 Shay asks between Dan and Brandon who would win a thumb war proven one wait one two three four What is up Zen dude nation Zen dudes and do that's from all over the world What's up ladies and gentlemen welcome back to episode number 13 lucky 13 I don't believe in that. You make your own luck. So welcome back episode 13. Dude the questions keep getting better and better I've noticed more interesting a lot of fitness questions, but also a lot of questions related to our business and You guys being able to do like start a business making YouTube videos So I think that's super cool too for those of you who want to become content creators. I can tell you It's like the most fun ever So if you're thinking about it ask us questions about it very fun, it's a lot of hard work It's very fun. It's a lot of work like anything you should do something that you want to do anyway If you would do it for free then it's the you probably gonna be successful at it Because you're gonna do it no matter what whether people are watching your videos or not a show. All right Let's get into these ladies and gentlemen Harry Roberts asks have you guys ever tried Brazilian at Jiu Jitsu one time? I want one time. Awesome. Texas. I did. I don't know it. It just wasn't very fun for me. It's like wrestling, right? I mean, no, it's it's not. I know it's different. No, no, no, but like you're rolling like a lot of my wrestler friends are in I think it's an acquired taste. Um, I don't know It's just like it's very technical and slow and I just gravitated more towards boxing So like the punch people in the face shoot. Um, no, I've never tried it. I've never tried it I don't have a huge interest in it, but I think it's cool. Like I know it's like a lot of people are doing it Maybe in the future Shannon asks, what's up? What's up, Shannon? Do you guys have off days? What should we do if we have an off day with no motivation? Huh, man? Well, yeah, I definitely off days. I have one You know sometimes two off days, but my off days are always like active off days Like we had a meet-up on Saturday. I didn't work out outside the meet-up But we all jumped rope at the meet-up. So I moved my body and we also walked like five miles Yeah And so I don't really understand what you mean by what should we do if we have an off day with no motivation? Because if you're an off day, you don't need motivation because it's your off day. Dude, enjoy it. Yeah And Yeah, I don't it's not that we don't I believe in rest like I believe in rest for the purpose of if you're injured Or you're sick healing yourself to get back to normal But I also don't think that like you need a day because I try used to try to do this Like I would have a rest day where I literally did not move and I sat on my couch and watching movies And I was like no my body needs this and honestly if your body feels good Like moving every day for me is an essential thing for my happiness. Yeah So if you're gonna have a rest day and you want to lay around do it because you should be super intense the rest of The time but don't feel like you need one Don't force yourself to sit on your couch. Yeah, if you don't want to you don't need to honestly Dude, the reason why we both take rest days. I think it's sometimes we're so busy. Yeah, it's nothing that you're right Yeah, nothing to do with my body. It's always because I'm like I honestly like Like we might be traveling we do a lot traveling there in Colombia And so like in the car all day and there's just it doesn't make sense because we're with people and we move Our body so much other days that like it equals out. It's true. It's true Matthew What's up coach? Who are your favorite three movie characters dude great question? I've won. Wow You know some of these questions we get asked like on the spot I wish I had like some time to like think this over beforehand. I don't like that. Let's go. Yeah, bro I'll tell you my number one the Joker. He's ledger. He is the most badass interesting peculiar Dangerous I just I love the Joker. I love the dark night. Honestly my second one would be Batman because like I do I'm obsessed with Batman. I love all those movies. I used to watch the cartoon as a kid. So I'd go to the Joker Batman and Johnny Depp playing Hunter S. Thompson and fear and loathing in Las Vegas. I don't really I don't know I don't have neither coming in my head. I'm sure I would my memory is Awful just for all you didn't know like like if you show me a movie or someone else said some character I'm like, oh, yeah me too that one you like Leo like what I love Leo. What Leo do is our particular character that you're down with Maybe actually I Think Will Smith's character and I am legend is pretty good dude. That's a great one. I like that's a great movie I'm trying to think of other people who inspire me like maybe Rocky dude. There's definitely way more I wish I had him off top of my head. There really is way more like I'm thinking of like more now But those are the first three that came to my head. Tell us your guys in comments below Yes, what everyone