Be Relentless Podcast

How can you get a year's worth of wins in just 12 weeks? By getting clear and focused on punching them through to the end. The truth is that most people have a lot going on. That's normal. But the way that most handle it is that they are constantly shuffling things around, moving this or that to the front or back burner. While that is sometimes necessary, it doesn't move us towards finishing things. With this process I'm going to teach you, you'll be able to determine what it is you want to focus on for the next 12 weeks, how it moves you towards your big goals, and how to break it down to actually GET IT DONE.

There's infinite ways to progress your training, but so many people get caught up in the "new routine" or magic exercise. Sure, those might be the way to go, but often it's getting more out of what you're currently doing OR already know how to do. The body responds to stimulus in just a few ways (I get into it in the episode) and when you understand that it opens whole new WORLDS of training possibilities. I get into not only how the body adapts but also my seven favorite variables to adjust to keep training fresh and progressing. Limited in time and equipment? Working out at a home gym? Stuck in a plateau? This episode is definitely for you.

I used to ask all my clients "How's your state?" when they walked in the door. Their answer told me what I needed to know for their training and coaching session that day. Your state is the combination of your emotional and physical experience at any given moment. Effectively, it governs how you interact with the world and behave. In turn, that affects how the world interacts back with you. If you have mastery of the three parts of your state, which I cover in this episode, and making changes to them as needed, you can master how the world works around you. In any given moment, your behavior can make a situation better or worse. If you can't control your behavior, or you match the wrong state with the situation, then you're at the mercy of it. If you can control it, you can bob and weave with the flow.

Everyone has heard of SMART Goals. They're the corporate buzzword for goal setting. The issue is, they aren't the best for goal ACHIEVEMENT. Sure, they sound good. People get really excited setting SMART goals, but then they woosh right on by and rarely are achieved. In this podcast I dig into why the SMART framework sounds good but doesn't deliver. I also teach a more effective framework to get into the meat of your goals, what actually needs to be accomplished to get you to the finish line, and how to repeatedly win.

Creating successful habits, or getting rid of unproductive ones, isn't as simple as just making a decision.

In this episode I dig into the Fogg Behavior Model and other tools that you can use both immediately and in the long term to reliably remove habits that don't serve you while fostering those that do.

You WILL create habits in life. That's how our brain works. Whether they're the ones that serve you or not is entirely up to your intention. It doesn't have to be a luck of the draw. You can be in control of whether your habits stick or slide.

We may be living in a modern world but a lot of our mental and physical machinery is still wired for our past evolution. In many ways this is a great thing. We as humans are the most adaptable species on the planet and it's allowed us to thrive. However, some of our new situations don't mesh well with the old stuff. So what's the answer? Go back to living in huts and being scared of the sun? Not even a little bit. We live in the modern world and we should make use of all the advancements it has to offer. There's a reason we've developed it. What we should do, though, is run everything through a filter of our evolutionary psychology and biology. Make peace with how we're wired and you'll be a lot better off than fighting against it.

Your life is largely a sum of your habits. The issue, if you're like most people, is that your habits are arranged in a haphazard way. Some are great for you where as others are pulling against you. This leaves you stuck with holes and gaps in your life. That's because habits are often not created by intention. In this episode I pull back the curtain on how habits are formed and reinforced. This allows you to tackle habits where they're most vulnerable, as opposed to trying to use willpower to change them... which is a doomed venture.

Not all nutrition is equal! People come in two camps - They either like to nitpick and micromanage their nutrition or they'd rather not stress about it at all. Both camps have their place, but the point is that if you want to look, feel, and perform at a high level then you have to at least have the basics of nutrition nailed down. So what are the priorities? Is there a hierarchy? There is. In this podcast I go through each stage of nutrition, covering the base first and moving into the extras. You'll leave with a simple priority list so you know where your gaps are and what to address first when it comes to getting your performance nutrition squared away.

The quest for understanding stress, rationality, and why some people change and others don't led Matt Perryman from the weightlifting realm and fitness to a Ph.D in Philosophy. In this episode we talk about not only the higher level thinking that moves us but how to translate that into actual success. Matt breaks down our environment, our purpose, and our ideal selves... all in an approachable, functional approach.

You environment plays a huge role in your life. In this podcast we discuss how the environment is WAY more than just the physical place you're in. It can be everything from what's going on in your body to what you're wearing and who you're with. All of those things add up to create a very complex decision-making process that you have very little control of. The good thing? It's often VERY easy to leverage that process to create huge results. You just need to do it with a little strategy. Tune in and we'll get into how you do it.