Oh , what's up family ? Uh , it's your boy T . Welcome back to the show . Um , the fit perception podcast . Am I debating changing the name ? Yep , yep , sure , sure , I'm sure , I'm sure , I'm sure , I don't know . I'm always .
Speaker 1I'm the type of guy that's like always questioning if what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to be doing , for whatever reason . Um , anyway . So what's ? What's going on ? Well , I'm busy , I'm busy , I'm , I'm doing a lot of things . Let's retract that . I'm trying to do a lot of things and a lot of things . A lot of the time make for too much , too much things , too much of the time . You know what I mean . Uh , it's all good . I like being busy , I like staying active , but at the same time , there is nothing better than not doing anything , like just hanging out with my boy , my wife , just chilling , just not worried about anything . Um , when people , uh people , ask me like hey , what are you up to ? It's always the same thing . I work and I hang out with my family . That's it , that's all I do , that's it . Um , but it's all good , that's , that's what I love about life . Uh , I love working hard , I love hanging out with the family , so it's all good , that's my , that's the thing that I get the most out of life . So , um , anyway , not to bore you to death . And now everybody just like clicks off , all good . Um , so Been trying to make this app for fitness , you know , trying to get like all my clients on programs to make this more accessible and make for the people that don't that we can't train together , they can get on the app and they can train with the workouts whatever .
Speaker 1Yada , yada , yada , yada yada really boring . However , it's way too much work . Thought it was just going to be easy Click , drag , put these workouts together . Well , no , no , it's not . I have to do the whole thing . I have to put the workouts together , I have to put programs together , I have to put the macros together , I have to click and drag and then I have to edit the videos and then I have to put the videos in and then I have to adjust the workouts and the reps and the sets and the . It's all good , dude , it's all good . Am I exhausted ? Yeah , so hopefully it'll be worth it . Probably not all good , but anyway . So watch out for that .
Speaker 1If you're a long time listener of the show , there will be an app for my workouts that I do personally . There will be programs in there , there will be packages you can get , um , cause you know your boy is trying to spend more time with his family and still do what he loves , aka helping people feel amazing about themselves . So , trying to put this program slash workout app together for y'all so that I don't have to do as much in person training and I can put some of that training into apps . Um , any who ? Okay , so let's get into it Right out the gate .
Speaker 1I got a lot to say . Uh , I'm sitting there at berries , right , and I love . Let me just preface this Saturday mornings at berries are my favorite time of the week . The rest of the week is great . I have great experiences , I have great interactions , but there is something about Saturday morning that is just next level , like people come in , they're motivated , they're driven , they've had a good night . Either they went and got crazy drunk or they didn't . They got a lot of rest , um , anyway , they either . They come in and they just , they want to just go hard , and those are my favorite type of people . That's . That's how I am . I just like to go hard for no other reason than to go hard and , um , you know , not to be biased , but those are the they're like my favorite clients that come in on Saturdays .
Speaker 1Um , and so this specific Saturday , um and so when , so when I have those type of people in class , I'm very hyper , I'm very energized , I'm very loud , I'm very , you know , um , all of it . And so we have this company come in . I do not remember the name of the company . If I did remember , I wouldn't tell you anyway , cause I don't want to crap on him . I'm going to crap on him . That's why I say that , um so , um , this company comes in . There was a skincare company and so the skincare company comes in and they're offering free facials after class .
Speaker 1And , uh , I am not a great skincare routine type of guy . Um , not that I don't have anything against it or that I have anything against it , it's just I just it's hard for me to get into a routine , it's hard for me to care about it . I just , I genuinely don't care . Um , you know , and I know you're supposed to wear SPF sunscreen all the time and you're supposed to do this . You're supposed to . I just don't care . I really don't care . Um , maybe I should a little bit more , probably carry my skin , but I don't . Um and uh .
Speaker 1So this , this company comes in , they're giving me free facials , and so I had a break . I was going to take the nine 40 , but my boy , jason , sold it out , so couldn't take the nine 40 . Um , so I'm just sitting there chilling and , uh , they're like , do you want a free facial ? I was like , yeah , sure , why not ? All good , um , might as well , I'm just sitting here anyway , not doing anything , not doing anything . So I go over there and , okay , let me just say first of all , if you are a business , you should never , ever , ever , ever , ever be negative about what people do in regards to what you're trying to sell them . Okay , so pivot , we'll . We'll get back to the facial goat .
Speaker 1Like , this is just a better example , I guess , before I just go hot on the press , I cut my own hair . All right , Do I look fire ? Yeah , look at that fade . Look at that fade . If you're watching the video . Look at my fade , fool . Um , I cut my own hair , anyway . Um , I've been doing it for well over a decade . Um , so I'm very used to cutting my own hair and I know how to make it look good . And no , I could not cut anybody else's hair , I couldn't make anybody else's hair look good because I'm not a uh , a hair stylist . I don't , I'm not a barber . I don't know how to do that .
