Hey everyone, Ben Cooper Radio, how an earth are you doing?

This might sound a touch echoy, I'm in my garage, so, uh, yeah, anyway.

So I've just come back for my run, about to go on holiday tomorrow, went out for a run with the dog.

Just wanted to get a bit of fitness thing because I haven't been for a run for a while or played rugby because I've hurt my back.

And I just I was running and I thought, do you know I feel good I feel really good I'm outdoors and with the dog I feel strong I feel fit and it made me think about

exercise and why we do it and how we want to feel. Now bear with me this might be a bit of a

tangent. So we've talked on the podcast before about the things that we do in our lives and why we do them. So I want you to live an awesome life.

That's it. I want to live an awesome life. I want my career to fulfill me, my relationship to fulfill me, my exercise have meaning

and an outcome, I want the food that I eat to nourish me and make me thrive, I want to have

fun, I want to have

to have adventure. So this all links into that. So when we think about

exercise and why we do it,

what outcome or how do you feel after you do the exercise that you do? And I say this because I do exercise to give me a certain feeling or a certain level of satisfaction. So I play rugby

because I like to be competitive. I like to almost get it out of my system, that feeling of like

going to war and sort of battling someone and you know trying to just

get the upper hand there's a great you know competitive reward from sport and we would be idiots to deny that that is something

that is inherent within us to try and you know be powerful in a sense and conquer you know it's been in our DNA for a long time that kind of

will to survive and overcome against other people and then I lift weight so I lift weight because I want to look good. It's good for the

body, it's good for the muscles and the joints. But also I want that sense of strength, that

sense of power, that sense of power, that sense of control, and where some people go wrong with that is comparing

it to other people. So I do exercise for a feeling for an outcome for me not for anyone else

so if I go in the gym and I deadlift a hundred kilos and that makes me feel strong.

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