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Like the point of business and money is like to live a really long and good life and the really the best way to do that money's maybe number two, number one is just like being fit.
I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to back. All right, it's Friday and we're going to do something a little different, so you know, people know us. Then it was for our brains.
They know us for our money but they also know us for our body. Me and Sam were doing an episode and for some reason we got on a 30-minute tangent about Fitness as an entrepreneur Fitness as a, as a business person, what we do more specifically like what's the routines, what are the what are the things that are working for us? What are the tactics? What are the goals? We have things like that so we decided to make it separate episode. So this is a, this is the body at
Sewed. My first only, let us know if you like it. Sam, what did I, what are they going to get by listening to this?
I name-drop lots of products that I pay for none of these people have paid me. I'm more than happy to accept payment from them. So, if you're, you know, my fitness pal. Yeah. I use my fitness pal. I love it. So, if you guys want to give you some
mustard older out there, if you are one of these companies or a competitor to one of these companies pay us. Yeah,
willing to be bought. So anyway, it's a 30-minute episode on it, is it 30 maybe, 20,
On different Fitness stuff. And the things that we spend our money on to be fit, which basically is kind of more important than the whole making money thing. Because if you're not fit and you're not healthy, you can't really do that thing. So we talked all
about of our friends as one of our friends who's, you know, super successful. They've been a guest on the podcast before. Worth hundreds of millions of dollars. They said this once and I can't use their name because it's a little not politically correct. But they said this, if you're rich, there's no excuse to be fat.
They said that because I was like, man, you spend a lot of time like working out. Like what are you trying to do here? And they just said, like look the point of having Financial Freedom is to be able to spend it. Spend your time, doing things that are like, you know, luxuries things that like make your life better. And one of the things that makes your life way better is having a good like kind of Fitness routine of being a, you know, a healthy fit person. And so that's kind of the idea. Sam is extremely fit Samuel. I can look
Top point one percent probably of like Founders who are fit, but yeah, I mean, that's why I added the founder Venn diagram. Yeah,
give me that founder thinking, yeah, we'll definitely call it point one percent. But, you know, that's like that's an easy. That's an easy game to win. Maybe. And I've been going from
pretty unfit to now like, you know, as we say I was the before before photo I'm getting to the after and so you get both perspectives. You get the perspective of somebody who's like, all about that life and somebody who is like,
It doesn't come easy to them, but they're making it happen. So, so yeah, enjoy the episode. So, when I went on Craigslist, so I had wanted something, I think, Craigslist is massively, underrated craigslist's is so good. There is, if you want a job Craigslist, if you want to couch Craigslist, if you want to learn something Craigslist, if you want to hook up Craigslist, whatever you want, Craigslist. Has got the thing for you and it has the most liquidity. So you go in there, and I was looking for a new sous, chef.
And so I went on there and I was like just happened. Immediately started getting hit with things. I was like, why don't I use Craigslist more? Look at these responses. This is amazing. So I was like, what else do I want? All right, Craig, this is my like magic. Lamp is the genie and I need to go and I need to make another wish it, so I go. Oh yeah, I remember that video of Mark Zuckerberg and so this is the part I learned from you, which is described it like a kid with no filter. So I literally just put up a video. I put the posts I go. Hey, I was watching. I was on Tick-Tock and I saw this video.
It looked awesome. I was like I want to do that. That looks fun and I was like will you come? I was like well somebody come to my house to just like train me kind of like that. Yeah I don't I'm not but I'm a beginner and I don't even really want to ever fight. I just think that looks like a really fun workout. So I wanted to do that. I don't know who I need. You don't have to be an expert. Just watch that video. And if you think you could do that for me, then just call
All me or maybe text me, whatever. And then after I posted that and immediately guy got a hit from some guy who's like, hey, I did ma for 10 years. I could totally trade you. He's like, I trained with the Diaz brothers in Stockton and, you know, I'm a Cesar Gracie, purple belt. I'm a striker but I was like, whoa! Okay, great. So, he calls me and I'm like, all right? Yeah. Do I need like equipment or like how do I do this? And he was just like, no you he's like you do anything?
