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Motivation Rant... Because We All Need It (Ep. 23) · 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 with jobs
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and kids and mortgages and all that stuff.
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That is a huge time constraint. Get strong and fit and stay that
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way for a really long time. And you don't have to spend all
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day in the gym. That's our goal here.
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OK, I'm Coach Sean here with Coach Phil.
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How we doing Coach Phil? Hey, gang.
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Oh, I'm doing good Monday busy day.
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Let's. Go Monday.
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I know. And this is cool.
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This is an unscripted one, OK, And the reason that we got moted
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motivated to do this is Katie. So Phils wife and a big part of
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the soda family here was like, you guys need to do a podcast on
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like I need some motivation right now.
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I need some motivation. I need a podcast about
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motivation, right? And it's kind of funny, like
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when I hear this stuff because, you know, having been in the
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fitness space space for a while now, I, I thought we were like
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over that, you know, like from like, especially pandemic times,
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like 2020-2021, like my social media was just blowing up with
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all of like the, the motivation stuff, you know, and everybody
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just was ranting on motivation, you know, and it was like the
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thing at the time, right? But like, I thought that now we
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were beyond that and we were finally going to get into more
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like some science based fitness content, you know what I mean?
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But I guess the thing that everybody still needs is some
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motivation. Oh yeah.
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So let's hit him with some motivation.
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This one's for you, Katie, and everybody else it is.
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Yeah, I I love it. The the best science back worked
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out in the world. It doesn't matter if it's this
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is the exact right workout program and nutrition plan and
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whatnot. None of it works unless we do
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right. So it's, it's, it's so
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challenging to get going. And we've talked quite a bit
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about the effect of these cumulative habits, right?
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You start working out and you start sleeping better and then
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you start eating better. But it goes the other way too.
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There's like, there's like a, there's a little pinpoint the
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mountain that that kind of slides us forward or back.
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And it's so hard to climb up that mountain.
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It really is. So we're just going to totally
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unscripted, say, hey, let's do this.
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We're going to Shia LaBeouf, like, just do it.
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You can do it, but in a supportive way.
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Yeah, exactly. Supportive accountability.
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And notice guys, those who've listened for quite some time, it
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took Phil one minute and 57 seconds today to bring in his
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first metaphor. Phil does about 5 metaphors per
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episode. OK, so this is the mountain
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metaphor. You're climbing the mountain and
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then you're. So I had an idea.
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I said OK, how about we got to tally these and I get 3
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metaphors and you get 3 tangents.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Deal or five?
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We might have to up the budget. Let's go 3 today, Three or
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three. Yeah, we'll see.
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Does that one of them though? Yeah, that's one.
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I can't say it's climbing up the mountain.
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When we're talking about people come in to a gym in a business
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park in Minnetonka. There's not a mountain here, OK?
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Like pretty flat. You can't use the mountain.
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Very OK. That that was a metaphor, Phil.
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That was a metaphor. You're down 1.
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The mountain's getting in your car.
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Is that 2? Yes.
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All right, all. Right, All right, those are both
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halves. All right, but let's, let's go.
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Should we talk about why it's hard to stay motivated, do you
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think? Sure.
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Yeah. Or even just hard to like, get
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motivated in general. I mean, OK, so here's my whole
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spiel on it. And this won't count as a rant
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yet. OK.
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But here's my whole spiel is that, you know, being
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disciplined with our fitness habits.
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Fitness is something, you know, your health and fitness if you
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want to succeed. And it is something that you
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need to to do or pay attention to basically every day of your
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life, seven days a week, right. It doesn't mean you necessarily
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have to go to the gym and lift weights seven days a week,
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right? But you do have to do things
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like kind of eat a certain way and have some decent lifestyle
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habits, like pretty much all the time.
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OK. So it's something that you need
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to be aware of at least throughout your, you know,
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throughout every day of your life.
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And I think what happens a lot of times is people fall off the
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wagon, so to speak, either because they try to do too much
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or just it's, it's always something that's unsustainable,
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right? Maybe, you know, it's the
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classic like you, you start a new gym membership or whatever
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in January because you're going to lose 20 lbs and you're going
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to crush it and everything like that.
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And then by like the beginning of February, you're done, right?
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Because you tried to take on too much, right?
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Whether this is you tried to work out five days a week for an
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hour and a half and you can't fit that into your schedule.
