#FPROTEINSHAKES | Fitness mistakes we've made and why you should avoid them!
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What's up guys, it's Sam and Taylor, and we want you to put your shoes on, pop open that energy drink, and go. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode. We are excited to be recording today. Yes, it is Wednesday, but I mean, if you're listening to this on Friday, I hope you're having a great start to your weekend. Starting it with us. Maybe you're on a morning walk. I don't know. I know, I walked outside today because...

If you guys know, we obviously go on our morning walks. I usually go on the treadmill. There's only one, but this morning there was someone on the treadmill, which doesn't really happen a lot, but I did go outside, so that was nice. I always go outside. It's been cold in the morning. It was. I literally walked outside. I was like, oh my God, this is kind of uncomfortable. I had a long-sleeved t-shirt on with booty shorts, spandex, and I was like, oh my God,

I wasn't wearing a bra either, whatever. I walked through the city bra-less. I never wear a bra on my walk. But, like, when you're cold, your nipples are piercing. So I was like, oh, goodness. Like, I'm walking past all these people at, like, 7 a.m. with, like, piercing nipples. I was short-sleeved, spandex. I was like, oh, my God. I mean, it's kind of good because then I warm up as I walk and I'm not sweating. Yeah. It's kind of nice. Yeah, it is nice. I've been liking it. But, um... Damn. Yeah.

We, if you listened to our last episode, we were supposed to be in LA. We're not, if you're just confused. Oh yeah, surprise. Surprise. Just didn't end up happening. It was like really rushed anyways. Like we have a lot going on this month and it just-

It ended up just not making sense for us, so if you listened to last episode, we said we'd be in LA filming this. We're not. Yeah. So it's just us in our apartment. And it's not like it was something where we were just planning on going. We legit have had, like, flights booked. Like, we canceled the flights. Yeah, like Sam had checked in. Yeah. I checked in for the flight, and then that day we were, like, super anxious, and we just decided not to go. Oh.

Um, yeah, so that's that. And other weird news, my TikTok got banned today. I really hope when you're listening to this, I have it back. Um, but that also just happened. So that's fun. That's super fun. We love that. But hopefully since today's Wednesday, hopefully by Friday.

I have my TikTok account back. And maybe you won't even know what I'm talking about. Maybe it's, like, already back, and you're like, Taylor, what? Maybe it just gets back so fast. Like, what the hell is he talking about? I've been seeing all your TikToks. Yeah, hopefully I'm just back, and I'm just getting texts from my family. What does it say? Why. Oh, why. Yeah, that's, like, parents just don't understand the whole social media thing. And then, like, when we're super upset about it, like, that our social media is down and that our parents are like, but why? Or, hey, did you realize this? Or...

what's going on? We're like, mom, dad, I know, but you're not making the situation any better by talking about it with me. So that's that. That's fun. We changed our workout split. We did. Yeah. I guess this is something we can definitely talk about. Yeah. That's like a new update in our life. I've been hitting leg days like a mad woman, like demolishing my legs like no other to the point where like I'm sore now. So I couldn't do three leg days a week.

I just couldn't freaking do it. Like, my body was like, please, for the love of God, stop. Because I just go too hard. Yeah. And I can't do three. So we got to listen to our bodies. It made me happy when she did say that, though, because I had never hit three leg days ever. All the way up until, like, I started working out with Taylor. And she was like, oh, well, I do three a day. And I'm like, well, fuck. Like, now I have to do three a day. Because we want to be on the same split. But then the other day at the gym when she mentioned that she wanted to do, like, the split that I had done before, I was like, yeah.

Yes, because I love hitting back twice a week. I really like hitting legs twice a week. I'm just going so incredibly hard that I can't keep up. The upper body gains. So if you guys are wondering too what our split is now, it's just a legs push pull, legs push pull. So it's like six days with a rest day at the end. Sunday is a rest day. Basically all that changed is the Saturday glute day is now a back day. Yeah.

That's really the only change because we're already doing shoulder focused on Friday, which is basically a push day. Really, the only change is that Saturday, so it's not that huge. In our workout life, that's the only major update. I want to talk about the fact that when we first moved in together, we used to work out every single workout constantly together. Now that we live together...

We, like, have been living together. We don't really do that anymore. Like, you guys probably think that we still work out with each other, like, 24-7. We just do our compound lifts together. And then after the compound lifts are done, then we, like...

like go our separate ways and do our like our isolation movements because I don't know I feel like isolations are meant to like be fun and like stuff you want to like do I don't know so then we just like kind of go our own way with it but as far as the compounds yeah it's nice to have each other for accountability and like kind of this moral support even if I'm benching and you're just standing behind me it's better than nobody standing behind me yeah we also like a lot of the times that equipment is hard to get so it's not like we're gonna be taking up like

Two squat racks. Two bench press. That's just obnoxious. Yeah. I kind of miss working out with you though. I do. Because I like the push of like the motivation. Yeah. Because I can like get a little lazy but I like the push of the motivation. But yeah we literally we have not done a whole workout together. Yeah. In a while. I do miss doing like past failures. Yeah like helping each other. Definitely just not this week. This week I am on my period and like when I'm on my period I'm just like I need to just like

I need a minute to just do my thing. Yeah, that was me today. I put in both headphones. Yeah. And the AirPod Pros block out everything. So normally I do one. Oh, I put in both. Yeah. And I was like, no one speak to me. Yeah. Oh, something. Our last episode was Jim do's and don'ts. I'm throwing another one. Yeah. In there. Add it to that topic. Don't come with a group of like five and stand in one area.

