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December 11, 2020

BOSTON Pan-Mass Challenge founder Billy Starr knew early on he wouldnt be able to get 10,000 people together this summer for the annual cross-state bike ride that over four decades has raised more than $700 million for cancer treatment and research.

He also knew he couldnt just take the year off.

When the pandemic forced other sports-related fundraisers to cancel or drastically lower their goals, the PMC went virtual and delivered $50 million for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The money helped the hospital pay for personal protective equipment, continue with clinical trials and other care, and even went toward rent or groceries for patients who couldnt just wait until the virus outbreak was over.

Cancers not going to stop just because we have a pandemic, Dana-Farber President and CEO Laurie Glimcher said. The Pan-Mass Challenge didnt stop either, thanks to Billy.

In disrupting the world of sports and virtually every other aspect of life, the pandemic also upended athletic fundraising all those walkathons, underwear runs and video game challenges that charitable causes need to pay for their work. Many of the events saw a decrease of 40-50%, according to David Hessekiel, who tracks the multibillion-dollar peer-to-peer fundraising industry.

The Pan-Mass Challenge brought in $63 million last year, with every penny going to Dana-Farber. Although the total went down this year for the first time since the 2009 recession, $50 million is really impressive, said Hessekiel, the founder of the Peer-To-Peer Professional Forum.

This year, none of (the riders) were able to do it, and yet they were still able to raise $50 million, he said. And its done in the context of a field that has been devastated.

The nations largest single-event athletic fundraiser, the PMC began in 1977 when Starr and a few friends rode to the tip of Cape Cod in memory of his mother, who died of melanoma at the age of 49. Since then, it has grown to an annual event with more than 10,000 volunteers and riders on 12 routes ranging from 25 to 192 miles.

As the virus outbreak spread this spring, though, organizers announced they would go virtual: Instead of riding from Sturbridge to Provincetown, or some part of it, participants in the PMC Reimagined would climb on their bicycles at their own chosen time, on their own chosen course.

And instead of organizing a ride that had grown somewhat routine, Starr wasnt sure what to expect.

There aint no well-oiled machine about this, Starr said. This is new landscape. Nobody knew what this was going to be.

To maintain some semblance of the event that riders had grown accustomed to 87% return the next year, with some coming back for decades the PMC livestreamed an opening ceremony and other festivities. The jerseys and other swag riders usually pick up at registration were mailed.

Everything that you could do in a socially distancing world, we did, Starr said. We kept our people alive and kept our mission front and center, so that when our weekend came around, people got on their bikes.

They also lowered their fundraising goal to $41 million, an amount that seemed fitting for the rides 41st year.

We thought it would be ambitious, Star said.

Instead, more than 6,800 riders raised an average of about $6,500 each. Another 1,650 people brought in a total of $3 million without ever getting on a bike part of a virtual rider program that had been a small part of the PMC since 1997 but was greatly expanded this year.

Glimcher said the PMC money helped Dana-Farber maintain the clinical trials that are the best option for as many as one in five cancer patients; it was one of the only cancer centers that did not need to suspend trials during the pandemic. (The PMC also made a $4 million donation to Dana-Farber in the spring a down payment of sorts to help ramp up the use of telemedicine and pay for urgently needed PPE.)

We really did not lose a beat, said Glimcher, who has ridden in the event every year since 2016 and took part this year in memory of her mother, who died of lung cancer. Thats a lifesaver for many people. To not be able to do that would have been awful.

Thats why Starr is already looking to 2021.

In a letter scheduled to go out to riders this week, he said organizers are hoping to get back onto the streets next year though in reduced numbers. There will be no large gatherings at the hubs, meals will be grab-and-go, and the PMC will not provide showers or massages.

But, he hopes, it will look like the PMC again.

We kept our community together. People felt connected and engaged and never lost sight of the cause, Starr said. They were grateful that we didnt quit, and they didnt either. But wed rather be together.

It spoke to what we were missing, which is what the world is missing. Its part of being a human being, he said. I miss it terribly.

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CRANSTON, R.I. (WPRI) Gov. Gina Raimondo has extended the statewide pause for another week, and among those most directly impacted are fitness and recreational facilities.

