Swim Your Way To Health Beat Ego Boost Mood

Even then in the pool, it's a compromise. And I can't let my ego get in my way, cause if I overswim, I can go faster. But the point is, is to get the workout, to get the health benefit from it, not to be the world's greatest swimmer, because there's the Olympian swimmer names on the wall at my pool. So there's no being a superstar here, but it doesn't mean that I don't have to battle that monster all the time, where I'm trying to outperform myself and constantly get better. So the God's honest truth is, is I need to get back in the pool and get back to swimming three to four times a week, because there's no way to feel bad. Like for at least two or three hours afterwards, you just feel like a million bucks, you know? It's just no way around it. So I'm telling myself, I'm telling everybody, get into the pool, whatever it is. And if you don't like your workout, try a different workout, try the pool. Yeah. It's interesting. You're talking about something we talk about in FPL, which is when you get out of the military, adapt your exercise to something that you can do that is sustainable for a long period of time. You're probably not gonna have to go run five miles or rock 20 miles, like you did in the military. And it's probably not a good idea, but you might want to take up or consider yoga or swimming or rock climbing or activities that you can keep yourself busy consistently. So there is an element when you get out of the military, this is my question to you. How hard has it been to get yourself out of military PT mindset, which as you get older and the injuries come back to haunt you and stuff, really isn't as possible as people think? Yeah. And in my era of the military, it was push-ups, sit-ups, two mile run. So that was a form of physical fitness, but I never found it to be all that challenging. You know, I was a max PT guy most of the time I was in the military. For me, it wasn't that hard to switch out of that because I was always an athlete, I always ran around. It wasn't really exercise. It was just like, hey, we're gonna go, do PE for a little bit, maybe kick a ball once a week, that kind of thing. So I enjoyed it, but it was never for me like a, I understand like if you're like, God, I can never get over the hump of sit-ups or I can never get that two mile run time down. I was the guy that would finish two mile run, head back across track, grab someone and sprint them in and then go across track and sprint them in. So that was, it was never hard for me to do it. So getting out of that mindset and into something else was, it wasn't really a problem. But I will say this about swimming and I'll advocate for it. Not only is it a fantastic overall workout, you also develop capacity to survive in the water. I mean, the more you're in the water, the better you are at dealing with it. But it's also a meditation. You don't have to count laps. You don't have to worry about form all the time. You really can just let your mind just scribble on the page and just let it go where it goes and then get out of the pool 45 minutes later and you're done. So you've meditated, you've exercised, like you've dealt with mind, body and spirit all in the same time, very much like yoga. Yeah, yeah. Good deal, man. I need to do some swimming. I try and, you know, I got this one shoulder to give me a lot of trouble. But I still like, I like lifting weights. You know, I like to lift weights. I like to go on long walks. Running, I think that's kind of over for me. You know, I tried to start that again about a year ago and it just, it's not gonna work. Yeah, I'm with you. Maybe when I get new hips, I'll try running again. Maybe when I get some new knees, I'm sitting on seven knee surgeries and it's come back to haunt me. Well, I should be up near your way. Let's go grab some time in the pool and then, you know, we can work on a stroke that'll work for your shoulder. Sometimes doing the stroke just less aggressively is all you need to do. And I'm telling you, throw some flippers on. Your arms, you can really focus on just making one motion with your arm, you know, and find that track where your arm is in the best shape. Because at some point we gotta work that arm into where that discomfort zone is and work in that space to get it stronger in that space, you know, yeah. PT is never like the comfortable like arm up down. This doesn't hurt at all. They're like, now move it to the left. They're like, that hurts. Yeah, that's true. All right, man, well, listen, I love checking in with you. I really do wanna hook up with you next time I'm up there by you. Anything else besides FPL, besides Spartan Pledge, what else do we need to know about Boom? Gee, what else? Get ready next month. We're gonna be making a big announcement on the new show. I've also got besides FPL over the next two months we've got two new books coming out. One's called the Call Sign Voodoo. The other one is called Psi-Oper. I think Psi-Oper is probably the one that I think people are gonna enjoy the most because I'm telling both sides of what happened in Iraq from firsthand knowledge. I love it, I love it. All right, man, well, listen, I'm gonna turn this thing off standby.