Forget 75 Hard...Try a REAL Challenge (Daily Over Decades)

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Podcast Transcript

Jerred (00:00)
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Garage Gym Athlete podcast. Today we are talking about the hardest fitness challenge ever created daily over decades, but not the most hardcore. Would you agree with that? It's not the most hardcore, but it's the hardest.

Dave (00:14)
and most effective, not hardcore. There's plenty of those out there that don't get you long-term results.

Jerred (00:18)
Yeah, there's a lot of hardcore stuff. So we're going to be going over the Daily Over Decades challenge from start to finish, talking about everything, why you should get involved, how you should get involved. But I'm going to start with this. If you are interested in the challenge, we're doing giveaways, prizes, accountability check-ins, everything throughout the entire year of 2026. If you know you want to do it, go to dailyoverdecades.com and sign up right now. So that's dailyoverdecades.com. Sign up.

All you have to do, enter in your name, email address. There's no additional fee or anything like that to sign up. Just go sign up right now. Trust me, you're gonna wanna do that. Okay, let's dive into the over decades challenge. ⁓ Dave, so I invented this years ago before you were around. What are your thoughts on the daily over decades challenge? Like big picture when you first heard about it, like what were you thinking?

Dave (01:13)
Yeah, and even when I wasn't around, I heard about it. a couple, probably few years ago when you guys were running one of the yearly ones, Lindsay and I jumped in on it because, me just give such a, I love the process oriented piece of it. It's a lot of challenges you see. It's like, lose 25 pounds in 30 days. There's a lot of outcome based stuff. And some of the habits just aren't sustainable. Some of these challenges that have you working out twice a day for someone who has.

Three kids and works a full-time job and those things it's like okay cool I could do that for 30 days 60 days 90 days But eventually that that catches up and that's with something like this where it's like okay pick a number of training sessions You can commit to like 200 or 300 That gives you a goal like okay How many do I need to hit each month and how many do I hit each week and it makes it a lot more? Sustainable, but then also by the time you're six months into it. You're like whoa. This is like this is autopilot now How do I how do I take this to?

the next level and there's opportunities to do that within the challenge of okay, train, like hit your training minutes, hit your calorie goal for each session. There's ways to either progress it during the year or at the end of the year too when you reflect back on it, you're like wow, what I thought was hard for me before, now I'm accomplishing on autopilot. How can I take that to the next level this year? And that's why we've seen so many results for people that have just transformed their lives through it.

Jerred (02:31)
And I mean, this is what it actually takes, right? It takes this daily consistency over a number of years. And that is what we're all about. So let's get right into the numbers of this challenge. If you're wondering what it is. So anyone in anyone can participate. Here's how it works. You're going to be doing 300 training sessions in a given year. Okay. So that is the goal. You, want you to hit 300 training sessions in a year. I know that's a bit aggressive. It comes out to being about six training sessions per week.

But we also have a lower tier version called the 200 challenge as a part of the daily over decade challenge, which is 200 training sessions in a given year, which is about 16 to 17 training sessions a month. The other 300 is 25 sessions per month dropping down from there. that is, that's level one. Okay. So level one is just, I want to get this many training sessions per year. A lot of people are pretty good at that. Level two, we go from

training sessions and then we jump to minutes, training minutes per week. And the goal being 300 training minutes per week or 200 training minutes per week, whether you're doing the 300 version or the 200 and then dropping down a further level or increasing a further level, however you want to see it, is 300 calories per day, not per session necessarily anymore or 200 calories burned per day, not.

And this is through movement activities, burning those calories. So to give an example of that, like just going throughout my week, I'd want to first make sure that I hit six training sessions. On top of those six training sessions, what's that going to be about? that 30 minutes per session? No, it's an hour per set, 50 minutes per session, I think is what it comes out to being, right? ⁓ Yeah, for six days a week, I need 50 minutes per session. And then, ⁓ so I'm locking in, okay, I got to get this many.

Dave (04:21)
six days, yeah.

