Ego Killer MOTIVATION with Johann Francis

By Johann Francis, CSCS

Lay Bare, Level Up

Welcome to Ego Killer: we’re peeling back another layer of the human soul & condition with you as my muses and inspiration every few days. allow my 20 years as a coach to provi... more

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July 25, 2022 Addiction to Ease | 3 Questions to ASK YOURSELF about Easy
Break through.

Quit feeling like everything should be easy. Feel like the challenge is YOURS to overcome. What we mean is: every little thing about training is a challenge at day’s end, for real. But the key is to find the mickle and make it manageable.

The music… the commute… the color combinations… are all shitty excuses we operate under to deny ourselves quality workout times we deserve. We might be addicted to easy.

Do you avoid training or embrace?
Do you feel better after, or worse?
Are you looking for COMFORT?

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21min
July 24, 2022 ”All the Swingy ISH” | 3 Ways to ADD kettlebells to your Exisiting Program
Kettlebells look odd. There’s little debate there because even the moves you perform with the medieval implement defy tradition - American bodybuilding tradition. For those of us who now mess with and have been messing with kettlebells for a period of time, we know everyone ought to toss these things around if only for a couple sessions each week.

Kettlebell workouts should replace the minutia of strict dumbbell tedium if for no other reason that specificity.

Dumbbells are open chain low specificity and kettlebells are that plus close chain strength all in one.

Replace strict DB sets and reps with kettlebell racking and presses
Performing swings is a fast track warmup
Build a long duration workout
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27min
July 23, 2022 PREVIEW: ”All the Swingy ISH”
Coming Monday June 25th, 2022
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4min
July 23, 2022 ”Becoming an Adrenaline Junkie” | ADRENALINE,our friend in 3 Steps
Epinephrine AKA Adrenaline is the hormone which takes you into the state of excitement. Inside the gym, we can use the arousal to boost our performance. I mean, did you think some people were out here slapping backs for fun? Coaches like me clap loud to the point of pain to pump up your adrenaline so you can get focused for intense lifting too. If adrenaline in the training room is so useful, why not spend a lot of time fostering it and learn to use this power for your benefit.

Fight Sports learn to defend yourself
Hike… really really far
Technical lift
Lift to failure
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24min
July 23, 2022”Yoga for NoGi’s” | 4 Yoga/stretching BENEFITS and WHY it works
Yoga aint for everybody but more and more, I see everybody getting into it. Why is that? It’s largely because our injuries as a people for a long time are probably caused, as I see it in so many of you, the rat race. And what goes on inside the rat race that’s obfuscated by the less burdened observers?

Rushing from point A to B and back again keeps us vitally attached only to the destination and never the journey. Constantly focusing on the monitor in front of you creates more tightness and more volatility in your muscles. And skipping the human aspect desensitizes us.

Nah, fam, we need to approach ourselves and others with the pride of a small band of tribals. We opt instead to focus on each other and the needs of the body over the rushing in and out of the rat race.

Slowing down your pace to stretch
Stretching is based on the intrafusal and pressure based stretching mechanisms.
This takes time
Follow the pattern of filling your diaphragm and extending it to stretch
Slow deep breathing allows for the intrafusal fibers to respond
Add mobility.
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LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
Starts this Summer
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29min
July 21, 2022 ”Do ISH you LOVE, just cause you Love” | Why you should ”Windsurf”
Doing shit you love because you love it.
I knew a guy named Billy and met his uncle, Rodney one week during training. One of the best things about both men was the laissez faire spirit of their training. Both trained often.
At one point, I was training Billy routinely and mans had a chill attitude all the way around. Fresh from South Africa, he and his high school sweetheart reunited in a tale fit for an 80’s rom com but in real life. Mans newest relationship was his oldest relationship with an inamorata from the Bay Area, from his youth. I had a vantage point from her angle, the whole way through.
Already noticing, how these lovebirds made a life with each other was inspiring. More or less lifelong athletic types, I was brought in to shake boo’s boring lifestyle routine and keep her active. Billy joined in seamlessly..
After a while, I met Uncle Rodney. He had to be in his late 70s or his 80s. As we got to lifting, he took off his shoes as soon as he entered the gym. There he stood in front of me, tacitly wondering about the day’s MO. After I asked him what he did on a daily basis to stay in shape… he gave me a jarring answer.
“I windsurf”

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LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
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https://www.youtube.com/c/johannunderdogtraining
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/johannunderdogtrains

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21min
July 15, 2022 ”Protein: when your Pockets are on the Low” | 3 cost effective Protein Supplement Choices
Pockets on the low? How are you gonna get your Protein in?