else's favorites movie characters are yeah, Barry Albert. What's up my man? BC is the building block of amino acids and important amino acids is leucine Well, that's actually not true building BC is amino acids are in BC. They are amino acids are BC is Anyway, can I substitute BC's with L leucine or leucine peptide? What is the recommended use and timing for L leucine or leucine peptide Brandon your thoughts, please? Yeah, man simplify things all right You're going down this path of supplementation where you're trying to like come up with the perfect timing the perfect supplement Listen, we've talked about branching amino acids in the past. They're the building blocks for protein, right? They're amino acids building blocks your protein So if you are fast in the morning take BC a's then I'm not going to comment on leucine Just by itself in general just because I don't know enough about the research behind it artificial complexity Artificial complexity man. Just take BC a's in the morning and take them, you know right for your workout Yeah, I also saw someone comment below your question Barry and say that it's useless to take BC a's and weigh protein together Which is just not a true statement. I think BC a's can be super important and I wouldn't Focus so much on all these other like individual Vitamins and stuff. Just take BC a's man when you're in a fasted state We have found through working with other people and with ourselves that it's very helpful Cory cordless up sup sup Cory pre-workout yay or nay or may Nice Cory. Thanks for sending us the video of you doing the thing put that in our do the thing video Thank you. Awesome. Thank you Pre-workout it depends what you're taking right you can take a lot of things you can drink water pre-workout You can get super hyzer you take BC a's like we just talked about the last question For me, I just drink americano, so I take a little caffeine and that is perfect for me I wouldn't go try to find like a specific pre-workout supplement Because there's just so many different things in that and it's just not necessary against artificial complexity And a lot of it's just for your body It's just like artificial food coloring and etc etc all these like things We don't actually know what they do to our body, so that's my opinion Let me tell you guys a little story now my pre-workout is coffee like brand now drink an americano or cappuccino or something like that I took This pre-workout called no explode for like five years straight and by the end of it I was taking two scoops of it and I couldn't feel anything because My body was so used to it and that was I'm I regret that decision like personally I took so much pre-workout having no idea what was actually in that and it's a lot of supplements are not approved by the FDA and Relying on something like that instead of just a more natural supplement like green tea or coffee and just Getting used to getting your mindset ready to work out as opposed to taking an artificial supplement I think my point is I think you want to like I would recommend coffee I would stay away from pre-workouts because then you're gonna become dependent. Yeah, then you're gonna need your pre-workout to work out Thank you Shay asks between Dan and Brandon who would win a thumb war proven? One wait one two three four I Have a baby thumb compared to this guy Dan's huge hands in general How do we oh my god Well, you move around a little bit, okay? We are both about the same height Dan just as much as dude. You should have been an NFL wide receiver except uh Yeah, I was I was decent at catching the ball. You know they say over your hands. I am big feet big gloves big gloves Marcelo asks with the green cocktail from athletic greens break my fasting also. What are your thoughts on creed team? It will not break your fast because it's only 40 calories and we know that for most people 50 to 70 calories is like your your buffer if you do if you eat more than 50 to 70 times You're gonna break your fast But you know the green supplement the athletic greens linked in the description below you is only 40 calories You're not gonna break your fast creed team. Um, we definitely think there's a lot of positive There's a Lot of positive benefits. There's a lot of benefits you can get from taking creed team We don't take it personally. So we're not prioritizing muscle like that I think there's a lot of great resources out there that talk about creed team more and I don't want to like just I know It's good for you and I don't want to come out and just be like yo Take this much or don't take it. So maybe we can find a resource and drop it in the description. Yeah We'll do that for you for a team. I agree with the brand said Daniel asks. Could you one day have a meet-up in st? Louie good. Yeah, man. Of course. Yeah, we're coming to St. Louis We're coming every we're coming to India or come to London We're coming to every place that you guys are Wait on it. We're coming to visit all of you the next five years We've talked about this before or basically We're just trying