Meet the Coach: Jasen Van Woert

What does it take to build a thriving fitness community that goes beyond just physical health? Join us as we sit down with Coach Jasen, the inspiring leader of Fit Body Bootcamp's West location. Coach Jason's personal journey, from military deployments to becoming a fitness leader, will motivate you to embrace the power of community in achieving your goals.

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Fit Body Bootcamp Community Building

Speaker 1 0:00

What is going on? My friends, welcome to the next episode of the Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls show. We are bringing on an awesome guest today. He is a coach right here at Fit Body Bootcamp. He is our facility leader at our West location as well as taking on some now new responsibilities. But we'll let him dive into that. You guys get ready as we welcome my good friend, coach Jason, to the show. Jason, what is up? My man Another day. Man, another day, another day. In fact, july 4th is when we are releasing this episode. But, man, I've been excited to have you on here. This is the first episode of a new series, meet the coach. Um, and so I kind of let the audience know before we dove in that you are the facility leader at our West location. Um, explain fit body West. A little bit Like if you could explain the vibes over at fit body West, what would you kind of? What comes to mind with that?

Speaker 2 1:27

there is a whole lot of fun, whole lot of a whole lot of fun. Our coaches over there. They know how to have a good time. They know how to work you out. They know how to make you sweat all the same time keeping you smiling yeah, keep you enjoying the workouts and really, um, I would say the compute there, too, is just phenomenal. Yeah, everyone's been really coming together lately, just kind of like creating these small groups when they work out, really bonding together. And then I actually see a lot of Facebook posts with some of the clients on there where they're actually hanging out outside of the gym. Oh, that sounds awesome and I think that's so cool, just because we're not only getting better, getting more fit, we're actually building community. People are coming together and like realizing that they're not in this alone. Yeah, but there's people like in this journey with them that they can rely on, lean on and, more than just fitness and life things too, yeah, they can share those troubles that they're having at home, you know, with family, with work, anything like that.

Speaker 1 2:29

And you know they have those people they can rely on which they may not have had before they came to Fit Body. Yeah, I love that. I was actually talking to a client just after the Murph event and she was telling me that one of her favorite things of the event was that we had that whole area where they could sit down and just talk and just she's like the community atmosphere and the community aspect of what we do at Fit Body. She said, hands down, that's my favorite thing. Oh yeah, like so.

Speaker 1 2:46

We always kind of say people will come because they want results, but they stay because of the community. Yep, absolutely, because the truth is and we launched a episode a while back, a couple of weeks ago so, with Pastor Jacob Lewis, and we just talked about, you know, loneliness and how we can really get into a pit when you're lonely and so being surrounded by people. So you bringing up that that community is just so strong over there at the West location Is this awesome to hear For anyone that maybe doesn't know where is the West location located?

Speaker 2 3:20

So it's on the T. Well, I've been, I've been told this wrong way to say, but I call it the t ellis road, yeah, um. And then 26th street. If you go right, um, just in the same parking lot as shenanigans if you don't know where shenanigans that go to the stoplight on tls on 26th, you'll see a big old fit body sign sitting right there that's right.

Speaker 1 3:36

That's right, that's awesome and it's crazy, because that part of town, uh, is honestly like a whole nother world.

Speaker 2 3:43

It is.

Speaker 1 3:44

And you live super close right, yes, yes.

Speaker 1 3:47

And so really kind of cool, you guys, how I met Jason is just wild. So people like, pick a word of the year. They'll pick different kind of like main things of the year. My life kind of went in a whirlwind the end of last year and so I decided, with my faith and kind of my beliefs, that you know the word that I was going to pick for 2024, well, it's two words. I've been reminded by a lot of people that that's actually two words, but it was God's plan and it just so happened that I ran into you. So if you're willing, share how you found out about Fit Body.

Speaker 2 4:35

That's a long story. Where do you want me to start? Like where I think at the beginning is for me. Sure, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 4:41

Because, to be honest, I don't even know.

Speaker 2 4:57

Like I don't know where you think the beginning is versus where the beginning is, and so I'm going to alone. We had a daughter, so obviously we're trying to co-parent together while trying to work through this. That was in the beginning of 2023. Fast forward, going about probably about five, six months.