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And then, you know, you didn't get amazing results in the first
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three weeks. So then you're done, right?
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And it's also about the days that you're not feeling great,
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right? Which if you're an adult, this
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is going to be about 90% of the days.
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You're not going to feel great. Like, I'm sorry, you're going to
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wake up and your body is not going to feel great for one
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reason or another. You're going to be stressed out.
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You're going to have these problems going on in your life.
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You're going to have, I don't know, name your problem, right?
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You're going to have it right. And So what you need to do is
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stick to some form of your workout routine and your
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nutrition and lifestyle routines that you're doing on those days,
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OK? Because once again, and this I
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include myself in this, OK? Like people see me in the gym.
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They're like, oh, you got so much energy, you know, fitness.
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Yeah, rah, rah, rah. But like, still, like 80% of the
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days when I wake up, I got something that's not feeling
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good, right? I don't like my knee hurts a
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little bit or mom, I'm freaking tired.
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I didn't sleep that great. Like we just never are 100%, OK.
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And so the way that you are on those days and then the habits
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that you stick with on the days where you're kind of feeling
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like crap are going to make the difference between you actually,
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I don't know, losing those 20 lbs throughout the year or
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whatever your fitness goal may be, right, versus not achieving
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that goal. And so the big, the big thing
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with motivation is how can we get people to just keep doing
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the thing on the not so good days?
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Those are the most important ones because giving ourselves
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credit for when it's easy is it's not as impactful as when
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it's really tough. And that's, that's the, the line
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of discipline to relying on motivation.
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Because if you have discipline, motivation, which is fleeting,
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right? It's like a shower.
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You need, you need some every single day that to, to have it
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work. And that's just not how it
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works. That little voice in her head
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gets quiet. It's metaphor #2 already.
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Dang, you did? Early.
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And I knew I could feel it happening and uh oh.
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But I had to finish my thought. This is going to be an episode
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where Phil is on for 8 minutes and then I do the other 22 cause
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Phil will have used up his speaking.
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Gaze because if I can't speak in metaphors, I'm done.
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I'm done. But but that's it I mean,
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discipline is it is the hardest part because it's doing what you
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know you need to do, especially when you don't want to do it.
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That's hard in the winter, it's hard in the summer, it's hard
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all the time. There's always something and a
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million things distracting us. And I think why Katie said it is
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because, yeah, for the first time in my life, and I think her
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life, it is the IT is so challenging to allocate time,
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even though it's important. It's it's like time is so short
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and your energy is short and that's, that's I do a lot of
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important things in life. So, OK, yeah, let me let me do
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two things here. I want to talk about two
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situations. One of them is going to be when
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you're short on time and one of them is going to be when your
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body feels like shit, OK? These are two situations that
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are going to come up a lot for most of us and are going to be a
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barrier to getting a good workout in.
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OK, so the first one when you're really short on time.
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Now, obviously, maybe the, you know, for some of the people who
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work out here, you know, if you're scheduled for a session
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with a coach, you know, when you're with Coach Blake for 60
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minutes, you know, he's probably going to be sad if you dump him
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after 20 minutes, 'cause you tell me you only got 20 minutes.
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But like, OK, let's say you're going into the gym by yourself
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and you're trying to work out or you're working out at home and
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you're like, OK, I only got 20 minutes.
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I don't have 60 minutes. Or better yet, I only have 10
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minutes or freaking 8 minutes, right?
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OK, where I'm going with this is you, let's say you had a workout
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plan where you were going to do 8 exercises for three sets each.
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OK, And you only have 1/3 the time, do one set of each
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exercise. OK, do one set.
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Or you, you know, you could shorten it.
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Like there's lots of ways to get a good effective workout that
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may not be the best workout in the world, but you're doing
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something, you're keeping the body moving, you're keeping
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those muscles working. So all the muscles not going to
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fall off of your body, OK? And you're keeping some
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momentum. This is what you need to do on
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those days where you're like, Oh my God, I'm short on time, I
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feel like crap. Whatever.
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You need to keep some momentum by just going and doing the
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thing just a little bit, OK? And there's a lot of ways to
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shorten your workout and get a really good, effective workout
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because this is something I've been preaching for a while now,
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OK, Is that a workout does not have to be a one hour long
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thing, you know, like a lot of us think it needs to be, right?
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Like I don't go to yeah in. That case it shouldn't.
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Be no, it shouldn't be actually a lot of times.
