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Lion Heart with your host Warren Stunning. Alex, thank you so much for taking the time. The reason I wanted to talk to you is because, well, a couple reasons. One, you look like most guys want to look. So that's a big thing. You don't want to talk to a fat personal trainer. You know, I'm really big on anyone living the life they want to live. Like I'm a libertarian. But at the same time, you know, you don't go to someone who's broke for financial advice. If you want to look jacked, you want to have a personal training of looks jacked. And it's funny, we were just talking before we started recording about genetics. And we were saying about, you know, you come from pretty decent genetics. I come from a pretty active line. but then again, we're both European. And in Europe, people are just much more active as part of the life. I just actually was chatting to somebody about the daily step requirement. I think it was 20,000 that they say you should do, which is four miles. I'm like, how many people are walking four miles a day? I don't. If I run, I'm getting my steps in, but that's not every day. Right, right. 20,000 is actually at a very higher end. I'm asking my clients to do about 10,000 steps a day. And that's a stretch. That's a stretch. If they get 7,000, I'm happy. But what you'll see, if people are not intentional about it, they'll get about two to

three thousand steps a day. Okay. Yeah, it's gotten worse after COVID when, you know, with a lot of

people working from home, that made things even worse. So you do have to be intentional. Nowadays,

the way everything's set up when it comes to jobs and people working from home and office,

commuting in the car, no one's walking anymore exactly yeah yeah and uh i found myself being very lazy too especially if i know i've got

a busy day and a hard workout i'm like trying to conserve my energy which i think is bad i think just a light

walk kind of wakes you up a bit it's good for your brain it's good for everything good so good for your brain for your endorphins uh and it kind of wakes you up a bit. It's good for your brain. It's good for everything. So good. So good for your brain, for your endorphins. And it kind of gets your focus going.

So if you're behind the desk, after you put in an hour, 90 minutes of focused work,

your productivity decreases after that. So you're almost better off getting up from the chair,

removing yourself from that environment, go on a walk if you can, outside if possible,

then you come back and be actually able to get more work done. I've totally seen that in myself

and it's so hard to do, especially like you've got your task list and you just want to get it done

and if you take a break and you do something else just so much more yeah a rule of time with that is

whenever you start scrolling on instagram put the phone down you know you kind of you kind of

stop working you start procrastinating yeah that's a signal yeah just put the phone down go out there

walk do some jumping jacks, and then get back

to work.

Another way, you know, during COVID when really like we were restricted from even going

outside our houses, I was still training clients online during that time.

I would just have them walk during their calls or get one of those walking pads.

And one hour, one work hour per day, I would have them walk during their calls or get one of those walking pads and one hour one work hour per day

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