You're listening to the Ricky Long podcast. The thing is I've got so many answers this which is something I didn't think I'd ever have definitely gives you a massive appreciation for life in general. So it's too wishy-washy, but I don't care. People don't appreciate and again. This is me included people don't appreciate the things I have until they're gone and luckily. It doesn't take much for me to get into that mindset of like, okay just appreciate this. Like I'll be over walking early and I'll just sit just hit me. I'll just be like, I'm so done glad I can I can walk I can breathe and I don't have to panic about how long this walks going to take because I have to be back for some time or even the fact that I can. walk as long as I want without feeling like I'm going to collapse which a lot of people that's a real that's reality to them. And it makes me not it's probably made me a really laid-back person. I think it's definitely made me more light by persons that my mom describe me as like obviously she's got two sons my older brother and myself and my older brother is very highly strung and stressful and she's just like, I don't think I've ever seen Benjamin. She goes and fetch me like stressed like it's very rare, they'll seem stressed because it just I just thought the mentality if it's not going to matter and Damn five hours that we spend five seconds on it. Like it's just me get on with it. Stop sweating. But the Small Things realistically if I asked you about this five days later, you're going to be like, what was I worried? What was I talking about? What was I thinking about like it that's reality. So I just think that you know shit happens get over you're listening to the Ricky Long podcast where International Fitness entrepreneur Ricky Long answers your questions and interviews. Us leaders on training nutrition and mindset Ricky is a fitness industry expert having been helping people achieve their fitness goals since 2002. We talked everything Fitness business and group exercise to help you on your fitness journey. Episode number 57 all of the Rick along podcast and this episode was an absolute pleasure to do on a number of reasons. First of all, the guests I had on who give up his time to chat the main chat to you and just you know continue to spread his message is an absolute gentleman. He is an old friend we go back a long long time, which we do chat about briefly in the episode. Mr. their ban much Ban is a fitness entrepreneur. He does online coaching online PT. He runs specific programs for a very very specific type of person and it's for what he stands for. So ban is affected by cystic fibrosis, which is a disease which has You know it affected them his whole life but kind of not affected them at the same time because he's he turned it into his you know, his whole reason why and everything he does is not only based on to make himself healthier and feel better. But to spread that good message and positive messages to others who are affected by CF and by families are affected by CF. So we're going to talk into that loads and loads. Unloads a massive thank you to bear for coming on was chat a little bit about Fitness business what his Fitness business is doing now and like I said, we met about seven eight nine years ago now back and Fitness First Belfast corns water. I was one of the managers in the club when then came on for what I did find out on the episode was his first job and fitness and and it's amazing to see what band. Is doing noise so you know what it would do live in a world war. You know social media those give people so much impact than position in the spread a message. I'm been really really does that he is, you know, he's my first six-figure guest and you know, he's got over a hundred thousand followers on Instagram. He's got there The elusive Blue Tick, but you would never ever know that from speaking to him very very humble. He's as humbly as it was when I met him seven eight nine years ago. We talked about that and talk about what's next for bam. In terms of his Fitness business some really really cool exciting stuff. It gives us a great Insight on to that and we obviously talked a lot about cystic fibrosis. If you're a bit like me, you might be aware of it. You might know but some pieces but honestly, I know very very little or you very very little about sisera fibrosis and throughout this episode. I just I'm so grateful to now I know a little bit more about it. I'm a little bit kind of regret for all the didn't know more before. You know one would have been closer to them when we did work in there and the CM GM but hey times have changed and I'm really really happy that we've caught up in this episode and I'm even happier that we get to share it with you. So just before we hand over to Ben I want to make a quick. As an announcement I suppose it isn't a judgment or podcast sponsors Podium for sport or doing a free giveaway a 50 point giveaway as part of this episode and this episode alone. So to earn a 50-point shopping voucher to be spent in either the put in for sports shop or online their website www.patinsproject.com. You need to do the following things you need to at this point. Screenshot your phone right now or of this episode you need to them post this episode on your Instagram story. You need the tag Ricky long. You need the tag pulling for sport. You need to tag band Mudge. 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I'm welcoming on to this episode of the regular podcast is a good friend and I was going to say old colleague not that he's old but just a long time ago. We were once again, we were one's colleagues. Mr. Bear Mudge. I dunno I'm really really good. Thank you so much for coming on to the podcast. So I need I need to address the first and most obvious thing is the haircut. Yeah, for those who maybe haven't seen ban. He has been through quite a transformational process and the last two weeks with the haircut. So why don't why don't you tell people about the haircut and then we'll tell people about you. So obviously you're gonna it cut off a little bit there, but we're good. That's all right and continue. So yes obviously is not a visual things. I'm just have to be very descriptive with my words here. I had very long hair will not very long. It was just I had long hair and I decided to grow my hair long because I hated having short hair and you never knew what to do with it. It seems like everybody and this is as boring as it is by the way the story it wasn't anything to try and look like Thor and I think that's just kind of as a happy happy mistake. I have made Here because I never knew what to do with it. I ever attended everyone who had short hair would just know exactly how to style it. I every morning I woke up. I was like that all day and then I left and that see photos of myself of it. Are you look like an idiot. So as I write with its long I can either have a dime or tied up. That's it. And that was my thought process behind it. And then I started growing it out which is if anyone's done that and have a master appreciation for women now, it is a pain in the ass growing out your hair. Like an actual pain in the ass you go through so many phases everyone's like, oh you'll get this one phase where it looks terrible. There's like seven or eight parts just like I have to wear a cap. I have to wear hair bands. I can't quite tight back yet. So I have to like that and Slick it back and look like a Spanish person for a while. There's all those stages that little tells you. But yeah, but then with that the comparisons to the character Thor specifically Chris Hemsworth store, not the Not necessarily the car to the car tutor in the comic started coming up and I was like, oh that's kind of cool. You know, I've never really had a cool nickname Thor's pretty cool making I'm in the coolest thing happened was obviously I've always been into comics and stuff. That's if anyone knows me that's that's evident, but It I started doing this thing called Thor's day. I'm the kind of concept of Thor's they came from me being just an absolute nerd and looking up why we use the words of the week. You know, why they where they came from was like, why do we call it Monday what it called Tuesday? And what I Googled it turns out it's all from Norse mythology. So Thursday is literally Thursday. Tuesday is tears day. Wednesday was wounds day, which is Odin is Odin and so on and so forth. So I was like that's kind of cool. I'll teach people that about this and I had the hammer had this like camera that I got from over in England. I took photo and just hashtag Thursday. And it just blew up. Yeah, it was ridiculous. And with that, I mean obviously a lot of cool things happen from that but the best thing about it was the fact that kids and parents with kids with cystic fibrosis, which is what I have which I think we're going to be talking a little bit about more later started saying all this is so cool. My kid thinks Thor has cystic fibrosis. I thought this is cool. I can actually really make Make use of this. So I started posting up front of me taking my nebulizer switch to the medication I take for my CF. Thank me with the idea that if okay. I hear taking them. I hated taking them