Speaker 1However , I'm at the gym . I'm at the gym and I get a compliment from somebody , um , who was walking by , and they're like oh , my gosh , I like your hair , thank you , um , who doesn't ? I was like oh , thank you very much , I appreciate that I do it . And they're like oh , wow , that's so cool . Da , da , da , da , small chat , chit chat , whatever it is , and they peace out .
Speaker 1Then this guy who comes by , no hair , completely bald , um , walks by and he's like hey man , um , who cuts your hair ? And I was like I do . And he's like yeah , yeah , yeah . I could tell hey , I'm a barber , hey , man , I don't know what that means , I don't know if that's , I could tell that you cut it because it looks like garbage , or I could tell because it looks really good , but I could do it better . Either way , don't like you right off the bat . If you try to give me a business card now , I want to cut you with your business card . Okay , don't ever , ever , ever try to sell me something by crapping on what I already do . Otherwise I'll fight you . How about that ? Okay , so he goes yeah , I can tell I'm a barber . Here's my business card . You should come through .
Speaker 1And I literally looked at him and I said , yeah , never going to happen . Have a good day , cause that's just bad marketing . You're bad at marketing . You're bad at marketing . If you go , hey , what you're doing sucks . Hey , come over here , I'll do it for you better . No , no , how about ? Wow , dude , that's really impressive that you do that on your own . Have you ever thought about doing your own thing ? Hey , I'm a barber too . I respect the game , da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da . And now I feel like you're my pal . And now I feel like , yeah , I'll come see what you're all about . All good , dude . But if you start with , hey , man , you suck , come see me , you won't , then there's problems . Okay , so now that's out of the way .
Speaker 1Basically , I got some opinions about that way of living your life . And so , going back to berries and this facial , let me just start with I just want the facial and no talking . I want to relax , I want to close my eyes , I want you to just do your thing . Make me feel pretty right , Because that's what facial is all about Make me feel like a pretty princess .
Speaker 1And so this guy . Now , could I leave out the fact that he was overweight ? Yeah , I could , but am I going to ? No , he was out of shape . Okay , that adds to the story . You'll understand in a minute .
Speaker 1So this guy out of shape comes up and starts like doing the skincare routine and wiping my face down , da-da-da-da-da-da . Small chit chat about like , hey , what's your skincare routine ? Do you have one ? No , I don't . Oh , why I don't care . And so he starts going off about like , oh , how I should be doing this and this and this and this , and have I tried these other things ? And I was like , yeah , I tried . Lumen was a company I tried for a little bit . I tried this and this . And again , if I've tried something , you should go as a person oh , that's cool , I'm glad you tried something . Have you ever thought about this type of skincare ?
Speaker 1Not what he did as ooh , ooh , that just makes my skin crawl . You need to use this type of hey , dude , now I hate you . Now I want to get off the bench and break bottles over your head . Okay , do I have anger management ? Maybe , I don't know . But to just take something that somebody said oh yeah , I tried to do this and then you completely crap all over it . You suck as a person . So he craps all over what I've tried to do in the past and now instantly defensive Do I need therapy for it ? Yeah , okay , all good , so he goes . Oh , that makes my skin crawl Anytime anybody ever says that you need to use our products .
Speaker 1Did I stop listening ? Yes , I did , because I don't care anymore . So then he starts going off about how , like , skincare is so huge and how you need to do it . Da , da , da , da , da da . But , dude , you've already made me angry about saying how my effort makes your skin crawl . So okay , guys . So when we know that I have opinions , obviously I've just been ranting for the last five minutes .
Speaker 1Also , I really like to argue with people and I really enjoy confrontation . Okay , like it's one of my favorite things in the world . Is this something I'm working on ? Yes , because confrontation is not great . So I really like confrontation and I'm very , very , very fast thinking on my feet when it comes to insults . Is that a good thing ? No , am I proud of it Originally ? But I am very quick-witted and I know what just gets . Ya , you know what I mean .
Speaker 1And so I'm sitting there , I have to bite my tongue . So I sit up and the facial was done . I had stopped talking , I had stopped listening to this guy , I didn't care anymore . Whatever , do my thing to my face , get me off this freaking table . So he , I sit up and he goes , he goes . So what do we think about skin care routine now ? And I legitimately had to bite my tongue so hard , not figuratively , literally had to bite my tongue for about 10 solid seconds because what I wanted to say was hey , you can talk to me about my skin care routine when I get to talk to you about your workout and diet routine , because that you fat bro . That's what I wanted to say . Did I say it ? No , sure , didn't , Sure , didn't . But what I did say was yeah , yeah , yeah , no doubt , thanks for the facial . And then I walked away because I didn't want to fight him .
Anyway , like I hope that just makes me so mad at how quick people are to put other people's efforts down when they're so called experts in that specific area . Like I would never as a trainer and and I know I would never do this because I've put in , been put in situations where I could have done it and I never have . I would never listen to somebody who was like so like talking to them , saying you know what's your , what's your fitness background , what have you done ? What's what's worked for you , what hasn't worked for you ? I would never listen to somebody about their fitness stuff .
