Welcome to Nacho Fitness Coach. Two friends discuss all things fitness to
bring knowledge and some opinion to you wherever you may be in your health
journey. My friend Kaylee, the beginner, almost ran a 5k once. Recently had her
first protein shake and is the proud owner of one set of five pound dumbbells.
And my friend Sarah, the expert, runs when she lifts, has racewalked dozens of
races including a full marathon and has 12 open protein tubs in the pantry. So
let's get started.
Whoa whoa whoa okay so this podcast is for entertainment only. If you have
concerns about your health, consult a physician or other health care
professionals. Sarah, how do you feel about the 75-part challenge?
I am not going to. Let's talk about what it is. What is the 75-hard day
challenge? Correct. Yep. So the premise is you for 75 days do this program that
was created by an individual that actually owns like a multi-level supplement
company. They've got a few knows names. You can google it really quick. I don't know what
his name is. Andy Frisella? Yes. That's it. Concaster and CEO of the Supplement
Company first form. Yeah. Which if I'm correct, I don't even think when this got
created, it feels to me, I believe it's more of a marketing ploy to buy the
product of his company. I feel like at one point I read or saw that he was, he's
not even like a certified personal trainer or like, I don't believe he has a
history of like training people, but came up with this 75-hard, which is genius
marketing 100%. I mean, so you know, it gets people on the bandwagon. I just feel
like it's another fad, crash, diet situation. So the premise is for 75 days,
you do, I think it's two workouts a day, no alcohol. Two 45-minute workouts a day.
Yes. For one of which must be outdoors. Correct. So you know, you're getting like
that environmental component, which again, there are pieces of it where I'm
like, there's a little positive light. There's a positive light. But from what I
have seen people do is it does not establish long-term healthy habits, which
we've kind of already talked about a little bit. So I just put it in the
category of another like fad diet, another crash thing. Like I'm looking at it right now.
75 days of doing that. Yeah. And yeah, it's super rigid with I think the nutrition.
Oh, and if you miss any of your daily goals, you reset. Yes. You fail. Okay. You're like,
out. Yeah, that wouldn't happen. So that's the other thing too. Like it also completely
sets you up. Yeah. Intense feelings of failure. It's a lot. I'm looking at it and it's a follow a
diet of your choice, complete two 45-minute workouts that might be. Yeah. No alcohol. I
think there's water. Take a progress picture, dream one gallon of water and
read 10 pages of the book. Audio books are not a lot. And it's a daily, daily picture, I think too,
right? I think so. Yeah. So every day you have to stay in the mirror and take a picture
yourself. If you mess up, you have to start over. Yeah, you're done. Pass. You know, and so it's just
like for me, there's so many things that trigger off as far as like the emotional side, right?
This like diet, fitness, weight loss industry that we get bombarded with and marketed to. And
it's a huge marketing play, sells a lot of his supplements, I'm sure. And it is, it was viral.
Yeah. Right? Because it is hard. And so like the handful of people and it starts, I think at the
same time, like don't they, or a lot of them do like challenges. A lot of them, I feel like
after the first of the year, like I'm gonna be so hard this year, right? You know, or whatever.
And it just, to me, it feels like it just sets you up for a lot of failure. Yeah. You know,
I do not believe that you have to do two 45 minute workouts a day. It's a lot. I mean, 75 days,
I mean, that's two and a half months. Yeah. I mean, that's a one always has to be outside.
There's a significant, I don't know where you live, but here, that's not working right now. No.
And it's just, it's just a lot. So this says it's talks about the drawbacks of 75 hard concerns
about rigidity. It's very restrictive in terms of diet, which, oh, it doesn't even allow for
cheat meals. Right. So you have to be like perfect for two and a half months. The rigidity can make
it difficult to stick to, which that would be that for me. So then you just feel like you're
failing because you get into it. You're like, Oh, there, no, I just started something else that I
can't do. Yeah. Which long term may even lead to unhealthy relationships with food. May does,
for sure. 100%. Yeah. That yeah, it's that all or nothing. Right. At face value, when I looked at
the, you know, what it is, I'm like, Oh, that doesn't, which I think I've thought before,
I've looked at it before. You know me. Yeah. Yeah. This is the thing though, right? I mean,
because you are the beginner. Yeah. That is researching and like trying to piece things together
on the internet and you see it. It's, people talk about it. It's very marketable. You've got the
viral kind of aspect of it. Right. And you look it up and like, you know, you're like, that doesn't
look that hard. Kind of like the treadmill workout where you can like, it can't be that hard just
because you put on 12% incline. Right. And it's brutal. This you're like, Oh, I mean, yeah,
sure. There's, you know, six different boxes. You got to check. Yeah. Can't be that hard.
