Episode 88 - The Fitness Pivot: Adapting for Long-Term Health with Chad Austin

Summary:

In this episode of Maxed Out Man, Kevin Davis interviews Chad Austin, owner of Priority Fitness and author of the book series Make Fitness a Priority. Chad shares his journey from personal trainer to fitness author, focusing on how fitness has to fit into one’s life sustainably. Emphasizing the "fitness pivot" approach, Chad highlights the importance of adaptability and flexibility in maintaining long-term fitness. He discusses common obstacles, like the "inconsistency rollercoaster" and the "too busy" excuse, and offers strategies to break free from these mindsets. Chad also emphasizes setting small, realistic goals and the importance of accountability and support in a fitness journey. His mission is to help clients shift from short-term motivation to a lasting commitment that turns fitness into an integral part of life.

Key Takeaways:

1. Adaptability is Key: Fitness routines should adapt to changes in life, focusing on what fits best for current circumstances rather than sticking to past standards.
2. Celebrate Small Wins: Recognizing every improvement, whether it’s getting all workouts in or hitting a new strength goal, helps build a positive fitness mindset.
3. The Power of Accountability: Having a support system, be it a trainer, workout partner, or community, can make a significant difference in achieving fitness goals.
4. Avoid the Inconsistency Trap: Fitness should be a priority year-round; adopting a mindset that sees fitness as a lifelong journey helps combat the “on-and-off” cycle.
5. Focus on Sustainable Goals: Prioritize fitness practices that align with your life, aiming for sustainable, long-term benefits rather than quick fixes.

Download your FREE copy of Chad’s Best Selling & Award Winning book, “Make Fitness A Priority: How to win the fight against your excuses.”

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Transcript

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and one lesson you're going to learn really fast is that majority of those people come to you fueled by short-term
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motivation welcome to maxed out man helping you become the man you were made
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to be hey guys this is Kevin Davis from the maxed out man podcast today I'm here
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with Chad Austin super excited to have him Fitness guy who's always right at my alley there uh before we get started
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don't forget to go to max out man.com check out all theu we've got going on there and don't forget to check out additional episodes of this podcast rate
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and review helps us get more people to listen and all that Maxon man.com Chad
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is the owner of priority Fitness in Overland Park Kansas and is also a best-selling awardwinning author of the
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book series make Fitness a priority Chad is the former host of the talk talk radio show Be Fit for Life and has been
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featured guest on over 50 podcasts his quote is in a world that's flooded with
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Promises of instant gratification shortcuts quick fixes and easy buttons
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Chad helps his clients get off the inconsistency roller coaster so they can improve their quality of life with
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long-term uh Fitness success I felt like I should have done like in a world you know like do the the M the movie guy um
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hey man I'm proud I I appreciate you coming on board um I'm interested in hearing kind of your perspective and
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what you do uh and I think that's a great place to start if you want what I like to do up front is just give us your
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story like how did you get to where you're at right now what you've got going on and then that'll just start us
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off yeah sounds great and thanks for having me on the show I'm excited to be here uh yes so I've been in personal
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training well I've been in Fitness for 20 years now I've been a personal trainer since 2006 I was actually a
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teacher a PE teacher and wrestling coach for a few years first so personal training was actually a career change
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for me and I really thought it was just going to be kind of a temporary sty till I found my next teaching and coaching
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job because that was where my passion started but it just aren't it just ended
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up being a much better fit for me and I've been doing it ever since and uh so I really like it I I kind of evolved a
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ton in Fitness over the years I was I was a college athlete and so when I started in personal training in my early
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20s naturally I a lot of my clientele was athletes and and that was where
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where it started for me and and I involved into more of a help helping people get past the short-term
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motivation that gets them to get started with the trainer to thinking past it how can I get something that sticks longterm
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in my life in Fitness and and that's what started my book series I had I had a book make Fitness a priority that I
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wrote in 2015 and that's what priority Fitness my studio was actually named after and one book turned into a fitness
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community and then turned into three books actually and became a whole book series and where I'm at now um about 20
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years in our community has has changed the name it's it's called the fitness pivot now um with the mindset that when
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plan a no longer fits how do you pivot to plan B so I've learned over time that
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you know even though people want Fitness people understand how important Fitness
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is and they want to keep it in their life it's life's unexpected curveballs that we all go through that throw us off
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track and cause Fitness to fall out of life and get us to fall into that inconsistency roller coaster and when
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that happens we're really good at adapting to change when it comes to our family our career our faith those things
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that we seek think as most important in our lives when it comes to Fitness it always tends to be something we're going
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to get to later that we put off and I've learned that I can really make an impact if I if I help teach teach people how to
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adjust faster to change when it comes to Fitness and that way they can use
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Fitness to show up as the best version of themselves to life and so that's kind of what what I've really realized over
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time there you know basic lessons that took me 20 years to learn you know sometimes the easiest the most important
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lessons are the ones that are right in front of us we just can't seem to grasp it and so I've grasped those now and so
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I help people figure out how Fitness fits in their life so they can keep Fitness a priority in their life no
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matter what happens uh that's awesome I love that my background is similar to yours I
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actually started out life um in I have a degree in exercise physiology started
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out as a personal trainer ran health clubs and then just have done it for myself and for my wife for all these
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years um but that's so I've probably 35 30 plus years uh doing it that way but I
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haven't done it vocationally for quite some time what what kind of ways have you taken I had this conversation with a
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buddy of mine the other day and it's something I've been working on uh in my in my own mind is getting out of that
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old school mentality that it sounds like probably as you first got started in
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your 20s working with athletes that was kind of the modality right like it just
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work harder push hard you know marginal nutrition sometimes what
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kind of things have you done over time to adapt because I assume your demographic then has changed over time
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as well like I I'm interested in that transition process because one of the things I've tried to do I'm trying to do
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much more emphasize on rest and listening to my body um and and that's
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the like like that's not the guy's personal trainer way to do things right like this morning I woke up I'm supposed
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to my wife and I are running this afternoon I was supposed to have leg day today and I'm like my body is just not
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like I'm just not ready for L day today and so I'm just gonna push it off tomorrow and wrapping my mind around
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that is a freaking Big Challenge so I'm curious how that transition has gone for you over the last couple of decades yeah
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that's I'm in the same boat this week I uh my Monday workout happened today on a Tuesday and my today's workout happen
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hopefully be tomorrow it's one of those weeks one of those weeks for me too uh
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you know I'm I'm definitely proof or I'm I'm definitely fit the mold of the saying that you know when you become a
