DJ Great Information on How to Stay Healthy and Maintain Your Stamina Even During a Very Long Gig

0:00 Side able, health well-being, food medicine

Alright guys, so you want to be a DJ or you're already a DJ and you think you know it all but like anything we don't know it all. Now one of the things that people seem to forget is themselves, their own health, their own well-being and being a DJ stroke entertainer, you're on the road, on the road sorry, you're working all hours, you know you're eating whatever you can, you're snacking just to get some sort of food inside you. But is it the right thing to do? Now in front of you via Skype, and this is of course my old school random way of recording, is a very good friend of mine, Mr Asa Gears. Now this gentleman here knows a lot about health and well-being, he does have his own YouTube channel, there will be a link in the description, and I highly recommend you go and subscribe to his channel because this guy can maybe take you from the level of 11 o'clock at night,

Feeling very tired and lethargic, and 2 o'clock in the morning feeling knackered, to, you know at 2 o'clock after you've done your gig and you're packed up, you feel energised and relaxed and good to go. So Asa, would you like to introduce yourself my friend? Hello guys, it's nice to see you all, I hope yous are all doing very well. I'm Asa Gears, I'm currently studying, doing sports therapy and rehabilitation, and on the outside of that I'm learning how to use food as medicine. So my whole idea on what I want to do, I'll be able to do. Is on one side be able to use movement as medicine, and on the other side be able to use food as medicine. Because the way the world is these days with technology, and with us all being quite sedentary lifestyles, sat down all the time, we're just all suffering from things that realistically and naturally we should never have been exposed to and dealing with.

2:30 Muscles, chest, straight

And there's so many people in pain and suffering, and I want to be one of the guys, because I'm so enthusiastic about it, I want to be one of the guys that can sort of be there for people, and people can come to, and I can help. So essentially that's the goal. Great, now first of all Asa, as you can imagine, I'm just going to zoom out again, us DJs we lift heavy gear, is there a way in which we can maybe stop ourselves in the future having those nasty twangs and twerks, you know, at a young age great, you can pretty much lift everything, and you think you're God's gift and nothing's going to touch you, but sure enough when you get over the hill you start to suffer. So how can we maybe prolong the suffering, or maybe even stop that suffering taking place?

Okay, so one thing I noticed that's very common with DJs, builders, and also it even sort of links into people that sit down at a computer all day, is I'll stand on the side, what we see is people get really tight chest muscles, and really weak posterior muscles to all their back muscles, so they end up a bit like this. Got it, yeah. And in this position what's happening is our chest is super tight and sort of in a spasm almost. And our back muscles are really weak, so what we want to do is stretch out and release and open up our chest and strengthen all our posterior muscles to get us into proper alignment. And that's straight away when we're lifting, and you see a lot of people when they lift, they're still in this rounded position and they're bending over.

Got it, yeah. We're actually using the wrong muscles to do movements that realistically already we shouldn't be doing as much, but to limit the sort of injuries or sort of pain we can get from them. Straight away we need to open out that chest, strengthen our posterior muscles. And then another thing that people forget all the time, which is really bad, is we don't bend our knees enough. We forget if you watch a little child pick something up, they will squat down all the way and almost keep their back perfectly straight. Got it, yeah. Squat down and pick it up. So we need to remember that our legs are there. We don't want to keep our legs straight and pick up something that realistically is very heavy and is already sort of something that's strenuous to do.

4:20 You know, you're a vegan yourself

And with a DJ you might have been stood still all night. And then you're going to lift this gear, you're not warmed up and you're almost doing a deadlift. And if you're not doing it, bending your back and putting up, yeah, you can cause all sorts of injuries. So bent knees, opening out that chest, strengthening all the muscles we need to strengthen is going to massively limit the amount of injuries you're going to get. Okay. All right. Now another question for you. You know, you're a vegan yourself. Not everyone has to be a vegan. You know, you can eat what you want. But of course it's moderated. You can eat whatever you want to eat, but if you're a vegan yourself, what would be the most important thing for you to do in order to get through this period of time that you're going to have a healthy diet and a healthy lifestyle?

Yeah. So we actually talked about this the other night as well. One thing I like to make sure people know is that there's a difference between lifestyle and diet. So lifestyle, I promote a healthy active lifestyle. So day by day, the things that you're doing sort of every day should be healthy and active. So eating the right foods. I take a lot of the time to go into my daily diet. So that's the one thing that I'm really focused on, is I try and push myself to be healthy. So I'm going to do a lot of healthy diet. And then with those, I will get up early and I'll do a lot of exercise and have a good rest. So I really focus on eating healthy. And then most people are going to do the same thing. So if you're on diet, you're going to be eating some vegetables, fruits, nuts, seeds, whole grains, herbs and spices.