when I was a kid if I saw any superhero, I'm recording here. It's and I realize it's an audible thing. But Ricky can say yes. I'm recording in the video. If I if they can see a Superhero taking what they hear to taking it might make it a bit easier for them to take it and it may be a good bargaining tool. Or for parents for kids here a little bit resistant. Like I was to taking the nebulizer, so I'll put that up and yeah, it got just genuinely the best decision I ever made hmm that when it comes to social media was just doing that be a fast forwards sorry. No, but I was going to say I did just you do that very well on social media and anyone who would observe your social media having not known you at all. There would be a little bit. Okay. This is a fully grown man. Dresses up as Thor and it's very very easy to make a judgment on that. But then when you read into the reasons why I know exactly what you've just said, they're like, it's such a powerful message and it's basically again in a nutshell I dress up as for because it helps children take life-saving medicine. I mean that's I mean, you know that that goes beyond, you know, hashtag influencer can you know hashtag fan? That's an actual reason to become you can plan for that. You know, you don't you don't turn 15 16 your teacher and school last year. What do you want to do? You said I want to dress up as a superhero to help children, like nobody nobody sets out to do that. That's something you your kind of accidentally find. Yeah. And you know, I'm a big fan of the saying like your mask becomes your message or your biggest p and as your biggest reason why this week you're obviously spoke about you know cystic fibrosis and we will talk about that but kind of will talk about securing cystic fibrosis and I and a bit about you. So tell people who might not be too aware of you who you are and high CF players such a rule in your life. So I obviously been much you've probably heard that already. I'm 29 years old. I'm from Belfast Northern Ireland. Ireland has many people like to confuse it with that. We're better friends the arm and I resent me here knowing that entertain and I have been in the fitness industry now for nearly 10 years. I originally I sucked at school to be honest. I'm not wasn't because I wasn't intelligent which I believed I wasn't for a long. Time it's because I just didn't I wasn't interested in what I was doing and I feel like a lot of people actually had a conversation with an opt for this topic. A lot of people who go through the school system and don't feel like they who don't do well and that type system commonly thinking am I dumb like am I not that intelligent but it's until I find the things I really enjoyed that I realize. Okay, maybe I maybe I'm not as stupid as I thought I was but my original passion was leaving schools film and video. I wanted to be in the process of making films. I wanted to be a director. I just loved the whole the whole industry and I still very much do its lucky enough to get working on a couple of projects. I worked on this little show Game of Thrones just a wee indie film. Yeah part of achieving a yeah a couple people not many people have but work on that which was It was hell to be honest. It sucks. I met some very nice people there, but I met some very odd. Nice people there the what did you do in Great Game of Thrones? Because everyone know I listen to this it's going to be like, oh my God, what episodes have you been in? So I was an assistant director which sounds incredible but it's possibly to delay dolls. Yeah. I basically looked after the crew sort of the crew the cast And the extras so basically the be some days where I was sometimes I was riling up crowds to make them excited about something that wasn't happening. There's other situations where I was sitting with the mountain. No though the horned they dude Joffrey. I was also Joffrey standing for a lot of scenes soul in a Headley had to do a couple of lines at me. While they waited for the guy Jackie, please Joffrey to get ready. So I'm standing or sitting and getting talked at by Flynn had they were she's doing her lines. Oh, well, that's good to sit on the Iron Throne quite a lot. It was cool because they use me basically standing is someone who just sits in the position. The app is going to be and they like you they get the audio they get the focus pulled on you and then they swap you over but the afternoon so how long ago was all this? I was 2000 and What I mean, 2010 or 11, I think okay. Yeah, it's been it's been a while but it's actually on set. I'm not where I was miserable and I was speaking to one of the extras who's playing a Dothraki and it was a day that Jason Momoa was there and Jason I think was his first gig like proper gig and he was quite nervous and you want to make sure he's getting everything right? This is me and saying listen handset, by the way that day. I was like this dude's dick like it's so versatile. Is taking so long like every time he did one take you'd run off. His shot is spot near uncheck the VC and ask the director for thing instead of just waiting to get directed from the spot. He would run off and then everyone moved it was just adding to our day. I was speaking to a Dothraki extra and I was like, so what are you doing? He's like I'm personal trainer as like, what's up? He's a guy help people the gym, you know, I basically had to train all the time and it's like it's like yeah, it sounds like a typical PT. I just had a dream although and he said yeah, you know, you look like you're in good shape. You should give it a go yourself and like yeah, alright girl, like helping people trained like training myself. It's very important for my health then yeah, I was kind of it, you know, that was again. That's a very brief story of it, but that's kind of her start in the fitness industry and best Never miss. Yeah, so there's actually after that. We probably met after that because I don't know if it was your your first job and Fitness First cones water was yeah. Yeah. So I remember you command. I was the studio manager at the time teaching all the classes you come in as the you know, the the personal trainer fitness instructor for this. Yeah, I understand in person training after that. I saw back in the days and I will drop in my audience will love this that a little known fact about you which probably isn't on social media that much as you actually did the two-day initial module training for Les Mills bodypump describe that in a couple of words. He'll so let's send me word. I need I can still I can still remember his me and my friend Johnny we both did that course and I think I'm not making excuses for myself, but I give it my best which I always do but I was I was still recovering from having a decreased lung function again. I'm not making excuses because I freaking hate them to be honest, but But I just remember thinking this is really really hard and the the nights that we finished because the two day course we did a nice bath in my parents and my parents are still living with parents at the time and it got to the point where we had like a hot shower on and we had the ice bath and we're just swapping Swap and Swap and swapping and it was horrendous. She's like just the pain would not leave our legs at all go back and do it. Again. This is terrible for played anyone who does this as a job? Thanks. Thanks. So, right you've touched on it quite a few times. We'll catch up with you kind of what your Fitness business looks like noise. So just what and you and I have spoke quite openly about this before we started recording. What what is CF because they'll be a lot of people like me with a very very limited understanding so and my understanding basically comes from being friends with you and following Your journey on social media and you know, obviously before social media kind of new bits and pieces for me it is you have reduced lung function and I know like basically nothing else. So they'll be a lot will be a lot of people like me. So you've got reduced lung function tell me what CFS and how it affects you. Okay. So cystic fibrosis is a genetic illness would takes both of your parents to carry the cystic fibrosis Gene to for a child to have it. So I've got an older brother who doesn't have it. He's got one. Carrot copy of the gene. There's me who got both copies of the Gene and my sister whom we got one copy of the gene. So, I'm the only one of the three he was lucky enough to get that sweet CF. I'm basically in essence. It's the production of sodium affects the production of sodium within the body and the regulation of sodium in the body so sodium and it affects the mucus within the body so mucus is like the oil of the car it affects the interest. Well that car runs the oil for the mucus within your body someone without cystic fibrosis is much like the water you're drinking right now. It's if you swirl it around in the glass it moves very free in that glass some with cystic fibrosis that glass or the mucus within that glass would be a lot much. Well be more like PVA glue or wallpaper paste. That's a lot Slicker and lot harder to move. That makes a lot of internal processes harder for the body. But the biggest thing it does is