The Wellness Upgrade on Elevate Springfield featuring Kenny Hyde: Inputs Matter

Summary

In this conversation, Robert Ferriell and Kenny Hyde discuss the multifaceted approach to health and wellness, emphasizing the importance of nutrition, exercise, and mindset. They explore how small changes can lead to significant health improvements and the role of education and accountability in achieving wellness goals. The discussion also highlights the importance of finding a personal approach to fitness and the necessity of building belief and momentum in one's health journey.

Takeaways

• Small changes in nutrition can lead to significant health improvements.
• Education and accountability are crucial for health transformation.
• Protein intake is essential for muscle gain and metabolism.
• Belief in oneself is a key factor in achieving health goals.
• Finding a personal approach to exercise is important for sustainability.
• Tracking progress through body composition can provide better insights than weight alone.
• The mindset of enjoying the process can positively affect health outcomes.
• Avoiding one unhealthy choice daily can lead to significant weight loss over time.
• Starting with simple, repeatable exercises can build confidence in fitness.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Welcome to Elevate Springfield, where we will dive into strategies and stories that help you rise to your full potential. Each episode, we'll talk about how you can take intentional steps to elevate your life and your business while making a meaningful impact on those around you. Along the way, we're gonna bring in the change makers from our community that are already elevating. We'll bring the actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together we can elevate Springfield. Alright, let's go, Springfield. Time to 10X, time to level up. Hey, you are listening to the Elevate Springfield Podcast coming to you from the big dog construction studio in beautiful downtown Springfield. Robert Farrell here, certified 10x coach, speaker, and mentor, here to bring you actionable strategies, you bring the discipline and follow through, and together we're gonna Elevate Springfield. Well, hey you are listening to the wellness upgrade on Elevate Springfield, where we're gonna bring you specific strategies to help elevate your health and wellness. Say, if you're not elevating your health and wellness, you're not gonna be able to elevate in all other areas. This is the baseline. You know I'm passionate about it, and you know that's why I brought this segment to Elevate Springfield. We're gonna get right to our guest after the break. Looking for personalized insurance with hometown care, David Hilst, American Family Insurance Agent is here to help you protect what matters most: your family, your home, and your dreams. Whether it's auto, home, life, business, David and his team are proud to serve the Springfield community with trusted advice and reliable coverage. Local service, real relationships, peace of mind. Call today or stop by their office. They can build your dream protection plan together. Call 217-726-6343. And we are back for another edition of the Wellness Upgrade, a regular contributor to the show, friend of the show, friend of mine, Mr. Kenny Hyde from Kenny Hyde, your wellness guide. Thank you. There we go. Thank you so much.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Doing great, man. Thanks for having me. It's a pleasure.

SPEAKER_00 2:23

Always good to have you.

SPEAKER_01 2:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 2:25

So, topic of the day, the coach's perspective on health and wellness. So, where are we going with that, man?

SPEAKER_01 2:31

It's this one I just kind of whipped up. A friend of mine told me a story, and he, well, it's actually a story about him. He's like, Kenny, people who are fit and healthy die every day. And so he was sharing his perspective with me. And I just thought it was really interesting that there are, I'm like, you mean to tell me there are people out there that don't think your inputs matter at all, like inputs and outputs? And he's like, Yeah, a lot of people I know are that way. So I just thought there would be great value in sharing my experience with the audience just to see um, or just to show that little things that you do, information, accountability, uh, can make a profound impact on your health. Uh so just sharing some of the the work that I've done, one of them would be acid. I I mean, that's almost a guarantee. If anybody has any stomach acid or acid issues, that one's almost a guarantee that we can make that better or gone, like basically gone.

SPEAKER_00 3:25

Typically through nutrition changes, nutrient changes.

SPEAKER_01 3:28

Well, you know me, I'm all about whole foods, right? Eating the food that God put here. And uh when you have that extra fiber and you prepare the food yourself and you educate yourself on some of those little things, seed oils, uh just just all the additives that they're putting in for the food that's convenient that we can just go buy, ordering a steak, you know, you can order it without the butter. Just little things like that can can really reset your stomach and how it's responding to the stuff that we do.

