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Gym Wisdom with Jeff Myth: From Champion Bodybuilder to Gold's Gym Franchisee
This episode, Jeff Myth (Jeff Abuali) joins us on Good as Gold's, the official Gold's Gym Australia podcast. Jeff is a 5x Australian Champion Bodybuilder, owner of Gold's Gym North Sydney and Entrepreneur.
Jeff has an incredible story to success.
- How important is gym culture?
- How important is confidence?
- Gym Wisdom
- Defining moments
- Why and how did you choose bodybuilding and how long have you been trying??
- What was your main inspiration to start training from such a young age?
- Was there a significant turning point in your life that made you want to take bodybuilding to the next level?
- How many competitions have you won? And what are they?
- What was the hardest competition prep and why?
- Career transition into bodybuilding and during bodybuilding?
- How do you separate bodybuilding from your professional and personal life, and make it work?
- How to structure your daily routine while in competition prep while working full time?
- Opening a Gold's Gym
- What are 3 main principles that you live by that help you achieve your goals of being a high level bodybuilding champion, successful business owner and entrepreneur?
- What drives you to make a vision a reality?
- How important is gym culture?
- How important is confidence?
- Gym Wisdom
- Defining moments
If you want to see more of Jeff, you can find him on socials: @goldsgymnorthsydney
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Want to get in touch? Reach out to the Gold's Gym Australia team on socials @goldsgymau or via email: feedback@goldsgym.com.au
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Callum
Jeff, welcome to The Goodies Go podcast. It is so great to have you here. Tell us a bit about yourself. What's your name? What do you do?
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Jeff Myth
Good afternoon, guys. Pleasure to be here. So, yeah, my name just makes the whole industry knows me by my surname is a bit of a mystery. To most people. I've kind of left that aside for now. So, yeah, I mean, I was a personal trainer for 12 years.
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Emily
And.
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Jeff Myth
I'm not going to slag the competition because I am a man of honor. But I will say that the company that I worked for does start with an S and ends with four of them.
00:00:45:13 - 00:00:55:20
Jeff Myth
Yeah. So at the moment I own and I run Gold's Gym, North Sydney, Sydney, Australia, and yeah, we're just having a ball. He would just love it.
00:00:56:21 - 00:01:18:24
Callum
So good. Yeah. And it's so obvious as well that you love me. Yeah, I was talking before on your socials just you do really embody the whole Gold's Gym ethos as well about the legacy all the way through to being for the people, for the community And yeah, you've got some good stuff and I can't wait to just really crack into the knowledge you have from being.
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Callum
I mean, we'll call it an industry expert.
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Emily
Absolutely. I say that yeah.
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Callum
And especially, you know, repping.
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Emily
Yeah, we're all repping. We're all.
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Callum
Earning.
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Emily
Gold's Gym.
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Callum
At the moment as well.
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Emily
Yeah. Tell us, tell us how you first kind of got into the industry and kind of what your relationship with your own like health and fitness was as well.
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Jeff Myth
Right. So look, my relationship with Health Fitness, I mean, goes back till I was like two years old. No joke. So I was really, really fortunate I mean, to me, I've got the greatest father in the world. He taught me the most fundamental things about life, and he raised me to be mentally and physically strong. So, I mean, from the youngest age I could possibly remember, we were always training together.
00:02:05:01 - 00:02:28:22
Jeff Myth
My dad was just a figure of power. He still is. And yeah, we were always training push ups. We always had weights at home. We always had a weight set in the backyard to make sure he'd get me up. And I mean, that was normal to me. So, yeah, my dad never smoked. He never drank any alcohol. And so, yeah, that was my first memory of training with my dad.
00:02:28:22 - 00:02:58:19
Jeff Myth
Doing pushups with my dad. And he actually enrolled me into a martial arts academy the age of four. So there wasn't really kids classes back then. So he I remember the day he, he took me to a country academy and really authentic dry. And it was all grown men. And I saw my dad's a little bit of an intimidating bloke, so he pulled the grandmaster aside and he was like training my son.
00:02:59:15 - 00:03:22:12
Jeff Myth
He'll be fine. So he was he was hesitant to take on a child, all grown men. However, he let me join the class proved myself stuck with him for probably a good ten years, to be honest. Wow. Yeah. Got my black belt. We punch through by the age of ten. And, I mean, I learned some lessons, and because I grew up around.
00:03:22:18 - 00:03:23:08
Jeff Myth
Around men.
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Emily
Yeah, yeah.
00:03:25:01 - 00:03:43:15
Jeff Myth
Men. When I was four and five, 67, eight. I mean, those guys in their twenties and thirties and forties before they all actually really admired the amount of concentration I had. You know, I really did stuff around in that class. It was something I took super serious. My dad was a very serious man. Like I said, a little bit intimidating.
00:03:43:15 - 00:04:02:13
Jeff Myth
So to me, I really had to perform. So yeah. So I started martial arts or I did weights at home. And what happened was my, my, my master wanted to take me to China to compete. I was, I think most of 13 years old.
00:04:02:23 - 00:04:04:04
Emily
Oh, my God.
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Jeff Myth
So Mum freaked out like mine. Are you going to get brain damage? You're going to die. Yeah. Seriously.
00:04:12:12 - 00:04:15:08
Callum
As a grandmother, the rationally thinking. Yeah.
00:04:16:09 - 00:04:35:10
Jeff Myth
Like I was training every day, so literally in my mind, nothing else existed. I was going to be a martial arts expert. That's all I wanted to do. It's all I've dreamt about. I'd go to sleep thinking about it. I'm dream about it. And I was a bit of a weapon when when I was young. I mean, I was it really put me in a different mindset.
00:04:35:11 - 00:04:55:10
Jeff Myth
I was quite serious when I was a kid. You would never catch me joking around or laughing around because it was all about combat. And so then, yeah, my mum said, no, that agreed. And then my trainer went to China and he just disappeared. He never came back literally to this day. I literally Googled him about six months ago.
00:04:56:09 - 00:05:14:14
Jeff Myth
I wonder what he's up to. I found him, you know, he's like the grand master. And what I mean by that is it's a dynasty for these kind of people. So these people don't literally anything except martial arts. So yeah, his dad was a master, his dad, dad was a master, etc., etc., etc. Quite a full town in China.
00:05:14:18 - 00:05:38:18
Jeff Myth
Dedicated to these guys. So he never came back. So now by the age of like 13, 14, I kind of felt really, really lost because I had nowhere to train. So I walked into Police Boys Club and I noticed some more Thai classes and so, you know, I started doing that. I was running to the gym because I was really young.
00:05:38:18 - 00:06:04:24
Jeff Myth
It wasn't too far. I was probably about a 15 or 20 minute round or walk to the gym or sometimes my mum would drop me off, I'll catch the bus. So I was little bit different to change the style of martial arts, but I really started to understand and embody my time. So yeah, moving forward, I kept doing that till I was about 18 years old and I was, I would tell, competed.
00:06:05:00 - 00:06:24:13
Jeff Myth
So I was a high level. I'm actually a fighter, so I was still on that journey of really, you know, fighting was, was my thing. So I never really thought of bodybuilding, but I never stopped training. Like those are weights gym where I, what, I did my more tai training. So, you know, before training, you know, I'll do some weights after my time and I was training every single day.
00:06:24:19 - 00:06:46:01
Jeff Myth
I'd go there in the morning, I'd go there after school, I'd go there on the lessons. It literally was all I wanted to do well, yeah. Suffered an injury during training. I broke a bone in my back was just a freak accident. So I broke around trying to process. Yeah, process in the back, like a little bone in the spine.