Fitness facility owners tell 12 News the pause is basically shutting down their business for an entire month, with Christmas week now the expected time they will be able to reopen.

Dozens of fitness facilities are now banding together to plea with the governor to reopen.

Never have we ever lost control over our small business, TLC Performing Arts Co-owner Tracy Ciccone Ditroia said. We need to open to stay in business.

Owner of Dream Big Gymnastics Shannon Cornicelli tells 12 News her goal of expanding her studio has been shut down.

I feel like we are being picked on, Cornicelli said. Shes doing something to the smaller businesses, maybe the people with fewer employees.

Now, 50 small businesses that fall under the states indoor sports category are demanding to be considered essential. Attorney Stephen Antonucci is lobbying on their behalf to negotiate with the governor.

We want to be a part of the solution, Antonucci said. We want to work with the governors staff, with commerce, DBR, we want to open these folks back up safely, but just to blanket close these businesses is unfair.

The businesses are sending a letter to the state and have several online petitions demanding change.

Ciccone Ditroia said the final straw was seeing hundred of people pack together at the mall on Saturday. She says her average dance class is eight children, and they have been taking every precaution.

Temperature checks, COVID screenings, they are way more than six-feet apart from each other, they all wear a mask for every class, Ciccone Ditroia said. I have a viewing window, where I removed the glass so that we can open the windows and get cross ventilation.

Also in Cranston, World Martial Arts has a similar story.

Weve followed all the rules from the beginning, Owner David Babits said. We have one entrance in, one entrance out. We have over 4,000-square-feet, so we are able to safely spread everyone out. Through this entire time, we had zero cases of COVID.

The business owners said the now three-week pause is affecting much more than their small business.

Were essential to kids and adults physical, emotional and mental health, Babits said.

Cornicelli said they have high-level athletes who are falling behind compared to other states with open gyms.

They are vying for D1 scholarships throughout the country, she said. They are not going to be able to be competitive if we continue this shutdown any longer.

401 Strength and Fitness Owner Emerson Kilgore offers football strength training, he says the physical aspect is big, but the mental aspect is being overlooked.

My gym was an outlet where young men could come in and really work and do their thing and again its taken away, Kilgore said. Then possibly not get the opportunity to showcase their talent for colleges or whatever next level they want to go to is unfortunate.

Kilgore said there should be a difference in categorization, between small fitness facilities and large franchised gyms.

I am getting called every day and I have video of my little ones asking me to open up, Ciccone Ditroia said. This is their second home to a lot of kids that may not be accepted in other places. Now, you take this away and they are home all day and feeling depressed.

The business owners tell 12 News they would be open to getting regular inspections, or limited capacity restrictions, over being forced to close completely.

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We all know that great fitness takes hard work, sacrifice, and dedication. That's why we hate it. No one innately wakes up at 5 a.m. to run 12 miles, or chooses quinoa over pizza, or picks washing dishes over dessertand if you do, congratulations on winning gold in Rio. Thankfully, with just a few tricks you can do right now, you can actually get healthier and fitter by tomorrow morning. (And they're backed by science!) You won't wake up with a Gosling-grade six-pack, but you feel better. Maybe even good enough to go on that run.

1. Try a warmer, greener juiceWhat if we told you that you could drink something that would prevent cancer, reduce heart disease risk, help you lose weight, and boost exercise performance. Sounds good, right? Drink a cup of matcha in the morning for maximum benefits.

2. Stretch and use a foam roller before bedPrep yourself before bed by doing a few minutes of light foam rolling and stretching: You'll release those chronically tight and tender muscles, relieve tension, and prime your body for a morning workout. Which you're totally going to do this time, for sure.

3. Power off, literallyElectronics hurt sleep because the blue-tinted light simulates day and keeps your brain awake. Instead, read something solida book, or maybe a great magazine. If phone withdrawal kicks in, set your screen's to turn yellow once the sun goes down (on iPhone, turn on Night Shift in Settings, under Display & Brightness; on Android download the Twilight app).

