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This is Undaunted Life.
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A man's podcast.
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I'm your host Kyle Thompson.
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Let's get into it.
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All right, guys.
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Today, we're talking about dad bods.
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So some of you are like, all right, what's a dad bod?
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So here you go.
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I'm going to take us to an unbelievable intellectual level here.
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And I'm going to be reading to you a definition from urbandictionary.com.
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So here we go.
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A dad bod.
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That is a male body type that is best described as softly round.
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It's built upon the theory that once a man has found a mate and fathered a child,
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he doesn't need to worry about maintaining a sculpted physique.
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If human bodies were cuts of meat, the dad bod would skew more marbled ribeye than filet mignon.
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Or if human bodies were sea mammals, dad bod would be more like a grazing manatee than a speedy dolphin.
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The dad bod is more mudslide than mountain, more soft served than sorbet, more sad trombone
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than clarinet, more mashed potato than skinny fry.
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The dad bod is built for comfort.
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So there you go.
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So here's the thing about dad bod.
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So if you hadn't heard of dad bod before, then you're caught up to speed.
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But I'm pretty sure most of my listeners are familiar with what a dad bod is.
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And some of you, you're familiar with it because when you look in the mirror, that's what you see.
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And so here's the thing about dad bod.
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Dad bod is a euphemism.
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That's exactly what that is.
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And it's a euphemism for fat guy or out of shape, like that type of thing.
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And so up front, let me just be real clear about what I'm saying and what I'm not saying.
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I'm not talking about guys that are bad bodied.
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And maybe, maybe you know what I'm talking about here.
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But there are some guys that are just incredible athletes or they're really in fantastic shape.
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But genetically, they don't have an impressive body.
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Because we see the same in the reverse, right?
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We see people that, you know, haven't lifted away their entire life,
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haven't ran a ran a mile and their whole life combined, but they have an eight pack.
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They're just ripped out of their minds.
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Just genetically, they're different.
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Like they've never done a calf raise in their entire life, but it looks like they have two
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cantaloupes on the backs of their legs, right?
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It's just that type of a thing.
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But let's just be honest about what we're talking about is we're talking about people
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that are out of shape.
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We're talking about dudes that are not taking care of their bodies.
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Typically, you don't get a dad bod.
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You don't get that soft round shape if you're taking care of yourself,
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if you're dieting, if you're exercising those types of things.
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So the thing that I, the reason why I wanted to talk about this is because
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I feel like our culture has given credence to this type of a lifestyle.
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Because let's be honest, a dad bod is not necessarily just a result of something.
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It's evidence of a lifestyle that you're leading.
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Because again, the overwhelming majority of people that have bad bodies,
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it's because they've gotten themselves there by the choices that they've made,
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the things that they've chosen not to do, right?
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But the reason why I think culture has really exacerbated why so many people think that this
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is an okay lifestyle and an okay body to have is, you know, fat guys are funny,
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right?
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I mean, think of Chris Farley and different people and comedies and things like that.
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The fat guy's just kind of funny. Oh, you know, his belly's sticking out of the bottom of his shirt
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and oh, look, he's, he's grabbing a stomach and how many times do you see it at a football game?
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You see a guy in the crowd, he's got a shirt off and, you know, it's 12 degrees outside,
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but it doesn't matter. The fat guys got a shirt off and he's got the team name written on a stomach.
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It's like, okay, whatever. But even like, it's almost become acceptable that being out of shape and
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being sedentary is funny. I mean, you've seen guys that have on the backs of their cars, you know,
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the 26.2 or the 13.1 stickers for marathons and half marathons. And then you got the guy that's
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got the 0.0 stickers. Maybe some of you guys actually have that on your vehicles. Like,
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it's some sort of badge of honor that you think, you know, exercising is a stupid idea. Like,
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I don't really understand that. But you have guys that will say things like, you know, I'm in shape,
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rounds of shape, like, you have guys like that, like, oh, yeah, it's funny.
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Here's the other thing that I think about it. When you type dad bods into Google,
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right? So you go to Google, you type in dad bods. Every single one of the stories on the first page
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is positive. Like, like all the top articles portray it positively. So it's, you know,
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what do women like? Do they prefer the sculpted physique or the dad bod? Or here's the top 10
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dad bods from 2018. Here's, you know, here's why a dad bod is more healthy than a this bod.
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And it's everyone kind of taking their own approach to why this is a positive thing.