00:06:46:23 - 00:07:05:24
Jeff Myth
So I'm kind of a little bit downhill for me there. So I'm like 12 now. I'm in a lot of pain I couldn't do any sports at school because running would hurt. I think I did about 12 months of rehab, and I know I'm seeing a physio every day. I think for about 12 months and it helped a bit.
00:07:06:24 - 00:07:25:06
Jeff Myth
So yeah. So that kind of gave me a little bit upset because I was like, Okay, so you can't fight anymore. And I think at that point my parents were kind of happy. They weren't really endorsing it too much because they just thought, you know, we're just going to put him into martial artificial discipline and some basic self-defense.
00:07:25:06 - 00:07:57:16
Jeff Myth
But I really took it quite seriously. So I didn't really get too much support there from mum and dad to taking the martial arts to the next level. So what happened then? I finished you 12 and I started working from day one, so I decided to do a building, a building course in case. So on Saturday Building was working as an apprentice builder slash laborer and a bricklayer and one day my, my girlfriend was picking up me.
00:07:57:17 - 00:08:25:06
Jeff Myth
She probably went a little bit downhill to me, but it spikes up she was picking me up from about 3:00 in the afternoon and we were caught in traffic. I'm not familiar, I'm not sure if you're familiar with Parramatta Road in Sydney, Australia. Quite a big, quite a big busy roads, six lanes and bumper to bumper traffic. And she made a little bit of a mistake, you know, she went forward and she stopped, so she got caught in the middle of the intersection.
00:08:25:21 - 00:08:49:08
Jeff Myth
Make a long story short, the guys behind us started to beat. I look in the rearview mirror and literally in a split second these two guys get out with a baseball bat. Well, and I was like, yeah, it was a total random attack. So we had nowhere to go and I've had a bit of experience with aggressive people and I can kind of tell when I'm bluffing.
00:08:49:08 - 00:08:53:24
Jeff Myth
And you can see that twinkle in someone's eye when when they may be.
00:08:54:11 - 00:08:54:16
Callum
Yeah.
00:08:55:05 - 00:09:23:16
Jeff Myth
So I just had to protect my missus, to be honest, to do so. I jumped out of the car lock the doors and thought, these two men jumped two more, jumped out with some more weapons, and then the car behind them, four more, jumped out with some more. So I essentially for eight men stuffed up a couple of them, but I got quite seriously injured.
00:09:23:23 - 00:09:41:21
Jeff Myth
Yeah. I mean, I had I had holes all over my body. Wow. A ruptured my I mean, my nose was like over here. I was hemorrhaging from my eyeball. Yeah. I was pretty much left dead, to be honest with you. I was lying, you know, and that was a major turning point in my life.
00:09:43:22 - 00:09:53:05
Jeff Myth
So the last memory I get was when I'm fighting these guys and I can see my my my girlfriend at the time who now is my wife. Right?
00:09:55:13 - 00:10:09:05
Jeff Myth
Screaming, saying, somebody helping somebody help you. And I'm like, do not get out of the car. And I'm just like baseball bats across the head and you know, I like to be honest with you, I didn't have that much like training. That's why that whole 20 years constant package into one second to me.
00:10:09:06 - 00:10:10:01
Emily
Absolutely.
00:10:10:02 - 00:10:37:07
Jeff Myth
Yeah. I definitely will not survive and if it was if I'm happy happened to me because if you happen somebody that couldn't defend themselves, I definitely wouldn't be here either because I was just on the verge of death, to be honest with you. So yeah, last memory was I was just lying face first in the middle of six lying and just in a pool of blood and I see semi-trailer just drive literally straight past my forehead.
00:10:39:10 - 00:10:53:09
Jeff Myth
Like a massive semi-trailer. And that just literally gave me like a spring of energy. I literally just bounced off it. Yeah. Got in the car and I was like, don't look at me. Don't look at me. I'm fine. I'm not fine. Yeah.
00:10:53:19 - 00:10:54:03
Emily
Yeah.
00:10:54:15 - 00:11:16:07
Jeff Myth
I look like a good drunk. And I'm like, just take me to the hospital. And then that was it. I just went back from there. Yeah, I think that was about three 30 an afternoon. I woke up at about 12 a.m. I that I was in a mild time. I was still unconscious. Yeah, I freaked out. I told it was on me.
00:11:16:07 - 00:11:31:17
Jeff Myth
And I remember my, my girlfriend like looking over me and it was all a blur. And I freaked out because I was so worried. Tell my mom and tell my dad. So I pulled all the cables off me and I was like, I've got to go. I've got to go home. And they're like, you're crazy. You can't leave them.
00:11:31:18 - 00:11:49:12
Jeff Myth
I have to go now. So and that was purely because I just didn't want to frighten my mum. I didn't want her to get. Yes, I yeah, it sounds been in an accident. Yeah. I specifically remember saying, do not call my Karen. I'll be okay. Discharged myself. Stop this at all.
00:11:51:16 - 00:12:10:22
Jeff Myth
My my girlfriend dropped me home and Mum opened the door and I was like, I'm okay. Don't look at me. Eventually she saw me the next morning and I called Dad in the room. I was like, That this thing that happened is I turn on the light. He looked at me and he's like, he. He didn't freak out because my dad's a very calm person.
00:12:11:01 - 00:12:32:13
Jeff Myth
Yeah, he understands combat very, very well. He's been through his fair share, but I saw it in his face, but he went by his eyes. Okay, just take the medicine and just go to sleep. And he broke it to my mum slowly. And then, look, I couldn't work after that, so I got a little bit I got a little bit downhill saying downhill I mean, I just felt lost.
00:12:32:13 - 00:12:53:12
Jeff Myth
I didn't know what to do because I literally couldn't go back to work. And I had put so much effort into, into my building career. I couldn't do anything, so I just couldn't stop this. I'm just going to start again. I'm just going back to the gym. Yeah. So I just started training. I just started training and I just kept it to myself.
00:12:53:13 - 00:12:57:16
Jeff Myth
I think I was, I was nearly 20 years old at the time.
00:12:58:07 - 00:12:58:16
Callum
Yeah.
00:12:59:02 - 00:13:15:12
Jeff Myth
I'm 38 now, so I just trained and nobody really got it because I kind of kept to myself and I just stayed in the gym and like my girlfriend said to me at the time, she said, like, it's so good that you're training and but like she didn't really know much about training. So she's like, What's it like?
00:13:16:01 - 00:13:36:05
Jeff Myth
Like, what are you doing? Like, what is it all? Me and I just said to I don't know, but I'm, I'm never going to feel that vulnerable again. So the best thing for me to do is just go in and just strength and strengthen my body. Again, I'm never going to feel in a position where I can't, you know, defend myself in any way.
00:13:36:05 - 00:13:42:08
Jeff Myth
So I just needed to train. So, yeah, and it also kind of just unfolded from there, to be honest with you.
00:13:43:01 - 00:13:47:15
Emily
That's a that's a journey. I honestly did not see that. I actually did not see that coming.
00:13:47:24 - 00:13:56:11
Callum
At all from from doing, you know, push ups in the back yard with dad to karate to winning five, five time bodybuilder.
00:13:57:10 - 00:13:57:15
Jeff Myth
Yep.
00:13:58:00 - 00:13:58:06
Callum
Yep.
00:13:59:17 - 00:14:03:16
Emily
What does that feel like to be a five time winner?