4. Pop a pillIn general, supplements and one-a-day vitamins aren't that useful, but a few targeted pills will kick-start your body. Fish oilwhich is definitely an oil made from fishis packed with omega 3 fatty acids that help with everything from your heart to losing fat. Then pop some zinc and magnesium. Zinc boosts your immune system and testosterone. And magnesium is one of the few deficiencies people do suffer from nowadays. That's a problem because it's crucial to a whole mess of important biological systems, like your metabolism and, you know, your ability to have a kid.

5. Get some sunHaving enough vitamin D means you have less risk for diabetes, heart disease, and prostate cancer. Plus, it'll increase your testosterone and help you sleep both faster and deeper. Chug all the milk you want, but the best way to get some Dyeah, yeah, very funnyis to walk outside. Just go sit in the sun. That's it. Go, now.

6. Make your bedroom into a cavernFirst, walk over to the thermostat. Your body likes a lower temperature while it's sleeping, and a chillier roomsay, low-to-mid-60swill help it fall asleep faster, too. Then get dark. Light screws up your sleep patterns, so buy a sleep mask, invest in blackout shades, or go all Mr. Robot and hack the municipal power gridwhatever's easiest for blocking out that neighbour across the street with the klieg lamp lighting.

7. Kick off your kicks once you're in the houseYour feet are home to 25 percent of your bones and a massive network of ligaments and nerves. By walking barefoot more, you'll improve your foot mechanics and decrease the pressure on your hips and knees. You'll also increase the range of motion of your ankle, which can prevent injuries and save you some embarrassing moment while playing pickup basketball.

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Doing HIIT (high-intensity interval training) has a range of benefits. This type of workout burns a lot of fat and keeps you in the fat burning state for hours after the workout. Doing HIIT regularly can also boost metabolism too. Better still, there is an abundance of HIIT workouts available online and many fitness celebrities provide them for free on platforms such as Instagram.

One of the most prominent figures in the field is Joe Wick, a.k.a. the Body Coach, who delighted kids and adults alike with his free morning workouts on Youtube during the original lockdown in early 2020. But is it Joe Wicks who provides the sweatiest, most intense workouts on Instagram? As it turned out, he is not even in the top 3.

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Online and offline home workouts are getting more popular by the day and it seems like they are here to stay on the long run. In a research conducted by RunRepeat, 1,990 gym members were asked how they will approach staying fit in 2021, in comparison to the start of 2020.

Not surprisingly, only 15% of current gym members thought a gym membership was the best way to achieve their fitness goals in 2021 and nearly three-quarters of gym members said running and other outdoor activities or home fitness options (21.86%) are the best ways to achieve their fitness goals in 2021.

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No wonder all eyes are on online fitness influencers. Golfsupport.com ran a little experiment of its own to see which 30-minute Instagram workout burns the most calories.They asked 67 people to complete one workout from a predetermined list per day and record the calories burnt.

Participants were wearing fitness trackers to measure heart rate and calories burned; probably wearing the best running watches or best Fitbits would've been a good option too. As well as measuring calories burned, Golfsupport asked testers to give a rating out of 10 for music and enjoyment of each workout and finally, asked them if they would do the workout again or not.

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Bradley Simmonds HIIT workout burned a whopping average of 412 calories in 30 minutes, making it the most sweat-inducing and calorie-burning workout on the list. 68% of people also said they would do another workout with him.

Body by Ciara took second place, only just. Ciara's workout burnt an average of 403 calories in half an hour, with 72% of people saying they would do the workout again. Ciara also came out on top in terms of music, with an average rating of 9/10.

In third place for calories burnt is Barrys Bootcamp UK (386 calories per 30 min workout).

National treasure Joe Wicks PE workout came relatively low down on the list in terms of calories burnt, torching 290 per half hour session. However, Joe came joint top in terms of enjoyment rating, an average 9/10 score.

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Confirming that Rohit Sharma has obtained clearance from the National Cricket Academy to travel to Australia, the BCCI on Saturday said Rohits availability for the last two Tests in Australia would be subject to reassessment by the Indian teams medical staff in Australia.