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Yeah, that's a good point. So, you know a 10 minute workout
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is a great workout depending on the situation.
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OK now once again, this is probably for more people who
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are, you know, like, OK, work out at home do something you're
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not going to like drive 15 minutes to a gym to work out for
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8 minutes or something but you get my point with all this,
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right? Yeah, just go do the thing a
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little bit. Now let's say you're kind of
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feeling like crap, you know I don't know you got a little bit
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of a cold or something more you're aches and pains you're
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sore you slept for 4 1/2 hours named the thing, right.
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What you should do in that situation is still do the
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workout that you were planning to do, but lighten the load a
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little bit. OK.
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I see this a lot of times in my clients where, you know, for
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whatever reason, they're just having an off day and not
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lifting quite as heavy of weights as they did last time.
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And it's cool because like a lot of people actually get
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competitive with themselves, which is what I want, you know,
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like, even if they don't really like coming to the gym, they
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then they secretly like start lifting the weights and I want
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to see the weight go up, you know, and then we'll be doing an
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exercise and be like, I can't, I'm, I'm doing 10 lbs less than
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I did last week and it feels harder or whatever.
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And I'm like, yeah, that's OK. This is part of the process.
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It's part of the process. Totally normal.
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You're not going to hit APR every day, a personal record
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every day. And there are some days you just
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shouldn't even attempt to. You should just go in and think
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about it as OK, I'm going to go through the motions here.
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I'm going to practice. You know, the technique of these
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exercises use 2030% less weight than I did last time.
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It's totally fine. It's totally OK, right?
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And that's going to serve you a lot better than saying I'm done,
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I quit. I don't want to do this.
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I don't want to, you know. You know, when I've, when I've
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gone through workouts myself and a lot of times that's always
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been tough for me because when you, I have a really long career
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of like, oh, I'm getting heavier and heavier over time, like for
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a long period of time. And when that stops it, it makes
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it feel like the whole point is like, well, is there even a
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point to it? Because I'm going to get
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stronger and I'm, I'm apparently in the opposite.
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But then what I kind of tapped into was I just like slowed
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things down and like went lighter and like really got
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inside my own body. I was like, I'm trying to have
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my hamstrings work. So I'm going to pull through
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this part of my body and my heels.
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And it just got me very in tune, very similar to yogis or other
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things like that, where you're you're just getting in tune with
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your body and building proprioception, which is it's,
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it's pretty meditative in a lot of ways, But you know, you need
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a little extra time for it. And or again, you just have to
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re realign and refocus on what you think you need and want out
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of it. Yeah.
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First tangent, it should be 1/2 tangent, not a full tangent.
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But how do you, when you work out now, how do you, how do you
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do you focus on like a mind muscle connection?
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You just said like focus on your hamstrings.
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You're like, how do you usually think through exercises?
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Yeah, it starts way more. It starts way more in that
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alignment of let me feel the right things working.
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So I want to make sure you're like, how's that part feeling?
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And then I'll always go heavy if I feel like I can, usually my
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body will tell me I'm doing like deadlifts or something, and I
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start blacking out. I'm like, I think that's it.
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I think I hit. I think that's as heavy as I
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should go. I need to sit down, but it
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usually will change from that. It'll be way more in tune.
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I'll do a couple heavier sets and then if I'm feeling good,
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I'm gonna do 1 heavy one just to kind of get a number down today
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and I'll track it and and move on.
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But that's been less and less. I mean, the last two years has
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been the most inconsistent and active period of my life since I
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started lifting. And it sucks.
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So you're the one who needs this episode, huh?
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You need the motivation. You know what, this whole, this
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whole journey, this whole business, someone told me this
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once. It's all a self discovery
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mission in disguise. And like, the more I think about
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that, I'm like it, it really does dictate what I want to talk
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about 'cause I'm kind of talking to myself.
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I'm like, come on, dude, you can do it.
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And Katie and I talk about this all the time.
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We're like, we say it, we know it.
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Still tough. Still really tough.
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The business aspect or the fitness aspect or staying in
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shape for everything. Like staying in shape, you know,
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just like what the message is. And our clientele hasn't gotten,
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it's gotten older and like I've gotten older and you know, the
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longer I, I have kids and they get older, the more I can speak
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to these, these challenges with a really narrow scope because
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like I, I do live them and breathe them everyday.
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So I, I get it so well. But anyway, it's so it's tough.