Speaker 1You know , oh , I tried carnivore or I tried keto diet , or I tried this , I tried that , I tried this , I tried that and I would never listen to that and then say , oh , okay , yeah , yeah , that was cute . Well , it was really dumb of you to do that . Let me help you out . Like , that's so bad of a sales tactic . Like , if I want to get you to pay me money or to do what I'm asking you to do , I need to build you up and build confidence in you saying like , oh , yeah , yeah , that was a lot of effort . I'm so glad you've tried it . At least you know , like , that you can do stuff , that you can stick to things . You know , maybe let's try this way . I think this way might help you a little bit easier for you . This might be a better route for you to follow Might be a little bit more doable .
Speaker 1Based off of what you've told me how you do things , you know that is so much more effective and successful , rather than trying to , like , constantly push people down and make them feel horrible and that you are above them and that you know way more than they do . Yada , yada , yada . Like that is just bad , bad . Bad marketing , bad salesmanship , bad , just living as a human , that's just bad , anyway . So , no , you can't talk to me about my skincare routine if I can't talk to you about your , your , your workout and diet routine . Okay , how about that ? Just , that's how we go forward , anyway . Just woof , yada got me heated and then I had to go teach another class and , man , I was on fire . Anyway , it's just I , you don't get to talk to me about things if I don't get to talk to you about other things . You know what I mean . As far as , like , hey , what are you doing for this ? You know , to be successful ? Oh well , what are you doing for this , for you to be successful ? That's your area of expertise . We're going to talk about my expertise as well . Anyway , moving on , what's going on ? Well , I mean , there's always things going on in the fitness world . That's not really like super applicable right now . Well , okay , I take that back . So there was I don't remember , maybe this was like two weeks ago , three weeks ago .
Speaker 1Pro women's volleyball has never been a thing as far as like a league is concerned . Like there's been like sand volleyball and like the Olympic and the national and like the country level and there's been like minor leagues , I guess . But and I'm not a huge follower of volleyball I enjoy playing it , I enjoy watching , I think it's very fascinating , but I've never been one that like religiously follows it . Anyway , so apparently the first pro match ever like female pro match ever happened like three or four weeks ago maybe , and it was the Atlanta vibe versus the Omaha star or something I don't remember . I know it was Atlanta versus Omaha and they drew in 11,000 people to their first match . Like yo , 11,000 people is no joke . Now , is that anywhere near football standards of like 70,000 ? No , it's not .
Speaker 1But it obviously shows that there is a large interest in the sport and I think it's about freaking time that we have pro leagues in other sports . We talked about this a lot . You know about how the obviously baseball , basketball , football , hockey , those kind of like baseball , like what did I say ? Baseball , basketball , football , hockey , soccer , like those just dominate in America , just massive , massive leagues with bajillions of dollars in revenue and sponsorships and advertising and marketing , all those things . I think it's about freaking time that there's more pro sports that are put on major networks , because the problem is you have all these leagues that don't make it to the pro sports . Like you've got round net , you've got tennis I guess tennis is a little bit bigger , but I mean you could have badminton , you could have pickleball , you could have table tennis , you could have bowling , you could have racket ball . For heaven's sakes , you could have a lot of these different way , smaller sports that are still very , very entertaining to watch , but they're not on the national like ESPN or the Fox Sports or whatever major sports network .
Speaker 1And people are lazy , right , they'll watch whatever's in front of them . So if you start putting that out there , they'll watch it . They will , because they're lazy . They're just going to sit on there and go oh well , I didn't know I was in there , I guess . Sure , yeah , now I'm a volleyball fan , cool , so it's not the fact that there isn't interest , it's that these massive places are not promoting it , probably because they're not getting a lot of money back . But again , you know your boy's not a huge fan of money . Forget the money , just provide entertainment , provide variety of entertainment . So I hope that this pro girls volleyball league like legitimately takes off and blows up and becomes this huge sport , because I think it'd be massive , not just for women but for just sports in general . Like sports in general , women's sports will go up , like everything will just elevate if we're able to build up other leagues and pro sports outside of basketball football , baseball , soccer and hockey , anyway .
Speaker 1So , oh , sticking with women's sports , speaking of women's sports , so here I'm a little bit conflicted on this next one . So I'm a huge fan of basketball , right , we all know that , aka Kobe Bryant's right behind me , all good , the man , the myth , the legend , my hero . And so I love the NBA All-Star game . If you haven't ever watched the NBA All-Star game , it's really cool . They have a celebrity game which is really hilarious to watch . They have , like you vote on all of the biggest NBA stars that you want to go
and participate in .