Jerred (04:29)
per week, then I'm locking in, okay, on the individual day, I need to get 50 minutes worth of training, which perfectly aligns with what we do at Garage Gym Athlete. And then within that session, I have to get 300 calories burned from like my Garmin or whatever heart rate tracker in that session. We used to be really strict on the session piece of this, burning 300 calories in a session. But the feedback we got when we've done this previously is like people who are lighter, like let's say 135 pound female.

a lot harder to hit 300 calories burned than a 210 pound male, right? It's thermodynamics, it's math, like it's just, it's gonna be easier. Like some dudes hit 300, the bigger dudes hit 300 calories burned about a warmup plus 10 minutes into the workout. And you know, the example of 135 pound female, she could be into her 49th minute and be at like 250 calories, right? And so it's not really fair.

⁓ In some regards, but we still want you to try your best but at the end of the day You're only better for for any of this and so we allowed it to be to break up outside of the session and so you can Do a 200 calorie workout. Let's say and then go for a walk. That's 100 calories or ⁓ You know anything else that you would you would induce you would you would hit your watch track the calories whether that's a movement practice yoga getting in the sauna

Additional walk whatever you can add those calories to your day. So it's it's three levels and then we have a new one Which I'm not gonna talk about yet We're calling it the 300 epic for those of you who are like that's not challenging enough, which won't be very many people But if that's not challenging enough, we are we are upping the ante in 2026 But that is the big picture of what the daily over decades challenge is. Did I miss anything Dave? Is that clear? I or is it like something that's left hanging there?

Dave (06:25)
Yeah, and for the females we did enter more of like a scaled version this year too, so that females also not fair that they have to do two workouts every day just to hit their 300 calories too. So there's adjustments we made there for that, but I think the things to highlight are just the, how much this requires consistency. There's no catching up. There's no like, okay, because it's the 300 training minutes per week, so it's not like if you miss a week, then.

Jerred (06:36)
Right.

Dave (06:54)
Sorry, like that's that's part of the challenge as part of what you need to keep in mind with with some of that too and not to throw everything out the window just because that happens but It's something to know that you have to stay consistent week over week. It's not something that come December Okay, I'm just gonna like make up all this stuff and try and catch up on my fitness

Jerred (07:14)
Yeah, so it punishes the procrastinator. And the reason we did it this way, so there are all these different levels, right? And I recommend everyone start at 300 level three. And then let life take you down a peg. Don't start lesser. And so what that means is 300.3 is the hardest. So that's the hardest version, right? So that's level three. That means I'm getting the calories every single day. I'm getting the minutes every single training session and per week.

and I'm getting the six sessions per week and like I'm going for all of it. But let's say I screw that up one week and three of my workouts I only burn 200 calories or two of the days I only burn 200 calories and that happens in a week ⁓ or my training sessions, I'm done. I can no longer do 300.3. Like I can't do the highest level anymore. I can't do level three. And that's okay. I can still do level two. So now the rest of the year I'm gonna be shooting for those and then maybe.

you know, maybe that doesn't work out, maybe I don't get 300 minutes in a week, something happens, I'm not able to do that. Okay, I'm still going to shoot for 300 training sessions in the year, and then if I have to go down even further into the 200s, I will, but I'm saying all this not to be like, make fun of that, or like, it's a failure if that happens. I'm telling you, it probably will happen, but don't give up on the challenge, because if at the end of the year,

You're like, was going for 300 level three, but I finished 200 level two. That's massive. That's still like better than 99.9 % of the world. know, like they're just people aren't that consistent. So don't beat yourself up if you go for the highest level when you don't achieve it. Be okay with, okay, that was failure, but I'm gonna keep pressing. And that's what bothers me most about people when they're setting goals and this happens, I see it in business, I see it in fitness. But I don't see it lot of other places is like,

If people don't hit the goal, this happens so many times, they abandon the whole goal altogether. It's like, I'm not consistent, it's not perfect. I always give the example of like, if you were to get in a fight with your wife, just one fight, and you're like, you know what? It's over. We have to get a divorce now because we had that one fight. It's like, no, you're gonna do everything you can to get things back on track. That should be the attitude here. And it's no different with fitness.

But it with fitness all the time. People are like, they have this perfectionist mentality and they're just like, hmm, messed up 303. I guess I'm not gonna work out for rest of the year or I'm not gonna try this challenge at all. Just don't do that. That's my biggest thing, my biggest takeaway from people doing it last time. Because we had a lot of people complete it but not as many people as should have. That's why I call it hardest fitness challenge in the world because it's very hard to maintain that level of consistency.