Commonly used area of a crowded gym. You and your five friends do all need to be standing at the cable at one time. Yeah, no. When people literally can't even walk around you because you're in a group of, like, five. The gym is not social out there. I literally just screamed at them. I was so mad. Why is there so many of you? Like, I was like, there's...

The way it's hard to explain because you guys like don't know the setup of the gym but like crowded corner like a lot of cables and why are there five of you standing here like there could be one for it like you don't all like they do the filming part where they like wrap around walking walking around with their camera and I'm like bro like you were just taking up way too much space. So sorry that just really.

irked me today. Yeah. I was like, why are there so many of you standing here? I know. So many. Yeah.

Like, do you need to all be surrounding this cable machine? Yeah, I agree. It was making me so annoyed. But I like that we work out at Lyft now because now it's not as hot. Yes, I agree. Summers in Lyft, I don't know. Oh, it's hard. I'm, like, drinking sweat after, like, the first exercise. Even leg days. Guys, we never do quad days at Lyft. We did a quad day last week at Lyft, and it wasn't too bad. The weather will definitely get better, but...

It was not as bad as like what it was. Yeah. Not as bad as like the summer. No.

But no, not at all. But that's been fun. We like haven't been going to the other gym a lot either. Yeah. I honestly like in terms of like my page feed, like I like the darker, like you like the lift. Yeah. Like I like the, like my photos look just so good right now when they're all like the same. And then I have like a gold one in there where it's just like white and like brown from the locker room. I'm just like, I don't really like it. I like making TikToks like golds, but now I can't even make TikToks. Yeah. Yeah.

TikToks are fun to do. Gold is much easier to do at gold. Yeah. You got like the power lifters that lift that just give us the dirtiest looks. But honestly, I'm at the point in my life with this whole thing where I'm just like, I don't give a shit. I'm trying not to swear. I don't give a shit. I don't give a shit if someone's giving me a dirty look or something like that. Because, hey, if I get to dance around and look like a silly person and make money from it, I'm going to do it. Like, sorry. And you would do it too. Yeah, like you would do it too.

Yeah, no, but at Gold's we have, like, a little privacy, but then, like, a cleaning lady comes, or like I said, and I'm like... Oh, dude, yeah. She doesn't speak to us, but she... I can have a feeling, like, she kind of, like, likes it. She thinks it's funny. The thing is, at Lyft, we film, but they're a little bit more tame, and, like, in the Gold's locker room, we put on a show. We put on a show. Like, we strictly did. No. Like...

We're dancing on this. Oh, someone's calling me. Spam, stop freaking calling me. I get one, like, seven times a day. We're dancing on the benches. We're just, like, all over the place. Yeah, because you... Oh, my God, imagine if I hopped on the picnic tables that lift. Oh, my God. I'd be kicked out probably. But that's that. Yeah, I'm trying to think if there's anything else. I don't know. I mean, I just kind of want to chit-chat real quick about, like, this whole, like, social media trend that's going on right now. And it's really irking my gears. It's honestly been going on for, like, ever.

Yeah, but it's getting worse. It's becoming unrealistic. There are people out there that are promoting their bodies, saying that fitness influencers or just influencers in general are constantly posing and constantly posting unrealistic pictures of themselves. And then they'll do photos of them not posed. But I'm looking at it and I'm like, how are you possibly...

There's the post photo and then there's the non-post photo. And it's like so fucking different to the point where it's like you're trying so hard to make them look different. And I'm just like, if I don't do a post photo, it's like, yeah, I'm not flexing. There's no muscle, not as much muscle. Maybe there's like a roll or whatever. But it's like I'm not that unrealistic. And it's just making it seem like we're all like super, super posey,

And we're not showing off our like bad angles, which yeah, maybe I'm not showing off my bad angles, but I'm not like, I don't know how to explain it. I'm not like sucking in and like forcing my body to warp one way. I'm literally just flexing in a mirror. Exactly. Like today I posted or the other day I posted a selfie in the workout mirror. I kid you not. I finished a set. I turned and look in the mirror and I was like, oh, I look good. Took a picture. Like I wasn't standing there for 10 minutes like.

sucking in, turning, finding the lighting. I was just like, oh, I look good right now. And it wasn't a big thing. And I look like that probably the two seconds before I took the picture. Yeah. I think it's kind of like bringing down other girls' content. Yeah. Like making it seem like

It's fake. To be like, oh, you're the only real one. Yeah. No, you're not. No. If anything, your stuff is fake. Yeah. Because how are you looking like two different people all the time? Yes. It's weird. I don't get it. I don't know. That's just our little rant because obviously there are... Our workout videos, for instance, we're posting our workout videos. We're not posing or anything in our workout videos. I posted a bent over row today. I bent over whatever there's rolls on the back of my... Not rolls, but like...