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And I think it feeds into a lot what we see now, not as, not as much with guys,
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but with women and kind of the biggest, beautiful thing. And so you see a lot of people, and if you
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don't know exactly what I'm talking about, there's a lot of people now that, I mean, there's an
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advocate for everything now, there's advocates for abortion, there's advocates for democratic or
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republican parties, there are advocates for the NRA, but there's also advocates for fat people
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for people that have made a lot of decisions to not take care of themselves. And instead of
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telling these people, hey, maybe you should make some better choices. Maybe you should make some
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lifestyle changes. We're just going to be like, no, no, no, we're just going to make it big as
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beautiful. It's kind of this, this culture of no judgment, but it's leading to a culture full of
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slobs. And so here's the thing, and some people are like, Oh, well, what about people with thyroid
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issues? Guys, let me just take that, that big excuse out there from the beginning. For every one
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person that has a legitimate thyroid issue, whether genetic or something just unique with them,
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there are probably 10,000 people that are just making bad decisions. They're eating too much and
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moving too infrequently, right? So the thing about it here is there seems to be a dichotomy between
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the perception of what a dad bot is and why we talk about it the way that we do and why it's
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seen kind of flippant and the reality. So again, a difference between the perception and the reality.
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So there's a few things that I was thinking about whenever I was going through this. And the first
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is it's the perception is that it's just not a big deal culturally. It's just really not that
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big of a thing. It's just kind of a funny thing. But the reality is, is it's just, it's kind of like
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how every dad is portrayed in movies and TV. Like they're portrayed, portrayed as these useless
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dopes. I mean, especially on television, just think about, you know, some of your favorite sitcoms
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or things like that. Think about how the dad is always seen. Like maybe he's, you know,
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Phil from Modern Family or, you know, Michael Scott from The Office or just these dopey guys,
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right? I know Michael Scott's not not a dad in that show, but you kind of get the point.
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These guys are just dopes. And so I think this plays into that narrative that when a guy doesn't
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take care of himself, when he's just kind of sloppy drinks, beer, he's got cheeto dust in his,
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you know, chest pubes and all that, she's like, Oh, gosh, that's so funny. That's, but it's
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the difference between perception and reality. So, so another perception is that women want men
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with a dad bod. But, but the reality is, is when you look further and you go deeper than the silly
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YouTube videos, women are actually just projecting their own insecurities on their beta male soft
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body dude in their life. I mean, seriously, seriously, just type in dad bod into Google. And I think
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like the third or fourth article, you're going to see, you know, these, it's always comes back to
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what a woman is attracted to. But when you, when you look at what these women say, and there's
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videos and there's blogs and there's different things. But when you look at what these women say in
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terms of why they like men with a dad bod, it's so unbelievably clear. You don't need a clinical
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psychology degree or background to realize these women are just projecting their insecurities.
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They want an out of shape man because maybe they're out of shape. Like, they want a more
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rotund guy because right now they're in shape. But later, maybe after kids or after they stop
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caring about the gym as much and they get a little bit rotund. It's just like, you know,
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they they'll have something in common. Like he won't be able to like judge her as much.
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And it might seem like I'm being a little bit harsh, but that's the reality. I mean,
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we see this a lot of places like, you know, like people like like people, but we see people kind of
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flock in certain types of areas. So anytime that you've read research or even looked at
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documentaries of these people that are, you know, six, seven, 800 pounds or more or something like
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that, typically the people and their families are out of shape too, not not to this unbelievably,
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you know, disgusting and sad degree. But it's one of those things that's really, really
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sad because these people are like coming together, like their own clan or their own like tribe or
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something like that. And it's just this tribe of extreme, unhealthy people, right? And there's
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one last kind of perception in reality I wanted to talk through. And the perception is that it's
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okay if a Christian man is out of shape that, you know, Jesus just loves us just the way we are,
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right? But here's the reality. Jesus does love us to a degree that none of us can even fathom,
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but he doesn't just love us the way that we are. I mean, guys, just think about this logically.
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If he loved us just the way that we are, there would have been no reason for the cross.
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I mean, some of you I know you probably thought I was like going to sacrilege town here for just
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a second, but that's the reality is Jesus does love us, but he requires something of us.
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And it's discipleship with him. It's our faith in him to be our savior, right?
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But let's kind of go back to the first thing about that perception is most people think it's
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okay for a Christian man to be out of shape. Even if they've never like said that before
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or really talked through that, that's the reality. Like it truly is the reality for most people.
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They just think it's acceptable because if it wasn't seen as something that was culturally
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acceptable or acceptable within the church, then just to be honest, and I'm going to push a little
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bit here, how many out of shape and dopey, doughy pastors are there out there? Perhaps yours is.
