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Weight Loss Tips from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People · The Body Recomposition Revolution | Fat Loss and Strength for Women 35+

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  Welcome back to the Body Recomposition Revolution.
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  Today's episode is just a little short snippet.
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  OK, so this is a little different.
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  Ladies, I'm going to forewarn you, this is not your normal
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  long length episode. This episode is an excerpt from
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  an audio book I was listening to during my workout today and I
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  just felt. I needed to share it.
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  I needed to share it. I know it's going to speak to
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  you. Especially given all the
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  feedback I received last week about the Goldilocks rule and
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  how you can look like those people you see on Instagram if
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  you just take it step by step, consistently, day by day, doing
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  all the little boring tasks and tolerating the boredom.
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  Embracing the boredom, staying within your range of ability.
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  I heard this excerpt randomly when I was listening to an audio
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  book called the seven Habits of highly effective people, right?
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  And I went, Oh my gosh, that does such a nice job
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  articulating a how muscle growth works and B, tenacity, grit.
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  It all kind of works the same. So tune in just a couple minute
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  clip. Please listen ladies.
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  I was in a gym one time with a friend of mine who has a PhD in
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  exercise Physiology. He was focusing on building
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  strength. He asked me to spot him while he
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  did some bench presses and told me at a certain point he'd asked
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  me to take the weight. But don't take it until I tell
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  you, he said firmly. So I watched and waited and
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  prepared to take the weight. The weight went up and down, up
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  and down, and I could see it begin to get harder, but he kept
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  going. He would start to push it up,
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  and I'd think there's no way he's going to make it, but he'd
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  make it. Then he'd slowly bring it back
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  down and start back up again. Up and down, up and down.
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  Finally, as I looked at his face, straining with the effort,
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  his blood vessels practically jumping out of his skin, I
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  thought, this is going to fall and collapse his chest.
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  Maybe I should take the weight. Maybe he's lost control and
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  doesn't even know what he's doing.
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  But he'd get it safely down. Then he'd start back up again.
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  I couldn't believe it when he finally told me to take the
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  weight. I said, why did you wait so
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  long? Almost all of the benefit of the
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  exercise comes at the very end. Steven, I'm trying to build
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  strength, and that doesn't happen until the muscle fiber
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  ruptures and the nerve fiber registers the pain.
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  Then nature overcompensates and within 48 hours the fiber is
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  made stronger. I could see his point.
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  It's the same principle that works with emotional muscles as
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  well, such as patience. When you exercise your patience
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  beyond your past limits, the emotional fiber is broken.
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  Nature overcompensates, and next time the fiber is stronger.
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  Now my friend wanted to build muscular strength and he knew
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  how to do it. But not all of us need to
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  develop that kind of strength to be effective.
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  No pain, no gain has validity in some circumstances, but it is
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  not the essence of an effective exercise program.
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  The essence of renewing the physical dimension is to sharpen
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  the saw, to exercise our bodies on a regular basis in a way that
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  will preserve and enhance our capacity to work and adapt and
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  enjoy. And we need to be wise in
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  developing an exercise program. There's a tendency, especially
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  if you haven't been exercising at all, to overdo, and that can
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  create unnecessary pain, even injury, even permanent damage.
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  It's best to start slowly. Oh my gosh, right.
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  Like I was listening to it because I just was.
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  I like to listen to audiobooks while I work out sometimes.
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  And it spoke to me on so many levels because it did a great
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  job illustrating how to build strength.
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  I mean, right there in a nutshell, bum.
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  But also it did a really nice job explaining your tenacity,
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  your mental, how will you have to build mental toughness and by
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  doing hard things, that's how you build it.
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  You have to experience pain in order to overcome it and become
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  stronger. Where then the next time you
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  perform whatever you're performing, be it a workout or
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  be it an interaction with somebody or just a painful
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  situation in general, you have to experience pain in order to
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  get stronger and face it better the next time.
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  So the next time that man that he was talking about in his
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  story goes to lift that weight, it's going to be a little bit
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  easier because his muscle fibers were torn.
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  They rebuilt even stronger because of the pain he
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  experienced last time. And I really love how he tied it
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  into the emotional component. We have to go through hard
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  things in order to develop tenacity, in order to develop
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  grit. You have to go through hard
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  things and experience pain and in order to overcome it and get
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  stronger. I know it sounds cliche, but for
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  some reason when I was listening to it, it was like, yes, duh.
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  And I also like how he talked about starting small, like how
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  people will overdo it. They will get really excited
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  and, and just go way above and beyond and and then they end up
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  injuring themselves or burning out.
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  That is exactly what we talked about.
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  I think it was last week when I said people who are successful
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  no matter what it is, people who are doing the things you want to
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  do and they're doing it so well and you might have envy over
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  that success. They're not any different than
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  you. They just take it step by step,
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  day by day, consistently. They do all the little things
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  consistently on repeat and they stay within that range of
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  ability. They do not take it to extremes,
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  which mean I said guilty many times.
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  They don't take it to extremes, they take it step by step, day
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  by day. I have learned this many times
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  in my life the hard way. And I've learned to reproduce
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  that same habit in my everyday life when it comes to a lot of
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  things. But definitely my fitness and
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  nutrition. I really take it step by step,
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  day by day, consistently trying to get a little bit stronger, a
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  little bit better every single day.
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  So thank you for listening to that little excerpt.
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  I know it's kind of strange, but I just, I felt the need to share
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  it. I felt like it might speak to
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  somebody today. Some episodes I put out receive
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  a little bit more feedback and that last episode I did on You
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  Can look like this too at 35, you know what you need to do to
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  be successful or whatever. I had titled it and the whole
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  premise was just taking it step by step.
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  The Goldilocks rule, you know exactly what I was just talking
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  about. That episode in particular
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  received a lot of positive feedback from women who were
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  like, Oh my gosh, it finally clicked with me.
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  That resonates with me. Yes, I'm always looking for
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  different stimulations and jumping from task to task and
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  not staying with the thing, not doing all the hard things you
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  need to do consistently to see actual growth.
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  So thank you again for listening to that little excerpt and
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  you'll be hearing from me again this week for my regular length
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  episode. Talk to you soon.