Like what do you do during the day is like, I'm a handyman and I was like, he's like, oh this is cool because I'll get back into shape to. I was like, all right, sounds fun.
Did he like fix a bunch of stuff afterwards at your house?
No. But in my mind, I was like, dude, I've been looking for a handyman.
It's
always on me about building and assembling things and hanging things like this is 241 baby. And so,
which basically means this guy's like I'm the reason he was on Craigslist, he's probably looking for handyman gigs.
Yeah, exactly. And you just happened to see this as like
Oh, I used to work fast and what I why I knew he would be good. He goes, what are you doing today? And I was like, I was like, mentally, not prepared to lie, completely getting a fight today. So I was like, no, but how about tomorrow? Is he? Alright? I'll be there. What time I was like, I gotta do, let's do the morning, he was great, I'll be there at 8:00 a.m., that's okay. And so he came over. We train and he came over by the way, looking like a handyman. He comes over and is like handyman boots. His like, you know, like those jeans that are like, covered in paint and
He's like rolls up. He's got a set of keys that has like 1,400 keys on it. I was like, bro. Do you have the keys to my house? What's going on here? And so, he just got all these Keys brings us boots, and he's just like,
he's one of these guys that works out his jeans or
what? Yes, he basically the whole workout, it is jeans, which is crazy to me. He's like throwing kicks in his combat boots, and I was like, what the hell is going on? But he knew what he was talking about. And so he trained me and I'm still super sore. It was incredible. My had to ice my Knuckles. My hand wasn't so much.
Much pain last night. It was great. I
don't know if this is legit like a real bag. Did he did some did you a little reference checking? Like I don't know if that's how we're not. No, I don't do reference checks, I died. It's all right, but you
guys like Risk at all times?
Did you like Russell or do you just see like, did you roll, what did you
do? Yeah, he's well, he's like, all right, we're gonna start with the basics. He's like, here's how you move your feet. He's like the, here's how you throw a jab. Here's another your cross inside. And, you know, you know, these things but he's like, you know, clean it up, right? Like, let's do these right. And then, but I told him, I was like, dude, I don't want to just learn to
Looks like I'm not here to learn technique. I'll learn just enough technique to make the session worth it. I was like, I was like, you know, that video. I want the sweat that they were breaking. I want the way that they were breaking, that sweat a competitive sweat is what I'm looking for. And then he hits me with this because you didn't watch the video. But I got an idea what you want. I was like, bro, there's only one thing in to add. It was one of those idiot. Watch the video. He's like now. And but at the end we basically like sparred and so for 10 minutes, we just like fought.
Thought and it was amazing, my brother-in-law came so longtime listeners, the Pod, no brother Aaron. He was
there and he kind of, like, pouch or not vouch, but he kind of check the guy
out. I know nothing. Check the guy out, he was just like my sparring partner to do the thing.
Dude, I'm reading. This is so funny. You bring this up this morning, you know, I listen to like three audio books a week, this because I go, I like walking yy-you know, I like walking, and the book that I'm listening to now it's called when violence is the answer and
by saying far,
And the premises is that basically like violence is rarely the answer but when it is it's the only answer and what it is. The only answer you want to act fast and as violently as possible and it just tells like stories and like he's like I'm not teaching you tactics, we're going to talk principles and that the whole book is basically like when you have to be violent, you want to annihilate them as fast as possible and take their mind.
Completely out of the equation because like it's like everything like punched in the balls. You're like I can't fight like there's nothing I can think about right? Or imagine that being in a fight and like just having your elbow broken, you know what I mean? You're like I can't do anything right now. Like, I don't even want to think about this versus, like punch in the face. Sometimes you could still like. Anyway, it's so funny you're doing this now because I'll have to give you the cliff notes of when violence is the answer. As soon as I dig deeper into
it, anyways, it's, it was an amazing workout and I
My takeaway is Zack and his energy. He says uh quit on Joe Rogan. He was talking about it and just like you're doing MMA now and he's like yeah you know but I just whatever he gives some reason for starting he goes it's not like why are you doing MMA? It's more. He's like now that I'm doing it I'm like why have I not been doing this my whole life? Because this is it's clearly the best. And he says it like, it is such a real computer nerd. Sort of way where it's like, I've found the best workout. Like it's like it in the office. What is the best bear?
