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Buddy Buck (00:00)
What's up friends and neighbors, Buddy Buck here back with another episode of Community Connect.

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Andy Dolezalek (00:21)
That was pretty close. ⁓

It's Andy Dolazolik. So

I grew up actually in California, but came out here to play basketball at Seattle U. After that, I got into college sports, worked with UW football for a little bit. And then over the past five years, I actually came up with my own business called Permanence and been really focused on just helping people live for a long time and do what they want to do for the rest of their lives.

Buddy Buck (00:50)
That's awesome, man. I love that. And I saw you had like submitted, ⁓ you know, your, listing on LivingInDuvall.com And I was super intrigued, man, cause it looked cool. ⁓ before we kind of take a deeper dive into that, cause we're all excited to hear about that. What is your favorite smell, Andy?

Andy Dolezalek (01:06)
My favorite smell. It's gotta be like some freshly baked brownies. Like that smell right out of the oven. Anything coming out of the oven. I love that.

Buddy Buck (01:07)
You

Okay, that's what's up. Do you think that's a core memory from like childhood or what's the Brownie story?

Andy Dolezalek (01:19)
Yeah,

my grandma, she was an amazing baker. So that's been awesome. And then my wife's a pretty good baker too. So I mean, I know as a personal trainer, not really supposed to eat that stuff, but you work out, you earn it. So it makes it all that's here.

Buddy Buck (01:31)
That's right.

That's right. Do a little collaboration, workout, earn a cookie. Kind of like, you that's really cool, man. That's awesome. All right. let's take a little dive into Duvall So how long have you guys lived in Duvall? You mentioned you're married. How long have you lived in town?

Andy Dolezalek (01:36)
It's motivation.

Yeah, geez, we've been here almost two years now. I've kind of just bounced around Seattle for the past 10 years, was in Kirkland, Redmond, but I think we've really found Duvall as a nice place. We kind of want to set roots down.

Buddy Buck (01:51)
Okay.

That's cool. All right, how did you end up here though? cause you know, people, the craziest stories ever, like how people end up finding Duvall, like, cause it's not just a place you just drive through on accident, usually.

Andy Dolezalek (02:09)
Yeah,

wife's lived here her entire life. She's talked about Carnation before and then, you know, we just started driving out here and we were looking for places to rent and then we were just drove through and like, it's a very small community, but it's still outdoorsy. There's a lot of things you can walk to everything, which is kind of how we both grew up. We definitely don't like the city life. We like big open areas. So just walked through it, gave it a shot and we're sticking around.

Buddy Buck (02:34)
That's awesome, man. So where did you grow up? What city or what area?

Andy Dolezalek (02:37)
So I grew up right in between San Francisco and San Jose and the Bay Area kind of right by Palo Alto and Stanford. And then yeah, came up here to pursue college basketball and just kind of stuck around.

Buddy Buck (02:48)
That's cool, man. So how long did you play at Seattle U?

Andy Dolezalek (02:51)
So I just went to school for a year and then I walked on for a year and then my last year I actually didn't get my fifth year of eligibility So that's actually how I got into fitness is I still want to be a part of the team So like let's throw you on the strength and conditioning staff I was working to get my exercise science degree So they just kind of threw me right in and like hey You can still be a part of team just help the guys with the workouts and all that and been doing it ever since

Buddy Buck (03:14)
Dude, that's awesome. Stay in college as long as you can. with the team and the squad, like that camaraderie, it's really hard to find, you know, later in life as you've probably noticed, but I love, talking to you off air was, you know, you're just, you're care for community and really looking for that community. And I feel like that sports as it's just like that great baseline for community, right?

Andy Dolezalek (03:34)
Yeah, and there's something like I've seen, I've worked with some guys, you know, I've gone to the NFL draft, even like MLB, NBA, but I think, you know, at the top level, there's only so much you can do. ⁓ I really like helping the people around me. I, while I was exploring, thinking about going back to get my masters and stay in that world, I worked at a private gym and I just realized like, if I could help people sleep better at night or play with their kids or go on hikes, go on adventures, like I just found that so much more fulfilling for me personally.