Dave (10:02)
Yeah, and that's where a lot of, I mean, how many New Year's resolutions fail by February isn't saying. think it's, I know January 10th or 11th or something. I know it's like National Quitting Day or something on resolutions saying like 10 days into the year, which is we're saying don't do that. But yeah, it gives you the opportunity to fall back on something. It's like, okay, I was aiming for 300 and life quickly got in the way. Like I realized I bit off a little more than I can chew. Well, if you finish 200, like Jared's saying, it's like, okay, now.

still accomplish something awesome. And if you follow all the guidelines, you can still win a barbell or a kettlebell or some cool stuff that we're, we're giving away to it. Doesn't disqualify you just because you didn't do exactly what you set out to do at the January 1st when everyone's excitement is the highest.

Jerred (10:43)
Yeah, do you want to elaborate on that more because I don't I want to entice people enough to Go sign up. again go to daily over decades comm sign up enter your name and email address That's all is required right now then a year of consistency after that, but that's all that's really required to get signed up ⁓ And go sign up right now don't like I'll do it later because Dave and I've talked about this like if you if you sign up on January 5th or January 7th or January 10th, you're pretty much screwed. That's how little

margin of error there is. mean, you could sign up after if you've been training technically, but like if you miss the first five or 10 days of the year, you can't catch up. And that's what some team members learned when we did this last time. Like Joe, I can't remember. He was like, I forgot what happened, but he quickly like, he thought he would be able to catch up. And it was like, nah dude, you're already screwed. And it was in January. Like he had already got knocked down a level just cause you can't actually make up for it.

But can you elaborate on some of the prizes that people get? Because I want you to be motivated. I want this to be a community thing. We shouldn't have to give away prizes for you to want to do something like this. You should want to do it for your health, your fitness, for your family, all those kinds. Those are the real reasons. But we want to make it fun, right? We want to make it fun and something that's cool that the whole community can do and we can reward people for their consistency.

Dave (11:59)
Yeah, of course, internal motivation is always what we want as coaches and leading you guys. It's like we want you just to want it, but external prizes and stuff doesn't hurt either. So we get that. so anyone that completes even 200 training sessions, like what Jerry was talking about, the base level gets entered into the giveaway. And if you complete the 300, even the base level 300, you get entered in the 300 and the 200, because you technically completed both of those. You can get multiple drawings with that.

And then I know we're not getting into the 300 epic today, but you can get five, uh, five drawings into that. you, are talking about just not this second, you have to wait till the end to keep watching for that. Um, but yeah, so we got, so both, both the 200 will have a drawing and the 300 will have a drawing. So if you complete the 300, you can technically win both of those. And there's going to be, uh, for each one, barbells, uh, kettlebells, sandbags and weighted vest. So things that, especially for those working out at home, we know how valuable those things can be.

Jerred (12:34)
Well, we're going to talk about it, just not... We're going save it to the end. Yeah.

Dave (12:59)
So some things to look forward to with that. And again, you'll just be transformed just by doing it, but you also have a chance to win some cool stuff with it.

Jerred (13:06)
So we're going to select multiple 200 winners, multiple 300 winners, and I think Dave made it clear, but basically if you complete 300, you also completed 200, right? And so you get two entries into the giveaway if you do complete 300 because you technically did both. And if you did 200, you're still going to be eligible for prizes as well, but there's going to be the top 200 winners and the top 300 winners who get prizes. Okay, so.

That's checked. But also, if you just complete the challenge, like you register, like you're supposed to, I'm gonna probably say it at least 15 more times before we are done with this podcast, go to dailyoverdecades.com and sign up. But if you are registered and you prove by following the rules that you did everything, you get the finisher t-shirt. So we'll have a 200 t-shirt that gets mailed to you or a 300 finisher t-shirt that gets mailed to you. And this is just for doing the challenge, being consistent. And so everybody gets one of those who enters the challenges and completes it.

Everyone gets a shirt. So if you do everything, you get a shirt. And we're gonna be doing, also if you register, you'll get weekly motivational and accountability check-in emails. You're gonna be in our community. We're gonna be posting check-ins just to keep things top of mind, keep things going. It's not gonna be like, okay, sign up and then I'll talk to you in 2027. Good luck, hope everything went well. We're gonna be talking about this all year. And like I said, start high.