They're the best. There is the best pair, that's how you say it and I was like, yeah, exactly false Emily has the best bear and so that's how I feel. That's not what he said that I was like, that's probably right and I like the idea of getting competitive sweat in the morning and I told the guy I go look I must have my keyboard all day after this. But like, if I can start the day with kind of like a this like very intense can't think about anything else type of workout, right? Like extreme focus is required at my mind is not going to be drifting around thinking about
The to-do list in about this about that my email. No, I'm going to be locked into this. It's a very primal thing. I'm going to break a huge sweat and then I can go on with my day and everything else in my day. I will have it'll be much easier. I'm so I know I'm preaching to the choir with you but I feel like that's been my my realization with
it. I wanted to spend 10 minutes and bring this topic up because you sent me this gym picture and your Jim looked sick and I am like two years ago or a year and a half ago, you saw mine. You're like I'm going to get one and you got one and it looks awesome. And then like for
four years ago, maybe you weren't in the best of shape and you've made a big difference. And so am I in terms of fitness? And I was thinking, I saw this guy, he's a picture of a 71 year-old his name's Mark. He started praying more Primal kitchen. I think it's called, and it's like a sauce business that I love, but he's 71 years old. And he shared this picture of him and he just looks great. He's not like huge muscle guy, but he's like really fit. ABS looks awesome. And I realize this is the point of business. Like, with the point of business and money is
A, there's like some practical reasons. So providing for your family to it's fun and fulfilling, but three like the point is like to live a really long and good life and the really the best way to do that money's maybe number two, number one is just like being fit and I wanted to spend 10 minutes talking about my personal. I was like, what do engineers say they say like, Tech stack, marketing sack. Let's talk about our body stack
are not exact
and I wanted to
Run what run through all the things that I'm currently doing and I would put myself in the category of a weekend warrior meaning. I don't have, like, for my education on this, but I do listen to podcasts and I read books and I'm like self-educated, which means, you know, like I'm a be maybe or not an expert, but I try to read and learn and teach
myself. Okay, great, go for it. All
right, so let me walk through. So when I do and then I want and I'll go first and then you could go because I know you didn't prepare. So you can kind of think about it as I do it. So when I do, I do for four days a week.
Of strength training and then the other three days cardio, those are usually lifting weights or body weight stuff. So that going
to working out everyday. You doing seven days or you take a rest day, some days, you do
too. I do, I do every single day. The day that I want to rest is I'll just go for like a 15,000 step walk which is like a two-hour walk. That's usually rest and I sleep from 11 to 7 and right now I'm around 11 or 12% body fat with and I have a background in an athletic. So I'm not like a complete new but I basically just learned all about this in the last
Like 67 years, I used to just do what I was told now. I kind of know why I'm doing what I'm told and my goals with with healthy eating and working out is basically three things. One live a long and healthy life to look good naked and three like achieve certain like fun goals like running a certain race hitting a certain body fat percentage lifting a certain amount of weight just fun stuff. But that's really the simple stuff people don't admit that it's I just want to look good naked. You know what I mean? That's not
weird. That's not weird. That's all.
I have to say, that's not weird, might be a little weird.
