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Why Leg Strength Matters More Than You Think
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One fall can change everything, and that’s why we’re putting the spotlight where it belongs: your legs. After months away from recording together, we’re back in a new space and diving into a topic that hits home for anyone who wants to stay active, mobile, and independent for decades. We share a personal story about a hip fracture and the quiet slide into inactivity that can follow, then zoom out to what you can do now to protect your future.
We unpack the difference between muscle strength and muscle power. Strength is force. Power is producing that force fast, and that “fast” is often what saves you when you trip, miss a step, or need to stand up quickly. We talk through research and real world examples, plus how power training shows up in practical movements like swings, step ups, and agility work that challenges coordination and your nervous system, not just your muscles.
You’ll also get simple, no-frills ways to measure progress, including the 30-second sit-to-stand test you can do at home, and how to think about benchmarks without getting trapped in comparison. Then we give you our most actionable starting point: split squats, a unilateral lower body exercise that builds strength, balance, and control that carries into daily life. We wrap with a 15-minute lower body plan, twice a week, and a Healthy Momentum reminder that results come from accumulation, not one perfect workout.
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Back Together In A New Space
SPEAKER_03Are you ready to live an active lifestyle? Welcome to Behind the Bluff, where we believe every moment of your life is an opportunity to pursue wellness on your terms. I'm your host, Jeff Ford.
SPEAKER_00And I'm Kendra Till. Jeff, we're back together again.
SPEAKER_03In a new environment.
SPEAKER_00We are. We're in a new podcast room. We've got some more space.
SPEAKER_03It's an exciting day because it's been at least six months since you've done a recording.
SPEAKER_00It's been forever. A lot has happened.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. We opened the new Palmetto Bluff Club Fitness Center, which took some of our attention.
SPEAKER_00It took a lot of our attention, but it's up and running. And now we're back. Yeah. Well, I'm back.
SPEAKER_03You're back. I'm back. Yeah. I've I've actually been here the entire time, Kendra. Uh, we're at 123 episodes now. And I am recommitting today, though, to you and I doing an episode a month. So three conversations with guests, and then you and I bringing self-development wellness content to those who are making time for the Wednesday conversation.
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm excited about that, Jeff.
SPEAKER_03You're in. You got voluntole.
SPEAKER_00I've got voluntold. I love being voluntoled. And I will happily raise my hand and say that I can do this. I'm excited. I'm excited for us to dive into today's conversation.
Why Leg Strength Matters Most
SPEAKER_00And today we are going to be exploring the difference between muscle power versus the traditional strength heavy load training. So, Jeff, do you want to kind of add some more context of why we decided to roll with this topic today?
SPEAKER_03I'm all about things coming to me in different locations, whether it's the shower or out running. Uh, this one came to me very viscerally because I have a good friend who I grew up with, a neighborhood friend. And his dad was the leader of our local convenience store, owned the business for 20 plus years when we were growing up. And there was this passion within him that came from operating the convenience store in our small town. And when we all moved away, went to college, got real jobs, became actual human beings, he moved down to South Carolina, had sold the convenience store. And this gentleman, you could tell as the years have gone on, just through my friend Wayne and I interacting and staying in touch over the years, that he lost his sense of purpose. And most recently, about a month ago, he actually fell and broke his hip. And what can sometimes happen in life is a transition that then leads to inactivity. And I share the story because it's all too common that we stop moving, that we stop taking care of our overall strength, but specifically our leg strength, which is life-saving. And we don't develop habits that allow us to live independently in those years of retirement and beyond. Fortunately enough, our community here has been focused on strength training for a while. But for me, I just wanted to shine a light on leg strength in particular and the research that we're starting to see coming out supporting that this may be the most important place to focus on strengthening instead of barbell bench press and bicep girls.
SPEAKER_00Wow. And I suppose what we see often is people focus on training purely for aesthetics as well. And it's it's more than that. It's more than and just how you look. I mean, obviously looking good is great, but we want to make sure that you are training for a reason and knowing what that reason is. And like you said, the sense of purpose and being able to truly live life on your terms, whatever that might look like, but having the body and the capability to do that.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, knowing what you need to do to keep capability as you get older. There's no point to retire, live in a beautiful community like Palmetto Bluff, and not be able to take advantage of that. And we see this pendulum swing where it's strength training, strength training, strength training right now. But what does that really mean? How can you approach strength training in a way that leads to this independence and shifting the focus from aesthetics? I love looking good though, Kendra.