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Perhaps your pastor is a guy that so clearly is not taking care of his body.
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And I think that's a problem. I think that's obviously a problem. I mean, guys, if you've been
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following this podcast or following this ministry for any length of time, you kind of know where
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we land on things. Like it's all about cultivating mainly resilience. We talk about spiritual,
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mental and physical resilience. And I've said this before. And if you've seen any of our videos,
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like our three minute resilience boost or anything like that, your physicality is an active worship.
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And the thing about it is for a lot of people taking care of their bodies is really, really
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difficult. And so they'll kind of ignore the physical resilience and they'll focus on the other
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two, usually one or the other, either mental resilience or spiritual resilience. They just kind of focus
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on something else. But guys, I want to kind of go back to something that a lot of y'all are
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familiar with, which is, which is our devotional that's on the U version Bible at this one of the
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first things we did as a, as a minister, as a ministry, it's called Undaunted Life, a man's devotional.
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And so if you go on the uversion app or on Bible.com, you just type undaunted life into plans. And it's
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the the one with the gray and black logo on there with the, with the black line on there. But I want
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to read to you guys from day 15 of that devotional, because that devotional is a 21 day devotional.
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It was seven days dedicated to spiritual resilience. The next seven were to mental resilience and the
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last seven were to physical resilience. So on day 15 was kind of the first lesson I wanted to do on
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physical resilience and what that looks like. And so some of you have read this before,
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and typically I would just try to summarize something. But I really wanted to just read this
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devotional here to you in its entirety to kind of give you the reason why I'm talking about this in
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the way that I am, because it's really important. And I know some of you guys are maybe a little
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offended right now. Maybe you feel a little bit like I'm coming down on you hard. And to be honest with
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you, I probably am. That's probably exactly what's happening to you right now. But the devotional
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scripture that was there for this devotional for this day was 1 Corinthians 6 and it's verses 19
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and 20. So I'm going to read these verses real quick. And then I'm going to flip over to the
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devotional and read that to you. So here we go. 1 Corinthians 6 verses 19 and 20. I'll be reading
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from the English standard version. Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit
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within you whom you have from God? You are not your own for you were bought with a price. So
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glorify God in your body. So guys, if you want to follow along again, I'll be on day 15 of the
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undaunted life of man's devotional. But in the meantime here, I'm just going to go ahead and
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click there. So I'll give you guys a second to click there if you haven't quite gotten there yet. But
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again, I'll just be reading through this real quick. And guys, I'm doing this because I really
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want this point to land with you. I don't want you to kind of miss what I'm saying. And you know,
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I've kind of thought through this and this was written a while ago and it's just kind of one of
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those things I just want to make sure that we're all on the same page. So here we go. This is day 15
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of undaunted life of man's devotional. And this is called a body of glorification. The third element
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of an undaunted life is to have physical resilience. Many men find respite in developing their physical
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strength while others neglect it almost entirely. However, the attainment of physical strength can
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help connect us to God in a unique way. Today's scripture is probably the most popular verse that
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refers to the literal bodies of believers in all of the New Testament. Most of us have probably
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heard this verse quoted in a plethora of contexts. The scripture can refer to many things about the
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body, such as physical purity and chastity, but we'll focus on physical health and temperance.
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Paul leaves no wiggle room for us in these verses. In short, Paul would tell us the following things
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about our bodies, the Holy Spirit is housed there. We do not own our bodies. Our bodies were purchased
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at a high price. And we must use our bodies to glorify God. Easy to read, hard to do. Especially
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if you've heard this before this verse before, it can be easy to glaze over the magnitude of it.
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However, we need scriptures like these to remind us about the importance of caring for our bodies.
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These verses can serve as anchor points for us as we try to start or maintain a healthy diet or
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exercise regimen. They can also help us if we are struggling to control our intake of food or alcohol.
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The reason is because God is not calling us to exercise several times a week just so we can feel
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better physically. Furthermore, God is not calling us to consume a healthy diet so we can fit comfortably
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into our favorite pair of jeans again. Also, God is not calling us to avoid overeating or getting
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drunk just so that it can be easier for us to get out of bed the next morning. While all of those
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things are good, God's reasoning is way better and more important than that. Our physical bodies
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were bought with a price. That price was the life of Jesus. It was a high price to pay,
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but God provided a way for the debt to be covered by his son. Since our bodies were purchased,
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we do not own them. I'll say that again. Since our bodies were purchased, we do not own them.
