41 Strength Care Is Health Care

Show Notes

Strength care is health care!  Building muscle throughout your lifetime has many more benefits than just burning fat so you can look good and maintain your functionality. 

Mike Rogers shares intimate details of how building muscle can actually assist you in staving off disease and quite possibly even save your life.

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41 Strength Care Is Health Care Transcript

SUMMARY KEYWORDS

podcast, muscle, strength, fitness, inform, cardio, dad, week, life, people, valve, cardiovascular system, sheila, mike, strong, wrightson, stent, strength training, location, heart attack

SPEAKERS

Sheila, Tim Edwards, Mike, Adam
 

Sheila  00:05

Strength is health. It's just the truth. And with the whole thing going on with the health care system, you have to take your health into your own hands and this is something you can do for yourself. That's going to be such great benefit as you age. And it's not like taking over your life. You know, it's just like brushing your teeth, which Adam you know, has referred to before. And I'm always telling people this strength care we call it strength care.

 

Tim Edwards  00:40

Episode 41 of the inform fitness podcast with Adam Zickerman and Friends welcome inform nation. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network. Joining us across town at her place is Sheila Melody, the co owner of the Toluca Lake Burbank location of Inform fitness. Hello, Sheila.

 

Sheila  00:56

Hey, how's it going?

 

Tim Edwards  00:57

And of course, across the country, we've got Adam Zickerman, the founder of inform fitness with his general manager of the Manhattan location, Mike Rogers. So the four of us back together again. And before we jump into Episode 41, Adam, we received an interesting Facebook share from our last episode.

 

Adam  01:14

Yeah, this is cool. I really like this, I got excited about this. It says here, an excellent podcast by the guys that inform Fitness on why functional training is dangerous. What's great about this episode to me is that it makes clear that life is already fraught with danger, that every day every week, and every month, we are putting our bodies especially our joints and soft tissue in precarious positions. So by doing functional, quote, unquote movements in the gym, we are adding to the stress and risk not preventing it. Inside the gym, you want to be moving in the safest and most biomechanically correct way so that you can strengthen your muscles without further stressing your soft tissue. I've read and studied many great things over the years on the subject, but this 20 minute podcast is perfect for the average person who just wants to be healthy, doesn't want to injure themselves, and doesn't have the time and interest in all the underlying science.

 

Tim Edwards  02:07

That's great. We appreciate whomever did share that. And of course, we invite inform nation to, you know, follow us on Facebook go to inform fitness in your Facebook search bar, it'll come right up and you'll see a lot of great informative and entertaining posts in addition to every podcast episode 

 

Adam  02:23

can I mention who's who sent this?

 

Tim Edwards  02:25

Of course Yeah, for sure.

 

Adam  02:25

I don't know the person's name. I guess I can figure it out. Oh, just the it's a Facebook post. who shared our podcast It's exercise dose, exercise dose on Facebook,

 

Sheila  02:40

is it a blog or another facility

 

Adam  02:43

he's uh, looks like he's a trainer in Tennessee or gym in Tennessee, in the Tennessee area.

 

Tim Edwards  02:49

Exercise dose, thanks so much for the share, we appreciate that.

 

Adam  02:52

Based on some of the friends that I see that we share, he's definitely involved in the high intensity world, I can tell. So he's been doing that he's a high intensity trainer or gym owner. And he's been listening to the podcast. So I appreciate that exercise dose, whoever you are

 

Tim Edwards  03:07

got them on their Facebook page. Now it said their banner says if it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. And we certainly subscribe to that. So appreciate the share there. Yeah, matter of fact, I'm looking at it right now. He shared it on his page or her page so much appreciate it. Team, how you been? It's been a few weeks since we've all been together here in summer Sheila, what you've been doing with your time?

 

Sheila  03:28

Well, as I was mentioning on our last podcast, I am in the midst of starting my own path with a nutritionist. And it's been four weeks. And it's been a journey. And you know, I can talk more about it. But on another podcast. It's it's definitely a journey. And I'm excited about it and already making some progress. So good news.

 

Tim Edwards  03:52

congrats. Looking forward to hearing more about that. And I know that Mike, we spoke the last time we were all together. Your dad was having some issues can ask how your father's doing?