Like I'm just saying, people think sorry, here's the products that I use for. I spent two hundred ninety, nine dollars a month, three hundred dollars a month, and I have a trainer at Central athlete. It's a place in Austin, they have an app. They just tell me exactly what to do. And if I have questions or an injury, or I'm traveling, I text my trainer, Jesse, and I say traveling, let's adapt this workout, and then we meet once a month to say. All right, here's the goals. For the next month. Let's try and do this. Here's my goals for next year. Let's work backwards. The second thing I do is I pay someone
six hundred dollars a month for a daily call from a nutritionist with my body tutor soon, I'm going to switch to the 200 dollar a month plan and that's going to be a once a week, all I think, but I spend $600 a month and basically have someone calling me every day. Saying what's the plan today for your diet? Let's work backwards from where you want to go, whatever it's a 15-minute call. The third thing is I spent around 3,000 to 5,000 dollars upfront cost and I built a home gym. Maybe it could have been 2,500 but I think it was probably 3,500. Another thing is I do blood work. So two to three times a year I spend on average 200 to
Dollars and I do inside tracker. It's just a fun way to track your blood and and see like, where you are and see if you can improve things. That were not so great. The the time before the next thing is I get massages one to two days a week at this place called The Run lab in Austin which basically just I have a history of calf injuries and so they massage my calf and it's covered by insurance so I didn't pay. I only pay about twenty bucks each time I go and then I do a subscription to active. Have you heard of
active? Yeah, it's like an audio workout thing.
Yeah, I pay $100 a year.
Ear for that. And so whenever I'm traveling and I need to do a body body weight workout, like it did this weekend, I say, I want to do a 60-minute bodyweight workout, and it's like a trainer in your ears and I find that to be fun. The next thing is, I do my fitness pal, I track everything, I eat, and I spend 60 bucks a year on that. And then I spend a hundred dollars a year for fit fit if it's called it's a whenever I do cardio, I always try to keep my heart rate right at like, 145 beats per minute. If I'm doing like a long cardio workout because that's like perfect, like I think it's Zone 3, and then, I basically subscribe to Pandora.
The only guy ever who pays money for Pandora. So I I paid money for Pandora Spotify, YouTube inaudible and I listen to all those when I work out because I love doing that. Next, I have zero budget for Whole Foods and healthy foods whenever I see and I want I get, I don't question the price. I just think I'm doing it, no matter what. And then finally, I probably spend around a thousand dollars a year on equipment. So I have lifting shoes, I have like a lifting belt. I replace my running shoes.
Consistently and I buy any type of equipment that I need. I buy it. And then finally, I listen to Nick bear. You know, who that is member that ripped dude? Yeah, you came on the Pod. Yeah, he's amazing. So I listen to his podcast and I listened to mind-body pump, that's another one of my favorite Fitness podcast and then I just follow tons of rip dudes on Instagram. And, you know, they say you're the average of the five people you hang out with most. I feel like I'm the average of, like, the 50 followers that I follow on Instagram. So I'm just constantly like seeing like, rip dudes. And like,
Running far and running fast, I get that on Instagram so that's all my equipment. I'm going to wrap it up with here's the rules that I basically have for my Fitness in my health. So I always have a goal with a deadline meaning like next year. My goal is going to be to run 100 mile race this year was to hit body fat percentage. So I always have a goal. Number two, I always hire coaches. If there's anything I want to learn last year. I learned boxing, I had a boxing coach this year. I wanted to get my nutrition right. I had a nutritionist. I always hire a coach, no matter what
Finally, our the third one no processed foods and no sugar, unless it's planned, and, and it's intentional. So like, I know, like two weeks, three weeks in advance. This is a special occasion. I want to splurge there. I don't fret over money, if it makes me healthier. And finally, I'm not trying to be perfect. I'm just trying to be the least, bad most of the time and intentional about when I am going to like Splurge.
