Recovering from an injury is difficult especially when it takes you away from something you love. Today's guest speaker tore his bicep and instead of drawning in self pitty he decided to train legs instead! The mind is a powerful power house ladies and gents, if you believe it you can achieve it!

Today's guest speaker is the host of the "Becoming the Lion Podcast" and Owner of the gym, "Lion's Den Elite Training", Joey Szatmary! 

Key Takeaways:

• The mentality needed to understand the body on such a level to always be in full control of your outcomes
• The best and worst parts of recovering from a bicep tear
• How you can be successful in your journey, whether it's fitness, health, strength, powerlifting, or business

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Why do people quit so quickly in their transformation journey? Whatever journey you're going through, if it's weight loss, muscle growth, competition, lifestyle, ect, there will be a lot of mental roadblocks you will have to push through. One of them being patience. To build the body of your dreams, it will take time. To lose the 30lbs will take time. To get a 500lb deadlift when your PR now is only 315lb, it will take time! When days are hard, we tend to think to ourselves, "damn, I can't go through another day like this ever again". This is the most amazing part of transformation your body & health. Master that, and you can do anything.

Key takeaways:

• The truth about your transformation journey. What it truly takes
• How to build a champion mindset. These things do not happen over night
• The hardest thing you'll deal with in your journey

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Pain is your body's way of telling you a few things: 1) something is wrong and it needs attention, 2) you have a misalignment/imbalance somewhere, or 3) you're doing a movement correctly if you feel it in a specific area. When pain continues to make life functions uncomfortable than something needs attention. Today's guest speaker has been on the show twice already (ep. 88 & ep.31) and has an incredible story to share today. Our guest speaker, Shannon Montgomery a.k.a Lifting Lawyer, had a herniated disc that really effected her daily life to the point to where she couldn't walk, stand, or even drive anymore. Shannon has a message for you today so listen up and pay attention to your body!

Key Takeaways: 

• Shannon's Story of her back surgery and recovery process
• The mental side of having something taken from you that you truly love
• How changing your training styles can create longevity with your progress and health
• Never losing the main focus of WHY you started in the first place (How to never lose your passion for training).

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When you create a goal, a vision, something you truly want to accomplish with your body & health, majority of you are going to be extremely impatient. You're going to want results tomorrow and that's not how it works. Because of the hunger to get results as fast as possible, you will then begin to do extreme measures just to get the weight off. There is one major flaw with this and that's exactly what we will cover here today.

Key takeaways:

• No goal is to big and never let anyone judge you or you judge yourself. There will always be room for improvement even for elite athletes
• This pillar is not just the most important but it will ensure progress long term
• Patience is key within your journey, but you must understand this pillar to the fullest in order for everything to allign

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It was our mission to fly in guest speakers this year (2021) to speak on the show. Majority of our guests we have had the honor of interviewing remotely, but it is now our honor to bring on LIVE guest speakers to the show IN PERSON! Today records the very 1st guest speaker we have flown into Houston to drop a mind blowing episode. She is a 3rd time returning guest speaker and you guys & girls have loved her previous episodes, so I am honored to bring back on the show, in person, Ms. Kelly Stone. 

Kelly's Previous episodes on the show:

Episode 51 &  Episode 96

Key Takeaways:

• No matter how "busy" your life is, you will always have the choice to prioritize your health and body
• The true importance of physical movement, nutrition, and mindset towards your longevity living
• The importance of gut health and why Kelly takes her greens everyday NO MATTER WHAT

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How do I get lean? Should I do low weight high reps or low reps high weight? What's the difference? 

These are great questions and in this episode I will break down the pros and cons of each. I will also share my own training regime where I utilize each of these to maximize my physique, performance, and strength gains. I will also be sharing some loop holes you can use to lift heavy with low reps but still make it high reps to achieve the ultimate physique.

Key Takeaways

• The benefits of lifting heavy and lifting light. Some things you need to keep in mind
• What the main focus in lifting is. How muscle grows and how to make it grow
• Loop holes on how you can make low reps be high reps and manipulating the body to not know the difference

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Everyone has a goal to lose weight, get tone, and just get healthy right? Almost 85% of people I train when we first meet explain a goal that consists of, "I wanna lose about 20lbs, get a little toned but not much because I don't wanna lift heavy weights. Doing more cardio will get me there right?"

Plain and simple, if you want to get toned, lean out, and drop "weight" on the scale you will need to lift heavy, eat a good amount of food, and draw back on cardio depending on how much your body composition is changing. And when it comes down to nutrition, what's everyone's worse enemy.......yep you guessed it, CARBS! Let's talk about the true cause of why you aren't losing weight.

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Does fasted cardio actually help with weight loss? Does it actually help with fat loss? Will it help you build muscle, get leaner, get more tone, faster? Fasted cardio is doing cardio on an empty stomach. Fasted cardio is doing cardio before your first meal of the day. Cardio on an empty stomach is no different that cardio on a full stomach. If you burn 300 calories in your fasted cardio, it's the same as burning 300 calories in your cardio after your workout at 6pm at night. In this episode I will break down the benefits of fasted cardio and what it truly is.

Key Takeaways:

• Cardio is not NEEDED for weight loss. All that's needed is a caloric deficit. If you're achieving a deficit with weight training alone (which is the only way) then why add cardio
• What fasted cardio truly is and how to do cardio effectively
• The psychological benefits of fasted cardio and the effect it has on the mind, NOT SCALE!

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Your metabolism is your inner burning furnace that lights calories on fire to move muscles, make your organs functions, and sustain life. Your metabolism does fluctuate over time with age and can do so negatively if your health or lifestyle is not being prioritized. Don't be worried though, even though your metabolism can be adapted to a 800 caloric intake which is leading you to being starved and gaining more weight, the metabolism can also be strengthened back to burning 2,000 plus calories at rest. 

Key Takeaways:

• What is a metabolism and why is it important to understand
• What are some things that keep a strong metabolism
• The 3 main reasons that a metabolic rate can be slow other than genetics
• BONUS: Don't blame genetics for a slow metabolism and this is why 

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Why do people most people quit during their fitness & health journey? They quit because they aren't fully committed and aren't enjoying the process to achieve the goals they have. Eating clean can be hard, yes. Training hard after work or early in the morning can be hard, yes. If you enjoy the process of growing into a better you. If you fully embrace the journey into improving your body, health, and mind, and walking in this journey right next to yourself, you will gain fulfillment in every milestone you hit. Good or bad.

Key Takeaways:

• The outcomes of not enjoying the journey
• The importance of pushing through that voice in your head that says "it's ok, just give up"
• How to focus on the positive side of your journey to better focus on enjoying the journey instead of dreading everyday

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