 

Mike  04:00

Yeah, I'm glad you asked. Because it's part of why I want to discuss on this podcast today. It kind of echoes some of the things that we've talked about in the past in regards to cardio, and but I let me just give everyone a little bit of backstory about what's going on. Most of my dad, he's about to be 78 years old. He's had a tremendous amount of health issues throughout his life. He's actually had a triple bypass. He's had a FEM pop bypass. He's had diabetes, diabetic ulcers. He's had an aortic aneurysm. Recently, he has three heart attacks. I mean, this guy's the Iron Man. I mean, 30 years of alcoholism. 20 years of smoking, hip replacements, knee replacements. I mean, I hope he lives forever, but he kind of should have, you know, left us about 20 years ago. He keeps fighting and and he's actually not the Iron Man. He's actually his name is Steve Rogers so you could say he had, he's Captain America. But anyway, um, you know, today I spoke with him and you know, he's he's okay, he's relatively stable, but there's some, there's some issues at hand and, and it in some ways, it took a few beliefs that I have already had that we already know about. But it put it into super mega high def technicolour about the importance of strength training with supporting your body, and when it's under a tremendous amount of stress and when it needs when it needs its muscle. And sometimes I think we forget about the relationship between muscle and how it supports the rest of our body. So most recently, I'm not going to go into every detail, but he had a his third heart attack recently was a mild one, right after he had surgery for a an aortic aneurysm. And he needs a stent, he had a heart attack, he needs a stent, and he needs a valve replacement. And, you know, I was talking to the doctors about what the process is, and the plan was, we want to give him the stent, and then he needs to go to a rehab center and get strong for a few weeks. And then we'll do the valve. And there were complications with the stent, that caused internal bleeding and all sorts of other stuff. And eventually, they contained that. But they he didn't my dad didn't even have the strength for them to do a colonoscopy or, or an endoscopy to actually examine why he was having internal bleeding, through his GI tract and and while I was talking to the doctor, and I was asking him, how much strength does he need? And he said, they said, Well, he needs to, you know, he needs to be able to walk, he needs to be able to do some lifting. He has he actually has, he has very little muscle at the moment. And, and I was just thinking, and so he really after a couple weeks of therapy after he can get out of here, he's, he's gonna be okay for the valve and all this stuff. And he said, he said, Yeah, generally, that's, that's what's necessary. And it just made me think about how important it is. I mean, we forget about how much muscle supports all these systems of our body, we know that it supports our skeletal system. And, you know, obviously, it helps us with people with degenerative bone diseases, osteo arthritis and stuff like that. But they were alluding to the fact that his body needs to have the muscle and the strength in order to just do a colonoscopy, or to just do this, you know, to do the valve replacement. And this he his, his cardiovascular system isn't working efficiently right now. You know, and, and what it what it makes me think about I was talking to all my clients, when I was getting the news from the doctor is about what how necessary, it is for us to remain strong in case we need some of these procedures. I mean, it's and it's not even that much. You know, it's what's amazing is he said a few weeks of you know, doing some, some, you know, Step is standing up and sitting down and taking some walks and stuff like that

 

Adam  08:01

so think about that, if that's gonna make him strong enough to have basically open heart surgery, well it's not open heart, but it's still still major surgery to put a valve in. But believe it or not, they don't have to use open heart anymore to put a valve and that's a whole he

 

Mike  08:14

would never survive that

 

Adam  08:15

Yeah. But the thing is this, so So when people question once a week, you know, when you hear all these guys are nitpicking about bodybuilding, and how you're going to peak your biceps if you don't work on more than once a week, and you got to do multiple reps and multiple volume and all this kind of stuff. You know, all right, that's all well and good. You want to nitpick at these highest highest highest levels for genetically, you know, gifted people. But from a health point of view, from a health point of view, just maintaining our health while we were actually just talking about in the last podcast with our guest Annie Wrightson, you know, when she said strength is health, and it doesn't take much of course, once a week, if walking at a rehab for a couple of weeks, it's gonna prepare this guy for for you know, this guy, of course, I'm talking about this guy

 

Mike  08:56

Steve Rogers, Captain America

 

Adam  08:58

Mike's father, I mean, like, if it's gonna help somebody like that, you know, then imagine the benefits from from doing one high intensity workout a week for the rest of your life just to stay fit as a fiddle, so to speak.

