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Shannon's Secrets to Starting Your Fitness Journey
Tune in to hear Shannon debunk common fitness misconceptions and offer practical tips to kickstart your journey and maintain momentum. From the importance of seizing the moment before doubt sets in to the motivational power of helping others achieve their goals, Shannon provides a wealth of encouragement for both newcomers and seasoned fitness enthusiasts. Whether you're looking to get in shape for the summer or seeking inspiration to stay consistent, this episode is filled with insights and motivation to help you every step of the way.
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Hey y'all, hey, Welcome back to another exciting episode of Coffee and Chit Chat. We are chatting with a personal trainer this morning, so we're going to get those bodies right for the summer. But before we introduce them, let's shout out our Coffee of the Week, which is a iced coffee and caramel flavored coffee. Make sure you try one. So this morning, guys, we have Mr Shannon Smith, and Shannon is a regional master trainer for Burn Boot Camp and this is in the ATL, Atlanta, Georgia. And also Shannon, he works at two locations it's the Hound and the Soft Cop location and he has a lot of training guys and personal fitness and he is ready to share some of this with us this morning. So, welcome, welcome, Shannon, to Coffee Chit Chat.
Speaker 2:Hey, let's go, let's go, let's go. Okay. So, Shannon, first of all, what inspired you to start this fitness journey? Oh yeah, that's a very good question. So I was an athlete since I was young. So I think for myself it was more of the physical aspect, more of just being active, just being able to run, jump, do whatever I need to do on a day-to-day basis, but I think it's the camaraderie in the gym, it's community. So I'm used to a locker room feel. So burn boot camp gives me that same feeling that I would say I essentially feel when I'm on the field with my fellas. You know, playing ball, playing baseball never played basketball can't dribble. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. But yes, I would say it's kind of like it's the same but it's different. At the same time, I would say the biggest thing for me is camaraderie and just community overall, okay, okay.
Speaker 1:so you know, sometimes people are so um hesitant about fitness training or even just starting, uh, a training program. Yes, yeah. You know. So what are some of the misconceptions about fitness that you would like to debunk? You know, to tell the listeners it's okay, right.
Speaker 2:I would say it's never too late to start. It's never too late. It's better to start now, when you think about it. You know you, only when your first mind is to start. Now when you think about it. You know you, only you. When your first mind is to start. Jump on it, because when you sit there too long, you're going to talk yourself out of it, and that's the worst thing you want to do. So if you think about it like, hey, I need to get my body right, I want to get stronger, whatever it is that your goal is, you need to just go ahead and do it, because time waits for nobody okay, I, I love that.
Speaker 2:Keep stop saying tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow, tomorrow tomorrow, turn the next year, next year, turn the three years. Now you done had a baby. Now you had three, four babies. Now it was six, seven years gone by and yeah, just do it, I get it.
Speaker 1:So how do you stay motivated to maintain a consistent fitness routine?
Speaker 2:Well, I know your personal trainer, so that's probably I would say people depend on me to help them with their goals, so that gives me the extra push to help them. Sometimes it's not even about yourself all the time. Yeah, you want to do what's best for you. I'm a pretty consistent guy so I work out often, I eat pretty clean, but what gives me that purpose is to help other people, you know, get to where they want to be, because obviously they're there for me or the other trainers to push them, or our team to push them. So I think that gives me that extra drive to come in, like Brittany can tell you, like when I come in the train, like high energy every day. You know, inspiration every day, bucketing every day. It's because I know you guys want something out of it and I'm going to give you the best experience possible every single day okay.
Speaker 1:Well, what would you tell someone who is just starting out on their fitness uh journey and may get a little, you know, stressed or like I'm tired of this, I don't want to do this yeah, I think that's a good question too.
Speaker 2:I would say treat your fitness journey. Think of stairs and an elevator. You know everybody wants the elevator approach. Go straight to the top floor, like you. Get your results overnight Popcorn we call it popcorn results. Take the stairs, go one step at a time. Eventually you'll get to where you want to be, but it takes you longer to go upstairs, which means it'll take you longer to lose your results. But if you do popcorn results or whatever it is, it's easier to lose because you got it so quickly. You didn't learn nothing during your journey. So learn something throughout your journey. Take those hard steps, don't go around it, don't go over it. Go through it.
Speaker 1:I love that you said just step by step Instead of thinking just jumping on the elevator. I'm going to lose 10 pounds. I'm going to lose it by Friday.
Speaker 2:Right. Because, when you lose it. Most people who lose, who lose. Oh let me say this who makes results quickly, they go backwards quickly, it's just as fast. And I lost 20, but you put 30 back on last time because you never, you didn't learn the steps, the progress to keep your results off or maintain.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, yeah, I love it. So how do you approach the nutrition part of it and the diet in relationship to the fitness goals?
Speaker 2:Good, I get this question a lot in my food column focus meetings Loading to that one-1-1 nutritional guidance. You can't. They have to both work together. You have to. You can't outwork a bad diet.
Speaker 2:You have to add resistance training, but you got to eat somewhat for your body frame. You want to lose, you got to eat a certain way. You want to add resistance training, but you got to eat somewhat for your body frame. You want to lose, you got to eat a certain way. Want to gain, eat a certain way. You want to maintain, eat a certain way. You can't outwork a bad diet Like you can't, and the same thing goes for a good diet. You can't necessarily just eat clean but not work out. You won't be able to build the muscle that you want.
Speaker 1:So they both go hand to hand with each other. Okay, moderation, moderation, know what to do. Everybody's a little bit different. So, yeah, and I know you, you guys do a lot of the fitnesses in a actual fitness facility. But, um, I'm actually trying to do this 50 mile run. I'm tired military, so I'm used to running. And I'm trying to do this 50 mile run. I'm a tired military, so I'm used to running, and I'm trying to do that next month for all times. What would you suggest?
