 Hey, my name is Alex from alexfurgus.com and for the next few weeks. I'm gonna try something I am going to show you Some insights into my life into my training to my diet Into what I do on a day-to-day basis for those of you who have been following me for a while you'll know how I am into health and performance and fitness, but also um, I guess a little bit of a self-sufficiency and having control over How I live where I live what I eat what I don't eat and what I do I guess and hopefully will inspire some people as to you know Healthier eating healthier living Cheaper eating because I try and keep my food budget down pretty low And yeah, and just maybe show people what goes on behind the scenes and yeah, I live my life So I'm gonna make my breakfast. I Like me can smoothies because I'm lazy and it's easy and I don't need to think too much So what do I have got raw milk? I have the Great Lakes collagen a banana I try goes right as possible. That's a rock salt. That's a rock salt name rock salt here And then I use a couple of free-range eggs and then sometimes I put in a little bit of chocolate And that's breakfast Yes, I want to show you my favorite room We're currently renting a new Plymouth the plan and New Zealand the plan is to build and buy and do all that fun Growing up stuff, but in the meantime, we're renting this little townhouse, which is actually quite cool Finally have some space in the first time in late 10 years it was a deck and it's been converted into a little sunroom now so let me let me show you it's like a little room really and And My bookshelf, but unfortunately I Only have a few of my books here. I'd like to read a lot. I try to read a book a week though. It can't get tough I am reading by Ariana Huffington, you know explain how we really need to go back to basics and stop relying on technology And I think the key takeaway is to use technology because it is powerful and Allows me to live the life and share all this stuff With you, but I think it's important to balance it So for me personally I have like rules where I won't check my phone or emails until I've done like my morning routine Yeah, it's very important to keep that balance in your life And that's what this book is all about the third metric to redefining success and creating a life of well-being wisdom and wonder That's the subheading so you may already be aware of all this other stuff and believe in all this stuff But sometimes I like that idea of being re-exposed to it and almost like being refreshed You know about these sort of concepts because they are important especially in today's ever-changing world with technology As you can see the Sun's out first time in Five days every month. Anyway, I thought it's a good time to a obviously get some UVB rays Hence why the shirts off but I'll show you my garden so come in These are my seedlings. All these seeds here are organic seeds. We've got two zucchini plants coming through there We've got some tomato plants which I'll be Hardening off over the next few days. These are all breast kids So we've got cauliflower, broccoli, some more tomatoes. I think these are capsicuns In here a squash which haven't come up Featured in here, which also hasn't come up. Anyway, we've sort of planned out a bit of a garden And we've been putting compost in and whatnot over the last few weeks over here We have some squash growing or hasn't come through yet, but there's some squash in that left-hand side zucchini This is what And then over here, we have the three raised garden beds So we've got some strawberries going over here For being out of the week and I might be able to eat some of them and then Rebecca planting some carrots down in there And then yeah, we have some kale and some silver beet that's Struggling along. This is where I planted all our potatoes And you can see it just needs to come through So that's my garden I'm going to show you what I'm doing each week and hopefully we'll get some food in a couple months time But today I'm going to actually plant out a few more potatoes All right, so this is what we got We got some of these potato plant is that I got from the local gardening store here in New Zealand, which is This thing that I'm gonna figure out. All right, so what I'm gonna do now is plant the seed potatoes Make a little bit of a ring here in the soil and then just plant them in a ring Hey, so I'm gonna train Friday afternoon going to do my weekly session. Yeah, I've only been doing one session a week for a while now Some people call me lazy, but I just find it's all I need and I'm not too focused on performance Anyway, so today is going to be a pretty typical session for me. It's a very simple program For exercises, maybe five exercises It's gonna be a deadlift with a chin up and then I'll bring in some floor presses I don't know if I've been here and then some front squats Something like that That's just one of my sessions and Yeah, it was good Deadlifts got five 180 for five hit 200 for triples 220 for a triple, which is good It's actually all the weight I have so I couldn't actually do any more than that. Chins This is kilos by the way all kilos so the 10 kilos for five 20 kilo weighted chins for five 30 Tried for five and you got four so I put fail there And then I have 40 kilos, which is actually pretty good for me I don't usually get up to those sort of numbers. So maybe those of you guys watching Floor press 80 for five hundred for five hundred and ten which actually got really hard really far And then the front squats at the end 105 125 I noticed a bit of a twinge twinge on my back there on the last rep But I feel alright So I did 140 the first first one was good the second one I failed again in the third rep I feel like a little bit worse. So hangs 90 second hang Used to be up around two minutes, but haven't done it for a while. So anyway That Is me for another week I am going to go have a coach out and then have dinner I think we're having gluten-free pizza and I put some ginger beer that I've been brewing for some of that in the fridge And um, they'll be nice and cold for me after the show. So