The Devan Kline Show

Do you keep “falling off the wagon”?  

If you answered yes, this episode of Next Level is for you.  

My guest, Joel Freeman, is committed to helping you live a happy, healthy life long term, and helping you find the right approach for reaching your health and fitness goals. A Beachbody Super Trainer, Master Fitness Presenter, creator of LIIFT4 and co-creator of CORE DE FORCE, with over 15 years of experience, he has become one of the leading personal trainers in the industry.  

Here's what motivates Joel: making a personal impact on people’s lives and helping them see that it doesn’t always have to be challenging to make the necessary changes. You don’t need quick fixes, and you don’t need fad diets. You don’t need to overcomplicate nutrition and fitness. And, you don’t need to make it unmanageable in your day-to-day life. In this episode of Next Level, Joel explains what you can do instead. 

My favorite thing Joel said in the episode was, “People always come to me saying they keep falling off the fitness wagon, and it makes me so frustrated. If you keep falling off the same fitness wagon, you need to think about whether that wagon is working for you or not. Maybe it’s time to get on a different one. You need to be flexible in how you get there. Plan A may not be right for you, so you need to be open to Plan B or Plan C. This is why I don’t believe in wagons. I believe in paths and finding the right path that works for you.” 

Joel raises a great point. If you are continually falling off the fitness wagon, you need to evaluate what you are doing and why. 

What are the top three priorities in your life?

Are you number one? Are you even on the list?

If you aren’t, I can promise you; you’re not living your best life. We should all be at the top of our list.

In this episode, I want to talk to you about selfishness. More importantly, I want to talk to you about how being selfish isn’t selfish at all. Being selfish is the least selfish thing you can do.

I challenge you to answer the follower questions seriously: If you aren’t putting yourself first, how can you give more to others when you have nothing left to give? How can you make others happy when you aren’t happy yourself? How can you ever expect to become a better version of yourself if you never save any energy for yourself?

You end up helping everyone else live their life to the fullest and forget about yourself. I mean, come on...you deserve to live your life to the fullest, too! You are a person, and you have necessities, and you want all the things you’re so freely giving to others, so start saving some for yourself.

So, be honest with me right now, are you always serving everyone else in your life except for yourself?

I hope that this episode will encourage you to evaluate your level of selfishness and cultivate more of it.

Raise your hand if you are frustrated with having stubborn belly fat?  

Alright, now raise your hand again if you think doing a thousand crunches a day is going to help you lose that stubborn belly fat?  

False! 

In this episode of Next Level, my guest brings you a hard truth: Doing more and more ab exercises is not a practical approach for getting rid of stubborn belly fat.  

JJ Virgin, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert, as well as the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including The Virgin Diet and the Sugar Impact Diet, explains the truth behind that stubborn belly fat. JJ discusses why we have it, why doing more crunches won’t solve the problem, and what we need to do instead. 

What you’ll learn: 

• The research behind the relationship between a calorie-control diet/exercise and belly fat 
• Different factors that play into weight loss resistance 

• The effect your friends and family have on your body fat percentage  
• The two main hormones that caus

Your mental transformation is an essential part of the equation when it comes to your physical transformation. It’s impossible to experience one without the other. You can eat all the healthy meals and spend all the hours in the gym, but you won’t successfully transform physically unless you also focus on transforming mentally. 

Most of the obstacles we face, the ones holding us back from becoming the best versions of ourselves, are mental. Which means, it’s mandatory for us to obtain mental toughness to successfully overcome them and reach our goals.  

So, where are you on your mental transformation? 

It’s simple to keep track of where you are physically–either your jeans fit or they don’t, either you can do 5 pull ups or you can’t, either you feel energized or you don’t. But when it comes to your mental transformation, it’s much harder to know where you are at. 

In this episode, I’m going to walk you through seven elements that contribute to your mental toughness. Together, we will take an audit of your level of mental toughness by talking through each element and determining where you are with each. We will determine which ones you are doing really well in, which ones you are lacking, which ones you need to f

Let me guess, you think doing more cardio is the answer to getting the body you want?  

Guess again.  

You know I love to bring you the hard truths and this is one of them.  

I know you all want to have leaner, toner bodies, but killing yourself with cardio, whether you are running countless miles or spending hours on the elliptical a day isn’t going to help you. There is a huge misconception that more cardio is the secret to burning fat, and that couldn’t be further from the truth.  

So, what is the truth?  

In this episode of Next Level, my guest explains how you can transform your body composition and create the body you want through diet and weightlifting alone.  

I know for most of you women out there, weightlifting is a scary word. You hear the word weightlifting and automatically think you will get bulky.  

Guest Heidi Powell explains why you don’t need to fear weight training and the amazing things it can do to positively change your body composition, without the bulk.  

The biggest takeaway? Women can lift as much as they want and still will never be capable of becoming as muscular as men because they do not produce enough testosterone necessary.  

What you’ll learn: 

• Why killing yourself with cardio won’t give you the body you want  
• How you can become the artist and sculpt t

We all know the seasons are going to change. Summer turns into fall and fall will turn into winter. Each season may be shorter, longer, milder or harsher than another, but we know with full certainty the next season will always come. And with all things, change is inevitable and unavoidable. My question to you is, as the world around you is changing, how are you going to change with it?  

Are you going to be chasing a future that is better than your present? Or, are you going to continue living your life defined by the emotions and experiences of your past? If you are locked into who you were yesterday, you’ll never be able to become a better version of yourself tomorrow.  

If you want to transform your life, you need to embrace change, and not only embrace it, but strive for it. If you are going to bed at the same time, hanging around the same people, intaking the same information, eating the same foods, doing everything exactly the same in your life, how do you expect to  ever jumpstart change in your life? You need to step out of your comfort zone and experience something new. 

In this episode, I challenge you to adopt change in your life. Your ability to adopt change determines whether or not you survive or thrive in your life. No one wants to just survive, so let’s do what it takes to thrive.    

My only question is, are you ready? 

Are you tired of doing the same old fitness routine and not seeing any results? In this podcast episode, I sit down with celebrity nutrition and fitness expert and four-time best-selling author J.J. Virgin to discuss amplifying your fitness routine.

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In this two part podcast series, I sit down with Mike Matthews, author of 'Bigger, Leaner, Stronger' and ‘Thinner, Leaner, Stronger.’ Mike has sold over one million copies of his books and is changing the game for the fitness industry. In these two episodes we discuss how to simplify your nutrition goals and how straightforward and enjoyable getting fit can be!

Follow me on Insta @devan.kline and download my book on Audible!

In this two part podcast series, I sit down with Mike Matthews, author of 'Bigger, Leaner, Stronger' and ‘Thinner, Leaner, Stronger.’ Mike has sold over one million copies of his books and is changing the game for the fitness industry. In these two episodes we discuss how to simplify your nutrition goals and how straightforward and enjoyable getting fit can be!

Follow me on Insta @devan.kline and download my book on Audible!

In this two-part podcast series, I sit down with Austin Eppert, Head Trainer of Burn Boot Camp Eden Prairie, MN to break down how to narrow your focus in your career and learn how to prioritize your goals and move forward in your desired direction. If you’re a trainer, a leader or a business owner, these episodes are for you!

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