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coach you become a better athlete when you become a teacher you become a better student I think as I become a personal trainer and just because of my own
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fitness journey and those you know we're hard-headed sometimes and those lessons are are that we have to learn over and
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over again before you really get them but it it's made me a better personal trainer and so my my clientele has
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shifted to more middle-aged or I have a lot of clients in their 60s and 70s too
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and um they're really just people that you know have Fitness has been a part of their life in spurts and so now I'm
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helping them really see how you keep it a part of your life um but I think it it
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it it really starts with just uh the reason we get stuck on what I call the inconsistency roller coaster and it's
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that uh that not getting past that I'm too busy excuse and I I I feel like I've learned when when people say I'm too
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busy what we really mean is I'm too busy to work out what like I used to it's
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because we can't so whenever we're ready to get in shape again so we put Fitness off a little bit because something big has happened to changed in our life
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whether it be good or bad and we're we've adjusted to it and everywhere in our lives except for fitness and so now
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it's time to get in better shape or we're eager to get started but every time we get there we always think at the
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last time in our life we are in great shape or the last time we had great results and whatever we did for our
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workouts whatever we did for nutrition that's the bar it's like doing anything less than that is not doing enough and
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if we can't do it we might as well not even try it's so it's like we'll be ashamed of doing less than that that's like the athletes and it's from the past
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we don't want to we can't do less and we have teaching myself and then teaching my clients to take that way of thinking
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and just throw it out the window like doing less does not mean it's less of a priority all it means is it fits
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differently now but when you know I look at my own history from when I started as a trainer you know I told you it was a
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big career change for me and so was it was another big change because I went from being a really small town to a to
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Kansas City to a bigger city and I was a brand I didn't know anybody I was brand new to the city I was brand new to the
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gym and I was the new trainer out of like 15 trainers so I and I lived right behind the gym so I I had all this time
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I have a lot of clients yet I worked out two hours a day six days a week you know and was in great shape and as was in my
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early 20 and now things have changed so much in my life you know I Was A Bachelor then I'm I'm married now I have
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a business I with multiple things that go along with it we we own a home we have I do so much so much more
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responsibilities there's no way what I did then would fit in my life and if I tried to force it the balance of my life
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would get screwed up if I tried to you can't if what you do for life for your Fitness has to fit in your life if you
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try to force it then the other things that important to you your relationships your job your passions those things are
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going to suffer and so if it doesn't fit it won't be there very long and that's how we get stuck where Fitness is just a
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part of our life and spurts and it's almost like we have to learn that hard lesson so many times before then we can
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we can just be okay with it uh but that is something learning it myself makes it easier for me to teach it to other
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people because I don't I'm not perfect I've fallen off track so many times with Fitness and and um you know every
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Fitness professional has if they if they try to say they haven't they're lying because everyone's human we no one's
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immune to Life's changes and life's obstacles and I lean into that because I know what makes me better as a trainer
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and a better Mentor for my clients yeah it's it's funny because when I was training I was a pretty
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successful trainer primarily because I didn't I wasn't a big guy I I have way
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more muscle mass than I weighed like I have more lean body mass than I weighed
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whenever I was full-time personal trainer and I used to tell my clients look don't like working out either
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really like I'm not one of those gym rack guys I do this because it's really good for my health I want to live a long
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healthy quality life and I'm vain like those which I think which you know
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there's a vanity component to all health and fitness I think and I think that I think to your point that helps to let
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people know that um and and just uh to your point about falling off the wagon
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right everything has gone up and down I've been 20 pounds of fat heavier and 20 you know much more lean and and all
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that so we all go through those things and I think being able to go through those transition periods and figure out
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what it is that works best within our lifestyle I had a conversation with a guy yesterday and I was talking we were
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talking about kind of routine and and just things that you do every single day
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and I often I don't ask and I'm sure that you're the same way it's like you don't ask if I'm gonna work out it's
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like when am I going to work out like and typically it's a you know it's whatever the time is that work best for
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you and all that and I'm assuming you do that same thing with your clients to make it that lifestyle yeah yeah absolutely I
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definitely do that exact same thing and then it's learning you know if you didn't work out then why didn't you how
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can we do better next week and then you can learn certain patterns about yourself like I definitely know when we talk about when I'm GNA work out I got
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to do it in the morning because especially if it's later in the week because if I don't do it in the morning
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I got all day to talk myself out of it and it's if it's been a busy stressful day is not going to happen probably at
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the end I got my workout my motivation for my workout Zone has got to be at a maximum level for me to to do it at the
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end of the day I mean so I mean a lot of times I can I can be in Spurs where I know I can handle it and then it's okay
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but when my motivation is lacking then I know I can't I'm setting myself up to fail if I do that and so just knowing
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that about your clients too so I have so the one thing that's tough for people to get over that I've learned a lot of
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times with the clients is sometimes you you hear it as a trainer and you realize okay they're setting themselves up to fail because they're trying to work out
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at a very terrible time like it used to be that they worked out after work every
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single day but now their job is changed their job is way more stressful they're exhausted when they get off work they
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have nothing left for a workout and they're battling in their head thinking well I just don't want it bad enough anymore I don't care about my results
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bad enough anymore no it's like you're setting yourself up to fail because you're exhausted because you're using so
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much more uh of your energy at work and you got nothing left and so if you need to change your workout to where you've
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got a better chance to get it done and so that's little things like that I think that you know uh there's no
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there's no shortcut experience but being a trainer for as long as we have that that's that's the closest thing right so
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it's us having the chance to be a mentor and see these little things that that clients can't quite see um is valuable
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yeah and it's funny how people and I mean us included because you said you've kind of gone through some of this stuff but it's so funny how we can first of
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all working out later in the day when you're short on time in the morning always sounds like a great idea in the morning and then as it gets closer to
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that time like we're going to go run after this and I'm like we should have run this morning but I'm still gonna do
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it um but then like that whole mindset of I'm working so much harder now that I