SPEAKER_00I know, I know.
SPEAKER_03I'm all about it. You know, I've got the faux hawk every day. You know, I was um I had this stretch, I think it was um about a year ago here at Pull Middle Bluff. I wasn't wearing the faux hawk, and people started coming up to me and they were like, What's wrong? Are you okay? So the faux hawk gives me a sense of purpose. Totally kidding. I think we'll dig into that piece of purpose and the connection between how movement comes more naturally when you have a sense of purpose. You know, he lost the purpose of his business, a convenience store. And one of the most dangerous years of your life is the year that you retire.
SPEAKER_00I've heard that, yeah.
SPEAKER_03It's wild. So, anyway, as I digress, leg strength. That's what we're gonna mainly focus on today.
SPEAKER_00I'm excited. I feel like there's a lot to learn, especially with some of the newer research that has come out. And one of the studies um had particularly highlighted that promoting promoting strength for longevity um is more about muscle power instead of just purely muscle strength.
Muscle Power Versus Muscle Strength
SPEAKER_00So are you able just to explain the difference between muscle power and just muscle strength?
SPEAKER_03Strength is how much force you can produce. Power is how quickly you can produce that force. I'm not a very big guy, but relative to my body weight, I can produce a lot of force. Another example or a very simple example would be the speed at which you can stand up and out of a chair, the quickness of that. That is a better indicator, according to the recent Mayo Clinic study, 2025, 4,000 people, than how much your back squat is, or how much you can leg press. Life strength has more to do with the tr the applicability to those daily living tasks like getting in and out of a chair or upstairs as another example.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, or lifting a heavy box onto a counter, or those simple life activities and tasks that most of us do frequently. But it's interesting that you mention, you know, getting up from a chair. I think we've all seen it. Um, either if it's through uh family member, yeah, exactly, that struggle to get up from a chair at a at a speed. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Well, life happens quickly. It does. And I love that we have this new class on our schedule. It's called agility and coordination. And a second class that would relate more to muscle power is our PB cardio power class that's on Fridays. We've integrated moving weight quickly at the beginning of the PB cardio class. And then the agility and coordination class is the multiplanular approach to a bit more speed without load, where we start to teach our bodies again to react in real time. Like it's I hear this all the time from folks, at least when I was doing a lot of wellness screenings. Oh, I've been working on my balance. I work on my balance. I'm like, well, Karen, what do you do to work on your balance? And they say, Well, while I'm brushing my teeth, I stand on one leg. Outstanding, great first step, but rarely do we lose our balance when we know we're gonna lose our balance. So muscle power is all about when you trip off that curb, you're able to catch yourself because you are strong and you've trained it.
SPEAKER_00I think Jameson said it well yesterday in our team meeting when we were talking about this class in particular about it's actually also training your nervous system. Yeah. So that's cool with the agility and coordination class is it's focusing on the proprioceptors and then also how that correlates with your nervous system. Um and so what was what's cool about the agility and coordination class specifically is you can use the turf, which Yeah, we're all about the TERF. So testing that leg power, or excuse me, that muscle power in that capacity. And what's cool is that we have curated classes that are specifically focusing on this.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. And I want to go back to body weight and muscle power relative to your body weight. There's a common understanding that muscle size can sometimes be the indicator of strength. And when I was in high school, I had the opportunity to shave my legs one afternoon. And you could see all the muscles in my legs. So so uh people actually, well, my legs were very small at the time, but I bring this up. I don't know why. I don't know why I bring this up.
SPEAKER_00I'd like to know why, though. What was the circumstance?
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah. So I don't know if this happened in everyone's high schools, but there was called senior dress-up day.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yes.
SPEAKER_03So you would usually, with a crew of people, like have a theme costume, kind of like what we did here at Pullmetal Bluff when I was bacon.
SPEAKER_00I remember.
SPEAKER_03What were you?
SPEAKER_00I was lettuce.
SPEAKER_03Lettuce. Yeah, we were a BLT. That was a great costume here.
