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5 Clients Who Are Making Great Progress and How They’re Doing It · SOTA Personal Training Podcast

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  Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the SODA Personal Training
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  Podcast. We help busy adults get strong
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  and fit and stay that way for a really long time.
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  I'm Coach Sean here with Coach Phil again.
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  How are we doing, Phil? I'm solid.
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  Thank you. Sean.
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  How are you? Good, good.
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  I'm doing good. You know what we're bringing
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  relentless positivity today. Seems like there's a lot of
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  negative stuff going on in the world around us.
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  It's cold outside, but we are heating up.
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  Bringing positive vibes. I actually just stole your
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  little line. Oh, you did.
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  You did take it today we are talking about 5 clients who are
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  having great success, 5 clients who are winning right now,
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  achieving their fitness goals and how they're doing it.
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  OK. And when I was prepping for this
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  episode, I was like, I went down my list, right?
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  Of all the clients who came and come here, especially the ones
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  I've worked with, which there's a lot of you, right?
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  And I'm like, man, we have so many right now who are really
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  making really good progress. Definitely.
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  Really good progress and this. Time of year too, like this is a
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  tough time, right? These guys are knocking on the
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  park like every every week consistently for and not just
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  this month. Exactly.
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  And you know, the and, and obviously the areas we're
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  talking about progress is, you know, OK, burning body fat,
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  getting stronger, improved energy, all the key things,
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  right? I was going down this list and
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  I'm like, I have so many to pick from to talk about right now.
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  I actually came up with 17 totals.
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  So 1212 didn't make the cut. OK, sorry, sorry to those 12.
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  Well, and, and as we share, I think you put together this,
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  this, this list of these people and kind of what they've
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  accomplished. And it's like, no, they, they
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  take the cake for for one reason or another, not to diminish all
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  the efforts that all of our other members are are doing to
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  work hard every day, but some of these are just like this
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  deserves commendation. Yes, exactly.
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  And So what we want to do, we want you guys to take away from
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  this. You know, assuming that you're
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  not one of the five clients, maybe you are, right.
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  But what we want you to take away from this is we're going to
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  go through, we're going to analyze how each one of these
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  clients had a lot of their success, right?
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  And because success leaves clues and ultimately you're going to
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  see some common themes here that these clients have done very,
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  very well to make the progress they have cuz.
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  What I'd love to do, Sean, is like, cuz I, I look at this list
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  a little bit, but I think before we even mention like what
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  they've done, maybe what are a couple of those?
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  Because I think when people hear results like this, they've been
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  told, Oh, this is you got to do five days a week.
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  You got to eat, you know, you got to eat 1000 calories a day
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  to like earn these things. But none of these people have
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  have done that, correct? Yeah, yeah.
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  No. Well, that's, yeah, that's
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  actually going to be one of the common themes is that none of
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  these people have, you know, drastically they starve
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  themselves or anything like that.
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  None of these people have been in the gym seven days a week or
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  anything like that, right? A lot of it is just built on,
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  you know, sustainable small habit changes, right?
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  Like literally everyone that I'm looking at right now, with the
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  exception of maybe one of them on the list.
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  But we'll come back to that. Right?
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  Yeah, yeah. So how?
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  Sorry, How did you want to do it?
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  You wanted to kind of like you want me to go through the common
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  themes first. Make the people wait.
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  Well, I just no, no, I think I think we definitely can can
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  recap it. I just want to go into this as
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  people, before they even hear there's numbers, understand that
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  like this, these people are coming in two to three days a
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  week. Yep, right, all of them
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  basically, except maybe 1. They're eating a slight like
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  calorie deficit and logs are like weight, weight loss
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  oriented. And, and yeah, again, the idea
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  is it's been sustainable because they've been at this for for
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  quite a while. Yep, which and then the
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  consistency is another theme, right?
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  So, OK, so we're going to talk through these five clients.
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  And then if we have time for fun at the end, I'm going to give
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  another special mention of a client who's having success in a
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  different area and then go over some common themes as well.
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  So let's do this and here's how we're going to do this, OK?
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  Because this is always the way that we like to do this in this
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  podcast. We're going to do this
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  anonymously, OK? We're not mentioning these
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  clients specifically by name. OK, we're calling them.
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  Go ahead. We can see something.
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  I was going to say, we got their Social Security number.
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  We're. Going to go.
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  Out so they know who they are. Right.
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  Yep, Social Security address is very.
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  Good, but not their name. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
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  Social Security, address, pay, account numbers, all that stuff
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  we don't even have. Yeah, we don't have Social
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  Security numbers. Get you just another hot water
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  right there. Not carry that stuff and
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  everything else is. Encrypted OK OK OK in all
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  seriousness, we're calling these clients client A, client B,
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  client C, client D and client E OK and I'm going to go through
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  kind of a description of these client so some of you might even
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  know him like Oh yeah I know her I know him that's my friend
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  right and some of you listening if you are one of these clients,
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  you'll be like, Oh yeah that's me.
