Healthy Habits

Speak­er A: The quote goes like this. One day or day one, three goals.

Speak­er B: You can set for your­self. If your goal is build­ing mus­cle, which I believe every­one should try to build muscle.

Speak­er D: If you’re some­one who thinks about get­ting up ear­ly to work out in the morn­ing and then you’re like, I have some tips.

Speak­er C: The secret recipes.

Olivia Turn­bull: In today’s world, every­one is an expert. Tik­Tok is the new ency­clo­pe­dia. Web­MD is the new physi­cian. And one Insta­gram, uh, ad can tell you every­thing you need to know about nutri­tion. Don’t eat that, Eat this. Don’t do this work­out when this one is bet­ter. The rea­son you can’t lose that last three pounds is the con­cept of fad diets. Crazy work­out trends and spread of false infor­ma­tion sur­round­ing well­ness has been around for a long time. Social media has only height­ened its pres­ence. And the lat­est Trend is a 75 hard.

Tik­Tok Audio: 75 hard is a men­tal tough­ness chal­lenge by Andy Frazela. You do the chal­lenge for 75 days. If you miss one day of the task that he gives you and you have to start from day one again, you have to do two at least 45 minute work­outs a day. One of them has to be out­side. You have to choose a diet and stick to it. You know that I don’t like fat diets, so I’m doing flex­i­ble diet­ing and I am stick­ing to my macros to a te. There’s no alco­hol allowed. You have to drink a gal­lon of water a day. You’re tak­ing dai­ly progress pic­tures and you have to read 10 pages of a non­fic­tion book every day.

Speak­er C: Hap­py day 32 of 75 hard. I just fin­ished my 75 hard. I start­ed 75 hard today because I am absolute­ly crazy. With only 10 days left of 75 hard.

Speak­er B: The day has come. We’re gonna talk about my 75 hard jour­ney. Today is day 25 of 75 hard and we are offi­cial­ly quit­ting the challe.

Speak­er A: So I’m on day 57 of 75 Hard. You know, right now, uh, I’m on 75 Hard.

Speak­er B: Chick and I start­ed 75 Days Hard today.

Olivia Turn­bull: The 75 Hard is a 75 day work­out plan where you need to com­plete two 45 minute work­outs, one of which has to be out­side. Read 10 pages of a book. Fol­low a clean diet of your choos­ing. Take a progress pho­to. No drink­ing alco­hol or con­sum­ing drugs, nico­tine, or any­thing of that nature. Drink a gal­lon of water. All in a day’s work. If you do not com­plete one of these tasks, you fail. But the thing is, these trends are designed to fail. Many peo­ple do not have the time to work out twice a day, let alone the sta­mi­na. If its rain­ing, snow­ing, hur­ri­cane, gale winds, or any­thing else that makes you want to skip out on the out­door sec­tion, you fail. These style trends are designed to make peo­ple feel bad about them­selves. And even the most in shape indi­vid­u­als typ­i­cal­ly cant com­plete such an intense reg­i­men. Hi, I’m Olivia Turn­bull and wel­come back to Healthy Habits, the pod­cast where we look into all the ideas sur­round­ing well­ness and being the best ver­sion of your­self. This week we’re going to dis­cuss the 75 hard. The 75 hard is some­thing I’ve want­ed to dis­cuss for a long time as it real­ly grinds my gears. There’s just no way that this con­cept could ever work for the aver­age indi­vid­ual. And the point is that you start the project, you fin­ish it all the way and at the end of it you’re com­plete­ly new per­son and you’re so dif­fer­ent. But the thing is, are you going to real­ly work out twice a day for every day after that? Are you real­ly going to

drink a gal­lon of water every day? Take a progress pic­ture every day, Work out out­side every day? No, espe­cial­ly not after these 75 days. Because then what? It’s much bet­ter to incor­po­rate small healthy habits that you can inte­grate into your life, to main­tain­ing your life over a peri­od of time. But instead, this is what we’re left with. I talked to a few dif­fer­ent peo­ple about this idea because it’s real­ly pop­u­lar. It’s every­where on social media. First up, uh, I talked to Julie Laton, a fit­ness influ­ence at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut law­ton­bo. 500,000 fol­low­ers on Tik­Tok and she’s known for her fit­ness influ­enc­ing. She works each day to make con­tent pro­mot­ing healthy habits and healthy lifestyle in col­lege and beyond. And she was a vic­tim of the 75 hard. Although Julie works out every day, even some­times twice, and drinks quite a bit of water and eats real­ly healthy, she failed the 75 hard twice.

