Episode 195. Wrap-up - Success Looks Different for Everyone, Magnetic Nasal Strips and What is Dieting?

Welcome to another episode of the In-situ health and fitness podcast! This week on the show, we are wrapping up the month with our favourite discoveries, teachable moments and ideas we want to share with you.

We discuss why at funerals, it's the quirky, funny parts of people that are remembered. We also compare the unique warm-up routines of tennis pros like Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic, showing that the road to success looks different for everyone. Plus, we discuss what a diet really means and whether the magnetic nasal strip trend is a good or bad thing.

Chapters

• 2:25 The impact of self comparison.
• 6:30 Do magnetic nasal strips help with nasal breathing.
• 8:20 Will taping your mouth at night to improve your sleep?
• 12:15 How to embrace your quirks and show your real personality.
• 14:20 Embracing your weird self can lead to more fun and authenticity.
• 20:30 Success looks different for everyone.
• 23:55 What is the meaning of diets.

Transcript

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 satisfying what is up everybody welcome
 back to another wrapup where we wrap up
 the last month or so with interesting
 facts teachable moments and fun things
 that will help you live a long healthy
 and happy
 [Music]
 life wrapping out a last episodes we had
 a amazing guest on Mariana big thanks to
 her for coming on the show if you
 haven't listened to that episode yet
 definitely go back and have a listen uh
 we had a lot of people reach out and
 there's some good takeaways from that
 episode no yeah yes I feel like it's so
 nice to have someone that's out of our
 bubble like I like talking to you sure
 but we get we obviously find a lot of
 the same things and share the same
 things with one one another so it is
 really nice to get another perspective
 refreshing um she's really interesting
 to talk to
 just yeah she has a lot to teach I feel
 like every human has a lot to teach
 regardless of what their qualification
 is right uh I think probably I had three
 or four people reach out and say the one
 big takeaway they all had the same one
 was how you turn up to the mat is how is
 what you get from the session oh really
 yeah so that was a good conversation so
 if you're on YouTube or on a podcast
 platform where you can skip forwards
 I've been timestamping a lot of the
 episodes so that's time stamp so you can
 just skip forwards and hav't listen to
 that that was a really good spot to join
 the conversation uh and we also did a
 little yoga session before the episode
 so if you want to see me be real flexy
 you can jump on YouTube and watch that
 as well and the week before that we did
 the self comparison trap which was also
 a really popular
 episode in it just started a lot of
 really good conversations with people
 that I know in person I found from that
 episode I discovered that a lot of
 people that I know listen to the podcast
 because that's the first episode they've
 sort of bought up to me because I don't
 think it's spoken about enough like how
 ingrained it is in our lives to compare
 ourselves to each other um so that was
 also a really good
 episode yeah definitely I I forgot all
 about that one but a lot of people are
 still talking about that episode
 everyone's like do more psychology
 Things We Will We Will and then as
 always a massive Q&A last week I have
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 show right that's us wrapped up let's
 get into it then I feel like you should
 start
 because sound you make it sound like
 you've got a lot of questions or do you
 want me to go I've just got sort of more
 like one one or two questions one was a
 question one sort of a thoughts question
 uh first one was uh nasal magnetic nasal
 strip yeah they're in my my social media
 feed everywhere right so we spoke about
 this a few weeks ago now about nasal
 breathing and how you should breathe
 through your nose and not through your
 mouth and everybody's just like wait
 what yeah I had so many people like I
 breathe through my nose I'm like wow
 like I just thought again like you just
 said we get caught up in our own little
 world I just thought everybody breathe
 through their nose cuz that's how you
 meant to breathe
 and um it's obviously not you should
 know from experience with me that not
 everybody breaks through their no even
 since that episode I've just like I'm
 probably the weirdo in the gym now
 because I watch people what do you mean
 now always and I'm watching their mouth
 and seeing if they're mouth breathers or
 not and and and it's just you can it's
 anyway I won't go but the gym is
