There are so many things we can prevent when it comes down to our health. The number one death in America is a self conflicted disease. Not only that, but this self conflicted disease causes harm to the immune system which then makes it easier for the body to get sick (which could also lead to death). To make things even worse, there are many diseases that have no symptoms. The first symptom you could get could be a life threatening one.

So how do we improve something we don't know is happening? Well you don't. The only thing you can do, which is extremely effective, is conduct self care everyday for the rest of your life. Self care consists of: exercise, proper nutrition, sleep, less stress, hydration, mind to body connection, and simply being one with yourself. There are a lot of things you might not be aware of that's going on in your body, and those things are the most life threatening. The best cure is to self care!

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Motivation is what you get when you watch a motivation video on YouTube. Motivation is what you get when you go to a seminar and get all that energy to make a change. Motivation is what you get when the new year comes around. Motivation is also crap. You need to find something that is long lasting and will never die out. You have the power to create an unbreakable drive to look at motivation and say, "damn you're weak".

Your drive and will to succeed will always outdo motivation. In this episode I explain how you can create that infinite flame inside your body, mind, and soul, to continue to push through all hard times and sacrifices. When you pursue a goal for your body and health, you will have to juggle those actions with life. When life becomes to overwhelming we then tend to let something go. This is also known as quitting. Be great, think great, and achieve greatness!

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Nutrition plays an essential part of your health, performance, progress, and life! If we practice suppressing a macro because a stupid magazine says, "lose 15lbs in 2 weeks", all we're doing is practicing how to fight against our hardwired human codes. If you abuse ANY macro and consume to much, yes you can put your body in a surplus, which will then equal to weight gain or a plateau. 

1g of protein is 4 calories, 1g of carbohydrates is 4 calories, and 1g of fat is 9 calories. This is how your body views all nutrition that enters the GI tract. All you need to do is one of two things depending on the goals you have: 1) get into a surplus (weight gain) or, 2) get into a deficit (weight loss). Food has been here since the day mankind was created. If food has been around so long, why does it seem as if we have become less and less educated on what the value is in food? 

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As a coach and as a host that has interviewed well over 70 high performing people I have found that a lot of people have excuses for about everything. "Hey why are you here late?" "ummmm my shoes didn't have show laces so I went to the store to by them, then got a flat tire, and then my car blew up, so I went to by another one, but couldn't cause My credit score is crap, so I took the bus and I fell asleep on the bus and missed my stop twice, and now I'm here." We create excuses for everything in life that we failed at, didn't have enough courage to even try, and because we never want to be the one to blame. With your health, progress, physique, it is no ones fault but YOURS!

My number one goal in life is to inspire people to believe in themselves. I do this by giving the human body the amazing things it needs to be great when it comes down to food, movement, mental strength, and recovery. I've said many things to inspire, motivate, and educate people, but in this episode I take off all sugar coating. I take away all the smiles, hugs, and kisses. Sometimes we need to hear the truth even if it "hurts our feelings". When it comes to YOUR health, you better be hard on yourself because your health will be hard on you!

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We always want to lose 20lbs, get 6 pack abs, but a very small group of people are setting goals to be better people. To get in shape to be able to walk their daughter down the aisle. To play catch with their kids and kid's kids. Sometimes we think so small which makes us have such a small outcome for ourselves. Today we change that!

In this episode I will be explaining the way we think, the way your body creates a safety block towards success, and how everything you will go through will leak into your life. Training, nutrition, this whole health thing, applies more progress to your life than you can ever imagine. As humans we were designed to eat, sleep, move, and reproduce. As we continue to do this, health, fitness, and mindset will always be here. This is a great time to take sometime to self love & self improve into the amazing potential you have within.

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We always want results fast. We always want the next trending diet that promises a 15lb loss in 21 days. We always want these results fast because we are not willing to go through the process because we dislike how we look so bad that we would rather damage our body to look "good". I got one thing to say to that, "F**K Diets, focus on a sustainable lifestyle to keep progress coming, a strong healthy body, and powerful mind. 

In this episode I will talk about all things around why a diet is the worst thing you can do for your sanity, health, body, and mind. Dieting promises one thing: "A restriction of some sort to create temporary results". Why focus on amazing results that will last a few months when you can put in the hard work to create results that will last the rest of your life. Not only that, but you will also be one in one with your body and better understanding your physiology to pass down to your kids and generations to come. 

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Your body is more valuable than you can ever imagine. Just think about how incredible the power of the human body truly is. People can abuse their health for 30+ years and decide today to make a change, and the body will. After 30+ years of neglect, junk food, alcohol, drugs, lack of sleep, and just doing everything that would harm the body/health, and yet still, your body stood there by your side and waited for the day for you to make a change. This exact thing happens in many different ways to millions of people on this earth.

Our amazing guest speaker today, Sarah Doell, returns to the show for her second time to talk about her journey to her first competition, into getting COVID right after, then gaining some weight, and now dialing back into her goals for her body, life, mind, and business. Sarah has always been 100% honest with everything she preaches and that's the incredible value you will get in this episode. You will tune in, to behind the scenes of how resilient and precious the human body can truly be. 

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How many times have you jumped on a scale and just been pissed off, depressed, sad, angry, all these emotions in one, after you see that number on the scale. To make things even worse, have you ever jumped on a scale after following a strict diet & training regime, and the number didn't even change? To feel angry or sad is normal because of course you want something great for your body & health but that scale just keeps saying ,"nope, you're never gonna accomplish it". 

From a coaching stand point I've have a lot of people or clients weigh themselves, at the worst times too, and vent to me about how that little 3 digit number makes them feel sad or angry. After what feels like hundreds of questions about "why aren't I seeing the scale go down", I've come to the conclusion to sum up the top 5 worst times to weigh yourself! Tune in to until number 5 because you're not going to want to miss that one!

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Nutrition is something that we tend to over complicate and make it seem impossible to understand. On top of that, we also live in a life of stress and the go go go mentality. With all this being said food can sometimes be an outlet for happiness for most. When this becomes and outlet then ED (eating disorder) can be created. As humans we deal with emotions in some profound ways, but no matter how far down we go, we can always come back up.

Today we have an amazing guest speaker, Caroline Biddle, an amazing young woman who has been through ED, found help, improved her life internally & externally, and it changed her entire life. She then switched her college major to dietitian and began spreading the love of food, happiness, and facts of nutrition to women across the country. For all the men who are listening, take notes on how women can be feeling when it comes to food as well as understand more about food even for your own good!  

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Becoming overweight, obese, unhealthy, ect, are all outcomes to losing our way as human beings. A thousand years ago we didn't have genetically mutated fruits & veggies, we didn't have processed foods that have a longer shelf life than we do (twinkies). We didn't have sugar drinks that guided us away from water. As we evolved as humans we also love to evolve everything around us so life can be just a little more "easy".

One thing that will always and forever remain the same is finding yourself within your fitness journey. No matter how many decades pass by the human body needs certain things: water, movement, food, and sleep. When all these things are aligned in the proper way that they should, we will break disease, illness, inflammation, ect. All we need to do is realign ourselves back to who we are. 

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