00:14:05:12 - 00:14:28:18
Jeff Myth
I I look honestly, of course it feels great. I mean, whenever you've got a title, no one can ever take that away from you. Yeah, you know, it's always yours, but I really I really never I'm super competitive person, but I really just did it just to make my family proud, to be honest with you. That's it. That you know, that there's a light at the end of the tunnel.
00:14:28:21 - 00:14:48:09
Jeff Myth
If you put effort into something, if you get really good at something. I always knew that training was super hard physically and mentally. Yeah, but I always said to myself, and I remember this must still say now I'm like, hard work has to count for something like it has to. It has to equal something. It doesn't matter what you do.
00:14:48:12 - 00:15:05:09
Jeff Myth
It doesn't matter if you're carrying bricks up and down the street. You've got to get something out of it. So I really didn't know that I was going to end up being a personal trainer, etc., etc. So I went back to work as a bricklayer. I quite enjoyed laying bricks. I mean, I, I don't know why. I just had a passion for laying bricks.
00:15:06:19 - 00:15:25:16
Jeff Myth
Like, I'm like, I love it. I don't know just something about the symmetry and the lies and being able to just make something lovely. Yeah, yeah. I went back, I went back to doing that and then I was training back and forth and I'm my best friend at the time, said, what do you think about being a personal trainer?
00:15:26:01 - 00:15:30:07
Jeff Myth
To be honest, I really didn't know what that was at that time because they weren't very popular back then.
00:15:30:18 - 00:15:34:13
Emily
Because that was what. Yep. 28, 1815 years ago.
00:15:35:16 - 00:15:56:09
Jeff Myth
Um, yeah, well, yeah, I was, I would say I was about 21 now, now 21. So I'm 38 now. So yeah, I was like, well what does that entail? What, how do you become a personal trainer is like, well I've looked into it, you do this course and you can make 100 bucks now. I was like for just training someone.
00:15:56:15 - 00:16:19:24
Jeff Myth
Yeah, I was like, yeah, I'm like, man, that sounds good. That's probably better than laying bricks. All that I actually started to not progress in the gym. Laying bricks is a very, very demanding. I mean, yeah, you start at six 30 in the morning, you finish at 4 p.m.. Yeah. And I mean, you would just feel broken at the end of the day and then I'd still go to the gym, but it just, it just wasn't working.
00:16:19:24 - 00:16:34:22
Jeff Myth
Like I literally was making zero go like you get to smoke over, you know, what can you eat? You know, you have like 500 calories the whole day. Yeah. It wasn't working. And I was like, I've got to choose what I really want to do. And I was like, no, I just want to train. I literally just want to train.
00:16:34:23 - 00:16:54:09
Jeff Myth
It's one made full so I can that. I said, yeah, whatever. I look, I don't really want to go back to school, but let's just have a bit of fun because we went to school together a lot. So we train together. We went to school together, we laid bricks together. We were seven. Anyway, I did the personal training course got certified, applied for a job at the firm.
00:16:55:08 - 00:17:10:16
Jeff Myth
So there was a bit of a stigma around bodybuilders there, so they didn't give me the job even though I was training at that gym for a few years before I had a massive following and I knew everybody in the gym because I'd spend like 5 hours a day there. Everybody would come up to me and they would be like, Geoff, when are you going to train me?
00:17:10:16 - 00:17:23:20
Jeff Myth
When are you going to trade me? When I become a trainer. So I had the strategy. I was like, Alright, let me collect everyone's contact details and when I'm when I'm qualified, I'll train them.
00:17:24:15 - 00:17:27:16
Emily
You know, like literally already sling before you've even shot it.
00:17:28:14 - 00:17:33:23
Jeff Myth
But I mean, everything was so fucking difficult to me. Like, so I applied for the job. They're like, No, sorry, you don't treat.
00:17:34:13 - 00:17:34:21
Emily
Oh.
00:17:35:22 - 00:17:57:02
Jeff Myth
Second time I was like, Come on, I need a job. Like I'll be really good. I promise I won't. I won't bring in a bodybuilding culture. Yeah. Etc. I was like, No, sorry. Just so that made me really upset because I continued to go to the gym and I continue to see them recruit more personal trainers. But these guys, like, they don't even train and they're training people and I'm just looking at them.
00:17:57:07 - 00:18:20:20
Jeff Myth
I don't really they're not really doing a good job right? Yeah. Well, like, I was like, stuff it. What's the worst that can happen? So I walk into the gym pretty much slam the manager's doors, open and I'm like, Listen to me, I will work for free. But me, I said, If you're a man, you can study. Just give me a chance.
00:18:21:19 - 00:18:31:00
Jeff Myth
Convinced. He gave me a chance. My first week I made $13,000 so I sold.
00:18:31:11 - 00:18:33:21
Emily
$10,000.
00:18:34:04 - 00:18:51:04
Jeff Myth
I made 13 grand my first week. I'll never forget. I literally didn't know what to do. So I just went on to the cash, came home and I put it in. Speaker one of my stereo had the old stereos back then pulled out the face looked like someone's going to steal my money. That's to know what to do with it.
00:18:51:14 - 00:18:51:24
Emily
Yeah.
00:18:52:20 - 00:19:21:24
Jeff Myth
So yeah, and the way I made that money was I pretty much did. I think I did 44 hours that week, and that was a fitness first record because I used to keep records back then to the party. They said, You broke the record and I was charging 114. Then I was charging more back then, what we're trying to charge now and I'm fully booked and I think I sold like 1020 packs to other people and I've had a waiting so it worked for about 15 months.
00:19:21:24 - 00:19:47:12
Jeff Myth
Then that specific thing did so good, like saved up, you know, I bought my first house, put it up, put down 20% back then, sold 20 to about 22 years old. So then the manager pulled me aside one day and he's like, listen, so he, he actually started to really respect me and really like me like listen Jack, this is what's happening.
00:19:47:12 - 00:19:51:18
Jeff Myth
I'm not going to let you. The train is conspiring against you.
00:19:52:13 - 00:19:52:20
Emily
Yes.
00:19:53:07 - 00:20:19:08
Jeff Myth
You are going to get fired. He said you are going to get fired. I just want you to know. I just want you to know it's not from me. It's from head office because I've tried to endorse you and back you up. But you have a chance that I'm moving to this fitness first, which is the one in North Sydney if I can persuade and convince head office to take you with me, would you?
00:20:19:10 - 00:20:23:08
Jeff Myth
Would that be okay? I said, well, you know what? What choice do I have yeah.
00:20:23:19 - 00:20:25:20
Emily
So I'm going to get one finished first.
00:20:25:20 - 00:20:54:16
Jeff Myth
And I was working at it was probably one of the best ones back then is quite large, beautiful gym, great culture. I put a lot of business obviously personal trainers didn't want me there anymore. They had no business. I had all the business because it's their problem, not mine. Move to North Sydney the crappiest fitness first in Australia, like you don't understand is frickin fungus growing off the freakin top so I walk in and there's like ten trainers.
00:20:54:21 - 00:21:18:07
Jeff Myth
No one's in uniform. Literally, they are training people wearing foam on a finger. I want wow. Look, I mean, I would go to work, you know, I'd have a shower, do my hair. Yeah, moisturize. I'll go get really, really good. You know, I really took pride in myself in the uniform I loved in London, so I literally had to build my business from scratch.
00:21:18:08 - 00:21:37:17
Jeff Myth
Struggled for a couple of years, to be honest. With you, which was difficult at that time because I had, you know, mortgage repayments, blah, blah, blah. So I built my business back. I literally had to drop my right back down to about $100 an hour, and I tried it one 40. So, yeah, I built that business back. I'll build the profile back up.
