What say you?

That.

And man, Nate, you, you are in a tough position.

If, if you have 100 pounds to lose, like, dropping weight if you start getting consistent is fairly easy.

And, and no, and no shade against anybody who's got a lot of weight to lose.

There's, like, a whole emotional thing there that makes it really tough.

But if a person who's 100 pounds overweight locks in in a caloric deficit and starts doing literally any exercise, they're gonna start shedding weight like crazy.

Um, hey, just 'cause we're, we're lingering here for one more moment before we get to our last question, um, I- I don't mean to put you on the spot, but the connection between, um, you know, faith and God and fasting, would you mind just as best you can talking a little bit more, like, biblically what is that connection and, and why is it that abstaining from something that we need is supposed to have us communicate with God in a different way, for, for lack of a better way to explain it? You could probably do a better job, but do you mind unpacking that?

Where are we heading next?

We're gonna talk about Priya.

Yo, Priya from Charlotte, North Carolina, thanks for sending in the question.

She says, "I am 46.

I wanna look good and feel strong.

I'm starting to feel more wear and tear.

Should I be changing my program?" Um, I mean, this is, this is a good question, 'cause I think it also goes back to Marcus' question a little bit.

Yeah, yeah, I know the sh- I know the shows.

Where do you want to start with these questions?

I'm glad you did because there was a specific one that I wanted for myself.

And so selfishly, Marcus D. from Columbus, Ohio.

He says, are you guys actually giving your kids structured training plans to prepare? And what age is it appropriate to start training a kid versus just letting them play? Boy, guys.

OK, so there's a fine line between like helping our kids prepare and be their best and like living vicariously through our children.

And I think you do have to be real careful.

However, if we just let our kids like lay around and eat junk food and not get any physical activity, I don't feel like that's as beneficial.

But Ben, what's your answer?

What about you, Ben? What was your starting point on Warfare, say?

Well, I'll try and watch the film to start with.

without my sound head on.

So it's very rare that in our industry we only get the first watch once and we're watching it untold amounts of times.

So I just try and sit back and watch the film for the first time and then I'll watch it again straight after and start thinking about it with my sound head on.

And that is very much where you get your gut reactions, which I've found has helped me along the way with the process.

So what you feel that first time is like, OK, let's try this, let's try that.

What about you, Ben? Do you make much of your own sound

[laughs] But it's kinda like I'd rather have general fitness than just all in on one thing, and I think that the HYROX CrossFit is really, like, you're kind of all in at that point, you know?

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

From Tony M. in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and I think we can cover this one pretty quick, but Tony says, "Every program treats the squat, bench, and deadlift as non-negotiable, but every time I load them up, I end up stiff and tweaking something.

Do I actually have to do the big three to get strong, or are there better options for me?" And he put me in all caps, which I think is, is big, and he's making a point, and Tony, uh, I think you made a great point.

Does not have to be the big three.

I'll use somebody as an example real quick.

Uh, there's a guy who's blown up on Instagram.

Okay.

So, um, where did it all begin? Obviously, I think your, your grandpa kicked it off, didn't he?

Yeah.

So grandpa, David, David Jackson, as most people know him as, he started off really as an apprentice, um, for Perkins Engines back in the late '60s, and then decided to go on his own.

And at the time, it wasn't necessarily Land Rover-based stuff.

They...

There was a big demand for reconditioned Perkins diesel engines, and there wasn't enough, um, people making them at the time, and Grandpa decided to start reconditioning them.

And then it started to become more and more popular for people to put these engines into, whether it be other four by fours, but mainly Land Rovers.

Yeah, cool.

Mm-hmm.

That's all I'm doing, enjoying my racing.

You know, I work full time.

Um, a- and my racing is, i- is not so much a hobby, but it, it's, um, it's not my sole income anymore, so I just go off and enjoy my racing.

When I have a meeting, I mean, I've got a month off.

How, uh-

Mm.

Um, you know, I struggled to get answers, but, you know, if I got answers then maybe I wouldn't have gone to social media.

So straight to the point, we was, um, gonna have a little chat about, um, what's going on with the rider's insurance and, and, uh, what's actually the latest in that at the moment?

Uh, some good news, um, which is very good news.

We are all now insured again, the, which is great.

Um, it's not quite how it was, but, you know, we, we're hap- we're a lot happier than we were, and riders that have been injured since are currently getting supported.

Mm-hmm.

That's all I'm doing, enjoying my racing.

You know, I work full time.

Um, uh, and my racing is, is, is not so much a hobby, but it, it's, um, it's not my sole income anymore, so I just go off and enjoy my racing.

It's like they, we just take the kids

... and, like, I, I like to run hill sprints, and to guys who are not sprinting, that's, like, the best intro, is one, like, the grassy hill's gonna be a little bit softer.

Your foot strike changes a little bit, so it's gonna be lower impact.

I- if you're not into sprinting right now, take your kids out on a Saturday.

You find a hill, and we usually set the kids up underneath this tree, and they play, and I'm never like, "Hey, guys, we're gonna do this many sprints." But invariably, like, I'm out there doing, I know you're big on it, too, like, my A skips, B skips, C skips, and they jump in, do a couple of those.

They'll go play a little bit.And then I'll start doing my sprints, and they, as always, they'll be like, "Hey, Dad, let's race."

How do you think your faith has helped you with fitness, and how do you think fitness ties into your faith?

Man, so I've always looked at it, I was, uh, part of an organization where it was called, like, Connect, Grow, Go, and a horrible tornado hit Little Rock a couple years ago where I live, and when, when you're out there, like, lifting, like, trees off of cars and stuff like that, there's a certain group of men that can go, and there's a certain group of men that cannot.