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A father and daughter discuss life across their generations. Science, medicine, music, and whatever else they choose to discuss are on the table.
Aubrey
00:00
Every single person deserves to go to the gym and take up space. They deserve to go and feel good and do something that's very good for their body and not feel like they're just in the way and that people are looking at them weird. Welcome back to Generations. I am one of your co-hosts, Aubrey.
Peter
00:29
And I am your other co-host, Peter.
Aubrey
00:32
Dad, how are ya?
Peter
00:35
I am well and really tired. Just like I am so ready to just be home. And not complaining.
00:48
They were all good things. It was great to go to the The the conference in Hawaii cannot complain about going to Hawaii. Um And it was a great conference.
01:01
It was fun to go, spend time, chill out, just be in a nice place. Then we got home and we were home for a couple days. Then we had to go to Boise.
01:09
Just got back from Boise last night. So Uh yeah, I mean it's it's all good. It's just I'm ready to just kind of feel like things are more stable and normal.
Aubrey
01:22
Yeah, that's super fair. How long were you guys how long were you guys in Hawaii for?
Peter
01:28
So we flew out on a Saturday and flew back Saturday, landed Sunday morning, so a full week.
Aubrey
01:35
Very good.
Peter
01:35
Yeah. So that was good. Like I say, we landed early Sunday morning, drove all the way up, just I just kept myself awake all day Sunday.
01:47
went to bed. Then because my body was adapted to Hawaii time, which with daylight savings time is now only three hours behind, but before we got there it was four hours behind. So I'd lay down at like ten o'clock and my body's like, yo dog, it's like six o'clock, what are you doing?
02:04
And then I'd just like lay there for an hour and a half before I'd finally fall asleep. But then it was like I still gotta wake up at like five o'clock in the morning. So
Aubrey
02:13
Yikes.
Peter
02:14
Yeah, so it was a couple nights of having a hard time falling asleep, and then again just as my body was starting to gonna get back, then we had to go over to Boise uh for a few nights, but But it's been good. It's been good. How are you?
Aubrey
02:28
I'm doing okay. Um this is like the third week in a row um Hayden has been gone for work. So it is rough.
02:39
Um he was gone last week from like Tuesday to yesterday morning and he had to leave again today and he doesn't get back till Friday night And the week before that, he was gone from like uh it was like a Monday to Wednesday, so a short one, but then we went out of town. for Halloween, so he has been on so many airplanes in the past few weeks. He's so sick of it.
Peter
03:07
I don't blame him at all.
Aubrey
03:09
Yeah, so he this is the last one for A little bit, and then I think he has another work trip in December, but it'll be a shorter one. So yeah, it's not You know, it's good for my long distance trauma to remember that even when he is gone for a work trip, he does come back. Usually within a week. It does.
Peter
03:33
And even while he's gone, he still loves you and you're still married.
Aubrey
03:37
Exactly. And we're still married and everything is gonna be okay. And he will come back very soon.
Peter
03:43
He will.
Aubrey
03:44
Um so yeah, that has been just a little rough because I just have the house to myself a lot. Um and even though it's a small apartment, it gets very lonely.
Peter
03:55
Yeah. No, no, totally doesn't.
Aubrey
03:58
And we have a California King bed and it's too big for one person. I have seven squishmallas on it right now. As
Peter
04:08
you do. And my like
Aubrey
04:10
giant minky blanket to try and fill it so it doesn't feel like I'm sleeping in a cavern.
Peter
04:17
You don't.
Aubrey
04:19
So yeah, but other than that, you know, it's been it's been good. I've been doing some some fun crafts. I'm doing a lot of handmade things for cra Christmas this year, so I got started like a month ago to try kind of trial run.
Peter
04:36
And y and I I didn't know this. I was glad to hear this and you guys kinda did this on your own. You guys our are drew names for the siblings this year.
Aubrey
04:44
Yes, we did.
Peter
04:45
Which is smart because now there's
Aubrey
04:47
gathering a lot of them, yeah.
Peter
04:50
Well, that's the thing, because now there's what, seven people that you're you're looking at getting gifts for, so I think that makes sense. That's a that's a good call.