 different like I probably mouth breathe
 a little more in the gym true but like
 just walking around doing stuff like not
 people actually working out I probably
 do it in public now as well watching
 people see if they M probably think
 you're just like looking at their lips
 like you want to make out reading lips
 lip reading um so yeah it's and it's
 surprising how many people do breathe
 through their mouth yeah again I just
 got caught up in my own little world now
 I'm noticing it a lot more and obviously
 social media knows that I'm noticing cuz
 nasal those magnetic nasal strips are
 popping up and they've being popped up
 in everybody else's feed would you wear
 them would you do you want to swap
 should we try them are they expensive I
 don't know and I don't think so like
 so the thing is you got muscles around
 your nasal passage and you want those
 muscles to be working because that opens
 up your nail passage and you know helps
 you breathe properly and breathe through
 your nose rather than your mouth so
 obviously when those muscles stop
 working you don't use them they um Dev
 septum I think is that what oh yeah
 they collap that's very general speaking
 but they basically collapse and those
 muscles aren't working anymore so they
 close up and you can't breathe through
 your nose
 so this is sort of just
 like allowing the muscles to not work
 still and relying on something else the
 the magnetic NASA strips oh so you think
 that it maybe isn't like the best idea
 for long-term nasal breathing yeah it's
 more of a very but what about the sticky
 ones in comparison to the ones that just
 we use sticky ones I use them every now
 and then when my nose gets a little
 clogged up or something like that and I
 think they're handy just for those times
 but I don't think you should rely on
 them either I think they're a good tool
 to use to learn to start na nasal
 breathing but yeah I think the magnetic
 ones just take it to that next level cuz
 they open up you like if you if you see
 the clip on social media they open up
 your nostrils cuz you like put a magnet
 you stick a magnet inside your nose
 right is that right mhm and then how
 long do you leave that there for like
 and then you have to pick your nose to
 get the little magnets out every day
 like if you're just wearing it at night
 yeah I haven't dived much harder to me
 than just the sticky ones but I've
 obviously they're pump and advertising
 because I've had a few people say hey
 good yeah I should have looked at it
 before this episode but I just I don't
 think they're that good of an idea I'd
 rather see people using the sticky ones
 the plastic ones and weaning off those
 to learn how to breathe through your
 nose a little bit more so I think we
 when we were speaking to Nathan on the
 weekend or whenever it was he he sort of
 said how do I even start because we were
 talking about mouth breathing and nasal
 breathing and he's like yeah like that
 makes a lot of sense and I've noticed
 that I do it but what do I do
 now do what I don't know what would be
 the first thing so we we talk about
 taping our mouths and he's like oh do I
 just get duct tape
 and look again that that's my bad so I
 use Sports tape so just General if
 you're going to strap your knee or
 something that same strapping uh what's
 Rock tape is the but like also you can
 buy like there's so many brand cheap
 brand like obviously with a beard it's a
 little bit more trickier and I've found
 if you if you're looking for a brand
 that works with beards I've found a
 brand I just cut a little bit longer so
 it goes over my mouth a little bit and
 pass my beard and sticks it seems to
 work um I've tried a few different
 brands so if you're looking for that
 brand let me you know and I'll just take
 a photo and send it to you um but yeah I
 just recommend starting with
 that
 obviously night time's the best time to
 do it again Nathan brought this up oh
 I'll just sit there and watch a movie or
 something in the afternoon and take my
 mouth I'm like that's good but like if
 his partner wants to have a chat or asks
 him a question he needs to then he's
 like I'll just text her I'm like that's
 probably it's probably not the
 best uh but it is I get that because
 it's kind of scary tape in your mouth
 night time yeah yeah and look you're
 just going to end up ripping it off yeah
 like you won't yeah you'll just rip it
 off in your sleep most likely um and
 it's going to be hard to get used to the
 first couple nights you do it it's going
 to be weird it's not really going to it
 probably hinders your sleep a little bit
 I'd say but if you stick with it you get
 used to it and it will help um at the
 moment I've been feeling a bit congested