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How do you how do you cut through and and not break the
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chain if you will, of of workouts?
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Because when you miss a few days in a row, it gets so sticky to
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try to get back on track. Well, yeah, what usually works
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for you to get back on track if you're missing you in a row.
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You know, a couple things. So one, I'll just dial it way
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down. Like there's several times every
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day Katie and I are both busy. We're both like pulling our hair
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out. Okay, bad, bad metaphor.
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I don't have any. Yeah, it doesn't count.
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That's. Just okay, good OK, still got
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one more don't count that against me.
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But lately it's been like, we got to let's stop what we're
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doing. We're just going to go on a
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walk. We're just going to go on a
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walk. And a lot of times that's like,
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that's the only dedicated movement I'm getting besides
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play with my kids and stuff. Yeah.
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Which is way more athletic. And that sometimes that just has
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felt good. And I've never done that.
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Like, I don't enjoy walks. Like I, I feel like I'm like, I
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gotta go. I gotta, I'm moving too slow.
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I wanna like run. I'm like a sprinter at heart.
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Yeah. Yeah.
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So that's that's one thing. And two, like I play as
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intramural Soccer League. So like that's motiving because
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it's totally distracting from the idea of like exercising.
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But it's really, I mean, it's really tough.
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Like I am all out sprinting. Usually we're down, you know, as
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one sub. So let's play the whole game.
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And I love it does not feel like I'm exercising at all.
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So sneaking in forms of movement that I actually enjoy, which
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what we preach here we're like we don't want to see you 5 days
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a week like unless you love it and we just wonder you.
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Know what that is? But but it's it's really all
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about like getting that balance of doing the stuff you need to
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do the discipline stuff like I need to drink, drink because I
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need strong bones and XYZ. And also I I'm a mixing the
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things that are still movement, maybe not perfectly aligned with
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what I want long term, but this helps me keep the chain, you
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know, connected, so to speak. So those are probably the two
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big things just in this seasonal life that have helped.
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OK. Yeah.
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Now a question for you, uh. Oh.
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You're, I mean, you're like the our David Goggins here.
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You're like disciplined every morning you're on your walk.
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So you got your your orange glasses at night?
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And worn those in ages. But go on, we're not.
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Not on an Instagram, not when I show them to people.
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Oh yeah, yeah. But I still do wear them before
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we go with that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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I'm still a nerd. I'm just not showing people that
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I'm a nerd. Go on.
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OK, that's good. Yeah.
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But you know, are you motivated like every time you go in or is
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it, is it pretty raw discipline? OK, so the reason that I still
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post workouts to Instagram is because I made a commitment to
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do that for a certain period of time, and I'm still finishing
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out that commitment even though I don't really get any benefit
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from posting workouts on Instagram.
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So that's why I still post my workouts there and that's what
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people see of it. Oh gosh, how do I want to answer
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this question of like, what motivates me?
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You know, honestly, for me, OK, so to a certain extent, I, this
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is not going to be a shock to people.
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To a certain extent, I like workouts and fitness.
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OK, Like I like it, right? As most trainers do now.
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I do get bored with it though. I get bored with it very
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frequently, which is why I switch up like what I'm doing.
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You know, like right now I'm back into like total meathead
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hypertrophy training. Whereas for a few few months
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there I was doing speed training 'cause I was prepping for a
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track meet that I did like. I like to like switch up my
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goals and what I'm doing to fight boredom basically, right?
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But I think like for me and a couple other things, like I want
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people to understand, 'cause like this is probably, you know,
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maybe even our following here at Soda wouldn't know this.
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But like people who followed me on my own, like personal
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Instagram would would know this. It's like, yeah, he's like the
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disciplined guy. He just freaking goes and does
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it every day, whatever, 'cause like, that's what it appears
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like based on what I post, right?
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And the one thing I've tried to explain this before, people
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don't really get it. People think I, like, spend the
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entire day freaking lifting weights, right?
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Usually I spend probably per week three to four hours lifting
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weights total, OK, even now, even now when I'm in like a, you
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know, I call that a meathead phase where I'm trying to add a
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little bit more muscle again. And I'm doing, I'm lifting for
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hypertrophy, which is, you know, pure muscle growth.
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And you know, so like right now I'd not to get in all the wheats
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here, but I could do an upper lower split right now.
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So it's, you know, six days a week of lifting and it's upper
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body, then lower body, then backed upper, etcetera, right.