00:21:37:24 - 00:21:49:01
Jeff Myth
The club got beat up and then you worked there for about nine years, right? Wow. Did pretty well, you know, made a lot of great connections. Yeah.
00:21:50:06 - 00:22:01:15
Callum
Well, how how important is gym culture now to you owning a gym? Like, what is that like, you know, the biggest of it or is it the look of the gym? I explain that side of things.
00:22:02:09 - 00:22:29:07
Jeff Myth
Look, honestly, the vibe is the most important thing in the gym. And yes, it's the vibe. It's just like anything like a household or family. It's a leader. Somebody needs a leader in the gym. Yeah. And those particular gym, those large conglomerates, they don't have leadership qualities. And it's the small things that count, like making sure your staff is polite, making sure you know, you get a smile.
00:22:29:07 - 00:22:49:21
Jeff Myth
And when you remember somebody's name at reception, you might experience members as they're walking in immediately. Pleasurable, pleasurable, because like to me, right, you just don't know what's happening in someone's life. You know, that one training session just could be that one thing that's holding somebody's life together, but one strand of hair that's you know, that's one thing that training could be everything.
00:22:50:24 - 00:23:11:15
Jeff Myth
And so they hire a lot of staff. They have no idea, you know, they're not trained properly. So so yeah, the vibe is very important. I mean, you need to be in the gym for 10 hours a day. I do, because firstly, I love it. Secondly, yeah, I'm really like watching over everything. I've trained myself in such a way.
00:23:11:15 - 00:23:32:03
Jeff Myth
So they're kind of little mini versions of me. So they understand that kind of OCD thing. It's super important. Yeah. I guess that's why that's all the feedback I get from from the members, besides the equipment, besides the hygiene. Yeah, the vibe. Right. We feel safe yeah. We feel comfortable because we've got some, you know, we've got athletes, you've got big boys, we've got girls that compete.
00:23:32:10 - 00:23:33:03
Jeff Myth
We've got Grandma.
00:23:33:18 - 00:23:33:24
Callum
Yeah.
00:23:34:12 - 00:24:09:06
Jeff Myth
Yeah. Maybe to sell a membership to Grandma is hard work. I've got to persuade her, and she has to feel that I'm authentic, that she's in good hands, going to delegate the right training to her. Yeah, she needs to train for her longevity, for her help. And this is the place where she needs to do it and controlling all those different type of personality is not a part of the fact that, I mean, you're still learning every day, but, you know, in the beginning, you know, people start to really get to you so you've really got to understand psychology, I think.
00:24:09:10 - 00:24:09:16
Jeff Myth
Yeah.
00:24:09:23 - 00:24:35:01
Emily
I think that's truly important as well. Like having as many people coming into your gym as possible as in from all different areas in walks of life. I feel like that is like to me going into a gym. Exactly. It's just like it's so important to have that run us through. When you opened up Gold's Gym in North Sydney, so what kind of made you.
00:24:35:06 - 00:24:35:14
Jeff Myth
Yeah.
00:24:36:14 - 00:24:37:21
Emily
Yeah, why I go, I.
00:24:37:21 - 00:24:38:04
Callum
Go.
00:24:38:05 - 00:24:39:19
Jeff Myth
I'll need a drink of water for that.
00:24:40:11 - 00:24:40:20
Callum
Air.
00:24:41:18 - 00:24:43:08
Emily
Since I have a little bit.
00:24:43:08 - 00:25:09:05
Jeff Myth
Hated because I'm not going to I'm not going to slag the competition. So, um, yeah, so I'm competing, I'm prepping for my competition in 20, 16 so I'm in super focused mode. So you have to understand that I competed all the way through my personal training career. So what made me so popular and do so well? I mean I was doing 60 hour 60 personal training sessions a week at about 120 bucks an hour.
00:25:09:05 - 00:25:31:13
Jeff Myth
So I was cleaning up but I delivered a authentic service and members respected me because they saw me live this. Yeah. You know, they told me, they saw me carrying my food around, they saw me explain training to people and they saw me, you know, taking time out to meal prep. That'd be incredibly well. Did you what do you do all that?
00:25:31:13 - 00:25:32:01
Jeff Myth
I'm like, yeah.
00:25:32:09 - 00:25:33:03
Emily
You actually like.
00:25:33:09 - 00:25:53:11
Jeff Myth
Did I followed my journey? Yeah. And, you know, funnily enough, a lot of people from the gym would come to my competitions and support me because, you know, I built the following. So they respected that. So I'm once again, manager pulls me aside and he says he's a little he doesn't talk his wife. And I'm just sitting I'm like, Oh, hey, buddy, how are you going?
00:25:53:20 - 00:26:22:23
Jeff Myth
Is there, by the way? I actually hope he's watching when I'm going to send him the link. So I open up the paper and it says, and I'll never ever forget these. These words changed my life, and I'm so grateful for them. Yeah. He said, DJ, you do not fit the culture of our club and we are worried that you may tarnish our reputation in the future.
00:26:23:14 - 00:26:45:17
Jeff Myth
That was the sentence that changed my life. But so reading that at the time was like my whole world falling apart. I had a I had a one year old boy, I had a wife, I had a mortgage, I had over 100 clients that depended on and I knew these clients personally. I understood what was happening in their relationships.
00:26:45:17 - 00:26:55:01
Jeff Myth
I knew the children problems they had at work, the problems they had in their marriages. And I can honestly understand that business if I authentically cared about these people.
00:26:55:11 - 00:26:56:02
Emily
Yeah, exactly.
00:26:56:21 - 00:27:14:23
Jeff Myth
They were my best friend. They were my I didn't have friends outside of that, that I that I just like switched off and went and hung out. No, my clients and these were high court people, um, they weren't just nobody. So at the time it hit me like a ton of bricks and I was like, why? What did I do?
00:27:15:14 - 00:27:23:18
Jeff Myth
And he, he just was blank because he had no explanation of the incident that happened. Once again, the trainers had no business and I had all the business.
00:27:24:05 - 00:27:24:13
Emily
Yeah.
00:27:24:24 - 00:27:45:11
Jeff Myth
So, um, I figured that out, you know, so I kind of just went silent for me and I went silent for three months. My last day was November, and so they're getting three months notice. My, I had a pregnant wife, too, by the way. So I was all about I was freaking out so it was a Friday, Saturday, Sunday.
00:27:45:14 - 00:28:09:08
Jeff Myth
I was super upset, really upset. I was like, I just can't get a break, you know, it's just a prejudice that, you know, it's just a prejudice that really got to me. Um, you know, think the culture of our club, you know, it made me feel like, you know, I'm actually, I've built the profile of this club by being, you know, just an image of healthy.
00:28:09:16 - 00:28:09:23
Callum
Yeah.
00:28:11:12 - 00:28:31:06
Jeff Myth
So, um, that was. And he was a new, he was a new manager, by the way. He had only been there for two months, so he didn't really know. I never saw him. So, yeah, they gave me three months notice. My last day was the 3rd of November, walked around the gym, shook everyone and thanks everybody for their support. I shook his hand no.
00:28:31:07 - 00:28:50:12
Jeff Myth
I wanted to go down like a gentleman. Not to complain, thankfully, but I had I haven't hadn't really decided what I was going to do. But I knew at that point in my life it literally was a defining moment for me. It was make or break. I was literally going to go back to finding a nine to five job because there was no hope for me.
00:28:50:12 - 00:29:11:16
Jeff Myth
Being a party. Like it's just not myself to go and train people in the park. And I wasn't really an online type of guy, really wanted to face to face, kind of fancied people. So I was like, You do something big now, you risk everything, or you just go back. Being a just a standard person. So yeah, so often.