 so I've been taping my mouth at night
 time and sometimes during the night I
 don't even realize it and I just rip it
 off yeah it and you'll do the same like
 if you can't breathe you you will
 naturally pull the thing off your mouth
 and be able to breathe again so and look
 or you know if you have got time to
 yourself and you're alone yeah tape your
 mouth watch a movie just start with it
 just in normal day-to-day life if you're
 too scared of doing it at nighttime but
 it would just be a matter of just slowly
 increasing that time as well yeah and I
 think and potentially when you first
 start do both do the nasal strip and
 tape your mouth because having the nasal
 strip will make it feel a little easier
 to breathe in the beginning um yeah it's
 those nasal strips everybody's like oh
 they're just a little bit of plastic but
 they they make a huge difference huge
 difference and yeah when you are
 starting to tape your mouth that yeah
 that's a good point you should do both
 it will make a big difference and then
 obviously I'd say wean off the nasal
 strips and keep your mouth taped and
 then eventually lose the mouth tape but
 again like like I said I've been doing
 this for on and off for like five years
 if not longer and I still yeah go on and
 off it when I feel like I need to and
 I'm breathing through my mouth a bit too
 much I'll tape it
 mhm um so yeah na strips magnetic na
 strips good or bad I'd say good tool but
 yeah don't try don't rely on them yeah
 all right you go what you go okay I the
 the things that I've brought to the
 table today are a little more
 philosophical because I don't know why
 not I feel why not so the first one is
 funeral stories are not ever a about
 normal behavior all your normal behavior
 is
 forgotten funeral St funeral stories so
 think about I mean I haven't been to a
 funeral for a really long time I see but
 think about going to a funeral and the
 stories that they tell at the funeral
 about the person that has passed away
 they are never just normal things
 they're always about like your quirks
 and the things that make you who you are
 the weird things that you do the weird
 behaviors and tendencies the crazy ideas
 you had the stupid things that you tried
 they are the things that people remember
 about you when you pass away and I heard
 this on a podcast the other day and I
 was just like wow because I think this
 relates to our self-comparison episode
 quite well um because we're so scared of
 doing things that are different and
 weird and quirky and actually showing
 our real personality that's that's kind
 of scary right because it's likely what
 people will remember the most about you
 because it's different to everybody else
 like no one is going to get up at your f
 fer and say mac was nice and polite and
 worked to 9 to5 and dressed in beige and
 I don't know you know what I mean like
 no one's going to get up and and share
 all of the things that make you the same
 as everyone else next to you they're
 going to get up and share the funny
 quirky different things about you things
 that you did with people exactly that
 made you who you are because that's why
 people liked you because of the weird
 things and I just think that that's
 really cool and that's a really cool way
 to think about presenting your
 personality I guess like why do you want
 to present yourself as the same as every
 other person because what is going to
 make you stand out from the crowd and
 what's going to make anyone want to be
 around you and in your company if
 there's 46 other people just like you on
 this street you know what I
 mean yeah it's I guess like as soon as
 you sort of started talking about
 obviously being older now I've had a few
 different friendships and that sort of
 thing I can think about you know friends
 I've had and then you think about those
 friends and then like the things that
 you think about are moments what they do
 you know the way they talk about things
 like their little quirks so yeah it's
 well how do I use that to I don't know
 stop self-comparison and live my life
 how how do you you if if I find out how
 to stop it then I will tell you but I've
 been trying to like since that episode
 and like a bunch of stuff that I've been
 learning in uni and then like listening
 to more philosophical podcasts the past
 couple of weeks I have been trying to be
 more
 myself um because I don't know the last
 month maybe we've been meeting a lot
 more people I don't know I feel like
 I've been a lot more social maybe
 because I'm on uni break and I've just
 been socializing more and I do find that
 I have a lot more fun around people when
 I am just weird like when I'm just my
 normal weird self m you know what I mean
