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🤔 EP063 - Is a science-based approach to lifting all it’s cut out to be or is it just the latest fad, and is there an alternative approach that might be better for getting the results that you really want?

As a Trainer, am I guiltier than 99% of the population when it comes to switching between real-science, bro-science, and no-science with myself and my clients. Why? Because at the end of the day, we’re all right and we’re all wrong at the same time. The only truth there is is that there is no one thing that works for everyone all the time.

Actually…that’s a lie. There is one thing that works for everyone all the time - finding what works for you.

In his book Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown writes the following:

​​”The best journalists do not simply relay information. Their value is in discovering what really matters to people. Being a journalist of your own life will force you to stop hyper focussing on all the minor details and see the bigger picture.”

Achieving bigger goals means we must first focus on the bigger picture, which means taking a VALUE-BASED, not a science-based approach to health and fitness.

Shout-out to Jeff Nippard and his YouTube Video Science-Based Lifters Are Under Attack!

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🤔 EP062 - If you’ve plateaued when it comes to your strength or muscle gains, what is the counter-intuitive mindset shift you MUST make before your next workout so that you don’t stay stuck in a perpetual plateau?

“Working hard is important. But more effort does not necessarily yield more results. “Less but better“ does. - Greg McKeown

The idea that a workout needs to kill you to be effective is one that is deeply ingrained in health and fitness culture. Whether it’s CrossFit, HIIT, or even standard strength training with The Big Three, progressive overload is a principle that unfortunately is often injected with steroids. As a result, I’ve seen it do more harm than good throughout my years as a Trainer.

But what if doing less, not more, is the answer to breaking through a plateau and promoting progress?

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🤔 EP061 - If you are looking to make 2025 THE year when it comes to your health and your fitness, but you’ve made that promise before only to NOT follow through on it, what is the glaringly obvious truth that most people don’t want to but NEED to hear as to why they struggle to reach their health and fitness goals?

When they set out on their health and fitness journey, most people enlist the help of others as studies clearly show that when you involve others in your pursuit of goals, your likelihood of success goes up. Or does it?

In his book The War of Art, Steven Pressfield had this to say about seeking support from others:

“Seeking support from friends and family is like having your people gathered around you at your deathbed. It’s nice, but when the ship sails, all they can do is stand on the dock waving goodbye. Any support we get from persons of flesh and blood is like Monopoly money; it’s not legal tender in that sphere where we have to do our work. In fact, the more energy we spend stocking up on support from colleagues and loved ones, the weaker we become and the less capable of handling our business.”

If you’re hoping that by enlisting the support of a gym buddy or even a coach like myself, I’ve got some news that you may not want to hear - as soon as your gym buddy or coach steps out of the picture, it won’t be long before the success you’ve achieved disappears because you’ve been ignoring the real issue the entire time.

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🤔 EP060 - If you’re one of the millions of people who ride the rollercoaster of losing weight only to regain it and then some, what do you do when you’re running low on motivation, willpower, and self-discipline so that you can still be consistent with your diet and training so that you don’t end up regaining all the weight you worked so hard to lose?

“Money, success, fame…all of that is irrelevant. What matters is how you think about yourself when you’re by yourself.” - Tom Bilyueu

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We all want to be in better shape. Whether that’s losing weight, building muscle, or total body recomposition, one thing is certain - consistency and commitment are the king and queen of it all. 

Most of us blame what I call the trifecta of trouble - a lack of motivation, willpower, and self-discipline - as to why we lack consistency and commitment. But as Stan Efferding put very bluntly, “If you lack motivation, I can help you with that. That’s your problem to solve.”

Before we jump into the busiest time of year for every gym around the world, I think it’s time we re-think what really keeps us from keeping our promises to ourselves and staying consistent with our commitments so that when the trifecta of trouble kicks in, we have a solid solution for our New Year’s Resolutions.

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🤔 EP059 - If you’ve been in the entrepreneurial game for a while now and you’re still not making the kind of money you want, and perhaps you’re even thinking about switching gears or quitting altogether, what is the fastest way to double your salary and simultaneously get more fulfillment, purpose, and satisfaction from your business?

“A man has two reasons for doing anything; a good reason and the real reason.” 
- J.P. Morgan

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In the gym, we often focus on the external results we want to accomplish. Losing weight, building muscle, getting shredded, hitting new PRs with our lifts. All of those are great, but they all represent half of the equation.

If you’re in the entrepreneurial game like I am, and you’re struggling to make the kind of money you want to like I am, remember that there are two reasons you got into this game; the good reason (make more money), and the real reason. The WHAT is the good reason. The WHY is the real reason.

