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#138 We delve into the crucial role of foundational health in achieving personal and professional success, exploring holistic approaches that most practitioners overlook. Hector Del Nido shares his journey from competitive bodybuilder to holistic health coach after experiencing his own health breakdown despite being at the peak of physical fitness.
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So going too hard with exercise and taking way too many supplements without absorbing any supplements is a disaster.
Speaker 2:We're meant to have simple lives, aren't we?
Speaker 1:Even now, people no longer go to the supermarket because it's too hard to push the trolley. They get them all Uber delivered to their house.
Speaker 2:In six weeks I'm sleeping better. I've already been told by multiple people that my eyes are the best I've ever looked. They're not sunken back in my head. I'm looking fuller, like I've lost nine kilos. Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Level Up. We are back in the shed. This morning actually, we're doing an early one but something really special for you today because I want to take all my listeners to the next level.
Speaker 2:Something I'm really passionate about is my own personal fitness and my health. I haven't always been this way, but something that I've learned over the past four or five years and definitely the last 12 months as I've been ramping things up If I'm not right, nothing around me can be right, my business can't be right, my team can't be right, my relationship with my, my kids, my wife, can never be right or can never be the best it can be if I'm not right myself. And that means my emotional fitness, health, like everything, needs to be worked on, and this year I'm really ramping that up and taking it seriously. And today I've got an incredibly special guest for you to have. We're going to have a chat with Hector from Holistic Coaching. How are you, buddy?
Speaker 1:Thank you very much. Great for a Friday morning. Yep, very, very grateful to be here with you and let's see how we can make some very good, positive improvement.
Speaker 2:To give everybody a little bit of background through another mate of mine, adrian Ramsey. He's a designer on the Sunshine Coast. About 18 months ago, adrian invited my wife and I to a charity function that turned out was actually Hector's charity and it was an amazing experience experience. It was on a property at the sunshine coast and hector was there doing all the cooking, all the food open over an open fire, which I just I love all that stuff. And I think you'd been hunting and you'd actually caught a lot of the stuff you were cooking. But, um, and then, adrian, sort of, we've actually caught a lot of the stuff you were cooking. And then Adrian, we've been having a few conversations the last six months about our personal journeys and he just keeps telling me Duane, you need to get back onto Hector, you need to train with him. And here we are a couple of months later and even in, what's it been?
Speaker 1:Six weeks.
Speaker 2:Six weeks. Yeah, yeah six weeks, like actually doing getting things doing it yep and mate, the change is fucking awesome, so let's get into it. We got a lot to talk about, so tell, I guess to give the viewers a little bit of background about what is it you actually do well, I'm Hector Del Nido.
Speaker 1:I'm a HK holistic health coach and I'm a specialist to help people with any ongoing chronic pain, low energy, insulin issues and as well as very common right now is the stress, and all the issues come along with the stress. Basically, it's a weekly sessions when we evaluate how things are going with your nutrition, sleeping, movement and then look at together what are the actions that you're doing in a weekly base that are helping you to improve and what they're not helping you. So our body is amazing million years evolution. Unfortunately, the pharmaceutical world does not make a great amount of money making you eat healthy and look after real health, not the rubbish that we all have been faced chronically for the last 60 years about what is supposed to be quick and easy.
Speaker 2:That is never like that well, mate, you've definitely opened my eyes up because camille and I thought we ate pretty well and and looked after ourselves. But so I guess to go back a little bit like adrian um, I caught up with adrian a few months ago and, like this year, I'm pushing hard, like for everyone that hasn't seen it yet like I'm putting on the greatest event the construction industry's ever seen. Um, and I'm pushing hard this year, uh, 2025. We're currently in april and I'm just pushing hard on every part of my life, my relationships, my team, my businesses, my wealth, everything and I was burning, like we're only like february and I was already starting to uh like we're only like February and I was already starting to uh, to sort of feel the effects of pushing hard.
Speaker 2:And I've been someone that's always like. I've been told my whole life I look tired. I've never, I never feel like during the day that I have a lot of energy. And then over the years I've been bloody to so many specialists. I've been diagnosed with bloody sleep apnea and I've had bloody sciatic nerve nerve issues.
Speaker 2:For the last 25 years I've been told twice I should be in a wheelchair. Um, I'm not the type of person that believes in operations and those types of things, but I I was doing things like I was doing things I was told to do. I was stretching, I was building my core and my back, since I had an issue with it maybe six or seven months ago, which was the last time I was told I really should have an operation, otherwise I'm going to be in a wheelchair. I've taken it more seriously and I've been doing more exercise and I went and started working with another coach. But, mate you, the change I've had in the last six weeks is like it's fucking phenomenal, like I can't and one of the like I thought I was going to come to you.
Speaker 2:Well, actually, I missed the point when I was trying to get out there, like I was talking to Adrian about it, because he's pushing hard as well, and he was telling me about the hunting excursions that you put on and I was like, man, I'm on this year. I want to do that, I want to go out in the wilderness, I want to live off the land, I want to hunt my own food and cook it, and that's why I reached out to you. And then through and we can talk more about that soon but through having like multiple conversations with you, you're like well, you're not coming hunting until I know you can.
Speaker 1:You can make it back.
Speaker 2:I'm not carrying you back.
Speaker 1:Love you, but not that much.
Speaker 2:And so, yeah, you started with. No one's ever sat down like you did and asked me the questions you have and figured me out, and in six weeks I'm sleeping better. I've already been told by multiple people that my eyes are the best I've ever looked. They're not sunken back in my head, I'm looking fuller. Um, I have lost like I've lost nine kilos, but it was obviously all fat without training hard, without starving, eating more food that you have probably eaten in a long time and yeah, so so I don't know where to go with this mate because there's so much to talk about.
Speaker 2:But I just want to give everyone a little bit of a background of where we're at yeah.
Speaker 1:so going back into it, when we first met 18 months ago, the charity that I was organizing is not Hector's charity, no, no, I was organizing it for the KCM. That is a great charity that we've been supporting for over five years in Uganda. So what I put together as a big part of my profession is to help people to realize what is real healthy food, something that you can actually go basic and make it yourself in no longer than half an hour and feed yourself and your whole family, not that you have to organize pre-meal or reheat all this fancy stuff, heat all this fancy stuff. So cooking over the fire is very heavily into my bloodline, my soul back as a South American. So I expressed that enjoyment of energy to do it all day and to get a great amount of food.
Speaker 1:So we did a whole two-year-old stea. We did two lambs, 60-odd kilos of chorizo, hispanic sausages for over 150 people. So all that work that I put together over seven months with a great support of over a dozen of my amazing friends and clients. I have they put in the timba, the meat, the help, and we got that done. 33 and a half thousand dollars and all that went to uganda. So extremely grateful of that it was awesome.
Speaker 2:It was a really really good day, mate uh, not really good for my p?
Speaker 1:l because you can see my my mouth boy is going down to busy organizing everything, but it's okay. He, I have an amazing life for the last 25 years in Australia. I truly embrace the Australian spirit and giving back it is a huge part of my belief and I keep being very positive and excited about what's coming. Helping the less fortunate is a big part, I believe, for all of us to do.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's huge. It's definitely something I'm passionate in. But, like you've already touched on it a little bit, but we're meant to have simple lives, aren't we? Everyone's just so busy. Now You've got mum and dad both working. Kids are flat out. People aren't sitting down around a dinner table anymore and eating, and then all the shit we're eating has all grown quickly and it's just all rubbish. And again, camille and I have been on this bandwagon for a long time now and realized that, like I had no idea, like even the veggies that you grow in your like, we have our own veggie garden. Like the veggies you grow in your veggie garden, you have to actually go and source proper seeds, because if you buy seeds from the most Modified.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're all modified. Everything we're putting into our bodies is modified, and that's what you've really highlighted, just at an extreme level, yeah.
Speaker 1:So there are four major columns that I will focus on. Anybody that comes to me for all different issues, from my 14-year-old client to my 78-year-old client. And if we look after our liver, it's a humongous organ that determines how our blood is flowing, all our hormones and our energy level. People have abuse for way too long of stimulants, caffeine, taein, all of that and it's just the rush from sugar. So that gets you going from A to B but they drop you and that is what chronically creates all these imbalances and the body does not recognize.
Speaker 1:Because this is all new stuff that's been abused and people have to be aware that if you're not going to make a conscious, 20 minutes a day, seven days a week, not just to do the cooking or the grounding or the food, just to plan out where I'm going to be tomorrow, do I'm going to get a good breakfast at home or have to leave at three in the morning like I did this morning, and I don't really need to wake up my wife and my babies, because then I get home and I get hit with a fry pan. I need to be okay. So this morning was just a hot chocolate drink and some deer jerky on the way here.
Speaker 2:That's a HK chocolate, not a shit hot chocolate drink and some deer jerky on the way here. That's a HK chocolate, not a shit hot chocolate.