 but it's so easy and then I'll get on
 social media and I'll be like oh I'm so
 different but that's a good thing right
 um are you allowed to be your weird self
 at
 Uni I feel like I'm a robot at Uni maybe
 NE maybe this semester coming because
 I'll be in the third year and there'll
 be less students but it's just very easy
 to just um just be a student you know
 what I mean not really it's also very
 hard that you need to share your
 personality cuz a lot of the time you're
 in massive groups and you sit down
 listen sit down listen and then if if
 you do participate in the big groups
 that's very intimidating because there's
 like I don't know 200 kids in a lecture
 theater and it's hard
 to it's hard to want to be different
 apologies if you can hear that in the
 background somebody's going crazy with
 the
 vacuum um but yeah I don't know I just
 thought that was a good thing to carry
 with you to think about when you're in
 social situations and like meeting
 people and when you question yourself I
 suppose like why why do I have to be the
 same as everybody else and how do I want
 people to remember me like do I want
 them to remember me as an individual or
 me as just like one of the crowd well
 they probably won't remember you if
 you're one of the crowd but yeah
 interesting
 yeah you want me to you want me to keep
 going y okay the next one I've got is
 about success and I feel like this
 relates to health and fitness more
 directly in the sense that not one thing
 not one fitness plan not one diet not
 one way of living eating sleeping
 whatever is going to lead everyone to
 succeed I think a couple of weeks ago
 maybe we spoke about how the diets and
 stuff that stick and that are popular
 are ones that you can market and sell
 really well like keto vegan Etc because
 it's like here's this thing and it
 worked for me and it's easy to package
 and it's easy to pass on but that
 doesn't necessarily mean it's going to
 work for everyone and I found a really
 really good example of that in a
 sporting situation so it's not often
 that there are three pros like big Pros
 in any sporting situation at one point
 in time in history right there's usually
 one or two and they're competing against
 each other most likely just one pro that
 is like that dominates the time period
 for however many years they can the top
 position but just FYI I'm not into
 tennis either but I know these people
 because they're all such big players and
 that is federa Nadal and jovic and they
 were all like top of their field but all
 at the same time which is very abnormal
 right and then I heard a comparison
 about how they all approach the game and
 their warmup completely differently and
 I was like wow this is perfect a perfect
 example of like a real world high level
 high achieve a situation where everyone
 has their own way to succeed because
 they all succeed right so for example
 federa enters the court like so there's
 like warm-up courts before they go to
 take the actual game feder's way of
 entering the court is like he's doing
 trick shots he's messing around with his
 friends he's visibly having fun he's
 laughing he's relaxed right and then
 there's Nadal who comes on and is like
 full on competitor mode screaming
 yelling doing sprints being really
 aggressive about his warm-up and then
 there's jovic who is like an emotionless
 robot and comes on completely focused
 completely calm keeps to himself doesn't
 say anything doesn't do anything like
 extravagant like Nadal does but all of
 them are world champions and they all
 have vastly different ways of warming up
 to play the same game and try and win
 the same goal right isn't that so cool
 yeah yeah
 um
 it's that's surpris like no one really
 thinks about that any as well they just
 sort of look at the goal yeah everyone
 wants to win they all want to
 win I don't know the cup yeah yeah but
 it's but like yeah you can take that to
 health and fitness like you know if
 somebody's lost a lot of weight and
 looks good now no one cares how they got
 there they're just like it's just the
 success yeah no one takes the time to go
 oh hey what have you been doing for the
 last two years um it's always about that
 and this is a good example of just you
 know they're all Champions they've all
 won big titles been winning for many
 years it's like well how do they
 actually get there and how do they warm
 up no one asked that question yeah yeah
 I think asking those other questions
 will help you succeed we we had a
 business meeting yesterday about how we
 can be better I guess and I think we
 were talking about also something
 similar to this about that's exactly can
 scale yeah and um the man that we were
 talking to very successful in business