All right, let's take a quick break. And what's that? That's change in the air and change. Could be
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Called choose f. I and it's got a bunch of things that you know, are pretty impressive for a podcast, 50 million plus downloads, three thousand, five star reviews. It's a top 25 business podcast for the last six years. And what's impressive about them is that they built a movement of people across the world choosing and pursuing Financial Independence. The secret sauce is that they inspire people to take action to make their lives better one. Small one percent change at a time. If you want to find a place to start, I would say episode 100 that's their intro to financial Independence. So it's similar
If a man gives you a mindset of improving and taking action and you'll get it by subscribing and listening to a bunch of episodes. So go ahead and subscribe, listen to a bunch of episodes. Search for choose fi and hit. Subscribe, you can find it on a podcast Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. All right, back to MFM. So what does that add up to the dollar amounts that you just mentioned? Did you sum it up by any
chance? Well, so the I didn't have the exact cost of my home gym because I spent about three grand up front and then I've been like, buying stuff
If as I've gone, yeah, let's call five, let's call it five grand, we'll call it five, then I would say, I spend around 15 thousand dollars a
year and you know, like LeBron James has this like this famous stat where it's like I spent a million dollars a year on my body and when that first came out other athletes were like whoa you know, like other NBA guys will like I don't spend anywhere near that but you know, he look at LeBron, he started like the Pinnacle athlete in terms of physical fitness, even athletes and other sports. I've heard NFL's guys reference that I've met NFL
And they talked about yet. LeBron said he spent this, that got me thinking, what am I spending our? Why am I not investing in my body? Conor McGregor has said that he goes, I heard LeBron James says he spends a million dollars a year, I'm thinking I didn't spend anything he's like and so then he started like he hired it like full-time staff and people and started doing the whole thing. And so I think that will is funny how that one person saying that, you know, like triggered, a kind of a chain reaction and actually think it's smart that you're sharing this because it's not our typical thing we talked about on the podcast.
Pod will joke around about it, but it's not like a usual segment on the Pod, but I think it is a big part of being an entrepreneur and a Founder is like, do that founder 15 is real that founder for me, it was the founder 45, that was real. Dude, I gained so much weight, stressing out, eating wrong sleeping shitty, you know, not work not working out because I didn't have time and that really cost you. And so I think it's great that you two decided to do the segment. You had one more thing you were going to say
Thea. Well, oh yeah, yeah, the other thing. So we didn't even talk about mental health stuff. So the mental health stuff like I write every
And it's not like dear Journal, typically it's like here's what I want to get done today. Like I'm pretty bummed about this this and this, but I'm very thankful for this. So, like that's my version of writing and then like, obviously like a therapy. So those like my mental health. Thanks. But, alright. Last thing, the things I want to try. So one, an Executive Health check-up. So basically, you spend some number between 5 and 20 grand a year or 20 grand in one turn and you go for three days to a Mayo Clinic and they just do all types of stuff to you. I'm not convinced that it's entirely needed. But
Every I test everything just mostly for fun. Number two, a concierge doctor. Have you ever had one of those
briefly? I had a, yeah, I had a concierge doctor. It was amazing.
Yes, I had one when I was one time, I got really sick with Lyme and my face like broke I had like Bell's Palsy. It was, it was horrible. So I spent 25 Grand, I had a concierge doctor, a doctor on call and that was awesome. I want to get one of those. The third thing skin stuff. Do you do anything for your skin like wear sunscreen? No, I don't
do that. Honestly, I haven't washed my face and like six years.
