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Hi, this is A.J. and welcome VIP member. How are you today? I hope you’re having a great day. Now this month I have another video lesson for you. This time I’m using a piece of a video from Tony Robbins. Tony Robbins, one of our favorite teachers and coaches.

In this video, Tony is talking about the topic of health and energy and he talks about why it’s important and how it affects all parts of our life and it does. So let me go ahead and get started and go through the video. I’ll pause, play, explain, play, pause, explain and then in the commentary I’ll talk more about some of these ideas.

We’ve already talked about health and fitness in some past VIP lessons and I’m going to continually talk about this topic. It will be one of our main topics that we’ll visit again and again and again because it’s so, so, so important. It affects everything else in your life. You have high energy and you feel great, you perform great in all different parts of your life. If you have low energy and you feel bad, then you typically will perform less well. Job, family, everything, all parts of your life become more difficult.

So that’s why it’s really the engine. The energy that starts everything is our health. So it’s an important topic and I will definitely continually talk about this in future months as well and other topics as well, of course, not just this, but it’s an important one. So why don’t we watch this video and I’ll start explaining it. Let me just get the section I want.

I have a little campaign for you. I’m sure you know that for three decades…

Okay. So he said I’m sure you know that for three decades. For three decades I have been a huge proponent of health. That’s what he’s going to say. So he said for three decades. Obviously, that means for 30 years. He said I have been a huge proponent of.

A proponent is someone who supports something; someone who supports an idea or a person or it could be anything, really. So if you are a huge proponent it means you’re a big supporter of something. In this case, he’s a big supporter of health; of living a healthy life. Let’s continue.

…I have been a proponent of anything that could give you that huge competitive advantage in terms of strength or fitness or energy…

Okay. So he said I’ve been a huge proponent of anything that can give you that competitive advantage in terms of strength and fitness and energy. So what is he a supporter of, a proponent of? Well, it means he supports anything, it means any way of eating, any way of exercising, any way of living that give you a competitive advantage.

If you’re maybe in business or sports or whatever in your life, if you have to compete, well then you need an advantage. So he supports anything that will give you that advantage. He also supports anything that gives you better fitness and better energy long term. So he’s a supporter or a proponent of anything that gives you better competition – competitive ability – anything that gives you better fitness, which is kind of strength and endurance and anything which gives you better energy.

Of course, Tony talks very, very fast, which is one of the challenges with Tony Robbins.

Let’s keep going.

…and I’ve come across some of the most amazing experts. So I’ve got three that are people that have influenced me the most…

Okay. It’s hard because he talks so fast. He said I’ve come across people who’ve given me some advantages. Let’s watch that little piece again because it’s so fast.

…and I’ve come across some of the most amazing experts.

So he says and I’ve come across some of the most amazing experts. To come across means to find. He means I’ve found some of the most amazing experts in this area of health and fitness. So I’ve come across them; I’ve found them.

So I’ve got three that are people that have influenced me the most… So he says I’ve got three, three experts who are people who have influenced me the most. So he’s found three special people, who have influenced him a lot; who taught him a lot about health and fitness and energy.

…and I want to introduce you to them.

And he says I want to introduce you to them. These are people I want to introduce you to. He’s talking about some videos he’s sending out and in each video there’ll be a different expert.

…and hopefully, have you be able to take advantage of some of their resources.

So he said and hopefully, have you be able to take advantage of some of their resources. So, to take advantage of, it has a couple meanings. It can have a negative meaning, but here it’s a positive meaning and it just means to use, to use.

It means to use some potential, use something that’s useful, so to take advantage of these experts’ resources. And, of course, resources means their ideas or things that are useful – the noun. So he saying I want you to use the useful ideas from these experts.

That’s what that sentence means – to take advantage of, to use some of their resources; some of their useful ideas.

If you’re coming to, Unleash the Power Within, this year in Los Angeles in Long Beach, I’m bringing a very special man…

Okay. So he said if you’re coming to Unleash the Power Within in Long Beach, he’s just talking about an event he’s having in Long Beach, California and the name of the event is Unleash the Power Within. So, anyway, not important, let’s keep going. But he’s having a special person, a special guest at this event, so that’s why he’s talking about it.

…who has influenced me. His name is Stu Mittleman.

He’s one of the people who has influenced him and his name is Stu Mittleman. If you have Power English you might know Stu Mittleman’s name because I mention Stu Mittleman in the Slow Burn lesson set for Power English. If you don’t have Power English, well…

If you don’t know Stu’s story, in a nutshell…

He says if you don’t know Stu’s story, here it is in a nutshell. Here is his story in a nutshell. In a nutshell is an idiom. In a nutshell means in a very short way. It means like a very short summary. You’re summarizing something very quickly, so right before you summarize it you say okay, well, in a nutshell, here’s the main idea.

