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hey guys it's time for another Ultra
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Universe Live today we are getting
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physical talking about the history and
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the future of Fitness so let's roll
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[Music]
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so hello everyone we are talking about
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Fitness today and we're going to start
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right now with the history of the
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Fitness business
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so Rob where do we go with that
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right so of course you can't talk about
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a good business without talking about
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where it began so usnews.com their
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health section kind of scrolled through
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some of the Decades that started it off
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uh now I know this one is near and dear
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to you you know this decade well but
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we're starting with the 70s and the
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first thing that was actually coined
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here was aerobics aerobics was a great
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program that a man by the name of
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Kenneth Cooper who coined it said that
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it's a great way to prevent coronary
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artery disease because aerobic literally
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means with oxygen so an example uh or a
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couple examples would be walking running
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or cycling because it takes a lot of
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breathing in and increasing the heart
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rate
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at the same time a lady named Judy
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Shepherd mazette introduced the world to
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Jazzercise which then hybrided off into
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things like kickboxing ballet Pilates
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and yoga so right off the bat we have
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the history showing us that Fitness was
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originally
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for the fitness right it was active
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moving right
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yeah back in the 70s I mean you just
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made me really old Rob thank you very
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much you're welcome
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is not the same as it is I mean the idea
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of Fitness is the same but certainly the
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way we do it is not necessarily the same
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anymore so what else what else went on
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in history
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all right so jump through next decade
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and we get to the 80s and you might
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recognize some of these names Jane Fonda
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Richard Simmons you know the crew and
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they continued on the jazzercise they
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did a lot of things similar to what uh
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mizet started and at the same time we
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had the beginning of what would be
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corporate gyms and home exercise
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equipment so at Home Gyms were a thing
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before they were a thing but really I
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think the most key points here for the
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80s would be the big names you had
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obviously in the 80s if you didn't put
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somebody on the label nobody cared
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that's why you had people like them and
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of course the introduction to things
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such as what would become 24 Hour
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Fitness Planet Fitness right right you
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name it you know Rob I'm curious uh we
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have people that are watching live today
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um what decade do you hail from and what
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kind of Fitness things were you doing
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back in the day we'd love to hear from
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you put it in the chat all right we're
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going to the 90s
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uh well actually one last thing on here
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in 1985 there was the American Council
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on exercise that was founded and that
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was basically to certify professionals
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and organizations to make sure they were
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legitimate so that's why you have such
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strict and stringent rules when you are
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doing whether it's an exercise video or
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an actual gym but yes jumping into the
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90s and another name that you guys might
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know of Billy Blanks uh his son recently
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was actually on Shark Tank a few seasons
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ago opening his own gym I guess there
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was some sort of rivalry but they put
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that behind them now and he introduced
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what would be called a high intensity
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cardio you have things like taebo
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martial arts you add hip-hop and music
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like that into it while also continuing
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things like cycling so the bike never
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seemed to really leave they even have a
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link here saying exercise bike versus
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Roar versus elliptical which is the best
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so if you you want to check that link
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out go read it it depends who you are so
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the 90s had a lot of that
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um and then really quickly in the 2000s
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we got Zumba and Crossfit so again just
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like the 80s with the labels and the
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celebrities the 2000s again copied that
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format and said if you're not a popular
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company nobody gets a crop so they're
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not gonna buy you hence the reason why
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we have Zumba and Crossfit I think
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they're still doing them now but there's
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so many other ones
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that they're just a drop in the puddle
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of
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what do you call it overall
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programs yeah all right so what do we
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have coming forward and this is part one
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of the future of it but what they have
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here the 2010s and Beyond
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um the ideas that they feel fuel the
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future excuse me high intensity interval
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training that's for you hardcores out
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there who like to go hard go strong go
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fast we have Peloton in the mirror which
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we'll talk about a little bit later but
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those are very big interactive at home
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and then of course you have apple which
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has a variety of things more noticeable
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is their their watch right but that's
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kind of where it's going so before we go
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to the next topic what what's your
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thoughts on how this has evolved well I
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you know I for one
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um I love all the new things that are
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out there I have a Fitbit and we'll talk
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about that in a second I love being able
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to track when I'm walking in my exercise
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and how long I sleep and all that kind
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of stuff
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um I dislike the fact that exercise is
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still happening through the decades you
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know
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um and that's really really important
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um
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so John how do I know you're not an AI
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uh just you have to trust me on this
