The MENtal Muscle-Up Podcast: The Cure For Mental Masturbation

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🤔 EP048 - If you’re trying to lose weight so you can look, feel, and perform your best, to weigh, or not to weigh, that is the question. If striving to hit your ideal weight is hindering your progress more than it is helping, what is an alternative metric to measure if the scale just ain’t cuttin’ it for you?

“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” - Mark Twain

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FACT - You know that learning toy we all played with as kids that had different shapes and we had to fit the right shapes in the right holes? It’s funny to me that kids who can barely speak can figure that out, yet the most educated people on the planet in the health and fitness world still haven’t figured out that using weight as a metric for health is like trying to fit the square peg in the round hole. No matter which way you turn it, it doesn’t fucking work.

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🤔 EP047 - If you’re an entrepreneur who is in the process of building your business or empire, since the road to success as an entrepreneur is fraught with failure, what do you need to focus on first and foremost so that your string of endless struggles does not devour your potential for prosperity?

“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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FACT - Most people who workout have their one or two favorite exercises or even complete workouts - those ones we always look forward to, and help us get our ass to the gym when we don’t feel like going.

In business, knowing what you truly value, what truly brings you to life, what truly expresses your unique talents, and gives you the best emotional pump possible is critical if we ever hope to remain in the game long enough to win.

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🤔 EP046 - If you’re at a point where you’re not sure if you can handle any more of the emotional curveballs life keeps throwing you, and you want to put an end to emotional suffering once and for all - not pain…let me be clear because as the saying goes, “Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional” - how the fuck do you even begin to go about doing it?

"When a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.” - Alan Paton

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FACT - Emotional pain is, in my experience, one of the worst forms of pain there is. It’s not like in the gym where you feel amazing a few seconds after the burn from a solid set goes away. Emotional pain lingers, and if we’re not careful, it can turn into emotional injuries and emotional scars that last for years or even a lifetime. 

As with physical pain, if we ignore it long enough it soon turns into an injury. Emotional pain is no different. When we ignore it or refuse to treat it, it soon turns into suffering, which is a lot harder to recover from.

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🤔 EP045 - If you’re in a long-term committed romantic relationship what can you do if your partner does not support your goals, does not encourage you to become a better version of yourself, and is holding you back from being your true authentic self?

 “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.” - Reinhold Neiburh

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FACT - Romantic relationships are one of the best representations of training partners in the gym. When both partners are pushing and encouraging the other, new levels of strength and breaking through plateaus are inevitable. But when just one partner doesn’t feel like pushing themselves or the other, the workout suffers and nobody gets stronger.

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🤔 EP044 - If you’re like me and you’re beyond tired of all the hypie bullshit being spewed out there when it comes to fitness and nutrition, how do you filter the amateurs from the pros when looking for a coach for what is arguably the most important variable for living a happy and complete life - your PHYSICAL health and fitness?

 “Coaches who can outline plays on a blackboard are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their players and motivate.” - Vince Lombardi

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FACT - There is absolutely no getting around the snake-oil salesmen of the world, and few places are there more of them slithering around in the weeds than in the health and fitness industry.

However, not all bad advice comes from bad people. Many of the very well-intentioned coaches out there have become accustomed to luring people in with shiny claims, shirtless videos, and shady marketing tactics. Being able to decipher between who’s legit and who’s full of shit is a skill we all need to acquire.

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🤔 EP043 - If you’re an entrepreneur in pursuit of a purpose - meaning you have a unique message, gift, and experience that you want to bring to the world, how do you make sure that the mountain you’re climbing isn’t one where you’ll get to the top only to realize you’ve been climbing the wrong fucking mountain?

“Success is not a goal to reach or a finish line to cross. It is a system to improve, an endless process to refine.” - James Clear

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FACT - One of the things I preach as much as anything is that when it comes to deciding on what to measure in the gym, the answer should always be progress. Not only is progress one of the best forms of motivation, but it’s also the only one that technically has no limit.

It was Arthur C. Clarke who said, “The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” Joy doesn’t come from proving what’s possible. It comes from the synchronistic dance of proving the impossible possible only to once again strive for the next impossible possibility.

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🤔 EP042 - If you’re a man who is familiar with procrastination and fear that ultimately leads to self-sabotage, how do you fight through the emotional turmoil that comes up every time you want to make a positive change in your life?

“The only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid unavoidable pain.” - Pete Walker

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FACT - Accepting emotional pain may be one of the hardest and most evolutionarily counter-intuitive journeys we will ever embark on.

I always say that if you keep asking the wrong questions you’ll never get the right answers. We shouldn’t be asking ourselves how do we fight through pain. True strength comes from learning how to fight with pain, and that won’t happen until we realize that our pain is here to help us, not hurt us.

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🤔 EP041 - If you’re an entrepreneur and in a long-term committed relationship how do you find the time to build your business while simultaneously keeping your relationship commitments so that you don’t end up super successful but all alone?

“Success is only another form of failure if we forget what our priorities are.” - Harry Llyod

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FACT - There is no doubt that as men and entrepreneurs, the dream of providing an amazing life for our partners and families is right near the top of the list of goals we have.

But if we truly care about our partners and families, it’s not just our goals that matter most. If we never take the time to recognize what they want - which is our presence and our time - you may end up successful in the end, but you’ll be the only one around to enjoy it.

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🤔 EP040 - If leveling up the way you look, feel, and perform is something you value and are currently working towards, since all physical change begins with a change in mindset, what are the Mindest Macros you need to track and manage to Muscle-Up your Mindset so you can you look, feel, and perform your best?

“What you feed your mind determines your appetite.” - Tom Ziglar

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FACT - We’ve all heard that you can’t out-train a poor diet. One of the most common ways to ensure we’re fuelling our bodies the right way is through tracking your macros - your carbs, protein, and fat. But what about your mental macros?

If a frictionless environment is imperative for achieving your health and fitness goals, what environment is more important to remove the friction than the one that’s between your ears?

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🤔 EP039 - If you have a side hustle or are thinking about starting one that could potentially become your full-time deal, and with so much information out there when it comes to finding and fulfilling your purpose (a lot of it conflicting or fucking useless), how can you be 100% certain that the work you are dedicating your life to will be worth it in the end?

“Effectiveness is doing the things that get you closer to your goals. Efficiency is performing a given task (whether important or not) in the most economical manner possible. Being efficient without regard to effectiveness is the default mode of the universe.” - Tim Ferriss

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FACT - We all know how important consistency is to success. It’s arguably the most important ingredient as all efforts not supplemented with this Vitamin C are usually rendered useless or, at best, short-lived.

But equally as important as consistency is knowing what you need to be consistent with because what’s the point in putting up good numbers if you’re not even playing the right fucking game?

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