That way if you get knocked down a couple pegs, life knocks you down. Like for instance, what if you got like a serious illness, ⁓ you know, not like life threatening serious, but like what if you got something that really took you out for a solid seven days? Like, and there was just no, you couldn't do anything about it. It's like unavoidable. Maybe you got pneumonia or something like, you know, like something like that came along. That could happen to any one of us, right? And so I, if that happened to me, I'd be like, okay, well, what can I complete now?

and I would still be a part of the active community and doing the best I can. So you get the finisher shirt as well. Now, I think that's everything before we can start talking about the epic version. Did I miss anything else? I think we checked most of the boxes.

Dave (15:12)
Yeah, most people listen are part of the the GGA community already but ⁓ To be eligible for the drawing you do have to be an active GGA member for for all 12 months of the year So just know that anyone can do this challenge We and we hope people that are listening that aren't part of it that just think it sounds like a cool thing they want to do you're welcome to still sign up get the ⁓ Motivational emails will be sent out you can get the information you can still push yourself to do something like that

but for the prizes themselves is for the GGA community members.

Jerred (15:41)
100%. Okay, let's talk about GGA Epic. This actually wasn't our idea. I had toyed with it previously ⁓ when I was first making this challenge years ago, but I felt like it was getting too crazy and so I didn't want to start there. And then someone brought it back. One of the community members mentioned it recently and I was like, we got to do it this time. We're just going to call it something else. So it's called a 300 Epic. So the 300 Epic is going to be everything we said.

Dave (15:44)
Epic.

Jerred (16:10)
So 300 training sessions in a year, 300 minutes per week, 300 calories per day. On top of that, we are going to do 300,000 steps completed per month and 300,000 pounds of volume lifted per month, which brings it to a whole new epic challenge. And Dave and I, think I didn't really give you a chance. We were doing a Facebook live the other day and I was like, we're doing this, right? Like we're both, and so he's committed, I'm committed.

Dave (16:38)
Yeah, voluntold. Yeah, I think when you look at, mean, steps was a big goal for me this year, and I was surprised how many steps I got. So I think that habits down, but the lifting volume just comes in, depends on what kind of training you're doing, depends on, we're gonna have to get kind of creative with making sure that, because you can do, for volume lifted, for those that don't know, it's sets times reps times weight lifted, so.

Jerred (16:39)
Yeah, we're doing it man. Do you think it's gonna be challenge?

Dave (17:02)
You need to do a lot of reps of a lighter weight or fewer of a heavier weight, but that's going to be, I haven't calculated that enough. Like I've calculated before, but not like regularly in my challenges or training, not something I'm tracking. So I'm curious to see where I'm, where I'm even out of that. I look at the past few months.

Jerred (17:18)
And this is where, so we switched training apps ⁓ and that's where our new app that we're using, Train Heroic, really and truly shines in this challenge. So I'll start with the steps before I talk about the app, but the steps, you're just gonna have to have like a smartwatch, a pedometer. I mean, they're so cheap to get, like even if you just had a step tracker, your phone does it for you, assuming you have your phone on you 100 % of the time.

That's the only downfall there, but your phone, like an iPhone, will track your steps just by being in your pocket. So there's really no excuse to not have that. I'm not gonna let anybody slide. So that's how you track your steps. Now the volume, like Dave said, it sets times reps times weight. That would've been super annoying just to tell everybody, hey, go get a spreadsheet and then any workout you do, go enter it in and have a formula. That's cool and all, but our app already does that for you.

And so when you finish every workout inside a garage gym athlete, the end screen tells you how long your training session was because it times it. And so you got that part of the 300 challenge checked as well. And then it tells you how much volume was lifted. So that's amazing that keeps track of that. And then I actually tested it the other day. You can like click on your profile in the bottom right hand corner, open it up, and then you can look at your lifetime volume. You can look at your volume over the past 30 days yesterday. Like they really let you look at it so you can start to make adjustments.