SPEAKER_00 3:54

Now it's interesting. You said, you know, some people say, No, the guy that was really in shape and everything. And then there's also, I've heard on the flip side, oh, my my grandpa smoked and drank and he lived till he was 95, right? So you hear that from people too.

SPEAKER_01 4:08

Exactly, exactly. And so I wanted to share my perspective just to add another side to that. Like, on one hand, yes, people are blessed with good genetics, uh, strong mindsets, they have drive. A lot of those older individuals, they were on purpose. They might have smoked like a chimney, you know, but they were on purpose. They were smoking and they were happy about it, you know, and I think there's a effect of health with that. I think the person who's always trying to quit smoking versus the person who's smoking and happy about it, I do think there's a a health effect from that. But overall, pre-diabetes, diabetes, that's pretty common when somebody enrolls in my program in my service, and it's it's just a matter of time before that their blood health changes and they're not uh pre-diabetic anymore. Right. Um, so the things that we do, the education we get and the support, that's really what it is. And I think an another one would be time. A lot of people are concerned about time. And we just heard that one. Um it it's really a check-in with me, it's 30 minutes. It's it's and whatever time you need, I'll make it on the schedule if you have a a different schedule. And again, just getting that information, making sure you're doing those little things, like being properly hydrated, eating enough fiber. Like these are boring ideas, uh, but I see a profound change in people's health, uh, normalizing blood pressure, A1C, getting people off the GLP1 stuff. Like that's been their goal. They're like, I did this to lose a few pounds, and now I'm I'm wanting to do it the right way. I want to educate myself. Um, and so profound changes also with scans, with with the tracking, your body fat, that's a huge one. A lot of people say, Well, Kenny, I can't, I've tried everything and the scale doesn't change. When you can understand the tracking, like the body fat and the skeletal muscle mass, and understand how that works, then the the number on the scale kind of becomes irrelevant.

SPEAKER_00 6:04

Right. So with the folks that come in that are already on the GLP ones and with the scanning and the tracking, what are you seeing there? That's interesting.

SPEAKER_01 6:14

So a lot of times I have a start point. Um, I have a gal right now who who got off of them pretty soon after she started, and her muscle mass is doing a big rebound. It's going up dramatically. Her gut had slowed down, and that that did take some extra finesse. Like she had to get on some digestive support, digestive enzymes, and some some supplements of her choice, and um that started to improve. Got her nutrition like a good baseline of calories, because that's another thing a lot of females do is they gouge their calories. So it's almost impossible for them, their body to be wealthy enough to produce muscle tissue. And uh so just just that subtle massaging, getting them to understand, hey, this isn't about starving yourself. Your body deserves calories, and when you put the the real food in there and then just some basics on weight training, I mean it's really simple stuff. Right. A leg press and just doing a few sets of leg press a few times a week. Yeah, I think that girl has put on six pounds of muscle uh in two months. Nice. So that's pretty cool. Pretty good, yeah. And and then of course, the cool thing about your body fat percentage is the more muscle you gain, that in of itself changes your percentage.

SPEAKER_00 7:31

Right. Because that's been, you know, one of the concerns that I hear out there on the GLP ones is yeah, you may lose some weight, but it's really easy to start losing muscle mass as part of that weight.

SPEAKER_01 7:40

Yeah, yeah. The there's another gal, she lost 40 pounds with me. She started taking off like a rocket, and I hadn't yet fed her all the information. And come to find out, scan, scan, the second and third scan, her her muscle mass was going like this. And so it's interesting when when you see a dip, how you can start talking about protein and how important it is and what number we should set, and you can watch that muscle mass start climbing again. And for that one, I've noticed a lot of people are like, oh, Kenny, this is just so much protein. How am I gonna eat this much protein? That's where a blender can come in handy and start making smoothies. I found the power of liquid egg whites. You can actually they're pasteurized. So you do your protein powder of choice with your veggies and your berries, or you could do a more dessert style one like chocolate peanut butter style with like that PB fit. And uh, for anybody who is struggling to hit their protein targets, that's what the supplements are for. It's to supplement your diet. So if you're having big potholes in your nutrition where you're way low on your protein intake, that's a really effective way. This just a basic protein powder, whether it's plant-based or whey.