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And the workouts are 30 to 45 minutes.
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Like some days I'll go in there and crush 45 to even close to 60
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minutes 'cause I got all the time in the world.
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But the other days it's like 30 minutes.
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Like I'm pressed for time, you know, And so throughout the
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week, it's, it's 3 to 4 hours. It's just it's, it's, you know,
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a discipline type thing that I just kind of do almost without,
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you know, fail. I don't, I don't let any excuse
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get in the way of me doing the thing.
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But it's not that much total volume nor is it that that time
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consuming, you know? Well, habits.
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Habits put willpower on autopilot.
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So I mean, you've done it so consistently, it's part of your
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DNA, so to speak. So it probably takes a lot less
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energy to get it going. It's like what Ben said, what he
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said something motivation. It was like just the motivation
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to like that spark to actually get it going.
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Forgot the term you use. We did that other podcast all
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about, you know, ways to think about motivation, which is a
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deeper dive been leading it. So it's probably quite focused,
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but but anyway. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
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But I think like, yeah, I'm just lasting thinking about a deeper
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yeah. Oh God, this is a hard one
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because there's so many different people that are
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motivated by different things, you know what I mean?
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So a deep dive would certainly be be interesting, but like for
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me personally, this is maybe not the best way to look at it, but
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I really do, especially over the last four to five years, I
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really have treated my workouts and even kind of the way I eat
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like a job, you know, like you just got to do it.
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It doesn't freaking matter, you know, like.
18:57
I think most people should look at it like that with how much
19:01
they sacrifice for their job but not for their their long term or
19:05
short term health. It's that's why it's so
19:07
confusing. Then there's societal, you know,
19:10
norms and there's all sorts of distractions that misalign us
19:13
with that. But but we should treat it like
19:16
it's an obligation to ourself, if not now, in the future.
19:19
Yeah, yeah. And I think like the other thing
19:22
that I, I really, so I want to express to people since like
19:25
most of our listeners and most of the people that work out here
19:27
have kids and I don't have kids yet, but you know, and so in a
19:31
certain way that, you know, that does, it definitely gives me an
19:33
advantage saying, OK, well, you, you know, you have, I have more
19:36
free time, quite frankly, you know, since I don't have little
19:38
kids at home, right? But the thing that I want to
19:41
explain to people is that like, I don't spend actually that much
19:45
time working out, like I said, like 3 to 4 hours per week doing
19:48
my own workouts, roughly 30 minutes per day.
19:50
You know, like most people can still make time for that.
19:53
Where the the greater sacrifice comes in is just with the
19:57
nutrition piece and being consistent around your sleep,
20:00
you know? Yeah, and so and, and, and once
20:04
again, this is where people are gonna get most of the results
20:06
that they want anyway. Like nutrition is a more
20:08
important aspect of what most people want than exercise.
20:13
I would rate it slightly more important even than exercise.
20:15
Debatable. But you know, with that, with,
20:18
with discipline around that, it's, it's almost like, like for
20:25
me, this is 1. Sometimes I like shy away from
20:28
talking about that much because I almost do fall into that
20:33
category of those people who are just like food as fuel and
20:35
that's it. You know, I don't care about the
20:37
taste, right? Like I do a little bit and I
20:39
still have some things that I kind of think taste good
20:42
throughout the day. But in general, like when you
20:44
see me slam like the plain Greek yogurt and I just have like half
20:47
a tub, do I think that should taste good?
20:49
No. The sourdough sandwich.
20:50
The Sourdoughs. Yogurt.
20:52
That was a weird combo. Yeah, but no, like, literally
20:54
I'll eat, just sit here and eat half a tub of Greek yogurt
20:57
'cause that gets me from 35 to 40 grams of protein and there's
21:01
no BS ingredients and it tastes a little bit like shit.
21:04
But I put it into my body because that's what my body
21:06
needs a couple times throughout the day to get protein and build
21:09
and maintain muscle mass, you know?
21:10
Listeners, it's not the and it's not the Chobani with vanilla,
21:14
it's. No, it's the plain Greek yogurt
21:16
of any brand. But like it's, it's like it's
21:19
you don't want more than that quantity that I eat that shit
21:22
'cause it doesn't taste good. I spice it more.
21:24
You spice it up with the the bar the bar nuts.
21:27
I got yeah, I had cocktail peanuts.
21:29
Cocktail. Peanuts that are.
