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Docs Outside The Box

The Vitals Check! How We Stay Fit As Doctors. #466 Part 2

Docs Outside The Box

Dr. Nii Darko

Career, Education, Doctor, Medicine, Careers, Job, Business, Health & Fitness, Finance, Investing, Premed, Black, Money, Lifestyle, Mindset

4.9516 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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SEND US A TEXT MESSAGE!!! Let Drs. Nii & Renee know what you think about the show! Send us a Voice Message - https://www.speakpipe.com/docsoutsidethebox Have a question for the podcast? Text us at 833-230-2860 In this new segment "The Vitals Check" we track our personal fitness journeys. Shoutout to Faith Kipyegon for her historic 4-minute mile attempt. She reminds us of legends like Florence Griffith Joyner and Jackie Joyner-Kersee. On that note, what fitness goals are you chasing?&nb...

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0:00.0

All right, guys, if you missed the last segment, we were talking about Ananda Lewis and her journey through breast cancer, especially the fact that me had been a resident and doing breast surgery and residency.

0:14.5

So he gives a little bit more nuance into that story. So check out that segment. Now we're going to be talking about.

0:21.5

I want to, I want to introduce a new segment. I want to introduce a segment called the vitals

0:25.6

check. That's right. Alfred, give me like a little like EKG tracing or like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, you know what I'm saying? You know what I'm

0:34.5

talking about right now, EKG.

0:37.7

SVT. So I want to, You know what I'm talking about. Right, we're name. EKG. SVT.

0:38.3

So I want to start updating everybody on my goal.

0:42.7

I have a goal where I want to run under 20 minutes in a 5K.

0:48.4

Right.

0:49.1

So that's averaging around 620, I think, per mile.

0:52.4

And this is straight off of no running.

0:55.1

So now I'm running.

0:56.5

And then I also want to be able to bench 250 pounds.

0:59.0

So sometime in a week or in a couple of days, I want to be able to break 20 minutes

1:04.6

and a 5k and I want to be able to bench 250 pounds.

1:07.3

And strong.

1:10.3

It's strong and endurance. Yeah, yeah. It's been tough. It's been really tough because before I was just lifting hard. And now it's, I'm splitting my week now into three days of running, three days of working out.

1:29.6

And as a matter of fact, this week I just finished my delode week.

1:33.4

And what that is is basically I will work out straight for six weeks, right?

1:37.3

Like hitting it hard every day for six weeks.

1:40.4

And I do like five to six different types of workouts on different days. And when I

1:46.9

finished that six week period at the end of six weeks, then I do some like really easy lifting for a

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