Mr. Sharmas physical fitness has been satisfactory, however, he will be required to continue work on his endurance, BCCI secretary Jay Shah said in a statement on Saturday.

He has been given a detailed programme to follow for the duration of the two weeks he will be quarantined for. He will be reassessed by the Team India medical team post his quarantine to establish his fitness status and a call on his participation in the Border-Gavaskar Trophy will be taken accordingly, the statement said.

Rohit, who suffered a left hamstring injury on October 18 during Mumbai Indians Indian Premier League match against Kings XI Punjab, will be required to spend 14 days in his hotel room as per COVID-19 protocols in Australia and will thus join the India squad only after the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.

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Social media and fitness have become close bedfellows in 2020 and while weve already guided you through some of the best Instagram and YouTube workouts you can do, and talked to some of the biggest names in fitness on home workouts that turn your living room into the country's best gym, we also wanted to take a moment to share some names with you that will help inspire you even when scrolling on the 'gram.

Across this list are some titans and some emerging talent, people who will provide you with full live workouts and some who will just give you excellent tips for your posture or working out in transit or even some important motivation. Some of these people we just follow from afar and some are fitness gurus we consult monthly for our fitness guides and other exercise pieces. Some of them might be perfect for where you currently are and some might give you more inspiration when youre at a different point in your fitness journey. All of them, however, are worth knowing.

Zack George, by his own confession, is the sort of man youd see at the gym and feel intimidated by. He is, after all, the UKs fittest man, our greatest Crossfit athlete and built like a house. But once you speak to him, theres a far more impressive side to him: hes intelligent, eloquent and an excellent source of fitness knowledge. After a year in which his Crossfit career had to take a backseat to coronavirus, and the sport he called home had to grapple with a racist CEO, George has gone on to feature on the cover of Mens Health and also become one of our sagest fitness and nutrition experts, working with us on features covering what to eat before a workout and more yet still to come. You can do a lot worse than seeing him crush an assault bike workout next time you boot up Instagram.

For proof of Luke Zocchis training prowess look no further than Chris Hemsworth as Thor:hes the trainer responsible for sculpting those godly muscles, as well as the 500-calorie-a-day cut the actor underwent before appearing as a shipwreck survivor in In The Heart Of The Sea. Tattooed Australian Zocchi, like all the best fitness influencers, favours a simple but effective attitude towards training and a no-nonsense attitude towards nutrition (think: fish, chicken, veg and pulses, with the odd #cheatmeal photo thrown in for good measure). As a lead trainer at Hemsworths gym, Centr, his simple recipe videos are handy, sure, but its the workout tips that really make him worth a follow. As a champion of shorter, more efficient training sessions from 90-second flash reps to 30-minute between-scenes workouts Zocchis high-performance moves are sure to upgrade your usual routine. Be it a brutal but blessedly quick warm up, a killer finisher or speedy circuits, expect plenty of bear crawls, kick sits and push-ups.

This year, Joe Wicks went from celebrity fitness influencer to national hero with his mission to keep the nation fit through livestreamed workouts. Where Wicks free workout videos tend to live on YouTube, his Instagram is largely focused on food, dispersed with motivational posts driven by his own ten-year overnight success story and the importance of exercise for mental wellbeing. His recipe videos showcase healthy meals that take only 15 minutes to prepare, filmed in his signature lo-fi chuck it all in style, hence his lean in 15 tagline. With his no-fuss recipes and meal inspiration posts, Wicks debunks the idea that healthy means vegetables, protein and not much else, advocating a rounded, nutritious diet that allows for familiar favourites such as chicken pie, chips and even breaded cheese (he oven-bakes his halloumi in coconut oil). Broccoli is midget trees and scales are the sad steps. Think of Wicks as the enthusiastic everymans influencer, the likeable bloke next door (albeit with abs of steel and, not incidentally, a face like a Disney prince) a chirpy optimist who wants to making boshing out decent dishes accessible for all. Since having his own kids, hes branched into childrens nutrition too, with the launch of Instagram profile and book @weanin15.