Speaker 2:Now is it 50 at one in one time, one setting, or?
Speaker 1:No, just for the whole, like as long as I have it done by June 30th.
Speaker 2:June 30th. Do the increments. You know, I could probably give you a breakdown too of like how to get there. But you don't have to like. And that's a good question, because I think people, when they see that big number of like 50, they think I gotta get everything done by this day. But you can break it down, you can. Everybody's a little bit different, so you somebody may be able to do it, but the other person may not be able to. They might have to break things up. So, yeah, yeah, let me help you out with that. Let me help you out with that.
Speaker 1:Okay, that's cool, I love it.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, let me help you out with that.
Speaker 1:It's going to be me and my husband. We're going to do it no matter what, because I just feel that I love that cause or whatever. So we want to make sure Good, okay. So how do you incorporate your rest and recovery? That's what everybody wants to hear about, right?
Speaker 2:Oh, the rest and recovery.
Speaker 1:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:You got to stretch man, you got to stretch the same way how you would. How you work out is how you got to get your PT, how you stretch. You can't overexert your body every single day and not do anything on the back end.
Speaker 2:It's kind of going back to you know, nutrition and working out. When you work out you have to have your nutrition set. You can't just work out and not. Your body can't recover, because then that's how injuries happen. So the best way to reduce any type of injury is to stretch, get pt, chiropractic work, all the above, uh, cold tubs, um, saunas, um just just take your time. I know in our minds we want, we want to just push and get our results, get our gains. But what you don't want is to go backwards because you pushed your body too much and there was no recovery on the back end and now you have to restart over again because now you're hurt. So I would say recovery is probably better than actually. It is better than actually working out, because the only way you can build muscle is to recover. If you're straining yourself day in and day out and you're not resting, sleeping, get your n in, your body can never go to its max potential. That's what we all want.
Speaker 1:Okay, I'm glad you said stretching, because every once in a while when I do my massages the massage therapist she'll suggest won't you just come back next time and we're going to do stretching? But I'm going to tell you the truth, the first time I did that I was not feeling it. I was like I don't like this, but she's like it's good for you. It really is. But I was like, oh my goodness, yeah, it is.
Speaker 1:But it changed me the next day, so I was like I can actually feel that I did something yeah. Okay, okay and Mm, hmm, yeah, ok, ok. And what about progress?
Speaker 2:How do you measure progress or people? How can people set goals to measure their progress when they start their fitness journey? A good way to set goals. You have different types of goals. So you have, of course, a scale goal that majority of people kind of go by. But you also have non-victory I mean non-scale victories, which means it's not on the scale, like if you've never done a push-up on your toes, that's a victory, that's a goal. If you did jump ropes for a minute straight and you've never done that before, that's a goal that you can work towards. So you have different types of goals that you can work towards.
Speaker 2:Majority of goals are weight related, but I would say that if your goals are weight related, the weight always fluctuates. So, yeah, never fixate your mind just on on that. You have all different aspects to look forward to. You know like do you, can you run a mile this week, then last week? Can you run run about back? Can you go longer? What's your pace time? So there are different things. Set your goals based on what you want. You know, outside of I would say, do it outside of the weight, because if you stay consistent and you push yourself to gain strength, you're going to see your results on the back end. I can. I can almost guarantee you're going to see results on the back end. I can, I can almost guarantee you're gonna see results on the back end if you stay consistent and stay away from the scale first off and then come back to the scale on the back end I love that, because I know most people that start a fitness journey.
Speaker 1:The only thing they are concerned about is how much weight did I lose? How many pounds did I lose today or this week?
Speaker 2:so I love that right and you also like, if you look at the scale, I would say, look at your bmi, your body fat, your skeletal muscle mass index, um, your body, your body fat mass, because you can lose weight but you can still have a higher fat content, which means, like you'll probably be what we call a, like a skinny fat, because you have, you're lean, but your fat content is up and your muscle mass is down. So you kind of want to reverse that, depending on what you want. Everybody's a little bit different, so some people care, some people don't, but yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:And when they may run into some challenges, what would you say, you know, to get them back on track? If they decided like they started one week but they missed it two weeks after that, how can they, you know, get back going if they run into those challenges?
Speaker 2:don't rely on motivation, well, rely on consistency.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 2:Motivation is what gets you started. Consistency gets you to the goal.
Speaker 1:Okay, love it. Consistency keeps you going.
Speaker 2:Right, right, motivation. You hear people say I wasn't motivated. Well, so what is? You have to be consistent. Because you're not motivated to go to work every day, you're not motivated to walk your dog every day, but you do it because of what you got to be consistent, like training a dog, to make sure a dog doesn't have any bad moments in the house. You got to train your dog. You can't be like I'm not training my dog today Guess what they're going to go on the floor because you weren't a consistent person. Consistency just breeds good habits and good habits breed good results.
Speaker 1:All right, I love that. You guys heard that. Say it one more time for the people in the back. I love it, love it. So, shannon, we surely have enjoyed you sharing all these great fitness tips with us today. Now you got to tell our listeners how they can follow you.
Speaker 2:To stay consistent, so you can follow me on Instagram, Shannon's Fit and Focus, and you can also follow my motivational page at endless E-N-D-L-S-S dot co Dot go. Motivation Dot co. Yes, C-O.
Speaker 1:Okay, okay, so I'll put this in our facebook group as well, so you can go follow coffee chit chat on instagram I got you, I got you okay, guys. Well, we're gonna leave you with the quote of the week. You can um. You are stronger than you think. You are capable of so much more than you believe, and that is an unknown author, but it is so true. Be sure to join us next week for another exciting episode of coffee chit chat. Thanks, guys.
