the road. Hopefully, we get some more people that want to come on and be coached. Yeah, that would be fun. You know, I meant to do this earlier. I was at this golf outing this weekend, and one of my buddies said, you know, I listen to to your podcast every week, but he said, I listen to podcasts when I go to bed. He doesn't always fall asleep during your race.

SPEAKER_04 49:40

Okay, we got to change that up, Ted. Come on.

SPEAKER_02 49:42

So I know. So about halfway through this one, I was gonna I was gonna yell out, wake up, Jason. And uh come on, Jason, get up, man. In case he was dozing, but uh anyway, we'll we'll do that down the road.

SPEAKER_04 49:57

Yeah, and for last week, uh I want just to give a big shout out to uh Gus Fernandez, man. He came on and talked about the silver tsunami. If you haven't listened to that episode, go back there. He dropped some awesome knowledge on senior care, something that uh we all need to be, whether it's for us or for our parents or someone elderly we know. Man, he dropped some awesome wisdom, knowledge, and love along the way. Thank you, Gus. But I think that's all we got, Ted. That's it. That's all we got, brother. Anything else you got to say? No. Welcome, welcome to uh the fourth quarter. All right, brother. And I'm gonna keep watching you and following your lead, brother. I appreciate what you've been putting down. I'm picking it up. And with that said, I'm gonna just do like I always do and say, God bless and peace out. If you like what you heard, be sure to subscribe, follow, share an episode. If you want to leave a comment, go to the show notes. There's a text link there. We will receive an anonymous text from you with any comments or suggestions. Thanks again for tuning in, and most importantly, keep on coming back.