Setbacks Are Amazing!

What's up, Cadre? It's Luke here. Oh. Just got done running around White Bear Lake. It's just shy of 10 miles, and in Minnesota right now, it is humid. It is brutal out there. It is a shirt or two sweat around that lake. And my. The message I want to send today is setbacks are good. Setbacks are good. Taking. Good morning, everybody. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, everybody. I just want to say setbacks are okay. You know, maybe it's in business. Maybe it's personal, professional for me.

You know, over the course of last six months, you know, I put on the better part of 20 pounds and my knee, my hip. Good evening. Good evening, good evening. What's up, everybody? Say hi to. Oh. What's up, Judah? That's good stuff. And so, again, today's about setbacks. Setbacks are good. I literally just got in from running 10 miles, and, boy, I was struggling. First time in a while, banging out these miles. Last weekend, I had a big one. This weekend, another big one. And over the course, like I was saying, over the course last six months, I put on the better part of 20 pounds.

I have knee pain, hip pain, lower back pain. I got a cortisone shot, a couple different shots, and such like that. But I'm just so grateful to be able to move. I'm so grateful to be able to get in the miles. I'm so grateful. Like, you should have saw me just running around this lake like I was dying, don't get me wrong. But I was just, like, smiling. I was just smiling, like, just how lucky it was to run again with no pain, right? Like, just no pain in my. No pain in my knees, no pain in my body.

Sure, running sucks. Like, it's hard. Nothing's. Nothing's good about it, but that's half the battle, and that's kind of why you do it. But so, literally, like I said, I just got in today, and I just wanted to do an impromptu live to show all y'all that, like, this is the real me. Like, totally me, authentic, relatable. I put on some weight. I'm trying to get back in the saddle. You know, I've had some pain, hip pain, all of it. And I've kind of found, you know, a little bit of my identity was, you know, being this kind of, like, ultra athlete, if you will.

Right? I mean, there wasn't a week that went by where I didn't have 140 some thousand steps, right? My goal is always 20,000 steps a day. And most of the time, I'd bang out 25,000, 30,000. And a lot of the times I had 200,000 step weeks. Like one after another, after another. And not having those weeks, it really messed with my mental health. It messed with my food, it messed with my sleep. It messed with all of it. And to take those six months off, because I had to with, like I said, my knee, my back, my hip, all of it, to be able to kind of just reflect and just know how lucky I am that I was able to do this and do this today.

And so, again, setbacks are good setbacks, I always say. I've learned this from somebody that's really, really smart next to me or close to me. Progression is amazing. Regression is amazing. Stagnation sucks and it'll stall worth your growth. So never forget that if you're staying stagnant, life's probably not great. Over the last six months, for me, not being able to do this has been tough. But this regression, watch out, because now it's going to be all about progression. I'm going to bang some miles.

I'm going to bang a lot of miles out in the next three, 6912, 18 months. I'm going to do something special. I'm going to get another Mussogie on the books. We're going to do all of it. And it's going to be good. So this setback, it was amazing. It was just what I needed. So I hope that you all have an opportunity to reflect. Maybe it was stopping drinking and you started again. Maybe it was stopping smoking and you started again. Maybe it was your exercise and you fell off. It's all okay. It's time to start it again.

Okay. Have an amazing day, y'all. And just when you look at yourself in the mirror tonight and you're beating yourself up over a setback, say, this is good. I'm going to come back strong. All right, y'all have a great day and even a better weekend. Peace. And make sure Dr. Leslie say to Judah, bye.