Aubrey
04:59
It is a good call. So yeah, I've just been doing a lot of crafts and watching my my Minecraft YouTube and just keeping myself busy, hanging out with friends while Hayden's been gone. So yeah, it's been good.
Peter
05:14
Good, good, good.
Aubrey
05:15
Yeah. So for our topic today, um you brought up the idea of talking about my personal training.
Peter
05:26
It's true. And and I thought this would be a good one um to to to kick off with so that Because on the one hand, I'd love to know about kind of what got you into it, what made you decide to go through the process to become, because now you are officially, right, certified personal trainer.
Aubrey
05:48
Yep. I 'm not sure.
Peter
05:52
You you're like you're like the real deal now. And I thought it'd be good And um the the fun thing is I'll share this with you, we've we've had a few new subscribers over the last few weeks. So I think we've had like over a hundred new people subscribe over the last few weeks.
06:06
So wow. Uh so to to kind of welcome them in, let them know uh a little bit about us, I thought this would be a fun place to start. And and so briefly, and we've had a whole topic about kind of our workouts, exercise, fitness, but but you know, obviously this has always been something that's been important for both of us.
06:27
Um, you know, we your mom and I always tried to both model as well as teach, and sometimes better than others, quite honestly, but you know That's we're all human, so but but to sort of emphasize the importance of health. And the good news is is I think all of you have learned that and have incorporated that and it's been an important part of your lives. You know, Jess went with us over to uh to Boise, but you know, got in a workout there, went for a run this morning, still does that.
07:02
Obviously you are very active and did this. Alex still runs and lifts. Gareth is a swimmer, you know, and swims hours and hours a day.
07:13
And and so I I think it's clearly an important thing for all of us. And as a family has always been an important thing. And something that we wanted to make sure you all saw the importance of that.
07:29
And it is so it just makes your mom and I both so happy that it is that that this is something that matters, that you all have of your own accord made sure that being active and and striving to be healthy has been an important part of your lives. And so I kind of wanted to, you know Hear from you's what's the process and what got you there and what got you interested in that whole thing.
Aubrey
07:53
Yeah. Yeah. So I mean I feel like we've talked about this a lot, but for for some of the new folk, um I was a dancer for pretty much the majority of my childhood and we have we do have a whole episode of us talking about sort of my my real experience with being a dancer, um which I think is a fun episode.
08:21
Um that was from a lot of years ago, but I remember doing that one. That was kind of fun to hash out all of the You know, the good and the bad of being a dancer. Um, and with that, of course, comes a lot of body image issues for very young girls and I was always sort of the skinniest person in my, you know, friend group grade, and then I'd get to ballet and I would be the quote biggest person in the room.
08:56
And having that switch just back and forth and it was really confusing to my brain as a young girl and I was really confused as to what I was supposed to look like because in ballet they were like, you need to look this certain way, your quads need to be the same size as your calves. Yada yada and then I would go to school and have people be like, You're so skinny, like how can you even do anything? And I really disliked b both of those sides of that.
09:30
Um and so As soon as sort of the end was in sight for graduating high school and like being done with dance, I was like, I want to just be jacked. I want to feel strong. I don't feel strong.
09:45
I don't feel confident in my body. I know that I am skinny and not necessarily in like a you know, I'm I'm just uh not super strong. Like skinny not in a strong way.
09:58
Like I felt like I couldn't lift anything. I felt really weak. I felt really Weird and confused about my body image because of dance and everything.
10:06
So I literally was like, I'm going to be jacked, and that's gonna be my life's mission. Um And that definitely has not stopped. And having having lifting, specifically like resistance training, strength training.
10:23
be such a big part of my life for the last I don't know, I guess five and a half, six-ish years. Um has it like truly has been life. changing for my physical health, my mental health, my emotional health.
10:39
Like that is yes, I go to the gym because I like to get big and I like to move my body for all the physical benefits. But also because I'll go nuts if I don't. Like it is such a way for me to regulate my emotions, regulate my anxiety, process emotions, process thoughts, all those things It's like quite literally I heard a like a therapi maybe it was my therapist, I don't know, a therapist say one time that like she was like adults need to get the wiggles out too. Like everyone needs to get their wiggles out.