00:29:12:01 - 00:29:13:11
Emily
That was an option, just.
00:29:13:16 - 00:29:14:09
Callum
Not an option.
00:29:15:03 - 00:29:39:11
Jeff Myth
It definitely never been an option. I mean, I've never I've never really been able to be that type of person. Yeah. It's just difficult. And to suffer from extreme baldness and can't be told what to do yeah. So I had this idea. I remember the day my wife was outside, she was putting the washing up. I was like, Hey, how cool would it be if I opened up a Gold's Gym?
00:29:39:19 - 00:29:51:20
Jeff Myth
And she looked up at me and she's like, That would be that would be freaking amazing. Yeah. So in 2013 I competed in the Arnold Classic in Columbus, Ohio. I was chosen because I won the Australasian title.
00:29:52:04 - 00:29:53:03
Emily
Amazing.
00:29:53:15 - 00:30:19:01
Jeff Myth
So I qualified. I choose one Australian from every division, the good Australian team, but fly you over Columbus, Ohio, and then yes, you, you compete in the world titles on the classic. So that was probably the biggest competition and the hottest competition has ever done. So my sister lived in LA at the time and she had a house there and she trained at Gold Bean, but she trained at the backup.
00:30:20:08 - 00:30:39:09
Jeff Myth
And so I went there a month early and I lived with her and I trained three times a day at Gold. I just honestly, I just fell in love with it. I just, I just I didn't want to leave. I literally I considered moving to L.A. just to go wow.
00:30:40:06 - 00:30:41:03
Callum
It's that iconic.
00:30:41:07 - 00:30:43:09
Emily
I have actually been the Mecca. It's about.
00:30:43:09 - 00:31:05:16
Callum
Yeah, I mean, it's, it's inspirational. It's just like the legacy that lives in there, the history behind it. It's a rich and pure. Um, and so now and, and like opening your own gym did it or like, are you trying to bring that same legacy in? Or like you said, you're trying to cater for, you know, not just a niche market, but everywhere from the guys who are competing guys and gals competing all the way through to, you know.
00:31:06:06 - 00:31:26:22
Jeff Myth
Hyper yeah. So I'm not what I'm trying to bring to the industry. The few things is on everyone except that in my view, that's that's the number one thing. Everyone is welcome because you got to Venice and you see the best in the world. But then you see Mickey Rourke, you see superstars, you see Grandma, you see young lady.
00:31:27:09 - 00:31:49:22
Jeff Myth
You see such a huge variety of different people, and everyone gets along with the community. That's what I loved about it. Nobody look down at each other I mean, if anything, the bodybuilders were the most respectful because they would they would teach people that didn't know how to train. And I mean, you could walk up to Dexter Jackson and and talk to him and he would talk to you, you know, even if he was training for the Olympian.
00:31:50:08 - 00:32:09:21
Jeff Myth
So that was amazing. I trained with Robbie Robinson for a month, so I'm not sure if you guys are familiar with Robbie, but he was on his training partner. So he's he's a legend in the industry. And yes, I just I'm trying to change the culture. Yes. Yeah. All types of gyms, I believe I've already started that. I believe I will.
00:32:11:04 - 00:32:29:06
Jeff Myth
Everyone's welcome. It's all about education. So we want people to come into our gym and understand that they are purchasing education. Yeah. They're not just they're not just buying a gym membership. And we're not hoping they don't just so they pay the gym membership. I literally called people up and I'm like, Hey, Mike, you haven't been in for three months.
00:32:29:06 - 00:32:45:06
Jeff Myth
You're good. But yeah, I'm a bit lazy. I'm like, We should get back to the gym. I'll organize your complimentary session with the trainer. Let's see if we can get some motivation going. I literally feel guilty for people that pay the membership and never come. So it's my mission like I want people. That's good.
00:32:45:17 - 00:32:46:00
Callum
Yeah.
00:32:46:10 - 00:33:10:12
Emily
Yeah. You can say that you are so, so passionate about the sport of bodybuilding, but also just like every day people that are, you know, just looking to better themselves. And I just love that so much. So the one thing I probably had on on bodybuilding is if anyone is kind of like, what's your number one piece of advice for anyone who is either about to compete?
00:33:10:17 - 00:33:13:19
Emily
Or like in practice.
00:33:14:03 - 00:33:16:16
Callum
Or even toying with the idea of want to compete? Yeah.
00:33:17:08 - 00:33:44:08
Jeff Myth
That's a that's a really good question. As a younger generation is coming up, what I've noticed is obviously social media is huge and it's all about the pictures and it's all about the destinations, which is absolutely fine. However, training and the reason for training has changed. I mean, you see the younger generation looking up to people that they shouldn't be looking up to right?
00:33:44:21 - 00:34:12:02
Jeff Myth
Yeah, training. Training is meditation. Training is so discovery and it's it's fighting demons in your mind, right? Because we've all got it and it's bringing the best out of yourself. That's what it is. So my first piece of advice would be make sure you train for the right reason. I mean, it's it's fine to set yourself little goals, like, you know, I'm going to train for a holiday for a festival.
00:34:12:05 - 00:34:35:08
Jeff Myth
I want to look right that's absolutely fine. Everybody needs small goal. Bodybuilding competition can just be for, you know, a dance party. That's fine. But you need something. That training should make you mentally healthier, not give you complex. And so you say the younger generation, you know, looking up to two pictures on Instagram that are just not realistic.
00:34:35:12 - 00:34:46:06
Emily
Well, that's no longer you. Who are the people that you're kind of like talking about when when you say that people are looking up to people for the wrong reasons or like who specifically are these people?
00:34:47:14 - 00:35:11:13
Jeff Myth
Look, there's no one specific, but I guess it's just the image that that I see all over social media. I mean, yep. Guys out, little girls out, you know, with the shirt off in the abs out. Yeah. You know, and then, you know, going through a festival and taking a bunch of drugs and understanding that that whole trying to, you know, that three months of training was to just destroy my body for that one day.
00:35:12:05 - 00:35:26:02
Jeff Myth
And just to look good. I mean, firstly, that's not healthy physically. Secondly, it's not healthy mentally because you're going to develop, you know, complexes in your mind. And you're not going to have the inspiration anymore because when's the next festival, you know?
00:35:26:07 - 00:35:26:21
Emily
Yeah, exactly.
00:35:27:21 - 00:35:56:07
Jeff Myth
Yeah. So yeah, I like to I've got a lot of young guys here at the gym, probably 15, 16, 17. And they really look up to me because they understand that training is serious. It's something that is therapeutic. And it's the number one most therapeutic decision you can ever make. You just train for the right reasons. But you know, if you've got an issue, if you've got something you badly channel it, channel it and get really good at it and then you know, you'll reap the pleasure from.
00:35:57:14 - 00:36:08:14
Callum
If, if a theoretical younger you came into your gym and took him yourself under your wing, what would be the advice you would give? Like.
00:36:09:01 - 00:36:11:02
Emily
You know, younger you.
00:36:11:18 - 00:36:23:05
Jeff Myth
So obviously when you're younger, you don't know how to train it properly. Yeah. So just running through the basic fundamentals because you can, you know, you can waste so many years training incorrectly.
00:36:23:13 - 00:36:25:17
Callum
Yeah. Chasing, chasing you tell.
00:36:26:05 - 00:36:43:22
Jeff Myth
Yeah. And eating incorrectly. So are just sitting down and say, look, just you know, make sure you're eating with this and keep it super basic and uncomplicated. And then I'd show them how to train. I'd, you know, I'd spend some time with him and it's such a beautiful thing because I say some of the older boys he doing that with the younger.