And then if people are going to add in some meat, some meat as well. But what I don't like to see people doing is having a big chunk of meat and using the vegetables as a tiny little side. Almost not even bothering with the vegetables. They're focused on the meat and they have sort of meat and eggs for breakfast. with the vegetables they focus on the meat and they have sort of meat and eggs for breakfast then they might have pizza for lunch and then a steak for tea and that's sort of it's like almost kicking your ankle off a wall if you keep doing it eventually it's going to swell up and you never give your body time to heal so i think definitely just focusing more on fruits and vegetables is for someone dealing with sort of a disease maybe heart disease high blood pressure fruits

And vegetables are going to heal us a lot more and no way does everyone need to be plant-based or vegan it's just about being very conscious with your decisions and like going back to that lifestyle thing one day you might want to have a big pizza some chocolate this and that will make sure then the next day that you're back on board with your lifestyle being healthy going for your bike ride going for a little walk with your dog or whatever you're doing you're not doing the same unhealthy things again and again and again so that actually it's becoming an unhealthy lifestyle and that's why i think it's really important to have a diet that's full of colour and that's what we've been talking about with yin and yang isn't it i mean i remember someone saying whether

I i heard it or online uh make sure your diet is full of color yeah oh the rainbow you know eat color that that's right you know i i'm sure someone told me you know and if you think about it to begin with you're like color what do you mean but then you know if you start eating reds and purples you know um they represent in nature as well it goes with our like brain from evolution and they're the ones that attract us to get us that nutrition that our body needs it's how our physiology works and they represent antioxidants as well which are what prevents cancer and prevents other ailments in our body and prevents degenerative diseases it all links in there's nothing that nature's done by an accident it all makes sense it does yeah i mean right the

Other one as well which is sort of close to my heart now i will i admit on the odd occasion i'll drink a red bull or like if i'm at an event um and it's free drinks you know i i never drink alcohol at all i used to but you know for the past 15 odd years plus i've never drunk alcohol at a gig that i'm doing but on the odd occasion i'll maybe have half a pint all right so there is that isn't a never but what i always try and do is drink loads of water um and i'm i'm quite against pop and those fizzy drinks now i said many a time fizzy drinks are just like a no they're full of they're full of sugar yeah they're just empty they're full of sugar addictive it's one of them things it's almost like a gateway drug you know

I'm not being over excessive there but then if you have a fizzy drink you're not as likely to want to do exercise you're much more likely to want to sit eat a pizza and stare at your phone for the next five hours it takes you in that direction of being feeling a bit sluggish and slobby so and but when you have a pint of water you just feel fresh and you feel good and it's actually good for you yes drinks they just they're just empty calories i don't i don't recommend them whatsoever all right so let's wrap this up so asa okay i'm sure there's going to be a lot of people who are interested in what you're saying and again i highly recommend now i don't do this that often all right i do not tell people i can't tell you but i highly recommend that you

8:44 My channel now they might think

Go to ace's um youtube channel and you subscribe to his youtube channel so um again i presume you know if people leave comments uh you'll you'll go over and above to try and make sure you can if people are to look at my channel now they might think oh this guy hasn't posted videos that i want to watch the thing is is i don't really know yet what people that are watching my videos want to watch so use the comment sections to ask me as many questions as possible i want to make videos off the comments that actually great because then people want to watch them i know that that's what people want good and as well i've got loads of things coming now that i actually have decided are very useful about things like so i'll be talking about how can we prevent injuries from

Sitting playing video games all these things that people need to know are the videos that i've planned to do now in the future so my channel now is going to be more useful than ever than ever and of course yeah the comments section is where i need people to sort of communicate with me and tell you what they need and what they want what they're dealing with even if that's what they want to do yeah i could either know from my already past knowledge or i can even look into it for people using the resources that i use for all my other things okay all right asa listen it's been a pleasure thank you very much once again go and subscribe to this guy uh even if you're healthy now this is the iron no it's not an irony actually

You know even if you are healthy and you think well i'm healthy i don't need to do this well in a way you do because you need to still keep on being healthy on the other hand if you do feel you're slightly unfit and you just want that um steady free mad um just a bit of help then go and check him out maybe you are the ultimate catch potato and you finally decided i need to do something about my life go and chat with asa he can help you all right asa it's been a pleasure thank you very much indeed as always all right thank you guys for looking at yourself everyone watching these videos he's an amazing guy and keep it up i try practice and enjoy thank you nice one

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