Pudgyness. Like, on the back of me, I'm just like, okay, whatever, but I'm not, like... I'm not... Yes, I'm doing a good angle of this video, but it's like, I'm not posing. You know what I mean? No, but that's just how you look. I hope they can understand, like, what I'm trying to explain. You look the same on Instagram as you do in real life. But...

Like, in my workout videos, something that happens to me is, like, I breathe in a lot, so my stomach will, like, expand. Yeah. Because I'm, like, taking a big breath. Yeah. So I might look bloated because I'm breathing in. And, like, that's not a flattering angle. No. Sometimes I post that because I'm like, that's just how I looked when I was doing it because I was breathing in and, like, you could see it in my stomach. But...

It's like, that's also like 0.9% of it. Like, that's like no percent of the time. Don't get me wrong, guys. Like, we're not trying to like bring down like anyone for like, like any of you guys for feeling like, well, like I look very different when I'm bloated. Like, yeah, me too. I feel like shit when I'm bloated. Like I'm on my period now. I'm sharp pains.

But we also don't want you guys to think that the photos we are posting are complete catfish because it's not. And that's what some influencers out there are making it seem to believe that we're like catfishing you guys. And we're not. There's so many TikToks that are literally just like every fitness influencer is fake. And it's like, what do you mean? Yeah. Like, if you were to see us in person, most likely the way you think of us on social media is probably going to be what we look like in person. Yeah.

Yeah, I just think it's so weird to just, like, generalize like that, or if you're in the community yourself, to try to, like, get a one-up on the other girls by being, it's kind of like a, I'm not like other girls. Yeah. Like, I don't want to say a pick-me. Yeah. A little bit. But a pick-me. That's just what we've been talking about in our day-to-day conversations in our apartment. Yeah.

So it's been on our mind a lot. It always bothers us. Yeah. I also got a comment on my TikTok today saying that I'm literally so toxic for trying to promote how going to the gym and living healthier can change someone's life. Yeah. Can you think about that? Think about that again. Did you hear what I said? That it is so toxic to tell someone that going to the gym and eating healthier can change their life. And then she said, I don't doubt that that happened to you.

But it's not going to happen to everyone. Yeah. Imagine getting mad on the internet because you think something is supposed to apply to every single person. Yeah. No. I don't think my content... Insecurities are showing for sure. Yeah, it was like the insecurities really came through with that one. Really did. I was like, girl, if you don't want to go to the gym, by all means. But like, why are you telling me? It was so strange. Yeah.

But some of you had my back in that and that was kind of funny. Yeah. That was like a pretty hilarious moment. But this month should be fun. Hopefully we'll have a lot of things to talk about. It'll be like Halloween so soon I feel like. I know. We need to like get our... We should order our costumes like this week or something. I hate spending money. Yeah. Me too but... It'll be cheap. We only need like three things. I wanna look sexy. We only need like three things. I know. I feel like it's gonna be cold. Yeah. Yeah.

Our costumes are going to be cute, but we're not going to tell anyone what it is until we wear them. Hell no. I'm not telling anybody. I'm going to be walking around. I'm a Celsius can. Okay. Imagine. I have Celsius in front of me, guys. That's why I thought of it. Like, imagine if I just bought, like, I don't even know. Oh, my God. That'd be so funny. If I just emailed them, hey, do you guys have a costume I can borrow for Halloween? That would be so funny. Yeah.

Like, hilarious, actually. I think we... That's super funny. I know. Alright, but let's get into the dirty, dirty, dirty deet of our topic today, and that is our big mistakes we made. These ones are good because we are going to be obviously saying the mistakes, but then we're going to have, like, a little story with a background behind them all because we feel like with the do's and don'ts from last week, you guys really, like, liked the stories behind each one.

like topic we had so we're gonna keep doing that I feel like mine are not that good so I'm hoping that maybe I get more ideas off yours we literally planned this there are so many mistakes we've made that's the thing every single thing was a mistake so I don't even know where to begin but we thought of this topic and I was like should we each make a list and we're like yeah and then I was like wait we were like we're not gonna share what our list is so we've just been making notes lists on our own phones I have no idea what she's about to

right now. I just hope they're like similar and like... Oh, I'm sure they are. Okay, you go first. Okay, so my first one is pretty basic. You know the deal. Everyone's probably gone through this and this is gonna be the protein anabolic window 30 minutes after your workouts. Okay, guys, I fell for this trap a

When I was with First Forum. First Forum literally manipulates you to believe that that post-workout stack that you have needs to be drank like 30 minutes after your workout or else you're going to get no gains. Another thing, if you guys want to go listen back on the MLM topic or the podcast episode, I had mentioned that, you know, when you're with First Forum, if you're a legionnaire for First Forum, they make you go through all these courses to learn about the products. So pretty much everybody that works for First Forum is

talks about the products the same because they learn about the products through the same, you know, courses, the same study tools. So everyone's talking about the products the same way. So the post-workout stack, everyone's preaching that you need to have this post-workout stack post-workout because it's a fast digesting carbohydrate and protein and all this stuff. So I was meant to believe that, you know, I had to have a protein shake after every single freaking workout. And if not, then I wasn't going to make the gains I was going to make.