Speaker 1The NBA game . All-star game happens in March , I believe , yeah , and they have a three-point shooting contest . They have a slam dunk contest , which used to be my favorite to watch . It's not so much anymore . They have a skills contest . They have the NBA game , which is really cool now the way that they've put it up together , because they get to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the charity of their choice , whoever wins . Also , the players make like $10 million if they make it , if they win .
Speaker 1Anyway , that's beside the point . I'm talking about their contracts , all good , but there's been a lot of push recently for the WNBA , the women's NBA . If you've listened to other episodes , you know that I have opinions about the WNBA , about how I don't think that it's a lucrative endeavor . I'm very realist when it comes to things like that , where the women are like oh , we only make X amount of money and the men make this amount of money , yeah , but the men also pull in millions of more views than you do and it makes the network millions of more dollars . So if you want more money , bring more people to your games . Anyway , that's beside the point . Maybe that's rude , whatever , don't care if it's triggering .
Speaker 1Anyway , there's been this massive , massive , massive push for women's basketball . All good , I'm a fan , anybody who plays basketball , totally respected Would an NBA team , absolutely shred a WNBA team . Yes , I don't think the score would be even funny . It'd be like 200 points to maybe 30 . Like it would be absolutely ridiculous , just based off of physicality . Anyway , the push is great . I'm down . Great Women's sports . I totally support it , as long as , you know , you don't have men playing women's sports , all good . So they're pushing and pushing , and pushing and pushing .
Speaker 1And now there's something that's going to happen this NBA All-Star weekend where Steph Curry , the greatest shooter in the NBA of all time not just of our generation , of all time Like he's the best shooter ever , and there's a girl named Sabrina Lawn I don't know how to pronounce it Lawn Ski Lawn , eski Lawn , I don't know . She's the best . Like , she holds the three point record , I believe three years in a row for the WNBA . She's won the WAA three point shooting contest . She's an amazing , amazing shooter , crazy athlete , very talented , anyway . So she challenged Steph Curry to a three point shoot out , a three point contest just between her and him , and I find it very interesting that they're going to use this . I think I'll be interested to see how they use this , because it'll be , you know , steph versus Sabrina , nba versus WNBA .
Speaker 1Here's the thing it's not equal . It's not equal . Sabrina will be shooting from the WNBA line , steph will be shooting from the NBA line . Steph will be using NBA basketballs , sabrina will be using WNBA basketballs . And you go no , no , no , that's fair , that's what they've played with their whole time . Yeah , no , no , no , no , I get that , that's what they're used to . But Steph's NBA three point is beyond the WNBA three point . It's not fair . It's a lot easier to shoot closer to the basket . That's just statistically how things go . If you're farther away from the basketball hoop , the percentage of you making the shot goes down right . So it's not fair , it is not equal . And you go oh , but it is equal . You know , that's where she's used to shooting from . That's what she does .
Speaker 1Great , but statistically , mathematically , just by sheer number based away from the distance from the hoop to your hands , statistically , steph is still doing something more difficult . Aka , the guy is doing something more difficult than the girl , right ? I'm just I'm not trying to be , you know , political or you know sexist about this , just math , right , just mathematically , what he does is harder Anyway . So I'll be interested to see if you know if he wins , great . If he loses , this becomes a massive , massive deal between oh see , women are just as good as men . Hey , shut up , women are just as good as men . But for you to say that they did the same thing is totally inaccurate , because they didn't do the same thing . He shot from farther back with a bigger ball . It's way harder , way harder . So the I can see how this will be spun , just because the media kind of blows and they're very easy to predict how it goes . And so when , when , if Steph loses , this will become massive .
Speaker 1Oh , the WNBA is better than the NBA . Why are they not paying them as much ? Obviously , they're just as good . Da , da , da , da , da , da , da , da and all this other nonsense . That isn't true . And if he wins , nothing is said , zero , things are said they go . Oh , that was fun , cool , it's insane , it's so wild at how different . And I will bring it up again Once the NBA , once it goes down . I will bring it up again just because I love being right , I love it , I love being right , anyway . So , yeah , it'll be . It'll be interesting to see how the media spins that one . And it's not even part of like , it's not even like a legit , like a lot of NBA players shooting against WNBA players . It's just Steph and Sabrina in the middle , like between the real shooting contest and the dunk contest , because there's like four hours between those , so they're just going to sneak that little guy in there between the two events .
Speaker 1Anyway , what else ? Oh , speaking of basketball , have I ever told you that Mark Cuban is like one of my favorite people of all time ? He used to be the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and then he sold his stake . I think he still owns a majority but he sold a crap load Like I'm talking like $2 billion I think it was in the billions as far as like how much he sold his shares for Wild , wild number , and so he sold that and he's still like , he's still involved . He just doesn't have to do all of the things that an owner does , which is great Spend more time with your family . All good , dude .