Speaker 1:It's so much into it, but just being organized about where you're going to get your food from, and from week one to 10 years later, we can always optimize something to a degree. So that's what means that you need to go all out and spend a humongous amount of money on all the organic vegetables, because if you're not hydrated enough, that's going to be a waste of money.
Speaker 2:Yeah, let's talk about that, because that's like you've really highlighted that for me. So when I first started working with Hector, hector's got an awesome book. It's actually online as well, and I'm big on journaling, I'm big on writing stuff down, but I'd never done it with my exercise, my food or what I drink.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And just like yes, I didn't. There's weeks where I didn't do it every single day, but just it only talked about two or three weeks for me, like writing down the time, the quantities and the exercise I was doing, how long I was doing it for how many reps. All that type of thing like exercise was fine, but like it really highlighted for me with the, the water I wasn't drinking half as much as I should be, and then with the food, just how sporadic my food eating was, like just random times, just fitting it in here, there and everywhere and just eating, eating good food most of the time but then in between it is is nobody's fault that we have been really well educated to make higher people day into the old chemical world, synthetic petroleum, pharmaceutical world.
Speaker 1:To believe that the quick fix is sustainable is not early, not Early early on the relationship. I make very clear to wine that if we're not able to keep a record, it's just like I said. Any of you guys have the successful business owners. If you don't know your numbers, you're going to be successful till you run out of energy because everything has to be a structure. Don't expect 100% turnout over a month. No, sometimes clients take a year before they fully send it. But if you're making 10 improvement every week, every month, it's already good, positive outcome. The planning structure never you're ever get good outcome if you're working too hard on your training exercise, if you're sleeping is out. I'm like how are you gonna get your car fixed at the mechanic if you don't give it the car keys to your mechanic? So it is a lot of steps, people all the time there's.
Speaker 1:I heard about this great green supplement. It's's supposed to help my skin. My this, my everything. Okay, who sold that to you? Oh, this very good naturopath, okay. Does the naturopath know that you're drinking three bottles of wine a week, oh, no that you drink four coffees a day. No that you only go to the toilet twice a week, oh no. Okay, I'm sorry, but I must tell you that you're full of shit. And all the money on all the supplements.
Speaker 2:Literally full of shit.
Speaker 1:Yeah, like, not just as a shit. Literally, I have seen so many X-Rite people with four to five kilos of poo in areas that you should never have poo. So at any point in time I get oh, I got reflex, I got this, these issues, and I got all this medication. I'm like what about, let's help your body to flush that out first, without putting a three inches house up your ass. I mean good hydration, stop with scrap. And I am always happy to have a challenging conversation with anybody, because over one or two weeks of trial and error they will go back to me and Hector, how you knew that? And I'm like the human body is not as complicated.
Speaker 2:Doesn't? That's what you've really highlighted to me, and I think that's why I'm really enjoying working with you and and what, why we're connecting so well, because I just we're we're animals yeah like we, we are put on this planet like we don't. So, like every other animal on this planet has to learn how to survive. They have to hunt for their food, they have to find water, they've got to look after themselves. And yet here we are, thinking that life is going to the supermarket and buying shit that's in packets.
Speaker 1:Even now, people no longer go to the supermarket because it's too hard to push the trolley. They get an old Uber delivered to their house Great for time saving. But that extra time you're not going to use it in yourself. You're more likely flicking your phone watching some bullshit on TV. That doesn't help you.
Speaker 1:It's all about having the commitment to have a good goal and if you agree, or you don't agree about what we discussed, but if you commit to it, I will expect and I will keep you accountable, to put at least 40 50 percent of that over a week. And then you go back and wow, I am sleeping better, my chin splints is no longer heading, but I'm not taking painkillers. What's going on, hector? Well, my friends, painkillers, it only numbs the symptom. What we work it is on deeply, deeply, with enough foundation. Find out what is causing all the issues and when we target that, it's not going to be any outcome, any issues. So, when you understand exactly how your body can detox as long as we are alive, it's a huge amount of crap going on about all these new supplements to help you with your covid vaccine and all this other bullshit, and I'm like, hey, you're alive, you're grateful you're alive. We can detox, we can move on, we can improve well, there was a.
Speaker 2:I want to talk about the poo. Yeah, no, people don't talk about poo enough, like you.
Speaker 1:They talk a lot about shit.
Speaker 2:They talk well, yeah, they talk a lot about shit, but not enough about poo. But, um, you know, once we got going and and we sat down and we had our first sort of official meeting and you sat there, you took lots of notes and stuff, but you said to me and I'd never thought about it, but you said to me, our body can deal with whatever we put in. Our body has signs of telling us that we need to improve on things. And you said you should like, if your body is 100% and working, you shouldn't have to use toilet paper.
Speaker 2:You should go to the toilet, you should do your poo and it should snap so clean off that you don't need to use toilet paper. And I don't know why I've been thinking about that, but I've been taking a lot more notice of my poo and mate again in six or seven weeks. The change is ridiculous. And now, if I stick to what you tell me to do and the plan, I drink lots of water. Poo's fantastic. If I eat something that my body isn't absorbing or agreeing with, yeah, you're blasting out the toilet. So whoever thought on the level up podcast we'd be talking about poo?
Speaker 1:here we are well, at the end of the day, I don't on any type of business that you're running.
Speaker 2:If you don't know, you shit, you're in trouble and that's true and I think I think that's why it related to me, because you explained it in ways like you just did then. Exactly 100%. If you don't know what's going in and out of your business, you're in trouble.
Speaker 1:You will be going hard with a lot of passion, but passion without knowledge, and I am. Quite often I hurt people's feelings and I let everybody know that if I ever hurt your feelings I will go to sleep very good that night because it's your issues. To be such a soft with your feelings and this, well, is not hard. It's only hard for the one that's not prepared. So knowledge is power and the right knowledge.
Speaker 1:I get sometimes customers that they've been chronically and this is unbelievable. That's why I've been putting a large amount of effort to keep all these data records for over a decade with my clients, before and after testimonials, and many of them they will take a three-year break and then they go back to me for another specific goal and that could be an injury or go to Kokoda or do any type of crazy adventure. But if you stick to the basis, we can achieve crazy amount of goal in way less amount of time, because the key principle of putting yourself first is amazing. First is amazing. So when I get somebody that come with me with a chronic let's just say just a simple one a back pain, neck pain for 10 years, I respect everybody that have been through the operation didn't got fixed. Okay, if they reach me out.
Speaker 1:As long as you're still able to breathe, it can be improved. In your case, one you've been many times told about the operation this. This because you're extremely committed to yourself, your life, your family and you know that it's a better way. You didn't quite find it, but you know it's a better way to do it. It's huge, so the body will respond as good as you look after him. So going too hard with exercise and taking way too many supplements without absorbing any supplements is a disaster.
Speaker 2:That's another thing that you've really highlighted with Camille and I Like there's no point putting all this shit into your body if your body's not taking it in. Thing that you've really highlighted with Camille and I like it doesn't, like there's no point putting all this shit into your body if your body's not taking it in.
Speaker 1:Yeah. So, as I've said before, I'm very okay to, at any point in time, to have a conversation face-to-face or on Zoom with anybody that gets a bit itchy or upset about me telling my experience. But naturopath, chiropractors, physio, they're all really good at the right time when they need. But if any of them three practitioners haven't really thought or look about your clients, stress levels, hydration, you're gonna be taking a lot of expensive hours of your time getting all this manipulation, feeling good for three, four days and then going back to it. Go back to it well.
Speaker 2:You explained it. We uh, we actually did some warm-ups with um hector before we started recording today and you explained it really well. Um, using a, an old rag I had in the shed as an example. Like if that rags all dry and not lubed up and you're trying to pull it, it's going to be very tight and probably tear and rip. But if you dunk it in a bucket of water and lube it up, Correct the most common type of injuries.
Speaker 1:We're just talking about a muscle T or a ligament T, very common on the hamstrings or calves. One way it is yes, you flip a tractor, you pull your back, you fall off the horse, you hurt your hammy, you go hang up in a swing. Okay, that is one type of T. But if you're just running or just picking up your kid and you hurt something, that didn't happen. That was the drop that overfilled the swimming pool. So that is from chronically being very dehydrated, and when we dehydrate our ligaments they lose their flexibility.
Speaker 2:So getting the water in as much to detox, clean your liver but at the same time give a moisture to your ligaments is extremely important and then even like so I was, I was drinking a reasonable amount of water, but like you, like, I'm not drinking any water at all now without salt in it correct.
Speaker 1:See, uh, for many, many years it's been very common news you are what you eat. I agree to a point because with the crap that we're putting in, our body is not able to absorb the nutrients, so we are actually what we can absorb. So chronic back pain static nerve.
Speaker 2:You need to, uh, that needs to be your slogan. You're not what you eat, you are what you absorb.
Speaker 1:Yes, yep, and yes, yep, and menopause issue, low testosterone, all of that issues. They are right here. If you don't improve your stomach line, how are you going to absorb the super green? I got so many times customers that come in with me with already prescribed TRT testosterone replacement. I'm like, hey, that's chemical-based shit. Of course, to a degree and depending on your age, it's not a choice. But there's so many natural ways to improve that and be able to maintain that without having to buy the chemical.
