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Hello, all you health, wellness and fitness fans out there. This is Brock and welcome to the January 18, 2012 Ben Greenfield Fitness Podcast.

And here, as usual, we've got Willy Wonka himself, Ben Greenfield.

Sorry, I'm late. A little bit behind this morning. I was actually doing yoga. I got up and I did yoga.

Nice.

I'm fairly proud of myself, which is why I was late. Kind of got stuck in a few poses.

Takes a while for me to put on my stretchy pants, too. That's a process.

Yeah, it's the getting them off. That's the real challenge I always find.

Yeah, but I did do yoga. I've been doing a little bit more yoga. I had a little bit of an injury happen.

And so that's one of the ways that I'm keeping myself entertained is twisting myself into a pretzel.

That's better than me. I rode my bike to work this morning. It was like minus two Fahrenheit, minus 19 this morning,

but it rained like crazy last night. So my bike lock was completely frozen.

It took me like probably 10 minutes to... I was sitting there breathing on it.

I was like, ah, trying to get it to warm up enough to unlock.

So that was my excuse for being late. Not quite as fun as yoga.

That's a good way to make your bicycling more difficult, though, having to melt your lock with your lungs.

My bike also only had two gears that were actually working to all the other ones.

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