You can imagine a nut is very small, right? So it means you can fit the explanation inside a tiny, little shell of a nut. Do you get the idea? It means it would have to be very small to do that, so it means a very short explanation. That’s what that phrase means and we say it just before we tell you a quick summary of something.

So maybe it’s a big, long idea. He could talk about Stu Mittleman a lot. The guy has a lot of ideas. There are so many things, but he wants to just give you the very short, quick version, so he says in a nutshell. It means here’s the short, quick version about Stu Mittleman.

…this is a guy that ran 1,000 miles in 11 days…

So he’s like the nutshell, the main thing you should know about Stu Mittleman. He ran, what’d he say, 1,000 miles in a few days.

…literally, 85 or 84 miles a day, on average.

He ran 84 miles per day, on average. That’s a lot. What would that be in kilometers? I don’t know, 120 kilometers or something like that per day.

At the end, he was so ahead of schedule. He was going to be on The

Today Show…

So he ran across the United States. He ran from California to New York. Every single day he ran 84 miles, 120, 130 kilometers every day. So, basically, oh God, that’s a lot.

That’s like three marathons every single day he ran. That’s a lot. This guy, Stu Mittleman, is amazing; amazing, super energy guy.

…and they said you’ve gotta’ slow down. You’re going to finish before the Today Show is ready.

So as part of his run across America, he was going to appear on a TV show in New York and the TV show is called The Today Show, but Stu Mittleman was going so fast. He was running so much every day he was ahead of schedule. So he was coming and The Today Show said wait, you’re coming too early. We want to have you on our TV show when you arrive in New York City, but you’re coming before the schedule. You need to slow down.

Stu Mittleman said no, I’m not going to slow down. I’ll just run more. So he just kind of ran a longer route so he would arrive at the right time in New York for The Today Show.

Oh, I’ll just run further.

He says oh, I’ll just run further. I’ll run more.

The man is amazing. At 50 years old…

He said the man is amazing. At 50 years old, at the age of 50.

…he ran 52 days in a row…

He ran 52 days in a row. In a row, of course, means back to back to back, no break. So at the age of 50, he ran 52 days in a row.

…and 52 miles a day.

And he ran 52 miles a day. Maybe it was his 52nd birthday. It seems like everything is 52. So, anyway, he ran 52 miles. That’s two marathons. So that’s two marathons every single day for 52 consecutive days, back to back to back. So it’s like you run two marathons today and then tomorrow you run two more and the next day two more.

This is what Stu Mittleman did. This is why Tony feels he is a super expert on the topic of energy and health. I mean you must be very fit and healthy and you have to have a lot of energy, well, just to run one marathon.

I’ve run a few marathons, you know, one at a time and I can’t imagine running them back to back to back to back, but Stu Mittleman did. And Stu Mittleman, of course, ran in a very different way than I did, which is how he manages to do it.

I mean just over 3,000 miles at the age of 50.

At the age of 50, he ran over 3,000 miles in less than two months. That’s 5,000 kilometers, I believe, in two months; less than two months, 52 days. So he’s just trying to give you all these examples to show you that this Stu Mittleman guy is amazing. This guy is special and he is really an expert on the topic of energy and health.

I mean this guy has amazing energy and it’s not about age, okay? This is at the age of 50 that he did all of this. Most people at the age of 50 are complaining I’m tired. Oh, I’m getting older now. And this guy at the age of 50 is running two marathons every single day, amazing.

Well, he’s a freak of nature, I’m not, Tony. What’s the point?

So Tony is saying okay, maybe you’re thinking well, Stu Mittleman is a freak of nature and I’m not, so what’s the point. To be a freak of nature, that’s another little idiom. If you say he’s a freak of nature, it means he’s special. He has some special genetics.

To be a freak means to be very, very different, totally weird and different, not like other people at all. And to be a freak of nature, that’s usually a positive phrase ‘freak of nature.’ Freak can have a negative feeling, but when you have the whole phrase ‘freak of nature’, we usually use it to describe an athlete.

We usually use it to describe someone who is super good and talented with some kind of physical activity. It could possibly be something even like the guitar, but usually it’s more of a sports kind of thing. So you might say, you know, Michael Jordan was a freak of nature, because he could do things with the basketball that no one else could do.

So it’s the idea that he’s super special. He has some special thing in his body or, I don’t know, from the universe and his genetics, something that makes him special, which means it’s impossible for other people to do what he does.