to meet as many people in person and change as many lives as we can through jump rope So please believe we're gonna be going everywhere. Yeah, we did just have our first meet-up in Mexico. Oh, it was nice So, thank you. Shout out to everyone in Medellin Julian Wines yeah Julian Juan Pablo Anna Jorge Emmanuel Santiago Leah Timoree, thank you guys so much. Seriously. We love you guys. My Ella Sup girl Dan I would like to try taking cold showers today. I ended up my hot shower with cold water Dan It was shocking on my body. Please believe that my question is if there's a risk to catch a cold while taking it I mean catching a back pain ovaries pain for women, etc Brand what are your thoughts on this? Um, I think this is one of those like urban myths like if you're cold Then you get a cold. Yeah, um, you get a cold by having a weak immune system, right? So not taking care of your body in general and if there is like, you know Bacteria or if there is a virus going around not bacteria I saw you idiot. There's a virus going around that you can contract if you have a weak immune system So you're good on the cold showers girl. Yeah, it's just a good shock to your system I don't think it's terrible for you in any way and personally when I take cold showers I never get out of the shower after a cold shower feeling anything, but amazing like I feel like I've woken up I feel refreshed. I feel clean. I would recommend you keep taking cold showers. I'm also I feel clean when I get out Dude, I did take one hot shower. Where did I do that? I took one hot shower this weekend, but I've been taking cold showers every day for like the past two weeks and Then after that hot shower I started taking cold ones again, so I'm gonna just keep going I mean cold shower thing is I'm totally on board and if you just having a bad day Go get in a cold shower and shock your system. Yep. Ah another cold shower question Alphon, is it true that you have to get a hot shower after a workout? So you will you eliminate all the fat accumulated on your sweat? Um, no Yeah, I've never heard that never heard that before. Yeah, thanks for asking your question But no, yeah, bro when your sweat washes off it just washes off I don't like fat isn't actually leaving your body. Well the fat molecule shrink. That's yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. That's right There's no you don't get any more. That's right. You don't get more or less fat molecules. They just grow or they shrink Correct. So therefore your sweat is not taking fat out of you that needs to be washed off Where do you guys get your shirts? Which shirts? Which shirts, Brandon? We have do the thing shirts, which we'll link in the description below She's a new fitness dot big cartel dot com other shirts I think we got like Zara forever 21 Urban outfitters Topman this shirt is called Topman They have a lot of good street clothing. I like them Sarah asks Dan Can you moonwalk? No, I could not I am that is like the ultimate move the ultimate move in my opinion to learn is the Armwave and the moonwalk. I can kind of arm wave not really great So those are two things that I'm definitely gonna be working on. Riddhvik. Riddhvik dudes, listen up Listen to your full tension bro. Got us. I weigh around 95 kilos So is it safe to say for me to jump is it safe for me to jump rope on concrete? It won't put too much pressure on my knees or end up hurting them. Would it? Yeah, you talked about this in the past. Okay in general It's better to jump rope on something that has more to give whether it's like a hardwood floor or a rubber surface So you can find that it's great. I think we jump rope on concrete a ton so It's not like ideal if you have me or joint issues, but if you do it, you know Not every day like you're gonna be fine and listen man If you're a young person like I wouldn't worry about that much unless you have pain Just jump rope on concrete. Just do the thing do the thing today's episode is ending finish It was brought to you by athletic greens and cross rope to the best products in El Mundo in the world So cross rope this is a jump rope Well, he did was win win win. All right. All right, you guys. This is a jump rope that we use Every day just about every day. Yeah It's a quarter pound agility rope will link it down in the description below for you. It's just the rope It's just the rope it's just the best rope it is and they have heavy ropes now Which there is a lot of emerging research around being able to potentially build muscle and Especially made pain muscle with heavier rope. So cross rope is not only they make the best ropes But also on the cutting edge of research around how jump rope can become this One-size-fits-all tool to become lean and have fun jump rope fitness. Yeah We also have of course athletic greens. You got the pro to me take on the daily We have the BCA's not here in front of you But available via the link below and athletic greens start green juice supplement. It does not break your fast in the morning It's a great Supplement for getting more fruits and