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Saying it outloud!
Saying it outloud!
EP 109: 8 tips for when you don't feel like working out
Ever find yourself craving the secret sauce for unstoppable motivation in your fitness journey? I've just returned from the Hybrid Health Summit in Miami where game-changing insights in functional medicine are reshaping how we approach health and fitness. We tackle the tough stuff too—like how to stay motivated when all you want to do is binge-watch your favorite series instead of hitting the gym. This episode is packed with personal revelations and eight essential tips to help you discover your 'why' and keep your fitness fire burning.
You might think one 'why' is enough, but I'm here to tell you, it's the layers of 'whys' that build a fortress against the days when your spirit feels as deflated as a blown-out tire (yes, we had a couple of those on the road trip!). From setting an example for clients to managing personal health issues like PCOS, the reasons for staying fit are as diverse as they are deep. I get real about the philosophical to the physical motivations that drive us, showing that evolving our 'whys' is not just about fitness—it's about thriving through life's ups and downs.
Finally, we zoom into the practical side of things. You'll learn that some days, just showing up is enough, and why consistency trumps perfection. Discover how to tailor your workouts for success, with insider tips on muscle building, proper nutrition, and the importance of high-quality coaching. Stay connected and take your fitness game to the next level by joining the conversation in our free Facebook group. After all, it's not just about the workouts—it's about the community and ongoing support that makes the real difference.
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What's going on, everyone and welcome to Saying it Out Loud. A podcast created to help people who want to learn more about fitness and life. Our podcast will help you build a foundation and turn fitness into a lifestyle and help you conquer your life. I will be your host, leo, and my co-host.
Speaker 2:Stephanie, and we're the owners of a HALA Athletics coaching business built on our belief that clients aren't just a dollar sign and they are human. Now on to the episode.
Speaker 1:What's going on everyone and welcome back to Saying it Out Loud, coming to you live, I'm staying in the 20 of Texas. You know the deal Monday we about to bring you this excellent episode. It's another important one. But first let's catch up. You know it's been a little while. We've been a little busy. So I turned 34 last month and then we took a beautiful trip to Miami, florida 20 hour car ride that turned into 24 hours on the way there. We went there for the Hybrid Health Summit.
Speaker 1:If you don't know, that's where the massive amount of people who are changing the fitness industry go to learn more about how functional medicine can be implemented into their coaching practice and get to the root cause of people's problems. And if you don't know what I'm talking about most people when they have a tummy ache or something, they go to the that's about to say the dentist. They go to the doctor and they tell the doctor doctor, my tummy aches and they give you I don't know anti-acid. That's well. That doesn't necessarily address the root cause of why your tummy is aching. So what? Functional?
Speaker 1:medicine does is say okay, what have you been doing to cause X problem? Then we go through a whole bunch of different protocols to help you address what is causing the problem and not addressing the tummy ache itself. So we get to the root cause. We've been saying that. You know, it's all our podcasts. So we're just now trying to elevate our practice to a higher standard for you guys, to help you better. So that's what we were doing in Miami. Then you think you want to say about Miami no, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:Oh, we met a Ukrainian immigrant. She was there and we became friends with her and she has her own practice. She's a personal trainer out in Bogroton and she trains 51, isn't 51 and up yeah, yeah, 51 and up and she's helping them. You know, do the same thing we're doing, just for older people, and she was cool as hell. We met her and her husband and we became friends. She says anytime you want to come down there and stay with her and have some Ukrainian food, and we're more than welcome. So we're eventually going to have to take her up on that, but we will not be driving there again. Then, on the way back from Miami, it was a 30 hour drive because at 3am we lost a tire at 3am and we had to change a tire in like 20 degree freaking cold weather. My freaking hands are frozen. My brain is off.
Speaker 2:There's like no light.
Speaker 1:There's no light. We're using the flashlight from our phone, Struggling literally on the shoulder of the highway, so cars are like two or three feet away from our car and we had the dogs in the back and it's like if we didn't have a spare I honestly would have just walked out of the traffic, but yeah, so we got the tire back on there and it just turned into a crazy drive home. But it was a good experience. We learned a lot, has some amazing speakers there, so it was a good time. So that was in the end of January. Obviously it's February now. February has been a great month. We celebrated Valentine's Day by going to dance lessons. We learned bachata barengue and.