We already know that outside forces keep our pockets light from time to time: vacations tap our resources for worthwhile getaways, family crises tug at our balance sheets siphoning dollars to prevent hardship, auto emergencies and the unpaid tickets suck dry what we work hard for often. But groceries are the most manageable budgetary concern. We can spring for the premium roast or pass on the hand whipped gelato during feast of famine like situations. The sitch determines my fridge lineup.

Well, it determines my protein lineup too. As in the case of buying protein supplem,ents, the proteins look a bit more hurting when the pockets are on feathers.
Let’s take a look at the supplements which are MOST cost effective but what that cost is and alternative ways to get protein then.

Muscle Milk at 25g per dollar but 210 calories - GOODAlternatively - bone broth
Carnation breakfast essentials - 7 g but 410 per dollarCereal, milk
Most are 10-13g / $ - 135 calories per dollar - “expensive”Where are the organic brands?
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FIGHTER CONDITIONING | Join us!
LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
Starts this Summer
https://coachjohanncscs.com/fighter

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/johannunderdogtraining
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/johannunderdogtrains
LinkedIn
https://linkedin.com/in/johann-francis-cscs
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22min
July 14, 2022 ”One and Done” | Training to LAST longer than 30 seconds
1 and Done folks only train for a short time - after a quick burst of energy, flash in the pan, they're done with little else to give. We can't have you be like that my friends, no, never that. Being a frontrunner in life, inside the room of thought and ideas is never our goal - instead, we train to last.

Because I'm certain you can do anything for 5 seconds... 30 seconds. We have to do more to be more and outlast. This is how we train to last and not gas.
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FIGHTER CONDITIONING | Join us!
LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
https://coachjohanncscs.com/fighter

YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/c/johannunderdogtraining
Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/johannunderdogtrains

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https://linkedin.com/c/johann-francis-cscs

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19min
July 12, 2022 ”Big Hungry Energy” | Hunger PANGS make us do these 3 Things
Machinations of Hunger

Most of us are NEVER truly starving but could you imagine what you might be motivated to do if you or a loved one were. Hunger, basic famish-ment, is already brutal enough. Hunger is such a powerful feeling that it propels us to act in semi-rational ways just to out jog the pangs. Hunger forces us to:

Pound sugary things in our mawThink about the basic needs of hunger - to reestablish blood sugar. We then crave sugar
Society says yes please and accommodates us in full.
Binge eat at the end of the dayDinner is made so rewarding at day’s end because we have been SUFFERING all day without the pleasurable palate placation.
To gain weightOur delicate metabolism is thrown into a weird dysphoria where eating any food is automatically uploaded into fat cells quicker than bad Marvel movie reviews on any given Saturday. This makes us retain fat.
Hunger is controlled by the balance between ghrelin and leptin. Ghrelin is the ravenous beast within plaintively begging we eat when its concentration gets too high. While leptin plays the square - down- regulating the surging ghrelin back to calmness. But too much leptin, such as the case when we are overweight - means there is NO DOWN regulation and you have weight gain.
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FIGHTER CONDITIONING | Join us!
LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
Starts this Summer
https://coachjohanncscs.com/fighter

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/c/johannunderdogtraining
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/johannunderdogtrains
LinkedIn
https://linkedin.com/in/johann-francis-cscs
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26min
July 08, 2022 When lifting gets BORING, try these 3 Moves
Lifting in the gym is menial, thankless job sometimes even through menial jobs are not thankless. Lifting is thankless but wholly and beautifully rewarding too. Still though, putting in the time is putting on your hard hat, your badge and clocking in and everyone knows that clocking in gets trite AF with the quickness.

Look, doing splits, sets and reps and melting into the samey gym environments leads to mental fatigue unless you choose to change. Change is the crux of development in the gym. And change is when and the “where” we see results and gains but we only need to shift a little to procure strength gains still.

When your lifting days become boring and tiresome, make these meta-shiftsbut still remain STRONG

EnvironmentTired of reps and sets and repeat, train in circuits of descending demands or TuT
De-emphasize aesthetic goalsFocus on body fat percentage, something which has life and health implications and not ephemeral ones.

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FIGHTER CONDITIONING | Join us!
LIVE WEEKLY Year-Round Fight-style Training:
Starts this Summer
https://coachjohanncscs.com/fighter

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/c/johannunderdogtraining
Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/johannunderdogtrains
LinkedIn
https://linkedin.com/in/johann-francis-cscs
...more
24min

FAQs about Ego Killer MOTIVATION with Johann Francis:

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The podcast currently has 204 episodes available.