that that mucus is a great place for bacteria to grow so that because in your chest and let's say you get a chest infection the bugs get in your chest you feel the crap for a couple days you cleared out with some antibiotics that you take all the way through because no one's stupid and doesn't finish not about of course. Yeah, and But then you're fine. Whereas with some with cystic fibrosis the bone skin to that mucus and they make make a flip in base camp in there. It's very hard to clear that up because you imagine like trying to get in underneath again underneath that mucus to the left it out. It's very difficult because it's so sticky and thick where's yours is just so clear and wants to move so that basically happens if you get chest infection. The bugs it's in your lung tissue, then destroys them tissue if it sits there for too long, I'm treated and then this process happens again and again and again and again and again and then you basically lose your lung tissue, which means then you need to get a lung transplant but being because cystic fibrosis is a genetic illness. It has very it has a lot of different mutations. So I've got the most common mutation which affects fifty percent of the people with CF but there's loads of Other variations of this because its genetic some people have like myself. I have pancreatic deficiency. So my friend Kris doesn't produce like this, which is the enzyme that breaks down fat. So a lot of people CF before these pancreatic enzymes Ricky consider a lot of people passed away because of malnutrition malnourishment, so they couldn't they literally couldn't digest fat. Okay Evil's got CF related diabetes because if that's Yes. Yeah. Luckily. I have that. There's a whole host. Is there anything you can think of that would you know be enough enough that you get brittle bones you get reduced growth. So I'm my dad's 6 2 and 5 you like so, you know, there's that height think is basically growing up. You cannot absorb into my home, you know, you can take your tablets that does do it to a certain degree, but I'm not going to get as much nutrition as someone else would be like, you know, if I can optimize it. I'm still probably gonna get by 95 at the Percent of what I put into my body or as you get 100. Yeah, and that's that's kind of in a nutshell. That's what CF is again. It's it's so varied. There's not like a mild form of it. There's not a severe form of it. It's just it's just it is what it is. And I just try to do my best to manage the variables that I can control and that's going my approach to for those listening who maybe haven't seen ban ban is in if you don't mind me saying incredible. Both aesthetically and from a conditional point of view so I know you've done, you know quote on quote bodybuilding shows. I'm very I'm not very good with the names of those but I also know their level of conditioning you put yourself through just some standard jam session. Like if you were to enter some sort of CrossFit competition, I'm sure you would do quite well in the net cord so your level of fitness and you're both like I said functional can use that word and aesthetic. It's that In for people with CF or are have you made a move to make yourself? That way I've definitely made myself. I kind of trying to get that. It's definitely not a common thing with people cystic fibrosis. In fact, there's some people who I mean I regularly get this comment. I can't believe you're like this with CF. How did you do this with it with CF and I was like, well, I just treat myself like everyone else like I'm not an alien my muscles still response stress recovery nutrition. She like everyone else. Yeah, that's the mindset. I had going into a cement that I have for going into anything that I'm no different than anyone else and if someone else can do something and that I'm gonna damn well give it my best shot and I didn't realize that was the mentality I had until literally couple months ago. I was listen to a book. I think it's one of the Tony Robbins books and it was just talking about that and he said there's some people who genuinely believe that they can do anything. They want. I was like, yeah actually cut off the way I think you know, if I think if I see someone skateboarding for instance and they're doing these amazing tricks. I'm like first of all that's flipping impressive. I appreciate anyone who does anything to high level and his endless passion about it. But I also think if I did that if I spent the amount of time that that person's been doing that I could probably do that too. That's not an arrogance thing at all. It's just he they have chosen to spend their time. I'm getting better at one thing. I have chosen might get better something else. And if I swap those around there's no reason why I couldn't be at the same level as what they are. I genuinely do believe that and I obviously just some people have genetic advantages like also Michael Phelps lactate system doesn't work like everyone else he could beat it, you know, so there's things like that where you restricted but Yeah, my thought process behind it is if I can do this so can so can anyone else and that's one of the biggest reasons why I always stayed natural and never never touched anything that would that would not allow me to say this message honestly because as soon as I did that I just feel like I couldn't speak to parents in the same way. I couldn't I just couldn't deliver the message that I wanted to deliver. If I ever went on a route that would be deemed as Not cheating isn't cheating at all. It's just something that could you can do naturally essentially and at there's nothing that I've achieved that anyone else in this planet kind of Chief if they are able-bodied, but that's the mindset and took into and that's the message. I'm trying to give people cystic fibrosis is yes, you have been given this diagnosis, but don't let someone else's limits dictate yours. The doctors have tried to do that to me or my life. And if it's even got to the point where they challenge me and what I was doing and I literally looked up and went effing look at me I swear but I was so angry. I was like it was going through that kind of I think it was the period where I was transitioning from careers as well. So I was pretty Best this almost childlike Alan Jamie and and how healthy I won't ever let you taking creatine that stuff bad for its beauty come up with a proof to when this one says that way that anything supplement. Like I basically yelled at them saying like look at me. I'm clearly doing something right you guys should be listening to me. I shouldn't listen to you again that sounded so arrogant. But at the time I was like no I don't like this. Like these people should be listen to me. I'm clearly doing something right and yet there have been having a go at me taking creating as I do you understand what co-creating works. I do. Here's how it works. Like all the Bulls a protein too bad for your liver and kidneys show me the papers that I actually said that to her. I was like show me these papers to prove that. I will sit here with takes you five hours. I'll be sitting here waiting to show me show me those papers and she's just like and then walked off and hit them right get out of here. Yeah. Everyone's an expert on until they're proven wrong. Yeah until you know science is correct until logic proves it wrong as well. I read that coke yesterday. I think it was not hard at all. No, the other kind of thought I absolutely love that. It's so grown up as a child, you know when your teenage years and obviously this is such a part of your life were. Where there are opportunities that you want? Being given or things that maybe at that point you thought you couldn't do because of CF. Yep, school sports sports or something. I never really go to participate in because I was too small because I've always been naturally link. I'll never pretend that. I wasn't anything but lie, she's always very lean and but skinny, it wasn't like a nice sleep. Not the lenient for in our days. That meant that I was extremely light in school. I was fast. I was very very nippy and intend that thankfully but that never allowed me to get on any would be teams. So I mean I went to every single practice. I tried my best to get on those teams and prove that I could do what everyone else could do, but they just never picked me because this they just I think that it's Ami's. Too small I simply because I just couldn't build muscle that time. You know, I had testosterone wasn't wasn't my best friend yet. So I just could actually couldn't do that and that really really not my confidence. In fact, it still has a like a lasting effect on me to this day that it makes me but it's a positive thing because it makes me appreciate every single thing every single compliment every single opportunity that I get. Physically as well even being seen as the big guy. I'm like, wow. That is it guys it still affects me. It's still like I still take up like so positively I'm just like I'm so cool. I'm not that guy. Like I was never that guy and it's almost like that skinny kid slashed early teenager is still in me, and he said he's been able to like take all this and be like, Well, okay. This is a this is