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  And and again as we do this too, if at any point just because we
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  in general don't like to mention the names of clients
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  specifically on the podcast, but if you are one of these clients
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  and you want to you know even come on to the podcast or you
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  want to give us authorization to say your name on the podcast, go
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  for it we will go ahead and do it but for now we'll keep your
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  names anonymous okay yeah so some anonymous shout outs here
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  basically okay should we go into client A?
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  Let's do it. Okay, so client A and this is
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  very typical of our client avatar here at soda.
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  This, you know, as a woman who she's in her in her 40s, right?
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  And she the, the, the key thing to know about her is she does
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  not like lifting weights. She just absolutely does not
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  like lifting. Weights.
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  She does not like strength training and she started working
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  out with me. It was, it was a rocky start,
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  definitely, you know, in early 2025.
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  She's been doing it for about a year now, right?
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  And just at least she was honest with me about it.
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  She's like, hey, man, like I, I hate weightlifting.
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  She kind of liked other forms of exercise, you know, like, you
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  know, just things like yoga and stuff like that.
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  Just not into weightlifting at all.
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  Not into weightlifting and you know her, she had a couple
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  different goals, but like the main one was gonna be, she
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  needed to lose weight, right? She was, you know, I'll go ahead
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  and say the numbers like she was around £200, right?
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  And wanted to get down somewhere.
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  And you know, she's, she's pretty tall.
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  So like, you know, get down to 15160, whatever, right?
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  Would be a great goal for her. And you know, she's also, and
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  this is super common among our clients.
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  She's a really, really freaking busy mom and is really
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  successful in business and like a lot of areas of life, right?
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  Couple of kids. Yep, exactly.
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  Yep, that on. Yep, exactly.
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  And so it's like, OK, is there room for fitness in her life?
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  You know, and she doesn't even like it anyway, because.
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  She was doing, if I remember correctly way back, she was
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  doing a lot of like spin, spin classes because it's like fun.
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  That's like a really enjoyable piece, but it just wasn't giving
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  her the traction she needed to like get that forward momentum.
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  And then I think her hubby, who also now works out here,
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  actually just bought her some sessions, I think just like
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  messaged. Yeah.
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  And then it it took like 3 months because she's so busy.
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  She didn't even like, start for a few months.
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  And then I forgot how it happened.
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  But eventually I think we just reconnected and finally got her
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  in. And then, I mean, the rest is
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  kind of history. But once she got started, yeah.
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  Is that actually how it went down?
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  I didn't even. Remembered her husband first.
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  Yeah, really. Yeah, yeah.
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  See 'cause I thought when I OK 'cause now, like we just said,
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  her husband been working out here now for a few months.
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  I thought that he had no idea who we were when I talked to him
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  the 1st. Time he didn't.
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  He never came in until he started, until she.
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  Started getting results and she was like, hey, dude, can she do
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  this too? Yeah, yeah.
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  Oh, man yeah. And and they'll know exactly who
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  they are if they hear this because.
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  And I'll just say the husband is the one with the ankle injury
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  that has had the ankle injury. I literally told him that we
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  were doing this type of episode today because I just trained him
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  earlier. I I did not mention that his
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  wife was going to be one of the clients that was on the list.
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  And then, of course, you know, hubby, not to hate on you, you
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  know, I didn't, I didn't put you on the list.
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  You know, your wife's crushing it.
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  You're doing OK. You know, you need to, he's
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  doing all right. You know, it's always how it is,
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  right? Like if there's a couple, the
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  wife is always doing pretty well with the fitness stuff and the
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  husband's lagging behind. It's the common theme, you know.
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  So anyway, this client a, the wife of this couple, she did
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  really, really well throughout all of 2025 and lost 45 to 50
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  lbs, if I remember the exact numbers correctly, right.
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  And is now, you know, very, very lean and, you know, has
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  maintained a good amount of strength and also quit drinking.
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  Has been, she's one of those people too has, you know, like
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  with diet, it's like she barely has freaking time to get a meal,
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  you know what I mean? But like, but usually what
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  happens, the problem that people run into in that situation is
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  they barely have time to eat. And then when they do get time,
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  they binge eat or they eat the wrong stuff, you know?
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  And so with her, it was really like, all we had to do was kind
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  of make it so she doesn't totally hate coming here to
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  strength training because like just getting that foundation of,
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  OK, you're a strength train two days a week, right?
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  And then the other dominoes kind of start falling into place,
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  right? Like this is one thing that she
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  told me is that, you know, she's a very driven individual.
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  We have lots of, you know, clients who fall into this
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  category, very successful, very driven, right?
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  She even told me within like the first couple weeks of working
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  out with me, she's like, you know, I just decided if I'm
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  going to do this, I'm going to do at least do it really good.
