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Introduction to the UFFDA Podcast
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Welcome to the UFFDA! Podcast hosted by Emily O'Connor and Jordan Rudolph. The UFFDA! Podcast brings you a surprisingly fresh take on everyday topics in health, fitness and everything in between. We want to open the door to explore new information and new solutions in a way that's easy for you to understand and apply to your own life.
Let's get into today's episode.
Hosts Introduction and Episode Overview
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Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the UFFDA! Podcast. I'm Jordan Rudolph.
And I'm Emily Morris.
We're happy to have you back on season four episode. So 22. Dubbed check yourself before you wreck. Yourself, we're bringing back an old, uh, oldie, but goodie one-liner from, maybe you. [00:01:00] Movie fans out there. And if you have not seen that movie. You should just type that into Google and go watch that movie. Perfect. Is that a call out to
me? Because I have no idea what movie that's from. A little bit of that.
Yeah. Now that I'm looking up
at you. Yeah, I so not all staring down and they look over. And when I said that,
not one single. No clue. If there's one thing you listeners should know about me, I'm not going to get a movie reference unless it's national Lampoon's Christmas vacation or Christmas story.
Both very great film. Movie references. And almost. As the season, right.
The Importance of Checking Yourself
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Um, but checking yourself before you wreck yourself. Is a, a throwback to a few other. Episodes that we've talked about in the past, in terms of load versus capacity, all things stress. Yada, yada yada, but as we approach the holiday season and then as. We kind of get into this, uh, winter months here for us in the Midwest and obviously. The us, but more Southern Midwest. Um, it's, it's kind. Taking a moment, you know, the 10 minutes of this episode, two. Give awareness and respect to the time of [00:02:00] year, the season and more. So understanding in having the awareness and the respect for yourself. Self. More importantly, how all of the things in our life. Play a role in an impact on stress.
Understanding Stress and Its Impact
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This, I think it's a, almost a timely episode too. Because this season can bring some of that to the forefront. Where lives do get busy schedules do get a little bit more hectic. All of those kinds of routines that we've held throughout can kind. Be thrown in flux, which creates all of these different variables. Bubbles that impact multiple different areas of. Our lives often.
We think of just the one thing, right? If we have. Have a hard workout and we're sore. We think about. The workout causing that soreness when in reality, Maybe we're more sore because we were less hydrated or we're more sore than we would have. Been because we're under fueled or improperly fueled or maybe. We were more sore because we didn't [00:03:00] sleep enough.
Right. All of these different. Elements of our life. I can impact so many different. Areas of our life that we really have to take a step back often. And check ourselves to see what else might be going. Going on when we're starting to come up on an unknown. Known or come up on an unfamiliar problem that might be presenting. Itself.
Those problems all have. Going back to this too.
Like we think about the stress and what those problems can cause like it's. It's not. If we stub our toe right now, clearly we have a physical. Stress in our body from trauma. That we can. Localize right to our toe that we stopped. But we, we have a really. Hard time localizing or recognizing is when stress builds up. Because of, um, physical, mental, emotional, spiritual stress, right.
All of that stuff. Encompasses through it. So. If we think about stress being an overcome. Encompassing or an all-encompassing thing. If you're stressed because maybe. [00:04:00] You're having a trouble in the family with a significant other or somebody. Somebody like your son, your mother, your daughter. Your sister, your brother. And there was, uh, a tough conversation or an argument that you just had and all of a sudden. And that carries over and you're, you're kind of feeling a little fighter flighty and a little anxious and. You're going into a workout.
Like your workout might not be as good. Like you might. I have to be that. And you're like, oh, I'm just not as strong today or, oh, I'm not. And you have.
Personal Stories and Examples
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We're bringing up to this and why this is such an important topic to us because we've worked with this. Type of situation almost daily. And they'll bring all of this stuff up. And we're not sitting here to like being able to ask people about how their last few. Two days have gone in front of five, other people, six other people, 10 other people, three. Three other people, whatever it is like there's a privacy matter part.