cool. All this work that you've put in is has been it's been worth it. So it's giving me such an appreciation for everything that again. So I was going to ask about the medicines that you have to take on a daily basis weekly basis monthly basis. I think you go for check-ups. So what does that all look like? So again for me because of how I've looked after myself and my health is my number one priority. The medications I take is very small compared to some others. Okay. In fact that actually said this someone someone on social media. They asked me what medication I take and I told her she is like, oh wow, I is that it was like, yeah. It's and she's like, I've never heard of someone taking that for your medications. She's like and I was expecting her to kind of get a bit. That pissed but she wasn't fair play. Like that's amazing that you should be so proud of that was like, oh I feel because people say F can take things too personally, but at the moment I did. Excuse me, creating creating forsake Madison. I take this medicine. I take crayon. That's why you know what it is. Even if it says here, it's Creon and then prank react Kratom, which is why I gotta just mix those two words together. And Creon is essentially digestive enzymes to you could get them if you needed them, but it's specifically high in life is because that's obviously what my body doesn't produce. So I take those with every meal obviously if it's got more fat in it I take more of them. I take vitamins as well because obviously my pancreas doesn't produce bleep is that means I don't absorb the vitamins a d and K the fat soluble vitamins as well as others. So people get naturally on my Foods as easily as you would so take those and then on the last thing I take which is crazy and I'm so proud of the hot shortness lister's is my nebulizer, which I take one nebulizer called. Which is it's pretty much like an inhaler. So anyone who's got asthma it's not that old blue one. You take to visit dilators opens up. Your Airways gives you a bit of a light head. Sometimes if you haven't taken a while and then the second one to take is something called poems. I nordine. He's slow different names for these things and what it does. This is amazing. It goes into the mucus like a you inhale it obviously as a gas it gets into the lungs and it breaks down the mucus at a cellular level and actually Alters the DNA. Of the mucus to make it more viscous so I can clear it up. I had not said I've just jotted down a question here, but it's so why was why so few medicines do you think that's because you're just you know, lucky with CF or because of the way you live your life in terms of training and nutrition. I've always hated the word lucky when it comes to see if yeah, because it implies that there's this magic mothers that there's magic kind of making sure that their Castle spell on him he is not stable top of it's not it's not like it's While there is some Fortune I'll have to say that. There's it's been my hard work and my hard work but intelligent work because sometimes the most intelligent thing to do is not work hard. It sounds really silly. But like that's like for instance yesterday. I was broken from doing that crossfit workout and then playing I play flag American football and I'm like 29, I feel it. I feel it the next day like my hips my lower back. I did a lot of running and a lot of sidestepping. Lot of movements, you can't really replicate in the gym or they're very hard to replicate in a gym. So the next day I was like my soul. I thought you know what, you know stubborn kind of maybe younger less-experienced me would have been like screwed going to go to the gym. You've got a day to go to the gym go dirt. Where's know the intelligent me is just like right your body's sore just jump on the assault bike and do 20 minutes nice and relaxed. Just get your hips moving get your back loosened up through some foam rolling. So sometimes hard work isn't the best work. It's smart work. That's not that message. But yeah, I think it's a mix. I mean there's obviously some say luck in the fact that I maybe have bumped into someone who has a chest infection. Who did I get that from it's not really, you know, then everyone's lucky about since like saying, oh, you're lucky to get hit by a falling piece of debris today like it's Yeah, that's just it just happened at or it doesn't happen. Yeah. Yeah locks relative. It's are you in a position to take advantage of what life kind of gives you so I was just I was just curious, you know, if somebody who knows a lot more about CF than me obviously is surprised by why you take so few medicines was just wondering how much of that is natural and how much of that is because of what you've manifested and your life by way of of your training and all that. I mean my my entire life including my career revolves around my health being the number one priority, which that that means that I don't work early because that means I get sleep. You know, the sleep is something that I will push and push and push until the day. I die. People do not get enough sleep honest just a simple thought like people to see it definitely is mentality nowadays that are the less sleep. You get the more of a hard worker you are I mean you look at The Rock The Rock for example, he's a fantastic room one, but the one thing I freaking hate that he pushes his team no sleep and he step 3, aren't you getting up to go to the gym? Yeah fair enough, but you Probably taken stuff that well, I mean, I really guarantee he's taking things that other people aren't taking. He's also a millionaire so he gets all his meals made for him. He gets a private plane. So he probably sleep on that plane. I mean, have you tried to sleep in a commercial for the playing for it's not this mentality Dawn to the again. I have absolutely loved the rock. He's incredible person, but That's one of them and he's like the kind of biggest social media role model really notice and he's got such a powerful brand that whatever he says a lot of people take a be like right. I'm Dave. I'm a plumber. I work 9:00 to 6:00 at night and I go and trained team. No sleeping only get three are sleeping still here grinding your like you haven't you're gonna die like a soda all the work you put into the gym means nothing if you can't sleep hmm because muscle doesn't grow in the gym it grows when you're at rest and when you're sleeping, so my biggest priority is the people get the adequate amount of sleep, and I genuinely think versus what As I am priority. Yeah, what's your philosophy and sleep then? Do you work in in hours and blocks wake up times or you know, I don't really have much I just make sure that I've always got the same as when I go to bed. I'm like okay to have anything on tomorrow. What time do I have to get up? What time will that how long will that get me to sleep? And as long as I get at least seven seven and a half hours, I'm good. If I can get more than that, I will take it. If I don't need to get up, I will get up. I will let my body rest and again for years. I just feel like I might just being lazy like is this just me being like all motivated to get up with like no, it's just me being smart. Like if I can do this, that means I can maybe squeeze her in after three years down the line so that you know, yeah, I'm not looking. I'm actually by losing time. I'm getting time if that makes sense and Sons Sons kind of strange but but no II and the one thing I'm very good I sleep. I sleep very well which again I know a lot of people struggle with but there's so many tips that you can you can you can take on board to help that process of sleeping properly, but that I'm so similar to you. Just you know, give me a quieter. It doesn't even need to be a quiet room. Give me a seat in a busy room and I'll be a sleeping with that commercial flight you just described. I'm the guy who's asleep before the plane even moves. I am not here to London here, too. I like a like. Yeah II wakes me up is the plane landing. Yeah, and it could be like Midway through the day. It could be any time of day and I'm just out for a long time but then long-haul flights little bit different but I've got a I've got a good tip that I'll tell you after the podcast. I am excited for that. I said, I'm very keen because I know when you I know you have your own podcasts you've been on a lot of podcasts you've done a lot. I didn't read your probably chat a lot about acessories fibrosis and higher yet affects your life and has affected your life. So I'll just I don't want to ask you a lot of the same questions. So I'm going to try my dad slightly differently. Like what's the best thing about living with cystic fibrosis? Everything is so many answers to this which is something I didn't think I'd ever have definitely gives you a massive appreciation for life in general our sons. So wishy-washy, but I don't care. People don't appreciate and again. This is me included people don't appreciate the things I have until they're gone and luckily. It doesn't take much for me to get into that mindset of like, okay just appreciate this. Like I'll be over walking early and I'll just sit I was hit me. I'll just be like, I'm so darn glad I can I can walk I can breathe and