Speaker 1:It's just like a Panadol for a headache it will take it away, but it's not going to fix the one for the next day. Oh, that's next day problem. Yeah, three years later you got massive ulcers on your stomach from all the painkillers. Then we got another level of issues and just to go back into the one before, when I get a customer and I do have that on my website people can look in because it just sounds crazy that they have eight different doctors to treat the humongous bad reaction, intolerance with many different foods, or the chronic back pain or massive migraines. They go from medication to medication, to treatment, to the massage, to the capping, to the breathing, to the herbs, but because they're not treating the symptom, it just keep coming back and the amount of customers I get mid 40s, early 50s that they tell me two years later, hector, I am stronger, healthier, more energized than when I was 35. Imagine if I knew what I know now 20 years ago and I'm like, well, don't think about that, just be grateful that you know now.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So your body, when it's not absorbing the nutrients because you saw them inflamed and constipated nutrients, because you saw them inflamed and constipated, all that capsules of magnesium or super green or whatever is going to go right out into a very expensive pee and poo in the toilet. So you, literally, you could keep your shit and sell it because it's all the supplements.
Speaker 2:They're going right there it's and it I again. This is all stuff that. Really, why aren't we taught at school? Why aren't we taught more about how to look after ourselves and how to eat and prepare food and all this type of stuff? Obviously, I think you're on the same page as me. I think the world's got an agenda and the agenda is to make a lot of people a lot of money. They don't care about all the individual people, but, um, and I think another reason I I think a lot of people shy away from some of the stuff we're talking about is cost. Like everyone thinks it's going to be really expensive. Um, but as I've learned over the last few months working with you, like it doesn't have to be expensive, like I'm, I'm doing a lot more prep. Like I was up 4.30 this morning in the kitchen making four kilos of jerky so that I've got healthy snacks to drive around with. I'm not just trying to eat shit food.
Speaker 1:I have embraced this for many, many years through my own personal journey and through everybody that come into my life. The very best two investments you will ever do in life. First one is knowledge. Be good at whatever you want to do. Be great at it. Second is food. Oh, but Hector, what about your wife, your kids, your this? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love them all, but if I don't have good knowledge on what I do, I won't be able to get the financial to cover up all my life and if I don't eat the very best, I won't be able to do what I do for 14, 16 hours a day as a business owner.
Speaker 1:Everybody out there now it's not fucking public holidays, it's not Saturday and Sunday hit the fence, you have to get in, leave your shit up and just get into it. And if you're going to complain about that, go back and get a fucking job. But that's not cool because, well, choose what you're going to do, hit it. And when you look back and I've done this many, many, many times as we keep at data I have had customers having a mind-blowing experience when they realize that they've been hung over three months a year. So they only make good financial business ideas. Only nine months of the year, minus the holidays, only eight months, and they're still doing well. And I'm like I'm not going to make you stop drinking alcohol because that's your enjoyment, but I will give you all the hacks, all the tricks, so that is not going to ruin the next two, three days of your life.
Speaker 1:The assignment is how many people can put their hands up that they haven't taken a week of work in the last six weeks? Right now, influenza, stomach bags it is crap going around all the time because everybody's immune system is lower. I'm not going to go into the rabbit hole of the vaccines and controlling the world. You get sick because your immune system is weak. That's it, hector. You're calling me weak. Yes, it is what it is. The 20-kilo rock that you picked up and hurt your back is not too heavy. Your back is weak as piss. God damn it, guys.
Speaker 2:This is why I like working with you, mate, because you tell me how it is.
Speaker 1:Not long ago, we men would walk 40, 50 k's, hopefully kill something, and if you're grateful, you kill a lesser deer buffalo. Okay great, take the fucking thing back home to feed your wife and kids. If you're not able to carry half your body weight back, you're not going to be doing two or three trips, guys. Hey, it's not fucking uber, it's not quad bike. You need to carry on your legs and if you leave that day, by the time you get back dingos, wolf, bears, cats they will eat it. So you need to be aware that we not always have been this weak as we are today At any point in time. It's not about having low energy, it is about not recovering enough. The weights are never too heavy. You are not strong enough, and at that point it's crucial to have the right awareness of what it takes to get there.
Speaker 2:So we'll definitely come back and keep going on all this stuff, but, like, I guess, to give everyone listening a bit of your background, because that's going to help put the pieces together. But you're a you're a pretty intimidating person to look at, like you're like, look at the size of you huge, but um, but like, tell us your story, mate, because you haven't always been on this journey and I think another reason I resonate really well with you is you practice what you preach. You've put in the effort, you've got the rewards and now you're helping other people. So take us back. Well, let's go back to coming to Australia. When did you first come to Australia?
Speaker 1:to like coming to australia. When did you first come to australia? Um one one thing. Before that, I was extremely fortunate to have an amazing childhood.
Speaker 2:I grew up in a very small country town in the south america, in the patagonia actually this is good let's let's talk about this, because you've told me some good stories about this so I grow up in an environment that I never knew that we have to lock the car door or that the car key won't be in the car ignition.
Speaker 1:So just to give you an idea, it was amazing as soon as I have a lot of troubles as a kid at school I never was able to sit for more than 10, 15 minutes and strive, because I have every single diagnosis that they can libel a kid. I have them all. Every single diagnosis that they can libel a kid. I have them all. The great thing that when they took me to the specialist, the doctor was a good friend of my dad and he was away I'm talking about 30 years ago already that this long-term medication is not good for anybody. So he just told my dad you need to get your boy to do more sports.
Speaker 1:So long story short hunting, fishing my whole life. I never really enjoy any team sport because I like to go hard and I hate to get issues with my team members because they're doing a half-assed job. So I'm, I don't hold back. That's why I believe is one of the secrets of being happy, because if I like you, I tell you, and if I don't like you, I tell you too, so I'm cool with that. And I ended up having two horses, one for monday to thursday. I went for says that to sunday because otherwise you can count the ribs on my horse. I will just flat out full energy back in the patagonia in ch and 2000,. I moved to Australia. I came here to support many fellow team members in rowing at the Olympic Games. That was an unbelievable story.
Speaker 2:So in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, Sydney correct.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was supporting the Chilean rowing team so I went boarding school in Valdivia. He's the best rower of South America, so that was amazing. And at that point, at 16 years of age, I learned the true understanding of commitment. I was extremely fortunate to sign up in a rowing club. Name is Phoenix, run and operate by Germans in Chile. So if anybody know a bit of Germansans and austrians, they stick to the plan. So I started the sport way too late, but I have the energy to do three years of training in one year. So I did well, did got a lot of competitions through school, through state, nationally. I didn't quite manage to get to the whole Olympic performing, but I still came up, supported them and it was an amazing story. So all I knew about Australia was Crocodilo Dundee, old Paul Hogan that I got to meet in person massive, massive dream and of course, Steve Irwin the rest in peace. So that was the country of the dreams, where you get paid to hunt, no, where you can go to the snowy mountains and catch your own wild brombies and keep them. Oh, that's the dream. So that was a big part of my motivation to come to Australia.
Speaker 1:So after the Olympic Games I stayed for 11 months with my uncle, julia, in Darwin, in the NT, and as soon as I was able to speak a little bit of English, I take all the notes, all the questions I need to do, and I would catch a bus to go to the immigration office in the city and from that day they started helping me how to be able to go back to Australia. When I was only 18 years of age, I thank God I never went to university and I never will and went home, did a heavy machine course because that was the number one tape they need in Darwin at that point. Six-month course, one-year experience, like 2021. I was back in Australia with all my legal papers as a working visa. Yeah, and I only have done work on machinery on friends' properties because at that time I didn't want to leave town. I want to stay in town with my girlfriend at that time. So I worked in Kitchen Hannah's restaurant. So, without having a great English, doing dishes was a really good job.
Speaker 1:And if you have been to Darwin in April, may, it's the wet season, so coming from the snowy mountains in South America to go to the tropical was a massive change. So till today, the Coleman family in Darwin. They're still great family friends. I've been to the weddings, they've been to my weddings and they were my first people to work for, from then kitchen hand moving to security, then from security moving to start helping people at the gyms, then into Sparky and 2009,.
Speaker 1:When the crisis was pretty high up, my boss at the electrician, george, asked if anybody could take some time off because things went good. I was happy to put my hands up and literally by the end of the month I was happy to put my hands up and literally by the end of the month I was busier ever just doing PT at the gym Because I have a really good follow up of clients that they want more of my time for them, their family, their friends. But I only have the 5 am or 5 pm after my full time electrician. So it was a bit of a transition that I never planned and till today I never look back. I've been an amazing 16 years of living my best life.
Speaker 2:You've definitely lived a good life and I'm looking forward to being in a position where you're not worried about carrying me back and coming on one of these hunting journeys up in the NT. Tell us a little bit more, because during that time you got into your deadlifting and weightlifting.
