E093 - I Found the Easiest Training Routine That Actually Builds Muscle Quick | Davis Diley

37:33Did you have like a revenue split? Oh, I have to deal with. We were working on that. Yeah. See, the thing that happened was, is we were building the business, her business, and it was going very well. And then I randomly, she took a video of me in the gym. One day I was like, I might take my shirt off and, you know, do this press. I want you, you know, video for me. And she did. And I took that video one night. I had it on my phone. And I was like, this is cool. And so I was on, I was on my walk, you know, getting ready to go, uh, go to bed. You know, I go on my nightly walk just to get some extra steps in.

38:10And I pulled up this app, tick tock, you know, everybody's kind of on and I kind of just downloaded it and I'm like, Oh, this is fun. You know, whatever. I posted the video and I didn't really think anything of it. And then I went to bed and then the next morning I woke up and I started making breakfast and like I had this voice in the back of my head. It was just like, check your tiktok and i'm like nah i'll get to that later and i started eating breakfast and it's like no check your tiktok and i said okay so i opened it up and the first post i made had like 600 000 views overnight and i was like well i guess i know what i'm doing for the rest of my my living you know this is what i'm gonna do so then it just became tunnel vision what was the first video so uh it was probably the most perfect first video you could ever have because it was just it was an eye-catching video it was a trap bar press so we have a trap bar sitting over there um and essentially you know you're standing in the rack you get a perfectly good balanced vertical press overhead so it was nobody's used to seeing anybody press a trap bar overhead you know i'm not saying it's the best movement in the world to do to build your shoulders but it's certainly eye-catching um and yeah i posted that and it just went mega viral oh somebody's here um yeah and it was great because it was eye-catching because you know on tiktok in any short form video you have to catch people's attention immediately that's the game at least one of the most important parts of it yeah yeah so then you parted ways with her sort of yeah um because it just i still helped her uh but it just got to the point where i was i had to film for me so i would go film her because i wasn't making money yet i was still getting my app and everything initially up and running um so and we were still you know working in the business together but But then eventually my workload got to the point where it's like, okay, I'm doing well.

40:14I need to take this a little bit more seriously. And so it just worked its way out. It's a mad thing. It's the algorithm that hadn't been as kind. And you'd only got like a couple. Don't even put that thought in my head, man. Just a couple thousand views. Yeah, man. We'll see. And dude, this is the part that's so tough. I don't know how it was for you. Because you started doing this before I did. you know and so building a youtube presence you know is it's up where you got started youtube 2016 when i started and that was youtube right primarily that's where you grew initially yeah well there was there was steady growth on instagram but i was on instagram like 2012 yeah okay so this is before video yeah before stories just pictures um i didn't exactly blow up but there was just a steady growth on there.

41:07But it was more so YouTube, which was more explosive. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm not an expert at the YouTube. I may actually ask you a few things about that, how to be successful on that. But as far as people today getting started in content creation, you just got to be willing to put up with the crap phase, man. Yeah. The beginner phase. because I had a bit of a beginner phase where I was trying to post stuff and it wasn't really successful. And that sinking feeling that you have, dude, it's just not a fun thing to live through. When you're posting something, you put a lot of work into it and it doesn't do well.

41:47It's tough. Yeah, man. So as long as you stick to it and you find your groove and you see a little bit of success, you double down on it and you do what you know works, you can work your way out of it. But I think people don't understand is that it never gets easier. No. It becomes more rewarding, but it never gets easier. No. I'm sure it's become much more difficult for you over time. I think it's for sure there's definitely more people posting. So you're competing with more people. And I think the hardest thing is just to keep things fresh because you could have a particular style or thing which you are doing which works well which people like yeah people get bored very easily yeah like even if your content is like the best of the best of a certain particular thing you will have a wave which you can ride and usually it will get to the point where people maybe get a little bit bored of it So you need to come with like something a little bit different and add a bit of variety.

