Be Relentless Podcast

How To Reach the Stars, Not Just Reach For Them

Everybody wants to talk about reaching for the stars and maybe you'll hit the moon. The thing is, that doesn't give you anything to really grab on to.

Sure, if you dream big, you'll get farther than if you dream small.

However, you need to have a way to get there. That's what we're going to talk about today: How to go for the big stuff by actually doing the things that are going to get you there.

Part 3 of a 3-Part Series on Building Your High-Performance Body

To finish up our series, we've got the car built through training and our driver, the mindset, is on point. Now it's time to fuel it up with great, supportive nutrition.

Nutrition is one of those areas that is full of dogma, conflicting views, and can become very complicated very quickly if you let it. However, to simply build a good, functional nutrition plan to keep yourself healthy, strong, and operating at a high capacity doesn't have to be all that complicated.

I go over some simple guidelines and directions to not only give you what you need to be successful, but also to help make it as "automatic" as possible with good habit forming and behavioral change.

Part 2 of a 3-part Series on Building Your High-Performance Body

On this episode I take on the actual training of your high-performance machine.

We start with talking strength training. I talk about how we wave strength movements and intensities for the everyday athlete who is looking to have lots of SHOW and GO. From there I get into how you can "build the supports of the foundation" to round out your performance, take it to another level, and see the body you want.

I share what NOT to do if you're trying to see long-term success. Next up is conditioning. We talk about the Relentless motto for conditioning and how to best achieve it with the minimal effective dose, including the "no go zone" that will lead you down a path of ruin. Want to recover faster, look better, perform better, and train harder? Then you need to listen to what I said about conditioning.

All that stuff is great but it falls down if you're hurt and can't move. So that's why I finish the episode with my mobility and flexibility guides. I have an easy way to sneak in mobility sessions to get you doing them the right number of times per week and looking at the right things.

Find out here.

The first of a three-part series of a step-by-step plan for building your high-performance body.

Talking training or nutrition might be more sexy, but the bottom line is that if the mind isn't ready to go then you're going to have a very hard time getting to your end goal.

In this podcast I'm going to go over a step-by-step method including:

-The pre-step, even before your plan, to getting your mind right.

-Where a lot of people mess up in their planning and accountability, and what to do instead.

-How to find the difference between perfect and real life, and how to blend the two.

I sat down a few times over the past few weeks with some of my coaches and clients talking about what not only makes the most successful transformations but also LASTING transformation.

When most people want to make a transformation they focus on doing EVERYTHING all at once and at first they see some great success... until they crash.

Instead we focus on what we've discovered will go a long way to making lasting change. This can apply to everything you do, not just fitness.

In the Personal Development space there's a lot of talk about The Law of Attraction, which basically means that if you focus hard on something the Universe will bring it to you.

Now, there are a lot of people out there who are pretty woo-woo about that stuff and insist that it's a totally mystical force.

I'm not qualified to give you a good answer on whether or not that's true.

However, I was having a couple of beers with my old college roommate this weekend, who's a very smart and philosophical guy, and we got on this topic. We're in agreement that there IS something to the Law of Attraction, but it might not be quite what all the spiritual hippies think it is.

Give it a listen and you'll see how I mix the rational with the woo and the rational wins out!

Who Got To You?

I was listening to a great podcast from Joe Rogan and Henry Rollins, who was one of my heroes as a speaker during my college years. Rollins is a dynamic guy and at over 50 he's still doing amazing things with his life. He was talking about guys he sees that are way younger than him and have already given up on their dreams and have put themselves in a box.

He asked the question "who got to you?". That's a pretty profound question. Who got to you?

I have some things to say on it, and I have what I feel is an even more important follow-up question for you.

Give it a listen and find out!

I work in the Fitness Business, so the idea of the New Year's Resolution is fully a butt of jokes. We all know about the people who show up every year, flood gyms, and then are gone by the end of January or February.

The issue is, that all of those people, just like you, if you made a New Year's Resolution, did it with the intention of changing their lives. They set a goal. Why did it fail? Why did they quit? Why do you have New Year's Resolutions that you haven't met? Because they, and you, are lying to yourselves.

Stop it!

Wait, that's pretty harsh language.

Well, listen and I'll tell you what I mean, and I bet I'll hit on the number one reason most turn their New Year's Resolutions into a lie.

Just lifting weights in what we call "straight sets" is great as the backbone of your training. Straight sets are simply lifting a weight for a prescribed amount of reps, resting, repeating, and so on.

However, over time you'll want to do some different stuff to push your muscles to grow, break the staleness in your program, and to target your sets a little more for certain results.

In this podcast I get into five of our favorite types of "specialty sets" at Relentless and how we use those to push our clients to better results. You'll learn:

-Techniques you can use to put more weight on the bar and target your sets for more muscle in certain areas.

-How to build and improve that important "first rep" technique.

-How to make simple changes to work around injuries.

-How to increase the metabolic distress and time under tension, two of the primary factors of muscle growth.

-How to lift more in less time, more safely.

What you say to yourself matters!

Look, we all have self-talk.

Learning to control my own self-talk to keep my mood from crashing and to keep myself from getting into a reactive and negative state from life's events was one of the biggest keys to changing my life.

Is life going to always be sunshine and roses? Of course not.

Are you going to make everything ok just by being positive and telling yourself that? Nope.

However, often things aren't nearly as bad as you can convince yourself that they are by listening to the voice in your head.

In this Quick Hit I'm going to give you my number one tip to quieting that demon down and putting your self-talk into perspective.