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  I'm going to do really good. And at first I was kind of like,
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  yeah, whatever. I believe that when I see it,
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  you know, because I've heard plenty of clients say I'm going
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  to do this or I'm going to eat this way.
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  I'm going to quit drinking. I'm going to do whatever, right?
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  And I'm like, yeah, OK, whatever.
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  We'll keep lifting weights. We'll see about that.
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  We're going to keep. Supporting you, but like we're
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  always like, we know this stuff is hard, so we get.
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  It Yeah, we get it. She actually did it.
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  Oh, yeah, she did it. Lion A you did it.
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  I know you still don't like lifting weights, but you did it.
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  That's right. Let's achieve the goals and you
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  know now really is in that phase where we just need to maintain.
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  We don't even need to go like just keep getting in for some
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  strength training when you can. Now she does some of the soda
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  fits too with the larger group sessions.
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  Just get in when you can, even if it's only once a week and
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  just keep decent habits elsewhere.
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  Obviously the quitting drinking really helps, but yeah for.
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  For like the meal thing, right, 'cause she's so busy.
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  What kind of things did she do to make that part easier?
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  Could they use like a like a prescription like meal delivery
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  service or like, you know, ingredients?
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  Do you recall? Not really.
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  I mean, with her, and we haven't even talked about it a ton
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  recently, but she just kind of leaned into like the high
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  protein snacks, the Greek yogurts, things like that, you
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  know? Yeah, but I, you know, I, I, I
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  think, and I do think for her that the eliminating drinking
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  was just such a huge factor in terms of just making healthier
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  choices all around. Like she didn't have to change
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  that much. Like honestly, unless I remember
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  incorrectly with her, we never tracked macros and calories,
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  never had to do it. You know, like with some people
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  will need to because it's like the, you know, the you, you
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  just, you don't get as much progress as you would like by
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  just doing some strength training and, you know, trying
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  to make some healthy choices. You actually have to track with
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  her. I don't think we ever did track
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  that if I can remember correctly.
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  Well, that's the thing. Like if you stop drinking a
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  strength train 2-3 days a week, like those levers being pulled
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  are gateways to like other things that just happen
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  automatically, like your sleep's better, like your mood's better.
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  So you just make better choices without having to think about
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  it. It's it's like this, this kind
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  of trickle down effect. 1% that. Sounds like that was at play
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  very much. Yeah, she crushed it.
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  Fantastic. Let's go to client B.
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  OK, so client B, I've shouted her out on the podcast before.
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  She'll know who she is. She started off I I think I just
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  looked at her intake form today. So when she started with us in
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  September 2024, she was around 360 lbs and it struggled with
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  weight for quite some time. Right now she's down to about
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  285 or 280 something like that. So lost 85 to you know, am I
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  doing the math right? 8080 ish pounds in the past, you
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  know, 16 months roughly and has been on just like a really good
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  pace with that, right? Because in the way I always say
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  it to people is like, you know, if, if, if you need to lose
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  weight, you need to burn body fat.
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  Like losing a pound a week is a really good pace to shoot for,
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  right? Like you can lose maybe up to 2
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  lbs of of body fat every week. But like, it's almost
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  unrealistic. Yeah, On the front end it, you
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  know, people have a decent amount to lose.
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  It's going to be maybe 2 to 4 lbs, but it slows down and
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  eventually that 1 LB a week is like, as long as it's
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  consistent, that's a fantastic goal.
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  Yes, exactly. You know, so yeah, she went down
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  from 360 to around 280 lbs now and, you know, much, much better
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  mobility, very strong. To be honest.
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  She was never weak. I'll, I'll, I'll be honest with
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  you about that. And, you know, she's been
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  training sometimes like I, my nickname for her is Clockwork
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  because she's just like super consistent with, you know, she
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  shows up three times a week. It's the same time Monday,
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  Wednesday, Friday, right mom, and she's been doing it for over
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  a year now. And you know, she's one that
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  like also, you know, busy with job, gets in here, sneaks away
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  for 35 minutes. She lives close, right, sneaks
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  away for 35 minutes. Does the workout goes right back
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  to work and just like trusted the process and just did it for
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  a long enough period of time Now with her, you know, she's been I
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  don't know if rigorous is the word, but like she's been very
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  consistent also with calorie tracking since the beginning,
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  right and her diet for the most part, it's been on 1800
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  calories, right. You know, which for you know,
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  female is is good. You know, you'll see some women
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  who can eat more than that, some who need who, you know, eat less
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  than that. But 1800 is is fine.
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  It usually we'll put you into a little bit of a calorie deficit,
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  especially if you're exercising right.
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  And she's just like been on that for over a year now.
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  Has that changed? A thing.
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  Nope, exactly. And it's just working.
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  And then the number on the scales is gradually going down.
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  Her mobility is increasing every day.