Ew, can you imagine bringing... I know some people do this. Sorry if you do. Maybe that's just how you like to get your post-workout snack. If our post-workout snack was like the powder in a bottle and then you fill it up with water when you're done with your workout, shake it up, and you're just drinking like... That's what I used to do. Yeah, I know. That's gross. I would literally...

That's so gross. This was like recently too. Like when I like left first form. And it like took me some time to like realize when I left first form and I wasn't drinking the post-workout snack anymore. I was like, wait a second. I can just have a snack. Like I can have rice cakes with like something on it. You mean a food? Yeah. At whatever time you want? Wait, wait, wait. I can have food? Like a non-fast digested carbohydrate? Like I can have something like that? Crazy. So I literally used to bring like my protein powder in my sugar cup.

In my gym bag. And then I'd fill it up. And then drink it. And then. That would be that. But. That would literally. Like the thought of drinking. Like a watery protein shake. After a workout. Literally. Makes me want to vomit. Just because. There's so many delicious ways. You can like. Eat protein powder as a snack. Yeah. Why would you do that? And like.

Let's just talk about not necessarily the science behind this whole thing, but like realistically your body does not know. This can apply for everything. This can apply for intimate fasting. This can apply for like any time of window time of eating food. Your body does not know what time it is when you are eating food, let alone does it know. I mean, yes, it's going to know that you worked out, but it's not going to know to properly use that protein that you're eating in that very moment to like,

Yeah. Build muscle. Like your time of day for eating protein does not matter as long as you are getting the proper amount of protein that you do need. Yeah. Um, in that's totally fine. Pre-workout meals also matter more because, so let's say we obviously eat oatmeal, the carbs and the protein that would be in this like post-workout stack or whatever you're having. So those, by the time they actually digest, um,

we're way past your workout. Whereas our oatmeal bowl, once that digests, now that's what's probably being used as you're recovering from your workout. Because even though you ate it before the workout, it has to like digest throughout your body. It's not like it's instantly gone. Exactly. So your pre-workout snack actually matters more. Exactly. Okay. The first thing I wrote kind ish goes with this. Okay. Really? But like kind of, um,

Mine was like not really understanding calories burned like on a watch. I didn't even have a watch. I was using my phone and like what it said on the treadmill, which is even worse. That's even worse. Slash like eating back calories, I think is the main part of it. So like, let's say on the treadmill, I did 300. If I wanted lunch, I would try to make the lunch...

That amount of calories. Yeah. If that makes sense. No I totally get that. Like and I don't even really know the thought process. Like I feel like it was something. I wasn't even doing it like. Obviously kind of intentionally. But it was just like in my brain. Like.

Like, okay, like, the treadmill said 320. Bullshit. Like, 320 what? Like, what? Okay, anyways. Not even a watch. At least your watch knows how much you weigh. Yeah. Like, it was a freaking treadmill. Yeah. And I, like, would go to Subway, get, like, half a sub. Half a sub does not freaking cut it for me, okay? And it would be, like, no protein because I'm vegetarian. Well, I was vegetarian. Now I'm vegan, but whatever. Okay.

I had to get like half like a veggie sub because it was like 300 calories. And like think that that was all I could like eat back after the workout because that's how much I burned.

What? That's so stupid. I guess we can basically wrap that all into one and saying that the big mistake was letting the numbers on machines and Apple watches dictate what you should eat or if you had a good workout or not. Because those numbers at all, like, do not mean jack shit. Because do those things know how much body fat you have in your body? Does it know your height, your weight? Like...

It doesn't know any of that, and that is such a big role. Yeah. It doesn't know how much muscle mass you have on your body. Like, if you should eat the same lunch, regardless of if the treadmill said 250 or 375. Yeah. Like, oh my god. I just, like, so remember, like...

focusing so much on the treadmill number because I'd run. This is a little of a tip too because I was so stuck on the Apple Watch. If you feel like you're stuck with those numbers, literally take that stupid ass watch off, go to the gym for one week straight, don't wear it, and reflect on that week of not wearing it

And notice how literally nothing changed. That's what I had to do. I had to stop wearing my watch to the gym. And then once I got away from that like toxic relationship with it, that's when I was able to like actually work out and not rely so much on the numbers. I did once a week without it. Yeah. Because that was enough for me to like...

get when I got it I did every Sunday I wouldn't wear it and that to me kept a good relationship with it um now I'm totally fine like I literally just think it's like fun to have like it doesn't um impact me at all yeah no okay what's yours next one oh all right so another one is gonna be biggest mistake was thinking that abs in the morning and abs at night was how I was gonna get my abs I literally when I was probably I don't know it was like

It was probably around like the whole food combining thing. So that was probably like 2018, 2019 when I thought that I had to do abs in the morning on an empty stomach. So I would wake up in the morning, do abs in the morning. And then before I was going to bed, do the same thing that I did for abs at night before going to bed. Thinking that that whole thing of like,

oh, your body is not going to be digesting food at night. So it's the best time for your abs to develop at night when your stomach's not doing it. I don't even fucking know what it was, but I just believed it because I was clueless and I would literally torture myself with doing abs in the morning. I'd be like waking up hungry. Like my stomach was like in a pit. And the first thing I was doing was like crunches and sit ups. And I would, I'd be so quiet. Like my mom would be in the room. Oh my God. Yes. And I'd be so quiet. I'd be like, one, two,

too like crunching like really quietly and then i get skeeved out that they'd walk past the door like stop wait don't come in here until knocking the door i'm like my dad would be like sam you in there i'm like don't come in no don't come in i'm freaking out i'm like breaking a sweat