I don't have to panic about how long this walks going to take because I have to be back for some time or even the fact that I can. walk as long as I want without feeling like I'm going to collapse which a lot of people that's a real that's reality to them. And it makes me not it's probably me a really laid-back person. I think it's definitely made me more light by persons that my mom describe me as like so obviously she's got two sons my older brother and myself and my older brother is very highly strung and stressful and she's just like, I don't think I've ever seen Benjamin. She goes my bedroom like stressed like it's very rare, they'll seem stressed because it just I just thought the mentality if it's not going to matter and You know five hours that we spend five seconds on it. Like it's just yeah get on with it. Stop sweating about the Small Things realistically if I asked you about this five days later, you're going to be like, what was that word? What was I talking about? What was I thinking about like it that's reality. So I just think you know shit happens get over it. I think that five or run is going to be the title of this podcast if it's not going to happen in five hours to spend the next five seconds where I know but we're just gonna podcast title. All right, so I want to jump into your Fitness business. I know you've been on a massive journey in the fitness industry from working with Year from observing it before social media, and I obviously with social media. So what's going on with their mods and be more and your Fitness business. Some say started as most people start off working in the gym working a commercial gym, which if you are starting as a PT just working a commercial gym. Don't think that you're do not go and work in an independent gym. Go to commercial gym. Learn the ropes there and you will if you stay in a commercial gym, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that. They're the best places for PTSD grow. So that's one thing I said, but anyone who's a PT listen to this Start off their fight just as love training people. I love seeing people progressing. I've always have like I love seeing people being passionate about things but the best thing about it is making people happy or not sounds so cheesy, but my number one priority of all my clients and I say this thing every single time is that they are happy and that your happiness doesn't necessarily come from being in better shape, aesthetically. It could be little things like someone saying oh you look, you know, you look nice in that dress today or that t-shirts. That's a nice t-shirt. Where'd you get that from? You know, it's little tiny things all the people those people that when they tell me this I'm like, that's great. I was so good to hear. I love that. That's the thing, you know while seeing measurements everything going on about yes. That's the kind of progress driven PT and me, but that personality PTA me the personal trainer me is seeing people happier and even just speaking to them on the phone and hearing them something happier is Like it's just the best thing for me. I always loved I'm just going to drop it. I always love you. So your client will come to you to you know, quote unquote lose weight and tone up so you do everything to get them to lose been to a not bind the you'll get the before and after pics you'll get the measurements and might be lifting more in the gym. But I always loved it. You know, when you get that text message that says, you know band you're a dick. I just had to spend 500 points on a new wardrobe because they're never expecting that and I know that Come with a lot of a lot of clients. Yeah, but I never prepare them for that. I just I just wish it just wear it because that's that's the lightbulb moment to me. It's kind of like, you know her Hallelujah. That is the absolute moment that you know, you're not taught about that when you do your level 2 or level 3. No, not at all. Yeah. I said I love doing that but then I realized very quickly it was when I was is when I was working at Fitness first leg of sick for the first time and had to be hospitalized. So I second time and that meant three weeks of being Hospital on IVs. Which thankfully, I was employed by Fitness First back then when they actually had Fitness instructors and so I was getting sick pay but then I moved on to being a full-time PT. I realized women if I'm not in the gym I can get paid. So that's why I started looking at online coaching and online coaching has been an incredible tool for me it unfortunately kind of takes away the personal part for me a little bit. So I do what I can to make it as personal Spa pool or that's FaceTime calls voice notes. I try and voice know. I'm a big voice note fan because it just makes things a little while firstly it's faster. And you feel like you're conversing with the person. I'm just text script writing. I try to keep the personal training in online training. But yeah, I realized that if I was an online coach, it means that I can be anywhere in the world. I don't mean like sitting on a beach. I mean like anyone in the world. My anywhere in the world was in a hospital Ward son's glamorous and I could still be earning money. Still looking after my house, you know pay my mortgage looking after my wife, you know looking after my dog I can still do all those things I need to do. And then I quickly realized like, you know, this is actually this is allowed me to work with people who I could never work with which includes people with cystic fibrosis because obviously well, obviously the thing with cystic fibrosis is that we can't come in contact with each other because of the chance of them or myself having a bug that myself or they don't have so the chance of then cross infection which then causes that book to become very powerful like it involves like a freaking Pokémon. That's very very dangerous. So we cannot work on a personal level. Which isn't your problem you probably say yeah by my face. I didn't know that. So just repeat that you can't be in the same room as somebody else with CF with For which as you can imagine create a whole level of paranoia? Which is something you don't really think about until now you're thinking about it. You're like, oh, yeah, it does that mean when you're in public you have to worry about who stand beside you in a queue. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that's a whole other level CF that I am affected by more than the physical thankfully my fact about the mental so but yeah, and then the last couple of months really last year I decided that I was going to really double down and working with people cystic fibrosis. And the reason why I didn't do it for so long is because I was scared I was honestly scared of working with people CF because I knew that was going to have to deal with a lot of tragedies and deaths and you know people who would come to me thinking I was like this Masonic figure that is going to be able to bring them from excellent function to you know, why wrong from Lumber? Mostly the damage has been done with a lot of people CF and they love functions can go back up. Again. That's me saying that if you listen to us and you can see a that doesn't mean that can happen. I've done before my lung function went from 66% to know a hundred and one so, yes, it can be done. But yeah, there's different things. But yeah, I was scared of getting fully into that industry or fully into that kind of niche market because oh yeah, I was scared. I was scared. my own mental health, but then I realized that by me not doing this. I'm taking away such a positive impact on people or such a positive thing to people that I'm going to help so many more people than then I can't see if if that makes sense. Yeah. So the amount of people I've helped my with these cystic fibrosis plans and what I've got planned is even cooler. So the next six months of being a going to be working towards something which I am so damn excited for I think the CF Community. I don't think so. It's not ready for but it's it's never going to it's going to be like, oh, wow. How's this not existed before so it's the kind of big thing. I'm looking forward to high marks. How do you tell us about that? Because that that sounds really good. Yeah. So basically I'm not going to tell you. So I'll say it's going to be called see a strength. Okay, that's that's the website's name and it will be. It'll be something to CF Community doesn't have yet, but not only people who want the train it's going to be for mothers whose kids have just been born with CF who don't know where to turn who want to be speaking to people and seeing people who are successful with cystic fibrosis. So it gives them something that which is in my opinion. The most priceless commodity the people that have or asset is hope you cannot put a price on that the amount of messages I've gotten from people. It is incredible that they've said my kids just being born with CF. I Googled CF I just got all this life expectancy long functions the death from Witten to get lung transplant liver transplant all these things. It's not as free but it's pretty Doom Gloom and that they found me and I men's health or men's fitness cover and