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Since we do not own them, we should not dictate how they are used. We should care for them as if we
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take Paul's words literally. If our bodies are temples for the Holy Spirit, then we should focus
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on making the temples as physically strong and healthy as we can. Would you say that your current
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diet and exercise regimen is honoring God up to the standard that he set? If yes, share your
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regimen with a friend who is not doing well in this area. If no, what changes can you make to improve
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your physical life today? Again, guys, that's from day 15 of Undaunted Life of Man's Devotional
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on the U-Virgin Bible app. But again, physical resilience is incredibly, incredibly important.
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And I just got to be honest with you. I'm surrounded by way too many Christian men who just don't give
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a crap about this. They don't care at all about this. I mean, if you talk about spiritual, mental,
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and physical, I don't really know that one is necessarily more popular than the other. I know
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a lot of guys that just kind of shirk responsibility in all three of those areas. But here's the thing
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about physical resilience, guys, is you can see it. I mean, you've probably heard me say this before.
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You can see if someone's physically resilient or not. It's just, I mean, it's right there in
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front of you for the most part. Some people have bad bodies. That's not, that's not most people.
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There's not a whole lot of people out there that really, really do take care of themselves
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that man, they just have bad bodies. And here's the thing that I want to kind of get into because
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obviously with most podcasts, I try to kind of prescribe something or try to change something
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for you. But I'm just going to go ahead and get ahead of some of you guys because I can already
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feel the excuses as I'm sitting here recording this, I can already feel some of you guys and the
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dispute, the excuses that you're going to come up with for why this doesn't apply to you or why
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it's not really possible or blah, blah, blah. So I kind of came up with my own excuse generator,
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and I'm going to go ahead and be an excuse destroyer all at the same time. So to all the guys who say,
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you know, I don't have enough time to work out guys, there is literally always time to work out.
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You're just doing it wrong. I mean, this is one of the easiest ones. So I was talking to a guy
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here recently, and we were talking about physical resilience a little bit. And you know, he told me
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he's like, yeah, you know, whenever I calculate up all my hours, I kind of counted up all my hours
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of the day and kind of what I'm doing. And you know, when I get to the end of my calculation,
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I only have an hour to myself every day. I just, I just can't have the time to work out because
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I only have an hour to myself. And I think the guy told me that thinking I would be like,
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yeah, bro, you're right. You only have 60 minutes to yourself every day. Yeah, dude, you couldn't
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possibly work out. And I didn't know this guy well enough to be like to really come at him really
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hard like that. But it was just kind of like, really? No, I'm not going to commend you for that.
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Because the other side of that is, dude, you got a whole hour to yourself a whole hour. That's nuts.
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Most people don't have that time. They don't have maybe 20 minutes in the day. But the thing
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about it is if you don't have time to work out, it's probably because you're doing the process of
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working out wrong, right? So you probably have a gym membership to a gym that's 15, 20 minutes
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away from your house or further. And so you're driving, you know, 15 minutes to the gym. And then
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you once you get to the gym, that's when you change. And so that takes another 10 or 15 minutes.
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And then you're kind of on Instagram and checking, checking things while you're going to the bathroom.
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And then you finally make it out to the floor. And you know, you just kind of put around for a
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while. And by the time it's all said and done, by the time you've taken your four or five-minute
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breaks in between sets while you're on Instagram or like, you know, farting around with your fantasy
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football roster or something like that. An hour and a half later, you're done. You're done working
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out, right? You're barely sweating, but you're done working out. Then you go into the the showers
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and you take a shower, you get changed, you get dressed, and then you drive back home. So by the
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time it's all said and done, this is like a two or three hour long deal. If that's how you work
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out, I'm with you. You don't have enough time to work out. Like, who wants to do that? That's
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ridiculous. Like, that's the thing I don't understand about a lot of guys is it's just like, how are
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you spending all this time in the gym? First of all, you're not even working that hard. But
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what are you doing? Are you here to work out? Are you here to socialize? Like, what exactly are you
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doing? So for most of these people, you have the time to work out. You can work out at your house.
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That was, that was the thing that I was talking to my Sunday school here recently. That was the
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thing is people that are like, oh, I don't really have time to work out or I don't have the gym
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membership or, you know, money's tight right now. It's like, great. You know how much you can do
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with the human body and mother earth? Like, you can do just about everything, right? You're,
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you're not going to set the world on fire at a deadlift competition, but you can get pretty
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dang strong. You can get ripped. Just need your body. And here's another excuse to all of the,
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I just don't know enough about diet and exercise guys. Guys, you have a super computer in your
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pocket. Most of you are listening to this podcast on a super computer, your iPhone or your android
20:39
or something like that. You're listening to it. Like the, the wealth of knowledge that's out there
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about exercise and diet is ridiculous. And here's the thing about diet. I'll just go ahead and tell
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you from the beginning, it is wicked confusing. It's crazy confusing. I mean, if you've listened
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into the Joe Rogan podcast here recently, he's had a bunch of guys on that are debating keto
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versus non keto, you know, uh, high fat versus low fat. And what's the best diet for this person?