If youve ever done one of Hendricks classes at Rowbots or Equinox, you know this former Olympic powerlifter is a kind soul, a great instructor and also relentless in making you sweat. As well as showing off his incredible skills, Famutimis Instagram is a great source of myth-busting and inspiration, a place to go when youve heard 15 contradictory opinions and want someone to give you an answer on anything from weights to losing weight. If you cant make it to one of his classes? Hes done workout guides for us on lats, legs and arms, which you can take into your own regime as a sample of just how good he is.

London-based Jack Hanrahan has been in the fitness industry for a decade, working both as a trainer and a soft-tissue therapist. Hes best known for his celebrity clientele, with gigs training A-list actors on sets from X-Men: Apocalypse to Bohemian Rhapsody, as well as his ultra-efficient style of strength training. He believes in training like an athlete rather than a bodybuilder, meaning a focus on building lean, functional muscle as opposed to a bulked-up aesthetic. On Instagram, Hanrahan shares his instructional, to-the-point approach with more than 200,000 followers, posting practical videos that demystify moves, equipment and misleading ideologies.

Intermittent fasting is impractical and unnecessary, bootcamps are a plague on the fitness industry, free weights are way better than machines and an espresso is more effective than a pre-workout booster. Hanrahan also believes in quality, not quantity. He advocates training four times a week, split into two upper and two lower days, one with heavier weights and the other lighter, in more of a pump style. During the first lockdown, he developed his anti-HIIT format, comprising a series of low-impact, dynamic exercises done in intervals with very short rest times. Like most of his workouts, these can be done easily from home with just a few sets of weights and a resistance band, with a focus on physical fitness goals over gains.

Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, his own app Alex Crockford is something of a fitness renaissance man. Clear and concise in his instruction, with a huge spectrum of videos and content that can show you everything from a new exercise to adopt to a whole new workout, Crockford has an output few can rival and thats why you should definitely be adding him to your list.

George has been one of our most consistent workout guide contributors this year, capable of making detailed and effective workouts leap off the page. An instructor at both Core Collective and Gymbox as well as a personal trainer, Palmer manages to make the difficult art of health and fitness sound much more attainable than it can feel at times, someone who understands everyone is on a different path and able to speak to every level. If you havent got enough of his words on the site, his Instagram contains a looks at how to keep your head held high during the exercise tempest that was 2020, as well as useful workouts or exercise tips.

With an Instagram following of 7.2 million, British-born, LA-based Simeon Panda is one of the most influential trainers on the planet. His body is, depending on which way you look at it, either ultimate goals or a little unnerving: Panda has a real-life waist-to-shoulder ratio that looks like its been photoshopped, gigantic traps, bulging calves and an eight pack.

He uses his channel to tease the secrets to his success (he is, of course, trying to push downloads of his online training programme, his YouTube channel and exercise-gear brand at the same time), with ultra-technical, gym-focused short videos that will help you to improve your form. If you want to grow your arms and back and already know your way around a gym then this is a great place to look for inspiration Panda is all about building as much muscle as physically possible. Breathing, weight and posture are all of central importance, as is method (Panda advocates for the pyramid, combining higher rep hypertrophy sets and much heavier lower rep strength sets).

Arby Kehelis workout guides for our site have, across the board, been excellent: lengthy, detailed guides on how to do everything from working out your core to maximising your use of bodyweight. Hes also an incredible trainer, which I can attest to after spending three exhausting months of my life learning to lift increasingly heavy weights under his careful tutelage. Kehelis Instagram page has been a great source of home workouts during lockdown, including ways of using things you have around the house to get right and tight during this ludicrous phase in human history.

James Stirling, AKA London Fitness Guy, is the man to follow for unintimidating, straight-forward home workouts from someone with a vaguely normal (but obviously still pretty ripped) physique. He started posting 30-minute home workouts during the first lockdown back in March, all shot in his front room or garden and with minimal equipment, but his gym workouts are just as accessible (bodyweight reigns supreme).