SPEAKER_00 8:48

You know, like we've talked before, I keep my protein intake way up there. I got my bison in the fridge over there, right? Just ready to go for me tonight, just in case I don't make it home in time for dinner. Yeah. And and a big part of that is it is making sure you plan ahead and make sure you're ready to and you have that protein available so you don't make poor choices. Exactly.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

Making it convenient, right? Or and if you have the means, there's so many options out there like Fed Kitchen, different meals uh that are pre-made that you can buy that aren't in the freezer section, by the way. Because that you're gonna get hit with a ton of salt. But while we're on that protein topic, also out of any nutrient that you can put in, protein's different because it actually increases like your gut has to work harder to break it down. So it ups your metabolism, it uh increases satiation, so you feel more full. Um, you're not gonna be wanting to reach. I I've noticed this. People who have low protein intake tend to reach for sugar a lot more.

SPEAKER_00 9:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 9:41

Um, and and then they're wonder why they're not losing weight. So I my goal with this topic was just to share what I've seen and just doing little things, just to inspire somebody who might be watching that you know, you can do it. It it just might be your approach. If you're just going off the scale, we have uh over at S2, um, they do in-body scans for free. So you it's just getting over there. And um, if anybody watching just wants me to read a scan or educate them on that, I'll do it for free. If you go get one and and find me and text me, I'd be happy to give that support. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:16

And and one thing that I always think about too when folks say, Yeah, this this guy was in great shape and he had a heart attack, or this guy lived till 100, but he smoked like a chimney.

SPEAKER_01 10:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

You can't base your life on the one-offs, on the exceptions to the rule. Yeah, right. Those aren't the norm.

SPEAKER_01 10:32

Yeah, I 100% agree with that. 100%. Yeah, there's always gonna be those outliers. Right. Um, the the way I think about it is like just passing that one soda a day, just saying no to that one soda a day could easily be 15 pounds at the end of the year that you wouldn't put on, right? Looking at it from the subtraction method, if that's the one thing you don't do today is that extra soda, that's the data shows 10 to 15 pounds in a year.

SPEAKER_00 11:00

It adds up, doesn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's a ton of it. Yeah, yeah. So uh a few minutes ago, you're talking about leg press. So got me thinking. So these folks early on in their health and wellness journey, do you direct them more toward compound exercises or a little more isolation type exercises?

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Yeah, my main thing is I want it to be fun. My favorite thing is bodybuilding. So I'm gonna show them if if they're into that. Like some of my clients, it's just cardio cardio or it's Pilates or yoga or martial arts. Um, but for those that are like, yeah, I want to get stronger, I want to build a physique, I do suggest compound movements in the beginning. And I am pro machine, honestly, because it's simple to teach. I think it needs to be repeatable. Um, and starting with the compound stuff, I usually throw my first session a full a full body day just to show them the core, a good push, a good pull, and some legs, and then I sprinkle in and whatever their programming they want. We just start tailoring it towards what their goals are. So the only thing you don't want to do on a leg press is get so low, get the weight down so low into the stretch that your tail tailbone lifts off. Right. You want to keep that tailbone down because I've had a few people tweak their back from from doing it that way. So that we get those safeties that uh the bumpers just move those up a little bit when you're starting.

SPEAKER_00 12:16

No, and those those machines especially can be good for learning form. Oh, yeah. You know, before you start handling dumbbells and free weights. I love dumbbells because you get the stabilizer muscles and the whole thing in there. But yeah, especially early on, using the machines is a great way to learn proper form as you're easing your way into weightlifting, bodybuilding, however you're gonna take it.

SPEAKER_01 12:35

It's like when we're on that leg press, we start looking at the you know, the the squat rack or the the dumbbells or whatever, and I'm like, it it might be time. You wanna wanna give it a shot? And that's how we kind of uh uh make the evolution happen to where they're doing more stabilizing.

SPEAKER_00 12:49

I'll tell you, you talked about maybe doing one day of a full body. Every now and again, I still I still will do that. I feel like I need a breakthrough. So I'm sure I'm gonna take a couple of days here where I'm just gonna break out my whole body and just do the whole thing. And it does tend to break out of a plateau.