Buddy Buck (04:02)
Wow, that's cool, man. Yeah, like the real life, impact of the day to day, you know what I mean? The things you don't think about maybe like as you get a little bit older, you know, how old are you right now?

Andy Dolezalek (04:09)
Exactly.

I'll turn 32 this year, I got a toddler and then I got a one another boy on the way and a couple months so I'm gonna be a 32 year old dad of two pretty soon

Buddy Buck (04:24)
That's awesome, man. Boy, dad, sounds like, right? Congrats. That's cool. just, know, we'll take healthy, right? We'll take healthy of any, any kind. So that's, that's good stuff. So you mentioned a lot about Duvall and you know, your wife and I like to do outdoor stuff. you know, me as a real estate agent, I do Duvall TV just for, fun and community building. just, you know, like you, I just love building this community up and really like highlighting people and giving them valuable information, whether it's an introduction or whatever the case is. But for you,

Andy Dolezalek (04:26)
Yep.

Exactly.

Buddy Buck (04:50)
having such a wide variety of outdoor activities that you might like, what is a perfect day in Duvall look like for you, Andy?

Andy Dolezalek (04:56)
Ooh, I mean, I'm usually going back and forth to the gym a little bit, I love, you know, if you can get up, I mean, if the weather's nice, maybe get a little morning walk in with the dog or just kind of have some family time in the morning, get breakfast. love, we're like right kind of by the trail out here in Duvall. So we like sitting out on, you know, our little porch and watching the sun come up and listening to the animals and stuff. And then, you know, go in, help some people get in a workout and then come back and then.

I mean, we're really close to town, so we're like 10 minute walk to downtown, grab some lunch anywhere good downtown. There's a lot of good places, so we go to a lot of different ones, but we love walking downtown, grab some food, come on back, and then just hang out with as a family and throw in some workouts and whatever other fun outdoor activities we like to do.

Buddy Buck (05:42)
That's cool, man. That's cool. So you mentioned a lot of restaurants or a lot of spots you like. It's okay. Name drop a few, man. Where do you go? Like, what are a couple of spots where you're like, I love to go here and here's maybe the thing that I can't stop ordering when I go there.

Andy Dolezalek (05:55)
Well, we have a three year old. So I mean, he loves pizza. So we're at Red Pepper a lot. So he loves that. I'm also Hispanic, Mexican. So we're at IXTAPA a lot and I love doing that. My family is actually from Texas. So I love some good barbecue and then Pickle Time super close to, so I love them all. I mean, we get the variety. They all have plenty of options for toddlers, which I love. They're super cool about bringing kids in as well as we.

Buddy Buck (06:00)
There you go. That's what's up.

You

my gosh.

Andy Dolezalek (06:20)
I'm about to have another one in newborn. So I really like the community and how it's like, you can feel that family and like there's good food to go along with it.

Buddy Buck (06:27)
That's

right, yeah, for sure. I remember being at the Duvall Tavern one of the first times and I saw all these kids in there and I'm like, wait, is this just like Duvall has its own laws or something? But there's obviously structure inside that can allow for that. But yeah, IXTAPA one of our favorites as well, man, for sure. I could just eat the chips and salsa all day. Just endless, endless. ⁓ Okay, cool, so.

Andy Dolezalek (06:39)
Yeah.

Buddy Buck (06:50)
That's a day in Duvall. do you go to the river at all? Or do you guys like do a little bit of hiking or just what your outdoor vibe look like?

Andy Dolezalek (06:54)
Yeah. Yeah.