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  Her ability to go up and down stairs is improving every day.
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  You know, like all the little things that we take for granted
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  often times. All of the things because this
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  was like, gosh, maybe three to six months ago, but but she'd
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  come up to me and, and was like a little emotional for good
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  reason, because she's very involved in her church.
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  And she said, God, yeah, this is probably 6 months ago or more
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  that she was able to like take some of the stairs in her church
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  for the first time ever because before it was just, it was, it
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  caused too much like knee pain. And that was like this huge, I
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  think, light bulb moment, like a massive wind that helped fuel
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  the next chapter. And this was, yeah, this is kind
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  of the midway point, I think, if not a little bit sooner.
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  So that was huge and eye opening, I think to what this
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  stuff can do. Yes, exactly.
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  And it takes those breakthroughs to really want to work towards
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  the next step, you know what I mean?
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  So now for I, I've got some lofty goals for her now that
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  we're working on because in spite of the fact, so I, I put a
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  goal out there there for her saying that we're going to try
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  to be under 200 by the end of 2026, right?
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  And so, you know, obviously that's a little bit more than my
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  1 LB per week thing that I just talked about, right?
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  But I think what she's doing now is, you know, now I've started
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  to ramp things up with her even a little bit more.
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  So we're increasing her steps per day, right?
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  We're sticking with the three workouts per per week, the three
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  strength training sessions, you know, now she comes in here a
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  couple other days a week to walk on the treadmill on her non
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  lifting days, getting more steps at home.
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  So now it's just like we're we're progressively, you know,
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  we started off with the basics, right?
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  And now we're just progressively adding a little bit more, but
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  nothing that's unsustainable, you know, and.
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  Just adding stuff to what she's already doing, tweaking little
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  things across these systems that you guys will hear that there's
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  a lot of consistency on between all these people and just in
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  general, right, Has to do with sleep steps, workouts,
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  nutrition, you know? Exactly.
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  Client C, OK, Client C has also been on a really great weight
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  loss journey and with him I actually, you know, I was even
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  looking, you know, 'cause sometimes I for clients
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  listening, sometimes I Snoop on you guys on your in body scans.
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  I can look up you. We, we do these, these in body
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  scans in here that measures muscle, body fat percentage,
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  whatever. It's like plug in your phone
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  number 'cause that's what we use for IDs, right.
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  When did, when did Jack do the last in body scan?
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  So I was snooping on this guy and he I don't think he actually
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  ever did an in body scan. Like at the beginning.
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  I don't think we did one, no, sometimes.
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  We don't, we don't like force it.
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  It's beneficial, but but not always.
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  Yeah. And anyway, you know, he's been
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  coming here I guess for about two years now or close if I
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  remember. I I forgot to look up the exact
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  dates, but but again, kind of the same thing as client B You
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  know, with client C, he's been very consistent with the three
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  workouts per week, right. And he's probably lost.
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  It's like I, I don't even know the number in my head, but he
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  just looks and moves like a different person, right.
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  You know what I mean? This is.
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  This first thing, one first e-mail I sent to this individual
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  is in May of 2024. Yeah, it sounds about right.
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  So it's been almost two years. Yeah.
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  Year and a half. Yeah.
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  OK. Yeah.
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  And I mean, since then, you know, it's just, it's kind of
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  the same thing as with client B. It's like you just, you know,
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  from one month to the next, you're like, Oh yeah, another 5
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  to 8 lbs came off. Like the weight is just
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  gradually coming off, you know, moving better, feeling good, you
• 16:38
  know, with this client in particular, once again, you guys
• 16:40
  are probably bored of me saying this, but it's like 3 * a week
• 16:43
  strength training and getting steps.
• 16:45
  This client goes out for a walk every morning, rains nor shine,
• 16:48
  you know, 365 days a year, right?
• 16:51
  And he's been consistent with that the entire time.
• 16:53
  And, and so another point just seems off topic, but none of
• 16:58
  these clients that are on the list of these five, I just have
• 17:03
  to throw this in here. None of these clients that I
• 17:05
  know of on these 5 are on a GLP right now.
• 17:09
  Now we do have some clients and there are some in those, those
• 17:12
  12 like honorable mentions who are on a GLP.
• 17:15
  We do have some clients who are on GLPS and who are having great
• 17:18
  success with that as well. So I guess the point I want to
• 17:21
  make with this is like you can have success with the GLP or
• 17:25
  without a GOP if you have a significant amount of weight to
• 17:27
  lose. These clients that I'm talking
• 17:29
  about right here are, have not, as far as I know, they've been
• 17:32
  one of me specifically told me, no, I'm not, I'm not taking
• 17:34
  anything like that. But I just wanted to throw that
• 17:38
  in there because again, we, we have, we see some clients who
• 17:41
  have decided, you know, a GLP seems like the best thing for me
• 17:43
  right now. And that's great.