 but he was sort of
 like suggesting we do group oriented
 things and we both know from experience
 that you can't just give a bunch of
 people one program or one course to
 follow to all get their goal and their
 goal is different but the same and
 they're all different individuals and
 they all have different lives and
 different factors that affect it and
 they respond to exercise and food and
 sleep differently it's really hard to
 just be like here we've got this program
 and it's going to help you lose 10 kilos
 in 12 weeks because everyone it's not
 going to work for everyone it might work
 for two out of 20 you know what I mean
 and we could use those two to advertise
 to another 20 and then we have four
 success and then we keep doing that but
 then those 18 people that didn't succeed
 are probably going to be disheartened
 and think that health and fitness or
 dieting or exercise is a waste of time
 and that's not the case they just tried
 the wrong thing for them yeah and yeah
 it comes down like that's exactly you
 know we could take those federat Nal
 jovic we could replace those names with
 three of our clients and those three
 clients are going to have completely
 different warm-ups to you know the
 success of whatever it is yeah and also
 I find a lot of the time when we work so
 close with clients their version of
 success like yes they still want to lose
 weight look good and all that sort of
 stuff but their version of success
 changes as well yeah like winning as
 such changes for them as well so I think
 you
 know taking your time and working people
 individually and learning what their
 warmup is and helping them learn their
 warmup to succeed is a much better way
 of approaching it but again no one
 thinks about that no everybody's like oh
 the success stories and yeah when when
 you relate relate it back to business I
 think in that session yesterday of the
 business
 coach can't remember who I looked up but
 I was looking up I guess
 online fitness coaches as well and their
 page is just full of you know before and
 after photos and we don't do that we've
 talked about why we don't do that and
 all that sort of stuff and yes it's very
 powerful but at the same time say
 there's 10 before and after photos on
 their page it looks impressive you're
 like wow those 10 people have got great
 results what if they've had 10,000
 people yeah do their course and only
 those 10 have succeeded I'm sure the
 success rate is a lot higher for that
 person I was looking up but it's just
 like you know no one asks the question
 of you know what was the warm-up to the
 success yeah everybody's just like oh
 they succeed okay take my money yeah
 it's probably going to work for me too
 so yeah again I think that's a great
 Point like anybody trying to achieve
 anything out there and I guess we could
 use this as well like what is the warmup
 that everybody's doing to succeed and
 then what does our warmup look like
 because it's not going to be the same as
 everybody else's yeah just oh my God
 self-comparison is all around us it's
 inescapable now that we've brought it up
 it's everywhere can't stop thinking
 about
 it okay what's what's your diet Jack
 diet go on well I guess it goes straight
 into that like something similar as well
 uh this come up again was sort of a
 question by Z who asked a good question
 on the last
 podcast it's like when you hear the word
 diet I hate using that word because it
 gives it's just gives me the Shivers and
 he's like cuz it he's like it just
 automatic I just automatically think of
 anend date oh he's like as as a
 temporary thing yeah a diet is just a
 temporary thing that you do to lose
 weight and then I'm like well diet to me
 is like a way of eating like keto like
 oh no diet to me I think that's from
 nutrition learning but diet to me is
 just like how you eat period yeah and
 that's how it should be seen yeah but
 that's that's the issue you say diet to
 somebody and everybody just thinks of
 something different and usually it's a
 negative like starving yourself or
 eating having to eat certain foods for a
 certain amount of time and then just
 stopping so it's just like well what is
 the right word like instead of diet
 because we I use it as well I hate using
 it but what other word could I use just
 to you should just be eating
 normally within control to live a
 healthy happy life long life I think you
 have to explain it to that extent
 because there's no single word that is
 going to have the same meaning and the
 same context to every single person that
 you say it to ever because everyone's
 got a different experience and a
 different learning of the word right so
 I feel like every time it's got to have