Speaker 1:I'm saucin' on you and rumba. So we learned those four, we learned the basic steps to those four dances and we have another lesson this Thursday and to do some more advanced work. And then we have another lesson next Thursday and then Saturday I got a soul annihilating massage and negadoscious. So we had massages set up for him again in two weeks and it was a good time. I needed it drastically. He was like your quad muscle feels like meat that's been put in the freezer for two days. That's how hard it was.
Speaker 2:And we lost another tire last monday.
Speaker 1:Yes, we hit another. Well, by the way, I mean me. Uh, I was boxed in and I couldn't like swerve, so we lost another tire. So our cars. I did those shit for three days. Well, we got it. I had my first tow truck ride to ride with a tow truck Almost seven hours.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we were sitting there waiting for a tow truck for seven hours and then we finally got the tow truck to come pick us up. And oh, first one get props to usa because their service for that whole incident was flawless, like the moment I hit. I need help. We had the tow the tow truck company reach out to us in like two minutes, so it was crazy good response time. Then we dropped the car off at the tow ship and then we got a shuttle ride back. So I had a shuttle ride in the tow truck right my first time ever, doing a shuttle ride from the dealership and riding with a tow truck Drop my cookies off at the dealership, because we were going to go to austin that's where we're headed to but then we lost the tire so we didn't go Drop the cookies off at the dealership and they destroyed the hose. And then I'm making cookies for the dancing instructors thursday and I think that's.
Speaker 1:Yep, so that's what happened with us. Missable adventures that we go on are so Patience testing. But yeah, so let's get into this episode. It's a good one. So a lot of us suffer from Not wanting to do things sometimes. Sometimes we just don't want to do anything, and that can be down a path of okay, well, I'll just do it tomorrow. Okay, I'll just do it tomorrow, and then we just don't do it. We just don't do it and the next thing you know, a whole month's go by, we're going to do anything. This happens to everybody. I mean, we're human beings and this is why we say don't rely on motivation, because motivation is fleeting. You need to somehow switch the gears into dedication, and to get to dedication, you have to have a strong why? Why am I doing this? And one of the episodes we talk about I think it's episode 11- yeah, he's just gonna lead into the room.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's what that was a play.
Speaker 2:Well, you're never gonna ask the question.
Speaker 1:Question of the day. No, awesome, you know. Question of the day. Oh, you know what question day? What is your? Why?
Speaker 2:No, that's not even a question.
Speaker 1:Why is that another question?
Speaker 2:What do you do? Well, you know, I feel like you're working out question day. What do you do?
Speaker 1:when you don't feel like working out. Okay, yeah, fast forward to what I was saying. Hey, what was I saying? I was okay. Well, first off, that's the topic of the day Eight tips for when you don't feel like. Topic of the day eight tips for when you don't feel like working out. Okay, now that we got that squared away, you know, get back into the groove at this. No, not number one, okay.
Speaker 2:We got lead in the number one, okay?
Speaker 1:So we gotta figure out your why, like I said, episode 11. I think it's episode 11. You have to have a strong enough. Why? Okay, you can't have something as feeble as, oh, my ex left me. That's only going to get you so long, so far, long before you just like, okay, well, I'm over her now, like, why am I still here, right? So you need a strong, why? So?
Speaker 2:first question First tip first tip is leaning into your why is having a strong.
Speaker 1:Why F? And this all? Okay, she's gonna take a first off. Let me address something. Episode 11 is not about why.
Speaker 2:It's about getting to know yourself. Okay, but it still will help you with the why. Anyways, let's uh, let's go into.
Speaker 1:Everything is cleared up.
Speaker 2:Yes, you have to have a strong why? And Something I ask all of my clients is like what other goals? Right? And a lot of people will say, like well, I just want to drop, like some amount of pounds or if they have PCOS.
Speaker 2:I want to reverse that, etc. And those are things that R-wise yes, you want to drop pounds, you want to reverse your PCOS symptoms, you want to get stronger, you want to get healthier all this other stuff but you want to get like super specific. So, for example, for someone that's a mom straggling with literally getting through the day because she has literally no energy, that'd be your why, but you need more than one why. I feel like a lot of people just focus on one thing they want to drop 20 pounds. And it's like you want to drop 20 pounds three months, whatever it is, and when that doesn't happen, then that's it, like they give up. So you want to have multiple why's that.
