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Quick Wits: Try THIS to Finally Smash Your Fitness Plateaus · Wits & Weights | Strength & Fat Loss Over 40

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  Philip Pape: What if there's a mental shift that you can make right now that would make it even easier to break through plateaus and reach and smash your fitness goals?
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  Philip Pape: Join me on today's QuickWits as we explore this little shift in your approach that will give you massive results.
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  Philip Pape: Welcome to the Whits and Weights podcast.
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  Philip Pape: I'm your host, philip Pape, and this twice a week podcast is dedicated to helping you achieve physical self-mastery by getting stronger, optimizing your nutrition and upgrading your body composition.
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  Philip Pape: We'll uncover science-backed strategies for movement, metabolism, muscle and mindset, with a skeptical eye on the fitness industry, so you can look and feel your absolute best.
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  Philip Pape: Let's dive right in.
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  Philip Pape: Welcome to another QuickWits, and today's episode is inspired by a quote that I heard by Kevin Palmieri, one of the co-hosts of Next Level University.
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  Philip Pape: He's also my podcast coach.
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  Philip Pape: Shout out to Kevin and he mentioned something on a recent episode where he took the traditional phrase or mantra, under promise and over deliver.
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  Philip Pape: You've heard that under promise, don't promise more than you think you can achieve and then over deliver.
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  Philip Pape: The perception is you've provided tremendous value.
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  Philip Pape: He said well, shouldn't we instead go for promise and over deliver, that is, make a promise that actually gives decent value to someone and then over deliver beyond that.
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  Philip Pape: Contrary to the former the original mantra under promise and over deliver I totally agree with where Kevin's going in setting ambitious, even slightly out of reach goals.
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  Philip Pape: That could be the catalyst that you need for growth.
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  Philip Pape: Now, we talked about comfort zone in the past and expanding your comfort zone.
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  Philip Pape: Versus going too far out of your comfort zone, there is a fine balance of well, you don't want to promise the moon, but you want to promise to yourself something that is at least beyond what you've promised in the past that hasn't pushed you to grow, so that you can grow.
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  Philip Pape: This is still another version of expanding your comfort zone, of stretching your limits, of pushing and pushing and pushing and then embracing that challenge.
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  Philip Pape: The mindset of promise and over deliver encourage us to commit to those loftier goals.
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  Philip Pape: This could be a significant improvement in your strength, like a specific barbell lift, for example.
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  Philip Pape: This could be enhancing your endurance.
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  Philip Pape: If you're an endurance athlete, it could be transforming your body composition in some way.
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  Philip Pape: That's achievable, but it's going to push you to expand your comfort zone.
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  Philip Pape: Again, it's not setting ourselves up for failure by going so far beyond that, but it's expanding what we consider possible.
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  Philip Pape: When we aim higher, we create a psychological commitment to strive for more.
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  Philip Pape: This drives us to discover innovative strategies, for example, to dedicate more of our resources, our schedule, our time or money to unlock a level of persistence that we might not have tapped into if our goals were more conservative.
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  Philip Pape: Now, if this doesn't resonate with you, if this doesn't appeal to you, I get it, because maybe you've reached for things that were far out of your comfort zone and then you failed to get there and that discouraged you.
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  Philip Pape: But I am generally a fan of the optimism bias, mainly because I am optimistic myself that assume things are going to go well.
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  Philip Pape: Go after it.
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  Philip Pape: If they don't, that's an opportunity to learn and grow and try again.
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  Philip Pape: The beauty in this approach lies in the ability to inspire extraordinary effort Without that promise level of standard.
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  Philip Pape: If you only do the under promise, without the promise, you may not even feel the need to put in that extra effort.
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  Philip Pape: If you do feel that need, even if you fall short, you still will achieve much more than you would have with modest ambitions.
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  Philip Pape: That's where, in my opinion, it's a win-win scenario that can reshape your understanding of potential and progress.
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  Philip Pape: Somebody asked me recently on a podcast why am I so ambitious?
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  Philip Pape: One of my responses was well, I've noticed that the more I do, the more I try for, the more ambitious my goals, the more I fail, but also the more I succeed.
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  Philip Pape: That's, to me, where this all comes together.
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  Philip Pape: I want you to consider how adopting this mindset of promise and over deliver could revolutionize the way that you put in that effort on your fitness journey.
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  Philip Pape: You set the bar high and then you leap for it.
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  Philip Pape: You don't just stretch up for it, you leap for it.
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  Philip Pape: You might surprise yourself.
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  Philip Pape: You might surprise yourself with how far you can grow.
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  Philip Pape: Even if you don't get all the way there, you're going to go farther you ever have in the past.
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  Philip Pape: Aim high, train hard and never, ever underestimate your potential.
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  Philip Pape: Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Wits and Weights.
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  Philip Pape: If you found value in today's episode and know someone else who's looking to level up their wits or weights, please take a moment to share this episode with them and make sure to hit the follow button in your podcast platform right now to catch the next episode.
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  Philip Pape: Until then, stay strong.