 

Mike  09:11

Yeah, just a relative intensity for you know, older community and stuff like that. But it's really, it's unbelievable, how it's, it's it goes to the muscle and how muscle supports all of this stuff. You know, and it's, it's, I mean, and the thing is, like I said, In the beginning, is that this is we're going back to cardio here. You know, Mike, we're talking about my dad's cardiovascular system, what's the cardiovascular there the heart is there to pump blood

 

Adam  09:39

everything has to happen, he has to get stronger,  he has to get some muscle Yeah he doesn't need cardiovascular system, he needs muscle

 

Mike  09:45

That's that's essentially what they're talking about. And that's, that's basically what I wanted to mention. Is that is it. I think it really really it drives home strength training and cardiovascular health.

 

Adam  09:59

It's really intensity right? Right. So thing is this he's very weak. So his strength training for his dad is walking on a treadmill because of how intense that experiences. So it's not the tool, it's not that it's a treadmill, you know, he, he's weak, and even walking on a treadmill is a lot of work for him. But then you take it to the next level. Yeah, but but but the reason it's hard for him on a treadmill, because His muscles are weak. And if he gets better the treadmill is because his muscles are getting stronger.

 

Mike  10:26

Yeah, it's you know, it's it's walk to jog jog, to run, run to sprint, I mean, like you it's a progression, he has to start at a very, very low place. And we have plenty of you know, clients in here who come from a very, very low conditioned place, and we have to start low. And then they they, you know,

 

Adam  10:45

his father would be just as well off doing very light weights on a leg press and doing a full body workout with weights just as much. I mean, it'd be very hard for him to do superduper lightweights, but because it's on a treadmill doesn't mean it's cardio. Because what we've been talking about for a lot of episodes, it's intensity that pushes up energy energy systems, it's the intensity that makes us stronger, that stimulates us to get stronger.

 

Mike  11:06

And basically it's it's the fact that strength is cardio. It's not that it's uh, we're not fighting, or it is it is cardio. And that's the thing is like, and, you know, you know, when people come in, and they say, is this cardio, and I'm like, Well, do you understand what cardio is? You know, what cardio refers to your heart and what's your hearts function, it needs to do something, and my dad, his isn't doing it efficiently, he essentially has heart failure until the valve is put in and there's, you know, we're they're still doing a little touch and go type of things to to, essentially, we're trying to get them out of the hospital, so we can go to the rehab center. But at the moment, he doesn't even have that much strength. He's stable. And we're all very optimistic, just about Yeah,

 

Adam  11:49

I know his dad and the good news about his dad is that he's a very optimistic guy

 

Sheila  11:54

that says a lot

 

Adam  11:55

maybe maybe a bit of a fatalist. But he's definitely a an optimistic, happy go lucky kind of guy.

 

Mike  12:01

Yeah, yeah.

 

Adam  12:02

So I think that, you know, he's gonna go with the flow, I hope

 

Mike  12:05

that's the thing, he kind of goes with the flow. And we're just, you know, we're just surrounding him with love and encouragement, and we're trying to show up and, you know, keep them stimulated. And, you know, it's been a little frustrating. I mean, it's been extremely frustrating and very hard on my mom to, you know, we're all trying to go and visit and stuff like that, but the like, but I thought it was worth mentioning on a podcast, you know, because we all have, if we're not, we're not, you know, going into 60s and 70s. We're our parents, our grandparents are. And I think we seeing it firsthand really, really drives home how important it is to just be maintaining our muscle,

 

Tim Edwards  12:40

it does, it really puts in perspective, too. And you know, we spent a lot of time talking to various clients throughout the past 40 episodes, like you mentioned, and when we spoke with annie Wrightson last week, she's 67 years old, and we're talking about how this, you know, for 15 years, she's been working at it inform fitness and has been able to maintain her life and be functional, because she's been doing the strength training, never really thought about what you brought up, Mike, and I'm so glad that you did. And gives that perspective, it's not just about being functional, looking good. It's about survival, too. When it comes down to it, there

 

Sheila  13:11

We have to tell people that all the time I'm actually we just put an ad in a new local magazine. And that's exactly what the headline says His strength is health. That's what we're advertising as because it's, it's just the truth. And with the whole thing going on with the health care system, you have to take your health into your own hands, and this is something you can do for yourself. That's going to be such great benefit as you age. And it's not like taking over your life. You know, it's just like brushing your teeth, which Adam, you know, has referred to before. And I'm always telling people this strength care, we call it strength care. So, yeah, yeah, strength care.

 

Adam  13:56

Yeah, I'm on board, I'm gonna be using that strength care.