Speaker 2:You can kind of lean in on days like this. There are days that I don't want to work out whatsoever and I'm still gonna do it regardless. One, I'm sending a foundation for my clients, and that's still a why for me, because if I'm skipping days constantly, I can't really expect my clients not to skip days. Two, I honestly have my goals for seek, goals like we want to step on stage and also want to get stronger. So nothing pisses me off more than not progressing, and that is a strong enough why for me to literally just show up to the gym, even though I'm not motivated or like not feeling it whatsoever, because I know the following week, even though it might feel refreshed and feel better, I'm gonna regret it instantly. So that's my why and it definitely helps me. But a lot of people do not have strong enough why. So I definitely recommend finding your why's, multiple why's, and leaning into those things when you wake up and you just don't want to do it. Do you want to say anything about your why's?
Speaker 1:Well, I got my. Why my wife are coaching, so my wife are coaching, is pretty, pretty philosophical. I look around nowadays and I just see like if you look into people's eyes, they just have there's nothing there, like okay, I am an exception to the rule, because you look into my eyes and there's literally nothing there. So serious soul.
Speaker 2:It's the fact that you have a why.
Speaker 1:But I'm an exception to that. Okay, I'm talking about people who used to have light and no longer have that light, because they're not happy or not positive.
Speaker 1:Yeah, their life has been sucked dry because they've made a bunch of choices to end up to where they're at. And now, instead of climbing out of the hole, they're comfortable in the hole, and that hole in the surrounding area is just dark. So they have no light in their eyes. And I know when I was suffering and I was going through things, the gym is what helped me climb. I was strong enough. I got strong enough in every aspect self-esteem, confidence, ego, just pride. I got strong enough to climb out of that hole and to see the light.
Speaker 1:So now I want to coach people, because I know how much happiness it brought me to look forward to doing something, take pride in doing something you know like, take pride in myself, image, having the respect for myself to be representable at all times and just to do something you know, with my life, instead of just sitting around. So I go to the gym and I want to look good too, but that's more along with the why I go to the gym. So I wanted to coach other people to help them become strong enough to climb out of that dark spot, because it's just. But let's go off. Nowadays it's sad to see nobody's happy anymore. Everybody's literally miserable, like I'm pretty sure the statistic I read, the United States is the least happiest country.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm.
Speaker 1:That's not good. So I want to help reverse that. That's my wife for coaching, pretty deep right. Why I go to the gym is a different story. So I go to the gym because I just want to be like. I want to look like I can kill you, like I just want to be scary and I want to be intimidating, like I want to be that part. I want to look like that's not, I don't know, that's what that guy. And then I want to be strong.
Speaker 1:I just want to be able to just toss people around and then also hit four or five on bench and then also hit four or five on bench and then be able to squat, get back to four or five on squat and then hit five hundred on deadlift again goal-wise. But it's like my drive is just like bro, I just want to. I don't know, I just wanna go as far as I can, naturally, just push myself as far as I can and just keep on going and going and going, so like on the days where I'm like, dang, I don't wanna go to the gym. Today I tell you what I do and it helps me a lot is I get on social media and I go through my stories and I see all the people smaller than me. They're like, yeah, I'm doing this number on the other three, I'm doing this number on the squad. I'm like God, dang it, bro, why are these motherfuckers stronger than me? And I get in the gym but unfortunately, I still can't squat right now, so that's out of the question.
Speaker 1:But deadlift wise, I'll be in there, and when I get mad on deadlifts I push to the pay yeah you know it's actually it's, and I'm nervous. Yeah, we get it done, but yeah, so that's my why. So it's good to have some, because if you don't have a why, motivation is gonna peter out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and understand that your whys will change. So, like when I first started working out, my why was I was literally 90 pounds and my why was still wanting to lose weight, because I was. I wanna be a model, pretty much. So like, my why has changed drastically. I don't get on social media and use that as motivation, but it annoys me that I'm not where I wanna be, because I wanna be the sequelist or strength wise, so that's more than enough for me.
Speaker 2:But anyways, number two is remove your expectations. So I am not saying you should not have expectations of like where you wanna go. I'm saying that on that day when you don't feel like working out, maybe, if I don't know, some days, okay, so my goal 250 for squats right, if it's supposed to be four reps, like I'm gonna push for it, but I'm not gonna have my expectation to hit four reps or whatever. Like if I hit three, that's awesome. And I'm not saying this should be applied every day, because about you're gonna lose your motivation drastically if you keep reducing your expectations.