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don't feel like working out and and and being able to make that jump to like if
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I worked out even if I did that minimum do something I would feel feel so much
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better overall to be able to face the face the rest of my day too yeah yeah
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that's I think that's so that's such a good thing that uh people need to realize for their morning workouts like
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when I've when someone switches from the evening to the morning then it's like well you you're you're try to say well
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I'm not just I'm not a morning person well no that you don't know that yet you have a you have a habit of sleeping in
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and so so now we're trying to give you a habit of getting up and and so their mindset can be W I feel so tired it'd
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probably be better if I hit snooze and got more sleep or you could say instead I'm so tired I'd probably feel better if
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I got up and got a workout in I'd feel better for the rest of the day and so just that little bit of a mind mind
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shift you can help your clients make um I is like this is one of those things where I constantly every time I have to
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change my workouts around this is me speaking to myself in the Mir it's like most of the stuff I tell my clients this
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is stuff I need to tell I'm really good at telling you this right now because this is exact same stuff I got to tell myself
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I get it yeah one my my friend calls it he always talks about it at like the snooze for example that's an Integrity
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issue right like you and and he talks about integrity as Integrity with ourselves not necess because you always
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think of Integrity as like an outward thing like if I if I said I was going to be here at this time to do this podcast
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and I didn't show up then that would be an Integrity issue but every time you hit that snooze alarm when you told
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yourself you were going to get up at that time that's an Integrity issue also like you're breaking a promise that you
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made to last to yourself last night if you hit that snooze button and you never
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you never make it to the gym yeah Co Kobe Bryant has so many amazing little speeches like little shorts you can find
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on the internet that talk about that thing where he calls them the non-negotiable so like there's there's no discussion I made a deal with myself
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I'm not just the deal is Never Off I have to this is a non-negotiable there's no there's no negotiating here yeah I'm
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I'm curi your thoughts one of the battles that I've had um and I'm 52 so
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my wife is in my wife's basically the same age she's about six months younger than us but she is a she is kind of the
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exception to the rule for women that love weight training and and we've kind of battled the last couple of decades
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with her on getting out of because we grew up in the 90s which was like skinny supermodels right and so she's had to
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she's finally at a point where like I want to get super strong I I want to embrace the fact that I have big strong
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shoulders and strong back and all that right I'm I'm curious your philosophy
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and how you are able to get more women and I mean this is a podcast primarily
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geared towards men but it we we also want to help the men get their wives and
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girlfriends in or other women in their lives kind of involved in this Fitness thing right like how do you have those
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conversations and what are your thoughts around that kind of stuff yeah I mean what you said about being the kids of
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the the 990s of for the the women that was the that was the time frame just
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look at all the '90s sitcoms there like friends and Courtney Cox and Jennifer Anderson were so thin and like uh scrubs
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any of those shows all the they were so everyone was so that was the look right to be very skinny and everyone was
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terrified to lift weights so that that can I think that that comes in uh that
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comes in waves and so I I feel like actually we're in a good spot now where the wave that were that's stronger right
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now is that it's it's uh trending to work out for women it's it's more popular to go and lift um and so that's
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a fortunate thing for us but the the way that I found it just to be the easiest is that I've been fortunate in my
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fitness Community I've had tons of really good examples of this like women that are in their 30s or 40s that um
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used to just love cardio and that was it but now they have really jumped into weight training and they love it and so
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they and they do way more of that then they would always choose weight training over cardio and and if if those if if if
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you have examples like that and those are the and those examples are people that they look the way that your client
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wants to look I mean that makes your life so much easier and I've been fortunate over the last uh last five to
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ten years that's been the examples that I've had around me that I can point to it's like it's this is she she's someone
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that lifts every day and stronger than than a lot of the men clients I have and and uh that's who you are always
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complimenting and so having examples like that that you can point to can help a lot yeah and it's it's cool because
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I'm we're starting to see more and more on social media these women in their 60s and 70s and 80s and I I can't remember
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the name of this woman she's she's on Tik Tok and literally it shows her progression on doing a box jump and when
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she first starts like she can't she can barely jump off the ground in six inches
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and then she's doing like 24in box jump by the end of this video showing and she's lifting and all and she's like in
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her 70s and so that's awesome one of the things I found when I was training I'm sure you've had this too because you're
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dealing with older clients in some ways it's it your body responds the same no
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matter the you know obviously it's a relative response but it's going to respond whether you're 20 years old or
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80 years old you know and and so that's hopefully one thing that we're showing a
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lot of the women and the same thing what you're saying like I'll take videos of my wife's back when she's doing back to
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say this is what I see and this is so awesome you know it's like CU cuz she
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just has a naturally muscular back and so as she leans and as she does exercises that so I love to take Bigos
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and say this is look how awesome this is and have her super excited and all that yeah that's being an awesome training
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partner right there that just so important to celebrate all those wins especially when it was it was tough to
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get that mindset to get into it the first place but yeah having that not only celebrate those wins but have
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someone that you can celebrate that's going to celebrate with you I mean that's a that's a A+ on your training
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partner right there it was so cool because she's been she's she she's have
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some of her goals are to try to do pull-ups which are really hard for women right uh and dips and then full push-ups
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right so she can do push-ups and and she's working on her pull-ups she went to do dips the other day and she had it
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was she was using one of the Bands an assisted band because we have we don't we work out at our home gym so we don't
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have a full assisted dip machine but she starts doing it she's like this is way too easy like so she threw the Bandon
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way was able to rip out a bunch of like fullon real dips and she would like this
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chick was so excited to be able to to do that and to see that win what kind of
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wins are you like how do you how do you show women those wins like what kind of
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things as a trainer are you celebrating with some of your clients that that kind of look in that same direction yeah I
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you know I I love celebrating wins I think it's the most one of the most important parts of uh the job of a
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fitness professional because especially when someone I mean when someone jumps into um starting making Fitness a big