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we are not no artificial intelligence we
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are the real thing we are thanks for
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tuning in John where do you exercise
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what do you like to do
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all right so jumping to the Future and
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this is the link you just put up Club
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industry.com they broke down a quick uh
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blog as to where it's going now to give
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you an idea
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um
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due to the pin well okay I'm not really
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sure how they were to this it's kind of
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weird but whether it's the pandemic or
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not but at this point in time they're
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almost at 100 billion dollars as a
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global market I don't think that's
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strictly just because of what's going on
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I think it's always I think it's been on
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the upturn for a while but it helps when
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you can do it from home whether you're
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doing it from a watch whether you're
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doing it from your TV I know you have
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the mirror I'm so jealous of that
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because that is the coolest Gadget out
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there but they want to talk about what
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the new normal is so the first thing
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we're gonna debate here accelerate the
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shift to digital so right now 47 of the
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US does app downloads such as Peloton
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for their example
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now obviously digital
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is a funny word you know everything is
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digital so to speak yeah there's nothing
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that cuts out a good hike or a good walk
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I would agree most people I think would
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and if you ask anybody who's a health
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professional probably however as far as
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ease of usage
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excuse me digital or virtual if you want
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to call it does give you more
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I don't know accessibility so to speak
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um so what do you think I mean do we
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want to go full digital do we want to
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keep I I I'll see what you say because I
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know what my answer is but I'm kind of
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curious I think we need both I mean
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again the the whole idea of being able
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to exercise at home with the mirror or
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Peloton and just an interesting fact
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Peloton went crazy during the pandemic I
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mean they their their sales my
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understanding with this through the sky
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however now that things have winded down
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a little bit people are not as much
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buying the pelotons and doing all of
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that kind of stuff so I think it's
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something for everyone I love the idea
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of being able to exercise at home if you
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live in inclement weather and you can't
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get out and you can't go do the hike and
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you can't walk your dog
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it makes sense and it makes it a whole
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lot easier to have that digital capacity
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to be able to go on a YouTube and watch
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a YouTube video or you know watch your
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phone or your watch doing that as well
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so I think it's a good thing what about
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you Rob what do you think so I'm all for
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the digital and I think I mean I'm sure
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the numbers you have are correct but I I
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think I kind of would have to disagree I
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think it's still as popular as it might
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have been because I think once you
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invest in something like that and you
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have a machine in your house that cost
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you as much as it does right you're
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probably going to continue to use it at
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least 95 of the time it's more new sales
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I'm talking more new sales okay all
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right so that's yeah that's a different
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story
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um no I mean I like the digital thing
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and you know we'll go on in the article
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in a second to see how they're talking
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about how to keep your facility you know
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nice and good but
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I don't know it's less of a matter of
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even accessibility or personal
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preference I think it's just if you can
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click a switch and it's there and you
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don't need to drive you don't need to go
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I think generally it's going to be
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easier now does it make you a little
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more lazy maybe because you don't have
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to go but if you are a hardcore Fitness
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buff and you have the machines like the
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mirror or the Peloton yeah you probably
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bought it because you are going to be
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using it
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throughout the day as you do like I you
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know I do mine twice a day some people
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do it three to four times a day but the
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next part up here uh nurture your
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community is a commodity so I'm gonna
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have to disagree with this entire
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section because for me exercising is not
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necessarily a social thing however
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according to these guys here going to
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the gym is the thing to do now I
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understand when you go I've Seen On TV
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people will go with their their buddies
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and they'll do that I don't know if you
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go to exercise to mingle with somebody
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else you go to exercise to work out and
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do it now maybe it's just my personal
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Viewpoint of the world of how it goes
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but you know I do it at home with Krista
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that you know that's my community for
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exercise
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um you know once and all the dogs will
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run around and kind of have fun and you
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know they'll just up with this but I
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don't know if I really think that's an
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important thing for gym membership so to
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speak but I guess if you look at the
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commercials for a gym it looks like a
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club and I I don't know I I just I'm
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kind of off on this one I I would I
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would say no what I think there are some
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people that like like knowing they have
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somewhere to go they recognize the same
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people are there and I think that's kind
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of the community even though if they
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don't know them but the same people are
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there all the time so they kind of know
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them sure I'm a solo exerciser I don't I
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I'm like you I don't I don't understand
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that whole thing I would prefer to
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exercise by myself if I'm gonna sweat if
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I'm gonna drip I want to do that
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privately so there you go now if you are