 

Tim Edwards  13:59

Strength care. Well Mike certainly, our thoughts are with your family and your father. And like you said a minute ago, you know, he's, he's positive, right. So just a little bit of positivity.

 

Mike  14:12

So we just gotta we got to get through one stage. And then once he's, he's focused on his rehab and just basically building some muscle, it's going to be have to be supervised at first, but, you know, we think he's gonna, you know, make it through and frankly, the doctor said that they've seen people in much worse condition get through all this. So, you know, what we don't, you know, we just got to go with the flow and we just gotta hope for the best and that's the way it is, you know, and like I said, the guy has been through every health problem, already, he's already dealt with bypasses and heart attacks and cancer and everything. It's like, I mean, we're already on his like, 11th life out of nine, you know?

 

Sheila  14:51

Like lately, you know, we're we're in the midst of the terrible floods in in Texas and in Houston, and I've seen some, you know, One video that I saw was these very elderly people being taken out of their home and the water was literally up to their chest and they could barely walk, you know, I mean, it can save your life when you get older to have that muscle. You know, if you're ever in a terrible situation like that a flood or a disaster or something, you know, think about that, getting yourself out of this thing. You know,

 

Mike  15:27

it's not, I mean, that's a, you know, relevant to what's going on. But I'd say I'd say can I think I'm saying it's going to save your life or prolong it in a way to where you're, you know, you can stave off disease and sickness and God forbid you, you have to go to the hospital and have a surgery. If you're strong. You're out fast. I'm telling you right now, my dad was stronger, he would have this would have been done already, you know, and it's like, and the cardiologists are pretty much that's exactly what they're alluding to. So that's it.

 

Sheila  15:56

Well, good luck to your dad, we'll be thinking about it

 

Mike  15:59

Thank you.

 

Tim Edwards  16:02

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41 Strength Care Is Health Care

SUMMARY KEYWORDS
podcast, muscle, strength, fitness, inform, cardio, dad, week, life, people, valve, cardiovascular system, sheila, mike, strong, wrightson, stent, strength training, location, heart attack
SPEAKERS
Sheila, Tim Edwards, Mike, Adam

Sheila 00:05
Strength is health. It's just the truth. And with the whole thing going on with the health care system, you have to take your health into your own hands and this is something you can do for yourself. That's going to be such great benefit as you age. And it's not like taking over your life. You know, it's just like brushing your teeth, which Adam you know, has referred to before. And I'm always telling people this strength care we call it strength care.

Tim Edwards 00:40
Episode 41 of the inform fitness podcast with Adam Zickerman and Friends welcome inform nation. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting network. Joining us across town at her place is Sheila Melody, the co owner of the Toluca Lake Burbank location of Inform fitness. Hello, Sheila.

Sheila 00:56
Hey, how's it going?

Tim Edwards 00:57
And of course, across the country, we've got Adam Zickerman, the founder of inform fitness with his general manager of the Manhattan location, Mike Rogers. So the four of us back together again. And before we jump into Episode 41, Adam, we received an interesting Facebook share from our last episode.

Adam 01:14
Yeah, this is cool. I really like this, I got excited about this. It says here, an excellent podcast by the guys that inform Fitness on why functional training is dangerous. What's great about this episode to me is that it makes clear that life is already fraught with danger, that every day every week, and every month, we are putting our bodies especially our joints and soft tissue in precarious positions. So by doing functional, quote, unquote movements in the gym, we are adding to the stress and risk not preventing it. Inside the gym, you want to be moving in the safest and most biomechanically correct way so that you can strengthen your muscles without further stressing your soft tissue. I've read and studied many great things over the years on the subject, but this 20 minute podcast is perfect for the average person who just wants to be healthy, doesn't want to injure themselves, and doesn't have the time and interest in all the underlying science.

Tim Edwards 02:07
That's great. We appreciate whomever did share that. And of course, we invite inform nation to, you know, follow us on Facebook go to inform fitness in your Facebook search bar, it'll come right up and you'll see a lot of great informative and entertaining posts in addition to every podcast episode

Adam 02:23
can I mention who's who sent this?

Tim Edwards 02:25
Of course Yeah, for sure.

Adam 02:25
I don't know the person's name. I guess I can figure it out. Oh, just the it's a Facebook post. who shared our podcast It's exercise dose, exercise dose on Facebook,

Sheila 02:40
is it a blog or another facility

Adam 02:43
he's uh, looks like he's a trainer in Tennessee or gym in Tennessee, in the Tennessee area.