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part of their life you know it can seem like depending on the goal it can seem like the finish line is so far away and
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if you only focus on that it's like our it's your most things in Fitness you know it's a we're in the world of
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instant gratification right now and and then you know of course New Year's resolutions everyone's expected to fail
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and we there's phrases like only takes 21 days to build a habit and things like that that are just all myths it's not
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true it's all about more consistency all it's all catering towards us are impatience you know and so if we if they
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only look at the Finish Line um it can see it can be so hard to make it so
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getting our our clients to look at what they've accomplished and and and celebrating every win and a big deal out
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of every win I think that is really how you build Fitness as a habit and and make it something that really uh is an
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identity change for you um but yeah so I and it doesn't matter what kind of uh
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win it is if it's for strength or if it's just for uh them getting all their workouts in or maybe they'll have a
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comment that they actually that they enjoyed their workout you know what no matter how how small it is suck as bad
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as I thought it was going to suck yeah actually or if they're looking forward to something I notice that they're
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excited to do a certain thing that maybe in the past they wouldn't have been and so all those things are big to point out
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I never let any of those things go by unnoticed because I think it's just so important to just the growth and you
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know really when you're when you're making Fitness a priority to your life you really you are going through an identity change I mean if you want it to
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be longterm you are and so uh and notti picking out all those little changes
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that in Behavior as you go I think are so important talk to me about identity is interesting because that's been
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something that's kind of been for whatever reason I've talked about identity three times already today and
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I'm actually doing I'm doing a keynote next week and part of my keynote is about identity uh and it and it's been
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in different ways but talk to me about that when you when when you teach your clients about their identity um and your
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identity before and identity in the future around health and fitness how what kind of give me that Spiel for lack
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of a better term because I I I want people to understand exactly what you're talking about yeah well my goal with all
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my clients I mean I I I've evolved a lot as a trainer and so when I first started in Fitness you know and you start when
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you start at a at a gy I don't know if you ever started as a trainer at a gym before but you know yeah so I was at
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24-Hour Fitness for four years and so I think every every time you're at a gym like that you know you train a lot of
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clients because there's it's a gym that has a lot of members and one lesson you're going to learn really really fast
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is that majority of those people come to you fueled by short-term motivation right so there there's something coming
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up in their lives that that has got them to to hire you to come and to get started whether it could be a wedding or
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a reunion or an event their training for vacation swimsuit season something something is coming up that they want
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fast results for and it's rewarding as a trainer to help someone get those fast results and have them feel better going
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into that event I feel better about themselves but you learn right away that those short-term goals all lead to
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short-term results because as soon as that event's done that they're training for so does all everything that they've been doing and so they're going to
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eventually go back to where they were before and so right away you start to kind of have your mind shift as a as a
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trainer that you know if you really want to make an impact you got to help them you help this be a long-term thing you
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got to change the way someone thinks and so I have a uh phrase that I call being a fitness fisherman and like I want my
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impact to be much longer than temporary I didn't sign up to to just make an impact short term with someone I want my
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impact to be long after my time with them is over and the way I can do that
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is is teach them so like the fitness fisherman phrase comes from the the phrase you know you give someone a fish
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you feed them for a day you teach someone to fish you feed them for the rest of their life so what I do now is I
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help my clients I help them understand how to adapt when a life change happens
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that they have to adapt not only to you know everything that they automatically adapt to and their family their job
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things like that but they have to adapt to how their to their health they have to adapt to how Fitness fits in their life now that it has changed what we did
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before no longer fits because of this change so now you have to hit the reset button how does it fit now and teaching
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someone just that little habit that they already do with their family and their career but they don't do it with Fitness
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teaching them how to do that just the awareness to do that with Fitness um it's giving them the tools to do it
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every time in the future that the next inevitable curveball comes from life and they and they can that way they can keep
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Fitness a part of their life as they show up to everything but that is a big big identity change because before they
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were on inconsistency roller coaster where Fitness was just a part of their life and spurt so every time something
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changed in their life they fell out of Fitness for a while and they had to kind of go through a little time of trying to
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figure it out again before they came back and the longer Fitness is out of your life the farther you are from being
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the best version of yourself because really when I I know from myself when I'm taking good care of myself and I'm
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exercising I'm eating healthy I'm getting good sleep I'm doing all the healthy habits I know are important I'm a better husband I'm a better son I'm a
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better trainer better friend I mean I'm just better at everything it overflows into all areas of my life and on the
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other hand when I don't the opposite is true I mean I don't have the energy I have I don't handle my Stress and
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Anxiety as well I you know I'm always in a bad mood which probably hurts my relationships and I'm I'm probably the
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worst version of myself and so if you it doesn't really matter what their top priorities in life are because
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everyone's are different but if they want to always show up as the best version of themselves if they want to be that person that does that then an
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identity change in Fitness is important and so that's that's really my goal with everybody is just to help them see how
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important Fitness is and that by doing just by helping them whether they like working out or not if you're someone who
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likes showing up as the best version of yourself you're going to start to enjoy the process and that's that's going to
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cause the like you don't work out because you love working out you love you love working out because of who it makes you be who it makes you
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become yeah I love that and I you know and even even if someone comes in and
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say okay I've got 12 weeks into this wedding or I'm going to Cancun or whatever it is right you can still have
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that conversation with them to say that you know that's a good starting point we can use that to motivate you to get but
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but like I'm not into this if if you're done after 12 weeks then I'm not the guy for you right is that kind of approach
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typically yeah yeah absolutely so like and and listeners motivation in any form
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is awesome I mean you you always got to lean into any motivation that gets you started it's just you you got to find a
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way to keep it going and so if it's the if it's an event that's coming up in 12 weeks then you got to dig dig deep into
