 Hey, want to know what we think about Fitness Influencer Workout programs? Watch this. Our next caller is Ashlyn from Minnesota. Ashlyn, how can we help you? Hi, so recently I had third weight training again after a really long hiatus. So I was approaching it as a beginner. I had been consistent for about two to three months until I got COVID. So since I've been out from training for about three to four weeks and I've been wanting to get back to it. But I've been dealing with this lingering fatigue and exhaustion from the COVID that I haven't experienced in a long time since having adrenal fatigue. So anyway, my question is, what do you guys think is the best way, best, healthiest, safest way to get back into weight training with this fatigue and exhaustion? Yeah, good question. So there's a horse dewormer. I'm just kidding. Don't cancel us, Spotify. No, okay. So, no, I'm just kidding. No, okay. So here's the deal. Doug, they're cringing. I know he's already freaking out. All right, I'm going to give you the like the answer from my expertise and then I'm going to give you the non-expertise answer just based off of stuff that I've read. Okay, so this is like, this is for sure the good advice. For sure, good advice is give it some time. Go very slowly and train according to how you feel. I've talked to lots of people that feel like you do after recovering from illness and it seems like some people it takes one to two months. Before they start to feel like themselves and Adam was somebody the same thing. He had about a month and a half or two months where he kind of felt crappy and then slowly it came back. So that's the for sure like piece of advice. Okay, here's some speculation based off of what I've read. Take it with a grain of salt. I'm not a doctor. But I've read a lot about glutathione and NAC supplementation to help with recovery from COVID. There's been some studies show there's a strong connection correlation to low glutathione levels and severe symptoms of COVID and long COVID. So you can find liposomal glutathione. We work with a company called Live On. They produce it. It's really good. It's one of the best ones I've found. And then NAC, you can find online. Amazon doesn't sell anymore because I think the FDA is trying to re-regulate it and although it's been available for 20 years weird while all of a sudden they want to do that. But anyway, that's a side note. Those two things right there. Try supplementing with them and see if that helps with your recovery. But again, that's the part. Take with a grain of salt. The most important part is just give yourself time. Everybody I've talked to that's been in the situation. It took them about a month to two months and then they started to feel like themselves again. As far as programming and stuff, do you have Map Starter? I don't. I've been using like a mixture of, don't hate me, fitness influencer programs that I felt like took the best from each one and kind of made my own. So I don't have a Map one yet. We're going to send you Map Starter. Yeah. Jesus, we don't want you doing that. Bambi's butt building. Yeah. Yeah. We don't want you doing that. Is that what you're doing? Map Starter will be absolutely perfect. Trust the process too. Anytime I put Katrina back on Starter after she's been off for a while, she's always antsy to get back after it. I'm like, listen, follow the programming. I promise that you'll continue to see great results. It'll get you ready for something a little more intense. So I would follow Starter after you go through Starter, then I would consider going to Anabolic. So follow Starter to T. We're going to send that over to you for free. That's what I would do. And then, so I just walked, you know, so I would go for walks. And because I even noticed like if I went for like a long walk or like a like a pills and so that I could even feel, I felt like almost like there was like someone standing on my chest. Like it was just, it was harder for me to breathe and it took me a good solid almost two months. And all I would do is I would, I would go or I'd be like riding the bike around the block with Max and, you know, something that I could do for a half hour to hour, no problem. I could only do for about 10 or 15 minutes. And so I would just do that. I would kind of, I would kind of push to that limit and then I would back off and then relax. And I noticed I'd be really tired after that. So definitely my body's talking to me, letting me know that that was a lot for me at the time. So just take it slow and do walks in Starter for now. Listen to your body. I mean, you really got to pay attention to those signals and like take it easy and really take that tempo and that pace down substantially. So you can, you know, use this time to work on the quality of your form and the mechanics of the movements and you know, even just kind of sit in it for a while and rebuild that tension and just kind of pace it out at a very slow pace and you're going to build that momentum and get back when your body's adequately ready. Yeah. Ashley, one more piece of advice. Okay. Yeah. So are you a trainer or a coach? Are you a trainer or coach? Do