veggies and micronutrients in your diet whether you're traveling at home. It's awesome. It's awesome All right back to the the show Gurgi asks what was the idea behind the name Zen dude fitness? Three exclamation points. Yeah, Zen. We are Zen dudes We are Zen like we just want to be like Zen philosophy is really around just being at peace of being the present moment and Being and so jump rope fitness is very much like Zen You just want to get in the zone present-state flow state We're dudes, of course and it's fitness totally man like totally what my dude Brandon said, you know, man Serves up. No, I would say that For me Zen dude fitness is like Brandon said the state of of being and I would add to that for me personally I went through this big transformation mentally. I started meditating a lot more I learned about how positive thoughts affect your reality And I used to be working in a very corporate environment for me. This whole idea of Zendu the Zendu lifestyle Represents the deprogramming of my brain from my old ways and getting more in touch with the present moment getting more in touch with Myself so that I could run a business and hit my career goals But at the same time just be a happy person and you know, I also like to think too Dude in the name a lot of people think that's super bro-ish or whatever But like Brandon and I are bros like we're goofy dudes who like and I like that playfulness I think there's so many people in fitness that are so serious and so Aggressive and we wanted to give people a name that was like no like we're here to have fun We're here to be super healthy. We're here to live a long life and look great doing it But it's all about it's all about having fun. So to us that's Zendu fitness my here asks Did any of you guys get caught masterpating laughing my ass? driver I don't think my parents ever knew I think I was probably always under my blankets and then like you know Someone comes in and just hang out in the bed. That's true. I don't think explicitly You know had some close calls with the desktop computer upstairs. You know, you're someone coming up the stairs Yeah, but I don't think Put your willy away. Yeah, right? I Think I had one with my parents But the most embarrassing one that I thought was like just really funny as I was in junior in college And I lived in this house at Westchester and I forget which friend it was but one of my homies Came downstairs and I was like Off and the dude we had all our computers downstairs that everyone had their desk down there Yeah, and like I lived in another room with a dude Like one of my good friends, so I went downstairs to off and I was like and then my friend walked down He was going to this morning class and he's like dude seriously like totally I had like a shirt on and my pants were pulled down And he was just like dude. It's like nine in the morning Bro so much I'm a horny guy Barry asks How do you fit those good foods into your macros? For example, I like to enjoy ice cream Friday night, which is about 750 of my 2,000 calories Yeah, just like us Barry. Mm-hmm. Is it more important for me to stay at 2,000 and come in under my macros or hit my Macros and go over my calories for the day. We've been getting this question a lot Which actually we should explain because if you're hitting your macros, you can't really Overshoot your calories because they're correlated. Yeah, it depends where you're doing the rest of the week, right? So if you're in a calorie deficit The rest of the week then you can take this one day and eat a slight calorie surplus So eat about hundred and fifty percent of what you would usually consume So if you usually consume 2,000, I guess I'd be you would consume 3,000 So maybe just Friday's a day where you consume 3,000 calories. So you have extra Food budget for your ice cream also, dude I'm gonna be totally honest with you guys and I don't want people to interpret this the wrong way and go overboard But dude like 750 calories, okay So Brandon and I are all about the 70-30 rule out of 2,000 calories forgive me. My math is not fantastic Let's call it 600 of that. What is it like like 550 to 600 of that is 30% whatever You can eat ice cream every day, dude And I'm a big believer that this idea that like if you eat a little bit of sugar every day It's gonna be bad for you. I personally think that's both I think that as long as you are eating a majority of your food lean meats tons of vegetables fruits Getting a lot of water maybe supplementing with athletic greens or something like that Then you can eat a piece of cake every day like it's not that much That it's gonna destroy your body and personally There's not even enough research out there that says it's terrible for you one article, dude One of the best articles I've ever seen written on this topic was written by this night. He's not 19 now He's like 22 there's this guy in the internet world called army leg. He's a great dude He is this article called eating clean as a myth and it is fantastic. It's got millions of views It's got a lot of hate But also he