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why is this why is it important that I feel better why is it important that I get these goals and once you dig deep
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deeper the first time dig deeper again you got to keep getting get to the root of why this is important
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then ask yourself wouldn't it be great if this stayed the case forever you know I mean but yeah you gotta you gotta
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motivation to get you started whatever motivation it is if it's short term that's fine and every motivation is
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awesome but you if you don't look past it it's only G to be temporary yeah and
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I you know I like because it's one of those things where like you can accomplish a ton in 12 weeks right and
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you can go not extreme but you can go more aggressive iive than you would as a
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lifestyle right say okay well you've got this involved so for me if I wanted to cut down you know if I want to drop a
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few percentage of body fat I can do that and I can get really lean but I know that I can't maintain that leanness
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every day of my life because I would be a miserable human being yeah to do so
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right like I mean and that's you know I had that I had a a buddy of mine is has been a fitness model does Fitness
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modeling um quite often so I we worked out together at a weekend that we went to and I was like great I'm
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working out with a walking Anatomy book thank you very much right and so I but I
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was asking him I was like so do you maintain this like do you maintain a low
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level of of leanness all the time he goes of course not I have I am I am in
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this for the Long Haul and being super fit and I can maintain a leanness that
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allows me to go back and forth right in order to if he's do and that you know those guys are more extreme than the
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average human you know because they're getting they're getting super ripped and and shredded and and all that stuff but
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I think the point is solid that he he can he can bring himself to be able to be more aggressive towards certain goals
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but his lifestyle is consistent regardless of that yeah yeah I think
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that's so important and it's so important to see for people to see examples like that like it I mean even
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whether you look at an example like that from a bodybuild professional bodybuilder or example from a professional athlete it's like there's a
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reason professional athletes have seasons you know I've been super blessed to be able to feed into the lives of
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it is and I hope that we can actually connect right because you cannot dial it up to 10 and stay there all year I mean
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you would just you couldn't keep it up you'd be burn out you you know couldn't like you said you couldn't keep that low
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body fat all year because that the amount of work that takes I mean but you can do it for periods of time but when
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it comes to short-term goals maybe the short-term goal is 12 weeks and it's to get really really lean but what I always
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tell people is it's It's gotta you got to know what's next you got to know what's next and so it doesn't next
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doesn't mean you're gonna keep working this level of hard or does or it could be that you want to go drop it down a
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little bit and you're in a little bit of a maintenance style or you're changing your go just a little bit or maybe it could be that you're actually dialing it
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up another notch but it's it's going to be it's going to change in seasons and so that's why athletes you know they
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have they have offseason they have preseason they have inseason they have all these different levels of intensity throughout the year and that's healthy I
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I believe and it's healthy not just physically but mentally but what's but what's setting yourself up to fail is if
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you don't know what's coming next you always have to know if your training is going to change you got to know you
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gotta know you can't just like well when this is over then I'll take a little time off then know if you don't if you don't answer the question what's next
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then the answer is gonna be answered for you and it's nothing and that's how you fall off track yeah
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yeah and that's how I mean and one thing you know people give bodybuilding a hard time and all that and of course you know there's steroid use and all the
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different things that that are involved in that but the but the research and development that's come out of that lifestyle is super interesting to me
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because I you know I I don't know if you've used reverse dieting with your with any of your clients but that's one
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thing that's come out to where it's like literally instead of going to a big like
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aggressive way to do it and then just getting off the wagon so to speak and doing like three weeks of cheat meals
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they they start to add a little bit of calories back in and I think that's something that's come out of that that
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part of the fitness industry I mean back when I I was training in like literally 1995 and so we were we didn't know what
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the hell we were doing it was the Susan powder era and Tony Little and and it's like no like fat was the enemy back then
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and you know it's now keto is here you know all of this stuff so it's great how we learn over time yeah I'm I'm really
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I'm 46 so I'm just a couple years younger than you but I I definitely my body has been my own science experiment
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a lot over the years and I like tell I feel like that's how a lot of us in the fitness inury have learned you know
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we've got we've we know about so much stuff because we've done so much stuff and we we've we've gone through it ourselves we've gone through most of the
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diets and and and most of the different ways of eating the different um strategies and we've gone through most
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about everything and so I and and and for a lot of this stuff you know there's some things out there that Fitness
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professionals would know right away this is something I'd I want to steer my client away from but there's a lot of
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things out there that you know it might work for my client it might not it's like just because it worked for someone
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else doesn't mean it's going to work for you and just because it didn't work for someone else doesn't mean it might not be a good fit for you so sometimes you
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have to kind of trial and error different things to see if it's a good fit for you and your lifestyle yeah I I like that because
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it's we we've we've done it right like intermittent fasting and keto and low carbon high carbon low fat and all these
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things usually for ourselves and so over time you're you know we're not that different in age so we've dialed in what
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really kind of like I know what works for me you know and I in terms of like
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uh time under tension and and load and all you know how long my workout should be and all that the nice thing is having
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that bank of knowledge like you you can then try the basics for your for your
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clientele but then dial that in much more quickly for each one according to their own body type and their needs and
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their lifestyle and everything else yeah yeah definitely having the the history
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with them it definitely makes it easier to kind of figure out what works and where to get started with it and stuff
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yeah tell me why so if you're if someone said hey why do I why should I hire a personal trainer right because what
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what's the average now that that it costs monthly to do to get a person trainer because it's been a while for me
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I'd say between 75 and 85 a session okay that's probably that's probably the the
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normal going rate yeah so I mean that's not bad if you're doing three like say three times a week or whatever it's a
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it's less than 500 bucks a month which is you know half of what most people's car payments are um one of one of my
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guests said you either pay for you either pay for health now or you pay for health later right and so you're either
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spending 500 bucks a month on training plus some supplementation if you need it good healthy food no you know all of
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that or you get to pay for a bypass later on you know that kind of thing and the good