00:36:43:22 - 00:36:45:23
Callum
Yeah. Yeah. Like passing it. Causing it.
00:36:45:23 - 00:37:09:03
Jeff Myth
So yeah, I do and they start to look up to these people. So and the other thing would be done based your training on how you feel today. So if I wake up and I'm in a happy mood and I'm like, I'm going to hit the gym because I feel great. Yeah, don't base it on that because, you know, firstly you don't wake up in a happy mood every single day.
00:37:09:13 - 00:37:30:05
Jeff Myth
Yeah, yeah. Sometimes you wake up pissed off or upset or you're feeling depressed. And I think I've touched base on this one with one of my videos on you've got to get to the gym. You still got to do what you've got to do. Yeah. You can't base it on how you feel. So even if you're not feeling so good, I still get to the gym because it can't make you worse.
00:37:30:05 - 00:37:51:12
Jeff Myth
It's only going to make you better. Yeah. And basing your emotions on and your training is very, very dangerous because realistically, most of the time, I mean, as an adult, we're not walking around super happy seven days a week. Three 65. Yeah, we've got crap going on in our heads, in our work and our families, our friendships, my relationships.
00:37:52:02 - 00:38:09:23
Jeff Myth
And if you can't control that and make sure you've got to do what you got to do, you know, as an adult, especially as a man, then you're no good to anybody because then you can't perform at your peak performance. You just can't perform. So put your emotions aside you're not having a good day. Try it. You're having a great day trying.
00:38:09:23 - 00:38:27:21
Jeff Myth
You've got an injury trying to round it. Yeah, I've had tons of injuries. I literally have have had so many injuries that I mean, it's just like annoying to think back to maybe 100 injuries. But, you know, I always found a way to keep training and just, just get through it.
00:38:29:04 - 00:38:34:00
Emily
Yeah. So you're a full time dad, full time husband, full time business owner.
00:38:34:12 - 00:38:34:19
Jeff Myth
Yeah.
00:38:35:00 - 00:38:36:02
Emily
How do you juggle it?
00:38:36:02 - 00:39:07:18
Jeff Myth
All a good question. I mean, schedule I have a really tight schedule and I'm a creature of habit. So it's really important for me to write things down. I've learned even the small stuff to use my calendar, write things down Monday to Saturday, pretty identical to me. I do have random meetings and yeah, it's just got to be schedule, you know, some days back to back, literally it is back to back.
00:39:08:12 - 00:39:15:03
Jeff Myth
And then, you know, we've had a good day. Whether I've had a good or a bad day, you know, I try and just leave that outside progress.
00:39:15:04 - 00:39:16:12
Emily
Yeah. Mm.
00:39:16:21 - 00:39:39:02
Jeff Myth
I finish my car 5 minutes. I just take a few breaths walking. I've got to be that still, you know, I've got to make sure my kid done his homework. Yeah, sure. He has a bath you know, make sure the missus happy, hopefully. And I mean, that's what Amanda does. I guess he takes care of the people he loves and takes care of people, and he he protects them.
00:39:39:02 - 00:39:46:11
Jeff Myth
He provides. So that's my job. And then that's that's what I do here at the gym. That's why I'm here, because I enjoy protecting my name.
00:39:47:00 - 00:39:47:16
Emily
Yeah. Yeah.
00:39:48:01 - 00:40:09:20
Jeff Myth
Right. 99.9%. It's great, but you're always going to have that random weirdo in the gym. Gyms attract weirdos. It's just how it is. I'm just going to have a bunch of different personalities and a bunch of different people. And, you know, you're bound to find a couple of reasons. So to find a way to make sure they don't spoil the whole fruits.
00:40:10:02 - 00:40:11:09
Jeff Myth
The whole basket of fruit. Yeah.
00:40:11:15 - 00:40:11:21
Emily
Yeah.
00:40:11:22 - 00:40:26:23
Jeff Myth
You know, sometimes you have to have a chat to them, put them aside and say if they accept it and they, they continue, you know, that being weird, they've got to go because, you know, my duty is to protect everybody. Yeah, yeah. And just make sure they experience perfect.
00:40:27:11 - 00:40:29:08
Callum
Oh, yeah. Oh, you could.
00:40:29:11 - 00:40:34:07
Emily
I was just going to say yeah, you're just a man. You're a very wise man.
00:40:34:16 - 00:40:54:23
Callum
It's on a I was going to just touch on you've mentioned it a few times, and I can kind of tell that you are that fatherly figure not only in your own home but at the gym as well. I mean, how important is it you think for men or boys up and coming to, you know, take ownership of their body?
00:40:55:12 - 00:41:16:12
Callum
But also, you know, there's a lot of stigma, let's say, with, you know, bodybuilding and, you know, steroid use and all of this and not necessarily like abusing their body and their relationships around them, but just men taking ownership. And it does seem as though you are a guy who has taken control of the, you know, opposition that has happened against you.
00:41:17:09 - 00:41:25:05
Callum
You've pushed through the barriers and now you advocate I would believe, for the strong, strong man in the House, you know, that that kind of vibe. Yeah.
00:41:27:05 - 00:41:49:14
Jeff Myth
Yeah, definitely. Look, I can't I can't stress enough how how important is it for for a man to look after himself physically? Yeah. I've always believed strong body, strong mind before strong. My strong body me, if you can put yourself through that, some type of suffering every day, you'll be about to get stronger. And, you know, training is a form of suffering.
00:41:50:22 - 00:42:17:09
Jeff Myth
Like I said, you're no good to anybody if you're weak and your emotions take over you and you just can't function as a man. And we need strong men. I think these days, I think society really made strong men I mean, you know, who do you call when, you know, when your house is on fire, you call a fireman or your car breaks down, you know, toilet's locked up or you get you get attacked.
00:42:17:10 - 00:42:43:02
Jeff Myth
You know, you call a police officer, you call strong men. So it's really important to train. Yeah. Boys, from a young age these days. And, you know, I don't want to get too deep into this, too controversial, the kind of shame. And I don't like that kind of shamed into into wanting to to be masculine or train or to build some muscle, you know, or, you know, young boys are impressionable.
00:42:43:13 - 00:43:02:20
Jeff Myth
They want to they want to act a little bit more, and that's okay. They don't need to be shamed for that as long as it's controlled and channeled into the right thing. And they're taught respect for both genders. I mean, women are beautiful. They're they're incredible. They are so important. What's so women? You know, we are both really good at different things.
00:43:03:08 - 00:43:19:13
Jeff Myth
And that's that's why we need each other. And that's why I totally believe that we need to respect what we are both good at. I mean, I've never dropped my son off to a childcare center full of men. I mean, like, you know what I mean? I just wouldn't do that. I would trust the woman with my child.
00:43:19:13 - 00:43:40:21
Jeff Myth
She can do so many things that that a man can't do that can nurture, they can love, they can care. They can just give that pure oxytocin. And that's what a child needs for it's survival. I mean, from day one, I mean, that kid is not going to survive unless the mother can produce that beautiful hormone, oxytocin. And that's difficult for a man to do and vice versa.
00:43:40:21 - 00:44:01:13
Jeff Myth
A woman is not going to feel safe. She's not going to feel that maternal instincts unless she's not provided and protected for. So I think it's gone a little bit, walked in today's society with gender roles and all of that. I think they just people are complicating things. I think they should just keep it basic and just and just remember what we are here to do on this planet.