Might, I might be a white guy, you know, underneath all this is my just got here. Like, people are like what face wash. Do you guys like my face gets wet during the shower? Guess where, thats that's the wash, bro. Like, there's not it's not a routine
members left over in the towel. When I wipe my face off and write off as the soap, that I music, dude, I don't know if it's a woman thing or if it's a black woman thing because my wife is like, knows everything about like skincare. She's like, you gotta use this, then you can do this. You can do this. And I'm like, dude, that's way too complicated. And I'm doing
Any of that? I'm just gonna use the hand soap, but it's basically, I have to use sunscreen, she's telling me. So I want to start doing some skin stuff and then the last thing, dude, I want to do a five-day fast. I was pretty inspired by John Lee, Dumas that's like on my bucket list is a five-day faster. Those are some of the things I want to try, but that's my, that's my body
stack. All right, so, my buddy is going through a company acquisition and he's like, oh yeah, you know, I'm gonna have to earn it out there, blah, blah blah. And I told him, I said, you know, when we got acquired, I
One thing really well, I go, I wrote down, I was like, all right, I know what this year is all about. It's this acquisition. And I know this could go many ways. I talked to a bunch of people got Acquired and for some of them, they just got really depressed, they were bored at the acquiring company for some people that had a great time. Some people it was just sort of like dude I don't even remember just sort of like it or whatever. I don't know that was years ago and I honestly I was just kind of funds aam be was on autopilot. I don't really I don't really have much intention behind how I spent that year. So I said
All right, I'm gonna have some intent. So I wrote this document and I'm going to read part of it to you. You tell me when this gets boring, will switch it, but I go, my 2019 mindsets. This is 1990. We got acquired by B. Which where did you write this? Just in Google Docs and at the top, I wrote time is what we want the most but we use the worst. I said this document is a chance to think about how I want to spend the next year of my life time is the most precious resource. Here's how I'm going to invest it. I go. Number one, get fit, enjoyably number to earn and learn. And number three, become a great person. Like
Mon those are my three sections are buddy. Ramon is the honoree so Ima get fit, enjoy the. I go every year I'm getting fatter Less Mobile and I shorten my life span, this is a bad trajectory, I need to invest now or I'm gonna pay like I'm gonna pay later. Hell I'm paying right now. And I go I think getting fit means dropping to 185 pounds feeling athletic and the word enjoyable is really important. Every time I've tried this in the past, I start I get motivated to take some action, get some results.
It's but it's hard. I don't really like it so I slip up and eventually give up altogether three
weeks. If you way then like to 30
to 20 to 25, something that I said three weeks later, I'm back on my couch in my boxers, eating chips. And queso again, this cycle is bad, long story, short, willpower is not the not the fuel to use. If I use a willpower, I fail instead, I'm going to find a way to do this in a way that's enjoyable because when I like it, I'll do it. So that means, I got to figure out foods that are clean that I actually like, I got to figure out exercise, that's good. That I actually look forward to doing. Here's what?
Looks like I'm 185 pounds. That is what I run at the time, I got nowhere close to this 105 pounds by the end of 2020, and with a new set of exercise and eating habits that I enjoy. And I'm not forcing myself to maintain. All right? So that was the first part, a little, a little letter to myself. I'm proud of reading. This, I was like, you know, I did not hit that goal, I'm not 185 even now I've probably 2:12-13, so it doesn't even sound like much 10 pounds, but it was, but I probably, yeah, it's a way difficult that, in terms of, yeah.
Muscle mass composition versus body
fat dude and 185 for you. A lot of people don't realize this but you're 61. You think are you above special anything? Yeah. Like your that 185 would be pretty small.
Yeah. So I don't know. I picked a number but like specifics aside. I think I got the idea of right? And I don't want to look back. So at that time I was working out 0 times a week. I was eating like dog shit and I was, I really didn't have even a game plan, and in fact, I actually had very little evidence.
Like this was doable for some people. If you've been in great shape before you always have that, you've got that in your back pocket. If I have done this before, imagine never having done it right like never, I never saw an ad, it was the Loch Ness monster of my body was like where where is this thing? And so that was where I was at. Now the two things that worked for me. So in terms of your text a tip of your body stack, I share two things but I do everything else differently. So
I also get a coach for everything that I'm doing. So I have a personal trainer who I talked about a bunch, I have a nutrition, I use the same. Once you've told me about my body tutor, I do the 200 dollar a month plan where I text her every day. You dig it when I what I'm eating, I dig it. Yeah, I'm not the most consistent with it, like I will forget to update it at night, all updated later, but, like, whatever just a little late. And yeah, so I do the coach think that was really, really important. And I like I was saying with the MMA thing. Same thing I want to do this, let me get a coach at a coach is not because you don't know how to do it. It's because
It's like the real way to commit to doing it and for me I was like even better. I need somebody to show up at my house so I looked at what are the things that trip me up? I was like, it's not like I'm going to the gym and doing a crappy work out. I'm just not going to the gym and so I was like, I need to find a way to go to the gym. I was like, all right, well, what if the gym came to me? So I saw your home gym, I got inspired. I was like, dude, what's the flooring your used? What's this that you bought? What's this? I asked you for every little
piece and it was way easier than you thought, wasn't it?