11:12
You just find you find the little the ways that you enjoy to get your wiggles out. And for me it's it's strength training. And so I I kind of have always had the thought of maybe be getting my personal training certification could be fun.
11:29
Like kind of in the last few years, but it was never really feasible when I was in college 'cause I already had like a million part-time jobs and was just trying to finish school and all that.
Peter
11:39
Right.
Aubrey
11:39
And so I didn't r really it didn't really fit into my life then. Um But now since I kind of am just I have a lot of free time on my hands and waiting, you know, to get into grad school and all those things, I was like, I feel like this would be the perfect time. And what really One like what was really the motivation behind getting my personal training certification is that I feel like I really, really, really want to make the people around me and like my close close friends and family, but also just the people around me, clients, whoever who comes in contact with me in a fitness, you know, sense.
12:22
I want everyone to feel like they allow they are allowed to take up space in the gym no matter what they look like or what they're doing or what Knowledge or experience they have with the gym. I want everyone to feel like they deserve to take up just as much space as the giant dude lifting uh, you know, m about million pound dumbbells, lat raising, grunting, crazy style wearing his tiny little stringer. Like you're you deserve to take up just as m as much space as that guy does.
12:54
Because the gym is for everybody. The gym is for everybody. Like it is so I I I feel like the fitness industry has changed You know, a lot in the last few years, but not necessarily in a super good way.
13:12
I feel like you see a lot of you know, just the rise the rise of everyone and celebrities needing to look super freakishly skinny and stuff like that. Like that has been a super negative impact with the fitness industry. And I just feel like as a woman, especially where it is super like extra super duper important to resistance train, strength train because of like were more susceptible to earlier onset osteoporosis for but like because of our bone density and other things like that.
13:44
There's just so many important benefits. to weight training and I really just want to be able to feel like I can make a difference in even just one person's life where they feel like they can go to the gym and work out and feel good and not just be scared of everyone else watching you. Um I feel like that is such a huge barrier right now.
Peter
14:10
No, it is. It absolutely is. And and I think that this is, again, an interesting difference between sort of when I was growing up and and where you're at now, and that is There is an understanding, and I would even maybe say an acceptance of the importance of lifting weights for everybody that just wasn't there back in the 80s. And and even probably the nineties, you know.
14:38
Uh it was all about cardio. And that was the emphasis to women. It was cardio.
14:42
It was Me growing up, my mother buying every flipping Richard Simmons sweatin' to the oldies aerobics VHS that was available, or y you know, aerobics competitions on TV and so m you know, everybody was selling their Billy Blanks was selling his Tai Bow and you know, the the beach body stuff and the P90X and all that where there was a little bit of resistance, but it was like, here, we're gonna use resistance bands so that you just you get toned. And it was this, you know, we wanna we wanna do we want to do cardio and high reps, lightweights so that they're they're being toned and and and this misunderstanding of the importance of resistance training and and honestly kind of how your body responds to that. And I feel like we've come a long way now.
15:39
And so, in sort of people your age and your generation, what do you think is the prevailing mindset about Just strength training, lifting weights, resistance training, whatever you want to call it. But but what do you think? Has that improved?
15:54
Has it changed, or are there still a lot of misunderstandings with it?
Aubrey
15:58
I certainly think it's improved. I think there's still I still am kind of shocked at how many misunderstandings there are. Like how many people still are like, yeah, I just w I want to be toned.
16:10
I want to have, you know, small but toned arms where I'm like, okay, you can't Choose that that's not a thing that that's not real. Sorry, that's not a real thing. Um tone just means you're you are skinny.
16:25
Like that's not what that means, you know But I definitely think s this is something that maybe social media has done in a in a positive way a little bit because there is a lot of like f obviously there's a lot of bad fitness influence. That's I'm not saying that there's not because there's so many bad ones, but that also means that there's space for good ones to arise. And are able to and b again, there are pros and cons to this where people are pretty easily sips susceptible to the things that they read on the internet.