Julie Law­ton: I am Julie Lawt­ton, aka Julie Law­fit, on Insta­gram and Tik­Tok, and I love to post fit­ness videos such as work­out videos, full day of eats, healthy eat­ing, morn­ing rou­tines, night rou­tines, and I just like to pro­mote an over­all healthy lifestyle, yet also mak­ing it attain­able and relatable.

Olivia Turn­bull: That right there is key attain­able and relat­able. Julie wants to help show

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Olivia Turn­bull: oth­ers how they can achieve, uh, a bal­anced lifestyle in an attain­able fashion.

Julie Law­ton: I did in fact fail the 75 hard. And I think that real­ly just goes to show how unat­tain­able it is because, I mean, not to hype myself up. I do think I am, um, like very rou­tine ori­ent­ed and I love going to the gym, I love work­ing out, I eat very healthy. And

the fact that like I still failed it, I feel it is very showing.

Olivia Turn­bull: The point Julie is mak­ing is not to toot her own horn, but to show how some­one who is con­sid­ered in shape and in peak con­di­tion for such a trend still failed. How is the aver­age per­son meant to try and com­plete it?

Julie Law­ton: The thing about the 75 hard is it’s so rigid and that’s just not real­is­tic to how life is.

Olivia Turn­bull: One point we brought up that we find specif­i­cal­ly out­landish is the fact that one of the com­po­nents is an out­door work­out which caus­es a lot of peo­ple to fail.

Julie Law­ton: We live in Con­necti­cut. Some­times like neg­a­tive 5 degrees like in windy.

Olivia Turn­bull: These are def­i­nite­ly not ide­al con­di­tions for a 45 minute work­out. Speak­ing with Julie gave me an insight to see how some­one who went through this pro­gram felt it was eye open­ing to hear first hand per­spec­tive and under­stand how some­one so fit was not able to com­plete the chal­lenge. I want­ed to learn more about the con­cept of these diets and trend as a whole. To gain a more well round­ed under­stand­ing, I spoke with Dr. Cather­ine Ander­son, an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of nutri­tion at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Con­necti­cut. This inter­view was over the phone so the audio might not be as great.

Dr. Ander­son: I guess to some degree they prob­a­bly stem um, from some type of research that emerges.

Olivia Turn­bull: Dr. Ander­son is explain­ing here how these trends come to be. In the

past it felt like they come from cer­tain research, but there seems.

Dr. Ander­son: To have been a shift nowa­days it.

Dr. Ander­son: Seems like um, there are sort of social media trends and there’s so many, I guess dif­fer­ent types of fad diets or pro­grams. Um, I cer­tain­ly can’t keep up with all of them.

Olivia Turn­bull: The next point Dr. Ander­son brings up here is super impor­tant when under­stand­ing these types of programs.

Dr. Ander­son: It also seems like it is sort of influ­encer dri­ven and indi­vid­u­als might just be com­ing up with things as a way, as a busi­ness strat­e­gy more than a health strat­e­gy, but sort of my perception.

Olivia Turn­bull: that right there is the take­away from all of this. These peo­ple on social media telling you to do this or that do not have your best inter­est in mind. Their goal is to make mon­ey and they do that by get­ting you to feed into their con­tent, buy their pro­mo­tion­al items, sub­scribe to their coach­ing. The most impor­tant per­son to lis­ten to in your well­ness jour­ney is you. The only con­sul­tants you should lis­ten to are pro­fes­sion­als and I don’t mean those claim­ing to be ones on social media. I hope you enjoyed this week’s episode of Healthy Habits and I’ll see you right back here next week.