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news is I mean most fitness instructor like it training oneon-one with me would
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be the most expensive of course but and especially if you train multiple days a week but I have I have a sessions with
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Partners I have session with groups I have online training have hybrid training where it's maybe one by yourself and then the rest on your own
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throughout the and so there's different ways to make it more affordable but you know so there's no there's there's ways
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we I mean Fitness professionals got into this because we want to help people and so you want to make it you want to make
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an option to be able to help as many people as you can um but if you were trying if having a tough time justifying
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it if that if if that's something if you're listening and you have a tough time justifying it which is a normal
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thing um here's what I would challenge you to think about it's like whether it be for your job or anything else there's
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probably a ton of accountabil ility there for you to be successful right and so I've had I have my own trainer and I
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have been I've had my own trainer for years and I I like having a I love having a trainer I don't want to ever
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have one go without one for very long um and and she's great and and and I train
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her as well so we're both trainers and so it just it's a good fit and but I've had one I probably had a trainer for 12
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years now um at least maybe longer than that but here's what I there there are
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times so our motivation fluctuates throughout the course of the year and so when I have someone that's kind of
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hitting the reset button and so they're restarting again um and the I have a
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program I call a coaching program I call the fitness reset and the part of it is figuring out how Fitness fits in your
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life and so we're not picking up where you left off you're right now which your life looks right now how does Fitness fit is you're answering that question so
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you're not trying to do something that doesn't fit but the other part of that is how much accountability do you need right now to be successful and so my
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motivation fluctuates a lot during the year where there'll be times where really in a workout mode and a Zone and
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I I can't wait for my next workout I'm killing my workouts I feel strong they're empowering to me and you know I
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don't need as much accountability then because I could hold myself accountable if I if I needed to and it'd be easy but
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there are other times of the year where if I didn't have if my training partner tells me she's sick we probably won't work I probably won't work out that day
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like I need I need her standing over me watching me do every rep because I don't want to do it and and we're we're lying
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to ourselves if we don't all that that is the case sometimes sometimes you don't want to work out and you need that
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extra accountability um but when I think about accountability I think about this the more important something is to me
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the more I want to set myself up for success and that's all accountability is you're setting yourself up for Success
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you're going to make sure that you reach your goal and accountability comes in all phrases it can come with the personal trainer it can come with the
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workout buddy it can come with a a walking partner like a dog sometimes
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it's a great walk it's a great great accountability buddy or it could it could be a class where you get to go see
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your friends and uh and It just fits perfectly in your schedule so accountability comes in all forms but we
39:07
have this block in our head sometimes where it feels like we're doing something wrong if we if we get help on
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something and sometimes people can think that way about adding some accountability to their Liv so you shouldn't you should be thinking about
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it this means so much to me I'm making sure I'm going to be successful yeah and and if you I always
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like to think about in other Serv professionals right like if you if you have a very simple tax return like
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1w2 then you could probably jump on Turbo Tax and do your thing right it's not that complicated I have four
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llc's and so I hire a CPA to do my taxes right like I would be an idiot to try to
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do all that by myself um and I think the the human body is so complicated both
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physically you know physically mentally spiritually I think you I think getting
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people to realize it's so important to get that expert help um not only from
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accountability just from basic knowledge it's like let's work together for let's work together more often for three
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months and then so that you you know it kind of depends on where you're starting right and so you have some options there
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for people but it's you need that expert information to help you to maximize what
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you're doing and to save you from wasting time my CPA can do my CPA
40:25
requires me for about an hour to to do all of my taxes if I tried to do it for
40:30
myself it would be 80 hours worth of work plus and I'm probably going to spend an extra 10 grand in taxes same
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thing with working out if you're if you have your workout you know exactly what to do every time you come in that's a 45
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to 50 minute workout you're out the door or whatever you know whatever that time frame is and you're getting the maximum
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results yeah well and like you said about knowledge we don't know this stuff un
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unless you're working in the fitness field we we haven't been taught this stuff we don't learn it in school we
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don't learn how to we should well we don't we don't learn how to exercise we don't learn how to eat right we don't
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learn how to meal prep we don't learn things like that in school when we grow up so unless we learn it from our from
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parents that are really uh Fitness conscious or coaches we might have then we don't learn it and so it's just it's
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the same way and so you have to and sometimes a gym can be very intimidating but if a fitness professional is not if
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he is then he's in the wrong profession I me Fitness professionals are here to help you I I always used to be
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intimidated I mean I one thing from is this is a little bit different so hopefully I don't compare can offend
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anyone but I always hated when I had my own business to bring uh my computer to
41:44
get worked on if I had some technology problems because I I the best buy used to have the Geek Squad it was called and
41:50
I felt like I was looked down on and just and made to feel like an idiot every time I went there like I'm
41:56
supposed to know this stuff somehow but who's ever taught me like how am I supposed to know this stuff and I think
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sometimes people have that same kind of thought when they go to a personal trainer like I'm just gonna like like
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that's how sometimes we get stuck behind I need to get H personal trainer but I need to get in a little bit better shape first you know no that's the personal
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trainer's job is to help you do everything right and so we kind of have this wrong perception sometimes of
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Fitness professional fit professionals that are out there 90% of them are very caring they're in it to help you improve
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your quality of life and that's why they started their profession because they want they they have a passion for helping people and so sometimes you have
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we have to kind of remind oursel that it can be a little intimidating yeah and to to do your best to create a
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non-intimidating caring you know caring environment for for people and you know I always try I I don't work out at a gym
42:46
a commercial gym anymore but when I did I try to look for people that look like they're struggling but also look like
42:53
they're open for help you know because like I mean I'm a car guy and I can't go to car
42:59
shows anymore because all I see is scratch paint whenever I go to car shows and it's the same thing going to the gym
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it's like all I see is terrible form you know it's so but but to be able to offer
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help I saw this video the other day where this girl was trying to she was squatting and she was clearly someone
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that has squatted before but she was trying to lift more than what she normally did and just kept failing and
43:22
kept failing and then a guy she was working out by herself and a guy offered to help help her which is a which is a
43:29