they're like, oh Okay, so it's not all doom and gloom there's this like there's this bit of Hope. Basically, I want the website to be helping people like that and lots of other things but that's kind of the thing I love and I love that if I can ask. So you've you've always lived with this you've always had people with cystic fibrosis gravitating towards you rather that's from a fitness and health. You know, let's go to the gym that's workout point of view or Thinking more about social media and that regards or you've had Mom message in you about their their new child. So why why not? Why are you not afraid now? I could because you use that word. Why are you afraid right now? I mean fear is kind of not knowing really isn't it's just not knowing what what it is and I just sat down myself and thought right. What am I actually scared of? What is it that I'm scared of and in all honesty. This is it was my own mental well-being because every time someone from the CF Community dies, which is unfortunately way too regularly hits me like a ton of bricks and I get this huge survivor's guilt that comes along with that which again a lot of people don't don't even think about that. for every person who dies I think Why am I still here? What what why why did that family have to lose their son their daughter their something, you know, their their brother their sister why it's not it's not fair. But then I realize that that's a small percentage very very small percentage of people who died and well unfortunately not that small but this is one aspect of it and There's so much. I was scared of my the minority when I wasn't thinking about the majority of all the people I could help the amount of messages the message I've had in terms of you've helped me do this or I'm going to the gym now because of you or I got a message the other day from a nurse who works in the CF watching I says my patients in my words are not far more active because of you. They're not exercising because of you someone sent me a picture of me. On the cover of men's fitness pinned up in Canada in this Children See effort on the on their little like play board as amazing. That's like that's like Ike I have no shame in saying I cry nearly every time I see something like that because it's just the most incredible. Feeling in the world to think that I'm just doing what I deem is necessary for my own health and people are it's changing people's lives and changing perceptions of this illness, but not only that it's raising awareness for this illness. So it's the yeah getting a little emotional not good, but I like it. I like it because it's very easy to choose a niche in this world for the You know one goal of let's make as much money as possible. And yeah people might get results people might not get results as long again. Yeah, as long as they pay me at the end of the month, you know business is happening. So I think you're I wouldn't even call it a nice your calling as such and I think your reasons why whether it's not I whether it was six years ago. I think they're absolutely perfect. So you were sadness website. That's Platform six months did you say? Yeah, but it happens that's not launching until it's where it needs to be. I wanted to be exactly where I wanted to be before anything goes out. So that's just content building in the moment and hello whom together people who I want to be involved with it. And I know you have a community live and active right now. Mmm. Yep. So I've got a Facebook group, which is getting the names going to be changing, but it's the CF system. Was this health and fitness page? It's a private group of people who are affected by cystic fibrosis doesn't need to be you need to have it. It can be people who could be people who just want to know that more about it, but generally speaking to people who are affected by in their family is affected by other. You know how people who join in they say/i say what relationship to CF and they're like, oh my grandson has a or there's a kid in my class. I'm a teacher who has and I want to learn a bit more about it. Nothing else Flippin awesome that teachers going to that level just for some student said People need to be in skills. Yeah, it's incredible that's throwing every day, which is absolutely incredible it about although obviously put all the information about that and you in the show notes. So it's really really cold. So talk to me you're sitting there you're were in the be more t-shirt tell me about be more. What's the concept? So it's something I've been working. I've been very lucky to work with clothing companies over the last Seven years and I always had in my mind as I could be--could make my own t-shirts. It's it's nice that I'm representing these companies some of them I'm because I'm wearing something someone else wants to work, but that's cool to me as I but it'd be nice if it was like personal to me on the message was personal to me and I basically I decided right. I don't want to be working with any schooling. Companies for not I'd rather make something my own and it was one day I was sitting with my friend who all he owns a clothing company as well. He's helped me out. So thank you to Matt brought me over this we're talking he said oh, what do you want to do? You want the logo to be as like, I don't know like Do you want to be your name and was like no. No. No, I don't want to be my damn. That's far too egotistical. I just it's a BM people know it will know that it stands for my initials. But if people don't she's two letters, it's fine. I was like, yeah because BM can start for anything you can be like, you know, be more was like Huh? That sounds kind of girl like that. That's as I cousin. That's kind of that and kind of capsule eights me as a person like And on so many it applies to so many aspects of life. You know, it's so easy to just do the bare minimum, but the people who do well in life, they do more like they become more and you get scared of that question of like do you want to be more in your life than just what either you or someone else has said that you were going to be so for instance me? I'm supposed to be this person with CF that that that's it. I was like no screw. That won't be more than just just that personal CF. I want to be Thor I want to be the fittest person in the room. I want to be I want to make sure that in every aspect of my life. I want to become more than what other people think and what I think so that's kind of where the message of be more responsible your comes from behind me. I sent them launched it. Two months ago. Maybe he reached out to me about them, which I really appreciate and I think I saw I sent them to stray Leah America a little to come to America Canada Mexico South Korea. Germany you can tell I'm of these because I wrote them myself. I do all the her dress myself Holland the Netherlands. Sorry loads went to England front believe not France is the most expensive place to send early for us. I know I was like, okay Australia strapped in here how much that's gonna cost. Oh, Okay cool. And then front circus is going to be like, you know to through good I'll be sixth grade knows like what has come over get it themselves. But yeah, it's not it's it's Madness. That's - oh still need to get old and order the hoodies. I think when I went on for one of the hoodies that then it was common up Brazil. Yeah pretty seal. And then there was another one I saw was a wasn't a size the size of yeah. I need to get on get me Rudy from you because I think their curls, you know for well, obviously put it in the show notes, but for people who don't know it's I like it because it's you know that this is a guy thing. It's high neckline which makes your chest look big and it's branding right across the center of your chest. So just a big baby more and then you've got the thorsday top as well the Thursday's logo and it's just right across some metal and it's big and it's bold and there's even yes. Designs as well. I'm like yellow is my color. So that said are the three I'll be buying look forward to that. Absolutely. That's a one owner detect quickly about training because there was one thing you documented this absolutely fantastic. I want to say four months five months ago. You've touched on it briefly already when you had a / result about what your lung function was. Yes, then you had to basically have a word with yourself go. Go through a protocol to get that lung function back. So, you know, it described that briefly if you can so basically it was beginning of this year my lung functions drop. So basically to give people an understanding of lung function someone my age weight and height without cystic fibrosis is 100% on the scale. So if you cloned me that Condon up CF he should have 101 function mine. I got mine up to a hundred percent of our vehicles anything lady. Eight percent on the drop back down to like 82 percent, which is again, why did it drop down? You know, I think I didn't feel that good. I've had a bit of a cold. My training had been more based on Aesthetics than Athletics which again was just it was just a vanity Cricket in there is also coming out of the window period which is always rough for people cystic fibrosis because everyone gets sick