16:54
But it means that those Fitness influencers can kinda use use their abilities for good where they can say things to their audience that their audience is gonna trust. and kind of be like, hey, you don't need to do X, Y, and Z, you don't need to be doing a million minutes of cardio a week in order to feel good and that's not like the one thing you have to do to be healthy, that sort of thing. So I definitely think It has gotten better, but not where not where it needs to be for sure.
Peter
17:23
Yeah. Yeah.
Aubrey
17:24
Um yeah, and I I just especially with the people in sort of my my demographic specifically as like younger women going to the gym, like that f fricking Shane Gillis SNL sketch that happened a few weeks ago where he's like I didn't realize women were just dressing like whores these days at the gym. And I'm like, well I it's because you don't go to the gym. It's because you don't go. It's because you haven't been there.
Peter
17:59
I mean, it's kind of funny. I saw a lot of I saw a lot of reactions to that, obviously. And w one of the One of the reactions that I was just like, yeah, was it was like a little clip of again some of these aerobics instruction videos from the 80s. And they're just like wearing like a s little Leotard going up there. You know, like and I'm like, uh, you know , and and then really it gets down to the idea that, bro, why are you going to the gym
Aubrey
18:29
Right.
Peter
18:30
Go to the gym to work out. And who cares what anybody else is doing unless they come over and they're like shoving themselves in your face and and and nobody is.
Aubrey
18:41
Right. No reason.
Peter
18:42
For the most part.
Aubrey
18:43
For the most part. Maybe. Right. Right.
Peter
18:45
Yeah.
Aubrey
18:46
Exactly. Yep. And and I feel like I've I've kind of gone through my own little journey with be like because obviously I've gone to like you have a home gym, so you have a special, you know, lucky case where you and mom can go downstairs to the basement to work out and you don't have to worry about anyone else at a public gym, but being at a public gym and having to kind of just force my confidence to grow and force myself to yeah, I'm gonna go over to the heavy dumbbells side because that's the weight that I need for this move.
19:17
And it's gonna be scary because there's only gonna be like three men over there and they're probably gonna be looking at me weird and I'm gonna feel weird and I just need to do it. Like I just need to go over there and do it. And kind of doing that over and over again Getting to the point where I'm like, oh, I can actually lift more than all of you frat boys that I see at the gym right now I can actually lift more than all of you.
19:42
So if anyone should be giving you a dirty look, or you know, should be giving dirty looks, it should be me to you, because I can lift more than you now.
Peter
19:49
Yeah.
Aubrey
19:50
Um So now like I go to my public gym, which is not just college gym, so it's not, you know, my only young adults. It is the whole scope. There's a lot of old people.
20:04
There's a lot of other folk that are a little strange. Everyone's just, you know, some some strange folk for sure. And I am a large person.
20:14
I'm tall. I take up a lot of room. I have my own equipment that I bring in my bag.
20:20
Do I have my bag in the middle of the way for people to trip over it? No, because I am going to be courteous. But I am going to be a very tall woman with my hot pink gym set on, and I'm gonna take up a lot of room and I'm gonna lift more than you, and you're gonna have to deal with it.
20:41
And I've had so much so much of my like self-confidence in in just like ability to just have to not care about what people are thinking of me. It is because of the gym that I've been able to do that. Like I'm just gonna go and I'm going to stand next to these really jacked dudes who are taking up a lot of space and I'm going to take up just as much space as them.
Peter
21:05
Sure.
Aubrey
21:06
And they're gonna look annoyed because I stepped close to where their water bottle is. Womp womp. I deserve to be here as much as you do.
Peter
21:14
Yeah.
Aubrey
21:15
And even if I d what I and again I'm gonna beat this dead horse until I die. Like every single person deserves to go to the gym and take up space. They deserve to go and feel good and do something that's very good for their body and not feel like they're just in the way and that people are looking at them weird.
21:36
Like everyone should be able to go no matter what size of body you have, no matter what experience of lifting you have, even if you feel like you literally don't know what you're doing. Everyone deserves to be there. And I really, that is like my number one goal with personal training is I want everyone to have the confidence to be able to go to the gym.
21:55
Get a good workout in, you know, they're working their body, hitting their goals, whatever, and feel like they can take up space just as much as everybody else does. So
Peter
22:06
that's great.