43:00And then particularly with like long form content, you know, especially doing vlogs and stuff that is time consuming. My ideal video is where I go somewhere, film for one or two hours, it's done. And then the video racks up like millions of views. Yeah. That's like the perfect scenario. That's freaking great. I'd love it if it was always like that. But if you're doing the vlogs, for example, I'm vlogging these different places I'm going to in America. You've got a full Texas vlog. You've got a full Miami vlog, full New York vlog. That's a lot of things that you're doing just to make this video.

43:37Whereas the sit-down talking videos or tutorial videos, they're really easy to make, but it needs to be done in a particular way for it to actually get some sort of traction. Jeff Nippon smashed it with the educational stuff, and he's still getting good views. Well, yeah. He has done, I mean, he's excellent in his ability to present things. He's a master communicator. But you watch one of his videos, and I don't, even one of his videos, it seems so simple. It's real calm. it's presented in such a nice paced way but people don't understand how much work it is to get one of those videos out i mean dude there's a one shot that he does maybe it's just him showing food on a table and as a fancy little edit just from a down looking at the table from a bird's eye view you got it you got it you got to have it all written you have to you have to get the camera into place you have to make sure that the settings are right you messed up this shot so you have to go back and do it again and then it's frustrating you got the camera you're tripping over your camera quick dude it's tough yeah you know but he's he's done excellent with it very very well yeah yeah i think um for those people who are getting started you need to have some sort of a schedule yes oh yeah because you will it's like going to the gym you have this wave of motivation where you're like, yeah, yeah, I want to create content.

45:12But you need to have a plan in place of when you're going to post, what type of content it's going to be, who are you making it for. And then if you need to, script it out. I know a lot of people spend probably 60, 70 % of the time just doing the script. And I guarantee you Jeff does. Yeah. Guaranteed. Every word is chosen carefully. Yeah. Like, do you think that you're just going to freestyle, you know, 20, 30 minute video? No. Like a lot of it needs to be scripted. unless you're sam's willick yeah hey that's pretty dang good gig man yeah he's doing real well with it you know what's funny is like somebody will get a lot of attention or a style will work for them and then people will try and copy that yeah and it just doesn't work the same yeah so it's best to try and find your own groove or your own thing or just don't get too distracted by what other people are doing and just try and bring something a little bit new and fresh to the table of course man well so it we've all been guilty of that at some point in our lives of trying to i don't want to say copy people but just be a little bit too much like other somebody else we all have the the best piece of advice that i could ever give and it's like look my videos right my videos look like unlike anything anybody's ever seen i mean there's people trying to copy them now at some to a certain extent fine whatever it doesn't matter but they're unique And they seem like nothing else.

46:42But you don't see my process of how I actually came to do that. I saw someone's piece of content. I took the idea, the framework of it, and made it my own. And it turned into something new. And there's nothing wrong with that. That's how humanity moves forward. It happens with everything. You make a better mousetrap of whatever you have. You have this, and then the next guy comes along, he takes that idea, and he makes it his own while using the previous idea as a foundation. And that's what I did with my content. And you wouldn't know that by looking at it, but that's what it is. And if anybody out there is trying to figure out exactly what they need to do in order to make good content, it is precisely that.

47:32find someone who is two or three people who are the most successful in your field whose content you vibe with that you just like it just it speaks to you take it and then tinker with it and don't copy them don't try to be them but that is what makes you yourself yeah you know i think for people who aren't aware first of all you need to check out your short form videos and then actually come to the realization that you're the one that's edited them because even i thought i thought you had like a team of people doing it i didn't know you were the one that was actually editing it yeah man yeah all all on my phone 100 it was because dude it was for me it was just it is necessity i mean look look when i started i didn't where do you go to find a youtube editor yeah i mean like there's no billboards i mean what are you gonna go online and search for people maybe they suck i don't know uh all this type of stuff where you find somebody to film your stuff where where do you even go for that you know and if you don't know anybody you know i started just like you did with nothing you know just you have to use the resources that are around you and for me my resource was this and cap cut that's what it was it was just okay i know that I can buy a good camera.