So that was my big mistake. I don't know why I thought this. I don't know what influencer made me believe this, but I think it was just like one of those things that you just see on like Pinterest on when you look up how to get abs and it's like do like, it's like this whole like stupid article that you or magazine article that you find and you just read it and you're like, wow, maybe this will work. And then you try it.

And you just end up doing it nonstop thinking it's going to work. And I thought it worked. Sorry. I thought it was working because I was so underweight and I did have abs. But that's not why I had abs. It wasn't from the morning and night. Yeah. Newsflash. It's not working. They're just making you starve yourself. Yes, exactly. It's giving you this very toxic relationship with food and thinking that, oh, wrapping into that whole thing is I would stop eating carbs or I would just stop eating anything at 8 p.m.

So that way I could do the abs. That was one of mine. Yeah. Like I would stop eating at eight and then right before I'd go to bed around like nine, nine 30, I would like do my abs and be like, okay, yay. My tummy's ready for the abs. I, two of mine tie into that.

Two of them, I think. Well, one of them was stop eating at 7. Yeah. 7, not 8. Yeah. That's bad. That's like sometimes dinner time, depending on how busy your day is. It was absolutely horrible. The way 7 p.m. hit, all I could think about was food. Yeah. The only thing. Like, I was like, oh my god. Like, the things I would do for like two almonds. That's when it gets the worst, is when you're like restricting. Like, always.

Oh my God. I was like, it's post dinner. I'm hungry. I'd be hungry. Like not just like, eh, I want a snack. Like hungry. Couldn't eat food. Nope. Wouldn't eat it. Wouldn't eat anything. And I was like, I stuck to it because I was told on social media by someone, I actually still follow her, but like whatever. She like promotes this a lot and like, oh my God, did I believe it? Cause she basically said that it's like the,

Mm-hmm. You Stopped Eating at 7 and Skinny Legend. And I was like... I don't believe these things. Actually, I did. Okay, yeah. It was funny.

And I would literally be so thinking about food all the time, not just after seven, but during the whole day because I had to think to make sure I ate enough food because my time was coming up. My time was coming up. Oh, my God. No, horrible. The other thing that ties into that, because these go with kind of what you're saying, being nervous to tell people that I...

Like wanted to exercise or wanted to be healthy because I feel like I wasted so much time trying not to get anyone in the house to like see you or like I would like go outside and work out but I didn't want to go work out when like people were home and like I didn't want to like tell people I wanted to work out or like say I wanted to eat healthier say I wanted to do this which also led like no one would even know I was like struggling when I did. They just thought you were a wicked fit and wicked like they thought I just got skinny I literally just got skinny no one saw me doing like weird workouts in my room or anything and

And to even think to help because I wouldn't talk about it. So that was a huge mistake is not telling people. Trying to hide it. Yeah, that was kind of me when I was playing field hockey and lacrosse. I had field hockey and lacrosse practice and I'd go do a second workout during the day. I'd go to the gym after practice, but I wouldn't tell anybody. People were like, where are you going? I'm going back to my room. But really, I was going to the gym to hop on the bike and bike for an hour just to burn extra calories. And...

So I definitely agree on that because when you feel not, I don't know what the word I'm looking for is, but like when you feel like someone's going to make a comment that you're like working out and it's like not healthy, but in your mind you're like, well, this is really healthy. But realistically it's not healthy because maybe you're overexercising or under eating, whatever it is. And they're just trying to look out for you, but you just like keep it a secret.

Yeah, that was just a huge, and that's like, I mean, like a big mistake, like in a big way. Because like I said, no one even can try to help you if you like needed it. Because if you're just keeping it a secret. Yeah. Like no one knew I was counting my calories. Yeah. No one knew I was counting my calories when I was trying to eat like 1200 a day. No one knew. No one knew.

I guess we can talk about my next one, and that is going to be yo-yo dieting. I have tried so many different things. Biggest mistake definitely has to be the food combining, though. You know, when you do diets like these, whether it's keto, whether it's intermittent fasting, food combining, these diets that you are just hopping on,

back and forth and changing up thinking one will work. Oh, that one's not working. Okay. So let me try keto. Oh, keto is not working. Okay. Let me try intermittent fasting. When you are just hopping from diet to diet, thinking that these are going to work, it is going to fuck up your metabolism. Like no other. Okay. When I was food combining, I, I would have something like, like a yogurt or something. And then that would fuck up my stomach. Like I thought I was lactose. I'd be like, Oh my God, like my stomach is in so much pain. Like now I have to avoid dieting.