Aubrey
22:06
That's my very long-winded explanation, but I am so So so passionate about this. I just recently was talking to a friend who um cause I cause I passed my test like It was like two weeks ago, I think. Three week no, yeah, two weeks ago as of yesterday that I passed my test. Um And I have one client and I was talking to another person who was kind of asking me about personal training and stuff like that, and she was like She was like, I just really am so scared of going in there and not knowing what I'm doing and everyone judging me for it.
Peter
22:46
And I was like , It's a legitimate fear.
Aubrey
22:52
that is it's so scary to go in this very it 's like a pretty vulnerable place. Like you're literally working out. You're not like no one's looking their best or really feeling their best. Everyone's doing something hard. Every you know, you gotta make your weird funny faces to get the weight up, you know, all that stuff.
Peter
23:13
It's like the truth is is that if it's gonna be effective, it's going to be ugly.
Aubrey
23:18
Exactly. Like it's not cute. We're not like going to do a cute little easy work out like y exactly you gotta you gotta really do it and so I was like I was like girl this is why I got my personal training like I will make you a program I will go with you to the gym We will work out together.
23:37
I will show you how all of the machines work. I will show you everything so that you feel like you can go in and just not be afraid. of anything.
23:45
Cause and it sucks that that's the barrier for people to get into the gym when there is just so many benefits that it's just like I just am like screaming at everybody to find a form of, you know, resistance training that they enjoy. I'm like, please, please, just go do it. Like there's just too many Too many benefits to not like they have just too many.
Peter
24:07
Yeah. Um totally.
Aubrey
24:09
Yeah, and Again, I'm I'm very, very passionate about this.
Peter
24:20
We need people who are passionate about it and who really care, especially in that role, in that personal training role, because then it's going to be effective. It's going to actually help people make the progress that they that they were hoping to get.
Aubrey
24:36
Yeah.
Peter
24:36
So tell us, tell me a little bit, what was that process to get your to to pass your test and and to be become certified?
Aubrey
24:45
Yeah, so it was actually pretty simple. It was basically there's a few organizations that are like uh have the Like national they're recognized by the national accredit accreditation whatever of America, where they're like allowed to certify people and be like actual certification. No, I can't remember what it's called, but there's a few different companies that have like courses that they offer and everyone kind of has their little niche where they have like a different um sort of maybe fitness training model that they kind of base their, you know, kind of textbook and course off of.
25:24
But it's all, you know, it's all personal training. It's all there's gonna be a lot of overlap. And you just kinda pick one, you buy a course.
25:33
Of course there's like the basic package. There's the more complicated there's like the the packages that you can buy where there's like you get three practice tests. instead of one and you get these extra fancy videos or whatever.
25:45
I did a very base package. I did it with Ace, which is the American ca American Council on Exercise. Because my previous boxing coach got her personal training through them.
25:59
And so since I actually knew a real person who did it, I was like, all right, I'll just go with that. It was also the cheapest. uh base package which is great.
26:06
So I was like, okay, that's the one. And I wasn't super worried about the content in itself because again, I've been weightlifting for like five years and I've taken a million Anat and Fizz classes multiple times in my life. So when it came to like the, you know, muscular and skeletal systems anatomy, I really wasn't worried about that.
26:26
Um, so yeah, you buy a course, you go through the course, there's a series of lecture videos and readings, because they they all have their own like textbook it comes with. And you just kind of go through the modules and then at the end you register for your like official exam. And then you take your exam.
26:46
If you pass, bam, there you go. So
Peter
26:49
cool.
Aubrey
26:50
Yeah, it Took me a little longer than I had originally planned just because over the summer when I was working at the summer camp, like I was working 40 hours a week, so I had way less free time. um to get things done. But I purchased the course probably I I want to say it was April, maybe May.
27:10
Um and yeah, got it done at the end of October and it's kind of a go at your own pace sort of situation. And then yeah, you just register for the course or for the exam and take the exam. So yeah, it was pretty it is pretty seamless.