48:59That's, I got that down. Now let me take that good footage and let me tinker with it. So what I would do is I would go back to my apartment, a little apartment. I would sit on my couch and just for hours and hours and hours, I would try to make the coolest video that I could. And eventually every video, you just raise the bar. You learn a new skill every time you do it. If you're an editor and you just increase the quality, it's like, Oh, the video quality on that video is just that one the voiceover wasn't quite as good there i'm gonna change it this time and make it and just it levels up over time i go back and look at some of my earlier videos dude they got millions of views and people said like oh my gosh we've never seen content like this and i look at it now and i go dude that's that's my only like i i don't even like the way i did that video anymore and so yeah so you had you had a vision of what you wanted it to look like yeah ahead of time and then it was just a matter of figuring out how like how did you even know like an app do what you wanted it to do well that was just through tinkering i had several apps on my phone photo editing app and a video editing app and i just you know tossed them back the video back and forth and spruced it up i just figured it out um it just took a lot of a lot of time if that's just a lot of time and time and effort um that's simple of that man you still you still do it yeah i am um now i've toned it back a little bit as far as the crazy edits because like you said after a while i mean what am i gonna do i mean what's the next step for me right how edited does a freaking exercise video need to be i mean what am i gonna get the marvel guys to freaking do it to it's like dude no it's not gonna make a difference so I've got this as kind of like a base form of content for myself that I still will do but I want to start showing people that there's more beneath the surface there's more to it than just here's the info on how to lift this is you know this is who I am as a person you're going to get to see me work out and how I think when I train you know in more long-form content so that's kind of my goal is to expand out and to just show people what really goes into it.

51:18Kind of more like you do in some ways. A little bit more lifestyle stuff. A lot of the content which I'm making now will still always go back to the fitness side of it. Particularly now, getting older, 34 years old, getting more into the longevity stuff. I'm looking at red light therapy now going like, that's not a bad idea. You need another one of these rooms just dedicated to biohacking machines. Yeah. Oh my gosh, dude. It's cool. It's fun. It's like a little hot. I'm taking so many vitamins and minerals and little, you know, whatever. I don't know. They're called like apigenin or sleep or whatever.

52:00I forget. Adaptogens. That's what they're called. They're little herbs or whatever. But I'm looking at all that stuff and it's like a little game. It's like, okay, what can I add to this little formula that I got now? We say everything's pretty dialed though. oh yeah oh yeah and chat gpt's i'm over that by the way you know figuring out yeah like okay hey chad i you know for somebody my height and weight how much magnesium is recommended per day and it tells you kind of can base it around that you know you got to be wary with the information you get from you know ai sometimes but uh yeah it's been very helpful in me kind of building my supplementation and so forth yeah yeah i'm curious to know what your your strongman days were like oh man how long were you doing that for and you were competing with yeah so look man when when i started i came down here in florida i wasn't i came down here go to college right and it was uh it was kind of lonely because i was from virginia um i flew all the way south stayed here didn't know anybody didn't have anything so the gym again kind of became my you know my central hub of where I started to build everything around.

53:07And I remember working out and I think a lot of people come into contact. They face this issue. They train really hard. They take their diet really seriously. But then they reach a point of where you just feel this big lack of motivation because you're kind of figuring out like, why? What am I doing? Am I going to be Mr. Olympia? no what am i going to do what am i taking this so seriously for and for me um one of my buddies back home uh virginia because i was from virginia maryland area um he um he was doing strongman and i remember asking i was like what's that sport called you know the guys lifting logs whatever he said strongman and he sent me a video of this guy derrick poundstone lifting a log and pressing and And I said, that's what I want to do.

