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Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

22: Fitness, Workout Routines, And Finding The Time To Get It Done

Seeking Wisdom with David Cancel

Molly Sloan

Business, Entrepreneurship

5610 Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2016

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

If you liked this episode, we bet that you’ll love our blog content. blog.drift.com/#subscribe Subscribe to never miss a post & join the 20,000+ other pros committed to getting better every day. --- Seeking Wisdom is about more than tech. It's about learning and getting better. So it's time we start talking about more than tech. Today we're talking about fitness - two things that we're both passionate about - and two things that both hold a lot of lessons that can be related to business and growing a company. We talk about why working out has become such an important part of health and happiness, our workout routines, finding the time to workout, progressions and more. Seeking Wisdom listeners! Tweet at us @Drift. We want to hear when you workout, what your workout routine is, what your goals are, etc. Tell us. Catch all of the previous episodes of Seeking Wisdom: seekingwisdom.io or just search for Seeking Wisdom in your favorite podcast app. Follow David (twitter.com/dcancel) and Dave (twitter.com/davegerhardt) on Twitter.

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0:00.0

You got to do the intro for this one.

0:02.4

We're going to talk about fitness today.

0:04.9

Uh-oh.

0:14.6

So we're going to talk about fitness here.

0:17.8

So we've been, Dave and I have been talking about you know getting pushing seeking

0:22.7

wisdom into some new areas health is one that Dave and I actually talk about a lot outside of

0:28.5

the podcast and Dave is healthy me not so much but but I like to talk about it he's being humble

0:33.8

yeah so we talk about it and and we probably spend as much time sometimes talking about

0:39.7

this as we do other things throughout the day that we usually talk about here. So we want to

0:45.6

pull you in. We want to actually share what we're doing and we want to learn from all of you

0:50.9

listening to this. So hit us up, you know, on Twitter, hit us up directly and just tell us what you're doing. We want to learn. We're here to learn, right? This podcast is called Seeking Wisdom. It's not we have wisdom. Yeah. That's a good, good intro. That was pretty good. Unscripted good intro. Yeah. So we want to talk about, you know, we love things other than tech, but the thing that I think that we like about all of these other things, you know,

1:15.0

learning, working out, family, whatever, is that they all have so many lessons that apply to business.

1:22.0

Yep. And so that's what we're going to, so today I'm going to call this episode 10 minutes on fitness.

1:27.4

Just to switch it up. We're going to talk about something different. As David said, something that we talk about all the time. So first of all, like, why, when did fitness become so important for you? And like, you know, we got a coffee before this and you were talking about, you know, working out this morning. and we all, you know, we talk about that almost every day.

1:44.7

Has it always been that way for you?

1:46.2

Is it something that you kind of came on to later? It's new, new-ish. No, I'd say, so I used to lift weights back in the day when I was in high school and high school and elementary school mostly. Bench press. Bench press, yeah.

1:41.4

Back, read, you know, early muscle and fitness and flex

2:02.8

magazine. And like me and my friends would go work out at this gym called Phrygnos, which was

2:08.9

Luke Phrygno? That's awesome. If you know, if you've ever watched Pumping Iron with Arnold

2:13.6

Schwarzenegger, Lou Friigno was someone who's, uh, Mr. Universe a long time ago and competed for Mr. Olympia. He was the Hulk. Yeah, he was the Hulk on TV. And so we used to work out at his gym and actually, tangent, but the other people used to work out there that we would see is Q-Tip, you know, from a Tribe Corps Oquestial work out there, got to spot him a couple

2:35.0

times. Where was his gym? In Queens? This was in Queens, tiny, no air conditioning, mostly

2:40.3

professional bodybuilders who were all, you know, juiced up to their eyeballs, giant, like

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