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Hello and welcome to the video. Now, this is my 5:00 a.m. morning routine. And if you're new to the channel, a little bit about me. So, I've been married now for a little over 5 years. I'm a dad to two young kids. My daughter is about to be four years old. My son is about to be two years old. I'm a business owner. I started Bear Performance Nutrition in 2012 out of my small college apartment in Western Pennsylvania and I love to train. I run in the morning and I lift weights in the afternoon or the evenings.
Now, this video shows a normal morning routine for me and my family. But to be honest, at this phase and season of life, there has to be flexibility. Things change. Some nights we get a full night's sleep. Some nights we don't sleep at all. Some mornings I wake up in one of the kids' rooms and then some mornings one of the kids wakes up in our room. It's just a season in and chapter of life that we are currently experiencing and we love it. But it comes with the need to be flexible and adaptable. But this video shows a pretty regular and consistent morning routine for me and my family. And it starts [music] every morning at 5:00 am.
>> Now, the first thing I do every morning is consume my pre-run [music] fuel, which consists of one scoop of G1M Sport and one scoop of G1M Sport Plus. This provides me with 40 gram carbohydrates, 700 mg of sodium, and 150 mg of caffeine with neutropics.
>> After that, I sit in front of a red light panel, which we keep in our closet. Now, normally I'm doing this naked, but for the sake of this video, I chose to wear shorts for the demonstration. From there, I change, lace up my running shoes, do some brief stretching, and take off from my house and log my morning miles. Silence, solitude, and some heavy sweating to start the day is a win in my book.
>> Drive to the [music] stars. will hit you cuz I know that you know something good is going to happen tonight. Right now, my weekly running mileage is around 35 miles per week. When I was in Iron Man prep, which my Iron Man was seven months ago, I was running consistently 60 to 65 miles per week. And then for a few months after that, I dropped mileage to 20 to 25 miles per week. Now, I'm slowly starting to ramp mileage back up. So, I'm running five days a week, four days during the week, one long run on the weekends, and then I'll do some high rock sessions during the week, and I'll incorporate compromised running into those workouts. Morning run complete. Six miles 44 minutes 33 seconds at a 725 minute per mile pace.
So what I do before I leave for my run is I start our sauna just remotely from my phone. So the sauna right now is sitting at 215 degrees Fahrenheit. I'm going to go hop in there immediately after this run. Like I'm I'm sweating. I'm hot. It's super humid here in Texas right now. Going right into the sauna. Just cook a little bit longer.
>> [snorts]
>> There's a few reasons I sauna in the morning and as soon as I'm done in the sauna, I jump in the pool to cool off. So, I hop in the sauna postrun. One, that is my time for prayer. That right there, that sauna, that's my my secret place every morning. Secondly, the the benefits you get from hopping in the sauna after an endurance training session, you maintain a higher heart rate for longer periods of time. So, you get similar cardiovascular conditioning benefits. Even though you're done training, heart rate stays elevated. And then lastly, I love to sweat. I love a deep sweat. If I go a day without sweating profusely, I just don't feel like I put forth effort. And I think about the millions of people in this world who don't sweat on a regular basis. I couldn't imagine. So those are the reasons I hop in the sauna. immediately post run and then right into the pool.
>> Ni, you want your vitamins? You want some protein?
>> Yeah. Morning supplements. 5 g creatine monohydrate creatine every single day. We got one serving of strong omega which is our fish oil supplement. One serving of endurance essentials, one serving of strong joints, and then a serving of strong multivitamin. So, those are my morning supplements every single morning.
So, when I get back from my run, Steph's waking up. The kids are slowly starting to wake up. Steph right now is doing her red light therapy in the closet and reading her Bible. And then as soon as she is done, she's going to head into the garage for her morning workout. And I'll get the kids up, dressed, get them some food, and then we'll all come back together as a family when Steph's done working out in the morning. Mixie, good morning, bud.
>> These are dirty football.
>> They're dirty. Okay, the good old morning routine. I feel like four years into parenthood, Nick and I have really dialed this in where it works for both of us. We both kind of get to prioritize our health and ourel in the morning. So Nick's the one that takes him for the team and he gets up extra early, 5:00 a.m.ish, sometimes even a little bit early. He knocks out his run while I get to sleep a little bit and I'll get the kids up if they're waking up early, which is most days. And then when he gets back, we kind of do the good old switcheroo. And then it is my time to head to our garage gym and work out. So for me lately, it's just been strictly strength. I still like to sprinkle in a little bit of Pilates just like one or two times a week for core strength. So that's what I'm doing today. So let's get it done cuz I only had about 400.
>> Hop in.
>> Yeah, I'll push you. Why you [music]
>> breakfast every morning [music] has been a smoothie. So, we have this Beast Health blender, which I think is an absolute I mean, literal beast. It's the best blender I have found yet. What I add to this smoothie is two scoops of our fudge chocolate whey protein isolate, two frozen bananas, some peanut butter, a little bit of almond milk, and 3/4 of a cup of oldfashioned oats. So, I throw all this in the blender and then breakfast will be in here.
You know, something I didn't have enough of appreciation for as I was younger, the dishwasher. When you have kids, you feel like you're running your dishwasher multiple times a day, and it's a lifesaver. If only we could create a robot to empty the dishwasher. I personally would invest in that.
So, that is a typical morning routine for me and my family. It is now 8:30 a.m. and I'm heading to the office. I'm going to work. Steph has the kids for the morning and we get a lot done in a short amount of time. My day starts wake up anywhere from 4:45 to 5:00 a.m. And from that moment until this moment, we are very efficient, but we're also very adaptable and flexible. Some days you don't know what's going to happen, but you just roll through the punches and have fun with it.
So guys, thank you for watching, thank you for supporting, and we'll see you in the next video. Charlie and I are going to go on a hunting trip this year. What?
>> Yep. Wow. I didn't tell you that.
>> Yeah, you did. No, I didn't.
>> Come on.