Speaker 2:But on the very like that same, like that day that you just asked me, do not wanna show up, maybe just take it a little bit easier. Remove the expectation of just pushing 100% and just literally showing up and doing something. And I honestly sometimes like surprises me in a way, because some days I literally feel like I didn't sleep well whatever, and I end up progressing on those days more than other days. Really good. So just remove expectations on those days will help you. Same with like. If you had a timeline of like I need to hit 20 pound weight loss by three months, just remove that expectation and just focus on the 20 pounds. I feel like it will be a lot easier on you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't have expectations. The way I live my gym life is I go to the gym and I just tried to do better than I did last week.
Speaker 2:And if I don't?
Speaker 1:And if I don't hit it, I don't get down on myself. I mean it sucks that I hit it, but it's like, okay, I got next week to try to do better, and then, if I don't hit it out, that was okay, and then I got next week. That's how I live my Actually that's how I live my life, like I just try to do better than I previously did. So when I make cookies, I try to do better next week. Obviously, there's only so much you can do to cookies. Even though everybody keeps saying that I'm a 10, I try it, I'm like it's not a 10. What can I do better? Or when I'm in the gym.
Speaker 2:I don't know how you can make his 10 cookies be better.
Speaker 1:But that's kind of different, because once the recipe is good, it's good. But, in the weights, like last week, I was supposed to do 355 on bench press for 3. And I could only get it from 1. But the second rep I went for my bar path was off. I was like, okay, well, the week before I did 355, I didn't even attempt the second rep, so that in my opinion I did better, even though my bar path was off, because I at least attempted the second rep.
Speaker 2:And then this week.
Speaker 1:Tomorrow actually, I have 355 for 3 again and my goal now is to at least attempt a third rep. So I don't have any expectations. I just try to do better and if I think, if you go into it just trying to do better, you can't let yourself down because at least you tried.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, you just have to be honest with yourself, because I have clients that do extreme reverse psychology with themselves and extreme negotiation with themselves. So like, just be honest with yourself, and that's I mean. Having a coach is important for that reason.
Speaker 1:And this is important reason why you track your workouts.
Speaker 2:Yeah. So the third reason is remember something is better than nothing. Okay, so I'm not saying that it's as your overall goals. We talked about this. We don't feel strongly like this should be your goals, because this is just a lazy way for you to just do whatever, self-negotiate and never get anywhere.
Speaker 2:However, on the days that you literally just do not feel like you want to show up, something is better than nothing, even if it's you're cutting it shorter or you're just showing up and doing the movements that you can do because your knee pain is hurting or whatever. It is definitely better than literally nothing. And next thing you know, you haven't been to a gym in two weeks. It's very easy, like, not for us because it's part of our lifestyle, but for someone that is in their head or this is not part of their lifestyle, it's very easy for them to just push it off to the point that next thing they know, three months have come by and they haven't stepped in the gym. Something is better than nothing. So remember that and use that on the days that you just absolutely do not want to show up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there's a lot of coaches on social media that I don't know why. They applaud this or cheer them, so, so I'm like oh, I took a week off from the gym and yada, yada, yada. Or I haven't been to the gym in a month, yada, yada. I was like you're a coach.
Speaker 1:Yeah, first of all, shut the hell up. You shouldn't be saying that, because how can you expect your clients to go to the gym consecutively when you're here taking months and weeks off? I've been going to the gym now 14 years and the only time that I've taken a month or two off is when I've been directed by a doctor or a professional.
Speaker 1:Yeah when they tell me hey, you keep going, you're going to get injured, you need to stop. And I listened out because I've been injured. So now I listen to them and back to back in 2022 and 2021, when I had my chest surgery. Obviously I'm not going to freaking work out. So there, I missed a month. And then 2022, when I was directed by a realtor in KT specialist, she told me hey, two months off, okay, I got it.
Speaker 1:And I got to do it. But I'm not I'm not just consciously taking months off from the gym or taking weeks off from the gym just to take them off because I don't want to go to the gym. It's like bro, no. So we lead by example. If I'm going to be in the gym doing my thing, I expect my clients to be in the gym. But if I'm a coach and I'm taking weeks off, you can't expect your clients to be in the gym and you can't then get mad at them for missing days. It don't work like that.