21:30
Technically this is going to be my first rant because we were 21
21:34
minutes in and I haven't gone on a full rant.
21:35
So like I, no, when you're when you turn into like a real
21:38
nutrition like half psycho like I have and you're like, I don't
21:41
want to eat any artificial ingredients.
21:43
Like you go into the, the, the mixed nuts section of the
21:47
grocery store and you like look at everything and you're like,
21:49
Nope, Nope, Nope, no, no, no, because they all have some sort
21:52
of like a vegetable oil or something like that, that you
21:53
know what I mean? And a lot of them have like a
21:55
lot of crap, right? But even like in the peanuts
21:57
section, you know, I, I know, like down to the brand name,
22:00
like which one is just peanuts and sea salt, for example,
22:03
versus which one has, I mean, peanut oil.
22:05
So it's like, who gives a crap about the peanut oil if you're
22:07
eating the peanuts, right? But then some of them have
22:09
sunflower oil. All that ranting to say is that
22:13
the cocktail peanuts have peanuts, sea salt and peanut oil
22:17
as the ingredients and they taste way, way better than the
22:21
regular boring peanuts that I eat.
22:22
OK, yes, no, listeners, are you, am I?
22:26
Are we painting a clear picture here?
22:29
Like of my diet and my life? Major take away, Major take away
22:33
'cause. Like I was excited I got
22:34
cocktail peanuts instead of regular peanuts.
22:37
It's all relative though, right? It's all relative.
22:41
Yeah, so I mean, I, This is why though I like, I, I hesitate to
22:45
like, talk to most clients about like the exact nutrition advice
22:49
and being disciplined because I really just don't care that much
22:52
about the taste of foods. I just don't.
22:56
Oh wow. And the reason people struggle
22:58
with food so much is they are buying out of convenience and
23:01
emotion. And said this on the last one,
23:03
it's we all could think that way, but there's a lot of food
23:07
noise, right? Which is, well, it's commonly
23:11
referred when it's just so distracting.
23:12
We're around it. There's bright colors, there's
23:14
hyper palatability. There's all these things working
23:17
against you and it, it, it forces you to really focus on it
23:21
if you want to get traction. So it's, it's really
23:24
challenging. So you know, in light of framing
23:26
this in a, in a positive light is like, it's not impossible.
23:29
All this stuff is quite simple. It's just not as easy as we want
23:33
it to be. But we, you can, everyone can do
23:36
it. We can, we just have to want it.
23:39
And a lot of times you have to dig really deep into like, OK,
23:42
we want to lose weight and we're like, OK, why?
23:45
Well, I want to fit better in my clothes.
23:46
OK, why? Oh well, because I want to do
23:49
XYZ. And if you dig deep enough,
23:52
you'll find the, the real emotional reason that started
23:57
this whole thing. And it's not, it's not beach
23:59
season. It's something much deeper and
24:02
something that I love about, you know, working with like the 40
24:05
plus population is they're doing the stuff for that future self.
24:08
They're doing for all the right reasons.
24:10
We don't have to cut through the nonsense and be like, Yep, we
24:13
can. We're just going to focus on on
24:15
just weight loss and we're getting at the core reason of I
24:18
want to be able to play with my grandkids.
24:20
I want to get off the floor. I don't want to trip and fall
24:22
and break a bone. Like those are really important
24:25
reasons that we can get behind. As well.
24:28
Yep. But now, now, OK, now I got to
24:32
put it out there for the people who are, who are straight up
24:35
interested in the vanity of it. You know what I mean?
24:36
Cause like, all right, Cause 'cause that's all good.
24:38
And well, you know, like, and we have plenty of people and it's
24:40
not even just an age-related thing, you know, like it's not
24:42
to say like, Oh well, the older people don't care how they look.
24:44
They just want to play. With their of course.
24:46
Of course, you have different goals at all age ranges, You
24:48
know what I mean? And like, you know, I know, I
24:51
know plenty of people even well into older age are saying, you
24:54
know, I know I don't want to tone up my arms.
24:56
I want to build my booty a little bit, like, this is
24:58
normal, right? And so like, for the people out
25:00
there that have like, you know, just vanity goals, they're like,
25:03
I don't even care about the freaking health aspect of this.
25:05
I just want to look better naked, straight up.
25:07
Yeah. That's all they want to do.