Speaker 1:Well, as I said before, through my background on rowing, having a really good coach to give me a really good program and seeing the results, I stick to some principle with the gym. So I was working at a restaurant. I work every morning and afternoon, so I will do the gym every day at lunchtime. Start getting some really good results. Listen to some people that I believe they knew what they're talking about and I find every single book in Spanish about health and fitness before I learn English and just act to it, stick to it. I didn't know about supplements, about going heavy, going light. I just went all out six days a week and that worked for me. So I went from 72 and a half kilos of lean running machine to 86 kilos in the first year in australia and where people they will always see me high energy, happy and always happy to help they were coming up to me Hector, can you explain me this exercise, can you explain me these supplements? And I will help them. And two weeks later, three weeks later, somebody else come again with the same print of Piper and I'm like, okay, so, so after a while, where you got that, where you got that programs that you don't know how to do. Oh, my pt gave me that hector, so why he doesn't explain you how to do it? No, that's extra. And I'm like, well, you know, you pay shit, you get shit. So steady people. They start getting together and asking me if I will coach them. I will train them.
Speaker 1:At that time I have my full-time job electrician and security I wasn't needing for any more money and I couldn't think that they will give me money. So I refused to get any money. So they will come to the gym with chickens, with packs of bananas, with gym belts, so that's something for it without me asking. And yeah, I found myself was actually quite good. And then, of course, I started looking more into how different body types work, how females, how age groups start getting more specialized, and the same is as an Olympic athlete, I only look at and I study research from the very best of the country, the world, not just somebody that put a bullshit article, that got a study case done in the University of Mexico City, whatever a site that this is good for this.
Speaker 1:I'm like, hey, you haven't win anything. I want to see that you walk the talk. So many of the experts on the topic of exercise, movement nutrition. They were the very best and just keep cruising doing that like 10 hours a week, no more when time come up to back off. My electrician went on that and, yeah, I got send it yeah, it's awesome, man.
Speaker 2:It's a great story and it just shows you how passionate you are about it. But, like, how do you go from that to where you are now, where you just okay, you got such a good understanding of our bodies?
Speaker 1:have always been complimented by great people in the gym about my strength, my energy, just the way I look. Well, a lot of them they want to know what drugs I was using. To be honest, that was the fucking bottom line and the answer till today always been good food, love life, sleep well and be patient. So successfully managed to compete five times in my career over five different years in natural bodybuilding WMBF. That is actually drug tested every time NT, sydney and international. So being encouraged by great friends and customers. About Hector, you have to have a goal. Like everybody, you're looking better now than people on the TV on the competition, so I just know my thing. This friend come to my house in the old DVD Dragon Mu from Darwin. He was a superstar back in the 90s in Australia bodybuilding.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:And he showed me his videos and I didn't see any exciting about flexing and squeezing and a little budget smuggler. I wasn't too keen about it. But what he showed me is all the posing, all the artistic part into the competition. I'm like, oh yeah, and the song was the Final Countdown. I'm like, oh yeah, and the song was the final countdown and I'm like, yeah, I can do that, that looks fun.
Speaker 1:Okay, 2005,. I did my first comp, went to Adelaide First time, first attempt, with no help, just on my own, I got fifth in Australia Great. After that I got my full-time residency, so that means I can leave the country and go back anytime I want. So the very next year I went to Chile and I lived the best life for a whole year. And after my competition, as I always encourage everybody, any advice you're going to get from somebody, make sure they know what they're talking about. A lot of people tell you you're doing great, but they don't know shit about that topic. So when I want my dream house, I talk to Adrian Ramsey. When I need a developer to build it, then we talk I'm not just going to a good friend that is an electrician, slash builder, architect. I want to go the very best. So the judges told me, hector, you need to build up these two master groups and you will be unstoppable. Okay, so I stick to that for two years, two years. I went all the way through it In 2008,.
Speaker 1:Back in Australia, I won everything in Darwin and the prize of the overall champion was efforts to go to Sydney. In my wildest dream, I will think about going to the Nationals in Sydney, darwin being such a small town and a few friends. They were really encouraging me, hector. Well, you got the efforts. We can help you out. Just go, have a go. When they done my thing 15 of us from all over Australia and I started on the top six of Australia and I was so proud and excited that I'm going to go back to Darwin to tell my friends I'm the number six in the country. Number six called out number five, number four, and they went and signed my name and I'm like I'm the setting australia's best great. I'm the second best in australia, great. And actually I was the winner. Yeah, without even. So, I never really realized how much preparation my body and how good I was on stage. So I took on the Australian title. That really helped to help me more with my personal training business, but at that time I only have 10 hours a week because I was doing electrician. See, I become a full-time trainer a year after.
Speaker 1:So then in 2009, I went back again. I won the NT. I won Mr Australia for second time in a row in the WNBF, the only true natural federation in probably the world. As they do, drug test you urine, blood and the lie detector at local stage and at nationals and internationals the top three, not just a random lucky crap. So I'm making clear that you want to run clean. You go to the best place to have a good chance yeah and I just bought my first investment property.
Speaker 1:I was pretty broke. I was pretty flogged out with my, with my training being consistently very depleted for 20 weeks, and I was like, alright, I wanted this, but I don't. I'm not going to New York. And my great friend, one of my longest friends in Australia, justin Coleman, he was like Hector you maybe don't get this chance twice in your lifetime. We send you there. You go to my, you go to my pub, you go to my nightclubs, you go to heaps of friends that love you at. Hector, let's get you a charity event. We send you to New York. This is on a Wednesday, friday night. At the Deck Bar in Darwin, we have the all-time biggest, ever best ladies night. Yeah, of course, I was in a good shape. A lot of my friends are good shape, so we did a ladies night and that got me all the money to pay my fs at my hotel for the two weeks I was in new york to go and compete in uh in the world world championships of natural bodybuilding, I become fifth in the world.
Speaker 1:I was extremely proud to be in the top 10 because I was the best of the world. That was the top top top.
Speaker 2:That's incredible mate. It's unbelievable.
Speaker 1:And I push extra hard, having all my great friends putting their work, taking time out of work, and all the donations and all the money that sent me through. So I have in my t-shirt all my nine sponsors that they were helping me, from Continental Barbershop giving me free haircuts, to all the friends paying for my hotels, all the friends paying me for my meat order at the butcher shop. It was just like amazing. Yeah and yeah, I become number fifth in the world. And the best outcome out of that that in New York I met my amazing wife, kathleen. She was representing Australia as well in bikini class from the Gold Coast.
Speaker 2:Yeah right.
Speaker 1:So the day after the competition we were sitting at Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, from the Gold Coast. So the day after the competition we were sitting at Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square and I strategically sit in front of her on the table with all the Australian team and she have all the green flags. It was just too good to be true. She have not an ex-partner in jail, she wasn't on any mental medications, she didn't have any kids and she was already very committed with her training at 21 years of age huge. So I was just amazed, yeah, so I've met your family mate.
Speaker 2:You have an incredible family beautiful young kids and, uh yeah, awesome wife. It's awesome.
Speaker 1:I love it yeah, all my four girls at home, my wife and my three daughters. So, yeah, just like everything, I truly believe if we nurture our mental and physical health, then we can be the very best to everybody. I get this quite often, especially with moms. Oh, but, hector, you're making me upset. I feel like a bad mom because I should have my kids, my husband, everybody first. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, but you've been in chronic pain and all these issues for a decade. It's time to look after yourself. So don't feel guilty to take the half an hour time a day to have peace and quiet.
Speaker 1:And many of great friends and long-term clients that when they see this, they're like, hector, you're talking about me. No, no, no. It is quite often that I get these amazing moms, amazing human beings, as ladies, to be able to get up 20 minutes earlier than normal because the body is recovering, to be able to get up a little bit earlier and not to go in to do the laundry, lunch boxes or anything to do with the house, but actually sit down in the balcony in that quiet area as you know, with kids, silence is a gift and enjoy the warm water with lemon and honey, or a nice water with some lemon, honey or hot chocolate h HK chocolate mate.
Speaker 1:Yep, yep and the other Hector that 20 minutes. It is priceless and it's okay if you get emotional the first couple of weeks doing it because you haven't ever allocated time for yourself. So I put this rule of not picking up your phone till you finish your drink and I make sure if it is a H-K choco or H-K turmeric it have to be hot water so you not scalp that to go and get in with the laundry or the iron. So priorities have to be first on anything. As we spoke about construction, I don't really give a shit about how good is your experience on roofing, but if you haven't put the foundations and the underground work first, more likely that roof is not going to be very good on top of the sticks. So you work on the foundation. So anybody that look for a quick diet and a quick training and some supplements to change their life, please do not waste your money and time because I'm not going to be the one to help on that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and look, it's definitely. It does take a little bit to get your head around, like I think I've, like I'm loving it, I think I've gotten in the rhythm. Uh, quite well, because camille and I were already sort of going down that path of looking after ourselves a lot better. But I was, um, like I was expecting to come to you and you give me an exercise routine and we get stuck into it. But you've been saying that, no, you got to get your foundations right, got to get your gut right, got to get your. You've got to get your foundations right, got to get your gut right, got to get your health right, got to get your sleeping right.