you coach anybody or train anyone? I'm a yoga teacher, but not a fitness trainer. Okay. So, okay. Awesome. So this is going to be great. Okay. So I have a little bit of knowledge of yoga. I've taken yoga maybe, I don't know. He bought the pants. Maybe 30 times. Okay. He wears the pants. Yeah. I wear yoga pants on the weekends. No, I'll joking aside. Imagine this, right? You're a yoga instructor. You know what you're doing. Imagine if you had someone like me who came to you and said, Hey, listen, I'm doing my own yoga routine. I took like 15 classes or I watched 15 videos on Instagram and I put together what I think to be the best routine for myself. Like how would you, how would you feel about that? Or what would you think about that? Like, oh, stop it. Yeah. So, so what you're doing is number one, you're picking routines from a pool of idiots. Okay. So fitness influencers are, are literally fitness morons. So they're, I'm not, I'm not exaggerating. They're dumb. And what you're doing is you're not only picking from a pool of idiots, but then you're taking that and mixing it based off of your randomly, putting your limited experience. So no, no offense to you. I get it, but you don't know what you don't know. And so what you've probably done is you're probably taking terrible routines and just making another terrible one. So follow map starter as it's laid out. Trust the process just like you would want when you're students to trust your process and then see how, see what happens. Okay. And should I take the program at the pace that it's saying, take it out or should I just take it slow and listen to my body? Always listen to your body. Always, but it's de-factored that in. Yeah. That's factored into it. That's why it's called map starters. The thought process is somebody who's been away from lifting for a while or somebody who just came out of having a child. Like it's definitely a good place for you to start right now and just, just follow it as, as instructed. Unless it's too, if it is too much back off, but I think you'll be fine. Yeah. Awesome. That's great. Thank you so much. You guys, I really appreciate this. No problem. Thank you. All right. I tell you what, man, I really appreciate the social media fitness influencers because it's, it's like it's customers. Boy, do they give us like, they give us a great part of the market, don't they? Anytime we get something like that, it always just reminds me of how much more work we have to do. You know, if you have somebody who's been listening to us for, you know, I don't know, obviously long enough to know. She knows how to, you know, send in a question to get on here, but then doesn't have any of the programs and is randomly pulling from influencers. It's like, how many of, how many of our audience is still, or how many people in our audience are still doing things like that. So, right. Yeah. The problem is that they, they, you know, they value exercise is just movement. Well, I'm just moving. So what's the difference? Well, I'll never forget the first time I'm going to throw our friend on the bus here when Craig and I were hanging out and he referred to exercise programming as ice cream flavors. I almost fucking, you know, threw my head through the wall after he said that. Are you fucking kidding me? This is part of the problem. This is part of the problem is that people really think it's just ice cream flavors. And it's like, oh, you like Rocky Road. Have Rocky Road. Oh, you like MedChip. Have MedChip. It's like, there's, there's a lot of science that goes into good programming. Just like programming for, it's more like programming for a fucking computer. Yeah. Program. Yeah. You want the program to turn your computer on. You throw, you throw a couple of wrong ones and zeros and it doesn't do anything. Yes. Or it crashes the whole thing. Very effective way to get to your desired outcome. And it's just like, there's a science behind it. And I guess that's why we get irritated because you know immediately whether or not they're using any science in their program. Yeah. Well, and it's also, there's also a major difference beside between programming for results and just general exercise. Okay. So that I'll give you that that, you know, general exercise is like ice cream flavors. Yeah. Sometimes if you just want to randomly move and just burn calories and that's your desired outcome. But most people calling in or most people listening to the show or have specific goals. I want to lose X amount of body fat. I want to build so much muscle. I want to run faster, jump higher, live longer. Yeah. So you're consistent. That's great. Now let's look and see what's the best way. Right. You know, to be consistent. It reminds me of like when I, you know, I have friends who, you know, they're professional fighters or whatever. And they would always laugh at these like videos online of like, this is how you disarm someone who's pointing a gun at you. Oh my God, dude. This is going to perfectly like happen exactly how the person's coming at you. They're like, dude, they're going to get someone killed. If somebody follows this stupid advice. So it's hilarious.