because my stomach can't handle dairy. No, it's not that your stomach can't handle dairy. It's that you legitimately put yourself in this situation of fucking up your metabolism and your digestion so bad because of all the yo-yo dieting that you've done that now your body cannot handle processing that dairy or the gluten or whatever it is. Most of the time when you guys are like, oh, I'm lactose intolerant, I'm gluten-free. I've talked about this before in the metabolism one. Yeah, we have a whole episode about that, by the way, guys. You are...

fucking yourself over i am sorry i hate i hate to say it but you're gonna it's gonna take time and that was my biggest mistake was going through the whole process of food combining i am now in a good place where i can enjoy food groups however i want and it does not mess up my stomach at all i mean obviously there are gonna be some situations i have one day where i have like a flare up but that's normal we're humans it's gonna happen but it was never so bad um

When it was... How the fuck do I word this? It was the worst when I was food combining because I was being so restricting and not allowing my body to just enjoy food. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. That's another one. That's a huge... I know everyone relates to that. So my next one, I'll keep it in the food realm of things. I'm going to say under eating my protein as a vegan slash when I was vegetarian. Mm-hmm.

If you're always freaking hungry and you don't eat meat, eat more protein. Like, I was always hungry. I didn't care about it, didn't really track it, but that's also because I got really wrapped into, like, the processed foods are bad, like...

kind of aspect of like the wellness stuff which is really like toxic to me that will I will get so wrapped in that like the added sugar and the processed and then this ingredient and that ingredient so like I used to look at the labels on like ingredients so much if I saw like what's like that really bad sugar I can't remember high fructose corn syrup yeah I used to look at like everything then it's like so hard to get away from that type of stuff now so I'm just like

Like, you'll live. Yeah, like, you'll live. Life's too short. Don't be worrying about that. Like, if you want to. Like, if you eat your vegetables, you're fine. Yeah. But, anyways, like, the protein, I just feel like I wasted so much time being confused about what to eat or not understanding what was actually going to fill me up and make me feel good and strong.

into like being vegan and it was really hard for me to hit my protein and I didn't really know how to eat it. So I'm really glad I know how to do that now, which is why I like posting so many like what I eat in a days because it was really hard for me to find that without it being like crazy amounts of food because some vegans eat like insane. But yeah, that was just something I did that I thought really wasn't good and wasted, wasted a lot of time for me. Yeah.

I surprisingly only have one more. Really? Yeah, I was only able to come up with a few. But I feel like they were pretty good. But I could probably think of a few more that I could rant about. Anyway, my other biggest mistake was doing my cardio first. This was at the very beginning of my fitness journey when I thought that I had to be doing my cardio first because I needed to get a sweat in. And then once I was getting my sweat in,

I could then transition over to the weights. But not even. Like, I literally would do cardio. I'd go on the Stairmaster for, like, an hour. And then I would work my way down to doing some abs or, like, a booty band workout or, like, a leg day circuit. I would never do upper body. So that was my biggest mistake that I made was thinking that, like, cardio and sweating was, like, the only way to get in, like, an effective workout. I...

Did this probably for like a year of like my, the very beginning of me like going to the gym series. I have that on here too. Worded different, but like basically the same. Basically going, I combined cardio with my upper body days because on upper body days I'd go light. I would grab like 10 pounds like only. Half because I was weak and half because I just thought, eh. Yeah.

um I didn't really understand that just because you feel some type of burn doesn't mean it's like yeah doing anything like you know what I'm saying like yeah maybe you feel a little bit of a burn but like could you grab 20s probably like you but so I'd only grab like really really lightweight and I'd run before yeah so it was like extra tiring and when I was like really really out of it like

That was even when I had, like, a fitness page and I was, like, working out for fun. When I was, like, really, really, like, going to the gym and, like, it was a problem, I would run and then do abs or, like, fire hydrants and, like, stupid stuff. Yeah.

And I'd always run first. Or go on the stairs first. Always. Because I just thought if I didn't sweat or burn calories, like what? That's how I'm going to get my big booty. Like why was I there? Sorry, after literally running your ass off and sweating out every single ounce of energy that you have, those fire hydrants. You just touched my feet again! I'm wearing socks. I don't care that much. That time it wasn't as bad.

I didn't even feel it. But yeah, that was just... That was just like putting my body through hell, you know? I have another one that I just thought of that I didn't even put down though. And this is going to trigger a lot of people. Glute activation. Booty band glute activation. This could literally be applied to like...

Like, so many influencers out there. I don't want to say names. But, like, thinking you need a booty band to achieve a good warm-up before your leg day is fucking bullshit. Wearing it on the stairs. Wearing it on the stairs. My leg day warm-up would be 10 minutes on the stairs with a band. Because your booty is burning from those bands does not mean your glutes are activated, okay? You just need, honestly, a good dynamic warm-up. Don't need to be, like, firing away at your glutes with a band to, like...

Get an effective warm up. It's the purpose of why you're doing it. If you're doing it on the stairs, like I said, that there is no purpose. Take it off. If you're doing because some people are like, but I like to warm up with the band. OK, like I warm up upper body with the band to like like a band's a little bit of resistance. Like if you just are doing it to warm up.

