How Much Water, Sleep, and Exercise Do I Really Need? with Shawn Zitt—Fitness Coach and Trainer
The Aggressive Life with Brian Tome
Crossroads
4.8 • 824 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 59 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Fitness trends and best practices feel like a moving target—one trainer says this, and another says something completely different. In this episode, Brian sits down with nationally recognized fitness coach and trainer, Shawn Zitt, for a practical conversation about building and maintaining physical health. How much water do I need? Should I eat more meat or less? Do I have to work out everyday? How much sleep should I get? With decades of experience, and hundreds of successful clients, Shawn’s expertise can be the push you need into a healthier future.
Watch the full episode on YouTube here.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | The main thing there, main takeaway, is meat, your body weight, gold body weight and protein, and then drink half of your body weight in ounces of water a day. Half an ounces of water. Yeah. So half your body weight and ounces of water every single day. That's ridiculous. I'm about 200 pounds on a good day. Yep. 100 ounces. You're on crack. That would be my goal for it. |
| 0:21.4 | You have a goal that people don't have a life. |
| 0:23.5 | I don't want to do it piss all day. |
| 0:25.2 | That's ridiculous. People can have painted. Come on. You're part of the water cult. Brian, that's going to help you get to those goals that people want to achieve. You could do it for sure. Yeah, absolutely. Like dirt you plan on doing this stuff by the way? |
| 0:35.1 | Are you? |
| 0:35.8 | Yeah, |
| 0:36.2 | I would be peeing all the time too. |
| 0:37.5 | Yeah, |
| 0:38.0 | yeah. |
| 0:38.1 | You need half your body weight in water, |
| 0:40.4 | you need half your body weight in water cleaning everything. Are you planning to do any of this stuff, by the way? Are you... Yeah, I would be peeing all the time, too. |
| 0:38.1 | Yeah, yeah. You need half your body weight in water cleaning your body. |
| 0:42.1 | That's what you need. |
| 0:43.4 | He's half my body weight in soup. |
| 0:44.8 | Yeah, right, right. Welcome the aggressive life and welcome, happy quitter's day. |
| 1:08.5 | Yeah, quitter's day. |
| 1:14.8 | Second Tuesday of every year is known as quitter's day, |
| 1:20.8 | because apparently that's when we're expected to quit whatever we decide to do come the next year. |
| 1:25.8 | It's kind of sad, really. It's sad we've got a holiday about that, sad that we joke about it. |
| 1:29.2 | It's also somewhat sad that it's true. Of all the things that people decide to do on an annual basis, the new things they decide to do, about 80% of them |
| 1:35.5 | are health-based. So I don't know if that's you or not. Maybe you made a resolution this year. |
| 1:40.5 | Maybe you didn't make a resolution this year. Maybe you just have a desire to get more |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Crossroads, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Crossroads and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.