27:26
I really I I think this specific company has definitely didn't focus on They focus on a lot of the psychological aspects of personal training, like more than I would like, where I'm like, okay, I don't need to focus on the learning model. And the three stages of learning. I would like to focus on the programming and like the actual exercise progressions, modifications, that sort of thing.
27:56
That's what I'd like to focus on. But it still was pretty good and I again because of all my experience in lifting anyways I do feel pretty confident in my ability to make programs for people.
Peter
28:12
Nice.
Aubrey
28:13
So yeah, I've already made I mean, I've t I put a hold on your making your program because I knew you already had stuff you were working on, but I am making your program and I will finish it eventually.
Peter
28:24
Sounds good.
Aubrey
28:25
Um I made one for mom. I made one for Jess. I made one for Alex.
28:33
They've both been doing theirs. I made it for Lily, Alex's wife. I made one for Hayden, I am now making one for my best friend Liv and my other friend Grace and her boyfriend.
28:48
Um, 'cause I went and visited them for Halloween and they were like, wait, would you would you wanna maybe do you have any tips? And I was like, I can just make you a program. Do you want me to just make you a program?
28:59
They're like, Yes, please, can you please make me a program? I was like, Yes, I can make you a program. Um yeah, and then I have a one client that is my friend who um she's been doing great.
29:11
And so yeah, I've been making a program for her as well. So Yeah, I've been really enjoying it and I'm not really I'm not super interested in like getting a million clients and like looking to make a bunch of money off of it. This is mostly like a hobby I'm really passionate about that I can also make a little bit of money off of and just really wanted more knowledge um about it.
29:34
So yeah, I'm really happy with how everything's going and my ability to to make programs for people. So yeah.
Peter
29:42
Very good. Very good.
Aubrey
29:44
Yeah.
Peter
29:45
And so you've got one client you said. How's it been going with that person so far?
Aubrey
29:50
It's been going really well. She is um has a lot of previous health. issues that have caused a lot of instability and like balance issues.
30:03
Um she like had leukemia as a child and the chemotherapy, of course, as chemo does to your body, just like Messes everything up for eternity. Um, so we're doing a lot of things focused on balance and postural stability and just like pretty functional moves. Um and she like the progress has been so, so good.
30:33
Every week, like I'll have her do a few fake practice reps of whatever warm-up we're doing or whatever move we're doing just to like get back in the you know mind muscle connection. And every week it's like she gets to the perfect form faster and faster. And it's so exciting to see 'cause yeah, she's just I'm s I'm able to see that she's able to see that progress really.
30:57
Really fast. Like we're gonna start moving up to some we're doing a lot of bodyweight exercises right now, and we're gonna start moving up to some weighted exercises here soon, which I'm very excited for.
Peter
31:07
Very good.
Aubrey
31:08
So yeah, it's been it's been really good and I'm very proud of her. She's been doing great. So yeah.
Peter
31:13
Cool. I love her.
Aubrey
31:15
Yeah.
Peter
31:16
What else? Anything else you want to share about this process or
Aubrey
31:21
Um Honestly, I just really Again, this is like I feel like I could talk about this for hours, but I'm kind of just repeating myself over and over again because I'm just so bad. About saying the same things over and over again. um just how important it is to wait train.
31:41
Like there is just too many benefits. Like I ev I pulled up my personal training textbook so I can even just talk about some of the most direct benefits I will say right here. So of course there's improved body composition, more muscle, less fat, which is associated with reduced risk with type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease Also lowering your resting blood pressure, improving blood lipid profiles, improving metabolic syndrome, of course stronger muscles, which is very uh also particularly important for low back health, which is a huge Huge issue for everyone who is very sedentary, and as you get older, reduced pain of osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis, decreased prevalence of depression and anxiety, improved functional ability.
32:27
in older adults. All these like those are just like a few of them. Yeah.
32:35
Um there is There is just so many so many things and also as you get like older, there is like a if you don't do active um muscular training as you get older you can lose like five pounds of muscle per decade like in older adults. Like that's how much loss of muscle that adults who do not engage in muscular training. Um Just so many things where I just really want to try and break down the barriers to getting people to go to the gym and enjoy it because it is such a big part of my life now that I kind of I didn't understand for a long time why people wouldn't go, like the not wanting to go, I didn't understand that.