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And someone from this part of the world and the general consensus is after hours and hours of
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podcast listening, no one has a freaking clue. No one really knows, except that we know sugar is
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bad. Essentially, we know sugar is bad. Everything else is pretty much debatable. But the thing about
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it is is you can just stumble upon an exercise regimen online. Like you can just close your eyes
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and type random things into YouTube and probably find a workout. I mean, there's so much out there.
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It's just that a lot of you are unwilling to go out there and get it. Another excuse is to all the,
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you know, I'm just worried about getting injured. If I do something different, like jujitsu, like
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those types of guys, guys, I mean, this one's simple, just sack up. I mean, I'm not saying like,
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if you don't do jujitsu, you're not a man. That's not what I'm saying. But when it comes to physical
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resilience, I personally, and I've played every sport under under the sun, there's nothing that
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has taught me more about physical resilience than doing jujitsu. And jujitsu is everywhere. It's
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like karate in the 80s. Until people found out it wasn't a real fighting style. Like just, I mean,
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for real, like doing something like jujitsu, doing something that's really, really difficult.
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I mean, so many guys, that's just like their, their ultimate excuse is just like, I, you know,
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I'm probably going to get hurt. I mean, I have been going to the forage in Edmund for almost a
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year and a half. And I've got a three or four classes a week. And I've, it's not that it can't
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happen. But I've yet to see a serious injury. No broken bones, like no concussions, like nothing
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crazy. No one broke their neck. No one's paralyzed. Like it's just it's like this outsized fear of
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something that's not really that common. I mean, guys get way more hurt doing like intramural
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basketball or YMCA pickup games or, or flag football or something like that. They get way
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more injured doing stuff like that. Blowing out their hamstrings, like rolling their ankles,
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like guys falling and breaking either shoulders or tear the rotator cuff. Like that stuff happens
22:46
all the time. So it's like, you know, the moment somebody suggests something that's a little bit
22:50
more difficult. You like run away, run the other direction. I don't understand that.
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And here's another excuse to all the, I'm just not in a season right now where I can focus on my
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health guys, like those types of guys here. I want to be very clear in this message. So, so if you
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tune me out, tune me back in. So tune me back in. Stop using your families or your job or
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an injury you sustained back in high school as your excuse to not take care of yourself.
23:19
I mean, you're literally saving time now, but you're deleting it off the end of your life.
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That's the reality what you're doing here. So this, oh, I only have an hour of time to myself guy
23:30
who's using that as an excuse not to take care of himself. Or, you know, it's just a really,
23:36
really, you know, tough season with my business and, you know, it's just really hard at home
23:39
right now, like to that guy. Okay, you're saving time now, but you're deleting it off the end of your
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life. I'll say it again. Like that. That's what you're doing. And even if time isn't an issue,
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let's say you get the same amount of time. Will your body even work like you want it to at that age?
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Because that's the other thing people were like, you know, I could get hit by a bus. Let's assume
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no one gets hit by a bus or attacked by a pack of wild dogs or something like that.
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If you're living to a certain age, which for most of the people listening to this podcast,
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your life expectancy is somewhere in the late 70s to mid 80s. Like, do you want your bodies to
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work out at that age in your 60s and 70s? I know I do. I'm doing the things right now to take care
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of myself. So when you talk about a season of life, that's an unbelievably undefined period of time.
24:25
We know how long a baseball season lasts starts in March, usually ends in October every now and
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then it bleeds into November. Like, we know exactly when the college football season ends.
24:34
We already know when the national title game is. We know what the Super Bowl is in 2019,
24:39
but a season of life, no one can really define what that looks like. And so when you say in this
24:45
season of life, I can't really focus on my health, you're basically giving yourself carte
24:49
blanche to be like, Oh, I don't guess I really need to focus on my health ever. And I guess the
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last excuse I kind of came up with and I know there's a billion more, but these are just the
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main ones I get all the time is to all of the, I just can't sustain motivation to work out or
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have a good diet guys to y'all. I'll make it simple. Discipline over motivation. Discipline
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over motivation. I'm getting all my jocko willing now, because here's the thing about motivation,
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guys, or, you know, that feeling fired up to do something. If you only get fired up every now and
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then when you when you see, you know, an Instagram guy, an Instagram workout guy, and then you're
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like, Oh man, that's awesome. I'm gonna get, I'm gonna get motivated for that. Or when there's a 5k
25:31
coming up, you know, a turkey trot coming up and Thanksgiving, and you're like, Oh, okay,
25:35
I'm gonna do that. Or, you know, there's this competition coming up, or maybe there's something
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you want to do. If you're just up and down with your motivation, I just got to tell you guys,
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work your discipline. Because here's the thing about discipline. Discipline is a muscle.