We'll go to the river a lot. Dog loves the water. Kid loves water world. Actually, like in the summertime, we got some paddle boards that will get out there. A little bit of a workout to get upstream, but then it's pretty fast coming back downstream. Biking, we love biking. It's not always as fun when you got to haul a toddler in a trailer behind you, but we'll take, you know, the Snoqualmie trail all the way down if we can. Just kind of depends how far I can last pulling him. But yeah.

Buddy Buck (07:08)
Definitely.

Andy Dolezalek (07:21)
We do a lot, we'll go hiking, there's, you're pretty close to everything. You're close to Snoqualmie, you can go up to Cascade. So we got family that's a little bit closer to Snoqualmie, so we go a little bit more south that way for some hikes and stuff. But yeah, there's just so much out here. And like people say that it's far out here, but I feel like you can get to anything within 30, 45 minutes, which isn't bad. I will take that.

Buddy Buck (07:41)
I totally agree, dude. Like seriously, that is kind of like the beauty of it, right? So I'll be like at an open house, you know, sit in one of my listings and these agents are coming in from like Seattle or, know, just even the Eastside and they're coming out. And the first question I asked any of the agents is like, do you know where you are? do you know anything about Duvall? And most of them don't like I'd say 80%, 70 % don't. And so that's where it's like living in Duvall.com where I show them these tools

Cause people like me eight years ago, dude, I had no idea. Like my wife's like, Hey, she had done a camp up at Big Rock She's a softball instructor. And so, she's like, we should go look and do ball. It's super cute. We looked at one house and bought it. And there's like, wait a minute, where exactly, you know, what happens here? I have no idea. But, but it's turned out to be super, super rad, obviously, you know, eight years later almost.

Andy Dolezalek (08:20)
Yeah.

Buddy Buck (08:27)
All right, so let's talk a little bit more about what you're doing and like some of your passions. I know, personal trainer. I know you've had some change in your business model, at least for the short term. So why don't you just tell a little bit about what's going on and kind of what kind of things you got cooking right now.

Andy Dolezalek (08:41)
Yeah, so ⁓ I actually was planning on opening up my own gym. It was actually going to be in Kirkland and then kind of ran through some city trouble and like never get it approved. So unfortunately just kind of putting that hold on right now. I mean, honestly, I would love to eventually, you know, have something here in Duvall, but just because I used to live closer to Kirkland and Bellevue, just, lot of my clients were more there. So that one just kind of made sense. So,

Being in here, I just went over and talked with CrossFit Big Rock and the owners there, Corey and Tess, they're amazing. love them. They're just nice people there again. They're like all community based as well where it's like, we're not in this for the money making. We just want people to be healthy and have that community. So I was like, perfect. So they've just kind of let me rent their space when they're not running classes and I help now teach some of their classes. But a main thing what I do is I try to get people connected together. ⁓

I do little bit of one on one, but everything I do is kind of that small group focus because I truly believe if you have people there to hold you accountable, you're just gonna do better. So then you don't have to feel guilty leaving somebody at home because you are also meeting somebody. And then you also have somebody there to be there to push you along, do a little harder, go a little harder. I'm also...

I'm a licensed massage therapist, so I do sports massage out of there as well. I have these cool, fun, special tools that I use just to help people loosen some muscles up because the whole idea is we want you to be well-rounded. And I think that's what Permanent stands for. That's everything that I stand for is I want you to just move your body. I want you to recover, and that's however you can. So I help people find the type of fitness that they like. I don't do one thing. I'm not just CrossFit. I'm not just using heavy bars. If you never want to touch a bar,

That's great. I'd still love to find ways to get people to just move their bodies and same with recovery and massage, chiropractic, whatever it is, as long as people can, you know, take care of themselves.

Buddy Buck (10:27)
That's really cool. Where do you think that came from? That care and that compassion for helping others or just, you know, it's one thing to be like compassionate about like just, you know, your community members just in general, but to take it one step further from my perspective, Andy, and having them actually be a little bit more proactive to be healthy and take that next step up and not just be neutral. why do you care so much about that? Where'd that come from?