Yeah. I don't like the all or nothing. I don't like that it doesn't give you any,
there's no room for grace. There's no room for anything. I don't like that. I wouldn't do it.
What's really in, like, here's, here's what I don't understand. What I don't understand is
at what point in time, how and why, when it comes to this specific topic, like wellness, health,
whatever goals, how did it get started that we have to be all or nothing? Yeah. What other area
in our life are we expected like day one to be like 100% perfect? Right. All the time. Yeah,
absolutely. I mean, I like to think that when I had my first daughter, like every day since then
I've been like the perfect parent, but we all know it's not even real. It's not even possible.
There's, they don't come with an owner's manual. Unfortunately. You just got to learn as you go.
I've had days, I mean, we're talking about parenting. I've had days where I'm a terrible parent,
but you just, you keep, you keep trucking, you know, try better. And you think about it. You're
like, okay, I could have handled that differently. And then like the next day you're like, Oh,
they're still here. I still have to parent them. Yep. That's a very good analogy.
Yeah. I mean, it's just like, well, things, it's jobs. It's not going anywhere. No,
it's not. Your kids aren't going anywhere. No. So it's either you can continue to be a shitty
parent or you can like, okay, work on being a better parent. Yeah. Same with, yeah, your fitness
journey. You can slowly move the meter on it a little bit. Like the same thing happens with
jobs. If I'm a crappy mom to my kid one day, I don't have to start over. No.
Right. I don't have to go back to newborn stage. You know what? Oops. Time out. I missed, I missed it.
We got to, we got to rewind. We got to go back to day one right now. It's not even realistic.
It's crazy. It doesn't happen in any other aspect. You're making a lot of friends.
We're going to rewind here. But the same thing happens like with a job. You go to your job the
first day. There's zero level of expectation that you're supposed to be at a position where
two years from now, you know everything you know. And it's like day one and you're perfect.
That's not even, that's not real. Yeah. I don't understand. So like when and why,
when it comes to this specific topic, is there this like perception that you have to be
all or nothing? Here's a good little blurb here because we just came off our episode
about healthy habits. Yeah. This doctor agrees that certain people may find 75 par to be just
the thing they need to kickstart healthy habits. However, she thinks there are superior options
for most people based on her approach. I prefer baby steps in life change behaviors. She says,
in my practice, I aim to help my humans be 1% better every day. I love that.
Which is what I learned in that book. Yeah. So that was episode eight that we talked about
the healthy habits and kind of talked about that a little bit more. I find this strategy to be more
sustainable, realistic and fun. Yep. I agree with her. Yeah. That means that's how that is how I've
gone about everything I've done in the last year was finally I was like, just be a little bit better
than who you, what you were, who you were yesterday. 1% 1% and if you can move the meter, like, okay,
think about it too, like health, health related, right? Depending on how you feel today, where
you're at today. Yeah. If you can just feel 1% better tomorrow, whether it's how you feel or you
feel even 1% more in charge or like in more control or like more accomplished at 1% like
that's a huge difference. It really is. And it adds up quick. Oh, it does. But we also are a culture
where things of instant gratification are like how we're wired. I mean, technology is not helping
that by any means because we have everything at like our fingertips and it's here, but like,
when it adds like a salad for lunch, why have I not dropped 15 pounds? Why not? I mean,
it's supposed to work, right? I don't understand. Why would it not just be falling off? You know,
it's like, it is, it happens though. I mean, that mentality and that mindset is totally there. So
that's what I am totally against. These types of programs because over and over and over again,
I will see people that I know, yeah, take them on and you do feel for parts of it,
super accomplished. But then you have that one moment where something happens.
Yep. No, I've seen you hardcore. I've seen a handful of people just friends of mine on social
media go about it. Just from the get go, it looked to me. I was like, I don't know.
Did any of them finish the 75 days? I don't, I don't know. Now there's been a couple of people
I've known that have finished the 75 days. I will say the people that I have seen do it,
probably not. Probably not accomplish the 75 days. Probably not. I mean, and then there was like,
one where it was like, okay, they did the 75 days, which especially if you say like,
make it as a New Year's resolution. Yeah. That means you're done with it by mid-March. Right.
I mean, then I've seen people that they're like, Oh, it's New Year's. I'm going to try 75 hard
again. Like I did it for two and a half months, but then like, I actually, I gained more back.
