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Motivation Without A Lifting Partner | Staying Consistent When You'd Rather Skip · Voices for Voices®

• 0:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Hi everyone, it's Justin Hair, Voices for Voices.
• 0:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Thank you so much for joining us on this episode of the show.
• 0:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether you're watching, listening here in the United States or across the world, we're grateful to have you with us.
• 0:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whether this is your first episode or you've been with us from the beginning, we want to say welcome and thank you for being here with us.
• 0:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We don't have a show without you, so thank you very much.
• 0:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, a little housekeeping, if you can give us thumbs up, like, follow, subscribe, share, reshare, repost, uh, and even uh pull your phone, or if you're watching on your phone, you can reach out to maybe 25 or 50 of your uh contacts and share the voices for voices podcast with them.
• 0:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We'd greatly appreciate that.
• 0:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh just as you're able to find the Voices for Voices podcast, wherever you get your podcast, so will your connections and contacts be able to do the same.
• 1:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, we're just uh again so grateful we're on our on that road to reach and help at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 1:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And again, we won't have a show, we wouldn't be able to do this without you.
• 1:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you very much for for joining us.
• 1:26
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh locally, we uh have been battling uh wildfire smoke uh from the Canadian wildfires the last couple days.
• 1:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Today's uh a day that at least thus far, uh while it is scorching hot, uh it doesn't seem uh the air quality index, which they call the AQI for short, um, is uh well below where it has been uh for the last couple of days.
• 2:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So uh still want to have caution, you know, being out not just for you know us humans, but you know, if we have pets, uh the same thing.
• 2:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They have lungs too, and they can get uh just as sick and and ill as uh we we can as humans with with uh with with our lungs and having that uh ash uh smoke coming through.
• 2:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So glad to have that out of the way, at least uh for right now.
• 2:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh was able to get a good workout in, and I just want to give a shout out again uh to Mark McAdams.
• 2:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh he uh he's really been an inspiration.
• 2:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh while he might not know it, um he's been an inspiration, you know, get getting to the gym, working out, being a little bit older, you know, I'm 44, I'm not 24 anymore, and uh you know, seeing the positivity uh that comes from him and his shows.
• 3:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's uh it it's it's cool.
• 3:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh like in not like, oh yeah, it's cool.
• 3:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like it's cool because we never stop learning, we'll never stop learning.
• 3:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: At least I don't, and Mark doesn't either.
• 3:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, so I just want to give a a shout out to him because of the work he's doing, work he has done.
• 3:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: He's helping a lot of people.
• 3:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um yeah, he's helping a ton of people.
• 4:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So go check out uh I believe he's got uh his own YouTube channel, his own podcast.
• 4:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh it's uh it just yeah, it's just neat to see positivity.
• 4:20
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We have too much negativity in the world, and and to see and hear him encourage uh is awesome.
• 4:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I said, it's had a big impact on me trying to stay focused on getting to the gym, working out, believing in myself.
• 4:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's huge.
• 4:53
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's huge when if you don't have like a like a a lifting partner, you know, uh that that's how it was for me when I was growing up and in the late teens and twenties.
• 5:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh you'd have a lifting partner, so they would spot you, make sure you know you wouldn't drop any weight, uh, keep you safe, you keep them safe.
• 5:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and I don't have that now.
• 5:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm okay with that.
• 5:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um so it just means I have to be that you know extra cautious with what uh what weights I do.
• 5:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm just getting started.
• 5:42
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I think this is on like week three.
• 5:45
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So it I've got a long ways to go to uh yeah, just a long ways to go.
• 5:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But yeah, thank you, Mark, uh for all you've done and all you're you're doing, all the people you're helping.
• 6:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh, and and that includes me, uh keeping me motivated here.
• 6:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I said, even though it's at the outset, it doesn't matter, it it's still getting out getting to the gym, working out, being uh focused on working out, you know, don't spend too much time, you know, be there, have a workout plan, at least in your mind.
• 6:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you want to write it down, you can do that.
• 6:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh I start doing that, and then that stops, and then it just kind of goes in my head.
• 6:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So that's also why it helps to have somebody like Mark uh talk about different muscle groups and uh and just all the different ways you can get exercise and and uh work work those muscles out.
• 7:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um so I wanted to spend a couple minutes here at the the outset of the this uh particular episode because again, there's a lot of negativity out there, and to have a person that there's a lot of people, but this is you know personally some of it then it's something in someone who's affecting positive change for me, and maybe I'm having some of that change, positivity for uh if you're watching or listening, and again, you know, the the whole the whole terminology of like we're all in this together, like that's okay, that's that's what how people want to let they'll talk.
• 8:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Yeah, nothing wrong with that.
• 8:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um we're all in this together until we're not, and that that's kind of where I find myself uh at the gym and and that.
• 8:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um so yeah, whatever the thing is for you, watch.
• 8:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, there's so many different people that have their their shows, and they're showing how they they do things.
• 8:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Some of it's for us, and some of it's like like, oh, that person's that's too much, or I don't like those exercises they're doing.