SPEAKER_00That was a great costume.
SPEAKER_03In high school, we decided to be Looney Tunes, super weird, and we all drew straws. And guess what Looney Tune I was?
SPEAKER_00Ooh, which one?
SPEAKER_03Tweety Bird.
SPEAKER_00Tweety Bird.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and Tweety Bird was the only costume of the four. Like there was Tasmanian and Devil, Bugs Bunny, and Tweety Bird was the one that was like a skirt.
SPEAKER_00Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03So I decided I gotta shave my legs.
SPEAKER_00You got all into it.
SPEAKER_03I got all into it. And at the time I wasn't doing the right strength training. So everyone confused me as a female. I was getting like whistles throughout the day. It was super awkward, and you couldn't see like the face under. I was just like a big yellow bird. I bring this up because size doesn't equate to strength when we talk about muscle power. And in the May Clinic study, what they were measuring was muscle power, the relative muscle power to the muscle that we each uniquely have for our body type and for our sizes. What is what was more predictive than being able to leg press 500 uh in in your next session. It was less about the load and more about what does that load mean relative to your weight and the aesthetics of your legs, for instance.
SPEAKER_00What you're saying is when they were whistling, they should have said, wow, look at his muscle power.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Yeah, they could have looked really close and talked about the muscle power versus how finely cleanlinated my legs were from the from the hair.
SPEAKER_00So I'm literally picturing. We might have to pull up a picture.
SPEAKER_03I don't know if there's a picture out there of this. Um, but maybe, maybe, Kendra, I know you haven't been in here a while. Let's let's get back on track.
SPEAKER_00Gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha.
Building Strength That Actually Transfers
SPEAKER_00Well, I'm curious about recommendations to to integrate this heavy strength training into your regular routine. Because I'm sure a few listeners are like, okay, I'm hearing that muscle power is really important. And what do I need to do to get there?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the best way of going about this is giving some examples. So muscle power could be like kettlebell swings, moving up and down from a box with loaded dumbbells, like loaded step up. So that's muscle power. Now, with heavy strength training, we're not saying don't do that. We need to build muscle. We still want that part of the plan. But what's important is that the muscle that we build then translates to the ability to get out of that chair quickly. So heavy is relative to you. It means a weight that challenges you. For Karen, it might be starting with a goblet squat at 20 pounds. For Jameson, it might be doing a front squat at gosh, that dude's got big quads. Huge quads. Have you seen his legs?
SPEAKER_00He's got big, big legs.
SPEAKER_03It could be for him 185.
SPEAKER_00Well, I think it's one of those things where you can, you know, you don't want to be looking at someone else and think, wow, they're lifting that. I need to be lifting that. It's more so staying your lane of what's appropriate for you and remembering that it's more about really those repetitions, but also getting to a point where you're keeping the form of what you're doing, but to a point where you're like, oh, I can barely not, I can barely not get there, you know? And that's so well said.
SPEAKER_03So that understanding is something that we're working on for sure. With how we adapted our programming. To use another example, our PB Strong class. It is a three-week strength training program. So on week one, participants do 10 repetitions. On week two, they do eight repetitions, then they do six repetitions. If I'm hearing you correctly, you're insinuating that the last one to two repetitions of that set is what's most important to develop strength.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. And that's been a hard transition for for some. For it it seems for them, they just want to go in and do as many reps as they can with uh lighter weight, lighter weight, but it's understanding that progressive load and the importance of it for building strength and muscle.
SPEAKER_03Yep. Yeah. Both will will uh allude to more muscle power. It's kind of these combinations of things that we do consistently that leads to the improvements in these metrics over time.
Simple Tests That Reveal Capability
SPEAKER_00So, Jeff, I know that you test grip strength in your wellness screenings here at Palmetto Buff. And you'd mentioned that researchers are looking at uh simple movement tests to also evaluate leg strength. So, what does that include?