Andy Dolezalek (10:47)
I'd say I've been a loyal person my entire life. My parents always described that kind of as my number one trait is I want to protect people and protect my people especially. So I think, you know, once I feel like I connect with somebody, I'm ready to go to war with them or go through whatever with them. So I think that's a huge thing where, I don't know, I think a lot of days, especially like, and now in the social media, you get AI, you have so many online trainers, different things where it's like, oh, well,

why do I need a personal trainer? And I really value my job because I think it's the ability to connect with people. And I was talking to a buddy about this who's actually a trainer as well. I'm like, what other job do you have where you can see a client or two for possibly three, four hours a week continuously for six, seven years? And that's what I've had. And I'm like, I don't know a lot of places like that. I've kind of feel like my clients become my family.

you know, in my inner circle I want to do whatever I can to help them out because I see them all the time.

Buddy Buck (11:44)
That's awesome, man. I think it's really cool that you said your mom called you this like fiercely loyal ever since you were a kid. Is that a trait that you saw your parents growing up or your mom specifically about that trait or where did that come from? you think just?

Andy Dolezalek (11:55)
Yeah,

my mom is definitely like whoever was sick, whoever need anything, she's like, ⁓ we're going to do it. And then my wife has amazing parents as well. I mean, we both came from families where it's like you drop whatever for the people who need you. family always comes first. So I think that definitely comes from good parents. And I hope I can set a good standard for my kids as they get older so that they'll do the same.

Buddy Buck (12:19)
Feels like you're definitely on that track, my guy. So for sure, that's awesome. So ⁓ one of the things you had mentioned is you had some special tools at the gym or at the CrossFit where you are currently. Is that body tempering? Okay, so you did a little homework on you, Andy, you a little homework. So tell us the difference. Yeah, tell us the difference between body tempering. First of all, tell us what the hell that is. But body tempering versus foam rolling. Give us the scoop.

Andy Dolezalek (12:32)
Yep, that is body tempering. ⁓ Yeah, I appreciate that.

Okay, so body tempering, so it's a form of soft tissue manipulation. So what we're doing is we're trying to break up adhesions, get blood flow moving. And same like foam roller, but foam roller, like you have to lay in, it's nice and soft. The tools that I use are not. They're made of steel, they're cylinders. I have some tools that are like five pounds, but then I also have some tools that are like 200 pounds for like bigger guys. It was created by a guy named Donnie Thompson, who's one of my mentors, but he's.

you know, almost 350 pounds at his ⁓ competing weight when he was competing in powerlifting, he just needed some heavy weight. So he kind of messed around with it. But the idea is if you can get in there faster to loosen up some muscles and it's just a better position as well where foam rolling, it can be awkward. You just can't get yourself in the right position sometimes. So like body tempering, all you have to do is just lay there and then let me do the work. And then I personally like, even though I'm a licensed massage therapist,

I don't personally love being touched or you know dressing down. So I think the cool thing about body tempering is you can do it over clothes. So like a lot of my guys like my male clients like I don't need a massage on my care throw this steel cylinder on you. It's basically doing so. No it's it's something that you have to definitely try it. I get how it looks but until you try it and see how fast it can work and how fast it can help you know loosen things up it like.

Buddy Buck (13:51)
Yeah, guys. Yeah, cool guys.

Andy Dolezalek (14:06)
First time I did it, it was hooked. I've got clients who do it like two, three times a week and say it's the only way they can function. So yeah, I absolutely love it.

Buddy Buck (14:13)
That sounds rad. Well, I was watching you. think you were doing the body tempering on Jack McAllister. Is that right? I saw one of your videos on Instagram, which we'll get to your socials in just a second here. But so you were working with a UW punter. So tell us two part question. How did you get connected with the UW? Because my wife and I are both DAWGS in the house over here and we have two huskies, of course. So we got a whole DAWG family. But how did you get connected with the with the UW and then Jack McAllister? What do you do with him and some of the other players?