And now my beginning picture is worse to my eyes. I mean, that's what they said side by side. They're
like, now as I'm looking at them like side by side, I actually feel like I'm starting off
in a worse place than I was a year ago. I mean, I've heard about that people who just like to
continually take before pictures. Before, before, before, before, before, before, before.
That is my honestly, that's my one regret I never did do. I don't have any before. I mean,
I have like photos of me back last summer or whatever, but I don't have. That was, I think
when I, when I first did my first official program where I hired a coach, I mean, I always felt like
I paid attention. I was always an athlete. I was always very active. So I paid attention to what
I ate, but you know, I mean, growing up in three or 20, sometimes you don't have to watch as much.
Sometimes you do, but sometimes you don't. And I was definitely one where I just,
my activity offset, whatever, not that I was ever really far off, but you know, I mean, it was,
it was there. So now college got into like a job and the ladies in the office, you know,
they were starting to watch. I was like, maybe I need to pay attention to this stuff. Right.
Years later, I hired my first coach, did my first program, you know, that was somewhat rigid.
But I was like, okay, this is like the transformation program, right? You're before and afters and
they're all like very marketable and all the things. Okay. I want that. I want that end result.
So you kind of go through that process and then, you know, it's whether or not you can maintain it
right or not from there. Yeah. Good before and after is great. A good before and after, but I got
done that first program and I was like, okay, I had, because I had the structure. I was like,
okay, I had, they made me, you know, you have to take your before and then you have your after. So
then I did, but I started to go back and I was like, man, if I wouldn't have done that, what were
before pictures I have? I think I found like a couple that Dane and I were on vacation in like
a swimsuit. Yeah. You know, I was like, okay, I've got a couple, but starting then I have taken now
more pictures along my journey. Yeah. Yeah. I wish I had. Yeah. I think I sent you some pictures,
a picture of me. Oh yeah. And I get chair, but you're also sitting down. Yeah, but I was, I mean,
the ankle is going to make a difference. But I think it, I think it captured the gist of the
situation. Yeah. You were like, okay, well, I can kind of see that in the arms and, you know,
that has always, people have preferences, very strong preferences about like the
before and after pictures. And I just, there is something, there was always something for me
that seeing the visual. Yeah. Sometimes you don't always see it when you look in the mirror.
Right. But then if you have those like static pictures side by side, and I mean,
I, I mean, over the years I would have clients that they, you know, don't want to show their skin.
You're really uncomfortable. I totally understand that. But if you can just do it, yeah, in like a
sports bra and shorts or like the guys, you know, like no shirt to have that to go back and look
up for yourself, whether you choose to show them the world or not. I don't need to, I don't need
to show it to anybody, but I wish I had it. You can see, and then you're like, oh, no, wait, I
have, look how far, like look what I have done. I have done that because there's nobody else that
can do that for you as in you. And that is a huge sense of accomplishment. Or even then,
like when you feel like life is catching up on you and you've like maybe fallen to the wayside
a little bit. Yeah. If you take one, you're like, actually, I feel it probably more because I know
what I've been doing, not necessarily because it's translating it. You know,
how I look or feel or on the outside, but you know, it's good. I don't know. I just, I'm very
anti any of these. I do not believe that they set people up for habits because I don't think they've,
it doesn't really teach you along the way of how to do that. Like you're just following a program.
Yeah, it's just if you mess up, start over. Like I, I don't know, I agree with you. I've never done
it. I've never tried it. I've known people who have tried it, but it's not finished yet. I don't
know. It's hard. It's intense. It's fallen the same like MLM scammy, which I'm not a huge fan.
And there's a lot of them that are out there. It just to me, it ends up being another big business.
Yeah. That's marketing to you to get you to play. Which this was kind of scary because it does on
the surface. Like for somebody like me, sounds good. Yeah. I tried it for the first time. You're
like, okay, let's do this. That doesn't sound that hard. Little bit of a challenge. All right.
42, 45 minute workouts, one gallon of water. Like, you know, these are things I could like push a
little bit harder and try to do. Now that we've talked it through though a little bit, as you
kind of think through it, do you think it would be something that would be realistic for you to
actually like accomplish? If I remember correctly, I feel like there's also like,
you have to have so much time in between the workouts. Does it say that on the workout?
I think it has to be a morning workout and an evening workout. Right. So then it's like you're
pulling. Yeah, you can't just do. Yeah. You can't just stack them up and be like, it's 90 minutes
and or yeah at the beginning and be doing it. So it's like, you got to break it up.