There. But what we're getting. It is. Um, from what you were just saying earlier. It's it's like in some people's heads mindsets perspectives. They're not even acknowledging like, oh, I'm actually going through a lot of emotional. Stress right now. I just lost somebody close to [00:05:00] me, a friend, a significant. Another family member. And I'm not putting any. Uh, correlation or relationship into like, why I'm feeling like crap during my workout. Out today or why am I work out?
It's not as good. Or why I'm not as mobile as I should be. Or why I'm feeling a little bit more pain in pain than I should. Um, yeah, I have eight. Four pounds of sugar in the last two weeks. Yeah. I wonder why my arthritis is back. I wonder why my back hurts. I wonder why my knees. He's hurt, but people don't give thought to the relationship between. Between that. And we're here to tell you as the reminder, as M just said, In her part. There's a strong relationship.
There's a strong correlation. There is a strong relevancy towards that. Like everything comes together and that end.
Well, and what you said there is critically important because it not. Only can explain the why and start to put the puzzle. Pieces together, but it can help us also remove. The blame. From ourselves. If we're just not as strong. That's an us. Thing like we [00:06:00] should, we end up shooting all. All over ourselves, if you will. We should be stronger.
We should. I would eat better. So good. But one, that's not mine. But we do end up doing like, wait, I should be this. I should be that. But. Y right. What if you had the opportunity to be different? Not. Not. Anything else, but we then start to remove. Move ourselves from it, which gives us then the action plan. To be able to take action to change it instead of being trapped. In the cycle where we are.
So it starts to remove some of that. Personal attachment or blame or. Like false assignment of blame, really towards ourselves there.
Th the deep personalization piece is huge. It's it's how you can learn how to say no. No two quote unquote people. Um, if you're a person that's like a yes. Yes. Ma'am and yes, man. Um, if you have a really hard time, I'm saying no, because you feel bad, whatever it is, deep personalize.
What you're actually saying [00:07:00] no to. If someone says, Hey, can you go grab this from the store for me? Whatever it is. Yeah. And that might be, that might be a terrible example, but if this just doesn't work with your schedule, That day, I can't do it today, but can I do it tomorrow? Right or is this needed to. Be done now or does this need to be done?
Can it be done later? But if you can. Take that away. Like, I don't want to say no to Mandy, my wife, for an example on this. Uh, I can take, like, it's just going to the store to get the ingredient or whatever. It is that we need. If I can separate that, that from the person. It makes it a lot easier to just have a conversation with the person rather than thinking, like you're saying no to. The person.
So when you're doing that to yourself, you can depersonalize it. Take yourself. Out of it and, and actually look at it from the other standpoint, when you can. Take yourself out of it. So it's the reverse of what I just said. It's kind of a flip. I keep going back to, I think about this one of our former coaches here. Um, Trains MMA fighters, professional, and a may fighters that we watch. Watch on UFC.
Like he trains those guys, him and his partner. Uh, they, they. They train a lot of those guys that were watching on UFC fights. [00:08:00] He knew, he told me. This, he, he said he knew. Uh, if that fighter was going to. When or not that day, based on their weeks leading up to training. Because of the outside. Outside stuff.
It wasn't that their training was worse. It wasn't that they were getting less strong or less. Quick. It was because of the outside influences and factors that. Affected his life or her life, external factors. Um, And it was from the personal side or just how they showed up with different things or how they were their attitude. Food was during certain things. And he knew if they were going to win or lose.
I'm like, damn, I wish you would've. Told me more, like I would have put some more money down on this stuff. Like we would have had some good bets going.
Yeah, they
would've never found us. Not ever. Oh, Jordan's only. Betting on your guys. But it, and he knew that because. Because of how they were like, what was happening.
It wasn't because of their workouts. It's because. Of how they showed up to the workout. And he knew that from then. And every, he said, Literally he got it, right? Like every week.