Do you, but you got to be honest about your intentions. Yeah. Because feel like low key, you're trying to do glue activation and I see you catch you. And you also have to just remind yourself too, if you're somebody that does use it, great, whatever, but you don't need it. You don't need it. You don't need it. So don't be posting your glute activation or talking about glute activation saying you need this booty band. Yeah.

Yeah. Daisy. Daisy. Or like this, like you want to know the secret to growing my glutes. Like I was growing, I was doing squats and my glutes weren't growing, but I started doing banded kickbacks before my squats. All of a sudden. All of a sudden I'm doing amazing. No, not a thing. Not a thing. I have like a few more. They're kind of like just like stupid ones, but this one's super stupid. Lifting and running sneakers.

Oh yeah, no, I could never. Yeah, that was a big mistake. Like doing a squat in literally the shoes I used to like run. I can't even remember the last time I've done that, but I don't even know how I got away with doing that. Like, I mean, I'll wear them on upper body days because like sometimes you have cool shoes and like it doesn't matter, it's upper body day, but even then I rarely wear Converse like always, but like...

I would do split squats and be wobbling my little butt off because I went in running sneakers. Like, wobbling my butt off because I would have to, like, take off my shoes to do split squats because I was so wobbly. Yeah. I think when I stopped doing it was during quarantine when I was like, oh, I can work out barefoot in my garage because, like, I'm at my house. Like, it doesn't matter. And then I started working out barefoot and I was like, holy shit, the difference this makes, like,

flat foot. I was like, this is crazy. Like, insane. So if you guys are still wearing, like, non-flat shoes, definitely change it up. Converse, Vans, Blazers, Metcons, whatever. I'll keep firing. Other one, Googling, like, model workouts.

Dude, I was going to say this in the beginning about the, um, what were we talking about? I hate seeing a model, they literally label it models full day of eating. Like, why does that make a difference? Just because you're a model, just because that's your job. Imagine if I was writing like fitness influencers full day of eating. People would look at them and be like, oh my God, that's what I got to eat to become a fitness influencer? Like, oh my God, stop using the word model to promote your shit. Model workouts, aka...

Pilates? I don't even know. Like, it's not the workouts. That's their genetics, people. That's their genetics and the amount of food they're eating. They use the word model in genetics, but they don't realize the word model. It wraps around the whole genetics process, but they don't realize that. They're like, oh, I'm a model, so what I'm doing is totally correct. Yeah. Food and genetics do more than workouts do, unless it's, like, literally weightlifting, not to be like...

There's a science to how muscles grow and how they don't. So if someone's very, very lean, it's not the workouts, it's the genetics and their food. Yep. Preach. Okay, now I have one more. Okay. My last one is wanting fast results, which ties into the fact that I would just try to go as heavy as the girls I saw online without being ready.

And I feel like I wasted time trying to actually... I wanted to skip the whole learning how to actually do things correctly and just kind of bounce around the gym and try everything and want to be doing good at it. It's like I wasn't doing anything. And if I actually took the time to do it right, I feel like I would have been better off. I mean, it still, I guess, didn't put me back that much because I'm here now and it wasn't that much later. But I would do...

Squats and RDLs. Oh my God. And my lower back would kill girl. Drop the weight. Like my lower back would be on fire, but I was like, yeah, but this is only like X amount of weight. Like I can do, I can squat it. I'm like lift it, but it's not, I'm going up and down, but you are literally an excruciating pain in your lower back. Like, hello? Like, are you like good? That's,

I think I was like the kind of kind of the same way but in a different aspect where I was like going more or less like going through the motions and like not allowing myself to have a mind to muscle connection like I was literally just like like going for it but I wasn't focusing on like what actually needed to be activated like during like the lift if that makes sense I feel like I wasted so much time in the gym looking like stupid but everyone does dude imagine like

that are just starting out, like, listening to this, and, like, they're gonna, like, not waste as much time that we wasted because they're gonna, like, they maybe, like, the people listening, like, hey, guys, like, would maybe potentially, like, two weeks, three weeks from now, see something that we said and, like, try it, or that we said and try it without, like, us saying, like, no, don't do that. Crazy. I wish I had somebody that I could solely trust when I was beginning my fitness journey, but...

But I just listened to all these fancy influencers that had great genetically gifted bodies. And I feel like people are very vague about it. Like, don't yo-yo diet. Okay, no, I need specifics of the stupid tricks you tried and why they didn't work. Not just like... Because everyone knows not to fad diet. But when someone tells you to stop eating at 7 p.m. because intermittent fasting is here, that doesn't sound like a fad diet. That sounds like the secret to...

It doesn't sound like a bad diet, but it is. And I feel like giving the specifics would just like help people. I feel like I'm trying to think if there's more. Do you want to talk about the, like what we've been seeing on TikTok lately? About like the programming, like the Instagram story or the Instagram workouts? Oh yeah, I do want to talk about that. This is like random, but it's been pissing me off to no other. So there's a thing on TikTok called,

I mean, I guess it ties in because I think a lot of you right now are probably like, is this a mistake I'm making? Yeah. It's people saying that their biggest fitness mistake was following swipe workouts and not sticking to a program. That for, you know, a month, two months, whatever, you should be doing the same exact workouts for the whole block of time and just applying progressive overload. Same exact workouts. Okay. Yeah.