Speaker 1:As a lot of my country clients, I get along so well because I'm a farm kid. If you love your meat, if you love good food and you're okay with getting punched in the face, we're going gonna get along really well like it's period. If you're a bit of a, too easily offended and too into them, I just like my vegetables because, okay, go back and live in india, love you, but you want to optimize yourself to the best. We need to get you the highest quality nutrition that your body will handle. So it's a lot to go with your DNA background to see why you're going to work better with seafood or with red meat or with white meat and the cost of investing on good quality grass fed, organic beef, lamb, pork, fish. It is a humongous investment forever because that will give you more energy to make the best decisions.
Speaker 1:So you're not going to be mucking up your fucking quotes because you're too tired and you already have four cups of coffee and friday afternoon. You're exhausted. Guys, this is friday morning. I already having a very good week, busy week, and anybody know in this part of Australia and in New Zealand two weeks ago, I've been flat out chasing big red deer, big stacks and I got two more weeks. So I am up at 3 in the morning on weekends hunting all the way through lunchtime and then go out again till night, and I am okay for another two weeks to keep that up. So it's what you do on a daily basis. Expect to be tired on Thursday. The issue starts on Wednesday. You're supposed to be able to perform at your best at any hour on the clock. You're doing your task Because when you're not performing at your best, you're ripping somebody off.
Speaker 2:Yeah, including yourself, you're ripping yourself off.
Speaker 1:Correct, Because our decisions that we make when we're exhausted they're not going to be the best decisions. And keep thinking on pushing more, more, more exercise when you're sleeping is bad. I'm like mate you don't run your horse on bitumen for a day and then put the shoes on it. You need to fuck off the bitumen, just run on grass, Put the shoes, then go. So the confidence that we will rebuild, specifically with your 20-odd years of chronic back issues, is rebuild your back strongest ever been. So when it is time to roll a buffalo or a camel or carry a big Zambadilla back legs up and down the mountains in Victoria for half a day, you won't have a second in your mind to worry about. Oh, I'm not sure about tomorrow, Because we will already put our body through that test a thousand times before. So nobody want to go to an event and they prepare. But preparation on paper is great, but we have to put the action it just makes so much sense.
Speaker 2:Going like it makes so much sense, man, I don't know why it's taken me so long to see it, but I'm just. I'm excited. Like I am so excited to where this is going to lead because, like I said to you on Wednesday, when we caught up like we've got this Kokoda Challenge coming up where it's only 48Ks in a day or non-stop, but like I've never been someone that's enjoyed running or or doing really like endurance endurance type stuff and like I and so like, for I'm just started into my seventh month.
Speaker 2:so for seven months now, or just over six months, I've committed to doing something every single day, so whether it's just an all-body weight, like I don't have weight, so just push-ups, sit-ups, all those types of things. I'm using an app on my phone, but I've been worn out doing it and I'm only doing 20 minutes to 40 minutes a day, whereas I've been doing your stuff. Now, every week we do a review where I'm at you tell me what I need to work on, what I need to add, um, and so far it's only it's only been about my food, what I'm eating, how much I'm eating my water, my sleeping. This week's, the first week, you've actually given me a workout a workout, I said, a structure of day one, two and three yeah because with what you were doing already, your body was already holding the stress levels just enough.
Speaker 1:So if I put more at that point we'll be breaking point and, as we all know, if you kill your client you're not going to get the invoice. So my first job, being honest, he like feels like hey, do you want to kill me? And I'm like hey, hey, you're dead.
Speaker 2:No money, no honey no, I can't do that it is but like I was telling you, like monday I felt like I did two workouts. I did my workout in the morning and then did my stuff with like, did work, did the stuff with the family, had dinner and I was like I got more energy, like I'm gonna go, I was gonna go for a walk but then it started raining so I was like my wife's got a treadmill, so I'm gonna get on the treadmill. I did six k's on the treadmill in. I think it was like 41 minutes or something which I've never done in my life, like I hate treadmills. But in my mind I kept telling myself shit, like I'm gonna be sore tomorrow, because whenever I do a long walk or I do try to jog, my shins hurt for days, sometimes weeks, and that was Monday night and I have not had one pain.
Speaker 1:So when you express that to me over our session, in my world is another green flag. Another green flag. Okay, duane is, it is coming along, it's doing this. So that gives me the open doors to. Okay, this is the next step. I never encourage somebody to go to a step three and four. If you're still not clear on level two. Get this very clear One of the best instructors for free that you will ever have in your life it is the doctor of pain.
Speaker 1:Pain goes with you, no matter where you fucking go. You can go underneath your bed, you can run away. Whatever Pain will be with you. So when your body is in pain, switch the shit up and realize that your body is telling you hey, houston, we got some issues here. Don't believe that the next week is going to be better just because you're very positive and passionate about healing. Positivity and passion without knowledge equal disaster. I have this quote excitement with the wrong knowledge equal fucking shit time. So because your body has been in a very low levels of minerals for what you're going to do, your calves, your chin muscles, is telling you that walk like the one that you did three weeks ago, it was too much. So before you hurt me bad. I'm going to give you some horrible chin splints, some calves cramps, my hammies.
Speaker 2:So you don't do that again, because that is a negative experience well, I thought when I spoke to you three weeks ago after we'd done that 13 or 14k walk on a saturday, I thought it was my shoes. So I was online looking at different shoes. I thought my shoes must be something's wrong with my, the way my feet are walking, I'm getting too much pain. But it's obvious it's not the shoes yeah, but it is all a combined.
Speaker 1:I never will say it is 100 black or green or not. It is a bit of a combination and we need to remember as well that three weeks ago, when I did all the cooking, cooking demonstrations, we got outside on the grass and we did the grounding. So since you've been doing barefoot grounding on grass, putting one leg off the ground for 18 seconds and then the next foot, that will work all your muscles that you haven't worked in years because our shoes will restrict the movement. So all the stabilized muscles. If you don't use it, you lose it. Yes, guys, girls, I'm serious if you don't use it, you lose it. And I get out there. This is a really good sales kick in here. It's quite often I get mid 40s, early 50 year old men. We better improve sex life that they have in the early 40s. Why, hello, blood flowing hydraulics.
Speaker 1:It's not fucking, it's not rocket science. So if you don't have enough hydraulic oil, how the fuck you expect to get the old men to work?
Speaker 2:Well, it's men and women, isn't it? It's all blood flow.
Speaker 1:So this is when it gets funny, because I always keep it strictly confidential. And then when I work with Johnny and Susie as husband and wife, whatever I did with the session starts between us, because it doesn't become a nightmare of he trying to tell her what hector side or she telling him what hector side. No, no, it is we working. You go 100 k's an hour, you go 50 case an hour. But quite often it's hilarious because three months in working with, let's say, suzy, she'll be like hector listen, my husband gonna come to work with you, but he will tell you it's all about his belly or his, his double chin or his boobies or whatever.
Speaker 1:But really he's been very upset because he doubled up on Viagra and still is not able to keep up with my sex drive now at 48. So for all the men out there, that's the dream. So then I have to work with him to optimize his energy and everything and the cycling sign. When the man is back to his testosterone level, where you should be, you're happy, your energy is going, you're happy and having sex it is a beautiful demonstration of love and it's free. It just helps you sleep.
Speaker 2:I can tell you, no one talks about it, but sex is a massive part of a healthy lifestyle.
Speaker 1:A hundred percent and if it's with your wife, even better. So quite often I get blocked with a bit of tendonitis that I don't know where from and I'm like I think I know why. So having energy to invest in that being real three kids three kids, one only one year old if you can get to enjoy that two and a half to five minutes, is fucking great it's um look at it all.
Speaker 2:Every single part plays a role in having a healthy lifestyle and and yeah, having a couple of good sessions a week is bloody part of having a good lifestyle. It's healthy.
Speaker 1:And, as I always say and it's very hard because as soon as the mum has the kids, as how we evolve, the focus of the mum has to be 100% the kids, not themselves, and forget about the husband. I think the dog is going to be first, before the husband. So you put all that in, and a mom that is very lack of sleep is not going to be in a mood for nothing. So that one I get all my mild clients. All right, you have your main needs. Your wife needs to sleep. So what about you?
Speaker 1:Driving home, allocate an hour time, whatever you can make it, take the baby for an hour in the car for a drive, go and get some shopping, whatever, so she can have a nap, and then your chances to get lucky, they're going to be a lot higher. So it's all about a team effort. So the amount of time that I drive home after work and my baby is already on my wife's car running with the aircon, for me to take it for a 45 minute drive so she can get to sleep. Now, I'm not going to guarantee, guys, that every time you will get lucky. No, it's more like a one out of seven time. But it's better than nothing.
Speaker 2:You touched on testosterone. I've never been tested, I don't know, but I feel I'm pumping when it comes to that. But so many of my mates and colleagues that I talk to regularly at the moment over the last couple of years are all on these testosterone supplements and then I've learned through talking to them like a lot of it's just coming back to the shit we're putting in our bodies, like it's affecting our testosterone once again uh, it's an industry.