during winter reduce sunlight, you know waking up in the dark going to bed at darkness is not good for your mental health either including vitamin D consumption. So everyone gets sick. So dropped out and I said 82% is something it's a very high long for lung function percentage for people cystic fibrosis. In fact someone in that group just competencies 24 in his lung functions here 25% She's terrified. Yeah. So I was like right this needs to change and I need to do I know I can do more to get this up. So it's Percy. I'm going to work. So I did everything I could I increase more my fitness Fitness training sessions. So I was right I was like, okay, it's easy to do bodybuilding session today. That's what I want to do. What I need to do is a mark on something that gets my lungs really working and clears up any that mucus that may be potentially sitting down there. Ultimately. We just generally more active so it's like right I'm gonna set a set them on the steps that I need to hit and genuinely got to the point where I was like standing in my living room and my living room to my front of the house isn't that big so but I would literally Pace it very looking at my watch being like, okay, there's 10,000 to take like 20 minutes, but I get it done and then I also went over to England to visit a guy called. Breath coach who basically taught me how to breathe correctly and it sounds so stupid when you say up at the age of 29. Yeah operate I guarantee if you're sitting listen to this if you put your hand on your chest on your stomach your chest going to be raising a lot more in your stomach. I'm God literally doing it now for the podcast. That's nice. Yeah. See maybe you get out at your chest will raise more. You said most people's yeah, most people chest breathe the like pull into the chest and their stomachs there is literally this simple you look at a kid breathing whose stomachs like a little bit like a little child like my nephew. He's at Walker. I was we belly out but it's not as belly. It's just his stomach is diaphragmatic expansion through his stomach. Soon as you get the adulthood or not, even Mega soon as you get to child age where vanity or looks become a thing self-consciousness cover comes with time. What do you do suck your stomach in so then therefore you can't get full diaphragmatic expansion because breathing diaphragmatic Ali makes your stomach huge and that's a simple as that is not deemed as nice looking so people don't do they breathe through the chest which means they're only getting this upper portion of their lungs with oxygen look like they're they can't is very Get all the way down to the bottom. So basically this guy taught me how to breathe properly how to sit and control my breathing and not only that he took me through a breathing exercise, which I'm not joking it felt like I went to a different dimension. It was incredible. I just was just me. It was just you know, how to my chest and my stomach is that right Bri through here hold for 3 seconds breathe out through the liver all these amazing breathing techniques that I could have been there for 30 seconds also could have been there for 30 minutes. I have no concept of time whatsoever. My brain would all these different like that's the best way to explain it is like going to like different realities. I was just I know when I woke up I should like I felt like I was high. On this and that's just from breathing. It was incredible, but that that, you know being more conscious of my breathing practicing those little tips you gave me came back on my lung functions went to a hundred and one percent under 1% Yeah. So I've got another one coming up on Friday. So I've got a I've got my nebulizer sitting right here ready to take that also added. So we do those long that increase in lung capacity. Was that solely from like the breath Coach or with did you make changes to your diet your lifestyle your training. Multi. Yeah, it's combination of things that wouldn't be dead. One thing like getting in shape is not as going to the gym or eating. It's going to this gym being consistent moving eating correctly rest incorrectly reducing stress. It's it's lots of little things that add up to one big thing. It's like I said the analogy it's like a puzzle. If you look at a puzzle and its individual pieces, it's just little pieces that don't really make sense. But then when you put them all together, it makes a beautiful piece of art and you are a beautiful piece of art that thank you very much. Just just before Friday's just conscious of time. I know you have your you've had a couple of different podcasts that you've done of your own. So what's going on in your own podcast space right now. So we've got Fitness myths simple, which is the podcast I run with my co-host Adam. We got two episodes. Surprisingly not surprisingly successful hunts kind of belittling ourselves, but very very well received. We said the capita 54 no put on the shelf for a little bit come back and revisit you season to just give ourselves a break. It was like as you know, it's like an episode every single week and human body doesn't change massively and we were doing a lot on exercise and nutrition not many interview so you can have the talk about the same things and different ways. Yeah. We'll just remember come steal and then the other podcast I'm running Again is what not again. I've started fresh is the be more podcast and it's basically a podcast for people with cystic fibrosis. And for people who want to learn another little bit more about cystic fibrosis, but the best thing about it is that I've said this all my life advice I give to people with cystic fibrosis is completely applicable to people without it. They are all the same things. That's what I said at the start of this. I am a person. I'm not an alien. I'm not a god of thunder. I am a person I'm all the principles. I do will apply to you and better your life as a normal person without cystic fibrosis. So yeah, if you want to listen to that, but I've been a little bit more about CF and I'm going to be speaking to people then the CF community. I'm going to get people on the CF who've done incredible things. So yeah, if you listen to a podcast that maybe just give you a little bit of insight into what it's like you get good information. And you know, what am I just inspire you to go and do something you've never done before? That's Carol. I'll I'll again I'll find damn I assume they'll be on iTunes and Spotify and all the rest. I'll stick them in the show notes. Yeah. I said we spoke about it just before we hit record a good friend of mine as specializes in cystic fibrosis, and she is a qualified doctor. These questions is are from dr. Kitty Patterson who is nigh based in Edinburgh spools. I should know the exact location. So I'll apologize for that in advance. So one of the one of the questions that really really intrigued me is is your choice of physical training exercise determine for what's best for your health or what you enjoy the most so I'm asking that because of what you just said about bodybuilding. And high like you enjoy that but you appreciate it might not be best for you at any given moment. Yeah, I mean, yes, it definitely does affect my choice and what I do, the one thing I will say is I've always maintained the mindset that you should but I want to look like an ornament but moving like an instrument Ah, that's one of my favorite sayings absolutely love ya. Like I want to look I think human body is The most impressive beautiful things to exist like I just think it's gorgeous. Like there's a reason why most art almost sculptures are of the human body because we it's just a fantastic piece of knowing nature but engineering and when you really understand how the body works you realize how little you understand about how the body works is just incredible things that are going on a microscopic level the tissues take for granted. So for me, like I always want to look like the statues and like Greek statues and like Hercules and all the kind of Greek athletes you'd see in this videos awesome poses. Like in the Olympic Games. I thought that's the that's the physique. I want to have so bodybuilding has always kind of been in the back of my mind, but I always thought I want that muscle to be functional. I want to be able to actually be able to use it and look like if someone picked me for their football team or their rugby team They're picking me because of how I look but then they also get what they expect from higher. Look if I make sense. Yeah, I'm afraid nothing worse than picking a guy he's jacked and if he runs like three feet, he's like come on dude, like work like that my training, you know, it's the one thing I'll say is like you have to enjoy your training. Otherwise, you're not going to want to go. So my response to training is one of my film this week, so I was doing full body. Were a couple weeks there mainly because I wasn't able to train as frequently as I'd like to I'm also them out to think about recovery for American football. So I think about all these things football use my thing. So I was just one big body part one big compound movement. Per muscle group. That's Adam loved it's great. We're training fantastic