54:01And so I, you know, when you're 18, 19, you just, you just, I feel like you just decide things much more easily than you just, okay, this is the way it's going to be. This is who I'm going to be. And you change. At least it was for me. And I said, I'm going to be the world's strongest man. And I knew that I was going to be in my mind. I'm going to be period. And so therefore, this is who I am. This is what I'm going to do. This is the way that it is. and I'm going to do every single thing in my power to make sure that that actually occurs. I'm going to take it more seriously than anybody. I'm going to be more detail oriented than everybody.

54:37And I'm going to make my life absolutely obsessive about this thing, this goal, nothing else matters. This is it. And that's what I set out to do. Um, and I competed for, I was as a heavyweight, because if you're going to be world's strongest man, don't be a middleweight, don't be a lightweight, don't be a middleweight, go for the heavyweights go compete on tv that was my thought what was the requirement to be in that category well in okay so look you got to be obviously strong as crap you gotta be strong okay you you got to be dead lifting 800 pounds for reps you have to be overhead pressing at least at the time dead lifting 800 for reps was the was what you needed to be doing it's much more than that it's nine now it's like 900 for reps um and so there are these basically there are these There's requisites of strength that you have to have.

55:25You have to be in the neighborhood of them. So my goal, since I wasn't competing all the time, was just, okay, I'm not even going to bother competing right now. I'm going to build myself up in the gym to this sort of level of strength where I can at least relate to the numbers that the top level guys are doing. Just in the neighborhood. And so that's what I spent the first few years doing before I ever competed. And I got strong. I was just naturally gifted for strength. You know, my leverages, the way my body is built, I've got very long arms, good for deadlifting, not so much for overhead press, but in strongman, you can push press.

56:02So it allowed me to, you know, at least finagle my way around my weaknesses. um and yeah i just went slow door all out and my whole goal along the way was look if you're going to be world's strongest man i knew in the back of my mind there's one day that i'm going to have to actually take steroids like that i just keep sorry you can't be world's strongest man without it and so that was going to be the but my whole goal was to get as strong as possible that I could naturally see if it's even worth it. And then my goal was, okay, now I'm going to turn on the gas and go. It's like Dave Tate. Now, I never did because I got injured.

56:48Very, very horribly so in my lower back, eventually. But it was like the way that I viewed it was Dave Tate, the power lifter with the lead FTS. I'm sure you've seen him online. He had a great way of putting it. there was a video that he made back then and it really had an effect on me. And it was, okay, like, look, if you have to take steroids to make your high school team, you're probably not going to play in college. It's like a card. Once you flip that card and you play it, it'll take you to the next level. But you got to understand that you got to kind of gauge where you're at to see how far it will actually take you.

57:26So it was like, okay, if you have to flip that card and take them in order to play college, you're probably not going to make it to the pros and so forth and so on. So for me, it was like, okay, I'm going to wait and see if it's even feasible for me to attain the level of world's strongest man strength before using. And then I would use. And I even purchased them. I was, dude, I was this close. And I had a competition that I was going to do. So I was going to go compete. I went and I competed. And I thought, okay, two weeks from now, I mean, I kicked butt in the competition. I deadlifted 405. It was a rep competition.

58:07405 for 32 reps. This is traditional deadlift. Yeah, traditional deadlift. Actually, there were people that were doing sumo, but I did traditional. So I did the competition, did very well. And I was like, okay, two weeks. I've got them, two weeks. and you know you can people can say look it's it's just by chance or whatever or it's god but for me dude i got hurt deadlifting the next session to the point where i couldn't even walk the next day i got up to put my socks on dude and it was just oh i can't even freaking move and it was like what am i gonna do take them no i'm injured i can't even freaking lift a dumbbell right now.