Stirlings smiley, sometimes silly content screams warm, friendly and accessible, making his a great profile for beginners, with videos covering topics from how to warm up and how to stretch before a run to a Photoshop explainer and posts about his struggles with anxiety and de-stigmatising therapy. He demonstrates each move clearly and frequently runs workouts on Instagram Live, bringing a nice community feel to your living room as well as the opportunity to ask questions and get a real-time response.

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As the creator of fitness programs like Insanity and T25, trainer Shaun T has helped a lot of people to find their own confidence through their fitness journeysbut there are still times when he feels insecure about the way he looks.

On the most recent episode of his Trust & Believe podcast, Shaun speaks about how, as part of his job, he makes it a priority to stay up to date with the latest fitness trends and influencersbut that scrolling through pic after pic of other people's jacked physiques on social media can take a mental and emotional toll.

"If someone posts a photo and they say 'hey, I lost weight, I feel really great, I finally got my six-pack back,' that's cool, they have a journey," he says. "But if someone is making you feel bad because they're literally like 'you should look like this, and this is the correct way to have the best physique,' then maybe that's somebody you shouldn't necessarily follow."

"My rule of thumb is, if they're showing their body and there's a message and a journey attached to that, and it fits what I need for my own inspiration, I'll follow," he continues. "But I definitely need to take control of that algorithm."

He also acknowledges that in addition to Instagram, there is an additional element to this for gay and bisexual men, as physique plays such a big role in queer male dating culture, especially on dating apps. "In the gay world there is this thing where they do like fat-shaming, and you have different types of bodies, it's like the jocks, the bears, the beefy," he says. "You are defined as a body type... I just think that is so annoying, and it works against our confidence."

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Elsewhere in the episode, Shaun mentions some of the techniques he uses to boost his own confidence, such as "resetting" his outlook at the start of each day, taking time to reflect and engage in positive self-talk, and take lessons from everything he does.

"Go to the mirror and just love on yourself," he concludes. "And if you have to do that every single day to eliminate those thoughts of 'what do other people think of me' or that voice in the back of your head, 'are other people going to think I'm attractive,' if you have to go in the mirror every single day to get rid of that, please do it... You have the power to make a change and make enhancements in your life so that you feel really great about who you are."

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Tim Cook: How are you?

Michael Roberts (Host): I'm good.

Cook: Great to meet you.

Roberts: Thank you so much for making the time this morning.

Tim Cook: My pleasure. I love what you do. Good to meet you.

Roberts: Thank you so much. You too. I appreciate you hosting me here. This is my kind of assignment.

Cook: It's pretty spectacular. It's like working in a park.

Roberts: Yeah. Literally, it is like working in a park.

Roberts (narrating): This is Michael Roberts, host of the Outside Podcast. And today, were going to take a walk around Apple Park with Tim Cook.

Earlier in the fall, Apple had invited me to their headquarters in Cupertino, California, to speak with Cook, the CEO since 2011. Our conversation took place several weeks after the Apple product event where they introduced Series 6 of the Apple Watch. The headline news was the addition of a blood-oxygen sensor. The slogan for the device, according to one promotional video: The future of health is on your wrist.

The other big announcement at the event was the launch of Fitness+, a subscription-based service that will offer guided studio workouts streamed to Apple devices by mid-December. It marked a significant step for the company: they are jumping into the rapidly expanding online training space in a major way.

Tim Cookwho is a fitness obsessive and bit of a nature nerd, who regularly reads Outside magazinewas interested in speaking with me about Apples commitment to creating products that improve our health, as well as Apples environmental initiatives, his love for Americas national parks, and even how we can all learn to put away our devices and just be outside.

Apple Park, which is more than 80 greenspace and has some 9,000 trees, is in fact a really good place to talk about all this.

Roberts: I mean, we were sitting you missed it a few minutes ago. There was there he is. There's a red-tail hawk sitting on the top of a tree there.

Tim Cook: Yeah. Yeah.

Roberts: So obviously, it's working. We were joking if you've staged some deer to run out on the path as we walk along. [laughter] But is that kind of the way to think of it as a

Cook: It's sort of to bring the outside in and the inside out. So people can many people do. They work outside. And they find places where maybe for solitude at some times and maybe for group kind of things in our pre-pandemic world anyway.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: It'll be fairly quiet today when we walk in because we only have about 15 percent, give or take, of the folks working. Everybody else is remote. But the idea of having a home like this in the valley was just unheard of. You know, most people did the skyscraper kind of thing or the typical corporate campus of all these buildings where people never left their building so to speak.