It's like the reading. Great. Read 10. Yeah. Like whatever. I mean, these are like great. So again,
there's aspects. Yeah. Like we just like we recently just talked about healthy habits. Like
these are actually all great habits. Individually. Yeah. It's just the way to go about them feels
icky. I don't know. A little pushy. Hard pass structure. Hard pass. Yeah. Oh yeah. For sure.
I'm definitely hard pass on this one. I mean, anything else that kind of falls into this bucket.
Yeah. It feels weird. It's just it's, it's a hard no. I'm trying to think if there's many other ones
that have like popped up over the years that are somewhat similar. I mean, I don't know. I'm sure
there are, but this has definitely been like the most popular one that continues to pop up. I mean,
is it going to year over year other than well, I guess other than the potential unhealthy relationship
with food. Is it going to hurt you? I feel like a failure if you don't do it. Yeah. Even then,
yeah, it does. It does have the possibility of having that unhealthy relationship, which sets you
into a whole new game of emotions and situations that. So that all being said, if you after listening
this episode, if you'd like to give 75 heart ago, consider working with a dietitian and trainer
to create a nutrition and exercise plan that's best suited to your goals. Is that the disclaimer
that's showing up within the article? I don't know. I call it a disclaimer. It's just the closing.
Then furthermore, even if the 75 heart isn't a good fit for your lifestyle, these professionals
will help you design a diet and physical fitness program that fits your unique needs.
There's always speak to your healthcare provider before beginning a new exercise or
wellness program to make sure it's right for you. Yes. I mean, I feel like that should just be a
general disclaimer. To me, that feels like one of those paragraphs that at this point should just
be known, but it's just like coffee having to be marked as caution hot coffee. Right. We live in a
society where you have to constantly remind people you still have to do this right for you. Right.
Yep. Based on where you're at in your abilities and if you're under medical care, please do not
take this entertainment podcast for anything other than pure opinions, friendly banter.
Sure. Definitely take everything I say. Super grain of salt. All for entertainment.
It's, you know, maybe we've got a couple of minutes left and I have not yet told you about
why I'm feeling sore today. Oh no. Yes. That's right. Okay. You did. You came in here today and
you're like, Oh my gosh, I am feeling sore. Let's close with that. But let's, um,
I did tell you, I did tell you I ran the two miles. Yeah. Yesterday. I'm going to try. Oh,
yeah. Which was a, what do you call that a personal record? Yeah, it's a PR. All right.
Yeah. Because you, you started running. Yeah. I've never ran two miles straight without like
slowing down and walking. You didn't stop. You just, it was like a constant, solid, consistent.
That's not why I'm sore though. My gold star. That was yesterday. The night before that, I,
somehow before bed, me and my daughter's gotten to like a little wrestling match. It's not a thing
we normally do. It's not, we don't really do, they do that with their dad. I don't really do that.
Right. I don't know. I was feeling squirrely. And so with my eight year old, I was doing this thing
where I was like sweeping the leg. Okay. I was getting like back behind her leg. Oh yeah. And
then I was just, cause they're not my kids. Like straight w w kind of stuff. My kids aren't like
rough and tumble kids. So I was like being as like gentle as possible. Right. And so I was like,
I was like sweeping her leg with my right leg. I was sweeping her leg and then I was just like
laying her back on the ground. Right. And we did this over and over and over. I don't know how
you were holding her body weight basically to like make sure she just like and my right. I mean,
it must have been, it was all in the sweep in the leg. My hamstring, the back of the top of your
leg hamstring and glue. Is it getting up in your butt there a little bit? Hamstring and glue from
the sweeping. Now wait, was that your sweeping leg or balancing leg? That was my sweeping leg.
Sweeping leg. We'll see that. Just goes to show you can do a lot of work with your own body
weight. You don't need a big like gym setup. So sore. Now you need to have another round
where you sweep with your left. So even she wants to get back at it. She's started it. She
loved it. Can we fight again? Have wrestling club doing well? Oh my child. No. No. I very gently
laid her on the ground. There's not that the math situation is just not going to be wrestling.
Is it she's Mike Charles graded a lot of things. Wrestling is not going to be one of them. Yeah.
Well, round two sweep with your left leg. So you can even things out. Never skip leg. Never.
Never. Never skip leg day folks. Ever. And just know that you can do a lot of your own body weight
playing with your kids. So get active, get moving. It does not have to be structured and rigid like
75 hard. It's more about just moving your body, live in life and building 1% every day better
every day. So there we go. Until next time. Bye. Thanks for listening to the episode. Be sure
to let us know how you feel about the topic. Do you love it or hate it? Also subscribe. Give us
a five star rating and of course tell your friends until next time. You've been listening to Euphony
Innovatives, Sonified.