Tim Edwards 02:49
Exercise dose, thanks so much for the share, we appreciate that.

Adam 02:52
Based on some of the friends that I see that we share, he's definitely involved in the high intensity world, I can tell. So he's been doing that he's a high intensity trainer or gym owner. And he's been listening to the podcast. So I appreciate that exercise dose, whoever you are

Tim Edwards 03:07
got them on their Facebook page. Now it said their banner says if it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you. And we certainly subscribe to that. So appreciate the share there. Yeah, matter of fact, I'm looking at it right now. He shared it on his page or her page so much appreciate it. Team, how you been? It's been a few weeks since we've all been together here in summer Sheila, what you've been doing with your time?

Sheila 03:28
Well, as I was mentioning on our last podcast, I am in the midst of starting my own path with a nutritionist. And it's been four weeks. And it's been a journey. And you know, I can talk more about it. But on another podcast. It's it's definitely a journey. And I'm excited about it and already making some progress. So good news.

Tim Edwards 03:52
congrats. Looking forward to hearing more about that. And I know that Mike, we spoke the last time we were all together. Your dad was having some issues can ask how your father's doing?

Mike 04:00
Yeah, I'm glad you asked. Because it's part of why I want to discuss on this podcast today. It kind of echoes some of the things that we've talked about in the past in regards to cardio, and but I let me just give everyone a little bit of backstory about what's going on. Most of my dad, he's about to be 78 years old. He's had a tremendous amount of health issues throughout his life. He's actually had a triple bypass. He's had a FEM pop bypass. He's had diabetes, diabetic ulcers. He's had an aortic aneurysm. Recently, he has three heart attacks. I mean, this guy's the Iron Man. I mean, 30 years of alcoholism. 20 years of smoking, hip replacements, knee replacements. I mean, I hope he lives forever, but he kind of should have, you know, left us about 20 years ago. He keeps fighting and and he's actually not the Iron Man. He's actually his name is Steve Rogers so you could say he had, he's Captain America. But anyway, um, you know, today I spoke with him and you know, he's he's okay, he's relatively stable, but there's some, there's some issues at hand and, and it in some ways, it took a few beliefs that I have already had that we already know about. But it put it into super mega high def technicolour about the importance of strength training with supporting your body, and when it's under a tremendous amount of stress and when it needs when it needs its muscle. And sometimes I think we forget about the relationship between muscle and how it supports the rest of our body. So most recently, I'm not going to go into every detail, but he had a his third heart attack recently was a mild one, right after he had surgery for a an aortic aneurysm. And he needs a stent, he had a heart attack, he needs a stent, and he needs a valve replacement. And, you know, I was talking to the doctors about what the process is, and the plan was, we want to give him the stent, and then he needs to go to a rehab center and get strong for a few weeks. And then we'll do the valve. And there were complications with the stent, that caused internal bleeding and all sorts of other stuff. And eventually, they contained that. But they he didn't my dad didn't even have the strength for them to do a colonoscopy or, or an endoscopy to actually examine why he was having internal bleeding, through his GI tract and and while I was talking to the doctor, and I was asking him, how much strength does he need? And he said, they said, Well, he needs to, you know, he needs to be able to walk, he needs to be able to do some lifting. He has he actually has, he has very little muscle at the moment. And, and I was just thinking, and so he really after a couple weeks of therapy after he can get out of here, he's, he's gonna be okay for the valve and all this stuff. And he said, he said, Yeah, generally, that's, that's what's necessary. And it just made me think about how important it is. I mean, we forget about how much muscle supports all these systems of our body, we know that it supports our skeletal system. And, you know, obviously, it helps us with people with degenerative bone diseases, osteo arthritis and stuff like that. But they were alluding to the fact that his body needs to have the muscle and the strength in order to just do a colonoscopy, or to just do this, you know, to do the valve replacement. And this he his, his cardiovascular system isn't working efficiently right now. You know, and, and what it what it makes me think about I was talking to all my clients, when I was getting the news from the doctor is about what how necessary, it is for us to remain strong in case we need some of these procedures. I mean, it's and it's not even that much. You know, it's what's amazing is he said a few weeks of you know, doing some, some, you know, Step is standing up and sitting down and taking some walks and stuff like that

Adam 08:01
so think about that, if that's gonna make him strong enough to have basically open heart surgery, well it's not open heart, but it's still still major surgery to put a valve in. But believe it or not, they don't have to use open heart anymore to put a valve and that's a whole he