• 17:45
  If they, you know, take their doctor's advice and pair it with
• 17:47
  strength training just to keep the muscle, it can be a good
• 17:50
  option. With that being said, these ones
• 17:52
  that are on this list, as far as I know, have never tried any GLP
• 17:55
  or anything like that and they've all lost significant
• 17:57
  amounts of weight, right? Right, because it can seem
• 17:59
  impossible. And that is another lever to
• 18:02
  pull. I think the only difference is
• 18:04
  for some of these people pulling that lever of going the
• 18:06
  medication route, which again, there's no judgement.
• 18:09
  This is a tool. It's, it's good.
• 18:10
  And if it helps get the ball rolling like 100%, if that makes
• 18:14
  sense, that should be done. We're here to help, you know,
• 18:16
  reduce the amount of, I mean, lean muscle mass loss, the
• 18:19
  things that we've heard about bone density.
• 18:22
  But the difference is that or we can do this forever or not.
• 18:25
  And I think that's one of the decisions that some people have
• 18:28
  to make. Whereas, you know, eating well,
• 18:31
  sleeping well, working out, those are things we want to bake
• 18:34
  and kind of forever. But again, yeah, that's that's
• 18:38
  kind of the two cents on it for now.
• 18:39
  Yep, exactly. And like the other, the other
• 18:41
  pattern to point out here is, you know, all of these people
• 18:44
  are doing things that are useful, sustainable, but not
• 18:47
  overdoing it. Like I said, this client, see,
• 18:49
  you know, just three days a week of strength training, been doing
• 18:51
  it for a year and a half now, right?
• 18:53
  Does the walks in the morning. This is not seven days a week of
• 18:56
  three hour workouts. It's not like that, right?
• 18:58
  You know, and, and with him, in his case, he actually, he even
• 19:01
  admits to me he's like, Oh yeah, you know, I still eat some
• 19:03
  processed food. You know, he says it's like my
• 19:05
  diet is not that great right now, but it's better, you know,
• 19:07
  like we never, we didn't with him.
• 19:08
  We never went like hardcore with the diet.
• 19:11
  It's just more movement, getting some strength training, making
• 19:14
  some slightly better choices, sleeping better, you know, all
• 19:17
  those little things. And lately too, he's been, he's
• 19:19
  been taking advantage of some open gyms.
• 19:21
  You know, he'll come in usually for like a, a fourth day just to
• 19:23
  do like a little bit of extra like core stuff.
• 19:26
  But you know, so in the gym 3 or maybe four days a week.
• 19:31
  And like I said, it's just that same thing.
• 19:32
  It's like this is not a crash diet.
• 19:34
  It's not starve yourself for, you know, a month and then
• 19:38
  getting it all back. It's it's not seven days a week,
• 19:40
  3 hour workouts. It's not like high rocks, like
• 19:43
  not so cardio stuff. It's it's like somewhat
• 19:46
  unremarkable in that regard, right?
• 19:48
  It's just like that's it. But it's been consistent and
• 19:51
  it's been predictable both in the behaviors and the outcome.
• 19:54
  I think that's what everybody wants because people start and
• 19:57
  stop countless times more than they can count on one hand.
• 20:01
  And. You'll just like, I just want
• 20:02
  something that sticks. And so it comes down to, well,
• 20:06
  what's, yeah, what's sustainable, achievable that you
• 20:08
  can actually see yourself doing for 6 to 12 months and not just
• 20:13
  six weeks or got six days, I don't know.
• 20:16
  Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly.
• 20:17
  And you know, this is a point that I was really gonna
• 20:20
  necessarily have to make, but it is part of it is just sticking
• 20:23
  with it too. You know, like every one of
• 20:25
  these clients has done at least probably at least 100 total
• 20:28
  workouts. You know, not, not like what I
• 20:30
  mean is overtime, right, 'cause we have some who've been a few
• 20:33
  of these have been coming here for, you know, 3-4, five years.
• 20:36
  Client A, for example's only been one year, but she's
• 20:37
  probably been in for 100 workouts, you know, 2 workouts a
• 20:40
  week for the year, right? Like, you know, it doesn't
• 20:42
  happen in 10 workouts, unfortunately.
• 20:44
  And that's not us saying that. Oh well, we want you to stay
• 20:46
  around forever. That way we could take your
• 20:48
  money. Like it's just the reality of
• 20:49
  the situation, right? You need to.
• 20:51
  You need to do the thing consistently for a while to see
• 20:53
  the results. We just always say we want you
• 20:55
  to do this as long as it's beneficial.
• 20:56
  And if some people have like, quote, UN quote, graduated,
• 20:59
  they're like, I'm gonna do more on my own.
• 21:01
  And that's for the most part true.
• 21:03
  Those people have continued to do well.
• 21:04
  But no, I think our average membership is somewhere between
• 21:09
  two and three years. Like it's, it's a long time.