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going to go back they tell people who
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are owning these facilities address the
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safety concerns that people might have
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uh QR codes which you're a fan of no
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touch check-ins
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um disinfecting all that stuff but
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that's generally common no matter what
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obviously more so now because of the new
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normal but generally speaking if you own
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a facility for instance I mean for food
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how often do restaurants have to make
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sure that they're right everything is
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clean right because you're not going to
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eat somewhere that's you know condemned
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same thing for gyms you're not going to
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go work out if the place looks like it
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hasn't been touched in you know five or
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ten years so that I understand why they
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put it on it's a general thing to do but
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I would think generally speaking if
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you're going to go somewhere use use
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your common sense if you look at it and
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you're
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don't go and find another place to go if
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you're cool with it you know go for it
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and then lastly take the new normal into
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your hands not theirs so again this goes
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back to my personal preference here with
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the changes going on or the continuous
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changes
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pick what works in the vicinity you can
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do a lot of times the expense might be
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too much gym memberships nowadays can be
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thousands of dollars throughout the year
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because of the publicity of the thing
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but again buying the bike or the or the
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whatever is also at possibly as
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expensive so take the new normal into
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your hand and use it to your
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liking and you're doing I guess
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um all right so before we go into the
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next part I mean what do you think
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anything else you'd want to add to what
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they wrote I I first of all Fitness is a
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good thing guys
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um and it's good it's it's good for
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mental health even though we're not
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doing the mental health show but it is
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definitely good for mental health it's
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good for our our bodies it keeps us
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healthy so anything that has to do with
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Fitness however you decide to do it
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whether you go somewhere you stay at
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home you do it on your digital however
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you do it just just do it and we're
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going to show some uh things right now
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some items rob you talked about the
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Peloton and that is actually it's a very
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cool it's a bike right and you got
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community maybe that's where the whole
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Community thing is going you've got the
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you know you're you're watching other
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people that are on the Peloton I don't I
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don't have one but you know on the
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Peloton and you're doing it together and
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um I think there's a lot of there's a
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lot of things to say about doing
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something together you got you got
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cheered on and it's a group thing you
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also have the mirror and I know you're
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very jealous about that so we bought the
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mirror about
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um two years ago actually I'm
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embarrassed to say we don't use it that
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much but what's really interesting about
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the mirror first of all there's a camera
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in it and you can either do live classes
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classes or you can hire a personal
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trainer
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that's literally live with you in the
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mirror as you're outside the mirror so
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it's a very cool piece of equipment it's
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a little pricey um you you in order to
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use the mirror and all those things you
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have a subscription fee as well on a
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monthly basis but if it's something that
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you you know really really like this is
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really the tool to do now mirror my
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understanding was just bought by
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Lululemon so um they um the exercise
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people so clearly it's it's something
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that they thought was great
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um we also talked about the Fitbit I
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have a Fitbit and this is my favorite
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favorite thing I'm putting we're trying
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something new guys by the way
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um we're putting up some of the items
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that you can go check out it's over on
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Amazon but we'd love for you to go there
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should be a link that's going to pop up
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in the comments or take your camera and
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just take a picture we're not saying go
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and buy anything right now but I want
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you to see something that happens on the
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screen we've got something really cool
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stuff going on so check out the Fitbit
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it literally tells me how much I don't
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sleep
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and it literally tells me how many steps
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I do a day and you can track your diet
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and you can track your water drinking
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all that stuff and it also has a
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community component where other people
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are doing it as well Apple watch so
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here's another one the Apple watch
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um uh dad has one of those and it's sort
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of the same thing you can track your
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heartbeat you can track all sorts of
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things you know on the phone
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um and it will tell you you know how
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you're doing so those are two things
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that you can take with you which is kind
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of cool keep these things with you if
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you're into yoga we're going to share
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some some cool things we have
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um the soft exercise ball anti-burst
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yoga ball now that's really cool that
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it's an anti-burst I would hate to have
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the ball burst while you're on it I'm
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not even sure what that means but it's
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it's an exercise ball check that out we
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also have the balance
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um the balance ball that you that it's a
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half of a bowl and you you stand on it
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and you hold your balance kept that out
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and we have a yoga mat beautiful yoga
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mat I think rob you have a yoga mat as
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well I have a yoga mat at home somewhere
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hiding yes right and I have a plane this
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is this is telling us it's free I would
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go check this out if it's free I would