Speaker 1:So when you're feeling like crap, when I feel like crap in the gym, we go to the gym because we're like it's in our house. I go to the gym and then I gauge like my performance there, like okay, am I going to push myself or do I just do a little bit less? Because if you don't go, like she said, next thing you know it's weeks, but also the next week comes around. You're not going to be as strong, so you're gonna start to suffer and then that's going to mess you up mentally and then you're going to take days off because I'm not good at it when it's not working. So, whatever the case, if you're going to go to the gym just and you haven't built this into your lifestyle just go to the gym. You ain't got to do anything. Just go there to keep the habit and just do some cardio or something. At least you went to the gym, so the habit is still for me. You miss that day. You're going to talk yourself out of the other days.
Speaker 2:Okay, another reason try to make it fun for fun, and we don't make it fun, so I'm not saying that you should dance in between the sets. Yeah, or you should constantly do orange theory, or you should constantly like switch over your workouts, all of that stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying that. I'm saying like on that day, if there is an exercise that you absolutely hate or there is like something that you just want to add in, that is okay for that day, don't live your life like that, but on that day literally just do not want to do it, then that's totally fine. Like there is on our second push days. Some days I just like I just cannot have the energy to do dips after bench, and I know that for a fact. I'm like okay, it's whatever, like I'll just skip it, do it next week and that's totally fine for me. I'm just saying, just on that day, do so, but don't go crazy with it.
Speaker 1:Perfect example of this is when we travel for vacation. When we went to Miami, okay, we didn't get to get to the gym until like 730. And then we had to be up at six. So go to the next day of the conference.
Speaker 1:We had to eat, and then we had to eat, get dressed, yada yada, we still shut up late. The point is there, it's already late and I was like I really don't feel like doing pull. I hate pull downs, lap pull downs, I hate that exercise. So I was like, let's do the lap pull down machine. His favorite my favorite machine and it was there and it made me happy and we had the workout done and I didn't have to kill anybody.
Speaker 1:So it's all days like that, it's like okay, if there's something you want to do, then do it, but only on those days, don't change your whole routine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't live your life.
Speaker 1:If you're constantly having bad days, you need to address something else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's more mental. Okay, another reason is to practice facilitation or like imagine how you'll feel when you finish. A lot of my clients don't want to work out because they have terrible relationship with working out right, and every time they end up going, they finish their workout. They actually feel so much better because they feel like they accomplish something. It's hard when you're like bringing yourself down constantly and you just also don't feel it like, don't feel like doing anything. But like, I always lean into telling them that like, at least like remember how you felt and remember how you feel like when you're getting closer to your goals, because that is something that we're kind of. We're always stuck on the negative. So much that focusing on like a positive will definitely help you. So focus on that feeling. I'm not saying that you're gonna feel freaking a high, like all these people saying like running a marathon, you're gonna feel a high from working out, lifting whatever, but you're gonna feel better.
Speaker 2:You accomplished something or your one step closer to your goal, and that's very important.
Speaker 1:Like I said in the beginning, my wife or coaching to accomplish something. That made me feel great when I was working out. Like I get to accomplish something. It gives me a reason to keep going. Okay, oh, I just killed this hard workout man. And then you think about what if I didn't come to the gym today, like how would I feel if I didn't go? Yeah, now it puts me one step behind my progress. Okay, if I didn't go today and then tomorrow? You don't know what tomorrow's gonna bring. What if you have to go to work tomorrow and you can't go to the gym? Now you're two days behind and then it just keeps stacking. So this is why, bro, just go, just go, yeah.
Speaker 2:Okay.
Speaker 1:But don't be like these people that go and they sit in their car and they talk themselves out of it. I've seen that too many times on social media. I don't know why people film this, but they film themselves sitting in the car at the gym like I really don't want to go today, and then they leave like bro first of all what the freak is wrong with you. What the freak is wrong with you, Bro? You're not. It's not built into your lifestyle. That's it. That's the thing. Yeah, that you're just a faker.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Another reason or another tip is just go for a walk, pretty much like walk outside, get some vitamin D etc. Like just focus on steps and that's it, especially if you don't have like a step count and you're supposed to go to the gym, just just walk, chill, relax, breathe in fresh air and then like just work out the next day, but at least you got some movement in it. You'll feel better and do you step down on house or you did something that you feel like you accomplished and I feel you feel a lot better than like literally just Doing absolutely nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I can't remember the exact quote that he used at the conference, but Basically, you don't want to make a choice when you're emotionally charged so if you're, if you catch yourself in the midst of Talking yourself out of going to the gym, go for a walk Five, ten minutes, I really at least five minutes to clear your mind and then when you come back, then you'll be able to make a clearer decision by okay, I'm going to the gym or Okay, I got my walk in. That was good enough. I'll take a rest at a day and they go tomorrow, but at least you'll be more conscious of the decision you're making instead of trying to talk yourself out of it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, another thing to exchange your perspective view it as self-care. So I have a lot of women that come to me and they literally have this negative relationship with working out. They absolutely hate it. They like that's, they dread working out because their whole life They've seen it as more so of. They get on it, they try to lose weight, they fail, they hate working out.