Speaker 1You have other interests , but from like everything I know about Mark and everything that I've seen from him , like he just seems like the most I don't know if I can say down to earth , because when you have billions of dollars I think it's very hard to be down to earth but the most level headed kind of like normal quote unquote billionaire type of guy I've ever seen on any interview , seen at games , seen just on shows , whatever he's at . You know , read interviews or watch interviews or read things that he's little quips , that he's put in the media or whatever . But like everything that he does seems to be like pretty legitimately , for the good of people . Like like he built this pharmaceutical company that tried to take out the middleman to make pharmaceutical drugs way , way cheaper for people , which is massive because the pharmaceutical company is the biggest criminal organization in the world , hands down , and so he's tried to make it so it's way cheaper for people to get the medications they need . So shout out to Mark Cuban . But also like , so he sold his shares in in the Mavericks for billions of dollars and he just announced , like last week or so , that he's going to be donating $35 million in bonuses to the Mavericks staff . And you know , I don't I don't know how that translates down , I don't know , maybe , maybe you get a hundred dollar bonus I don't know how many people work for the Mavericks but just to give back $35 million in bonuses to people , regardless of what that actually comes out to be for the specific person . You know , I'm sure it ranges for your , your career , position , your status , but like that's not Trump change , like that's $35 million that he could use in other places and yet he's going to just give it back to to the people who work for that organization , which is huge , regardless , again , regardless of how much money you get .
Speaker 1That's a show of like hey , this dude's dope , this dude's really cool . Like he could have not done that . He could have easily not done that . And you know there's always these idiot , dumb , frickin , moron people that always go yeah , but he has more , he could have given more . Hey , dude , shut up , just be a nice person for half a second in your life instead of being a complaining , utter piece of garbage . Like he gave back $35 million and if you go , oh , but he has more , you suck . Figure out how to be more human . Okay , um , anyway . So shout out to Mark Cuban If I ever get to become a billionaire which I won't , because I don't have any sort of , I do not have the energy or the mindset that it takes to be a billionaire and I do not care to become one , but if I had a billion dollars , I think I would love to do that .
Speaker 1Just give a crap load of money to a lot of different people , just like here you go , like all yours , Um , anyway . So pretty , pretty cool to be able to do that . I wish I could . Um , anyway , um , oh , and speaking , oh , you guys . Okay ,
I almost forgot .
Speaker 1Before we get to the devil's advocate , I have to discuss this because I am so unbelievably interested and excited and all the things about this new venture that I discovered . So there's a bunch of venture capitalists that have way too much money just to burn . They don't know what to do with it . So they're going to do something really , really , really fun for your boy . Um , the guy who invented PayPal ties teased .
Speaker 1I don't know their names , I don't care about their names , um , but there's a bunch of these venture capitalists that are getting together that are going to put together a . They're calling it a , a um , 21st century Olympics , all it means . They're calling it the enhanced games . All that they're going to do is have these really elite sports with zero drug testing yeah , no drug testing , which means we're going to see world records absolutely obliterated , absolutely destroyed , and I can't wait . I'm so excited to see these . And here's the thing that's going to be wild ? I don't know , because you have all these Olympic athletes that you know they're unbelievable .
Speaker 1I have to preface that All the anyone who makes it to the Olympics is the best of the best of humanity . And I'm not talking like moral or value , I'm just talking physical specimen . They're the best that we have and they've proved it over and over and over again that they have the mindset , they have the discipline , they have the drive , they have the talent , they have the work all of that to be the best in the world at what they do . And you know , everyone who isn't really dumb knows that those athletes have used , or 99% likely have used , steroids at some point , because the game is not don't use steroids , it's how much can we use and not get caught . And we know that they've used them because Russia's been busted for it a lot , china's been busted for it a lot . A lot of other countries have been busted for it . I'm sure the United States have a lot , but we have way more strict drug rules and procedures , so not as much for the United States , they don't get busted as much . But so we know that those athletes have used them . So now I'm interested to see if the same athletes that have participated in the Olympics are going to be participating in the enhanced games . And I'm sure I know for a fact that the Olympic committee is going to lose their absolute mother effing minds over this endeavor and try at all costs possible to stop it from happening , which is so dumb , it's so stupid to do that . But I guarantee they're going to try to stop this from happening because it's going to be so much more entertaining than the Olympics Like . So much more entertaining , like .
Speaker 1If you don't understand how steroids work , then this might not like make a lot of sense to you . But steroids enhance everything that you do . It enhances your strength , it enhances your recovery , it enhances your speed , it enhances all of those things that make you an athlete , an elite level athlete , and obviously you can't just like do it willy-nilly and be crazy Like . You have to have some sort of semblance of guidance and order to this . But the fact remains that steroids enhance everything . That's why people use them is to enhance everything . You know .
Speaker 1If you look at like somebody like me who hasn't really done steroids ever , I mean I tried a . It was called Turquasterone . It was supposed to be like a legal version of testosterone . It really wasn't . They debunked it so your boy got fooled . All good , but I've never taken real steroids . I've never taken testosterone . I've never taken Tren , I've never taken Anivar , I've never taken all these other steroids I could have taken . I've never taken those . I'm not saying I wouldn't . You guys know this If you've listened to the show .