Andy Dolezalek (14:19)
Yeah. Yeah.

⁓ so UW, it was right after I kind of finished with C, or I think it was my last year at Seattle U. ⁓ I had a coworker there, his name's Hunter Eisenhower. He now, ⁓ think he's a head strength coach at Arizona State. but we were both kind of interning together. And then right after there, he jumped on to UW, but then he got, ⁓ a grad position. So he was leaving. You dub and then.

I was looking for opportunities and he and I messaged back and forth and like, Hey, I'm leaving. So there's going to be a spot open if you want it. So then I went, met over there and that was like Peterson's last year. So it was cool to kind of be around those guys. Yeah. And learned. Yeah. Yeah. There was a, we went to the Rose bowl that year we lost to Ohio state, but that, was a fun year. Definitely learned a lot. And then, yeah. And then kind of stepped away.

Buddy Buck (15:15)
Okay.

Dude, that team was nice. That team was real nice.

Andy Dolezalek (15:30)
saw those guys a little bit here and there and then body tempering just started actually kind of growing a little bit again. then, so I didn't talk to any of the UW guys for a while just because there's been a couple of changes coaching staffs. But then Jack hit me up a couple of weeks ago because he actually came across a body tempering, a video of one of the other buddies I have out in Iowa and he wanted to try it. So he messaged me and then I was like, wait, you play at UW? And I was like, I used to coach at UW. And then we kind of talked about guys that we.

we connected with and then he came out because he was getting ready for pro day and then just wanted to see if there was things that he could do to loosen, you know, those kicking muscles up. So we got him in there, stretched him out, rolled him out and then sent him on his way and he's ⁓ out training right now and he's going to go crush his pro day and hopefully, you know, end up on a good NFL squad that we can continue to watch him.

Buddy Buck (16:00)
Love it.

That's right. And you'd be like, what's up my guy Andy out there? Thank you. Yes. Let's go. Shout it out. We'll go DAWGS for sure on that. ⁓ Sunday is a big day for you. Tell us a little bit about Sundays at 9am because something special happens on Sundays at 9am.

Andy Dolezalek (16:32)
Yeah, every Sunday. I've got a couple of different kinds of brands that I run, but every Sunday I run this group called Brothers in Sweat. I got inspired by Jason Kalipa, who was a CrossFit Games athlete. He has his own company called Train Hard and we're actually kind of affiliate of them for our men's group. But yeah, every Sunday I run a men's group. know, I was struggling myself to work out a little bit and I was like, what's missing here? And then I just remembered, you know,

being an athlete and having people around you and having your boys with you and like, okay, this is gonna suck, but we're just gonna get it done. So I reached out to some of my clients and my buddies and we just like, hey, let's just go work out in a park. And it started in actually Kirkland because we found a good park with some cow snake stuff out there, but then.

I just like being in Duvall. So I was like, nah, I'm going to move it to Duvall. So we moved it to CrossFit Big Rock. We've been going there for about six months now, every Sunday at 9 a.m. And it's a completely free workout. You know, we scale things so that everybody can, you know, participate and do it safely. So we want to make sure if guys want to be there to push, you know, strength and we have people who are there to support them or just want to learn how to work out.

We have a wide variety of people. We've had people as young as high schoolers and going off to college come in and we've got people like in their mid fifties come in. there's really no age for it, but I think there's just something about being in that team setting where that makes this guys work a little bit harder and feel a little bit more comfortable. So yeah.

Buddy Buck (17:59)
Yeah, right. It's like they look right and left and they're like, am I leading this or am I like inspired by this? They're not sure, but it keeps everybody moving. That's rad, dude. I love that. So Sunday's at 9 a.m. Come on out. Let's get connected. Get everybody out. Get in motion, right? Like that's, I just love the idea that you're just like, hey man, I just want to get people out. No cost, right? Just show up, come as you are.

let's just go do this thing. And it sounds so genuine, like the way you're delivering that. And I can just tell, just talk to me a couple of times, man. So thanks for what you do for our community.