SPEAKER_01 13:06

Plateau occasionally when you do it that way. I agree. I usually do it when I'm I'm I'm slacking. Like if I've slacked a few days and I'm like, everything's fresh, I'm just gonna hit it all.

SPEAKER_00 13:15

There you go. What kind of split do you do personally?

SPEAKER_01 13:18

Push pull legs. And I'm I was doing every other day, so cover it, and I was going really intense, but I've since started doing more volume training. And the theory is to protect your CNS, your central nervous system, because there were days where I might be off a meal. I'm trying to get five meals in a day just to keep the size and the strength. And if I miss a meal or I'm down on sleep, I'll go and blast. And then my recovery's taking so long. I'm wanting to increase that protein synthesis. They say when you when you train, you get an uptake in protein synthesis. So I'm just my goal is to do a Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, rest Thursday, and then hit it again in the week. And just it's higher volume, not as intense. So I'm not as sore, I'm able to recover faster, I get more pumped, and I just I I'm enjoying that right now.

SPEAKER_00 14:04

Any other inputs that people should be looking at?

SPEAKER_01 14:08

Yeah, I think uh your purpose. Why do it? Or they're they've they've bought limitation, they've sold their self on why it won't work. And so if any of these little things hit today, I would encourage the the audience to look inside yourself. If this is hitting you, what drive what would drive you to a goal, and then then it would be the goal, right? What is measurable? A lot of people don't have measurable goals because they don't believe it or they say the number's not important. It's not that number that you want, it's the way it's going to make you feel, right? And confidence-wise. So it could be a waistline measurement, it could be health. If you're just tweaking small things and making it doable, that's what I've seen with my clients is a lot of them just don't believe it. But when they sign up with me, they put trust in me, and we just it's an information-assisted process. So they get to go as fast as they want to go, and that's what cultivates that belief. After three weeks of hitting a two-pound target, they're believing in themselves. Oh, absolutely. You know what I mean? Yeah. That belief is way up at that point. So yeah, that's kind of a mixed answers in that, but those things, like having that belief in that you just got to get started. And once it works and you get some impact, that belief will come through and it builds momentum, is what I would say.

SPEAKER_00 15:29

Completely agree. Well, Kenny, if somebody uh either believes right now or doesn't believe right now, but they want to come work with you, man. Where do they go?

SPEAKER_01 15:38

Yeah, just go to um KennyHyde.com. Uh there's a lot of good information on there, including uh testimonials. And then uh you can find me all over uh social media, Kenny Hyde, uh Kenny Hyde Coaching on TikTok and Instagram, and then my number's 217-883-8837. Sounds good, man.

SPEAKER_00 15:56

Yeah, appreciate it as always.

SPEAKER_01 15:58

Yeah, thank you so much.

SPEAKER_00 15:59

Appreciate you. Got it. It's been a pleasure. Yeah. Well, we're gonna let Kenny Hyde, Springfield's wellness guide, get back to elevating Springfield. But for the rest of y'all, we'll be right back. Hey, Springfield, when it comes to reliable, high-quality roofing, you don't want to leave things to chance. That's why you should reach out to Acosta Angeli Ruffing, your local roughing expert serving Springfield and surrounding communities, from quick, dependable repairs to full replacement, from residential to commercial. They are your trusted pros. Call them today at 217-993-2748 or visit their website to book your free quote and inspection. Don't wait. A little leak now could lead to major damage later. Trust the local experts, protect your home, and get peace of mind with Acosta Angeli Roofing. Well, thank you for joining us today, everybody. Appreciate you making us a part of your day. Hope you're enjoying these quick hits of actionable strategies here on the wellness upgrade on Elevate Springfield. Thank you again to Shudokan Karate Club. A take what you learn today. You bring the discipline and follow through and together. That's right, y'all. We're gonna Elevate Springfield. Be great. Looking for expert tree care with hometown integrity? Look no further than Sangamon Tree Service. They're your trusted local pros, delivering quality workmanship, exceptional customer service, and fair, honest pricing. Every time. Whether it's trimming, removal, or storm cleanup, their team brings professionalism and care to every job, big or small. Call the name your neighbors trust, Sangman Tree Service, or visit them today at SangamanTreeService.com. Sangaman Tree Service, rooted in quality, built on trust.