33:35
any like I I truly felt like I had changed into a mindset where it was like an absolute non-negotiable and such a staple in my routine. Like it's not like a Should I go to the gym today? It's a I am going to the gym today.
33:49
There's absolutely no questions asked. It's just happening.
Peter
33:53
Yeah.
Aubrey
33:53
And I know that I am a bit of a um I'm a bit of a freak in that realm where it's not as easy for most people to get up and go to the gym, but Now that I I took my personal training course and I've talked to a lot of people who are like looking to increase their activity but haven't because of this or that, I I feel like I've just grown my perspective a lot where I'm I'm finding what the barriers are and I w I'm working really hard to break them down for people.
Peter
34:25
Yeah. No, that's the case.
Aubrey
34:27
Yeah, the most important thing is make it as easy as possible to do the hard thing, which I think we've talked about a lot, I feel like on the podcast too, is like reducing the friction, implementing a system where you get up, your workout clothes are laid out, your pre -gym snack is laid out, you boom, boom, boom, and then you go, or something like that. Um yeah, and I'm
Peter
34:51
just figuring out ways to lower the activation energy needed to get there is one of the keys.
Aubrey
34:56
Exactly. Exactly. So Yeah, I think it's a good idea.
Peter
35:01
Um it's been fun to watch this journey and and to see that passion, which I mean I think you said you you said it the key is is everybody needs to be doing some type of strength training. They just do. Like it it needs to become like I'm not saying that they shouldn't be doing some cardio as well.
35:21
Cardiac fitness is important, but it is so often overlooked the importance of strength training, the importance of some type of resistance training and and again, not the like going as heavy as one can, in whatever form that is. And and that's fine. But but going heavy, getting to a point where near the end of, you know, your set, your last few reps are harder than the ones that started.
Aubrey
35:49
Yep.
Peter
35:50
As long as you're doing that, you're on the right track.
Aubrey
35:53
Yep, exactly. It's not well of course when I was younger I thought if I did one 10 minute arms workout with my five-pound dumbbells in the basement a week would make it so I had quote toned arms wrong. Wrong. So incredibly wrong.
Peter
36:15
Yeah. It does it do does that kind of stuff burn a few calories? Sure. Does it do what you think it's doing? Probably not.
Aubrey
36:24
Probably not. Yep. So yeah, thanks for listening to my soapbox.
Peter
36:29
Well, I think this whole episode has pretty much been a good health care health corner. So I'm gonna say I'm good, but do you have any Astro Fact to share with us today?
Aubrey
36:38
Yes, it so the Ro the Roman Space Telescope has entered its final commissioning phase. So it has completed a comprehensive checkout refinement of the observatory and primary instrument performance. Basically they've established the observatory is fully functional.
36:58
It can take exposures, data flows where it needs to go. They can slew from one place to another for observations, which Which is great. And now they're kind of drill drilling into the fine details of like the quality of the images they're getting.
37:11
So they have gotten into a few they have had a few challenging activities so far. They thought that maybe the telescope would have difficulty observing places that are already like really full of stars, like pretty dense, or nebulae that are really shrouded by dense dust. Um, 'cause the way that it locks onto a target is by like holding steady on individual stars found in the direction that it needs to go.
37:38
Um so where the stars are really packed closely together or embedded in really thick dust, the guidance system gets a little confused and has trouble like staying tethered to that direction. But it seems they have fixed it and it's performing wonderfully. And we will still not get any images back from it for a few months, but Everything is going good so far.
38:03
So
Peter
38:04
I love it.
Aubrey
38:05
Yeah.
Peter
38:05
Very good.
Aubrey
38:06
But anyways, thanks for chatting with me. And we will be back in another few weeks on a more regular schedule, I think, now, because I don't think there's any
Peter
38:19
No, but I don't have any trips coming up in the next little bit, so
Aubrey
38:23
I think we should be good. Um and we'll be back with another topic in a few weeks. Do all the things, leave us the feedback. subscribe all the fun things um and we will talk to you guys later
Peter
38:36
see ya
Aubrey
38:37
bye