• 8:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So let me find something, and that's the whole deal is find what works for you.
• 9:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Don't find what works for other people now.
• 9:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If what works for another person that you come across and that works for you, all the better.
• 9:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And and there will be you know bits and pieces that you'll pick up, might not be like every single thing A through Z.
• 9:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It might just be you know one thing here, one thing there, and that's okay.
• 9:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no rule about you can only listen to one person, uh and you so he uh yeah, and so that's helped me mentally as well.
• 9:51
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh not to say that well, all the other things are helping me mentally as well, that that I've talked about, you know, from the therapy to the inpatient that I had for five days in 2017, uh to medication, you know, you name it, those have a huge impact on a day-to-day basis.
• 10:19
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so we don't want to we don't want to overlook that because it can kind of get easy to do that if we're like if we're doing something that really feels good and we're doing it on a semi-often basis, like working out the gym, if we're able to, it can eat it can be an easy thing to feel like, oh, I don't need to take my medication anymore because I I feel fine because I'm going to the gym, I'm doing a workout, and I feel better, so I don't need to take it.
• 10:54
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's not the case.
• 11:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like a bonus level or a bonus thing going to the gym.
• 11:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, wow, that may help people uh not have to be on medication.
• 11:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm I'm giving my my testimony, you know, with our ministry, Voices for Voices, that it can be an easy thing for me to just stop, like, all right, yeah, I've been working out for three weeks.
• 11:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's 52 weeks in the year.
• 11:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Okay, I've been working out for three.
• 11:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So how do I know that the rest of the weeks of the year I'm gonna have those same uplifting positive feelings?
• 12:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't, and that's why we just continue that regimen, you know, with the whatever that may be for you.
• 12:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Again, I share what it is for me, and then just working at the gym, again, it's just a bonus of helping our body be in a positive mind mindset for a little bit longer, maybe.
• 12:29
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't know.
• 12:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, I'm sure there's all kinds of research and all kinds of shows and books and um all these different things that can can tell us, well, if you do this, then you don't need that.
• 12:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And I'm not one of those people.
• 12:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not saying don't read the books.
• 12:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: All I'm saying is when you're dealing with the brain and you know, chemicals inside our mind, inside our body, you gotta be very, very careful not to not to think that you know it all because I thought I knew it all, and I was very, very, very, very mistaken.
• 13:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I thought I knew it all, thought I could handle it, and that was not the case.
• 13:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We're all unique individuals.
• 13:43
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So, like I said, you gotta find what works for you.
• 13:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I just look at the working out as a bonus.
• 13:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So, like I said, if I lift one pound ten times in a certain exercise, great.
• 14:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's one thing that I didn't do yesterday and I didn't do for the last oh geez at least 14 years.
• 14:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so I'm trying to I'm trying to be just a little bit smarter in how I approach my recovery.
• 14:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Not putting all you know, there's a terminology of you know, not putting all your eggs in one basket.
• 14:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that would be like you have a basket and you have a bunch of eggs, and you put them all in the same basket.
• 14:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And let's say it's the it's the gym basket.
• 14:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I'm putting everything into the gym basket.
• 14:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm not putting anything into the medication, to the therapy, to the coping mechanisms, none of that.
• 15:09
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And that's where again, I'm not a doctor, but I know from my experience, not just with mental health, but so many other things that we just we don't want to put everything in one specific area.
• 15:34
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's okay.
• 15:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I have the things that I were doing that I was doing before I started working out at the gym, just a shorter time.
• 15:52
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like I said, I just started the gym a short time ago, and so I have some eggs in the medication basket, some eggs in the therapy basket, some eggs in you know, the coping mechanisms, like how to handle situations the best that I can.
• 16:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So I have a few eggs in there, and now I have probably one egg in the in the working out in the gym basket.
• 16:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: See how it's diversified, it's not just one specific area, one specific thing.
• 16:33
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um my diet, I I I try to work work on that, and so it's another thing, you know, working on our our our diet.
• 16:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Not even a diet, working on what we're eating, just I don't like that word diet because it sounds like we're restricting, and I don't like that.
• 16:58
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Uh and so there's there's a particular cereal that has certain minerals and and that that I took took that that I ate many years ago, and then I started to get all bent out of shape about how much things cost.
• 17:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Because as I've mentioned on other shows, I worked at companies where you come in one day and then you are you are fired, you're let go, you don't have that job anymore.
• 17:36
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So the first time I went through that process, that was probably the first trauma, work-related trauma that I went through.
• 17:47
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um, I wasn't let go in the structural restructuring, other people were, but it was the first time in the work structure that I realized wow, there's people being walked out of the building.
• 18:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: They've been working here for 20, 25, 30 years, and so then I restricted a lot of things, so I stopped spending money on the gym, which was not a good idea, uh, because it's helpful.
• 18:24
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um I stopped, so that included, you know, uh not purchasing protein bars, not um get protein shakes at the at the gym, after workout, uh the cereal I was eating, I was like changing all that up so that all those constructs were were changing.
