The A to Z English Podcast | Our New Year's Resolutions

In this episode of The A to Z English Podcast, Xochitl and Jack share their New Year's Resolutions for 2024. Transcript: 00:00:00 Jack You're listening to the A-Z English podcast. 00:00:12 Jack Welcome to the A-Z English podcast. My name is Jack and today I'm here with my co-host social and we are going to talk about our New Year's resolutions for 2024. 00:00:24 Jack So social do you? 00:00:26 Jack Want to go first? Or do you want me to go first? 00:00:29 Xochitl UM. 00:00:30 Xochitl Why don't you go first, Jack and I'll just let our listeners know a little bit about what New Year's resolutions are in American tradition, when a new year comes and that's every January 1st. So it's a specific date every time. We tend to set a purpose for ourselves to change something. 00:00:50 Xochitl About ourselves, for the better in the New year. So a lot of people focus on physical health and might do like exercise or weight loss or getting in shape or numerous amount of things, you know, eating healthier, eating. 00:01:04 Xochitl I mean for the new year, yeah, there are a lot of popular kind of. 00:01:10 Xochitl New Year's resolutions, which usually are health based, are spending more time with your family, etc. Yeah, Jack, why don't you let us know what's your New Year's resolution? 00:01:20 Jack OK, I've got three and they're kind of all working together to make me healthier. And so my first New Year's resolution, the first one is to I'm. I'm going to get up early, so I'm going to do all this before I. 00:01:36 Jack Go to work. 00:01:37 Jack But that's not part of the resolution. 00:01:39 Jack That's just like part of the plan, the bigger plan. 00:01:42 Jack UM, the first thing that I'm going to do. 00:01:46 Jack Is I'm not going to drink coffee for 60 minutes after waking up. 00:01:51 Jack So I'm going to. 00:01:52 Jack Wait 60 minutes and then I will drink coffee because. 00:01:58 Jack You don't want. 00:01:59 Jack To the the ingredient, the caffeine in coffee activates cortisol. 00:02:05 Jack And what you want cortisol. You want. You want to naturally wake up with your cortisol. You don't want to just stimulate it artificially. And so waiting like in like, 60 or 90 minutes to drink coffee is really good. The second thing I'm gonna do is exercise. So I've got. 00:02:25 Jack I I got. 00:02:25 Jack A an exercise bike. And So what I've been doing, what I want to do is spin class from YouTube. 00:02:35 Jack So I put my phone on the on the bike and I just watch this YouTube channel where they do like a spin class. So it's like all right, everybody turn up the, you know, turn it to level 8 and and it feels like you're going up a hill and then turn it down to five. And it feels like you're going downhill. 00:02:56 Jack And it's kind of a fun way to get some cardio exercise. 00:03:01 Jack And #3, this one's really crazy. I'm going to do a cold plunge every day. 00:03:10 Jack And a cold plunge is where you you put a bunch of ice in a in a big bathtub. 00:03:17 Jack And then so usually it's just you put it outside like in the winter and it has, you know, ice in it and you break the ice on the top and then you just jump in there for one minute. 00:03:27 Jack And it's supposed to activate a whole bunch of hormones and stuff in your body to make you just. 00:03:35 Jack Feel amazing, but it's really painful during that like time and you can do it in the shower. I'll probably do it in the shower, so turn it as cold as my shower can go and then stand under the shower in the cold water for 45 seconds to a minute and I'm going to do that every day. Those three things. 00:03:55 Jack And see if it doesn't improve my overall health, but the cold one is really I'm really nervous about it, cause tomorrow's the first day today is New Year's Eve here in Korea, so. 00:04:07 Jack I'm just like I have to start. 00:04:10 Jack On a good. 00:04:11 Jack You know first step. 00:04:13 Jack So tomorrow I'm. I'm really nervous about it. 00:04:16 Jack Anyway, that was.