Helpful tips for sleeping better (Reissue)
Get-Fit Guy
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🗓️ 23 December 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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674. Missing new episodes of Get-Fit Guy? We're bringing you the best episodes from the show, and today, we're back with Coach Kevin Don! In this episode, he shares his own bedtime routine for optimal sleep.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everyone, Kevin Don the Get Fit guy here. |
| 0:07.0 | And I don't know about you, but sometimes I find it can be just so hard to fall asleep at night. |
| 0:15.5 | My dog, Maverick, who gives no cares at all for how sleep deprived I might be always wakes me up at early o'clock |
| 0:25.1 | to go outside. Oh, and I would like to take this opportunity to tell y'all some more Kevin Lauer. |
| 0:33.4 | So every time I tell someone my dog's called Maverick, they say, ooh, Top Gun fan, huh? |
| 0:38.5 | False. |
| 0:40.0 | Now, whilst I do love the nostalgia and feel good vibes from any movie from the 80s with their thumping power rock ballads, |
| 0:47.3 | he is not named after the main character in Top Gun. |
| 0:51.9 | He is named after the fourth best coffee shop I have been to, which is called Maverick |
| 0:58.2 | Coffee, and that is in Scottsdale, Arizona. |
| 1:02.4 | The owner there is an ex-British Olympian in the Pole Vault, and the shop pays great |
| 1:08.8 | attention to detail and even make their own milk alternatives |
| 1:12.9 | in-house. |
| 1:14.7 | Legit. |
| 1:16.2 | Okay, so back to sleep. |
| 1:17.9 | Now, as you know, if you're a regular listener, I used to live in Hong Kong, and it is |
| 1:22.6 | relentless over there. |
| 1:24.2 | Everywhere you go, there's people, noise, such a fast pace of life, and it can be |
| 1:29.7 | very hard to unwind. It was back then I started having sleep problems, and because I was working |
| 1:35.2 | full-time coaching martial arts, which basically involves you doing martial arts every lesson, |
| 1:41.0 | I was just wiped out all the time and couldn't recover. I started going for like vacations |
| 1:46.7 | with massage and meditation and all sorts of different kind of escapes like, you know, those |
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