So Tony is saying maybe you are thinking this about Stu Mittleman. You think okay, he ran two marathons every day, but he’s a freak of nature. He has some special genetics.

He can do that, but I can’t, so what’s the point, Tony. Why are you telling me this? It doesn’t help me. That’s what Tony is saying. He’s saying maybe you’re thinking this.

Well, when I wanted to figure out how to increase my energy in my early 20s…

He’s saying well, here’s the point. He says when I wanted to figure out how to increase my own energy when I was in my 20s, you know, 21, 22 years old, 25 years old.

…you know I had a lot of psychological energy, but not a lot of physical energy.

So he’s saying at that time, even in his 20s, he had a lot of psychological energy, but not a lot of physical energy. Now that’s an interesting topic and I want to talk more about it in the commentary.

There’s a difference, right? You can have psychological energy. It means you have a lot of ideas and you want to do a lot of stuff and you’re motivated and yeah, yeah, yeah, but sometimes, a lot of times, we have psychological energy, but then our body, our physical energy is low.

So we want to do a lot of cool stuff and we’re really motivated, but then we feel kind of tired. We don’t have the physical energy to do it or if we do, do it, we have to really force ourselves with our minds, right? I will do it! I will do it! And it’s a struggle. So that was his problem in his 20s. Tony said I had a lot of psychological energy, but not much physical energy and I wanted to find somebody to help me.

I’d gone on diets and tried different things, so I said you know what?

So he said I’d gone on diets. I dieted and I tried different things, they didn’t help.

I want to find somebody who’s the best endurance athlete in the world, but I want somebody that’s not a professional athlete.

So, at that time, he said I want to find somebody who’s the best endurance athlete in the world. Endurance, of course, means lots of energy for a long, not just really short and quick. Endurance means you can do something a long, long time.

He said but I wanted to find someone who was not a professional athlete. So this is what he’s saying about Stu Mittleman. Stu Mittleman is not a professional athlete. He didn’t want to go find like the top marathon runner in the world from Kenya who maybe does have some great genetics or who at least probably has trained, you know, since they were a small child for hours and hours and hours every single day. So he’s like I didn’t want that. I wanted to find more of a normal person so that I could copy and model what they were doing.

I’m not a pro. I can’t dedicate my whole life to it.

So he’s saying I’m not a pro. Tony is saying I’m not a pro. I can’t dedicate my whole life to getting more energy, I have other things I’m doing in my life.

I wanted to find those shortcuts. Then I found Stu.

He’s saying I wanted to find those shortcuts and, of course, a shortcut is a shorter way, an easier way to do something; a shorter, easier, faster way to do something. She he says then I found Stu. I found Stu Mittleman and he taught me some of the important shortcuts; the easier ways to get healthier and more energy.

I interviewed him. I modeled him.

He said I interviewed him and I modeled him. To model someone is kind of to copy them, but not to copy them to steal from them. It means you copy them so that you can also perform well.

If you want to be a great speaker, then you model great speakers. You kind of copy them for a while and eventually you develop your own style, but in the beginning you’re just kind of copying what they’re doing. If you want to be a great golfer, then you try to copy golfers who are better than you. We call that modeling, to model them. So he’s saying I modeled Stu.

And now I’m bringing him back to Long Beach, California for the UPW and you’ll have a chance to have a session with him, where he’s going to show you…

So he’s saying now I’m bringing him back. Now I’m bringing him back to UPW. That means Unleash the Power Within, that’s his event. That’s Tony’s event in Long Beach, California. He says if you come to this event, you’ll be able to have a session with him.

A session is a meeting. You can have a private meeting with Stu Mittleman. You can have a session with him, a meeting with him, and Stu can maybe give you some advice about how to have more energy. Of course, I’m not going to this event and you’re probably not going to this event, so it doesn’t matter.

…the most efficient ways to workout and to get the greatest level of energy in your life, so the first part is pure energy.

Okay. So what Tony is talking about then is pure energy. Pure energy is really the topic of this VIP lesson and this video. What does that mean, pure energy? What are we talking about again?

Well, you know, in health and fitness there are really kind of two sides of it, which I’m sure all of you know. There’s the eating and diet part and then there is the activity exercise part, right? And there are lots of books and ideas and theories and all this stuff about each side of this and people get really confused about it, but I think what Tony is talking about and I think he’s absolutely correct, is that our first best measurement of health is our consistent energy level.