As long as you're following swipe workouts from good people, they're pretty much all just going to be variations of on a leg day, variations of squats, lunges, and deadlifts.

We're talking about our workouts, though, guys, not necessarily everybody. No, I'm saying if you're following a good person. Yeah. Like, if you're following a good person, the leg days are going to be variations of squat lunges and deadlifts, whatever they may be. And then the upper body days are going to be variations of, like, presses and, like, cable work and demo work. Basic movements. As long as you're doing the basic movements, sticking to – we stick to our three big compounds and –

Like we do those every single week on the same days a week. We change up our freaking accessories and we've still seen amazing results. If you're not training for like a competition, a show, a something, why are you going to subject yourself to the torture of like, oh, leg day. Got to do the same leg day I did for the past two months. Yeah. Nothing different. Yeah. What if the equipment's taken? Yeah. And then you're like, I don't know what else to do.

Like, you would feel like your whole thing is, like, ruined. I know. Yeah, that's, like, the biggest thing. I'm like, what... The workouts we post on Instagram is, like, we're legit doing them. That is our workout. But, like, we're not, like... We are programming, but we're programming on our first, like, two, three lifts. But, like, it's always changing. Yeah. Like, you know what I mean? It's good to change it, I think. I think it puts stress on your body in different ways and keeps you, like...

Yeah. Like what good is it to get good at the same three things? Yeah. No, I agree. But I see that all over my free page and I see it in my DMs. Like, what do you think about people saying swipe workouts are bad? I'm like, that's so you can apply progressive overload without literally like programming exactly week to week. You're applying progressive overload. If last month you're doing lighter weights overall than you were this month, that's progressive overload. Even though you don't know if you're four by 10, literally got it.

next amount of time. That's still progressive overload. I just think it's so stupid. Agreed. So dumb. Guys, we went super random, but I just wanted to mention. We both didn't do any caffeine today for our workout, but I decided mid-afternoon that I needed to pop open a Celsius. I was going to have a super coffee, but I woke up really anxious, and then it went away during my workout because, you know, just the workout cures. It back and buys, and I was cured.

But then my TikTok got taken down and I was like, I just knew it was going to be one of those days. I don't want caffeine. I don't think that's going to do me any good. So we didn't. I'm like refreshing my email like a crazy person because I want someone to like email me back and tell me that they got my TikTok account back for me. Yeah, it may take a while though. I know. Not like a while, but like 24 hours. I guess that's it. What was the time with this one?

45 minutes. Not too bad. We know you guys like the hour ones, but sometimes when we have topics, it's kind of hard to talk about fitness topics for a really long time. If you have somebody that's going to talk to you about something I can think about. Or if they talk to you about bullshit fitness topics because when you get straight to the point, there's not much to say. Yeah, they're just exaggerating it. We get down to the BS and just...

Put it straight forward to you guys. So many people want the tea on our life, and I feel like they're expecting us to come on here with some crazy information. Yeah. I got that comment all over, like, one of my recent TikToks. But everyone was like, oh, sis, I'm waiting for the podcast.

Our life hasn't been that interesting. Yeah. Also, bulking's still the same as last week. We haven't increased or anything. I didn't increase because I thought we were going to be on a trip, and I was like, I'm probably not even going to track, so why am I going to increase if I'm not going to track? Like, what is the point? And then we didn't go on the trip. Yeah. So...

I folded with that one, but it's okay. Nobody's perfect. Both of us have full days of eating going up on YouTube. So if you want to see what our days of eating have been looking like, definitely check out our YouTube videos. By the time you see this, both of ours will be on YouTube. So you can go watch those if you are like, oh my God, this was only 45 minutes. Ha, look at that. The content never ends. Look at that. You have two more videos you can go watch. So you should definitely do that. Definitely follow the podcast, Instagram, the podcast, TikTok, Instagram.

Give it a nice little five-star review on Apple Podcast. That'd be great. Download it on Spotify so we can try to get up on the charts. I wonder if we're on the charts. Should I check? Yeah, definitely check. Go for it. If we're not, I'm just going to end it right now. I know. Bye, guys. Bye. Where is it?

Oh, you know what? I can update you guys on my tire cover. So you guys know I got my tire cover. Well, so that tire cover did not have a camera hole in the back of it. Like, it was supposed to, but it got shipped to me and it didn't. So I sent it back to them, but then the package got lost when they shipped it back to me. So now they're sending me a new one. And this time around, they're sending it to me, and they're also giving me a code. So they were like, in exchange for us giving you another...

Like tire cover, like can you do a code for us and like push the code? So I will be having a code for you guys if anybody's going to be interested in getting like a tire cover for their Jeep. Be on the lookout. I will be posting an Instagram with that with the code that you can use. I'm not sure what the discount is. I think it's probably like 10% to 20% off. So that will help you guys out. The tire covers are super cute. You can literally customize them however you want. So be on the lookout for that. We're number 39. 39? Yeah.

We've got to get it up. We've got to get it up. Listen, download it, whatever you've got to do. Let's get it up, guys. I believe in you. And, yeah, I think that's it for now. All right. We love you guys. See you next week. Bye. Bye. See you on Friday, fuckers.