Oh, do that copy the exact same thing I bought.
At the same rubber
man, one wife, it wasn't a lot of stuff,
wasn't a lot of stuff and, you know, a few kettlebells this that great got it. So got a home gym and then I got a trainer to come to my house. Now obviously, there's a luxury. Not everybody could afford to do this but hey, that's the point of the show. It's about like, you know, Building Wealth and then figuring out how to use it. And so this is this is how to use it. Second thing was nutrition. So okay, the coaching thing I'm right on board with you, mine was remove friction, find the places that like the Habit slips up and just literally try to get
Rid of that step. So that was bringing the gym to me. The last piece was basically, like, what is the, what is the version of the summer to enjoy? So I had to find a trainer who I Vibe with, who I actually like hanging out with them. Like the conversation is fun, it's not just that they're good at their job and secondly like we do workouts that are fun for me sometimes we'll just he'll come over and we'll be like let's go play basketball will just go to 24 Hour. Fitness will play Pick-up basketball. It's kind of weird like dude you're you're paying this trainer $100 to go play Pick-up basketball with you is like yeah, I'm actually paying for me to exercise.
Sighs regularly and getting great shape. I'm not paying for a specific hour block of time for a specific, like skillset know-how, and so same thing and I may look fun. Alright, I'm going to do MMA, we do training. That's like about Mobility sometimes or very simple things. Like I'll tell him like look, I told him, very simply say what are your goals? And I think for every other client of his is their goals are like I want to lose weight. I got a wedding coming up. I gotta, you know, I want to look good with my shirt off, blah, blah blah and you know, some shit like that. I was like when I stand up from
Sitting I feel like an old man. I was like I don't get up like an athletic person. So that's my first goal. I want to be able to like we do this exercise on the ground and you say all right let's get up, let's go over here I don't want that to be like an 18 point turn, like I need to just like, get up, not like, oh yeah, coming hold on this like straight and get on my elbow, then my knee. They might put both hands on the ground, do like, you know tripod, then I'm up. Like that's that's how I was moving. Honestly, it was like same thing when I run I was like, I don't know if I run right. I think my gate is all messed up and so
We spent a lot of time literally fixing my walking gait or my sitting posture or, you know, like my habits for the morning of how to get loose. Those things matter to me. So I would suggest also, like, don't make your goals too cliche. Think about what actually would feel good as maybe like a middle step in between you and being just like, absolutely ripped because that became very motivating to me and I started to see results and all those little things first. Oh, I'm smoother when I run, I'm smoother when I walk, I get up more smoothly. I can Crouch down in a easier way and play with
Kids that was like and I could just sit in a squat, like, those things were really important and I had to find somebody who knew how to who knew how to train in a functional way like that. Not just. All right, let's do you do three sets of 12 with a, you know this heavy weight? That's it. You
set some time aside for like working at? Is it like every day at this
time? Every day at the same time, he shows up at my house, I'm not going to be rude and leave them waiting. I have to drop what I'm doing and I go do it. And that's it. And that's the whole thing. What time. So we do it at 3 p.m. but it doesn't, it could be
Time I actually prefer to move it to the morning now. But like whatever we do three at the moment,
dude, I don't like Andrew Tate that much because I think he says some silly stuff but he just has a lot of interesting stuff that I agree with. And one of the things that he said that I've been obsessing over, he goes, I'm not motivated, I'm disciplined and I thought that's beautiful. That's a, that's a really, that's a beautiful idea and that has definitely, that is definitely key to achieving a lot of goals. Whether it's work or Fitness, it's just like, I remember when I was starting my
Isn't that like, 2:00 people would call him like, hey, let's go hang out and like, dude, I gotta work and then like, what are you talking about? You're the boss. You can do anything you want. And I remember I was like, 23, and I would say, it's a school night, you know? I can't go out on a school night, you know? Like we had these rules as like, bro. I work I get there at 8:00 and I work until 6:00 usually, like I am, then I go to dinner. Like, I can't do these things, and I remember thinking I'm not motivated to do this, but I'm happy that I have this routine because this is discipline whether I kind of like forced myself to do it. Same with Fitness, same with anything. It's like motivation is a really good way to get started, but it's not a, not the best way to maintain
Pain discipline and you can, the cool thing about discipline is you can kind of force yourself into it like you like I you set these things up. Like this guy. All you did was told us do to show up and now you're like fuck I gotta do
it. I heard this great quote on discipline because I always thought about discipline like force, being able to force yourself to do something even if you don't want to do it. And that's true, that does happen but that's not the definition. And somebody said this beautiful ago, discipline is just remembering what you really want.