58:55So no. So I just kept pushing them back. I eventually healed. It took two years to come back from that injury. Yeah. Two years of, of my L5 S1 disc herniation. Horrible. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy, but it, it, it, it pushed it back farther as, okay, not now. It doesn't make sense. Let me just keep that in the future. Cause I was still pursuing strongman, right so make a long story short i healed i went back with the same approach i'm gonna go as far as i can until i stop getting stronger and then use so i healed i competed for a couple more years i got my heavyweight pro card and then i got injured again same area yeah yeah this time it was from a block press though yeah yeah so i for a block press you ever see you guys pick up a back and they press it overhead.

59:49That's what happened. If you get an injury like that, I mean, are you ever going to go back to 100 %? There's always going to be that little weakness there. That's going to probably stop you from being the best. Yes, exactly. But see, when you're young and dumb, you don't know. I had the gift of being a little bit young and dumb. I wonder if you... What were you going to take? It was just testosterone. That was it. I wonder how much it would have added i had no freaking idea knowing what i know now yeah probably not much because you know i mean people are much more open about it now i mean it's it's it's i think it's good that fitness influencers generally maybe not all but a lot of them just said look i do this like no no no dies he says look i do this i'm not a natural athlete here's why i don't think you should or whatever and it's it's nice it's it's cool um being honest in that way it it leads to a lot of trust with your with your audience you know they know okay this guy's not bs me about this so i'll believe him on a lot of other stuff um but yeah i so basically what i'm saying is is that me hearing what other people are using now i didn't i didn't know at the time i was just thinking people were just taking testosterone um it would have it would have taken a whole hell of a lot for me in order to get to be world strongest man strength because those guys are yeah i mean visually did you look different to how you look now oh man you like i was 285 man at one point a fat not lean yeah no no no no no very far from dude yeah it was uh it was uh you know when i i remember sitting in my car man driving my little car and sitting down i remember feeling my fat roll over itself and sticking my shirt in between it going i gotta change something man this ain't working for me right now uh but yeah it was it was a fun time in life it was an extreme way of living it was unlike anything uh but welcome how many calories do you need to consume a day uh i was taking about 35 to 4 generally um because you know you're big but you're not that active i mean a weightlifting session for you know strength training does not burn many calories not at all not at all you think it does at the time because you're working on but it doesn't burn any yeah yeah it was funny when um larry was living in dubai and i was doing a few training sessions with him, this was just for like YouTube videos, when he was competing, doing this, his strength focused stuff.

1:02:33So this was when he was like peak size, peak strength. Like it was just a fucking otherworldly, like watching him do the deadlift. I remember there was one session where we were doing deadlifts. It was me, him, I think, um, I don't know how Matt's fitness was doing it as well. and he did one set and like there was this blood like coming off his face and off his chest because these little uh spots had like exploded yeah it's just like even doing uh we were doing some bench press one time as well and there's me struggling with like three plates either side then he'd just be repping out five plates yeah oh dude it's like it was insanity yeah it really is but it becomes a there's a part of you that at least for me i liked being that guy yeah i liked being the guy that you know and it's an immature um at least for me it was it was an immature uh and just immaturity you know wanting to be seen wanting to be noticed wanting it um in making making a scene in the gym, not necessarily intentionally, but just if there's a dude lifting 800 pounds, people are going to stop and watch.

1:03:51And it's just, it gives you a form of attention that I think a lot of people just, they like because they've never had attention before in their life in that way. And now all of a sudden you're, you know, you're a strong dude in the gym and you want to keep that feeling going. And that's, that's what I think happens to a lot of people in fitness in general they like becoming just the object of people's just admiration and you know you kind of grow out of that as you get older because you're like all right i've had enough of that yeah it's about to be me you know i still like it yeah i mean it's cool being able to take your shirt off and be like like oh i'm not doing too bad but it's it's one of the best things about training is when you've actually built a decent physique and you look good and then you can kind of see yourself in the mirror i don't know what it is it's just like yes finally oh yeah oh dude i've seen everything like blow up when it's pumped seeing the vascularity like it's yeah if i i don't know when i was when i was younger in the first year of training i remember i remember going to the gym and not being able to do a wide grip puller yeah i don't know where you do that yeah yeah yeah i was like fuck it's so hard and then I became obsessed with like, I want to do 10.