00:44:01:13 - 00:44:21:23
Jeff Myth
So yeah, let's training's important for women, too. You know, I love empowering women and coming into the gym. Yeah. If anything, they should be training more than men these days because they do go through childbirth. Their bodies do, you know, don't take this role, but their bodies do fall apart faster than Amanda. So they really need to take care of themselves.
00:44:21:24 - 00:44:26:10
Jeff Myth
As well. So, yeah, that's that's my take on it.
00:44:27:06 - 00:44:27:21
Emily
That's amazing.
00:44:27:21 - 00:44:49:21
Callum
That's good. How important to you is is like confidence? Let's say, like you, you do come across confident. And I'm also a guy that, like, I'm really confident in my own skin. I'm being in just general. And I see, you know, you've seen it, I'm sure a thousand times that that some person to the gym, they look at it around a bit anxious.
00:44:50:06 - 00:44:57:09
Callum
Yeah. You know, gym comes confident. What's your take on confidence and what's key in and being who you are, I guess.
00:44:58:00 - 00:45:20:12
Jeff Myth
Yeah. Looked that's a really good question when it comes to having somebody comfortable and trust you. Energy to be honest with you. 90% of people that walk into a gym to sign up so much experience and people and just studying their body language and just just the way they walk, the way they talk, the tonality, the posture instead of judging them.
00:45:20:12 - 00:45:40:16
Jeff Myth
I can see and I take this to my staff, I can see that they're lacking some type of confidence yeah. And, um, yeah, look what my role as a leader in industry is to empower somebody, like I said, to provide that that protection which is going to make them feel safe and then, you know, slowly be able to build their confidence.
00:45:40:16 - 00:46:01:21
Jeff Myth
And if I can build somebody's confidence up by 20% by teaching them how to train properly, coming into the gym with the with the head held up high, being able to smash out a workout. Yeah, I feel like I've achieved something. I know that confidence, that confidence is going to translate in the workplace, in the relationship and just the way they care for themselves and they carry themselves.
00:46:01:21 - 00:46:12:13
Jeff Myth
I've seen men I used to specialized really. I mean the most of people that were attracted to me when I was 18 was really men from the age of 35 to about 45.
00:46:12:24 - 00:46:13:08
Emily
Mm hmm.
00:46:13:20 - 00:46:34:10
Jeff Myth
And they type of men really lost their way. They, and what I mean by that, they were so suffocated by bills and pressure from the office and being a dad and being a husband and that they forgot to look after themselves. Yeah, I forgot to maintain that masculine ethic.
00:46:36:12 - 00:46:58:21
Jeff Myth
And so that's why I was so attracted to them because they'd seen me walking around and I would just be myself. But, I mean, now that I'm older, I can see how people perceive me, but I never understood that before. They say they'd be like, This guy's a beast. Like, he, he's a little bit aggressive, he's super confident, or he's just an arrogant bastard.
00:47:00:14 - 00:47:07:24
Jeff Myth
And then they get to know me, and it would take five to 10 seconds of speaking to them, and they'd know that I wouldn't have. I was confident.
00:47:08:09 - 00:47:33:20
Emily
Yeah, it's funny you say that because we were just talking about that, like, at lunch, like where you know, there's so many projections around. Like, you know, if you walk a certain way or you talk a certain way and you're confident in your body, exactly. That you can be perceived as, like you said, an arrogant prick. And it's like until someone literally you open your mouth, it's like, you know how I, you know, being really nice, they like oopsie yeah.
00:47:33:20 - 00:47:34:19
Callum
Oh, I misjudged.
00:47:35:08 - 00:47:53:03
Jeff Myth
And the thing is, these these types of people, these men, I mean, I feel sorry for them because I think that confidence is something you're born. It's definitely not something you bond with. You create confidence. It's a tool. Yes. You can genetically just be confident. You could have had a great a great father like I did super confident guy.
00:47:53:12 - 00:48:20:21
Jeff Myth
Strong, masculine, respectful. Everywhere he went, people respected him. He demanded respect. If you didn't get it, he'd cut people off. So for me, I just buried him and yeah, so yeah, try to use the skills and the tools that I used for my father and apply them in the modern day. I'm just educating guys that, look, I'm not a magician.
00:48:21:08 - 00:48:39:09
Jeff Myth
You're not going to do bench press and you're going to turn into Arnold Schwarzenegger and you're not going to be the most well, it's something that you have to understand why you. Yeah, you know, why you can't hold a conversation, why you can't look somebody in the eye and and, you know, just not feel intimidated. So the training really helped a lot.
00:48:39:20 - 00:48:40:03
Emily
Yeah.
00:48:40:13 - 00:49:02:02
Jeff Myth
From from a hormonal point, like a physiological point. Of course, when you train you're definitely going to start increasing vocal code. And that's where the misconception comes, where men start to get shamed for wanting to come to the gym. I mean, that's that's their biological instinct. I mean, go back 10,000 years ago, you know, what were we doing?
00:49:02:02 - 00:49:14:16
Jeff Myth
We would we were dodging saber toothed tiger. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. To butterfly climbing trees. We were carrying heavy rocks. We were carrying, you know, the next meal to the next campsite.
00:49:15:03 - 00:49:15:19
Callum
Yeah, yeah.
00:49:18:09 - 00:49:18:20
Callum
Yeah.
00:49:19:13 - 00:49:29:13
Emily
I think that's what I call. Yeah. What a cool take on, um, just so many things over the last out. Like, there's just been so many key takeaways. I just love it so much.
00:49:30:01 - 00:49:37:22
Callum
What I'm going to, I'm going to ask the big question is what would you want to tell the world if they were listening in one minute? What would you want want to tell the world?
00:49:37:22 - 00:49:43:08
Jeff Myth
Summarize Well, that's that's a massive question and.
00:49:43:23 - 00:49:44:02
Callum
It.
00:49:44:14 - 00:49:45:13
Emily
Is a loaded question.
00:49:45:17 - 00:49:47:13
Callum
Something is so passionate about.
00:49:49:00 - 00:50:10:01
Jeff Myth
So the first thing would definitely be I'm not going to say it would be do not give a crap about what anybody thinks of you. Yeah. Because I used to really get upset, you know, because I'd like a nice and respectful but why? Why do people put me in a box? Yeah, the way I look at my hair with my beard.
00:50:10:08 - 00:50:27:18
Jeff Myth
What is it? Is it my muscles? Like, I'm not going to change that. I mean, I have a gift that's how I was made. And in all honesty, I frickin love myself. I do do if you if you can't love who you are and what you've achieved. And I think that's what you've been blessed with. I mean, that doesn't mean you're narcissistic.
00:50:27:18 - 00:50:30:01
Jeff Myth
I truly love who I am and who I've dealt.
00:50:30:01 - 00:50:31:01
Emily
100%.
00:50:31:14 - 00:50:49:01
Jeff Myth
And I'm honest with myself. There's a cluster of things that I could definitely make better. There's so many things that I do not like about myself as well that I'm working on every single day. I mean, it's all about honesty. So you got to be honest with yourself. No. One, I mean, number two would be get over yourself.
00:50:49:03 - 00:50:58:01
Jeff Myth
We're all human, you know? We're all human. We all make mistakes. If you make a mistake, just have the confidence to say, listen, my bad.
00:50:58:11 - 00:50:58:16
Callum
Yeah.
00:50:59:07 - 00:51:05:02
Jeff Myth
It doesn't make you less of a man. It makes you a bigger man. Apologize and. And get over it.