red training effect if you push your time and just want to get maximum results. But no eye has I trained with my friend Dan and Alex over the weekend. I'm like, well CrossFit this one. So today I want to go do CrossFit. So I'm going to do that. So my training literally does depend on what's going to get me to the gym because surely exactly the same thing as well, but people are some of this the hardest part but go to the gym is getting to the gym. Yeah. So as you there fine like it, that's the hard part done actually getting to the gym. Is the hardest part once you there just enjoy yourself for me. It's kind of a mix of I need to enjoy it. What's going to make me go but then I also need to do things that suck because that's what makes me better and oftentimes the things that you suck out of the things that are going to make you better and you avoid them because they suck which means you don't get better. So it's a horrible vicious cycle. But yeah, it's it's very good question. I know you got a new piece of furniture. And of the house, which is not working you watch your TV shows. I'm sure so what piece of furniture is that? Did you get up from Debenhams? Are there any big furniture shops? I think it might have been. Oh, yeah. Yeah the assault bike so you have a cult-like setting basically in your living room. Yeah. So we're moving or moving house in four weeks my wife and I and the garage finally got a garage. Yeah, so the characters getting turned into a gym, but I was like I want it not only my child was like no wait for 6 weeks old. I wanted nice. Oh, yes sitting in the living room. So myself and my wife do like 20 minutes a day. I stupidly did the other day. I was like right see how quickly I can do 250 calories on it. I saw that it wasn't 15 minutes. Was it? Yeah, 15 minutes. Yeah that's in see a for those who haven't really done a lot of work on assault bike show. You'll know two minutes on assault bike faders up wins that feels like an or it just it feels like you're pulling the world behind you or pushing the world in front of box. It's just an overall experience here is and this one The ones in my gym or quite light like that. It can move them very very much. This thing's at is things are beasts. I see when the fat is going it genuinely signs like it's so satisfying with sounds like a turbine boy. This thing's like like you can there's a second shelf thing in front of us in front of the in front of it and James had her birthday cards on they all display off that your party's over now. Anyway, I'm French sighs. Yeah, all he doesn't have a clue what's going on when you get onto the have seen a few I feel funny videos of that on your Instagram story. You're very very good argument that yeah fans and watching wonders what that is. Do not see try getting my lap. And so I've got a couple of finishing questions. The first one you've already answered. So it's what's next for bam. Obviously moving host and you've got the the website to look forward to. Yep. Very busy. Yeah, it's going to be a busy few months. Definitely. Are you doing the paddleboard again? Undetermined? Okay, that's good. That's twice now. Yeah, so to give people an idea what that is. It's part of boarding from Florida to the Bahamas. On a paddleboard how far it's 80 miles long with that tape and a paddle board first year. It took me 14 orders 14 and a half hours on the next time. We didn't finish it because of tragic events like this everyone on my boat got sick a guy got so sick that he had to get IVs on the boat. Which then we couldn't move because the paramedics had to find us I'll give him the IV's took 45 minutes to find us 45 minutes the administrative. He's 15 months. It will make sure he's okay and they just collapse into a ball. So obviously the decision of me push on and I was me and my friend Tong with the only two kind of Paddlers who were athletic enough and stubborn enough to keep going nowhere near experience. I was the most experienced one on my boat, which says a lot because the only time a bottle was the one last year. We just everyone can look to me like we go we go with what you say. They all looked at me. They were like, I'm going to vomit any second. I was the only one on the boat doesn't get seasick as well. Everyone's massively seasick. So I was sitting there feeling fine falling asleep on the deck. The Bowtie all good and I waking up every time someone retching over the side last year was a bit of a nightmare but they've asked me to come back again. So we'll see looks like oh, that's good. That's good. The next one I have is what is the last book you read? And who would you recommend it for that? C is the thing I don't read my book. So listen to them because I've just come and I here Yeah, I mean, I just know my weaknesses and my witness has the attention span to sit and read a book. Whereas I might walk in Ali I can listen to a book. So, it's Best of Both Worlds. The last book I read. what was I think it was either awaken the giant within or unlimited power car are Yeah, those are the last two books I read and then listen to another one of the moment. But those are three Anthony Robbins books. Genuinely anyone. Yeah, actually anybody can read those books or listen to those books. They are short. They are precise. They are freaking awesome. They had stay start with awaken the giant within because essentially it's just saying that What I said earlier and if someone else can do something, so can you but it starts with that belief and once you start manifesting that belief that you can do whatever someone else can do. You're unstoppable. You know, I've had awakened the Giant and my audible account probably since I got audible maybe about two years ago. I've never listened to it like that. That's it's always just been there. Yeah. It's like what to not even to yours long as it I don't tell me that you'll give me the guilt. It's literally like let me just check I need to check but it is super super brief. Like I think I read it listen to it. And about three walks. It's an honor half know it. Yep. I don't have long. All right. Well I am I've actually I'm driving the Edinburgh tomorrow. That's an hour and a half. So I'll share on Instagram and tight unit. I thought was my accountability. And then the last one I've heard this on a couple of other podcasts and I thought it was really cool. And I never wanted to do this question until I heard it organically myself and its original format, which I believe is tribe of mentors and that's what purchases under a hundred Point. Have you made that? I've just had an amazing impact in your life for whatever reason under. Well, they sold like was sure as hell not hundred puns. What about there must be about 1,500 maybe more? Yeah. Yeah upwards the eyes are set on upwards. Yeah, but what if I purchased? Really good question. I was trying to think of but it's honest. I don't make that many purchases be honest most most of the things I spend money on his food, which again does not cost under a hundred pounds or something. I'll tell you what, I'm just gonna I'm just gonna throw this one. I spent 50 Quid on Sushi the other night. I go. I know that's it. That's not a tangible thing because you have to eat it. But it was it was only my friends. It was in a great environment. I freaking love sushi. We got really good conversation. I would have because we went to go get food. So that's like kind of the best purchase I've made and just in terms of like conversations and making making memories. And so she's awesome. So that's a that's a butt out of Center. But that's the last thing any tangible thing that I bought. Even though I had a important message behind it. I'm just out of pure. I haven't lived in Belfast for a while. Where is good in Belfast for suschin Kamakura? Okay, where's that? Uh, you know the kind of Asian new dome Road. Yes like that kind of Asian strip. We've got a gash in Superman. Yeah done there. They should pay me have broken people. Well tiger him. Yeah, definitely. Awesome band. Thank you so much. I just a quick reminder or were people can find you to follow your story your journey. So Instagram is probably the best place to get me as for most active. It's just been launched underscore. Someone's still got that much. He hasn't posted next six years, but I'll get him. I'll get ya Instagram for me the best. I'm on Facebook as well. But then most of my stuff just Shared from Instagram to that. So yeah, that's pretty much it. Awesome. Thank you so much. I'll put everything in the show notes and I'll catch you once I hit the big stop recording button. You are listening to the Ricky Long podcast. Hopefully it came across in that episode. Just genuinely how much we enjoyed connecting with each other. I know I enjoyed so much just listening to van and listen to his story finding out more about ban and what he's been through and the way he lives his life. It's truly very very inspiring for me and for quite literally thousands and thousands of other people right across the globe. You can check out all of Ben's details. Show notes and a reminder this episode. We're doing the giveaway with Podium for sport. Take a screenshot tyke meat. 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