 that amount of context like what is your
 way of eating on a daily basis like
 that's how you have to say it you know
 because especially now with so much
 marketing around us and so much social
 media everyone's always trying to use
 like click baity
 words marketing and then yeah like say
 you're on the tram and you see a
 sign like perfect example across the
 road from us there's an electronic
 billboard that changes all the time and
 I can't remember which franchise it is
 but a franchise has got an ad out at the
 minute that's like healthy eating is
 clean or clean eating is healthy and I'm
 like what the what does that even mean
 clean eating is healthy what Buzz words
 put together exactly what is clean what
 is healthy like and everyone's going to
 have a different context behind that
 because of how they Define each of the
 words I guess that's the point like
 everybody can sort of see that sign and
 if it means something different
 everybody they're going to associate
 with it and go oh I'll buy that product
 or service or whatever it was yeah um
 yeah I just thought it was weird and
 then I've just been seeing a lot about
 tribalism yeah what do you mean by that
 well we sort of spoke about in the last
 episode I don't know In the self-
 comparison episode we talked about oh
 how people just you know ketos will jump
 on the keto thing and you know keto is
 the best and everything else sucks and
 that's their tribe to type of thing and
 I just um I don't know again if social
 media was pumping it but I've been
 watching a few things on that through
 history about
 tribalism and history and human behavior
 which I found quite interesting and I
 think it just relates to this it's just
 like you know you try something it works
 like we're saying in the comp comparison
 one that you know you want it to work
 and you're afraid of it not working
 you're afraid of judging so you can try
 and convince everybody that this is the
 one thing that's going to work and it
 just builds from there and um I also
 brought up how two different scientists
 one plant-based and one I guess Pro meat
 but not just carniv he's definitely not
 carnivore he still eats meat and veggies
 but he's you know eat meat um Hues
 refers to it as omnivore that's that's
 the dinosaur that eats everything right
 okay so omnivore and diet I feel like
 that's what we should use all the time
 omnivore diet yeah and plant-based and
 they both looked at the same study and
 have had the different outcomes from
 that study and it sort of comes down to
 this as well like the plant-based guy
 100% agree with everything he says has
 good content but at the same time is he
 stuck in this tribalism because you know
 when he first started he started he
 would have been eating healthy feeling
 good all that sort of stuff and then
 like hey guys this plant-based thing's
 really good and got people in to Vince
 him and others it works but then he
 would have start gotten getting
 attention from that and then that
 attention turns into money and like at
 what point does it go from you know it
 is good for you to now this is you know
 if I stop doing this I'll lose
 everything you know what I mean so and
 that could be tribalism as well like
 same thing when a tribe splits off or
 insert whatever that don't know if it's
 going to work up in the mountains there
 so they convince everybody if it works
 obviously you know their tribe
 successful they eat a lot of food make
 some money build some stuff so everybody
 joins them
 so yeah I just found it very interesting
 because again we have all these tribes
 but their tribes are
 online you know the plant-based and
 omnivores have these followings that
 aren't really real they've never met
 them they won't meet them so it's just
 why do we have to change from omnivore
 anyway I feel like omnivore has been the
 way for ever right like but for humans
 forever but now everyone's like oh we're
 all so obese and did you know that
 actually obesity is a bigger problem
 than malnutrition now in the world
 there's way there's more obese people
 than there is malnourished people which
 has never been a problem before in
 history ever right and everyone's
 panicking and trying to change their
 diets and find a diet that has a label
 but isn't it obvious isn't it just so
 obvious like the processed foods that
 are the new thing are what is changing
 the dynamic of our health conditions I
 don't know I feel yeah like it should be
 obvious but it's not because again you
 get all these tribes doing all these
 different things they make the water all
 murky for everybody
 else so yeah just a little bit on diet
 mhm cool that's all we got that's all I
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