dangerous thing to do for a male to especially he was like our age she was probably in her 20s um but she in like
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the video was all about what Jim life is supposed to be like because then he helped her and when you're helping
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someone squat you you usually have to put your hands on the person like on their waist is typically a good place to
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kind of give that boost and it was great because you saw that she hit her PR that
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day she got everything she was trying to do and I think that building that gym community and having that gym
44:01
environment both as a trainer and just as someone that's working out is so important yeah I love seeing videos like
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that is so important because unfortunately there are a lot of videos that go out there that are either making fun of people or looking down on people
44:14
or or trying to say people are I don't know but yeah there's a lot of bad videos out there that really are not a
44:20
good representation of what gym culture is actually like and it can make it can make going to a gym or starting a
44:27
membership even more intimidating for someone who could really use it and so it's stories like that are just so awesome to hear have you seen the guy
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Joey swo yeah big big ticktock guy I love that guy because he is just calling out
44:41
all the nonsense about what you're what you're saying you know because it's if you're not familiar look him up he's
44:47
he's pretty funny because he he literally and he's right typically he's showing videos of people making fun of
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other people in the gym and calling them out basically that's you know and I I love that I love his content for
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sure too I found I found some across him a few years back and i' i' been I love
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him yeah he's great and dude I mean he's he's pretty much the definition of a meat head if you look at him from from
45:14
the outside right like he's a big ju I'm assuming he's Juiced a little bit you know whether I'm I'm on trt so
45:21
technically I'm Juiced so I can't I can't talk poorly about that but like I
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love how his approach is to try to then call out that bad gym culture and you
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know a lot of times it's the people that are recording themselves and all that stuff that's going on now but to your
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point that's not what all gym culture um is about I want to talk to you just in
45:43
general about and you know I want to be respectful of your time but in general
45:48
where we are as a as a country right like I think we're pushing 75% Plus in that o obese category now or
45:57
it's starting they're they're expecting it to get that I had a guest on a couple of days ago and we were talking about
46:03
how the military had to lower their standards because all of the 18 to 24
46:08
year old men are too fat to pass basic PT like where are we as a country and
46:15
and what do you think as Fitness professionals that and people that I'm not I wouldn't I don't necessarily
46:21
consider myself a fitness Professor but I'm in that realm right like how can we help to push our push our communities
46:29
and Country in a better Direction in that case yeah well I think part of the like the Obesity stats and different
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things like that that come up I think part of the problem is the root of the problem is is this people aren't finding things that stick in their life and um
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it's it's all about I mean we're we're flooded with uh instant gratification
46:48
and uh Promises of fast results or with little or no work on our part like the the close the farther we get away from
46:55
Fitness being a part of our life the more important the more we desire change and we to look and feel better and the
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easier prey we become for people like that that are praying on us with all these fast instant results I call that
47:09
instant gratification my word for it is turkey bacon I call it turkey bacon because I hate it I hate turkey bacon
47:17
everyone loves bacon but turkey bacon is not bacon every I'll I'll get mad just when I see it in the store because I'm
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like this is just so false advertising but when you about it that is that is what all these there's nothing bacon
47:30
there's nothing bacon about turkey not bacon not bacon but that is what all of
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these these promises are it looks like what you want it looks exactly like the real thing but when you get it you're
47:44
going to be disappointed you're gonna realize right away this is nothing like what I thought it was and it doesn't fit
47:49
me and and but so I mean that's that's what it is and unfortunately you know
47:54
Fitness professionals and Fitness influences and stuff like from people like us you know we are outnumbered
48:01
still by these predators that are giving instant gratification but I I do feel like in the last couple years we are
48:06
starting to win the battle and but I think it's just our message the way we talk to our clients the way we help them
48:14
understand that that that path that promises you an easy path is just going to be temporary it's not going to fit in
48:21
your life and so whatever results you do get from it it if you force yourself to
48:26
to do it it's not going to be very long because it's not going to fit in your life you have to figure out what fits in
48:31
your life if you want to get long-term success and I think that I think we're starting to uh make a breakthrough L
48:38
lately in the last few years and more people are starting to um to share this
48:43
message of long-term success and figure out what fits in your life and more people are shooting down some these
48:49
instant gratification promises that don't really do anyone any good um and so that's I mean a lot of the scammers
48:55
and everything on YouTube that like vred and some of these other people are getting exposed and uh that's a good
49:01
thing and so that that's going to help us win the fight in the long run but I mean if you want to get long-term success there's unfortunately there's I
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mean I'm sure you know who VRE is but he's someone who's a he'll pop up just I
49:13
said it now someone in the someone listening to this show is probably gonna get ads because of it he's everywhere and
49:21
unfortunately he's part of the problem but I think we're winning the fight yeah I mean liver King was another one that
49:27
that kind of is like you just eat you know eat carnivore and all that stuff and anybody that knew anything about
49:32
anything we all knew he like dude just admit it no one cares your content is
49:38
still fine if you had just admitted it you know he's got the steroid belly and like you don't get that ripped unless
49:45
your testosterone levels are 3,000 to 4,000 like it's just not you know not going to happen so I've always said if I
49:52
didn't have ethics and morals I would have made a whole lot more money in the industry right you know those have kept
50:00
us more more we didn't get rich because because of that um stuff for sure yeah
50:07
it's a it's a real Challenge and I think really communicating with people that Fitness is like a lifetime of health and
50:14
fitness is not easy there there's nothing like it is a daily decision you
50:22
know at on some level it becomes a habit for for people and something but just like we've been talking about we have to
50:28
decide are we doing legs today are we doing our Monday workout are we doing our Tuesday workout and then but it's
50:34
like there is nothing easy about maintaining Health and Fitness for the
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rest of your life yeah but it's but it's 100% worth it like that's the thing I
50:45
want to be a 100 years old and be able to lift and be strong and you know all
50:51
that stuff like that's my goal yeah you know I I go those same that same language I say it all the time making
50:56
Fitness a priority I'm not you'll never hear me say that it's easy uh but what I think the misconception about it that it
51:03
sometimes stops people from getting started is there is a Mis there is an illusion out there that that we have to be perfect when it comes to Fitness and
51:10
we get that from New Year's resolutions we all we six weeks in the year we hear about all the fails we don't ever hear
51:15
anything positive about New Year's resolutions otherwise Fitness professionals would love them because we help people set goal for a living right
51:21
it's all about new year new you baby just like last year's new year new you yeah it's still the old you but but it's
51:28
February 15th so now you might as well wait and start again next year she failed but and then the the the 21 days
51:36
to build a habit myth that comes up too that that you know that that leads you to believe not only does it is it is it
51:42
not right because it makes you think that it that's all it takes to to get consistency but it also lead you to
51:47
believe that you have to be perfect for 21 days perfect without mistake and there's perfect is way too I mean you no
51:54
one should set that bar for themselves because it's achievable we're all going to make mistakes you're going to miss a workout from time to time you're gonna
52:01
you know you're you're GNA go through the drive-thru because you didn't plan ahead one time you're you're going to eat something you didn't plan there
52:07
you're always going to make mistakes it's not going to be just a smooth sailing line from the start to the
52:12
Finish there's going to be two steps forward one step back so it doesn't it you don't have to be perfect you can be
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like 60 days out of 70 of of doing what you said you're gonna do is going to get you way more results than 21 days
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straight it's just it's more about if you fall off track if you make a mistake one day how you get back on track right
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afterwards and you know it's my I always the one of my dad's words of wisdom when
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I was a high school and college athlete where if IID made a mistake and if I lost the match you know I would was so
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hard on myself and I it would affect the next match because I couldn't get over it and my dad always told me it was a
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thing between him him and me was like is what you do next that counts and I use that almost every day in Fitness now
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because I feel like we're we're we're going to have mistakes constantly and but the way those mistakes those days of