brings up some great points on basically why it's totally fine to eat a little bit of ice cream every day So I would just say man, you have to be realistic with your life Have fun Don't stress about the small stuff and you can fit that kind of stuff in as long as you're not pigging out Kare Asks what are some tips for those looking to start a business? Any more deep still in the app excited. Let's I want to just the first question by itself for us I think it's a super important one. Yeah, what are some tips for those looking to start a business? Hmm, I would say start with doing something that you would do for free You know like because starting a business and running a business and having successful business is really hard Takes a lot of our work. You're gonna have to just Put your head through a wall to make this happen Yeah So you have to do something that you want to do Otherwise, you're gonna have a business where you're working super hard and you hate your life Which like what's the point of that? That's like eat that whole alamos things around like why let me Around like money like why would you work? Why would you spend your life doing something you don't want to do to go on spending the rest of your life doing more Things you don't want to do like love that what he says there so good So man first thing is like find something you really care about and then think about with that specific thing How can you add value to the world? So Dan I picked jump rope We're like the value we're gonna add is we're gonna teach people how to jump rope to get lean That's our thing. That's a value we give to the world So think about things you like and what value can you give to the world in that in that niche? And so I agree totally with what Brandon said and I would just add to that Also self-awareness is huge. Don't fall into this trap of quitting your job and do something you love Look if you suck at doing the thing that you love and you're not as good as other people It's gonna be harder for you to make money like we're gonna be straight up with you guys It made sense for Brennan and us to do this business Because we were lean dudes who were like decent at jumping rope and we knew that we could get across to people And I don't say that like in a in a cocky way I say it because we are extremely self-aware So don't just do something that you love Do something that you're good at and you know you can make money off of don't just be someone who's like I'm gonna quit like there has to be this dreamer side of you and this reality check side of you Like don't quit your job and say I'm just gonna be a musician say like I'm gonna be a musician because I'm going to Have a presence on this social media platform and I'm gonna sell I'm gonna be able to sell t-shirts or I'm gonna be able to sell my albums this way or whatever It may be do something that you're good at and have an actual business plan to make money got to be good enough Yes, all the taxes in the world don't matter if you're not good enough dude Gary Vee. We should link this He talks about he's like who do you think are the people that win like everyone's like oh You this guy's got lucky blow up the people who win are simply the best That's it if you want to be if you want to win Just be the best at whatever you do and if you're not the best yet Then you better be working hard every day just to become as close as you can to the best Because that's where when you when you when you do that in your particular field of interest or industry That's when you can make a lot of money doing it Damn Subdain cool profile pick me. What is both? What is your height? Just out of interest and dudes. Oh, you know six two six three Plus or minus a centimeter two. I'm six two and three quarters without my shoot six two Inches six two and three quarters inches without my shoes off. So okay without your shoes off So with your shoes on oh with my shoes on I'm probably like six three and a half. Oh Okay, I'm like a quarter inch shorter than that which because most of you are in centimeters because I Don't know why the US is just like on our own program. Yeah six six foot three inches and centimeters Cm Brandon and I are about a hundred ninety to a hundred ninety one centimeters tall There it is, which is interesting because dude I didn't realize this but like a lot of people and they watch our videos think that we're like five ten Yeah, which is great because then we meet people and I'm just like John Now we're not we're like, you know, we're tall, but we're not like tall tall like six ten. Yeah, that's tall That's tall. You know what I mean? We're not NBA. So now we're gonna be a no definitely not NBA tall a Hey D&B What's up? What are your favorite veggies and protein sources? That's a good question. Oh favorite veggies. Mm-hmm. I like Brussels sprouts a lot Oh, I like it depends how you make them do some like roasted Brussels sprouts with bacon. Oh my god I like asparagus a lot. I like broccoli especially at like Chinese restaurants I know has a bunch of sauce with extra