Speaker 1:It's a very good, money-making business, because when you start putting in chemicals into your body and you're not healing like it is great to a degree. You got a very bad burn you need some testosterone heal, or you got a very bad injury to you need some testosterone heal, or you've got a very bad injury To get you healed quick. A bad contract great. But at the same time you need to improve all the other aspects of life or you will not be just like many, many, many men up there that they look amazing but they're a bag of shit waiting for a fucking stroke or a heart attack and the testicles they're just like a fucking key ring because waiting for a fucking stroke or a heart attack. And the testicles they're just like a fucking key ring because they're sterile and they got hips over the issues that they won't talk because their satisfaction in their life it is that 140, 150 bench press. So if that's your happiness, good on you. I respect that, but don't tell me that that's healthy and the only choice.
Speaker 1:I've been many, many times drug tested and I actually quite enjoy it when people they're like Hector, but my goal is not to get as strong and big as you. I want to be fast, I want to be functional. Okay, so you think that you're faster than me? Okay, put your mouse where your wallet it is and let's have a sprint for 100 bucks each. Bring as many of your footy mice you got and, as I mentioned, I'm all happy. Any point in time. We can do it, we can record it, and the winner takes a lot. That's the thing. The winner takes all the money Because when you do the right thing your strength, flexibility you have to be faster or you're a bag of shit.
Speaker 2:Flexibility is is huge, isn't it? Like we? Um, it's something that we don't think about enough, and I definitely don't like I just the few times over the years that I've wanted to get fit or bulk up, it's just like go, go, go to the gym, do weights, whatever, but like, since I've been doing all the stretching and exercising over the last six months, like everything just feels better. More movement, like I can squat, I can put my ass to the ground, like I can keep my heels on the ground, I can touch my toes, all those things. It's um, and again, everything just comes back to us thinking that we're life's too busy and we just sit in chairs all day. We drive around our trucks, so okay.
Speaker 1:So, and I say this openly yes, yes, australia, we do pay a fair bit of tax, but we have an amazing country. So you get no tax in Uganda, you good luck, or leave over there. I'm like I'm happy where things are. Flexibility it is just like running a successful business putting on the side, on your separate account, your money for GST and tax. You can get away for the first couple of months, couple of years, but when they get you, you're up to the ring and it's very sad that it's still this day and age. A lot of the business they go bankrupt because they don't have the tax clear, and I'm like everybody knows it. But we believe that the next job is going to be better this, this, this.
Speaker 1:So what's the point to go like a rocket very good into your health journey if then you pull your fucking hamstrings or you pull your pec off? I'm like it's best to go a bit steady and steady does not mean slow, that means consistent and get the the mind and then go to the next level. So it's it's just crazy. Going back into what we said before, my success well, I have excelled in rowing when I was in chile. Before that, anything to do with horses, cross country, before that anything to do with horses, cross country, mountain bikes, and in Australia I have got a fair few power lifting championships as well as body building. So the reason why I excel on different sports is because I am aware that getting the right knowledge back up with the consistent work and back that up with the right nutrition and sleeping is all possible. See everybody have a thousand fucking problems. Consistent work and back that up with the right nutrition and sleeping is all possible. See everybody have a thousand fucking problems till you're in hospital dying. When your health goes to shit, then it's only one problem stay alive. So I will like is my health is good and I got a hand and brain to keep doing what I do.
Speaker 1:Any other issue, it can be solved. But when you are in a terminal situation or with somebody getting organs removed because all this cancer bullshit and all the other crap is going on around, it's just way too often. So then you no longer worry about how your customers feel about it, taking a week off or shit. I should look after my, my sleeping better, because tumor, cancers, all these chronic diseases from our lifestyles is purely only from having a body very acidic. So if you alkaline yourself, your chances are close to none. And yes, I do have a large amount of testimonials with clients before, during and after cancers. And if you already got it and you already got some area removed, whatever, and you're very worried about getting it back, being worried is not going to help, I'm sorry. Being worried is only going to cause you sleep more like shit and become more pronated to it.
Speaker 1:So when you get action and put the right information is amazing what can be done yeah with the great success on my bodybuilding career back in 2011, when I went back for a second time to represent Australia in New York, was a great cost, was a great challenge. I don't talk about problems, because everything that happened in my life was my choice. Even when I think they were unfair, there were other people people. When I surround them, I expose myself to it. So, as I always say, if the kitchen is too hot for you, get the fuck out of the kitchen. So I don't blame the kitchen for being hot. 22 weeks of comp prep I got my body percent down to 3% body fat if anybody know that that, it is what you have to do for being a good bodybuilder but it's far from being healthy. So I overdid the stimulants, I overdid the amount of cardio, I overdid the bullshit chicken and broccoli and all that rubbish that everybody think is healthy. But the havoc is what? I'm 28 years of age and I got multiple tendonitis from my heels, my knees, my hips. I wasn't able to squat, deadlift or sprint for over a year, and my wife, at 22 years of age, has some serious chronic back issues L4, l5, bulging discs, fractured discs. I'm in a disaster. L4, l5, bulging discs, fractured discs. I'm in a disaster.
Speaker 1:In our heart, we believe we are way too young to have all these issues. After all the X-rays, anybody can tell you okay, you've got a six-year-old back Heck to your knees. You won't be able to do what you do anymore because this, this. So you need to change your career, change your sport. I even even to the extreme that I stopped going hunting. So my really good friend, chris in Darwin, that he have my gun on his gun safe, he go to appoint Hector, do you want me to sell your rifle or what? Because you just they only taking room in my gun safe. And I'm like brother, it is on my heart, but at the moment I'm not able to walk for more than 20 minutes.
Speaker 1:Ridiculous amount of chiropractic physio, every single pediatrician. That makes me waste a humongous amount of time, energy and money. I don't care about money, I can make money back, but the time that I waste was terrible. So we worked with the physio that worked with the Wallabies. We saw some amazing level of experts. The only answer we ever got to help us operation drugs, more pine killers, and I was absolutely against that. At that time I was already using up to eight Voltaron tablets a day just to get me through the day to be able to walk, so that, okay, that's shit. What really hit hard. I've always been a man of family. I love family. I love my friends, extended family.
Speaker 1:So we were having our meeting with the very best in Australia for back seeing my wife's skin, and he was pretty brutal. Forget about your career, forget about your sport. You need to do this. The only exercise you should ever do again is swimming, because all this arthritis da-da-da-da-da. At that point she had a very bad sciatic nerve. Many mornings she won't be able to go to work and she could hardly turn the car keys in the car because how about the carpet tunnel and all the issues? Okay, we're pretty fucked.
Speaker 1:And I asked so where we are in the future about having family. We're going to get married, we're going to have kids. Well, guys, adopting will be your best choice, or your wife will have to be in bed for eight months out of the 10-month pregnancy. So that was the most bottom, bottom-rock moment I ever had in my life and I've been through a bit of shit, but that was like wow, very grateful that I was there. We had to support her, or she probably ended up jumping on fucking adelaide river. It was just terrible. Still, we believe that I have to be a better choice. And then, through social media, my wife saw about a good friend of us, a natural world champion athlete, that his wife had been chronically diagnosed not be able to have kids for over four years and she got working with this coach from America and now she's putting all that in. She has the most amazing baby girl and this and that, and it's always hope. My wife didn't hesitate.
Speaker 1:The next time there was a course with that coach in Australia, they were flying to Sydney. It was a pretty serious investment of money and after that week, everything that I knew about health, fitness and well-being starting from supplements, caffeine and all this bullshit that we believe is the right way to do things I realized that everything helped to a degree, but there's so many other important things. So we went back home. We went top to bottom with our pantry. Drastically, I had to stop going to the coffee shops that I used to go, because they knew me that as soon as I sit down they bring me my first double long black coffee. So from seven coffees a day I went to zero. So then I start hydrating my body and everything that we have spoke with the Celtic South. The magnesium is how my body start healing. The magnesium is how my body start healing. So I didn't do any specific for my heels, my knees or my hips or shoulders.
Speaker 2:Just my body, over eight months, was back to full, how it should be.
Speaker 1:Through diet hydration.
Speaker 1:Through knowledge, the right knowledge, take away everything that is killing us. Yeah, carleen, we will. Sometimes people there's a Hector, you know working with you. It is a bit of an investment, you know, and I'm like, of course you don't get nothing great cheap. You can look into anything.
Speaker 1:When you put a good, really amount of decades on my case with getting the amount of knowledge they have is why I can actually make your money go a long way, because in one hour with me you can get out what you haven't got in six months with all these other practitioners, and thanks God, that was a blessing in the sky. Best thing happened in our life that we got into the Czech practitioner. Then, of course, kalina and I we become. We study more. I have done many more sessions with them and I'm now a level two Czech practitioner and we have a nine, six and one-year-old amazing daughters, healthy as heck, and the only time we have take our kids to hospital or anything to do is because one fall off the bed and crack a head or got stuck a stick on their face and that's it.