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So my favorite thing to say, discipline is a muscle. You have to exercise it.
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Like you have to work it out. If discipline isn't exercised, it will get weaker. It will wane.
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You just have to create this, this, this overwhelming sense of having to do something.
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So, so guys, I just got to tell you, I work out pretty much every single day of the week,
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Saturday, maybe the only day that I take off in a week, but I typically do something on Saturday,
26:17
maybe an active rest or a sneaker, sneak something in. But I don't want to wake up early and go to
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6am jujitsu. I don't want to do that for the most part. I don't want to wake up early and lift weights
26:30
in my garage. I don't want to do those things. But discipline has required it of me to do that.
26:35
Because strength begets more strength. Resilience begets more resilience.
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And you don't get there unless you make it a part of who you are. I mean, I know guys right
26:47
now that are on like 1200 calorie crash diets or, you know, they're on this crazy, unsustainable,
26:53
you know, physical journey that they just can't possibly turn into a lifestyle of health.
26:58
But it's just like, man, just find something that works for you. There's so many resources.
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I'm going to go into some here in a little bit because I want this for you guys,
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but I can't do it for you. And the real quick thing that I want to want to give you guys,
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and some of you all have heard me talk about this before, and this is really quick,
27:13
is just overall training tips. Because I see a lot of mistakes people make with their training
27:19
regiments, a lot of mistakes. And part of the reason why I recognize those mistakes is because
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I've made them like guys, I'd never had someone like teach me how to do a lot of this stuff.
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I've had to learn it a lot on my own. I started lifting kind of on my own when I was 14, 15,
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16 years old. Never had a lot of coaching and stuff that I've had to kind of go back and change
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on my own. But the three tips that I would give you guys in terms of training is train now,
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train hard and train tough. And so let's talk about train now. I literally mean train now.
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I don't mean, you know, hop out of your car and traffic and do a bunch of pushups, even though
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that'd be pretty dope. Don't do that. Please don't do that. Don't be unsafe. But most people,
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they're going to be like, all right, next week. So you're maybe you're listening to this on
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Thursday when it came out, you're going to be like, all right, Monday, Monday, that's what new me,
28:06
new me, I'm going to make that happen. Or January 1st, you know, new year, new me. Let's make this
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happen, right? You know, you're not going to make it happen. Maybe you work out Monday,
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wonder what you're going to be doing on Tuesday when you're sore. I bet you're not working out.
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Train now. Do it today. That's the first thing. The second is train hard. A lot of guys, like,
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I kind of alluded to earlier, they go to the gym, they're basically farting around. They're not
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doing anything. They're not working hard. They're just kind of there. They're checking the box.
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I went to the gym today. What'd you do? I, you know, a little bit of this, a little bit of that.
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The thing is, is most guys don't train very hard. And I've talked to some, some buddies of mine,
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they're like former collegiate athletes and stuff like that. It's such a mental thing too.
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Training hard. It's so mental. Cause you get to this point where you're kind of comfortable
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with the workouts you've done and you know, you kind of stick to the things you're good at. Like,
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maybe you're a good distance runner. So you run a little bit more distance, maybe than you should,
28:58
or maybe you're a great sprinter. And so you're always running sprints as opposed to distance,
29:02
or maybe you're, you know, you're kind of, you got a squatters body. So you spend a lot of time squatting,
29:06
you're not doing as many pull ups, like that type of thing. If you're going to have physical
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resilience, you have to train yourself to do things that your body maybe isn't that used to or isn't
29:13
even built for. And last thing is trained tough. Part of the thing about training is people tend
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to only train in conditions that are favorable to them. So I talked about that a little bit,
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doing things that are just better for your body, right? Maybe you're more fast twitch. So you're
29:28
doing a lot of sprinty, you know, plio type things. But at the end of the day, you've got to challenge
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yourself. And one of the easiest ways to do that is with inclement conditions. And if you follow
29:39
us on Instagram, you've seen I've done that before, you know, this summer, you know, when it was really,
29:43
really hot out, I said to do this safely, but I would put on sweatshirts and sweatpants and stuff
29:47
like that. And I would work out outside when it was over 100 degrees. I stayed safe. I stayed
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hydrated and all those different things. But the thing about it is, is what if you're in a situation
29:56
where it's wicked hot, and you have to go miles and miles to potentially save your life or save
30:01
someone else's life. Are you ready for that? Are you mentally ready? Have you gone into the deep
30:05
end there? I remember one time last year was down to like 10 or 11 degrees in Oklahoma. It
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doesn't normally get that cold in Oklahoma. And so I ran a bunch of sprints outside just
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in a pair of shorts, right? And it's just kind of like, all right, you know, I wanted to inoculate
30:18
my body to those, those crazy conditions. That's what training tough is. And guys, it sucked.