Consistent energy is really the number one thing we want first. So, for example, the reason there’s a lot of confusion is that people have different goals. So, for example, with exercising and working out you’re going to hear so many different kinds of advice.

Some people will tell you to workout really hard, to exercise really hard for a short time and then take a break and then do it again for a short time and then take a break. That’s called interval training.

You run really fast for one minute and then you walk for a minute and then you run fast for a minute and then you walk for a minute. I’ve done that and I do, do it sometimes.

Other people will tell you to do long runs, but run kind of hard. You know, you want to get your heartbeat going quite quickly.

Other people will tell you that hard, heavy weightlifting is the best and to use the heaviest weights possible and only do a few repetitions. Other people will tell you that you should lift lighter weights more often, like maybe 10 or 20 times. Other people will say no, don’t do that, do something like yoga because yoga gives you a full-body workout. It gives you some strength and flexibility. Other people will say no, no, but yoga doesn’t really get your heart rate going enough.

And, so, there’s a lot of confusion, right? People say oh, my God. Oh, what do I do? Do I go fast or slow, this or that? Oh, my God, ah. Well, the truth is there’s not a right or a wrong answer. People act like my way is the best and it’s the only way, but that’s not the truth.

Each of these kinds of exercise, these ways of exercising, are designed to get a different or a specific result. So if you want fast speed and you want to be able to have a lot of power, to suddenly have a lot of strength and power, you’re going to workout and exercise in a different way than if you are trying to run a marathon.

So it’s really easy to get confused and maybe you’re thinking well, I don’t know what I want. I don’t know. I mean it’d be nice to have some more muscles. I’d like to lose some fat and da- da- da. And then people get focused on these external goals, right? I want to weigh, you know, 150 pounds or 170 pounds or whatever. Or I want to look like, you know, Brad Pitt. I don’t know if Brad Pitt still looks good, but, you know, you want to lose three inches or five inches of fat and, again, these sorts of external goals.

The problem is that these kind of external goals really are not very motivating. You know they’re kind of negative, when you think about it, because what you’re saying is I’m not happy with my body now and I want to lose, I want to get rid of some of this fat or get rid of something. And, you know, our brains just don’t work well when you have a negative goal, like I want to eliminate something, I want to get rid of it.

Our brains respond better when we have a positive goal. I want to get something.

Getting a positive thing, for us, is usually more motivating than eliminating something negative and it’s also, I think, just a better way to live and a better way to think. So what we have to really think about is what is the most basic, the most important part of health? I mean what is the first thing that we all want? When we say I want to be healthy, what does that mean?

Now some people say well, I’ll live a long time, but, you know, you can’t control everything. You can’t control exactly how long you’re going to live. You know, you might have an accident. Hopefully not, but you know things happen, so it’s kind of crazy to have this idea I will live to be 150. You know, maybe you will; maybe you won’t.

I think, though, if we think about it more like what do I want right now, right? If I think about health right now in my life, why would I want to be healthier? It doesn’t matter what your age is. You might be 15, you might be 50, you might be 80, you might be 100 right now, but you ask yourself okay, well, what do I want?

I think what Tony is saying here is that energy is really the most basic measurement, the most basic benefit of great health; a consistently high level of energy that is consistent that remains consistent through the whole day and it’s every single day. Now most of us don’t have that, right?

A lot of people are morning people. They wake up, they have great energy, but then later in the day their energy drops and drops and drops. Other people are night people.

I’m a night person. That means when I wake up my energy is a bit low and it tends to go up in the early afternoon, drop in the late afternoon and then up again at night. That’s not consistent energy. It’s going up and down, up and down, up and down.

Some people just feel tired all the time or most of the time. Some people might have a good day and then the next day feeling really bad and tired. None of that is great health.

None of those examples I gave you represents great health. You know you’re super healthy when you feel a really high level of physical energy when you wake up through the entire day, evening, and night until you go to bed and you feel that every single day.

That is what health is. That’s your basic core foundation for health is that high consistent level of physical energy.

Now, if you have high mental energy that’s even greater. Then you’ll be a crazy person, like Tony Robbins, running around and doing tons of stuff, but I’m talking about physical energy. Because a lot of us do have the mental energy, we want to do a lot of stuff.

We have a lot of dreams. We have a lot of ideas, but then our body kinds of holds us back, right? You’re like I would love to do live events and teach classes and go to this and take these classes and learn how to do this, but I feel tired so I’m not going to do all of that.

So a lot of people are limited by their physical energy; by their bodies, by their health.

And a lot of people who think they’re healthy are not, because they go to the doctor and they say my cholesterol is low and my blood pressure is good, that means I’m healthy.