Speaker 2:So so from being told so, from being both of you being in horrible situations where couldn't have a family, careers were not good to now running an incredible business, three beautiful, healthy kids, yeah and uh, yeah, the world's on fire yeah, it is as I love that I'm living the dream I love.
Speaker 1:The world is on fire and at any point time, with anybody. Look at what I do, because I truly live and embrace what I do for a living. The moment I'm no longer excited about health and well-being. I will do something else and I'm pretty confident I will do well because I put my mind to it and I'm not afraid of hard work. But it is the commitment, as we spoke just before.
Speaker 2:Sorry, mate, to cut you off, but your knowledge is incredible.
Speaker 1:Thank you very much.
Speaker 2:I've already introduced you to a couple of people I know One of them you've already been hunting with. For me, that's been like the value. It's not just about what you're finding about me, like how I work, what my day, what my routines like, what I've got going on at work, what's my like, what stresses me out like, and then you're helping guide me um with every part of my life like, and that that's ultimately. That's what I think, like no one else has ever done, that like you go to someone to get fit, they give you exercise to do and tell you what weights to lift.
Speaker 1:He's. So that's a critical topic that I always People ask me. Hector, you've been in the business for 16 years Like I no longer remember that you used to be a security guard or an electrician and I did it. I did it to my best and I love it and I could go back to do the job tomorrow if I have to, because I live on good terms.
Speaker 1:The thing is, if you're not willing to commit to be your very best 100%, you have to be happy with either 80% or 60% and it's still 100% better than being on any type of medication or any type of practitioner that have to put your back right every fortnight or give you the extra massage or cupping. I'm not talking shit about them, because when I got my appendix done, the doctor saved my life Great. But I won't go to the doctor if my manhood is pointing to the ground. I'm not going to go if I got chronic headaches on my back because one doctor, when I give you painkillers, the other one want to operate, the other one want to send you to a physio, to a chiropractor. They're getting some commission.
Speaker 1:I do work with over the years with many doctors and I work with nurses and physios some of my best amazing clients that I ever had. Back in the NT they run a physio clinic and they just got their guts full of having people week to week to week without being able to proper help. So they come to work with me so they can help the clients and then they realize it's no point in manipulating people when they got all the other principles wrong. So I have been mentoring many health coaches and the reason why the investment of my time normally is three to four times more than a PT is because a PT is a three, four, six month course that they teach you.
Speaker 1:There's some really good update, but if they don't teach you to fully understand your customer, it's stressful life. That's what I'm asking sometimes. Hector, you haven't even talked about my bench press. I don't give a shit about your bench press. I'm more worried about how you're dealing with your teenager daughter going through puberty. How many extra hours of sleep on the weekend have you been taking her out to go walk, to talk about personal things, because a lot of the things that we need to improve they can't be in our home.
Speaker 1:We need to change the scenery, get some fresh air.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's what's been really big, like you've made it. I think the reason I've really kicked girls with it. You've made it, I think the reason I've really kicking girls with it. You made it very simple to do. Like all the food we're having is. There's nothing flash about it. It's not hard to get.
Speaker 1:But it's enjoyable.
Speaker 2:It's enjoyable.
Speaker 1:It's nice?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's nice, it's good, I'm feeling full, I'm enjoying my food, but I like one thing leads to another. So, like when it's easy and it's doable and it's not costing the world, then like. So I'm like I'm looking at my calendar the night before and seeing what I've got on. If I'm not going to be home, I'm. I'm packing my snacks and my water and preparing for the next day, and so when I get home the next day after having a busy day, I'm not feeling like shit. I'm still feeling good because I've eaten the food I was supposed to eat and I've drank the water and it just for me. It's a like I talk about all the time, like I get very addicted to this stuff. Now, like now I'm addicted to this. I'm going to keep going on it because I fucking want to do these hunting trips with you.
Speaker 1:I want to.
Speaker 2:I want to. I want to go out in the bush and live off the land and cook on the fire and sleep under the stars, and you're not going to have to carry me back Never.
Speaker 1:So the thing is, as you mentioned that clearly it is as serious I am with my profession the same as anybody out there looking at serious about doing good with the business. You have to have data. If you don't see the scoreboard and you don't see the numbers, you won't know who is winning, who is losing Early stages. I make it very clear I'm looking at long-term gains and as soon as you learn everything and you kick all your goals and you don't really have any other set of specific goals that need me, I'll be more than happy to move away to help somebody else and then you know exactly how to fix what you have done wrong and maintain that. So it is not a walking stick forever. I'm giving you the knowledge, the tools and sometime, yeah, we're going to spend a whole hour on programming. Sometime, like we're going to do, we're going to harvest a whole beef. So we're not going to waste the organs, we're not going to waste the liver. We're going to use the bones for bone broth, blood test done, full body composition test.
Speaker 1:That is the real bottom line that I explain people. Just like a business or a big dig, you got a $2 million top line, but at a $2 million top line a quarter. If you're only taking a .5 net net net man, you're doing a lot of paperwork, a lot of pushing shit uphill. Net net, net man. You're doing a lot of paperwork, a lot of pushing shit uphill for a fuck-all net. I'll be happy to keep my top line at 200 grand a quarter but keep a 70% net. That it is exciting that it is
Speaker 1:so. When you get your blood test done over the first month, I make sure my customer have to be cool with that. Yeah, blood pressure, cholesterol, cholesterol, all the normal shit. What I need to know, your insulin response I could easily tell you everything that you are doing, not helping you without about talking to you, just looking at your insulin response, testosterone level, estrogen levels, cortisol levels that's stress. So if you drop five kilos but over that month you hate life, you hate the training, you hate your food, your misery, how bad is what? Month two, you're going to put on eight fucking kilos. So it has to be how we're going internally and externally. Body composition test is a proper x-ray that will tell you exactly your bone density Left right, left right, how much muscle, how much body fat, visceral body fat. Everybody worry about the strokes about a heart attack. How about guess what? You drop your visceral fat. You're taking down 80% of the stress of having an issue, so being scared about the issue without taking action is just a waste of oxygen.
Speaker 2:I know everyone listening to this podcast is going to be getting enormous value out of it. The way you explain things, your quotes, you make it fun. It's enjoyable for me anyway. I just keep wanting more and more. I want to know the next level, the next level, but obviously getting the results I'm getting as well, but I'm I have been a slack student because I haven't got my blood test yet. I've uh, I went and got my referrals this week, so we'll get that done. But what? What else? Like? Obviously, people can come and work with you. We'll. We'll put links and um, all your data and everything, or details, but what's the uh? You do these experiences as well. I want to talk about them because that this is why I reached out to you.
Speaker 1:So every, every single person that come along with me. They need to be very clear of what's the major goals they want to achieve with me and to see over the first couple of weeks if we are a good match. Simple now if you choose to drive to your property in Vandenberg at 50 k's an hour, it's going to take you the best of eight hours to get there. You will get to see the scenery, see the view like you never have done before. Great, but it took you eight hours. Now, if you are a bit time poor and you want to keep the 110 speed limit to the max all the way there, you do it in three hours. Two and a half hours, okay, without getting speeding fines. So I very much respect your speed of how quick you want to take your journey, specifically when you come to me. Already you have a busy, busy schedule up to here. So if we push too much, too early early, it's going to become another job and these have to be fun, have to be enjoyable. If you don't like turkey, fuck the turkey, but don't talk about turkey. We're not going to eat turkey if your goal is never to do a 21 and push-ups. If that's not your goal. I't talk about it, I won't waste energy on that. So I'm just taking you the best efficient way to the goal, the destination you want. And then, when we already get your energy levels to great, now, if your energy is good and you're not leaving off coffee, stimulant, pre-workout fat burners, of all that shit, your body is telling you the truth. You have energy, not stimulants. Energy is Hector. I'm going to run to throw a spear to that deer. That is energy Hector. I run because the deer want to stab me in the ass and kill me. That's a stimulant. Stimulants they are only good for a short amount of time, but they will burn you because that deer is chasing you and you don't have shoes. If it is broken glass, you don't stop. You keep running because you're desperate to die. So when you stop you're going to be in a bad way, but you will be alive. If I want to go and hunt a deer and I find out I have to go through a river that may be drowning me, I'm not going to get it. I say you're a good deer, but I don't care, my life is more important. So your decision-making will be better. The moment you have achieved all of that then we always go into.
Speaker 1:I used to ride horses, Hector. I used to love it, but I haven't been able to lift my leg up and every time I got in the horse after my hip replacement it hurt me for three days. So I just give up. Okay, let's fix this, this, this. Then we talk about horses.
Speaker 1:Six months later, hector, I just bought another two horses. I'm loving it. I'm doing great amount of horse riding. I'm happy. I enjoy my time with my kids horse riding. Great.