So that's an amazing part of the app and why it's really conducive to this challenge. But on top of that, you can add exercises in the Train Heroic app. You couldn't do that in our last app. let's say you are at, let's just say 250,000 pounds of volume and you're going into your last three or four days of the month and you're like, gotta hit 50,000 pounds of volume. You could do some quick math on like what you wanna do. Maybe you wanna do 100 kettlebell swings.

you know, at, at, uh, you know, 50 pound kettlebell or whatever, you know, that's, that's quick volume. And to be honest, I'm going to kind of think that's going to be the cheat code next year is going to be kettlebell swings. Cause if we're counting every swing as as volume, like that's, I'm to get a lot more volume with a kettlebell swing than I am a bench press. You know what I mean? So like, or a back squat. So that's the, that's a cheat code already, but you can add those things in to increase your volume, however you want. The only thing that we struggled with was, um, like pushups.

We're not counting pushups, or at least not right now. Maybe I changed my mind on that, but we did the math on just doing Murph with no vest if we just counted my body weight, 190 pounds and 600 reps. What was that? It was over 100,000 pounds, 114,000 pounds of volume in one singular workout. I know Murph is already high volume, but I don't want it to be like, not that I want it

I don't want to be too easy. I don't want it to be like something you could knock out in two days. You know what I mean? When unreal, it's kind of unrealistic. But if you add the vest, you could do 600 times 20, right? And get all of those reps, ⁓ which would be what 12,000 pounds. Like that's a big, that's a big jump. So anyway, the app is very conducive to this challenge. And on our end, cause we haven't been doing this, this current cycle or this past year, we're going to be way more cognizant of how we're entering things into the app.

and kind of reverse engineer thing. I can't reverse engineer everyone's volume because everyone's gonna lift different weights, but I can reverse engineer like making sure we have sets, reps, weight in there every single time, every time you're doing something. And if we do have pull-ups, push-ups, squats that are air squats or whatever, maybe giving that option to add the vest, you know, so on and so forth. And I'm sure some people will screw it up. It'll be like add weight on your air squats and you're gonna enter your body weight and that'll be wrong, but it's whatever, you know, like just do everything to the best of your ability.

⁓ And so I think the epic challenge is going to be awesome and I think it's going to be incredibly challenging, but I really like adding specifically the steps goal because like it's not necessarily hard but it it forces you to keep More being more mindful of your fitness throughout the entire day as opposed to just that training session. That's probably the only thing that we got wrong If we got anything wrong with the 300 challenges was first created was

It is hyper-focused on your training consistency, but not necessarily your lifestyle guidelines and how you live your life, right? Like it didn't necessarily hit on that as much. While I do think focusing on all of like training that hyper-focus for a year is going to branch out into every other area of your life, it was missing that just like movement throughout the day piece.

Dave (21:46)
Yeah, we've talked about that on three elements and other podcasts about just how important those lifestyle things are too. And that's in theory, you could do the 300 level three and just bust it for 60 minutes in the morning and sit on your butt the rest of the day. yeah. I don't know if that's any, yeah. You're gonna be better, but yeah. Yeah.

Jerred (22:00)
Yeah, you get 2000 steps a day and still, which I don't know what that trade off is. That's, I think if you're completing 300 level three, I just feel like you're pretty, yeah, you're a pretty active person no matter what. Like I think it's hard enough, but yeah, I get what you're

saying.

Dave (22:14)
So the consistency of what the steps in those things are going to be cool. And I know, and Jared, not to put you on the spot, but kind of putting you on the spot, what are the things? I know you mentioned the kettlebell swings, because I know some of the comments and feedback I saw from the community already was concerns about people looking retroactively on their volume and being like, whoa, I'm nowhere close to that. Do have any thoughts on how people are going to have to start thinking about this in their mind, like if they're trying to map out their year a little bit of like,

because it can feel like a big change of like, much do I have to add in? What are some other ways that people could maybe start thinking about how to plan for Epic if they want to do it?

Jerred (22:47)
Well, I'll say, and this is why I said we'll be more mindful of it because if we had like an interval weight training session, and let's just say that that did have kettlebell swings in it, it's easier for us as coaches to just put that like as a block and then have you enter in your time or enter in like mark as completed, right? Because if it's like, do this for 10 minutes or whatever, an AMRAP let's say, something like that. We're gonna have to change how we enter the programming because if...