Andy Dolezalek (18:29)
Absolutely. It's free. It will always be free. You know, I'd love to get some other free things going, but I think there's this kind of stigma with working out that you need to work out before you can work out with other people. And I'm just like, that's, that's, that's funny to me. I was like, just start going. So I think sometimes you just need somebody else there to start going. And I think I'm huge again on working out with people. It's completely changed my life since I've started doing that. Now I

Buddy Buck (18:42)
Right? Totally.

Andy Dolezalek (18:54)
I basically only work out with people because it's truly so inspiring and you never know the conversations that you have to. Like we talked about our wins, we talked about our struggles, we talked about people who might need a little extra help because we're strong, capable bodies, so we'd love to help people in the community. So we always ask people as they come in on Sunday, like if there's anything that you need to get off your chest or anybody who needs help, please share that so we can put that out in our community and be there to support whoever who needs it.

Buddy Buck (19:19)
Love that, man. That's so rad. Well, cool. So where can people ⁓ go find you? Like what platforms are you on? How could they reach out and get connected with you? I know we have a spot on LivingInDuvall.com. They can go find you on our site, but where can they go find your socials or whatever you're pushing out?

Andy Dolezalek (19:34)
⁓ yeah, I got a website permanent strength and recovery. It's still kind of being built out as we're kind of rebranding and taking new photos and stuff. but I'm on there. I'm on Vegaro is kind of how the site that I use for all my bookings and stuff. ⁓ so all my clients sign up through that, but mainly I'm on Instagram. I got numerous accounts on Instagram just because I have do so many different things. So I have one specifically for body temper, body tempering. That's PNW body tempering. ⁓

And then I have the men's group, which is Brothers in Sweat. There's also Permanent Strength and Recovery, which is our gym, or my brand, where I post a lot about clients and stuff. And then my personal account is just Andy Dolazolik. That's where I post just a wide variety of things where my own workouts, workout tips, recovery tips, however I can, just put information out there to help people learn about fitness and things that they can do. as well as, know.

Parents, like the fun stuff that you have to do where you're trying to be healthy with with kids and you know have a healthy marriage and all that so

Buddy Buck (20:32)
Yeah, no, that's freaking rad, dude. I so much what you're doing. I'm looking forward to our follow up conversation too on this. So this is just that we're just going to call this part one, man. So I just want to say thanks for coming out and I want to end with a little hot seat action. So you ready for a little hot seat? Yeah, you feel like you're just as cool as a cucumber, So I'm going ask you to say either or and you pick one. We'll just keep it cruising. All right. First up, sunrise or sunset?

Andy Dolezalek (20:47)
Bring it on.

Sunset.

Buddy Buck (20:57)
Tacos or pizza? Instagram or Facebook? New construction home or vintage character?

Andy Dolezalek (20:58)
Pizza.

Instagram

new construction

Buddy Buck (21:05)
River float or mountain hike? Early bird or night owl?

Andy Dolezalek (21:07)
Mountain height.

Mmm, night owl.

Buddy Buck (21:10)
Alright, two left. Texting or phone call? ⁓ keeping it real. Okay, I love it. And then last one. Cooking at home or dinner on Main Street?

Andy Dolezalek (21:13)
Phone call.

Mmm.

Buddy Buck (21:19)
You can say both, man. can say both. Alternate days. That's really, really cool, man. Appreciate it. All right. Well, there you have it. Thanks for joining us, Andy. Appreciate the time and coming on and really being so generous with your offer for Community man on Sundays at 9 a.m. So thank you.

Andy Dolezalek (21:20)
I want to say both. All three days, we'll do both.

Yeah, absolutely.

Buddy Buck (21:40)
All right, thanks for tuning in to another episode of Community Connect right here on Duvall TV, where tractors meet technology, small town, real life. Buddy Buck, peace.