Speaker 1I don't have anything against steroids If you do them wisely . But take me and then take like a a Mr Olympia bodybuilding athlete . There's a massive difference between us , massive , massive difference . Obviously , they work out way more than I do . They work out way more regimented than I do . Their diets way more regimented . They're , you know , they've got a coach , all these other things , but also they're on steroids and there's a humongous difference . If you've known anybody that's done like workout for a long time and then decided to steroids , you can see an unreal difference from the like right from the starting point they started using steroids . You can see a huge difference .
Speaker 1So that's , that's what's going to happen with the Olympic games the enhanced games , excuse me , and I cannot wait . I don't know how it's going to work . I don't know what sports are going to be . I don't know if it's going to be every four years , like the Olympics . I don't know anything about this , except that I'm super psyched and I hope that it happens and I hope that it blows up , and I hope that the Olympic commission gets completely shredded and goes out of business , because they're an extremely corrupt organization . They should all burn into that place , you know . So anyway , yeah , the enhanced games are coming , so can't wait . Anywho , this is dragging on .
Speaker 1I could go on and on and on about this , but I think it's time for diga-daga-daga-daga-daga-daa , the devil's advocate . All right , y'all , it's time for the devil's advocate . And if you don't know what the devil's advocate is , it is one of my favorite things to do , actually , because it requires me to think really quickly on my feet . I take these little thoughts that come into my head , or debates that I've heard about , or something that comes to mind via a conversation that I've had , or somebody will send me one on Instagram . So if you have devil's advocates that you want to send me , go ahead and send me on Instagram Fit Perception Podcast or Thomas Beliston Either one works . But this is an interesting devil's advocate . So what it is is I like to take these thoughts , these debates , these arguments , these things that happen , I like to debate them with myself . Or if I have a co-host , I debate them with my co-host , but I don't have one today . So you gotta listen to me .
Speaker 1And what the devil's advocate is intended to do is to prove that you and I and everyone in the world doesn't have to be so married to their opinions . You don't have to be so emotionally invested in your opinions that you can't think of another side of your opinion Logically and well thought out . And you know honestly , because I think that in today's world especially , it's very difficult to get even evenly , both sides of the argument . Usually we're just in our own little think tanks and thought processes and we surround ourselves with people of like-mindedness , which I think is totally human . But if you want to elevate our humanity and elevate our intelligence , I think we need to really be able to look at multiple sides of an argument with as much intensity as we do of our own opinion on that subject . So , that being said , today's argument is I'm on the fence actually Like and usually I have , and you can kind of tell sometimes I try as hard as I can to mask my opinion when I talk about these things , just because it's a fun exercise for me and it's something that I enjoy doing , but sometimes I really am on the fence and I don't actually have a settled opinion on the matter , and so this kind of helps me work through my opinion .
Speaker 1And so today the devil's advocate is based around ambition , and the argument is if you have found and are doing what you love , is ambition going to ruin that or carry you farther within that specific endeavor ? And just for example , like for me , personal training right , is ambition going to carry me farther in that , or does there come a point where ambition becomes a detriment to me in that industry ? And so I think that we talk about being ambitious and having ambition as a very successful tool in our belt , a very worthwhile type of characteristic for people to have , and I think there's a lot of value in that . I think that ambition is something that kind of separates really successful people from people who just kind of go throughout life . And I know for a fact because I am a very ambitious person . I like doing really ambitious things . I ran a marathon on four weeks , notice , that was very ambitious , really dumb , very ambitious , right . I just like big things . I like challenging myself in really crazy ways . You know , bit off this whole . Trying to set up a fitness app on my own and setting up a podcast on my own , setting up a personal training business on my own there's like massive , massive challenges , you know . So I have a lot of ambition .
However , I want to preface this argument with yes , you have ambition , but to what point Does that just kind of fade out ? Do you keep that ambition ? So is ambition a detriment or a benefit once you have found not previous to , but once you have found what you love to do ? So you have to be in the right mind space before we get into this argument that we're not talking about ambition straight out of college , like getting into and finding yourself . No , no , no , I'm talking . You have found what you absolutely love to do . Okay , you've already found it . You don't need to go find it anymore . You're there , you wake up every morning and you're excited to do what you do for a living . Okay , so that's the groundwork that you have to be . You have to preface that Okay , because it's a whole other argument previous to that . We could discuss that another time . But we're talking about I have found what I love to do , and now does ambition become a detriment or a benefit to me personally in that industry ?
Speaker 1So I think that ambition is the only thing really that will keep you going in what you love to do . Okay , because once you find what you love to do and you are , like , absolutely obsessed with it , you enjoy it and you'll know that you have found that when the good and the bad excite you equally , where , oh , I got really excited based off of this sale that I made , but also I got really excited based off of the sale that I didn't make , because now I have to work harder , right , that's how you'll know you found what you enjoy to do . The good and the bad are even killed to you . So I think that ambition is the only thing that keeps you going in that field as far as , like , continuing to develop and to continue to love what you do .