25:09
Like I'm here for that, OK, Like I'd like I've if if anything got
25:14
me into the fitness industry and has me as passionate about it as
25:17
I'm, I am today. Like it's all about that, OK?
25:20
Like it's all about like, what is the, the look?
25:22
You know what I mean? And it's frowned upon because
25:23
people are like, well, you shouldn't really care that much
25:25
about that. You just care more about your
25:26
health and your vitality and all that stuff.
25:28
But like, Nah, like let's make it about the look a little bit
25:31
and, you know, and you'll find like, you know, 'cause with like
25:34
when I look through like why I started caring so much about
25:38
having some bigger fricking shoulders, you know what I mean?
25:41
Right. And like it, it goes like it all
25:42
usually goes back to either like a set of like deep insecurities
25:45
that we had when we were younger or whatever, you know, and mine
25:49
is like, certainly for the same reasons, you know, but I just
25:53
think that that's something that that we should just embrace
25:56
rather than say like, oh, you know, I just shouldn't have
25:59
those vanity related goals or I shouldn't want big shoulders.
26:02
I shouldn't want a big booty here.
26:03
I said, no, you should, you should because you do.
26:06
And that's the way it is. You know you got to accept who
26:08
you are and what you want, understand why you want it a
26:11
little bit better. Dump truck club.
26:14
Dump truck club. Like, let's go.
26:16
Seriously. I mean, and, and yeah, I like,
26:18
I'm I'm here for it. Ladies who want to build their
26:20
booty, guys who want to build your fricking shoulders and
26:22
arms, Let's go. Like that's usually the two most
26:23
common things. You know what?
26:24
I mean, the best part of this is when you're, when you're lifting
26:27
consistently and doing what we're talking about, you're
26:29
doing both. Yeah.
26:31
And that's just it, right. It just one of them is like in
26:34
10 years, I still want to be able to do this.
26:36
And the other one is I want to also look this way in three
26:40
months. And both are good and there's a
26:41
lot of overlap. So you don't have to necessarily
26:44
decide, and it's OK to you either.
26:47
And it's okay to do both. Yeah.
26:48
So we're not here to judge. We're here to say what do you
26:50
want to do? There is no judgment.
26:53
We're coaches. We're not judges.
26:54
Yes, we're here to give you the plan.
26:56
Because once again, and this is my second and a half or third
26:59
rant, but like I've I've said this, I've said this before,
27:02
okay? Like I've said this before to
27:03
people like, you know, 'cause we're not like a, a bodybuilder
27:07
gym, even though me and coach Blake are kind of converting it
27:09
into that slowly, But like we're, we're, we're not really,
27:12
this is not a gym that people go like for like bodybuilding style
27:16
training and on whatever. But like, but I'm a huge fan of
27:20
telling people to live and eat like a bodybuilder, at least for
27:24
a while at some point in order to try to reshape your body or
27:26
to, you know, build your shoulders or grow your glutes or
27:28
whatever the heck, right? Because you just learned so much
27:32
about yourself and life and the universe in that process.
27:37
You know what I mean? Like you are like, OK, you are
27:40
not going to build some big shoulders or build a big booty
27:45
without learning about nutrition and macro nutrients and protein
27:49
and the different types of, you know, artificial versus non
27:51
artificial versus, you know, what type of food, you know,
27:53
like you're going to learn a lot in that process, OK?
27:57
You're also going to learn a lot about hypertrophy training.
28:00
You're going to learn about which exercises are actually the
28:03
best to build those shoulders that booty or whatever.
28:05
What's the range of motion you should do, and what order should
28:08
you do them? Go ahead.
28:08
Not Penguins. Not Penguins.
28:10
It's definitely not Penguins. Those of you who don't know what
28:12
Penguins are don't even look it up.
28:14
You don't need to use. To the episode.
28:16
Yes, and we'll probably still have them in a finisher every
28:19
now and then because we'll run out of other things to do.
28:22
Don't know what we're. Doing.
28:23
Yeah, exactly. But all that to say, like the
28:27
things that you learn in the process of trying to get
28:30
freaking jacked or to build the body that you want vanity wise
28:34
is great. And it's good for your health.
28:36
Because here's the thing, like medical disclaimer, not a doctor
28:39
for the millionth time, but what most people in this country and
28:42
around the world need to help ward off all of the major
28:47
chronic medical conditions out there is a healthy body fat
28:50
percentage, a healthy amount of muscle mass, and a healthy body
28:53
fat percentage, which is somewhere between, you know, 8
28:56
and 18 for men and somewhere between kind of 1718 up to 32
28:59
for women. OK, Like that's it.