1:05:08And every day, every session I'd go and I would just try and do like one extra rep. And obviously over time I got to the point where I could do 10. Same thing when I was doing bench press, like to do the two plates either side, 100 kilogram for 10 reps. That was always the goal. But I remember the first time I ever touched a barbell because I'd always used dumbbell, never used a barbell. I was like, shake it all over the place. And I was like, nah, like I need to, i need to get better at this and then when you get to that point where you achieve the goal whether it's a numbers goal or just physically look in a certain way like it just feels so good oh yeah that's the thing that will always i think people always they ask me like how are you able to stay so lean or like how do you stay so motivated and you split right and i think once you've achieved that physique and you know you're capable of doing it it becomes almost like addictive it's like why would i want to waste that potential which i have yeah like knowing that you can look a certain way right and be perform a certain level yeah like i don't want to throw that away has that has that been difficult for you at all staying lean i mean how's it been because it becomes there's there's certainly challenging moments that you have to navigate within things like this because you know it can be tough mentally it can be i mean even though we're we're we're good at it it can still be very strenuous how's it been for you i think i've obviously because i've done this for so long i understand what needs to be done in even in order to get there to maintain it and obviously i know what i need to do in order to get even leaner you know to that next level where you get like the vascularity of the abs but i realize there is a happy medium where you can still enjoy life and be flexible and eat things that you want to eat and not have to go crazy with cardio or training in order to like look good right if you want to take it to that next level and really drop the body fat to under 10 then more sacrifices are needed the training doesn't really change you're still in the gym challenge as heavy as you can do obviously you probably won't be at your strongest but it's more so just the additional movement and calorie burn that is required in order for you to get that drop in body fat.

1:07:34The hardest part is eating less. And it's still like, still need to keep the protein high, arguably you probably need to eat a little bit more protein. But that's when, like I did this early this year, like I did like a five-week shred where I really dialed in the nutrition. First few weeks were fine, looking good. But then I noticed towards the end, like I was... I was hungry at the end of the day. I was waking up in the middle of the night hungry. Yeah. And then you start to worry about it. You start to, you start to not look forward to it. Like, oh crap, I'm going to be hungry. Yeah. That's what happens.

1:08:07Yeah. It was like disrupting my sleep. And then I started to notice that I was losing a little bit of size. Strength was going down. Yeah. The pump wasn't quite there. And then I was like, well, how much longer am I going to like do this for? Like, it is cool to look leaner, but to be at the very leanest levels of body fat, it's, Life does just suck a little bit more. Yeah. And that's what I mean is in that moment where you are faced with, oh, this is actually starting, not just uncomfortable, but dreadful. Like you're dreading it a little bit. The hunger that's going to come. When you start to enter into that frame of mind, does it worry you at all?

1:08:50Or is that like a blink? For me, it's almost like a blinking light of, okay, hey, listen, look. it's not everything you can do it slowly don't necessarily try to do it all right now and take your time that's because because if you push through that too much this isn't a bodybuilding show yeah yeah bodybuilding show you got a show date you got to do it okay fine and that can help push you through but if you're just a person dieting trying to get lean and you're faced with that where is your line and how do you navigate that that that mental struggle that you are faced with like oh i'm gonna really you could potentially do damage mentally you can you can i think for most people who are just trying to get leaner and have abs i don't think there needs to be that level of suffering i think they just want they're too desperate to get quick results.

1:09:46And realistically, yeah, if you do starve yourself and you do, you're burning loads of calories every day, you will get to the point where you'll get lean. It tends to be so far disciplined. In order to stick to that. And most people don't. They fall, like, they just crack eventually. And then they end up binging and then they put the fat back on. You know, that's one of the things that I've realized is, you know, I've been lean and I've kind of bounced back sometimes. You know, not like crazy, but just enough to go like, ooh, I'm not that lean anymore. one of the things that I realized is that yes, you can physically take your body somewhere.