Speaker 1Because if you get to doing what you love to do and then you coast , what will happen ? You know , we've all heard that phrase if you're not going forward , you're going backwards , right , you know , and I think that's very , very true . If I just kind of coast , I found what I love to do , it's so fun , it's my favorite thing ever , and then I just kind of chill . What will start to happen is you'll fall out of love with what you're doing because you won't be putting energy into that thing anymore , and so when you don't put energy in , it sucks energy out and you'll have more time to think about all of the negative things that happened and you'll get , quote unquote , bored with what's happening . And so I think that ambition is going to kind of be your saving grace in regards to keeping that energy of what you love to do and keeping that love going .
Speaker 1You know , because love takes work , it doesn't matter if it's in a relationship , it doesn't matter if it's in a job , it doesn't matter if it's in an industry . Love takes work , a lot of it , and ambition is that work that you put into the love of what you do , and I think that without ambition you will . I really actually do believe that without the push of ambition and setting higher goals and pushing yourself to do better than you did yesterday , and regardless of what that ambition looks like being more in the industry of what you love if you're not actively doing that and being ambitious , you will fall out of love of what you do , and I feel like I can back that up with a lot of people that I've seen , that I know , you know , started down the path of what they love to do , and you could see it they love waking up in the morning , they love going , they love talking to you about what they do , and then , over time , they fell out of love with it , and it's because I personally believe opinion here that they stopped being ambitious , they stopped pushing themselves , they stopped , and you know you could say that they burned out or whatever . But when you're not setting goals for yourself , when you're not saying , okay , that's what I did last time , now I want to do something bigger and better , you're not going to improve . And when you don't improve , it's very easy to fall out of love of what you do because you're not seeing any growth , you're not seeing any improvement , and then you look at yourself negatively , and when you look at yourself negatively , you inherently look at what you do negatively , and so I think ambition is going to be the key that keeps you in love of what you do . So , yeah , I think ambition is very , very , very beneficial . Once you've found what you love to do , it's the thing that will keep you going and keep that fire burning of the love of what you do .
Speaker 1On the flip side of that , I think that ambition can be your greatest enemy when it comes to what you love to do . And I want to be intentional with my words here and not just kind of like screw this up . I think that being ambitious , yes , it can be good , but it is usually the ultimate downfall of people where they push too hard , they push too big and inevitably they burn out , because they're human and we all , like myself included , we like to set these big goals , we like to see ourselves improve . But once you've found what you love and you truly do what you love , for me , that's training people , that's interacting with people , that's helping people become stronger and better and faster and improve , that's what I absolutely love to do and I would do it for free . That's how I know that I would love to do it , or that I do love to do it is because I would do it for no money , anyway .
Speaker 1So once you've found that thing that you love to do and you keep being ambitious , what you love to do kind of stops being oh man , how do I say this ? I want to be intentional and not misconstrued when I'm trying to think or what I'm thinking . It doesn't become something that you love to do . It becomes a challenge to conquer , it becomes a job , really , because what you start to do is you start viewing it analytically and I know there's a lot of analytical people in the world and that's great . But when you view something analytically , it's very , very difficult to just love the thing for the thing itself . You start looking at well , I could make more money doing it this way , or I could get more out of it if I did it this way , instead of just doing the thing . If the reason , honestly , that I haven't gone down just the online coaching thing , because every trainer knows that the online coaching thing if you are ambitious with it , you can become very , very , very successful and you can make a lot of money . That's not why I do personal training . I do personal training because I love interacting with people . It's not the best way to make money , it's not the ultimate way to make money in fitness , but that's not why I do it .
If I was overly ambitious in doing what I love to do , I would start seeing the people as numbers , I would start seeing them as analytical data . And how do I get more and how do I go from $100,000 to $200,000 in revenue or whatever ? I know personally that when I become too ambitious , I lose the sense of the love of what I do , because I'm not doing it because I love it . I'm doing it to outdo what I did before . If that makes sense , I'm not going to work . I'm not waking up and doing what I want to do just because I want to . But now I have to be better . There's no just doing it because I love it . Now I have to do it , otherwise I won't conquer the challenge that I've set for myself . My ambition has made it so that it's not something that I just enjoy Now . It's something that I have to do because it requires focus , it requires a lot of energy , it requires going over what I did last time . If I want more clients or if I want more money , I have to do more than I did before .
Speaker 1That's where the ambition comes in and I think that's where it becomes the detriment . When you have the ambition getting to the point of finding what you love to do , yes , ambition is your best friend . Once you find what you love to do , you don't need to outdo it anymore . Because you've made it , you're happy . That's the underlying principle here is doing what you love to do means you're happy , and it doesn't mean that you don't ever get burnout , you don't ever get sad , but it just means that you are happy doing what you do . And once you have too much ambition , that happiness goes away , because it's not the founding principle of doing what you love . It's just might be there , but that's not the important thing . The important thing is being bigger and better and more productive than you were before , because that's what the ambition tells you .