• 21:11
  And that's, that's not because we force that.
• 21:15
  It's because it's beneficial for that long to delegate the
• 21:18
  accountability and structure and guidance to someone who knows
• 21:21
  how to get you on track and keep you on track.
• 21:23
  Correct. Act as the bumpers, if you will.
• 21:25
  And even if you graduate in training with me, if you don't
• 21:28
  get any more benefit working with me, you can train with
• 21:29
  Coach Blake. He'll push you 5 times as hard
• 21:31
  as I do. You know, if you want to learn
• 21:33
  about the biceps and the exact location origin insertion.
• 21:36
  Exactly. We love talking smack about
• 21:37
  Coach Blake. Love you, Coach Blake, but it's
• 21:39
  been a while. Since I've been pretty light on
• 21:41
  the smart talk, I don't know what's gotten.
• 21:42
  Into, I don't know, Client D. I'm going to whip through these
• 21:46
  last couple here since I don't have much time.
• 21:47
  Client D Client D is the one who climbed Kilimanjaro.
• 21:50
  Yep, Client D has lost. I don't know how much weight,
• 21:55
  but it's like every time I see him like Yep, you're leaner.
• 21:58
  Yep, it's probably like 25 or 30 lbs in the past like 6 months.
• 22:03
  And she's also really freaking strong.
• 22:06
  Was she pressing? So she was bench pressing the 32
• 22:09
  and a halfs, right? And this is like, you know, so
• 22:12
  for females listening, if you're doing like a flat bench press or
• 22:15
  incline bench press, like if you get up to doing the 30 LB
• 22:17
  dumbbells, pretty freaking strong regardless of age.
• 22:20
  And you know, and this woman is, I don't know exactly how she's,
• 22:23
  you know. I don't.
• 22:25
  Even upper 50s I don't even know.
• 22:28
  I guess we're not supposed to guess.
• 22:29
  I'm not supposed to guess that. I'm going to guess she's 52,
• 22:32
  assuming it's probably a little higher than that.
• 22:33
  And then she'll feel good about me saying 52.
• 22:35
  So client D love you now. I'm sure anyway.
• 22:40
  But you know, she comes to my noon groups and she's been,
• 22:43
  yeah, she's been absolutely crushing it recently.
• 22:45
  And like I said, is, is strong. See, this is like the, the, the,
• 22:48
  the always the tough thing about when you're, you're losing
• 22:50
  weight, right? It's like it's naturally you
• 22:52
  don't have that much strength. You're not getting that much
• 22:54
  food, right? Like, but she is strong and
• 22:57
  she's losing weight. Yep, right, Yep.
• 22:59
  I kind. Of say, I love this individual.
• 23:01
  She's been, she's been a member and some way she perform, I'm
• 23:04
  pretty sure before like the switch to SODA personal
• 23:07
  training, like she's been here a long time.
• 23:09
  Yeah, some little breaks here and there.
• 23:11
  She's coming with her daughter, daughter-in-law I believe too.
• 23:14
  But just consistent. She's one who's like, I'm just
• 23:17
  showing up, be ready for me. Right, which is?
• 23:20
  Which is great. Some people are like, I can't
• 23:21
  sign up. Like I'm not going to go.
• 23:23
  She's like, I'm just showing up. I don't care if it's.
• 23:25
  Just me or whatever. She's never signed up for a
• 23:27
  session. No, she didn't sign up for two
• 23:28
  years. Right now she ain't signed up,
• 23:32
  but she's getting after it. And I respect that.
• 23:34
  That's the man and the really thing.
• 23:35
  And I haven't even talked to her that much about diet either.
• 23:38
  She's just been coming in and crushing the weights and losing
• 23:40
  the weight like I, yeah, it's, it's been great, yeah.
• 23:43
  You know, 33, whatever, 3-4 days a week, something like that.
• 23:46
  And. Some weeks, sometimes, some days
• 23:47
  it's four days a week. She is coming in a lot.
• 23:49
  Then some breaks to hike a mountain.
• 23:50
  Yep, exactly. Little easy active rest hike
• 23:53
  that mountain. How about that for a big goal?
• 23:55
  Yeah, that that is something that's unifying all these people
• 23:57
  is they have they have some really big thing they they
• 24:00
  weren't working towards. And it's not like, well, I'm
• 24:03
  going, you know, it's not beach season, right?
• 24:06
  And and that's totally fine. But these people had like a
• 24:08
  really big, either physical or really meaningful the thing they
• 24:12
  were working on because the gentleman from before, like he
• 24:16
  had a trip to I believe it was Tokyo to see his daughter, if I
• 24:19
  remember correctly. And he's like, we're going to be
• 24:21
  walking a ton. He's like an I don't.
• 24:23
  He wanted to make sure that he could do that without anything
• 24:26
  holding him back. He's right.