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definitely go check that out
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um we also have the bike and Rob you
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mentioned that several times uh there's
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the body writer fan bike say that five
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times fast I'm not sure yes I don't have
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this one here but I have a similar type
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of thing and yeah they're they're you
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know they're pain in the ass to move
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because they literally weigh
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um but they are
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um smooth uh the one we have is the
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tension one and you can actually follow
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on YouTube and there's the the channel
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that has the one where you can raise the
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tension so we have that uh ability on
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ours
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um or you can use it regularly and you
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can just get on the bike and just bike
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as if you would and what I like to do is
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I'll find the videos of the bikers on
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YouTube and kind of like follow them on
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a trail as they're trailing through but
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yeah biking is super uh this one's
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apparently for I don't think it's
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actually free I don't think it's
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actually good but they're really cool I
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mean you you'll I think ours was about I
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don't know two three hundred but it it's
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it's sturdy and it holds like if you get
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one of these right It's Gonna Last you a
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good 10 plus years you know it's not
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like a dinky piece of now I know you
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have a punching bag right so this this
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one's the imitation for kids one uh we
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have the one you actually have to fill
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it uh the actual thing is full I think
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of sand and you have to fill it with
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water at the bottom which is also pain
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in the butt to do but you fill it up
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um and then of course I think we have
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the gloves on too
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um I will be ashamed to say I haven't
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used as much as I'd like to but it
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actually is fun and boxing surprisingly
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is one of those Sports it's not the what
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you you know watch on TV per se it's a
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great way of Fitness upper body strength
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arm strength and there's actually a lot
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of movement on the feet as well so if
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you guys have done something like karate
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before you might actually
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um thanks pickle Squad we think it's
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good actually uh
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uh enjoy boxing because it's a really uh
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fun kind of you know movement type of
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deal there so it's all over exercise
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right because I mean it does a lot up
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here mainly but you do have to you know
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weave and duck so when you watch the
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videos you'll actually have to learn how
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to you know
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um yeah you got the stands we throw ours
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in the closet honestly but if you you
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know you want to be more clean and
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organized you know one of these is
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definitely and
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and oh these are other punching bag
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um the boxing gloves yeah so I will say
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when you get them though because your
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hands sway every time you use them you
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actually have to air them out otherwise
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you're gonna actually get really bad
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boxing gloves so what they do is they
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say hold it like open by a fan because
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boxing gloves do hold it so if you are a
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boxer or trying a box make sure you air
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them out that way we put them on again
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it's you know right it's an unfortunate
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way of How It's Made there's nothing
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really around it what are you gonna do
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so last but certainly not least these
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are the dumbbells that go on
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the the skin yeah so you can get uh we
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have five pound we have ten pounds
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depends on what you're lifting these
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ones when I do remember to do it they
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are actually very fun to use because
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they you know takes no time you pick
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them up you do your curls you do
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whatever
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um and again for free you can go on
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YouTube and find
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all you have to do in the search is just
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type in what you're doing so for
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instance if you're looking for dumbbell
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exercise type in dumbbell exercise
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you'll get an entire list all you need
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is your dumbbells and then you follow
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along with the lady or the guy who's on
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there to do your your exercise so
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it's real you know you and look at the
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difference in there it's 16 bucks it's
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usually 110 like that's
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crazy how cheap it is right now right
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um so definitely check it out right
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so oh yeah no I mean we got ours I think
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as a set you can get them individual but
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yeah I would definitely I would
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definitely get a pair and you know make
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more sense to have two
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um but yeah no they're
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I I don't do it as much as I'd like to
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but when I do it I definitely enjoy
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doing it and that that's that's my two
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cents right there I love free weights if
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I'm gonna do any kind of exercise at all
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and I end up in a gym God forbid I would
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rather use the free weights than the
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machines I forget how to where the seats
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supposed to go and what you know how
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you're supposed to adjust everything I
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like so I too also have free weights at
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home I have because I'm a lightweight I
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have two pounds and I have five pounds
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and I have 10 pounds I have never used
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the 10 pounds I couldn't lift those
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things if my life depended on it what do
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you guys think what kind of exercise
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equipment do you use let us know in the
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chat uh let us know how you like to
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exercise Rob and I are very interested
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um any last minute thoughts Rob
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I'm actually going to show you right
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after this so
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oh well there you go Rob's gonna go
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exercise right now as a matter of fact
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so go out
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somebody in Austin
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and next week we have some great shows
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next week we'll see you next week on
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altered Universe Live goodbye
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