• 18:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And now I am trying to get back to this spot of all right, this is like, and I think the serial not given we're not sponsored by them, so I'm not gonna give them the credit uh on the show yet, but in the name is uh I think something power it and so it it gets me in the zone like I was when I was younger, as much as I can when I'm 44 now.
• 19:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so when I eat that cereal in the morning, and then I get ready to go, I'm ready to go to work out, I'm ready, I'm ready to get things done, ready to to do it.
• 20:05
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so things have kind of come a little bit full circle in that respect.
• 20:12
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I might not always do that, but I know it is like the gym is like especially because it's close, we as humans, we like convenience, right?
• 20:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: We like going to one place and get in as many things as we can.
• 20:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so some of that has to deal with how close we live to a particular grocery store, herb market.
• 20:50
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so because we're we're the place that I I I go to work out at is close, it makes the feeling of not wanting to go sometimes less.
• 21:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So there's less of a feeling of oh, I don't want to go today, I'm sore, and that and there are days like that, and I do take days off till into my workout schedule plan, whatever you want to call it.
• 21:39
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But when you have some a place that's close, where it's like, all right, it takes five minutes if that to get go.
• 21:55
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Then it's then that's where the mental part comes in, right?
• 22:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, well, I don't want to go.
• 22:02
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I don't have to go.
• 22:03
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: No, nobody's forced me to go.
• 22:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Nobody.
• 22:08
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: There's no contractual.
• 22:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I mean, right?
• 22:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You got to pay your fees like for going.
• 22:16
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But as far as you know, I have to go today.
• 22:21
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I have to go tomorrow, or whatever the time frame is, nobody's telling me like you have to do it today.
• 22:32
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Or you have to do it tomorrow.
• 22:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And then there's the times where you're traveling.
• 22:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And there might not be a I'll say like a full service gym where you have the free weights, you have the cables, you have um the machines.
• 23:06
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You name it.
• 23:10
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so have a basket if you're able to for the gym.
• 23:23
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And put an egg in there, proverbial egg.
• 23:27
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If you don't like to eat eggs, this has nothing to do with eating.
• 23:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: This is just this is a hypothetical here.
• 23:35
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: You know, like I'm a I'm a visual learner.
• 23:38
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's how I think.
• 23:40
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Like, okay, there's these baskets, and then there's things.
• 23:44
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So if it's baseballs, if it's softballs, if it's whatever it is, look at seeing if you're you're able to put whatever that is.
• 24:00
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: For me, I'm I'm using eggs in my example.
• 24:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I'm putting an I'm starting to put an egg in into that gym working out bucket or basket.
• 24:14
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Could be a bucket too.
• 24:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: But don't don't try not to neglect the other buckets or the other baskets or the other hats, what whatever your you know helps helps you visualize it.
• 24:46
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Just as a financial planner or a money manager will tell you, you know, you don't want all your money and one investment because if that one investment goes down to zero, well, you have zero.
• 25:01
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Whereas if you have three, four, or five different investments, some are gonna be up at times, some are gonna be down at times.
• 25:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And so that's the thing.
• 25:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Sometimes that for me, the basket with the eggs with the gym is gonna be fuller than others, and other times the gym basket with the gym eggs is gonna be lower than other, like less eggs than others, and all of this is to help us all, not just me, not just you, but everybody in the world.
• 25:57
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Help us feel better, help us be more confident.
• 26:04
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I know I need it, I know I need more confidence.
• 26:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That's why again, I'm I'm constantly learning and watching seeing what works for me or seeing what doesn't work for me and go, eh, I don't like that.
• 26:30
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: That doesn't work for me.
• 26:31
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Let me try to find something that is similar, does kind of the same thing, and then you always want to rotate things.
• 26:49
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So thank you for joining us on this episode of the show.
• 26:52
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• 26:59
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• 27:18
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Um you can find us as well as your contacts and connections can find us wherever you or they get their podcasts, and we are well on our way to reaching and helping at least three billion people over the course of my lifetime and beyond.
• 27:41
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: It's because of you, because you have demanded more episodes, have demanded more content, and so country by country, we're adding with our analytics, city by city, province by province, state by state, territory by territory, whatever the breakdown is, we're continuing to add with each additional episode.
• 28:15
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And from the bottom of my heart, and everybody at Voices for Voices, thank you.
• 28:25
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: I knew I always wanted to make a difference and help people, and I didn't know how I was going to be able to do that, and because of you, you've helped shine the light for me, for voices for voices, and mythical creatures around the world.
• 28:48
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: So until next time, please let's celebrate all the voices of the world and let's be a voice for not only ourselves, but uh maybe another person who isn't able to share their voice.
• 29:07
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: And we'll see you on our next episode and hope you have a great day.
• 29:13
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If it's warm, really warm, where you're at, try to stay cool.
• 29:17
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: If it's really cold where you're at, try to stay warm, and we'll see you next time.
• 29:22
  Voices for Voices, Justin Alan Hayes: Goodbye for now.