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Quick Wits: Do THIS to Unlock Gains and Always Get to the Gym · Wits & Weights | Strength & Fat Loss Over 40

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  Philip Pape: If you think progress in the gym or setting PRs is all about motivation, think again.
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  Philip Pape: In today's QuickWits, we are going to talk about what truly drives progress in the gym.
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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: Feel and cover 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: Today we're talking about a very important topic what actually gets you to make progress in the gym?
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  Philip Pape: And it's not motivation.
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  Philip Pape: Action creates small wins.
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  Philip Pape: Small wins push you to take action again, and this is essentially a form of motivation.
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  Philip Pape: But I want to get more subtle, more nuanced than this, because here's the thing Consistency, we know, beats motivation any day.
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  Philip Pape: This is a form of discipline, it's a form of showing up and it doesn't rely on an external force or resource like motivation or willpower.
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  Philip Pape: So consistency beats motivation every single time.
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  Philip Pape: When I think about every time I hit a new PR in the gym deadlift, squat, whatever it wasn't unbreakable will.
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  Philip Pape: It also wasn't sheer enthusiasm, especially squats, let me tell you that got me there.
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  Philip Pape: It was showing up day in, day out, even when I didn't feel like it.
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  Philip Pape: Now you might say, well, not feeling like it and then showing up, isn't that willpower?
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  Philip Pape: Let me dive in one more level here.
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  Philip Pape: Strength training, which is, by definition, training to increase strength, or pushing past your current limit of strength on an ongoing basis, always going above and beyond your limit from last time, is inherently uncomfortable.
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  Philip Pape: That's the thing that doesn't change, no matter how experienced you are.
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  Philip Pape: That is a thing for life.
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  Philip Pape: So we need to accept that reality.
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  Philip Pape: But there are two things that are absolutely true.
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  Philip Pape: Just getting started is often the hardest part.
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  Philip Pape: People make excuses.
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  Philip Pape: I hear it all the time.
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  Philip Pape: I get on calls all the time where it's well, my back is sore, well, I had this injury I'm still recovering from.
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  Philip Pape: Well, I'd rather lose weight first.
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  Philip Pape: And the excuses go on and on and on, and more often than not it's fear.
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  Philip Pape: And simply stepping into the gym and doing a warm-up set that's completely achievable is all it takes to start shifting your mindset to I don't know if I want to or I'm ready to.
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  Philip Pape: Yeah, let's do this.
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  Philip Pape: Cool, I'm here, let's make it happen.
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  Philip Pape: That's one.
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  Philip Pape: The second thing that's 100% true is that having a plan gives you something to go after and to follow, even when you don't have motivation.
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  Philip Pape: Something that I'm going to go in today and do three sets of five deadlift because my training program says that's what I'm doing, takes so much decision fatigue out of it, it takes motivation out of it, it takes willpower out of it.
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  Philip Pape: Just having a plan and that's another thing that people often fail to do they just there's nothing and then they hopefully get to the gym and then when they get the gym to the gym, they're just doing random exercises.
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  Philip Pape: They may have a quasi-plan in their head like, oh, today's upper body day, and they may have even written down their list in the past that they can compare to, but they didn't have a plan going in.
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  Philip Pape: And if you leave your workouts or your training to chance and you're waiting for this muse, this motivation to strike, that's where you get stagnant.
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  Philip Pape: And the most common approach people take is just not having a plan, not having a routine.
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  Philip Pape: Their routine is a lack of a routine.
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  Philip Pape: Now imagine a different scenario.
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  Philip Pape: Imagine you make tangible steps toward your goals.
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  Philip Pape: Imagine being stronger.
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  Philip Pape: Imagine being more energized.
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  Philip Pape: Imagine that low back pain starting to get less and less.
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  Philip Pape: That kind of transformation relies on one thing and one thing alone, and that's a system and a routine.
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  Philip Pape: You might call it discipline, but it's different than willpower, it's different than motivation.
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  Philip Pape: It's about deliberate practice, not random effort, where you decide here's what I'm training, here's what I'm training, I'm going to track my progress and I'm going to stick to a program that works for long enough to get the results.
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  Philip Pape: And that is consistency.
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  Philip Pape: It is a philosophy, it is a principle, it's not just a practice.
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  Philip Pape: Consistency is fundamental and if you can adopt this form of action, win natural motivation.
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  Philip Pape: Let's call it that we know as consistency and discipline.
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  Philip Pape: It's going to revolutionize everything you do in your life.
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  Philip Pape: So until next time, I want you to remember this.
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  Philip Pape: It is not about feeling like it, it's just about doing it again and again.
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  Philip Pape: Thank you for tuning in to another episode of Wits and Weights.
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  Philip Pape: Until then, stay strong.