Speaker 1:I always want to do the high country in Victoria so you can ride horses. Now you're no longer a cripple fucking. Go for it, yeah, but Hector, up. Hi isn't now on my own. Plus, you know all the cooking, this and that is. I'm not too confident. All right, give me a week, make fair few phone calls, all right. So successfully, we already have done three trips to the high country, victoria.
Speaker 1:Amazing, yes, a bit of deer hunting, and at the farm where we start we can get a lamb chicken, all the stuff. So it is all a part of the experience to be able to go up there, push yourself up in the mountains on foot or on horse. Well, we harvest our food that we're going to eat over that dice. You don't have to be there with the knife and stabbing the animal or skinning it. I will only get you engaged on what you enjoy to do. And if you wanted to step back a little bit, that's perfectly fine. I've been doing four years back to back, taking customers, friends, all the way to the outback in Darwin to Humango's Million Acre Station and then we can go from heli fishing to heli hunting and yes, what we hunt we keep. So we bring normally five, 700 kilos of meat back to Darwin every time. So everybody have to take a second suitcase to bring all frozen meat back home.
Speaker 2:Oh man, I can't wait. Like I said, that's why I reached out to you originally, because I wanted to go and get it, but then you proved to me that I wasn't ready to go and get it.
Speaker 1:But the thing is, as I'm saying before, you got an amazing event in six weeks that we're very excited working for. It's gonna be amazing and I don't wanna take your two dice away where you don't really have that time to do it. So that will put too much pressure in the mix. And, as we and as well, we got some big tuna fishing in new zealand. I've been multiple times to the canterbury country, mackenzie in cratchers, new zealand, for red deer ta shemi. So it's not just about going hunting. You can just come up for actually the walk for the experience, as I have taken customers to do the Kokoda track. That was a fucking experience to me. That's for another podcast.
Speaker 1:We do that one, as we're working on you guys doing it next year.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I want to go back to your home country mate I want to go and do your hometown experience.
Speaker 1:So if you successfully enjoy very much what we do and you're excited and you have done a few of the experiences in here, then you qualify to organise a time for us to go between January, february, march to the Patagonia of South America, chile where I grew up, to my home country town, and over there we got once again, it's a lot of amazing things that we have here that are very similar there, but what we got there is the whole cultural experience. And then people understand oh, now I understand why you're so fucking happy, because people here they're happy with simple things. They're not to worry about getting the next Rollers or getting the next apartment or who got the biggest boat. It is actually, if you got food and your family is happy, what the fuck you're whinging about it. Enjoy it. So in South America we got fly fishing, water rafting, hiking up in the mountains on horseback is what can be by foot and everything to do with the pioneer experience as we work really hard with our different careers, professions, having time to quiet down, to do a hobby, as I encourage people to do the grounding, to play an instrument or anything that just make you relax, as my case.
Speaker 1:It is leather work with raw heart.
Speaker 1:It's a great investment on time to slow you down. So it's a lot of evidence proof that's being used all over Europe, especially in the Alps in France and Italy, that they're very busy CEOs to de-stress because they melt down on the whole life and they basically teach you how to shear a lamb, get the wool and then do some wool netting. I done that. I learned that amazing, but it's a lot of time consuming.
Speaker 1:So I found with raw leather you can walk out with your own belt in two hour sessions over two different days, and then, of course, if you want to make plotting and make it more funky, but you're able to learn something and then allocate two half an hour a week to just work on that and when you see the final product just like our gardening that it is immediate improvement and we get a very good satisfaction for it, because everything we look after our health, business, family is always a long term. So if you want that instant gratification, you'll be always looking for the next high, the next stimulant, but it's not sustainable. So with my commitment, patient is a key word on it yeah, I mean I love it, I absolutely love it.
Speaker 2:What are three simple things that everybody listening can do to improve their lives?
Speaker 1:all right. So just to make it very clear, we're not talking here about elite athletes or any type of extremely high performance of sports. I'm talking about life. I'm talking about being a full potential, of where you can be as a mom, as a dad, as a father. So all your aspects of life. They are clear. If we don't embrace and look after ourselves right, we're only going to get disappointed over and over that we're not getting what we're expecting.
Speaker 1:So the first thing this is very easy and simple, but it takes commitment. On your phone, allocate five minutes every day, get a journal, get a don't be a tired ass, get a fucking 40 book so you will not lose it. So it's a proper, purely only for what you're going to do, and take yourself a good 20 minutes once only and write down what. At this point it is uncomfortable. I don't talk about problems, I only talk about challenges. I am 15 kilos overweight. My clothes don't fit me. I'm really strong with my constipation. Okay, write all that down. So that is the goals that you're looking at. Then, for free, if you're 80 kilos body weight not talking about body fat, just 80 kilos you need to allocate at least 2.5 liters of water water in your body. If you're 100, kilos, 4. If you're 120, four and a half liters. Don't do it overnight, steady, steady. I will strongly recommend, if you're not eating 100 organic, to put some celtic salt in your water.
Speaker 1:So that's the second point. First one, put things on paper, record it where you are now and what you're going to commit to do so. Get you water levels up with a bit of salt in it, just enough to taste it. So your body will get better minerals to help all your hormonal everything. And the third one, the very last, it is allocate 20 minutes, and 20 minutes a day to do what In your journal. Take yourself three minutes.
Speaker 1:I drank my water yesterday. My food that I'm going to eat as best is something of one or two ingredients. What I'm talking about Chicken and a potato Steak and tomato Eggs and a coffee, just simple things. Because if you keep grabbing things from the takeout shop, if you do get that early in the day, but not before night, because that will stress your sleep. So, being clear about your goals, increase your water intake with the minerals in it. If you're taking some type of magnesium, fantastic. And then being very aware that nothing right happens fast. So when you're keeping a record on your diary about your water, then over the first 14 days, you will notice a bit more energy, sleeping better and, as we talked before about your bowel movements. As that is moving along well, a 20-minute walk out of the house, turn your phone off, listen to something positive, get some vitamin D guys. It's for free. Oh, but, hector, it's too hard, it's semi-tropical, it's raining. Hey, you're not made of sugar cupcake, you'll be fine.
Speaker 2:No, that's awesome, mate. So, yeah, that's simple things that anybody listening to this will be able to do.
Speaker 1:Except the book and the Celtic salt is all for free.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:I am not here to. I don't have any type of brand of supplements. I should have my own jerky, but now I'm more enjoying what I do and hydration, the right minerals. Make yourself that time for yourself Countable. And then two, three weeks later, all right, this is good. I would like to touch base with you, hector. I always can. At any point in time, I can organize a 10, 15-minute phone call to clear up anybody's concern. And, of course, when you see me, guys, on the 30th of May at the epic event with Dwayne, you will see me wearing my true blue T-shirt.
Speaker 1:Be quite hard to confuse myself, so throw me all your questions say hello, always happy to help awesome mate.
Speaker 2:So, uh, look, we'll wrap it up, because we could keep talking all day and uh, look, I think we'll definitely get you back for another one. I'm I'm obviously putting it out there and talking about it, so we'll, um, we'll see how my journey continues and where I end up and we'll see the proof in the pudding. But, um, mate, appreciate your time today coming down and sitting with us and, um, we'll put um show notes and stuff on the podcast so people can find you but for everyone listening. Like. You're not huge on social media, so we need to get that ramped up a bit correct, correct.
Speaker 1:As I got my pa and I'm a basically one-man team, I already have the full set of health club and all that I've in the territory. I've been living on the sanico for three and a half years and 90, 95 of my client base is all over the country. So with all my experiences and all the events, I do travel a fair bit. I do a fair bit of seminars because sometimes people they want to see like a face-to-face type of thing to get some more foundation before they do the commitment. I will never get anybody on a three, six months commitment because if you're happy with the outcome, you're happy with the results. Let's keep going with the journey. If that means six months or six years, it's up to you. And if you take in action and you haven't seen a great outcome in the first eight weeks, it's a hundred percent money guarantee well, uh, you're coming to my event, mate, so people are gonna get to catch up with you there.
Speaker 2:We're gonna. We got a little bit of a I don't even know what it is yet hector's working on some little surprise thing that he's going to do for us. But, mate, for anyone that's coming to my event, make sure, while you're there, you go and check Hector out, have a chat to him, because he will change your life. I can pretty much guarantee you that if you put in the effort. So, guys, as always, thanks very much for listening, watching, please like, share, comment all those types of things. But if you haven't yet, make sure you go and grab tickets to my Level Up Experience event on the 30th of May 2025. Believe me, it will be like nothing else our industry has ever seen.
Speaker 2:Everything you've heard us talk about today, including the other guests that I'm going to have speaking at my event, is all stuff that as tradies, builders, architects, designers, we need to be doing more of understanding, building our knowledge of, because if we're not right like this is a thing if we're not right personally, nothing around us can be right our friends, our families, our relationships, our teams, our business, our wealth, all of those things. So, um, if you're interested in increasing your wealth, increasing your bank account, having a better team, having a better business, then you can't afford to miss my level up experience event. I'll see you there may 30th 2025. Are you ready to build smarter, live better and enjoy life?
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