Roberts: With some vision there of efficiency, right? Let's work. [laughs]

Cook: Yeah. I mean, it is very much that old mindset was not around collaboration at all. So we wanted to build a place where people would sort of run into each other. And in a circle, that is the design point.

Roberts: Right. As far as the park goes and you were speaking about how people engage with and I'd be curious to hear like how let's pretend it's not 2020 COVID times.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: What does it look like normally if I'm standing here or walking around? What am I seeing? How is the community of Apple employees engaging with this outdoor space?

Cook: You would see people riding bikes along here to get to one meeting to another. You would see people walking. You would see some people exercising, you know, running and so forth because it's a two-and-a-half-mile track around the place.

Roberts: Mm-hmm.

Cook: So you put in a couple of laps in, and you've got a good workout for the day. And you would see people sitting as we get into the inner circle, you would see people sort of spread out and working along tables and over near the pond, some people alone, some people with groups.

Roberts: What about you? Because you're a sort of I think I'll say notoriously busy CEO, [laughter] someone who gets up early and maybe the last guy to turn out the lights every night. This space it's 150 acres. It really is it's pretty incredible just starting at it. What does this like literally and personally mean to you? And how do you use this space?

Cook: This is like working in a national park for me. And it provides that kind of feeling. So you know, we all operate on inspiration and motivation. And you find your somewhere. And the only difference between people is generally what level of insof how inspired they are and how motivated they are to do different things.So nature really inspires me and motivates me as it does the bulk of the people here. If you were to go inside the offices, you would see conference rooms named after national parks. Right.

Roberts: Right. Yeah.

Cook: I'm right around the corner from the Grand Canyon room.

Roberts: Which follows what you do with operating system names too

Cook: Yeah. Absolutely.

Roberts: in recent history.

Cook: Absolutely.

Roberts: So here's the question then.

Cook:Yeah.

Roberts: You have this incredible outdoor space. You have people who are inspired by nature. I wonder if Apple I don't know if it's official or unofficial policy how you encourage your employees to spend time here whether it's you know, because it's one thing to go for a bike ride, and you're staring at your watch. And you're closing some activity loops.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And it's another thing to take an outdoor conference call or meet with a group of people. And it's another thing to say, hey, everyone. Make sure you spend some time out there. And just like don't bring any devices.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: Like leave is that something that Apple consciously does? Or is it something that you think people are just choosing to do here on their own?

Cook: It's a combination the two. I mean, we even have monthly activity challenges across the whole of the company to try to get people outside, get people moving, get people exercising. They form teams informally. And they compete.

Roberts: Okay.

Cook: So we do little things like that that plant the seed. We have one caf essentially in the building. So everybody you have a certain amount of activity just to get to the caf.We have a couple of outdoor kind of cafes. But the big caf there's one. Everybody goes to the same place. The restrooms are a reasonable distance from people's area

Roberts: Force them to walk.

Cook: of working. We force them to walk.

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: You have little coffee bars where people congregate. And these things not only get people moving, but they provide that serendipitous kind of discussion and collision of ideas that bring out innovation.

Roberts: Yeah. And I was just asking about the idea of encouraging people to maybe not take devices with them on a walk because we all know what it's like

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: whether you're on the street or even in a park where it just changes the relationship to the space. And this is really special. I mean, the investment here by Apple in the natural landscaping is extraordinary.

Cook: It is.

Roberts: So you think about like, okay. This is here. How are we choosing to engage with it? And how are we encouraging, you know, even just your office community here to engage with it?

Cook: Last month or actually, this month it's going on right now we have a meditation challenge where people are being motivated to meditate. There's no better meditation than, in my view, walking out in nature.

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: You know, it's the ultimate meditation for me. So again, lots of small things like that that get people thinking and hopefully, they're applying that in their own lives too, not just while they're at work but when they're away as well.