No, it doesn’t. That’s the mainstream medical idea of health, but it’s not.

Because a lot of people who do that and they say my blood pressure is low and I have good cholesterol, but they feel tired a lot, which means their body is limiting their life; limiting what they can or will do.

A lot of people have dreams to do some, you know, really cool activity or trip or travel or something and they don’t do it because physically they don’t think they can do it. For example, sometimes I have family visit me in San Francisco and we’re limited. We’re limited to what we can do.

I would love to take them up to the top of Coit Tower, you know, and see the great views of the city and I’d love to take them on walking tours through lots of interesting neighborhoods, but they can’t do it physically. They’re too tired. Oh, they’re tired. Oh, my knees hurt. They can’t do it. Their physical body is therefore lowering their life quality and that is bad.

Now with other people it’s more subtle, right? Subtle means just a little bit, not obvious.

You know you should really be honest about this in your life and think. Am I doing all the things I would love to do? Am I living my dream life right now? If the answer is no, you can also ask yourself another question. Is my physical energy limiting me? Is my body limiting me?

So strength is great. Running tons of marathons, fantastic, whatever maybe athletic goal you might have that’s fantastic, but you add that onto the foundation and the foundation of health is pure energy. It’s a high level of energy consistently throughout the entire day, every single day.

That’s the basic thing that we all want in terms of health. Now, after that, if you want to build big muscles or you play basketball and you want to do special exercise for that that’s great. That’s fine, but I’m not going to talk about that in this lesson, I’m just talking about the most basic level.

In fact, some people who are good athletes, who are lifting weights a lot, for example, and they’re very strong, they might not be very healthy. They might be fit – fit means, really, strength – but they’re not healthy. Meaning, they workout, they lift weights, they’re strong, but they feel tired a lot. Their body after working out is like oh, my God and some of that’s normal.

Of course, you want to feel some tiredness when you workout really hard, but I mean like then the next day they’re just really lethargic. Lethargic means really tired; fatigued.

And, just in general, throughout the day their energy goes up and down and they have a lot of times when they’re just not very energetic. That’s not health. You can be strong, but not be healthy.

So what I’m saying is you want the health first. You want that incredible level of energy first and then you build other things on top; build strength on top, build flexibility on top, build sports on top, whatever it is you also want to do.

So in the commentary I’m going to talk more about this. I’m going to talk more about getting this steady, high level of energy and, of course, I’ve already talked about in the Energy Triangle Lesson how to encourage that with eating. Now in this one I’m going to tell you how to encourage this with a certain kind of exercising.

When you say which one is more important, A.J.? Well, they’re both important, but I think that, actually, physical activity is a little bit more powerful than eating. It doesn’t mean go eat bad stuff. It’s just that I’ve met some older people, for example, my two grandmothers.

My father’s mom is 90 years old and she’s still really active and she eats terribly. She eats fried foods. She eats all these terrible foods and sweets and stuff. I’m like, how does she do this? Well, the secret is she is active. She line dances. She does county line dancing. She does square dancing. She teaches aerobics classes at her retirement community. So she’s always been really, really, really active.

And, so, what I’ve seen and what I’ve observed with some older people is that if you’re very, very active sometimes, even if you eat badly, you’ll still be fairly healthy, but if you’re sedentary, if you just lay around and sit in your chair all the time and have this kind of modern lifestyle where we sit on our butts all the time for hours and hours then, even if you’re eating well, you still probably aren’t going to have very good energy.

Now if you want super energy you’re going to eat well and you’re going to move a lot, but if you think it’s too much for me to do both, A.J., I would say start with the physical activity and the movement. I think you’ll get the faster, quicker result by focusing on that first and then start improving your eating.

Okay, so, anyway, in the commentary I’ll talk more about this. I’ll talk about the idea of alkalizing your body and how to exercise in a way that will make your body more alkaline. Alkaline is the opposite of acid, right? You probably know this term ‘acid’. When your body is acidic you have lower energy. When your body is alkaline it means the PH is high and you feel a lot of physical energy.

There are ways to eat in order to get more alkaline and I talked about that already in the Energy Triangle Lesson. There are also certain ways to exercise and move that will give you a more alkaline body instead of producing acid. So, listen to that commentary because I’ll give you some extra information about that.

I hope you enjoyed this. I want you to have super, incredible energy so that you can be a great leader, so that you can have energy for your relationships, so that you have more energy for your business, for your job, for your dreams, anything and everything you want. When you have a lot of physical energy it’s much easier to accomplish.

Okay. I’ll see you in the commentary.

Have a great day, bye-bye.