The Fitness Ethos Podcast
Episodes
70 episodes
70. Want What You Already Have
Most people start a fitness routine to fill something they fill they're missing. They're trying to become a different version of themselves by working on some weakness, which is a good thing, but they tend to forget the value they already offer...
69. The Trap of Comfortable Complacency
Are you happy with life, but feel like you could be doing better? Like there's some risk you may be needing to take to improve your life? If this sounds like you, you may fall into the trap of comfortable complacency. Learn how to avoid this tr...
68. Just Because Something is Difficult Doesn't Mean It's Valuable
There are many things in life we see as valuable simply because they are difficult to achieve and fitness is no different. Learn how to maximize the true value of fitness (and all things in life) to avoid the pitfalls of overvaluing something.
67. Balance=Health
When we think of the ideal image of health, the person representing that image tends to fall on the side of extreme in some form. Learn how putting too much focus on anything can be detrimental and how balance=health.
66. Stop Using Diets To Lose Weight Long Term
Diets can be a fantastic tool to lose weight, but most people go wrong in expecting them to work long term. Learn why diets should be temporary and how you can select the best things from certain diets to create a long term, sustainable food li...
65. Creative Ways to Get Fitness Into Your Life
The concept of "gym time" is relatively new since through most of human history, life was exercise. Learn how you can utilize more frequency to save time and see great improvements to your fitness level.
64. Don't Make Perfect the Enemy of Good
When starting out a health & fitness routine, most people try to bite off more than they can chew and end up failing as a result of trying to stick to their goal too rigidly. In this episode, I talk about how aiming for good can help set yo...
63. Why Everyone Should Want To Be Strong
When most people start their health & fitness journey, aesthetics is the only thing they focus on. Learn how strength training can not only contribute to aesthetic goals, but also help improve your day to day life.
62. Stop Focusing on the Scale
Stop focusing on the scale! It's one of the worst metrics you can use to gauge progress on your fitness journey and if you're like me, often derails you from your goals. Learn how to strategically use the scale and what methods may be better to...
61. Making Fitness Scalable
Most people will throw the kitchen sink at their fitness routine in an attempt to get results quickly, but they often forget scalability when doing this. Learn how making exercise scalable is one of the most important aspects to creating long t...
60. Keep It Simple
Complexity is the enemy of execution and most people on their health & fitness journey fall into this trap. Learn how keeping things simple will help you achieve your long term fitness goals and create a pathway to success that will allow f...
59. Why Training Modality Should Not Be Your Focus
When most people look to start a health & fitness journey, they tend to look for the training modality that will show the most results the fastest. What most people fail to realize is that this is the last thing that they should be focusing...
58. Are You Being Sold Health or Marketing?
We've all heard of the newest supplement that will shred fat, burn muscle, make you grow 6 inches, etc., but is there any truth to these claims? Unfortunately for most people, this is just marketing, not the actual effects of a supplement. Lear...
57. How to Start Your Fitness Journey
Many people think that they have to complete rearrange their life to be able to support their fitness journey, but this is often far from the truth. Learn how to to take the first step towards your health goals and how to continue to build from...
56. Have Love For Your Body
Many of us who are not achieving our fitness goals tend to hate the way our body looks and performs, but this mentality is only holding you back. Learn why you should love your body (even at it's current state) and how approaching fitness from ...
55. Your Genetics Are Not an Excuse
Too many people cite genetics as their reason for being unhealthy, but I'm here to tell you that is NOT a valid excuse. While genetics can impact our potential on the extreme end of health, most of us do not even come close to hitting our poten...
54. Why Training to Look Like Your Favorite Athlete is a Waste of Time
When most people think about what their dream physique looks like, they often cite a famous athlete they want to look like. So naturally if you want to look like them, you should train like them, right? Learn how that's often incorrect and whil...
53. Don't Be Afraid to Train Like a Bodybuilder
A phrase that is often uttered from the mouths of those who haven't started a lifting regiment in the past is "I don't want to get too big". Unfortunately for those of whose goal is to build muscle, it's not that easy. Learn about the ben...
52. Rethinking Your Fitness Goals as Your Life Changes
One of the most common things that people forget about when designing a fitness program for themselves is the desired lifestyle they hope to live. Learn how to take this into consideration for your current phase of life and adjust your fitness ...
51. The 2 Most Important Concepts for Success in Fitness
If you listen the influencer's you find online many of them will say a particular exercise or training modality or diet is the most import thing to being fit, but those things don't matter if you don't have the 2 most important concepts for fit...
50. Don't Compare Your Chapter 1 to Someone's Chapter 20
We often look at the people we want to be like and assume that we'll never get to that level of success. What most of us fail to realize is that we are looking at Chapter 20 of their life, whereas you may only be at Chapter 1 so it's important ...
49. Be the Tortoise, Not the Hare
We often try to rush to our goals and when doing that we don't building up the necessary skillset to actually maintain our goals long term. In this episode, I talk about Aesop's fable, "The Tortoise and the Hare", and how being the Tortoise is ...
48. Hating Your Body Can Take Multiple Forms
We often think of overweight people has having a hatred or dislike for their body being the reason they work out, but are they the only group of people that exercise out of hatred for their bodies? Learn how even the most shredded fitness influ...
47. Your Body is an Adaptation Machine
Most of us are aware of the adaptations that are body goes through as a result of exercise, but many aren't aware of the impact that their environment has on how their body adapts. Learn about the good and bad of biological adaptation and how a...
46. Why Lifestyle HAS to be Part of Your Goal
Have you ever wondered how you're supposed to be health while maintaining your preferred lifestyle? This was something I asked myself a lot after seeing fitness influencers pedaling unsustainable programing for most people. What they often igno...