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Hey folks, it's Ben Greenfield and I got to tell you a little story. A couple of months ago I was at this event called Paleo FX down in Austin, Texas. And during that event they had some fitness activities that took place outdoors.

And one of these activities in particular was called Fitness Exploring. And I had no clue what I was getting into. But I signed up for it and kind of wandered outside. And there was this big fella named Daryl Edwards standing there, you know, built like a freaking tree. And he took a group of about a dozen of us and put us through this workout.

That was the best way I can describe it was just it was fun. Everyone was smiling the whole time. You never see that. It seems like when people are working out at gyms and we were out in nature and doing bunny hops and bear crawls and partner carries and all these games. I mean the hour went by like it was 60 seconds long.

And Daryl has actually written a book that's jam packed with a lot of the concepts that he taught us that day. He also runs the fitness explorer.com website that actually my kids and I have been visiting to do some of the workouts, you know, crocodile crawls and gorilla crawls and all this stuff he has on the website.

And he has this new book, like I mentioned, called Paleo Fitness. And Daryl is right here on the call with me today. Daryl, you're calling in from from the UK, right?

Yes, that's right. From good old London England.

Fantastic.

Yeah. And unfortunately, and it's quite unusual. It's raining at the moment.

Well, it's actually raining here too. So I guess sitting indoors, podcasting is a good place for us to be.

Yeah, for sure, for sure. So you, you didn't always kind of have a background in fitness, is that right?

That's right. I mean, you know, outside of, after I left school and kind of focused on what I was going to be doing academically, you know, I kind of dropped out,

playing any kind of sports and any kind of gym activity was really just about, you know, trying to look good for a couple of weeks in the summer.

Right.

And so there wasn't, there wasn't really any consistency there. And there wasn't any, there definitely wasn't any longevity.

And I got progressively more and fit, you know, didn't worry too much about how I, how I looked because I was always quite kind of a quite slim guy.

And till I started getting into my 30s and really started to suffer from that lack of concerns for my well being previously.

So, you know, I basically, I worked in, in the conservative IT industry, I worked in investment banking as a computer programmer and spending many, many hours.

And not a very active job, huh?

Not at all. So it was literally, you know, your activities is bashing the keyboard and, you know, drinking your next kind of, kind of coke and, you know, you're taking your slice of pizza as, as and when you can.

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