30:24
It was terrible. Like, I didn't enjoy it. But think about if, you know, you're in a situation,
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your car breaks down, and you're in literally in the middle of nowhere, and it's snowing.
30:32
What are you gonna do? Like, you're a few miles away from the nearest town, and you've got to go,
30:37
your family's in the car. You know, phones aren't working, dad. Like, there's not going to be another
30:43
car driving down on this road, dad. You can sit there in the car and freeze, or you're going to go
30:46
do something about it. You go fix it. If you train tough, you're going to be more resilient in that
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type of situation. And I know I keep talking about physical resilience. I do want to talk a little
30:55
bit about this. There's a major difference when I'm talking about physical resilience versus physical
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strength, a major difference. And so the thing about strength is most of the time people are like,
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yeah, I'm trying to get strong or trying to get my strength up. They don't normally talk about
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their physical resilience. And this is why I like to talk about resilience more, because strength
31:13
is kind of up and down. It's kind of everywhere. And any of you guys out there that are powerlifters
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or that you've done any powerlifting over a length of time, there are just days when you are strong.
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You just feel good. Like you put it, you put maybe an extra plate on either side, like you just feel
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really good. Everything about you feel like you're loose and strong. And then there are days where
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you are just not strong at all. I had a daily I like this morning. When I was lifting this morning,
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I was like, man, I'm just not as strong today. It didn't mean I took the workout off. I still did
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it. I still push the weight that I could push. But just wasn't as physically strong. I mean,
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even the world's strongest man, like right now the defending world's strongest man is half
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Thor Bjornsson from from Iceland. He's six foot eight, like, which is not exactly the best body
31:57
for somebody that does powerlifting and on all these strongman competitions. Typically,
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you want to be a little bit more squatty, like for for deadlift stuff and and squat stuff like
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you want to be a little bit shorter. But the guy's just an incredible, incredible athlete.
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But the day after the last Arnold classic or the last world's strongest man competition or the
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Europe's strongest man competition, the day after I guarantee you, he wasn't the strongest man in
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the world. His body was broken down. He, you know, he kind of pushed himself to the limit.
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There was somebody else on the planet earth that was stronger than half the or Bjornsson.
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There's somebody else. His strength had waned. But here's the other thing. Let's say he wasn't.
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Let's say even afterwards he's still the strongest man in the world. What about 20 years from now?
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Pretty sure this guy's in his 30s. When he's in his 50s, I can guarantee you that he won't be as
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strong as he is today. Like he's literally one of the strongest people that's ever been on the
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planet, right? 20 years he won't be 30 years. He certainly won't be. His strength will be gone.
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He'll still have some of it, but he won't have all of it that he that he had in his youth.
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But he can literally have resilience, physical resilience until the day that he dies. That's the
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ability to bounce back. That's the ability to, to go into hard situations and physically be able to
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stand up to the task, whatever that task is in front of you, right? And so I think that's really,
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really important to think about. Think about that when you're training. Like this is not me
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advocating for you training yourself into the ground. You need to be able to still take care
33:23
of yourself. But at the end of the day, are you being purposeful with this? Are you just kind of
33:28
farting around? Just kind of mess in a little bit, you know, maybe go to the gym for a week and
33:33
then you take a couple of weeks off. Is that what your workout regimen has been for your life?
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But really I just have to bring it back. Are you honoring God with your physicality when you do
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that? Now don't get a twist of guys. I'm not saying if you don't have a six pack that God
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can't use you. But I mean, and go into the devotional that there are guys that that God used in the
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Old Testament and a lot of guys really don't like when I bring this up. It's usually because they're
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one of the people that's not in shape. But there were guys that God used their physicality and these
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guys didn't have to go and get ready. These were guys that were just ready. They didn't have to go
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train for what God had for them and God can accomplish anything he wants to through us or anybody or
34:15
anything. But he was using these men that were already ready. They were already physically
34:20
grizzled and physically prepared for what God was going to send him into. So let's say God had
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that calling for you to go and do something that was highly physical that was going to bring him
34:31
glory and spread the good news. Would you be ready? Are you ready right now to do something like that?