If we did three sets of 10, this is just a, this is not what I would program, but let's just give it something basic. If I said do three sets of 10 back squat and you did that at 200 pounds and then we moved on to interval weight training session and then we had some core work at the end. Let's just say that was a simple training session and the IWT could have been 15,000 pounds worth of volume because it had kettlebell swings in it or it had something where you could just crush volume. ⁓ we, we just hit mark completed. You got zero volume counted for that. So

I do think if you're looking retroactively in your app right now, that's why it's gonna be seen low is because there's a lot of just like mark completed for these circuits and everything else that we've programmed. And so we're gonna have to not do that going into 2026. And so whether we adjust the programming to make sure everything's entered incorrectly or add it after the fact, so you can go into your weights, like we'll have to figure all that out and get feedback from the community on what's working and what's not. But ultimately,

That's a big thing that I think is going to help a lot of athletes is us just adjusting on our end. But then, yeah, I think if you wanted to add something in, I say anything with a kettlebell is going to work, whether it's kettlebell snatches, whether it's kettlebell swings, I think adding a lot of body weight reps if we're doing the vest, like even if you just put on a 10 pound vest and cranked out, like in your warmup, you did, you know, let's say you partitioned Murph five, 10, 15, right? Five pull-ups, 10 push-ups, 15 squats.

you put on a 10 pound vest and you just do five minutes of that in your warmup, that's a significant amount of volume just to tack on the beginning or tack on the end. And so it is going to be more challenging, like, because I can't guarantee you that. Yeah. If you're on the hard to kill track, I guarantee you get 300,000 pounds of volume. I can't guarantee you that. That's why this is called the epic version of this. It's going to take additional planning. It's going to take you opening up the app, seeing, ⁓ I'm short. What am I going to do? And we'll probably pop on the podcast with other like little cheat codes we find.

found here and there, but ultimately you're gonna have to get in more volume by doing these things. And I think it will make you better for it, but I think the biggest tip I can give you is be ahead of it. Don't crush yourself. And these are the things I wanted to avoid in most of the challenge anyways. We don't have any rules or stipulations about how you get that volume at all. I don't want you to hurt yourself getting it, ⁓ but however you get that volume, I would...

look like if, know, starting in January, after the first week of January, I'm gonna immediately look and be like, okay, where am I at? what percentage of 300,000 did I complete in the first 25 % of this month? And then I'm gonna adjust accordingly and add things in. And I might even just start adding that into like the hard to kill track or, you know, like finisher, optional finisher for volume. So stuff like that, that's not gonna.

not going to crush you, ultimately you need to be ahead of it if you're going to try the epic version. But I don't know how many people are actually going to complete the epic version. And that's a direct challenge to every garage-dum-out-flea out there. don't know how many of you can actually do it. So there you go. I throw down the gauntlet. Let's see what happens.

Dave (26:20)
Let's see it.

Yeah, I think retroactive looking at it think the app change, I think people will be surprised how much volume they're getting. think starting to think about like, okay, there's sets of 10 per leg walking lunges. Like normally you just do those body weights. Like, I could also hold 25 pound dumbbell in each hand and then I get 50 pounds for an extra. People don't realize how those little things can add up like you're saying.

But I like the last piece of just awareness whatever even if you don't choose to do the epic like having awareness of okay Week one in like let's reflect on where I'm at so far how many training sessions did I get? Am I burning my calories like where's my volume at if you're doing epic like those types of things it it forces you to become more aware of your fitness which is just a good thing in general of not not just like hope this year happens and I end up more fit it's like each week you can go by now and be like okay

Jerred (27:12)
You

Dave (27:15)
Maybe early on you have to do it every seven days, but once you get rolling by June, maybe it's like, okay, I should check in this like at the halfway point. Am I on track? Cool. Yep. Keep going. No, I'm a little behind. How do I make adjustments? And that's just going to help you become more aware of how to deal with travel and injury and sickness and family and life and stretch, like all those things too. It helps you become more, ⁓ more aware. And those are the things that we see for the people that see the most success daily over decades in their, in their health and fitness are the ones that are.

able to adjust to things. not like, ⁓ things got busy, so it's an off switch on my fitness now. Like, and now things are good, so I'm going back on switch, and I'm back and forth. And this allows you to be able to adjust, which is arguably one of the most important things you can do to stay fit long term.