• 24:28
  So just breaking those limits of of having to say, you know, I
• 24:32
  got to take a break and he crushed that one.
• 24:34
  And I was just keeping it going 100.
• 24:36
  Percent, 100%. Yeah.
• 24:39
  I whip through client E here. Well, no.
• 24:40
  I'm gonna give her respectful time.
• 24:42
  And you can take off to jump off a little bit early, but you can
• 24:45
  keep it rolling. No, no.
• 24:46
  Well, I gotta jump off too. Oh, we're gonna do like 4
• 24:48
  minutes on this client and then I'm gonna smack talk one of my
• 24:50
  other clients at the end. OK, so here we go, Client E OK,
• 24:54
  so this is a client also. She's been a member for a while.
• 24:57
  She's a small grouper basically now.
• 24:58
  And really over the past year, she really finally found her,
• 25:02
  found her stride and had that great success just in terms of
• 25:05
  getting the weight loss that she wanted, right?
• 25:07
  So I was looking at her in bodies, snooping on in bodies
• 25:10
  again. And you know, she's one who's
• 25:12
  been doing these in bodies pretty regularly with me just to
• 25:15
  see, you know, what's her body fat percentage like?
• 25:19
  And so to give you an idea like right now she's finally in that
• 25:21
  perfect body fat percentage range, 25%, which is great for
• 25:25
  female like between 20 and 30 is.
• 25:27
  Where she she wants to. Be exactly and you could get a
• 25:29
  little lower, but like this is really good, like really lean at
• 25:31
  25% body fat. Confident area, yeah, yeah,
• 25:34
  like, I like how I look and how I feel and what body does for
• 25:37
  me, but I'm not have to do anything outrageous.
• 25:39
  Yes. And and so you know, she's a
• 25:41
  little is taller than average, right.
• 25:42
  So 156 lbs right now. I probably shouldn't say the
• 25:45
  exact Ah, hell of it. I'm doing it right.
• 25:46
  I'm saying the exact numbers. Yeah, yeah.
• 25:48
  She was 176 in April of 2025 and then got down to 156 by
• 25:55
  November. So from 33% body fat to 25% body
• 25:58
  fat looks like a totally different person.
• 25:59
  And there was a time before she was actually a 192.
• 26:02
  I can't remember how long ago it was, but so you know, 36 lbs
• 26:05
  down total £20 down. Pure body fat kept her muscle
• 26:08
  mass over that 7 or 8 month period and really, and and she's
• 26:13
  another one classic our client avatar.
• 26:15
  You know, I don't remember her exact age.
• 26:17
  I mean, you know, late 30s, you know, super busy mom, I don't
• 26:22
  know, but super busy mom dentist now she'll definitely know who
• 26:26
  she is and you know, barely has the 30 minutes to get in for a
• 26:30
  workout. Sometimes she's like, she's
• 26:32
  like, I got like 26 minutes and I'm like, all right, well, let's
• 26:35
  do the two most important exercises for three sets each
• 26:38
  and let's go, you know, And she's done a great job of
• 26:43
  prioritizing the heavy compound exercises, squats, dead lifts,
• 26:49
  you know, pull down heavy press, but like, and some core work.
• 26:52
  But like she, she's one who has understood from the beginning,
• 26:55
  like I don't need a ton of variety in my exercises and I
• 26:59
  don't need to worry about all these little small muscle
• 27:02
  groups. I need to lift heavy on the
• 27:03
  heavy compound exercises, keep my muscle mass while I'm in the
• 27:07
  appropriate calorie deficit. Yep.
• 27:10
  That's, I mean, that's it. It's funny because I just
• 27:13
  chatted with this individual the other day and she was like the
• 27:16
  the problem she's having now is that she's like, I can lift so
• 27:19
  much weight that my my wrists are having a hard time holding
• 27:22
  all this weight. It's like how do?
• 27:24
  I How do I? How do I grab this barbell?
• 27:27
  Because everything else is strong enough.
• 27:29
  But that's now the weak link because yeah, she's kept gotten
• 27:33
  really strong, which is a good problem to have in a way, so.
• 27:37
  Yep Yep exactly. That is all that I have for
• 27:43
  these specific clients and the shout outs.
• 27:46
  I got this call with the with Rome.
• 27:48
  We're getting ready for our next seminar, so we're doing our
• 27:50
  intro call, but I'll let you smack.
• 27:52
  Talk, I'm a smack talk and I can mention the two clients I'm
• 27:54
  going to mention by name, right? There's there's two of them.
• 27:56
  I'm going to mention my name. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 27:58
  Get out of here. Get out of here.
• 28:00
  I'm going to smack talk these clients for three minutes.
• 28:02
  Aye, Thanks everybody. Here we go.
• 28:03
  OK, so now for the fun one. OK, there's another client who's
• 28:07
  been having success in another area recently.