1:10:21Okay. Point B, but you have to, if you want to stay there at point B, you have to also take your mind with you from point A to point B with you. They've got to move together. If you physically make it and push yourself to point B and you're really lean now, but your mind is still living at point A, it's going to pull you back. That's just the way that it is. So that's why I think there are methods that people can use in terms of rate of fat loss and methods of eating. Like for me, that can help. Like I've been focusing on really high volume foods to get it because I just finished a cut, you know, over the course of the last eight weeks or so, 10 weeks, I think.

1:11:04And high volume foods really made it easy for me. Like my wife and I, we've been making a bunch of hamburgers, okay? Low calorie hamburgers and they're freaking amazing. i've seen them on the yeah the story yeah we're uh we're putting uh we're putting a cookbook together because they're i mean i eat the same thing every day yeah all the time so we repetitively have been making these same recipes and just perfecting them little by little and dude i i it's they are so good and i feel like i'm eating so much food and i'm dropping weight dude i'm almost like i'm i'm almost unhappy that i'm stopping my cut because i'm not having five hamburgers a night anymore you know what i mean like you can easily find meal or food combinations which you like to eat and then once you find those meals you like just vary it from time to time but they're the things you like to eat go enjoy it right exactly and there are things that you can do that make it easier like i was saying high volume foods things with a lot of fiber in it like those, they have keto bread, low calorie bread, you know, it says 60 calories for a burger bun on the back of the thing.

1:12:13And it might not be 60, maybe it's like 70 or 80 in actuality, but it's not 170 like a real burger bun is. So there are little things that you can do, you know, with extra lean ground beef, for example, you know, it's, it, it feels the same as far as the amount of room that it takes up in your stomach as a regular burger, but there's like half the calories and so focusing on things like that can just keep you sane because i think when you start pulling things out of your diet and you're you have a meal that's this freaking big you're looking at it and i'm like i'm depressed looking like that like i'm it's depressing just seeing this on my plate i'm already hungry and i haven't even yeah i see what i remember when i used to coach people online and they would show me what they eat i'm just like holy shit like no wonder you're struggling like if i had to eat what you were making for yourself like i would be literally depressed.

1:13:02Yeah. Like put a bit of effort into either making a good meal or just get it delivered to you. Yeah. Like, especially a lot of people now, like the earning a bit of money, they're doing all right for themselves. Then just get somebody else to make it. Yeah. Like you don't need to be making it for yourself if that's such a chore for you to do. Right. So yeah, when usually when I'm in Dubai, like everything's locked in. I know the meals, which I like to eat from the places which I like to get it from. um the training is the best it could possibly be because the gyms are amazing i'm training when i want to train and then especially when the weather's good i'm out and about and i'm just walking like the the walking is one of the best things that you can possibly oh my gosh yeah you know burn calories without it impacting recovery the only thing that's annoying is just the time it takes to do it but if you can multitask and do something else whilst you're walking then you know that's absolutely perfect absolutely i'm walking i'm walking every day too when i'm traveling the diet isn't as clean it's a little bit more of a struggle i think protein intake takes a hit but generally i would probably say i'm having one meal less so the meals are a little bit bigger but less frequent quality is not as good but because i'm just mentally distracted with all these things which are going on like i i'm not sat at home mindlessly eating i just you know i eat when i get the chance to eat and then it's like right okay we're on to do the next thing so there's many times when either i'm traveling or i'm on vacation where i end up getting leaner just because i'm a little bit more active and overall i'm eating fewer calories because i'm eating fewer meals but the size of the meals are bigger yeah so throughout the day it's like little light meals i'm just focusing on getting some protein and then usually on an evening you know i'll be with a partner or with crew eat whatever i want obviously don't take the piss with like desserts and stuff yeah i will eat whatever i want until i'm pretty full and that works fine yeah the training never stops like that's the thing when people travel like oh yeah well i to go to the gym for a week, I'm like, why?