SPEAKER_03Research doesn't always need fancy equipment. So evaluating leg strength can be done in a few different ways. Sometimes it's using simple tests like standing up and out of a chair, balancing on one leg, or timing how quickly someone can get up, walk, and sit back down. That's called the tug test. Timed up and go. Timed up and go. And the good news for our members here at Pumeta Bluff is that these are the exact qualities that we're working on with how we write the workouts in our strength classes, how our personal trainers go about planning for their clients, and even the array of lower body machines that we now have in the fit the new fitness center. And in every single fitness center, we deliberately put a leg press in those fitness centers, the other three outside of BBC FC, because of the importance of leg strength.
SPEAKER_00And so, Jeff, out of those tests that you just shared, can you describe what your favorite test is and and maybe put a little bit more detail to it?
SPEAKER_03I love tests. You know what pinged in my brain when you when you asked about tests? What's that? Was my SAT score?
SPEAKER_00Your SAT score.
SPEAKER_03I do great on fitness tests. I do terrible on like intellectual tests.
SPEAKER_00Did you not score very high?
SPEAKER_03I got a 1080.
SPEAKER_00How do you remember that?
SPEAKER_03I don't know. I just remember it being like I was comparing myself to all these other people. Not appropriate.
SPEAKER_00Not staying in your own lane.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. The test I like the most is the 30-second sit-to-stand test because it's something almost anyone can do at home. And you can look at this online. This is a matter of simply sitting in a sturdy chair with your arms crossed over your chest and standing up and back down as many times as you can in 30 seconds. It sounds very simple, but it's a great measure of lower body strength and the endurance piece of it. It keeps that quickness that we were discussing earlier. And it's actually one of the tests that we've we've done in our healthy momentum program year over year that members have been able to measure against.
SPEAKER_00I like it. So similar to what you're saying about your SAT score, I'm sure there are some listeners out there that are thinking, hmm, all right, Jeff, what's a good score that I need to get on this test when you're testing for leg strength?
SPEAKER_03You know, it's wild. If you can do 1,080 sit to stands in 30 seconds, you you can stop listening right now. You're good. Uh so it's much lower than the SAT score. SAT score. Um researchers have developed benchmarks based off age and sex. So, for example, a healthy man in his 60s should aim for about 16 to 17 stands in 30 seconds, while a healthy woman in her 60s is around 15.
SPEAKER_00So that's not very basically the same. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. As we age, just like VO2 max, just like our muscle mass, those numbers naturally decline a bit. But just like these other longevity metrics that have been in the world and that we're focused on, our goal is to stay as strong and as functionally capable as possible as we get older. So it's basically let's just try to keep that number if we're in a good place, or try to improve it if we're not in a good place. And what's more important, I think this is like just advice for me. What's more important that that is if you test like 10 in 30 seconds, and then you start seeing a personal trainer two days a week, and you then test at 14 after, let's say, three months of personal training, wow, huge improvement. Pat yourself on the back because that is a comparison directly against you, not this arbitrary standard that we've we've thrown out there. So always improving your own starting point is what's most important.
SPEAKER_00I like this simple practical test that anyone can do, test themselves.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, do it right now. Stop listening. You can come back to this.
SPEAKER_00Or they could do it while they're listening to it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_00I mean, they can multitask, but there's a timer on your phone. There is.
SPEAKER_03You can run the timer while you're listening to a podcast.
SPEAKER_00I'm sure. Phones are pretty good now, aren't they? They feel like they can do everything.
SPEAKER_03Everything.
unknownEverything.
Split Squats As The Starting Point
SPEAKER_00So, well, Jeff, we've covered a lot today. And I think we should leave some the listeners with some super practical advice. And so if anyone listening really wants to improve their leg strength starting like right now today, what is the very first exercise you would get them to do?
SPEAKER_03If I could recommend one exercise for everyone to do two days a week, it would be the split squat.
SPEAKER_00What's the split squat?
SPEAKER_03The split squat is an exercise that meets the criteria for what we would refer to as the lunge pattern. Now, this could look like body weight holding onto a rail or a T Rex. One foot forward, one foot back, wider than you think, not too close to the foot that's in front, but wider than you think for stability, drawing the knee down to the ground and then back up under support would be the first approach with this. And most likely 10 repetitions. Now, as I get better at the split squat, I'm gonna progress it to a pair of dumbbells just hanging by my sides. And the reason I chose the split squat is because it's a unilateral movement. I'm on this, like you know how some kind people get on a protein kick?