calories, but it's bomb. Oh I like a good salad. I like a nice big salad with oh, yeah, all the vegetables. Oh Yeah, the vegetables a lot and protein sources. I like all the animals Chicken steak Pork yeah, deal. What are the animals my friggin and you got the fish. Yeah, I love the fish fish See food buffalo Listen, I will pretty much eat any animal. Yeah, and I would say for veggies broccoli spinach red and green peppers Brust definitely Brussels sprouts I know there's some I feel like there's someone missing. I mean those are like my pretty like it was my go-dos for sure and then protein sources I Love steak. I love steak. I love steak. I love pork I love chicken And then salmon that would be my other one. They're my top Dylan size of my cross rope Would going slightly longer on the rope size help with tricks. Thanks, dudes. No problem See in Boston soon. Go ahead. Yes Slightly bigger up. So if you're on the edge between two rope sizes I will get the one that's slightly bigger Just give yourself some more room to get through it when you Chris cross it when you double it correct Jared says hey guys. Hey, Jared. Hey, Jared. What's up, Jack? I have just started the four-week challenge and it's great I will definitely be joining the dojo in the future in the dojo. Yeah, man Let's link the dojo below an inscription linked. I just wanted to ask if you will be creating more plans Apart from the lean and muscle-building plans already available. Keep up the great work. Thank you, my friend We have a jumper workout plan. We just released a couple weeks ago So I guess you can put that in the description as well for you. It's also on our site is ndfinis.com Yeah, and then I think the thing that Dan I we might make a heavy rope. Yeah, yeah Beyond that, I don't know what else we're gonna do because like we don't want like we could keep making workout plans So you guys but the same time you could just put them on repeat or you can start to make your own workout plans We think that once people have been through all the plans we offer You probably know enough where you can just do yourself one app The app is gonna allow you guys to make all the work out guys The app is gonna have a workout in the premium version, which is gonna be like four dollars Yeah, it's gonna have the ability to make like to shake your phone and make new workouts So like you're literally gonna be able to create thousands of as I need fitness workouts Maybe not shake your phone, but yeah, I took a button. Sorry, but yeah, I wouldn't I would do Yeah, that's gonna be awesome Asks are my arms supposed to hurt from roping Yeah, they are man. They really are especially using Heavier rope or especially if you're just getting started when I do when I get that one pound rope And I'm getting there for a minute straight my forearms are burning. Yeah, my my hands are burning my shoulders are burning Yeah, your arms are supposed to hurt and you know in general like you should kind of suffer a little bit through Workout just in general through your body like in a good way though, right? Yeah You you're like coming out the other side a new person rebirth pain is not necessarily a bad thing chronic shooting pain is bad Muscle burning and like build up from lactic acid. Yeah, that's not bad You just need to fight through that my friend dude. That's the episode right there. Yeah. Oh One thing I want to mention. Yeah, you guys in Two months Yeah, no less than two months less than two months We are going to Costa Rica. We're leaving retreat. Yeah, we sell some slots open. We'll link in description below for you We would love to get some more of you there with us. It's gonna be an awesome awesome time It's just it's gonna be a small intimate group of us just adventuring of us doing game planning for your life So if you want to get some time with the zen dudes Just kick it and learn how to upgrade your health and your life in general We would like to see you there. Yeah, you guys if you come you're gonna get pretty much a Blueprint for how to work out how to eat and how to enjoy your lifestyle more while being able to lose weight So this is like a focus group of us like going in there and being like this is exactly what you need to do And it'll be good because we can meet you guys and develop a deeper relationship So we can continue to increase accountability as you go back and implement the strategies that we're gonna teach you and In addition when you get back we're doing one-on-one coaching calls with each person Recapping what you learn to make sure you implement it. Uh-huh, and we don't do coaching We don't do any coaching as end your fitness. This is the only way you can get it. Mm-hmm Mm-hmm. I think that's it. That's it, bro That's it. Wait, I'm sorry. One more thing. I'm gonna be in Philadelphia May 31st. I'm gonna be in Boston Sorry, I'm gonna be in New York Saturday, June 3rd. I'm gonna be in Boston Wednesday, June 7th. Those events are linked up below also come and meet me Let's have some fun and then go eat some awesome food afterward episode number 13. We are