HCP #83 - Listener Questions and answers

**JK** (0:12)
This is episode 83 of the Hybrid Coaching Podcast.

**Anthony** (0:15)
In this episode, JK and I answer, listen to questions and comments we've gotten over the past month and a half. We get some of them, not all of them. Anything from should the Elite 15 be expanded to a wider field, all the way up to how to grace your best mixed doubles race. Let's make Hybrid Fitness work for you. How's it going today, JK?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:52)
Whoa, that was a big one, Anthony.

**Anthony** (0:54)
Got a little frog in my throat. Almost coughed during it.

**JK** (0:58)
Yeah, I'm well, thank you, mate.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:00)
How are you going?

**Anthony** (1:01)
Good, how are you? It's great.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:03)
Good, man. Happy New Year, happy holidays.

**JK** (1:10)
How's it been the last few weeks?

**Anthony** (1:11)
Good. We recorded in the New Year yet. I think this might be our first one of 2026

**JK** (1:17)
Well, I think you recorded with Lucy in 2026, right?

**Anthony** (1:20)
Yeah. Yeah, I released that episode with Lucy.

**JK** (1:25)
Yeah.

**Anthony** (1:27)
Yeah, but not with you.

**JK** (1:28)
Our first one of 2026, mate.

**Anthony** (1:31)
There we go.
Awesome. So today, guys, we are going to be answering questions. We have a large backload of questions. We won't get to all of them today. They're kind of in a jumbled mess. They're not exactly in order or anything. So we're just going to read through some of them that we have and we will answer them as best we can. So this is going to be a Q&A session with Anthony and JK, and then we'll probably just add whatever else we feel like talking about. There's one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 questions we have.

**JK** (2:12)
I'm going to start off and it's just come to my attention. I haven't asked you this question, Anthony. So this is the first question of the Q&A, and the most important by far. How did Lily's first week of school go?

**Anthony** (2:33)
Good. So she loves going to school. She's the most social character that you can think of. So we actually held her back for, not held her back, but school was supposed to start on January 5th. For her first day, she had a really bad cough and wasn't feeling well, so we didn't go to school that day. Then January 7th, she would go to school three days a week for full days, which makes me miss her. I'm so used to having her around, it just makes me miss her not having her.
But anyway, she goes, so the first two days that she would have gone, I actually didn't send her because her cough was pretty bad. I didn't want her going to school and being like, I didn't get called and coming back or getting the other kids sick or anything. So she didn't send her. So her actual first day of school was this past Friday. Yeah. And she loves it. She can't stop talking about it. They take her out to the playground. She's social. She's like friends with the teachers.
And then she's just, she's much more social and just way cooler than I ever was in school. Like I was a pretty, like as a kid, like no filter type, but I would always finish my work and then just like talk to other kids while they're still doing their test. So I was social-ish, but not like, not a lot. Kind of just, it would get bored and like do, like I felt like I knew school was a social activity, not a learning place, right? Right, yeah. I think she's a lot like that, but also she is learning and she'll come home and we can see like she's counting and stuff and they have a nap time and we have struggled for years now, getting her to nap. She has the worst FOMO of like, like something else is going on. I don't want to go to sleep and close my eyes. Like that's what she's like. So no matter how tired she is, I've never, she'll never just go to sleep either. Like literally we've never caught her, actually I think one time and I was like, oh my God, she must be really tired. She'll be tired and not like pass out anywhere. She doesn't pass out anywhere. She doesn't like fall asleep anywhere. She won't go to sleep. Like we have to make her go to sleep and make the environment calm and easy. Like she is always going. And I went and talked to the teachers after her first day and they said that like they all have their own sleeping pads and their sleeping bags and stuff. And she, and they turn off the lights and play a lullaby. And I asked her about sleep time. And I asked her teacher about how she napped. And she told us that Lily didn't sleep while all the other kids were napping. She sat there and just stayed awake but wasn't like disturbing them. She was quiet. So the teacher just gave her a book and she just like flipped through the book for like two hours. Right. So she did that. And then she went to school yesterday. We're recording on a Tuesday. So she went to school yesterday, which was Monday. She had a great time. She had a little accident during nap time. She did get to sleep, though, I heard. So like she actually did it and she just likes to be involved. And it's so interesting. And I think you probably know because I posted that picture on my story of her with the sunglasses, like when she's about to get out of the car and her school uniform and stuff, because they have a school uniform that she has to wear once a week. And it was just, she was, she's so excited to go. Like she's well behaved if we're like, hey, if you want to be able to go to school, you have to like, you have to go pick up your toys. Like the toys will get picked up because she wants to go to school. Yeah.