Well, it's the old, like we talked. Talk about it a lot in nutrition. Where the tire. Time that we spend [00:09:00] not in the gym matters a lot more than the time we. We spend in the gym.
Right? Right. Like all the work we're doing in the gym, we actually. We get progress from recovering from it. We don't actually make progress right in that moment. We adapt and we stimulate our body to promote the healing. Promote the recovery. Super compensation, all the things this. This is similar in the fact that yes, maybe we spend an hour. We're a day, let's say in the gym, you have 23 other. Hours of stimulus that your body is taking in.
What are we consume? Consuming, whether that be food, whether that be beverages. Whether that be social media, whether that be anything that we're. We're intaking all has an impact. If we're in this. Time of recording right before an election. And we're watching. You know, politics that regardless of your politics, Are meant to. To aggravate an anger, the opposite side, you will be aggravated. Rated angry, stressed by what you're seeing on television.
And everyone's [00:10:00] already elevated. Elevated anyway, because it's an election year.
Yes. At a very polarized polarizing election year.
So with all of those other inputs, we can't. Can't forget about all of that. As we check in. As we talk to ourselves, as we look at all of the factors that might be influencing. We truly have to look at all of the factors. Not just the one thing that we think might be the. Culprit. But it's actually maybe influenced by seven other. Other things.
Yeah. And. It kind of comes back to there's a couple. Couple of different things. I can kind of go on a tangent here cause I. I know we're we're we're at. Our time of the recording listener, you can listen all day, but M and I. Have things to do at the time of this recording. Um, The main. I can go over the main one right now.
There's two big points. I go over to the Bama, cause I think it hits more. When we talk about how our life is. Encompassing and we talked. Talk about all of these things. Now, everything kind of matters and plays a role. Uh, I first.
The Four T's: Thoughts, Trauma, Technique, and Toxins
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I learned this through my title is performance [00:11:00] Institute stuff, but there's, there's four. Things that impact a swing.
Your thoughts. Trauma. Technique and toxins. All teas. Right? So. Your thoughts? What you're thinking? Is it good or bad? Positive, negative growth. Uh, abundant or is it scarce? Fearful? Thoughts, all of that. Matters. Your technique. This is where, like the little things. Like how you're doing what you're doing works. And specifically, if we want to go exercise side of things, But it's probably the smallest of the four. Okay. What you've been. Taught.
What haven't you been taught? Uh, Trauma. If you've been physically injured. Do you have a physical limitation? Is there something anatomically or something physically that's happened to you in the past? That's. Now altered movement has to change your movement. And the last one's just toxins. It's the air you. Breathe. It's what you put in your mouth hole.
Good and bad. All. All of that plays a role in how we then swing a club. All that plays a role in how we move all. All of that plays a role in how we think. Like people think. Uh, they have worse. Thought [00:12:00] processes and, and decision-making skills and happiness. Levels the day after alcohol of the day, after a lot of construct, a sugar consumption that. It is a fact from science.
It's not me juice being biased that as a scientific. The study that's done very, very well when it was done. Okay. Like. Depressive thoughts come more days after alcohol. Uh, there's more paranoia. Brunoise there's more, uh, down thoughts, negative thoughts like that sucks. That's an alcoholic thing. Okay.
So those all play a role. And just thinking at it, like you're. Your diets, not just, this is, I guess the second point. So I'll say it and then I'll let you wrap up then. But that diets, not just what we eat. It's what we're, it's what we're received. Receiving. It's what we're bringing in. It's what we're absorbing. Everything that we read. The air that we breathe, what we put in our mouth. The people that we surround ourselves. With the social part of this plays a major role. Uh, it's everything that. We kind of have the diets, not just food based.
It's it's everything that we're consuming. And just knowing that all of that can play a role. Uh, and how our life is essentially how we're showing up for life [00:13:00] and how we're. How we're showing up for ourselves.
Conclusion and Final Thoughts
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Absolutely. I think. That about wraps it up ponder and think on it and take action.
Mike drops.
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