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failure can be the ones that you grow from the most and it really helps you change your identity to make Fitness a
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part of your life but it's it's what you do next that counts how am I gonna do better how am I gonna learn from this how am I gonna make sure next time this
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doesn't happen I like that a lot and being conscious of kind of your you know
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once you once you begin to eat right exercise and get some level of
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Fitness recognizing what that feels like right like that's because you know a lot
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of times I'll so I tra I've been traveling a lot and and one of the my goals as I've got like this whole block
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of three months where I'm I'm not home much at all but one of my goals is to
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continue to be super um on point with my nutrition and fitness while I travel
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which is as you know a challenge like I carry now a big I meal prep and take everything with me and and all that but
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because before you travel and okay you're having a business meaning you go out to eat and go to Mexican food and
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all this stuff but like I always ask myself do people that eat like this do
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they feel this way all the time how miserable must that be to feel like crap
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at because you know if you go eat like a Mexican food's a great one because if you go eat a bunch of me if you like Mexican food but you go eat that that
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heaviness and that weightiness and all that stuff like that must be how people feel that eat that way they just feel
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that way all the time and it's just normal yeah it's crazy we we we forget that it's good to be able to just think
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about that for a while that's that's that's insane that that used to be a a tough thing for me that's one of the
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hard lessons I learned growing up is that I always Associated vacation with like overeating binging celebrating with
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and celebrating always means food for for me and so I that was a hard lesson I had to learn and my definitely my wife
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helped me as as we started going on vacations together because we we we definitely now we have the habit of if
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we go on vacation we're not always going to eat we're going to eat a little bit of food because we're on vacation but
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we're also going to eat healthy while we're on vacation and we're going to get our workouts in while we're on vacation and so it's definitely but it took a lot
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of work to change that because I would come home from vacation feeling terrible like that because I because I just went
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on like a vendor because I was on vacation like so but I bet a lot of people can
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relate to that but that is sometimes there's so many bad habits that we've just been taught from when we growing up
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and we have to re reframe and kind of change that thought process in our mind
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and sometimes it's just having that wind like I did a trip that was like a 4-day trip and I remember that I allowed
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myself one treat meal during that trip but then like we literally because
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Mexican has been in my mind we went out to eat at a Mexican restaurant and they ordered I mean imagine this it is
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literally a pile of french fries with carneada on it covered in cheddar cheese
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chips on top of that and then the guy came out and poured white cheddar melted white cheddar all of it oh wow which is
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horrendous for you I mean this plate had to have 8,000 calories in it at the at
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at the least I didn't eat one of them because I had already had my treat meal
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the night before I didn't eat any of the chips and salsa I had like a I had salmon you know and like I don't know
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some sort of side of broccoli or something like that I felt so good after that both mentally and
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physically that it was that's a huge win and I would encourage people that if you struggle with some of this stuff set
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yourself up for that win right like and realize that when they were all whining and complaining about how they how they
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felt like crap after dinner I'm like I feel great let's go for a run you know where's the
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gym but it's that win right like you have to set yourself up and I was almost forced to do it with all this regular
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travel because I sometimes like you you know you go on vacation it's like okay I have a week of vacation but then I'm
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home for like three months right so then I can kind of fix it I don't have I'm home for like three days so if I don't
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get it right on all these trips I'll be like 20 pounds heavier by by New Year's
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yeah um and so I just have to be consistent but I I love that feeling of getting home from a trip and feeling
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still lean and healthy and ready to work out versus like I feel like crap I need
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a nap right yeah I I've this last couple years I've got to feel that a couple times and it just that it is so
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rewarding especially when you have the history behind you of knowing what normally those trips are like for you
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but yeah it can be I mean you might have that Split Second while you see that that pile of awesome food of 8,000
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calories you might have a little bit like I'm missing out or I'm making a big sacrifice here but then I mean it's going to be quickly replaced with
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empowerment and that that you really overcame a huge Challenge and proud of yourself I mean it's it's that is a
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great feeling yeah so C the wins um I don't know if there's anything else you want to point out or say while we're
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here I do want to get information about um like how people learn more about you I know you do online training and and I
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know you got some books and other content out there so feel free to give us that um but yeah I want to be respect
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over your time and kind of wrap up here yeah yeah so let's go ahead and uh and direct people so it if you listen to the
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show I always uh give a freebie um to the audience since I I love to do that but I mentioned earlier I'd have a book
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series make Fitness priority and so make Fitness a priority how to win the fighting gigs to your excuses that was
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the first book and really kind of what really turned me into a trainer you know I was a I was a I was a personal trainer
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at a gym but when I wrote that book that is really what turned things made me the personal trainer I am now of helping
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people really get long-term success and making what I more of an impact to people as a fit as like a fitness
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professional should but that book we'll keep that in a show notes but you can get a free PDF copy of that for for
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listening to the show and so hopefully there'll be some takeaways in there um but I also Shar those the fitness pivot
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that is my website Fitness pivot.one um uh and we also have a fitness pit
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pivot platform that is a easy platform that uh for training and accountability
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there's tons of workouts on there it's a free platform to go on to by the way but we have accountability challenges and
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things like that so trying to as much as we can um have a
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Community but it's online so if you don't live in the area you can be a part of the community as well with us and so
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that is something that we've definitely got very good uh at building things like that since covid and so this is one
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we've we've leaned into so and uh making a negative a positive there with that but it's an awesome Community full of a
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ton of great resources so if you're someone who wants to become a fitness fisherman or wants to go through that identity change of being able to show up
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as the best version of yourself no matter what life is is throwing at you um then we would love to help with the
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fitness pivot Community but if you can find me by downloading the book and um we'll keep the L we'll put the link to
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the the platform of this Fitness pivot community in there as well yeah awesome
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Chad I thank you so much man good luck with everything you got going on and we'll talk to you again soon awesome
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