Because like in the moment you want to just sit down and rest you just want to chill, you just want to eat that bag of chips, whatever it was like, okay, that's it. That is something I want. What do I really want? And if you remember what you really want, they do go do that thing. You'll go do, the things that vote towards that outcome versus this outcome. And so discipline is just remembering what you really want. It felt a lot better than like, that's not, that's something I wanted to do versus discipline. Being I forced myself to do it even when I don't want to do it and it's like that that wasn't.
Like appealing to me.
Yeah, it goes away. Like the, when you wake up in the morning and your store.
Yeah, the things I say, the things I do differently than you. I don't set the specific timeline deadlines, so which is crazy to me because I in business, of course, I do that, I will never set a goal without a timeline of like when I'm trying to do it by, if and if anyone on my team tries to do that, don't let him do it with Fitness. I looked at it differently or look, I've tried that before. I've tried to say, I'm gonna lose this by this day, my trainer kind of taught me.
He was just like, look. Alright, how old are you? And I was like, at the time I was 32 or some like that. He's like, all right, 32 cool. So you've had 32 years to build up these habits and now, you're looking for a six-week revamp, like, oh, you need this gold done in six weeks, or six months, or he's like, the way I look at it. You spent 32 years getting here, maybe it's going to take a little while to get there and that's okay. Right? Like, hey, what's another year? You know, you know, what's a year or two of working at this, when he spent 30
Doing it the wrong way. Can we spend a few doing it the right way? And he was sort of like, what I don't want is your workout and followed by, then you you go do doordash some Taco Bell. Now you're feeling guilty and you're eating the wrong thing goes for you to eat it. Eat it and enjoy it. Don't bring the guilt into it.
Yeah, that's the intentional
thing. Don't don't feel bad that you're now it's a setback and have this mental baggage about how bad it's going to be. He's like just remember when you're the dude who you like, who you're becoming, you can eat. Taco Bell has not even gonna mess with you. Is that I can eat.
Really talking about every day this week. I won't change a thing. Lift up his shirt still there. Right? And he's like, that's who you're becoming. And so you just need to like, focus on that. It don't don't like go through this emotional up and down, and up and down. And I'm so proud of myself for doing it. Good one day and then, I hate myself for missing it the next day and I feel guilty like, that's one way you could do this. But like how about we just don't do it that way. And so I've gone very much the the tortoise not the hare route with this, which is this? Like cool. I'm going to put no, no timelines on this. I'm gonna put no devil. I'm gonna make it where it's unfair.
Double my only goal is to rebuild my habits of eating and exercise to be healthy and I don't care how long that takes. I'm going to do it and then there's no setbacks everything is progress compared to how I was before even how I was a month ago and so that that has also helped me and is a very strange thing because I've never ever chased a goal doing it this way. I've never let myself just do it this like infinite game style, where it's like, yep. There's no clock. You're just trying to be better today than you were yesterday and like, it's okay, you know, even if you do
something that's wrong, you learn something in that process to. It's all right, you know, this pat on the back style. I've never never tried it, but this is the first time.
So in other news were going to be launching guy next door. Fitness plan.
Yeah, totally do that. Attainable, attainable
Fitness, it's gonna be called, yeah, hot enough. Yeah, we're gonna got Midwest, seven, a New York six.
Alright, I think that's it. That's a wrap. I feel like I could rule the world. I know, I could be what I want to be like a day's travel never looking back.