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_03I get on a unilateral kick. Where unilateral means we're gonna train one side of the body at a time. And I've just found, like over the years in my my own training, that heavy lunges feel better for my lower back than heavy squats do. So a split squat, as long as your mobility is capable and you can meet and find a positive position to go a deep range of motion on this, it's super effective. And it it just relates to quad strength, glute strength, balance, hip stability, and then the single leg control piece, which is a part of daily living.
SPEAKER_00I like it. So there you go. One exercise to get started with. Love that.
SPEAKER_03Go do the 30 seconds, sit to stand, and then do three sets, 10 reps on each side of a supported split squat. Let's not jump to the dumbbells while you're listening.
SPEAKER_00I like it. I like it. So if you could boil this down to one habit that would make the biggest difference for muscle power and for leg strength, what would it be?
SPEAKER_03Schedule two lower body strength workouts every week. We like to program full body and recommend to our members to attend two full body sessions. You can take this further if you want to take capability even more seriously. You want to take independence as the biggest priority you have for your strength training and the why behind your doing it. Whether it's coming to PB Strong class twice a week, foundational strength class twice a week, simple strength, there's definitely going to be leg lower body work in there. Those are the types of classes that that make sense in our program. I hope we have listeners who aren't just members. So that's why maybe it's just incorporating more lower body exercises into your current routine, or just spending 20 to 30 minutes focused on leg machines at your fitness center that you train at. My my rally cry on this is don't wait. Leg strength is the most important part of strength training for you participating in life on your terms.
SPEAKER_00And I guess it's just going reflecting back on the story you mentioned at the very start of the episode where the gentleman fell and broke his hip. And it it it you hear that story often. You hear it often. And there's ways to prevent things like that from happening. And I do believe that for those listeners who might be intimidated, particularly the listeners who are at Palmetto Bluff, um, yes, we do have this fancy new facility, and it's got shiny, beautiful equipment, and we're so proud of it. We're so excited about it. But you may look at, you may walk in there and think, gosh, what do these machines do? They're intimidating. I've never used one before. You especially when you have people in there that are using it. Um, and you kind of walk in and it's just you yourself an eye. So, Jeff, do you want to maybe mention what we have going on here at Palmetto Bluff on a regular basis for members who may want to do some strength training on their own?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, if you're new to strength training, a couple options. We're doing equipment orientations that you can check out and learn the machines. Small group training classes are a great place to start if you're new to strength training, because it's four to six people, and you're gonna do a lot of the exercises discussed today. I just want to echo what you said about the story and how falling and breaking a hip is all too common. And our mission as a team is to get so many people engaged in the right activities. And strength training is scary. I I don't think we all grew up knowing the importance of this, but it's here now, and there are ways for you to do it, and that might even just be starting with personal training and and not being, you know, pulling that the mask off that might be preventing you in that intimidation front of gosh, man, I just don't know if I can do this. Well, we are here for you because we know how important this is, and it doesn't have to take over your entire life.
SPEAKER_00Agree. Agree.
A 15-Min Plan You Can Repeat
SPEAKER_00So, Jeff, just to polish this off some more, let's say that someone listening only has 15 minutes. Cause let's face it, a lot of us are time. I don't want to say time poor. That's probably not the right way to put it because we're all just time sensitive. Maybe that sounds better.
SPEAKER_03But we haven't worked on our time block schedules.
SPEAKER_00Okay, we love a good time block schedule. Time block deep work, it's important. So, but let's say someone says someone just says, Okay, I've got 15 minutes. That's all I've got. What can I do? What should I do? Where do I start? Because it really it's that simple, isn't it?
SPEAKER_03Yeah, super simple. Keep it simple. Pick three lower body exercises, perform two to three sets of each. If you're going to our new fitness center, maybe it's leg press, hamstring curl, and the new glute machine. That's a fancy. And those three are in your routine. Yeah. Uh at home, it could be chair squats, step ups, calf raises. We had a gentleman come in yesterday, and I was just like, wow, you know, if we can just start doing body weight exercises, awareness, this is going to change the game for this individual. It doesn't have to be fancy. Choose weights that definitely make the last one or two repetitions difficult when you're ready with good good form. You said that earlier, Kendra. But 15 minutes focused twice a week is better than waiting for the perfect hour or the perfect routine or for the fancy information that you might try to create so that you delay starting. I find that a lot of people love to do the planning around strength training, but when it comes down to actually being consistent with it, we we just overthink it.