Speaker 2:Right, you have to see it and this is why it comes back to like your, why, like you have to see it more as self-care, like this is something for you to feel better, for you to get to close up to your goal, but for you to just literally be healthy, like that in itself should be more important than you seeing it just because of weight loss or you just absolutely hating it. But the the moment you constantly tell others and you tell yourself that you hate it, you hate it, you hate it, you hate it. It literally becomes your personality and I've seen this happen and some of those people they're just too far deep in the frigging rabbit hole of they hate it so much that they just too stubborn.
Speaker 2:Told you, you stuck in that hole, yeah and it's sad because I can see Like they're pretty much like their future, like what they could look like, what they could be and what they could accomplish If they just got out of their head in the sense of like actually like just saw us Self-care, or stop saying that they hated it. But some people are like that. So if that's you, that's your identity, that's your personality, whatever it is, I'm trying shifting your perspective because it's definitely gonna help and, honestly, I feel like everyone should work out. I don't feel like anyone should have an excuse.
Speaker 1:Yeah nobody should not not be working. Yeah, but the issue here's. The issue is that people don't know how to work out correctly. They don't know how things work. Like she said, women specifically. They're chronic dieters. I think it's like, though, at least twice a year or something like that.
Speaker 2:I can't remember what the quote was.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and and they don't see progress. Why? Because they don't know how to work out correctly. They're not focused on building muscle, so you're never gonna freakin get the tone looked you want, because you're just too busy.
Speaker 1:Do a cardio or a stereo hip Zumba Roomba, whatever the freak you're doing and you're not eating enough. You're always under eating, the ear and a chronic deficit. Your body has that set point of 800 calories, so you can't go any lower than that. You're always currently fatigued, you're always tired, but here's the thing you don't know what you're doing. That's the problem. That is the root cause of all your issues. You don't know what you're doing and you're too stubborn because you're too far down in that hole that I talked about To ask for help. And when you do ask for help, you look for the cheapest option Possible, so you get the exact same results, because the cheapest option possible doesn't know what the hell they're doing.
Speaker 1:I don't know why we're gonna keep bringing this point up, but if you knew what you were doing, if you knew how calories worked, if you knew how a building muscle worked, you wouldn't be in a predicament and you still would be making progress. This is why we harp so much on bio feedback, sleep, water, nutrition, mindset. These things are important because they overall Encompass how you make progress, and when you make progress, you won't hate working out. But when you've constantly failed and made no progress, a question I hate it. Why would you hate it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. Another tip have a coach. Simple, but it's something that we always preach because, like you said, a lot of people don't know how to work out. They'll get some program supplies, tiktok, instagram, workouts etc. And they'll absolutely get nowhere and that just literally Drives them down the rabbit hole of just hating workout, hating exercise, heading and being healthy, etc. So you want to have a coach, but you also just like have a good coach, quality coach. I have seen way too many people that just have shitty coaches that like literally drive into the ground and Makes that client even hate their experience even more. So Just because they're cheaper, just I mean that you should go through them, because I have not had a client, a single client, that has come to me from a cheaper coach and have thoroughly enjoyed and had Massive amount of progress from the cheaper coach. They honestly always get hurt, get some hormonal issues, digestion issue, mental issue, whatever it is from having a cheaper coach.
Speaker 1:So because they put you through the grinder. Yeah, they don't stay up to date with current day. Fitness in the science, in the functional medicine, only that.
Speaker 2:It's just. They have so many clients. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:Programs if they were up to date with everything current. You can't give quality coaching to 100 people. If you're only one person, you just can't do it. They're gonna set you up on a meal plan, they're gonna set you up on a standard routine and and it might let it even be structured for you to progressively overload, like you still got people doing four sets of 15 on every day.