Mike 08:14
would never survive that

Adam 08:15
Yeah. But the thing is this, so So when people question once a week, you know, when you hear all these guys are nitpicking about bodybuilding, and how you're going to peak your biceps if you don't work on more than once a week, and you got to do multiple reps and multiple volume and all this kind of stuff. You know, all right, that's all well and good. You want to nitpick at these highest highest highest levels for genetically, you know, gifted people. But from a health point of view, from a health point of view, just maintaining our health while we were actually just talking about in the last podcast with our guest Annie Wrightson, you know, when she said strength is health, and it doesn't take much of course, once a week, if walking at a rehab for a couple of weeks, it's gonna prepare this guy for for you know, this guy, of course, I'm talking about this guy

Mike 08:56
Steve Rogers, Captain America

Adam 08:58
Mike's father, I mean, like, if it's gonna help somebody like that, you know, then imagine the benefits from from doing one high intensity workout a week for the rest of your life just to stay fit as a fiddle, so to speak.

Mike 09:11
Yeah, just a relative intensity for you know, older community and stuff like that. But it's really, it's unbelievable, how it's, it's it goes to the muscle and how muscle supports all of this stuff. You know, and it's, it's, I mean, and the thing is, like I said, In the beginning, is that this is we're going back to cardio here. You know, Mike, we're talking about my dad's cardiovascular system, what's the cardiovascular there the heart is there to pump blood

Adam 09:39
everything has to happen, he has to get stronger, he has to get some muscle Yeah he doesn't need cardiovascular system, he needs muscle

Mike 09:45
That's that's essentially what they're talking about. And that's, that's basically what I wanted to mention. Is that is it. I think it really really it drives home strength training and cardiovascular health.

Adam 09:59
It's really intensity right? Right. So thing is this he's very weak. So his strength training for his dad is walking on a treadmill because of how intense that experiences. So it's not the tool, it's not that it's a treadmill, you know, he, he's weak, and even walking on a treadmill is a lot of work for him. But then you take it to the next level. Yeah, but but but the reason it's hard for him on a treadmill, because His muscles are weak. And if he gets better the treadmill is because his muscles are getting stronger.

Mike 10:26
Yeah, it's you know, it's it's walk to jog jog, to run, run to sprint, I mean, like you it's a progression, he has to start at a very, very low place. And we have plenty of you know, clients in here who come from a very, very low conditioned place, and we have to start low. And then they they, you know,

Adam 10:45
his father would be just as well off doing very light weights on a leg press and doing a full body workout with weights just as much. I mean, it'd be very hard for him to do superduper lightweights, but because it's on a treadmill doesn't mean it's cardio. Because what we've been talking about for a lot of episodes, it's intensity that pushes up energy energy systems, it's the intensity that makes us stronger, that stimulates us to get stronger.

Mike 11:06
And basically it's it's the fact that strength is cardio. It's not that it's uh, we're not fighting, or it is it is cardio. And that's the thing is like, and, you know, you know, when people come in, and they say, is this cardio, and I'm like, Well, do you understand what cardio is? You know, what cardio refers to your heart and what's your hearts function, it needs to do something, and my dad, his isn't doing it efficiently, he essentially has heart failure until the valve is put in and there's, you know, we're they're still doing a little touch and go type of things to to, essentially, we're trying to get them out of the hospital, so we can go to the rehab center. But at the moment, he doesn't even have that much strength. He's stable. And we're all very optimistic, just about Yeah,

Adam 11:49
I know his dad and the good news about his dad is that he's a very optimistic guy

Sheila 11:54
that says a lot

Adam 11:55
maybe maybe a bit of a fatalist. But he's definitely a an optimistic, happy go lucky kind of guy.

Mike 12:01
Yeah, yeah.