Jerred (27:59)
Yeah, I would say this is what advanced athletes do. I'm not even saying like professional athletes. I'm like, but if there's an athlete who's ever stood on stage for bodybuilding or if you've completed an Ironman triathlon or an ultra or anything like that, it takes this level of planning. You're like, okay, kid's birthday coming up or here's spring break trip coming up. Like what are my workouts going to be? And to some degree that can get mentally unhealthy for some people, but

In this regard, I don't think that it does that because you're able to ⁓ really just create really good habits. And it's like, okay, what are you training for? It's like, I'm training for life. Like this is the ultimate athlete that you want to be, right? It's like, what am I sitting around and planning? I'm not trying to get in, you know, a hundred miles of running on my family's vacation. I'm just trying to get in a quick morning workout and making sure that I'm still getting 10,000 steps a day. Like these are not like unhealthy habits, but

I don't want anybody to spiral mentally trying to chase it. So I guess a little bit more self-awareness too, if you feel like, well, this is going to crush me mentally. I'm going be so stressed out trying to do it, then don't do it. But I think it's just going to be fun for me to try and like, get some extra stuff in and like plan a little bit more. It gives me that edge that makes it that much harder because when I first did the 300 challenge, it was that same way. I was like, I had to be super dialed in and there were times where it got really challenging. And what got challenging for me was the 300 calorie piece and the 300 minute piece.

Because consistency on a daily basis isn't too challenging for me. Like let's say the day got away from me, meetings ran long, something came up with the kids. I'm pretty good about like I can go run in the gym real quick and do a 30 minute something, right? But 30 minutes isn't 50 minutes and 30 minutes might not be 300 calories. And so that's where this challenge was really a grind last year until I kind of found my groove. Like you find warmups that are like.

a little bit more calorie burn and like you find ways to get more, you game it a little bit but that game just turns into good habits, right? It's like, like I would sit down like after I was done, let's say I finished a session at like 285 or 280 like calories. I'd be like, I'm gonna do 15 minute mobility session right now. Cause I know I'll probably just naturally burn those additional 15 calories just doing mobility. It's like, that was just such a good habit. Like, and that habit's been gone lately cause I hadn't been tracking these things.

The only thing I did this year was like 300 sessions. That was the only thing I tracked. And I hit 300 sessions this year, but I didn't track minutes or calories in 2025. So it's going to go back to the grind on top of making sure I'm getting those volume in those, in those steps. So I'm really looking forward to it. It's going to make, it's going to force me to be at a different level. And then you and I get to hold each other accountable each and every single week and our meetings and on the podcast and everything else, which that kind of stuff just excites me. I love a high level accountability and like there's

there's nowhere to hide, I'm doing this challenge publicly, so I'm looking forward to it.

Dave (30:56)
Yeah, barbells are cool to win, but having to say that you didn't do something on the podcast in front of all the listeners is much more accountability.

Jerred (31:04)
Yeah, I could either be a liar, which would be awful. Like that's worst case scenario. Or yeah, it's like, Dave's still doing it. I'm not like, no, not going to happen. It's like, okay, I can't, can't, I can't let that happen. ⁓ but, but things do happen. Life happens. Right. And so I, like I said, I'm not, wouldn't quit. I would just, okay, maybe I got to adjust the level I'm hitting this and I'd be open and honest about that. ⁓ and, so that's just how, how it's going to go, but I'm, I'm hoping to. My goal is to complete the epic. That's the goal.

Dave (31:10)
Just more epic.

Yeah, but you'll be hearing updates on the podcast, but better yet, just come hang with us in the community. We're going to be doing a lot more inside the community with lives in there and different things too throughout the year. So come hang out with us, do it with us. It'd be awesome to have you in there.

Jerred (31:47)
Yeah, and I'll end with this. Normally there are lot of like questions and what about this? And I get it. There's a lot going on. We're happy to answer any of those questions, whether that's shooting us an email or in the community. But the best place to go is dailyoverdecades.com. Not only is that where you enter in your name and email address to become a part of the challenge, but it has the full breakdown of basically every single thing that you could want to know, has a frequently asked questions section, how to do the challenge.

when submission dates are, how you qualify, everything is on that page. So go to dailyoverdecades.com, read through it, enter in your name and email address, and we would love to have you. But that's it for this one. Really looking forward to 2026, having you join the hardest fitness challenge ever created. But remember, if you don't kill comfort, comfort will kill you.

Dave (32:38)
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