1:15:21I love to go and explore different gyms when I'm traveling. In fact, I actually will book places and beforehand look at the gyms. I'm like, what's the quality of gyms like? And if I go, that's one of the reasons why I don't really go to these secluded remote places anymore because the equipment and the gyms just Not good. Yeah. There's nothing there. So I know for me that will actually reduce the overall experience because training is such a big part of my life. I like to go somewhere and know that there's going to be like some decent equipment nearby. And all the time now you can go to hotels, which they may be remote hotels, but they have like great gyms.

1:16:06Yeah. But if you're going, you know, touring around, I don't know, Philippines or Africa, especially Africa, you're probably not going to find some great gyms in Africa. And although I would like to, you know, get stuck into the local culture and see what it's like to maybe live with a, I don't know, a village or tribe, I think that'd be cool. But what the fuck am I going to do? I don't know, man. You better get good at handstand pushups. Not good, man. It's not good for maintaining that muscle mass for sure. There are ways, there's things you could do, but I don't know. I recommend air conditioned, like nice facility that you, that you, that you have at your fingertips, right next to your room in a normal hotel.

1:16:48Yeah. Yeah. Much better choice. There's a lot you can do. Yeah, dude. The, um, that, I think the biggest things for people generally is just building those little habits. Like you said, dude, walking is immensely important. Or at least for me, I just, I burn, I get up first thing in the morning. I just built it into my routine. I take my shirt off. I step outside and I just walk. I walk for like a mile and a half, you know, 150 calories, boom, done right there. Treadmill around the block. Yes. Phenomenal. Just little things. Oh, for me. Yeah. Oh, oh, I'm outside. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm, I'm just walking around outside just, you know, getting sun to start the day.

1:17:23It makes me feel amazing. Even if I get a lack of sleep, I feel great. I don't feel it, you know? Um, but, uh, walking beginning of the day and a couple other designated times, walk for 20 minutes in the morning, walk for 20 minutes after dinner and walk one more time before bed. That's, you know, 400, 500 extra calories a day just from walking. And, you know, you put in a podcast and just go or you take care of email, work, whatever. It's a nice little break for me. I use it as a little bit of a respite between my working sessions. You know, I work real hard and I take my break. So it's a walk for me and it makes life easier.

1:18:01Walking up to food is great. Oh, man. for digestion especially like on the evening if even if i'm like oh my god i'm overate a little bit just walking afterwards helps massively yeah yeah yeah for sure absolutely and um but yeah man it's uh it's just been it's been a process over this of these past people 17 years for you training that same for me it's just a process of learning these little things that you just add in one thing at a time. And it just builds into this big picture of fitness that you now live. And it's the same thing for me. You know, that's something that I think people need to understand is that, dude, you don't necessarily need to live exactly like me or exactly like you at first, because, you know, just you going on a walk is a victory, you know, for somebody who's just starting.

1:18:55And you don't have to start doing every single other thing that you or I do, because you're going to get overwhelmed. It's too much. It's way too much. It's not who you are yet. You need to sort of just build it gradually over time and then big things can happen. And this is the way that you got to live, man. For sure. Yeah. What do you say we, you saw this equipment. It's been looking at me. I feel like it's got my eyes on it. So I like that. Oh, dude. T-bar row. Oh, absolutely. I'm ready to use that. Let's do it. Sounds good, man. Where can people find you? My Instagram. everything is just davis.diley everything davis.diley on instagram youtube tiktok what's the new app going to be called it's going to be called my lift okay my lift and it's going to be out hopefully within the next month to two months nice yeah so probably when this is out thank you I appreciate it man thank you man looking forward to it