Roberts: What about, if we expand it from you and the employees here to the users of your products because I think we all know one of the great challenges of our time is finding ways to really escape, to step away from it all.

Cook: Yeah. Yeah.

Roberts: And a lot of that has to do because, if you have an iPhone with you, it's like the whole world is in your hand, you know.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: It's all there.

Cook: It's a window to the world.

Roberts: It is. And it's a portal to the world. So you can be just about anywhere, and the world comes and grabs you. Or you are drawn by this force to engage with it.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: So as the CEO of a tech company, which people depend on your products to engage with that world, do you feel a responsibility to those users just like you do to your employees to help them learn how and when to disconnect?

Cook: Very much so. We think very deeply about all the things that we create, about how they're going to be used, how they're going to be used in scale the great ways they'll be used but also the not-so-great ways that they can be used. So an example of that would be screen time. Right. We do not want people using our products too much. We want to create them in such a way people get the most out of them in short periods of time to free themselves up to do whatever it is that they want to do. And so screen time was a way of making all of us aware of how much time we're spending in our technology. And I think including for me personally it was my estimates versus the reality were very different. And I

Roberts: Do you have any numbers you remember?

Cook: They were high. [laughter] They were high. I was but what I did though so the action I took was I started asking myself, why do I need all these notifications?

Roberts: Right.

Tim Cook: Why do I really need this? Do I really need to understand things in the moment that they're happening? And you know and I started taking a meat ax out to some of these things that would grab my attention but didn't need to in the moment

Roberts: Mm-hmm.

Cook: to free me up to do other things. So yeah. I learned like I think like probably most people underestimate how much they're using it.

Roberts: Sure.

Cook: And we've never designed our products to dominate people's lives. That's never been our purpose. It's not our business.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: Our business is to give people tools that enrich their lives and allow them to create something that they couldn't create or do something or, you know, sort of transform themselves in some sort of way. We've never been into this, How long is somebody spending on our property? And let's try to figure out a way to make that as high as possible?

Roberts: Yeah.

Cook: How many clicks can we get? We're not into that business model.

Roberts: Right. But it is the thing is the tool is so impressive, and the design is so alluring. And so that's one part of it. You know, we're naturally sort of people pick it up.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: It's why we see people have you know, you find that moment of boredom. And what do people do? They lean into a device. So that challenge of helping your users have that healthy relationship I would suggest that we are still figuring that out and not just Apple.

Cook: I think there's more to do. I think there's more to do. And you know, another example of things that we do is we give parental controls.

Roberts: Right.

Cook: So for those people that are helping address their kids, it's a proactive way for them to have not only a conversation but also to put some rules of the road in. So we have thought deeply about each of these. And we continue to do it. We're not saying we've arrived, and we've got all the answers today. We innovate there just like we innovate with the latest camera system and the latest watch and so forth.

Roberts: Sometimes, I feel like th because I use Screen Time too.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And I noticed right away. I was like, man, you know, I'm doom-scrolling a little on the New York Times here. Like I've got to stop this. And I just got pulled into another random evening of Instagram. Get me out of here. But I had an experience recently that I think got to me the challenge of this which is I was hiking with my family in Point Reyes National Seashore. But it was like three weeks ago.

Cook: It's beautiful.

Roberts: It's beautiful.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: Took the phone, threw it in the pack. We're just with the kids, my wife and I. I forgot to put do not disturb on. So like a few hours into the hike there's not a lot of connectivity out there. But all of a sudden, I got some reception. And I heard and felt the buzz in my pack. And it was like, in that moment, everything I had been escaping, work concerns, the news, it was all just I was carrying it emotionally and psychologically. And I was upset with myself for forgetting. And I had that challenge we all have where I didn't grab the phone. I didn't take it out. But there was this gnawing feeling in my head of like, what is that? Did I forget to do something for work? You know, is something the matter? And it took a real effort to quell that.

Cook: Yeah.

Roberts: And to me, that just gets at this challenge and my sense of how early we are on that part of this. I mean, the iPhone has been around since it's relatively new in our relationship to techno

Cook: 2007.

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