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I mean, this isn't that crazy of a scenario guys. This is real life. Are you ready?
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And I think want to wrap up the podcast here with this quote. It's literally one of my favorite
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quotes by Bob Hoffman. It's this, if you put off until another day your good intentions to normalize
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your body, it won't help. The road to despair and unhappiness is paved with good intentions
35:04
lost along the way. Guys, there's a lot of people that want to be in shape. There's a lot of people
35:10
that how gosh, you know, if I could if I could run that next turkey trot, that'd be awesome. Man, if I
35:15
could finish an Iron Man, that'd be so cool. Or gosh, if I could just, you know, run up and down the
35:18
court a few times with my buddies, even in my old age, like I think that'd be really, really nice.
35:23
There's a lot of good intentions out there. But that's not going to make it happen.
35:27
Wishing it and wanting it and hoping for that's not going to happen. Most of the guys listening to
35:33
this podcast, your able body dudes, your body's work. You're not quadriplegic. You don't have some
35:38
sort of degenerative bone disease that if you, you know, step wrong, your entire legs going to explode.
35:43
So let's just be realistic, guys. If your body works, God can use it. So you need to work it out.
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All right, guys, before I let you go, we're going to do a quick resilience boost. As you know,
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by now, we are a men's ministry in our mission is cultivating manly resilience. And specifically,
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we do that by providing content that forges spiritual, mental and physical toughness.
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So today, obviously, we're focusing on physical resilience. And so I'm going to go over some
36:08
some things that would be good for you all. If you're wanting to make a few changes,
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some of these things we've already talked about at different points. But I just want to get you
36:15
started with some of these resources. So the first two things I want to talk to you are first
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three things actually are books that are on the undaunted life website and it's undaunted.life/booklist.
36:26
And these are some of the books that kind of deal with health that will help you guys.
36:30
The first is starting strength by Mark Riptoe. So this is a guy who is a legend in the powerlifting
36:36
community. And he's really big on on form. And so this is like your anti-crossfit guy,
36:41
essentially. So CrossFit is like, hey, let's do as many dangerous workouts as fast as possible
36:46
with as much weight as possible. So, you know, some people out there do that and they work great,
36:50
but Mark Riptoe is not that guy. So he's a he's got that really focuses on form and making sure
36:56
that you get the most out of your strength lifts. So that's a great book, great resource for you guys.
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The second one is bigger leaner stronger by Michael Matthews. If that sounds familiar,
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it's because we've talked about it here on this podcast. I did an entire episode
37:08
back a few months ago on bigger leaner stronger. That is a great resource for you guys. If you're
37:13
wanting to know more about different workout regiments, but also diet, he goes into a ton of
37:19
detail about diet because, you know, a good workout regiment doesn't always clean up a bad diet.
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And so this is a fantastic, fantastic book. And if you want to go back and listen to the podcast,
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like I said, just go back a few months ago, you'll find it. It's called bigger leaner stronger.
37:34
Another book is the discipline equals freedom field manual. And that's by Jocko willing.
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And so obviously, you know, I'm a huge fan of Jocko willing here on this podcast, but
37:42
that is a really fantastic book. It won't take you but an hour to read it. But in the back of that book,
37:47
there are three different workout plans. Now, I don't necessarily advocate the way that Jocko
37:53
willing works out. A lot of the things that Jocko does can very easily go into the overtraining category.
37:58
He's definitely a little bit different genetically in terms of some of the things that he does.
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But really, at the end of the day, he's a great motivation. And some of these workouts at the end
38:09
of that book are really, really fantastic. And the last thing again, I just left the link here
38:14
for you guys. But it's the undaunted life of man's devotional, you version devotional. So
38:18
for some of you, that's how you got introduced to undaunted life. And that's kind of where it all
38:23
started. And I think up to this point, close to 50,000 people or so have have completed that.
38:28
It's been shared around a lot. I get emails and messages all the time about guys that are
38:32
taking their teams through it or are taking their Sunday school through or something like that.
38:35
So the last seven days focus on physical resilience. So if you want to skip to day 15 and kind of
38:41
read from there and then go back to day one, I think that'd be good for you. All right, guys,
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