29:02
That's going to be the key. Yeah, that's so that's
29:05
everything, every major health goal, vanity or longevity
29:08
related is, is all tied to body composition.
29:12
And that's again, that's not just low body fat, it's having
29:15
muscle. It's the percentage of of muscle
29:17
versus body fat increases function, gives you the
29:21
hourglass shape, builds your shoulders, it just gives your
29:24
body shape. And what's so cool is even the
29:27
the everyone in the clients comes in and they they don't
29:30
care or they say they don't care about weight and things like
29:33
that. But when they start to see
29:35
those, those things shift and they start to say, I'm looking
29:38
different, I'm getting comments and looks in a very good way.
29:42
Like even they are more into that bodybuilding style training
29:46
because they're like, OK, this is kind of fun.
29:48
It's just still kind of stigmatized.
29:49
It's like this weird bro sweaty gym thing.
29:52
That's that's not the case. So, you know, that's part of
29:55
that self discovery journey is, oh, this is actually kind of fun
29:59
and it's it's massively transformational and in a number
30:03
of ways. Exactly.
30:06
Yeah. So I'll motivate people right
30:08
there. Like if there's anybody out
30:09
there that's listening to this and you're in like a rut with
30:11
your fitness, you know, you're like, yeah, I've been kind of
30:13
like lifting weights and doing the group classes for a while.
30:15
Whatever. I'm just kind of bored or
30:16
whatever. Well, like, let's jump on that
30:18
in body scan and let's see where you're at.
30:21
OK? And then let's take your muscle
30:23
mass and we're going to say, all right, let's give it six months
30:25
and see if we can gain 5 lbs of muscle mass and burn 5 lbs of
30:29
body fat. That is a recomp.
30:31
Recomp is my favorite word in the English Dictionary.
30:33
It's not even a word, OK? It's recomposition, body
30:36
recomposition, building muscle burn and body fat.
30:38
OK, because through that process, you're going to learn a
30:41
lot. We're going to train really
30:43
freaking hard and you're going to love every minute of it
30:45
depending on your personality type.
30:47
And you're going to learn how to eat in a way that's kind of
30:49
boring but makes you jacked and shredded.
30:52
And I'm just so excited and, and I hope more people sign up to
30:55
train with me based on what I. Just said that's, that's right.
30:58
Well, what you're going to do is you're going to build that
31:00
discipline. It's going to become worth it
31:01
for you because you're going to see the return on that
31:03
investment of training with the coach and the knowledge you get
31:07
from it. And I guess the time for my
31:10
third metaphor is you're going to learn the language of fitness
31:14
because it's like you're going to a lot of times go to a gym.
31:17
It's like a new country. You're like, I don't speak this
31:19
language. I don't know where the grocery
31:21
store is. I don't know what side of the
31:23
street to drive on. And we are your ambassadors.
31:28
So we're going to show you this is the embassy, right?
31:31
And we're going to show you how to use the tools.
31:33
It's, it's a whole giant learning curve that's really
31:36
scary at 1st. And that's the only place that
31:38
we actually get some growth. So seek out that failure, seek
31:43
out that growth. It's uncomfortable, but it's
31:46
going to be the best thing for you.
31:48
Hell yeah, that was a great metaphor.
31:49
We should almost end it to that. 32 minutes on.
31:51
This goes by so fast. Yeah, final closing thoughts on
31:56
motivation and getting people's ass in the gym.
31:58
Yeah, you can do it. Take a baby step.
32:00
Just take one step forward and then take a giant leap.
32:04
It's going to be a lot easier. Yeah, Yeah.
32:07
Yep, sounded like a moon metaphor to finish or something.
32:09
Like one small step for man is 1 giant leap for getting booty
32:13
gains and shoulders and something I don't know.
32:15
Yeah, that was. Yeah, there's something there.
32:17
Yeah, there's something there. I'm going to put that in my
32:19
metaphor book. Yes.
32:20
For next time, yes. Love it, I love.
32:23
For you, any of the last closing statements other than let's get
32:26
jacked. Just do it.
32:27
Just do it and let's get jacked. Let's all get shredded.
32:29
Let's go. Love it.
32:30
All right, all right. See you guys for listening.
32:33
Peace.