• 28:09
  He's actually been doing pretty well with his fitness to I'm not
• 28:11
  going to lie, right? And I'm a say him by name.
• 28:14
  OK, You guys know this guy. If you've looked at the at the
• 28:17
  whiteboard back there at the back of the gym, OK, it's Jerry.
• 28:20
  Shout out to Jerry. All right, Jerry's coming in.
• 28:22
  So right now I'm recording this at 3:38.
• 28:25
  I'm going to try to release this right after this 3:38 PM right
• 28:28
  now, Thursday the 22nd, Jerry's in.
• 28:30
  He's in 6:00 PM group again tonight.
• 28:31
  OK, those of you who are watching the competition between
• 28:33
  me and Jerry back there, Jerry is winning this year, OK?
• 28:37
  He's winning four to two in the basketball shootout.
• 28:41
  US against me, I got him 35 to 20.
• 28:43
  We played 55 games in in 2025, but I got him 35 those times.
• 28:47
  But this year he's winning. He's up 4 to 2.
• 28:49
  And I even just won the sixth round in epic fashion, OK?
• 28:53
  Like, it was epic. Some of you guys like, what the
• 28:55
  heck's going on? What are you talking about,
• 28:56
  Sean? Those others of you know, OK, it
• 28:58
  was epic fashion. OK, So anybody who understands
• 29:01
  the basketball game knows that if you make more than 30%,
• 29:03
  you're really crushing it. You're really doing good, right?
• 29:05
  So I was like, if you make 3 out of 10, basically in this game,
• 29:09
  you're doing really, really good, OK, 4 out of 10, you're
• 29:11
  doing great, right? So I was O for four, Jerry was O
• 29:15
  for five. And then between the two of us,
• 29:18
  we made the last eleven shots in a row and I beat him six to
• 29:23
  five, OK, to get down 4/2 on the season.
• 29:26
  So he's up four to two on the season.
• 29:28
  OK. The Long story short of this,
• 29:29
  just a fun anecdote that Jerry is doing well at basketball this
• 29:32
  year. OK, And and the other thing we
• 29:36
  now have another client I'm going to mention.
• 29:37
  My name is Ganesh. OK, Ganesh is also a really good
• 29:40
  shooter and is the only client other than Jerry so far.
• 29:44
  I'm welcome to take on others of you if you'd like.
• 29:45
  He's the only client other than Jerry who has beaten me in a
• 29:49
  one-on-one basketball shoot off. OK, so now his name is up on the
• 29:52
  board as well and they are both in my 6:00 PM group this evening
• 29:57
  on this Thursday, OK. And I am nervous about it, but
• 30:01
  nervous in a good way, OK. Because this is going to be an
• 30:04
  epic basketball shoot off. And I don't even know how we're
• 30:06
  going to do it, if it's going to be all three against each other
• 30:08
  or if it's going to be me versus Jerry, me versus Ganesh,
• 30:10
  whatever, right? But the point is Jerry is having
• 30:13
  success in his basketball mini hoop against me fitness goals
• 30:20
  for 2026. So I wanted you guys to know
• 30:22
  that as well. So shout out to Jerry.
• 30:24
  OK? It's going to be a big game this
• 30:26
  evening at 6:00 PM. We're going to do the workout
• 30:29
  1st. I'm going to wear them out a
• 30:30
  little bit and then we're going to have a shoot off again.
• 30:33
  And you know what? I think I'm going to win this
• 30:34
  evening. I think I'm going to win this
• 30:36
  evening. Make all ten of them.
• 30:38
  OK, Just wanted to throw in that little anecdote for fun.
• 30:41
  OK, Shout out to everybody. Shout out to the five anonymous
• 30:43
  clients that I just mentioned. Shout out to Jerry, shout out to
• 30:45
  Ganesh, shout out to pretty much everybody.
• 30:47
  Once again, if you are one of the clients, like how did I not
• 30:51
  make that list? I know I wasn't one of those.
• 30:53
  There's a lot of you who are doing really well right now.
• 30:55
  And once again, I think that we've just, we've upped the ante
• 30:58
  a little bit where we're, we're trying to up our game a little
• 31:01
  bit here. We're trying to get really good
• 31:02
  results in all areas. We're trying to get good results
• 31:04
  in terms of burning body fat, in terms of getting strong,
• 31:07
  improving mobility, pain relief, things like that.
• 31:10
  And we're trying to have a little bit fun, a little bit of
• 31:12
  fun as well because everybody knows that the most fun 6
• 31:15
  minutes of the day for me. And here are when I get to have
• 31:18
  a basketball shooting competition against Jerry or
• 31:21
  somebody else. So looking forward to that this
• 31:23
  evening. All right, thank you guys,
• 31:24
  sincerely. Thank you for listening.
• 31:25
  I hope you take something good away from this.
• 31:27
  I will see most of you in the gym here soon and we will talk
• 31:29
  again soon. Love you, peace.