Speaker 1So I think that in a very real sense , once you have found what you love to do , ambition is a fast track to destroying the thing that you love to do . And I'm not saying you can't set goals , I'm not saying that you can't improve , but I am saying that being too ambitious will ruin the thing that you love to do and you'll have to go find a new thing and maybe that's not a bad thing , but it will ruin the thing initially that you found that you love to do . That is the devil's advocate . Let me know what you think . I still am on the fence . I don't actually know what my opinion is . Let me know what you think . My opinion is , if you think that I have one . But yeah , does ambition ? Once you've found what you love to do ? We have to clarify that .
Speaker 1You cannot let that like , if you talk about this with your friends , like yo , that's the whole point of the devil's advocate . Take this , go talk with your friends , see what they think . See , you know , have a better discussion than just like hey , man , how's work , cool , you're busy , me too , okay , bye . Like have a discussion . That's what this whole thing is about . We just did this for 16 , 20 minutes , whatever it is . Go have a good discussion with your friends , see what they think . Does ambition ruin what you love to do or does it enhance what you love to do ? But yeah , let me know in the comments on Instagram , send me an Instagram message or whatever . Share this . I'm going to post this , I think , on Instagram . So once I do share that with your friends , if you will , I would love that so we can grow the show and I can get better responses and more interaction and develop critical thinking , you know , anyway . So that's the Devils Advocate . Let me know what you think .
Speaker 1And before we get out of here , of course , we have one more thing and that is the final takeaway . Your final takeaway is something actually that made me very emotional , and I'm not . I'm going to try not to be emotional in this one , because it always makes me feel weird to cry in front of a camera and there's literally a camera from my face . But your final takeaway , like this , hit me as I was working out doing a hack squat , like legitimately . I was between sets and this thought came into my mind and I started crying . I had like actual tears going down my face in the gym . Probably nobody was around me because if they were , they would have been like hey man , this dude needs help . Anyway , so your final takeaway , if you're new to the show , is just something that I leave with the listeners . That is either a mindset shift , an activity to do , a thought to ponder on just something that I think will improve your life overall , whether it's success , whether it's money , whether it's happiness , whether it's positivity , whether it's peace , it doesn't matter Something that I think will improve your life . And your final takeaway today is very simple and sounds very cliche , but it is very , very powerful if you really think about it . And that is sounds so dumb , but your final takeaway is to set time aside to work out . And I know you go oh , you roll your eyes , hear me out .
Speaker 1First , when you are going through your day , you are giving so much to other things . You're giving so much to your work and your boss and your clients and your relationships , and you come home and you give your time and your energy to your family . You give time and energy to your friends , your dog , your children . It doesn't matter . You're constantly doing things , regardless of whether you're doing them consciously , subconsciously , happily or not . You're doing things for other people . The actions that you do , even if you own your own business and you can say no , no , no , I work for myself . The things that I do come back to me . Yeah , you're right , but you have to do things via other people for that to come back to yourself , like the energy you put for it . Say , you own a business and you have to make X amount of sales to get money back , obviously . So you are working . Yes , you own your own company , but you are reliant on the action of others for that to come back to you .
Speaker 1And when you work out and I've been trying to think of other things that you can do that this happened like that have the same effect , and I think reading is one of those things . Developing more knowledge is one of those things . Where you're putting time into this thing that comes directly back to you . It's a very , very cut and dry . If I do this , then I get this immediately or down the road .
Speaker 1But exercise , working out , is something that you do , that you get all of it back to you . It is 100% yours . All of the things like you go into a workout , every single rep that you do is beneficial to you , not to anyone else . You know , and you say , oh , no , it's for your children , you're healthy for your children . Yeah , that's fine , that's cute , but the reality is every single effort that you put into exercise is a direct positive to you , immediately and down the road . Like there is no middleman , there is no waiting period , there is no . I do it and then this person does this and then I get it back . No , no , no , you get exactly what you give and then some . Every effort that you put into it , whether that's running , whether that's lifting weights , whether that's yoga , whether that's stretching , whether that's diet , it does not matter in the realm of fitness Every single effort that you make is yours , nobody else's . You get the benefit , you get the strength , you get the enhancement . It is all yours . It is not reliant on anyone or anything else but you . It is yours , and I don't know of very many other things that do that . So put all of the other reasons to exercise and eat healthy aside looking good , being athletic , being healthy , whatever put all of those reasons aside . I want you to work out because it is 100% you , all you . Every effort , every try , every rep , every step , every action goes directly back to you . But anyone else , no one else , gets that . It is yours . So go work out with that mindset . It is your time , it is everything to you and that is your final takeaway .
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