00:51:05:23 - 00:51:30:03
Emily
Yeah, I love it. I love it. I've yeah. I've definitely taken so much away from from today's chat. But before we do go we have a couple of questions for you. Either we just normally do a little fast five question. Basically, all you need to do is just answer off the top of your head. No one is would you rather make more money doing a job you hate a less doing what you love.
00:51:32:07 - 00:51:42:08
Jeff Myth
Is a funny one. So I'd rather do a job that I hate and make more money simply because I have enough money that I can do what I love later. But I'll tell you.
00:51:42:09 - 00:51:43:02
Callum
On the way around.
00:51:44:05 - 00:52:06:20
Jeff Myth
I used to I used to dig trenches for 10 hours a day. So when I was 19 my back was so stuffed after having a massive back injury, there was no way that I could sustain what I knew if I suffered. When I was younger. I'd have the freedom to do what I could do later. So, yeah, I mean, money's money.
00:52:06:21 - 00:52:25:13
Jeff Myth
Just an amplifier, if youre a geek. You're just going to be super geek if you've got millions of dollars. I mean, I believe you've got to suffer before you make the money. Yeah, you've got to be the man before you make the money, and then the money's just going to amplify you later. Because if you make the money first and you haven't gone through those hard yards, you haven't suffered.
00:52:25:20 - 00:52:36:17
Jeff Myth
They haven't developed that thick skin, that character, you just you're just a target. You just become a target. You just become a person with money that's going to be used, abused, picked on, and potentially robbed.
00:52:37:07 - 00:52:37:19
Emily
Mhm.
00:52:38:02 - 00:52:42:19
Callum
Right. Mhm. They get a guilty pleasure. Jeff, what's a guilty pleasure?
00:52:43:24 - 00:52:48:10
Jeff Myth
Well then I don't know fucking them.
00:52:49:13 - 00:52:50:10
Emily
Ha ha ha ha ha.
00:52:50:22 - 00:52:56:18
Callum
Yes. Yeah. If you want to disclose, we can you give us two answers. The clean in the oh.
00:53:00:01 - 00:53:17:17
Jeff Myth
I love shopping so I love clothes, I like powers, I like sunglasses. And I like watching. So I'm not somebody that, um, that restricts themselves from, from presents, but I incentivize myself. I give my cell phone. Yeah.
00:53:17:22 - 00:53:18:08
Emily
Yeah.
00:53:19:00 - 00:53:27:06
Jeff Myth
It's really important to me. It's just a psychological thing for me. So, you know, if I've done, you know, x amount three months, I'm going to buy myself.
00:53:27:16 - 00:53:27:22
Emily
Yeah.
00:53:28:16 - 00:53:47:03
Jeff Myth
Cos they push to the next, to the next level, so I don't let money really, really make me all like, you know, I don't really look at money that way. Like, my relationship with money is just, it's a tool and you can do whatever you want with it. And then you can do stupid stuff with it and you can do great stuff.
00:53:47:06 - 00:53:49:15
Jeff Myth
It doesn't define you. Yeah.
00:53:50:06 - 00:53:56:13
Emily
Bicep curls or dips all dips.
00:53:57:00 - 00:54:15:01
Jeff Myth
Dips because simply triceps is three quarters of your arm and it's a lot more bang for your buck. You're going to hit a bit of back, you're going to hit a bit of chest yes. Say a bit. I mean, look, as much as I love doing curls, I've got to go with the exercise that's going to give you the most.
00:54:16:13 - 00:54:18:12
Emily
What's your what's your biggest pet peeve?
00:54:20:02 - 00:54:20:21
Jeff Myth
Bad breath.
00:54:22:03 - 00:54:24:03
Emily
Oh, yeah. That's just major.
00:54:24:20 - 00:54:46:17
Jeff Myth
Just general hygiene. You know, I can't stand somebody that has bad breath, especially that talks this close to it's like mate, do do you could be the greatest guy in the world, but you've got that one bad characteristic about you that's just going to leave an impact on somebody forever. You really want to be known as bad guy with bad.
00:54:47:04 - 00:54:47:11
Emily
Breath.
00:54:47:21 - 00:55:04:09
Jeff Myth
Because that's just the only way I remember you meant it's like, brush your teeth. I'll just have a minute. Like I need to tell you, you've got bad breath. I feel sorry for you. Look, I don't want you to go through the next 30 years with bad breath, like I'm literally going to tell you. And I told people that just like and look, not in a bad way.
00:55:04:09 - 00:55:05:21
Jeff Myth
In a nice way. I feel so.
00:55:05:22 - 00:55:08:02
Emily
Literally. It's like, I've got your back.
00:55:08:14 - 00:55:27:04
Callum
I like it. And I like. I feel like I can kind of relate in a sense. I like to if you can look if you can look after yourself personally, like hygiene wise and presenting wise, I feel instantly I'm like, all right, you can look after yourself. You can then be trusted in a way that you could trust your own self with your own body, you know?
00:55:27:18 - 00:55:35:13
Jeff Myth
Absolutely. I mean, you're going to heart. You're going to I believe, like if you're super hygienic, you are going to function at a high frequency.
00:55:35:23 - 00:55:39:20
Emily
Oh, what a joy. This chat has been.
00:55:40:01 - 00:55:59:13
Callum
Meant been through so much going through the trenches, physically working and also mentally with other fitness facilities that we don't want to mention. Then you tell the owner of Gold's Gym, North Sydney. Any any plans to open another go? Do you just going to make your go the Mecca of of Australia?
00:56:00:09 - 00:56:19:03
Jeff Myth
Look, absolutely. I've got another I've got another gem in the vision not going to disclose too much, but kind of my methodology behind it is. So we're on the low and shore. I just want to saturate the low north shore. I mean, there's no point me opening up a gym 20 or 30 kilometers away from me or even in another state.
00:56:19:03 - 00:56:27:08
Jeff Myth
I mean I want to be able to be mobile. I want to be able to travel to all the gyms, all the stuff to be local. And I want the members to be able to use all my gym.
00:56:27:18 - 00:56:28:24
Callum
Yeah, yeah, I love that.
00:56:29:07 - 00:56:34:19
Jeff Myth
I mean, you see, you see other gyms on 24 hour access that are two or three kilometers apart. So yeah.
00:56:34:22 - 00:56:35:07
Callum
Totally.
00:56:35:24 - 00:56:44:19
Jeff Myth
Why not just saturate such the area and just build bigger, better than a gym and just the culture? So just making that culture spread throughout the whole fiber.
00:56:46:16 - 00:56:51:16
Emily
I love that. I thank you so much for shopping on International.
00:56:51:16 - 00:56:52:15
Jeff Myth
Thank you so much, guys.
00:56:52:22 - 00:57:01:00
Callum
Appreciate. And how can people find you follow a you your own account or on to the you know see that's where I of what you're really plugging away.
00:57:01:14 - 00:57:12:04
Jeff Myth
Yeah guys you can just find us on our Gold's Gym North Sydney for Instagram and my personal on no problem jump on Jeff Myth and we're on TikTok as Gold's Gym should be.
00:57:12:04 - 00:57:16:14
Emily
Beautiful. Well thank you so much for joining us, Jeff.
00:57:16:22 - 00:57:18:14
Jeff Myth
It's been a pleasure guys. Thank you so much.
00:57:18:14 - 00:57:20:06
Callum
Appreciate your time and enjoy your day.
00:57:21:00 - 00:57:22:01
Jeff Myth
Thank you so much for taking.
00:57:22:05 - 00:57:22:18
Emily
Time.
00:57:23:11 - 00:57:23:23
Jeff Myth
Salina.