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🤔 EP058 - If there is a source of recurring pain in your life that you have been avoiding - perhaps to the point where you’ve become numb or even blind to it, what is the first step we must take to overcome our fears, enabling us to step up instead of shrinking and surrendering into the shadows of fear?

“We read a bunch of books nowadays. As humans, we want to find out how to be someone else. What we don’t do is we don’t go inside. We’re writing a book every day of our lives, but we never read that book.” - David Goggins

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Breakdown or breakthrough - I talk about this repeatedly in my classes. That moment in a set where you’re not sure if you can keep going, and you have a choice to make. Do you listen to the piece of shit voice in your head that says it’s too hard or do you listen to the other voice in your head that knows you can do one more rep or at the very least try?

One of the men I respect most in my life, Mr. Philip Pape over at the Wits & Weights podcast once said, “When I talk about skepticism it’s not just questioning everything that comes AT you it’s questioning everything that comes FROM you - meaning we all have long-held beliefs, and they may be incorrect.”

Confronting our fears is not easy, but it is necessary if growth is what you’re after. All fear begins with the story that generated it. If you want to overcome your fears, start by re-writing the stories that created them in the first place.

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🤔 EP057 - If upon honest and deep reflection you find that your life has plateaued and that you are not living up to your potential, what is one of the most potent power sources a man can possess that will allow him to face his fears, live just beyond his edge, and fulfill his potential in every area of life?

“Good friends should not tolerate mediocrity in one another.” - David Deida, The Way of the Superior Man

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FACT -  Hitting a plateau in the gym is inevitable. We all know that. But what about when you plateau in everyday life?

Noah Kagan said, “Everyone plateaus. What you do next is what counts.”

If plateaus in every area of life are inevitable, the real question we need to answer is what do you do next when you’re not sure what to do next?

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🤔 EP056 - If you’re having difficulty staying consistent with your training in the gym or you can’t even remember the last time you went, and as a result, you’ve either plateaued or started to slide backward in terms of how you look, feel, and perform, what is the Goldilocks Rule of Training, and how do we use it to make skipping workouts a thing of the past?

“The sweet spot of desire occurs at the 50/50 split between success and failure.” - James Clear

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FACT -  Every single day I have people (yogis) telling me that one of these days they’re going to try TRX. If I had a dollar for every person who says they’re going to come but don’t, this would be a podcast on how to get rich off of people’s broken promises.

But why don’t they come? Are we as people inherently dishonest or is there something scaring us away from doing something we know we want and need to do? Until we solve the problems lurking below the surface we’ll never have the power to change our reality above the surface.

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🤔 EP055 - If you’re an entrepreneurial-minded individual with more ideas than you have time to work on - all of which are going to change the world, of course - what do you do when you’ve got two or more business ideas that you really want to pursue but you keep going back and forth about which one to commit to because you’re either scared of making the wrong choice or you just don’t know which one is the best choice?

“If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.” - Jack Canfield

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FACT -  It really sucks that both the health and fitness industry and the self-improvement industry continue to push this idea that success can happen virtually overnight. Even those who preach that there are no quick fixes contradict themselves by sharing ‘before and after’ stories of clients who have achieved amazing success in as little as a few months.

One thing I come back to over and over again is that you’ll never get the right answers if you keep asking the wrong questions. As entrepreneurial-minded individuals, asking ourselves which idea will make the most money or which one is the “best idea” is the wrong question to be asking, one that will have you going around in circles for years or decades if you don’t start asking and answering the right questions.

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🤔 EP054 - If fear of failure, fear of success, or any other kind of fear has left you paralyzed and unable to step up and take the actions you need to take to succeed in any area of the REPP Work, what health and fitness strategy can we apply to master and ultimately conquer our fears?

“We read a bunch of books nowadays. As humans, we want to find out how to be someone else. What we don’t do is we don’t go inside. We’re writing a book every day of our lives, but we never read that book.” - David Goggins

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FACT - It never ceases to amaze me how we think that simply knowing what to do is the answer to our problems both inside and outside of the gym. But as Derek Sivers once said, “If more information were the answer then we’d all be billionaires with perfect abs.”

A lot of us claim that it’s fear that is holding us prisoner - whatever version it happens to be. But blaming fear for our inaction is like blaming our metabolism for our lack of weight loss. There may be some truth to it, but at the end of the day, if you don’t find your way out of those handcuffs you’ll remain a prisoner to fear for the rest of your life.

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