Adam 12:02
So I think that, you know, he's gonna go with the flow, I hope

Mike 12:05
that's the thing, he kind of goes with the flow. And we're just, you know, we're just surrounding him with love and encouragement, and we're trying to show up and, you know, keep them stimulated. And, you know, it's been a little frustrating. I mean, it's been extremely frustrating and very hard on my mom to, you know, we're all trying to go and visit and stuff like that, but the like, but I thought it was worth mentioning on a podcast, you know, because we all have, if we're not, we're not, you know, going into 60s and 70s. We're our parents, our grandparents are. And I think we seeing it firsthand really, really drives home how important it is to just be maintaining our muscle,

Tim Edwards 12:40
it does, it really puts in perspective, too. And you know, we spent a lot of time talking to various clients throughout the past 40 episodes, like you mentioned, and when we spoke with annie Wrightson last week, she's 67 years old, and we're talking about how this, you know, for 15 years, she's been working at it inform fitness and has been able to maintain her life and be functional, because she's been doing the strength training, never really thought about what you brought up, Mike, and I'm so glad that you did. And gives that perspective, it's not just about being functional, looking good. It's about survival, too. When it comes down to it, there

Sheila 13:11
We have to tell people that all the time I'm actually we just put an ad in a new local magazine. And that's exactly what the headline says His strength is health. That's what we're advertising as because it's, it's just the truth. And with the whole thing going on with the health care system, you have to take your health into your own hands, and this is something you can do for yourself. That's going to be such great benefit as you age. And it's not like taking over your life. You know, it's just like brushing your teeth, which Adam, you know, has referred to before. And I'm always telling people this strength care, we call it strength care. So, yeah, yeah, strength care.

Adam 13:56
Yeah, I'm on board, I'm gonna be using that strength care.

Tim Edwards 13:59
Strength care. Well Mike certainly, our thoughts are with your family and your father. And like you said a minute ago, you know, he's, he's positive, right. So just a little bit of positivity.

Mike 14:12
So we just gotta we got to get through one stage. And then once he's, he's focused on his rehab and just basically building some muscle, it's going to be have to be supervised at first, but, you know, we think he's gonna, you know, make it through and frankly, the doctor said that they've seen people in much worse condition get through all this. So, you know, what we don't, you know, we just got to go with the flow and we just gotta hope for the best and that's the way it is, you know, and like I said, the guy has been through every health problem, already, he's already dealt with bypasses and heart attacks and cancer and everything. It's like, I mean, we're already on his like, 11th life out of nine, you know?

Sheila 14:51
Like lately, you know, we're we're in the midst of the terrible floods in in Texas and in Houston, and I've seen some, you know, One video that I saw was these very elderly people being taken out of their home and the water was literally up to their chest and they could barely walk, you know, I mean, it can save your life when you get older to have that muscle. You know, if you're ever in a terrible situation like that a flood or a disaster or something, you know, think about that, getting yourself out of this thing. You know,

Mike 15:27
it's not, I mean, that's a, you know, relevant to what's going on. But I'd say I'd say can I think I'm saying it's going to save your life or prolong it in a way to where you're, you know, you can stave off disease and sickness and God forbid you, you have to go to the hospital and have a surgery. If you're strong. You're out fast. I'm telling you right now, my dad was stronger, he would have this would have been done already, you know, and it's like, and the cardiologists are pretty much that's exactly what they're alluding to. So that's it.

Sheila 15:56
Well, good luck to your dad, we'll be thinking about it

Mike 15:59
Thank you.

Tim Edwards 16:02
Strength care is healthcare. One of our new mantras here at the inform fitness podcast, join the movement get strong, and not just to look good, but for a myriad of health benefits as we have so intricately discussed in all of our past episodes. Hey, if you haven't yet subscribed to the podcast, please do so that way. Just about every Monday morning, you will find our latest episode waiting for you on your phone. Then you can listen to it on your way to work while you walk the dog or whatever you might be doing while you listen to your podcast. And hey, if you have some suggestions for topics that you'd like for us to cover, or even authors you think might be a good fit for the show. Send them on over to podcast at informfitness.com. And you know, what we would really love is if you recorded a voice memo on your phone with your comments and questions, and send that to us as well. And we can include your comments and questions in an upcoming episode. Perhaps you're new to the podcast and just discovered us in iTunes, Stitcher, radio or I Heart Radio, and still trying to figure out this protocol which at first glance is a very different kind of exercise. A good place to start learning about it is by clicking on over to informfitness.com The website has a ton of videos and blog posts and a list of all the locations scattered across the US then head on over to Amazon to pick up Adams book power of 10 the once a week slow motion fitness revolution. The book itself is only about 13 bucks and you can download the Kindle version for less than $8. So what are you waiting for? Inside the book you'll find nutritional tips and exercises that can be performed anywhere, even if you're not near an inform fitness location. Thanks so much for listening and until next week for Adam Mike and Sheila with inform fitness. I'm Tim Edwards with the inbound podcasting Network.

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