Speaker 2:But then with the force of the 15.
Speaker 1:Their coach has them even 800 calories. So the nutrition doesn't match the intensity of the training. So they're not recovering. But the coaches and know about the personal life, doesn't know. They work shift work and they work overnight and they work 12 hours so they're not sleeping and get four hours of sleep at night. The coaches and know they have a thyroid problem doesn't. So their metabolism is a function properly.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I don't know why we got to keep saying this over and over and over again. There's a reason why people specialize in different things. Doctors specialize in surgery. They specialize in therapy. It's specialized because you go to them when you need that type of help.
Speaker 1:If you are a person and you have hormonal issues, gut health issues and you're going to a regular coach who's charging 7500 bucks for a meal plan and training your mom, your you are going to get further Injured because that's not addressing your issue. But the problem is your why isn't strong enough? Because your why is a simple one artist when he was 20 pounds. So you go to them and they crash diet you through cardio and low calories and they jack you up even more. And then you go to another Coach because all he's not working Same price. They crash diet you and they freaking cardio you up some more. And then then you finally come to us Broken and now you get mad at us because it's not going as fast as you want, because we're undoing all the damage you did for years.
Speaker 1:So we put these podcast episodes out there to prevent you from going through that. Yeah, but you're so hyper fixated on the price that you don't think About how much of value. You're actually getting life long, happiness to longevity and feeling healthy and feeling better. No more headaches. High energy no. No more low libido, no more information, no more gut problems. I or 100 bucks still like crap. That's literally the difference here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, okay. And last tip, bonus tip schedule it. I tell my clients all the time, if you are living off appointments or like just meetings or whatever it is, and you schedule those things, schedule your workout in, because especially for a lot of women like type A that I love keeping up with schedules If you schedule things, it's easier for you to like absolutely hit it, instead of being like, yeah, I'm just going to go to a gym today, but like you don't have a time, you don't make time, you don't, you don't, you don't do anything for it, and then like saying you know it's 9 pm, you have an upset and, jim, you're tired, you have to go to sleep. So schedule it, even if it changes every week according to your work schedule, whatever it is. I feel like it'll be a lot easier for you to schedule and be realistic than like not schedule it and just leaving it up to air of you'll shut up whenever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we go to the gym at 10 o'clock every day. Yeah that's our schedule time and if she has to take calls or whatnot, we then we schedule around like after.
Speaker 2:but we don't. We don't wait till like 8 and 9 pm to freaking, work out or anything or after the work day. Like, we like, but I mean we have to luxury but after work or before work whatever it is, schedule it though.
Speaker 1:Instead of like even when I worked when I was in the military, I still have my job time scheduled. Soon as I get off work, go to the gym, because if I didn't, I guarantee you I'm not going to lay down and that's it. So, soon I got off work, shower change, yeah, so schedule it. It's not simple. Like you will, you will. You will do it if you are really wanting to change. If you're not really wanting to change, you're not going to do any of this. And that's the issue. It all starts with one team to do it.
Speaker 1:If you people say, oh, I want to go to the gym all the time, but I want to lie, there's no like that, okay, what steps are you taking proactively to get to the gym? It is really simple, bro. People like I don't have enough time. Listen, we all got time. Yeah, we all got enough time. 30 minutes to an hour a day Wow, perfect to pop to go to the gym. So, if you really are about it, do these eight tips.
Speaker 1:Okay, listen to this and be have a serious conversation with yourself about wanting to go to the gym, and not only wanting to go to the gym, but wanting to become better physically, emotionally, spiritually. The gym is your gateway to all that. The gym is a gateway to happiness, to you feeling better. You're miserable because you don't feel good. You don't feel good because you're not doing anything to make yourself feel good and the things that you are doing like people go to therapy. Okay, therapy is not going to help you with your gut health problem. Therapy is not going to help you with your freaking thyroid problem. You're still going to feel like crap physically. That's why you need all of them combined.
Speaker 1:So make a conscious effort to help yourself out, hire us and then your problem solved, yeah, and you don't have to freaking stress and struggle anymore. And you don't have to be miserable because we won't make sure. We will do everything in our power and get you to where you want to be. But you had to make a commitment to us and you have to work with us, just like we're going to make the commitment to you to help you. That's it. So you know. If you enjoyed this episode, don't forget to like, comment, share and leave that five star review until next time.
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