SPEAKER_00For sure. Keep it simple. Final thought.
SPEAKER_03If there's one thing I hope that everyone who took the time to listen today takes from this conversation, it's that leg strength isn't just about building muscle, it's about preserving and protecting your independence.
SPEAKER_00Powerful.
SPEAKER_03And protecting how you look.
SPEAKER_00Of course. Of course. And listeners, stay tuned to what our Halloween costume is going to be this year. We might have Jeff shaving his legs. We'll see.
SPEAKER_03Oh man. I don't know. I think we got into some trauma there a little bit earlier. So we'll do some thinking on this. I'll start getting on the glute builder and back. Love it. So that I'm fully prepared.
SPEAKER_00Good idea.
SPEAKER_03I've always wanted a bigger butt.
SPEAKER_00We've got some really good machines that can help with that. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_03That requires eating too. You do have to eat. I'm going to do a couple of things in prep for Halloween, which is coming up.
SPEAKER_00It's coming up. But Jeff, this has been awesome. It's so nice being back in the saddle again.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so much fun, Kendra. I feel like when we get to do the conversations together, it's just nice and relaxed. You know, we got a much bigger room here now, so it's not closing in on us as much. Guiding me through today. It was awesome. Thank you.
SPEAKER_00Hey, coupled with your galvanizing, we're a good duo. So appreciate you and appreciated this conversation. Listeners, make sure you hang around to gain some healthy momentum.
Healthy Momentum And The Power Of Accumulation
SPEAKER_03Y'all, I hope the humor in this episode wasn't too vulgar for you. Kendra and I, as you can tell, have a lot of fun working together and didn't even know that the story of my Tweety Bird costume in high school was going to come up today. So hope you enjoyed the comedic relief as we dug into leg strength today. And as I started thinking about what made sense for the healthy momentum this week, I started to think about this word accumulation. And I also reflected on the lack of immediate reward when we put certain practices into our life. If you're anything like me, you struggle to make the right choice because the reward doesn't feel immediate. And whether if this is in your health, relationships, or faith, finances, it's hard to get connected and to be successful when you're not getting something immediately pinging your motivation, pinging the, hey, I did a great job today. If you think about it, the workout today won't transform your body tomorrow. The healthy meal won't instantly lower your cholesterol. And the conversation with your spouse won't magically strengthen your marriage overnight. The benefit is very future-driven with most of what we do on a daily basis. Everything we do is an accumulation. There's an analogy that stuck with me from my time with my small group this week. On Wednesday mornings, I do a Bible study with a group of incredible men. And we brought up this analogy that's been around for a while. And it's a rope with a piece of tape on it. Imagine a long rope stretching across the room that you're sitting in right now or in your car. Put a small piece of tape somewhere on that rope. That tiny piece of tape represents your life on Earth. The rest of the rope represents eternity. We say all the time, life is so short. And I think we can flip that on the script and remember that eternity is forever. So what we do on that small piece of tape isn't as important as preparing for eternity. Whether you view eternity through faith or simply think about legacy the legacy that you leave behind on earth, this changes your perspective. You begin to realize that every conversation, every project accomplished, every workout completed, and every memory we make is shaping something much bigger than today. The word that keeps coming up, and I hope it can stay with you, is accumulation. Every day we're accumulating something. We're either accumulating habits that strengthen us or habits that slowly weaken us. Clear arteries or clogged arteries, strong muscles or dysfunctional muscles, meaningful memories or more possessions, deep connection or a growing loneliness. The challenge isn't whether you're accumulating, the challenge is making sure you are accumulating the things that you'll be grateful for years from now. Because the life you experience tomorrow is built by what you choose to accumulate today.
Final Reminder And Sign Off
SPEAKER_03That is a wrap on this week's episode. I want to thank you so much for taking the time to join the conversation. Go ahead and get started working on that leg strength if you're not already in a formal routine. And we look forward to having you join the conversation again next week. Until then, remember to actively participate in life on your terms.
