Hello listeners. I hope everyone's doing well. This week, I went shopping. I went shopping to buy a new pair of workout pants at my favorite spot for such things, Lulu Lemon Athletica. Now, I love their clothes, but also pretty sure there needs to be some kind of disclaimer here that other brands are available.

What I didn't love, however, was the 360 degree mirror in the changing room.

After seven months of focusing hard on my studies and my training, you know, having gone from six days a week in my past to currently about six days a month,

I did not enjoy that self-view at all. However, like all things related to self, it's changeable.

I went out to a local spot afterwards that I knew had a body composition machine of the same

brand I've used in the past so I can compare the data directly. And since the

pandemic, my body weight has actually not changed at all, about 200 pounds. However, I have lost 10

pounds of muscle mass and gain 10 pounds of body fat. Not good, but it's useful data. And also,

this is why I just think weight scales don't tell the full story. You know, people are obsessed with the number on the scale. But you could be within the normal weight range, you know, for your height or just for your own life, but you could be undermuscled and carrying too much body fat. So the number on the scale is not

that important. What's important is a composition. Anyway, after getting this information, I began

to think about, well, why has this happened? And really, I think it's just come down to a loss of mojo.

You know, I'm not immune to that, just like anybody else. And what really did me in

was the pandemic. I was really, really active prior to that. I would get up every single morning to go

walk the dog and then have breakfast and go and meet friends to strength train, which I did three

times a week, just purely strength and accessory work. So there was a squat day, a push and pull day

and a deadlift day. And in between those days were long walks, which I would do, carrying odd

objects. I remember living in Hong Kong, we would often put our body weight in each hand onto

farmers carry handles and go walk around the neighborhood.

I have friends in California that used to do crazy things like hook themselves up to the front of their Jeep and drag that around the neighborhood.

But I sometimes also used to go for a walk, like 45 pounds on a sled or something and just

pull that round. All things that made you look ridiculous, but we're good just for

functional training, I guess we would call it. And then usually in the evenings, I'd go to do

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