Speaker 2 5:16

You know I was making some really bad life choices. I'm very destructive, self-destructive habits. Ended up, I was working at a very, very good job making very good money on, decided, you know, this just wasn't the lifestyle I want anymore. It wasn't a very healthy, worth and work environment. Yeah, so I decided, you know, I want to go a different path. Um, where I'm going to see a brighter future at with a different construction company yep, um. So I ended up applying for them, got the the job, ended up, um, failing a test with them. Yep, um.

Speaker 2 5:49

And then ended up having to, you know, obviously not have a job. So I was. I was jobless, um, I was just putting my house on the market, um, cause obviously I couldn't afford it anymore. Yep, um. So I'm kind of sitting there for about two weeks without a job, bills to pay, a house to work on, yeah, and I was just completely lost. Yeah, nowhere to go, and there, honestly, for me was not a future in sight besides the fact of I have to just keep moving forward, and the only the only reasonable option I thought of at the time was I need to go to God with this.

Speaker 1 6:29

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:30

I've been trying to do it on my own for too long. It wasn't working. Yeah, obviously it wasn't working. I failed as a husband, failed as a father and honestly I saw myself I was a failure of a man.

Speaker 1 6:44

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:46

And that was. It can be a hard spot to be in. It was really tough to just to come to terms with, understand like you have to do better in the future.

Speaker 1 6:54

Yeah.

Speaker 2 6:55

So during those two weeks I was working on the house actually picked up a couple handyman jobs from, thankfully, from a few guys that needed an extra hand on the job. Yep, ended up reaching out to one of the pastors over at Embrace here in town, yeah, through Instagram. And that was an odd story in itself because I was actually working inside my daughter's bedroom repainting the trim. Yeah, I remember just like sitting down and just crying about, thinking about all the things I could have done better, all the things I could have changed. Yeah, and it hit like things I could have changed. Yeah, and like a wall, like an emotional wall.

Speaker 1 7:28

I've had more of like a train than a wall the train hit me, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 7:31

So I'm sitting there crying and I can hear I can still hear God saying it like reach out to Pastor Adam. Yep, I didn't. I obviously didn't have his number. I reached out to him through Instagram. He told me that three different times. I told him no the first two times and he said, okay, I guess I'll do it on the third try. So, yeah, I reached out to Pastor Adam and it came up with an automated message from Mike. Well, yeah, that was really helpful, god. At the bottom, it said reach out to this other pastor down here. He'll get in touch. So I reached out to the other pastor. We met with him.

Speaker 2 8:08

I talked about you know what was going on in my life, where I was headed, what had happened, and he goes. You know there's this. It was actually the Friday before I met you. He's like there's usually a men's group that usually meets here at this location at 7 am to 8 am. So you just missed them. So I'm like, okay, let's have one next week and you should totally attend it. I'll link you up with one of the guys there. They'll introduce you to everyone. So a week goes by. It was actually my daughter's birthday. Yeah, yeah, and I remember going in there it was raining. I just got done working out at the gym. I'm still in like my workout clothes and bringing the extra to change into. Yeah, and here I actually running about three, three, three or five minutes late and everyone's kind of circling. I'm like, oh, this isn't intimidating at all yeah so I find my seat.

Speaker 2 8:54

We start talking, um. I don't remember what um book we were going through, but at the end I ended up opening up to these strangers yeah, no, no clue who they were. Yeah, pretty much laying it out where I was in life. Yeah, and I remember everyone praying over me, yep. And then you would come up to me afterwards saying, hey, you know, I have a job opportunity for you if you're interested and tell me. You know I was in the fitness industry. I guess I've never actually worked in the fitness industry. I've always wanted to. I've always worked out though. So I have a general idea of how to get things done, um, and kind of from there. It was, you know, going through the interview process, the mock session, and then going, you know, kind of finishing up all the house stuff. Yeah, and uh here.

Speaker 1 9:39

I am, yeah, so, so wild. Um, because what I think is crazy too is that, in the way in which the world works, we're all living our own life right. So while you're living that life, while you're going through that obviously I was going through my life, and it was Wednesday of that same week when I met you at that men's group. We were fully staffed, we weren't hiring, and it just so happened on Wednesday that we had a coach, let us know that she was going to be moving, and so, very randomly, like we didn't have any idea, but all of a sudden on Thursday now we have an up and coming job opening, but Wednesday we didn't. So we found that out on Wednesday. Thursday, now we do, I'm talking with Vicki. I I'm like we don't really have. We did. We've been kind of coasting as far as a team. We weren't like actively recruiting.

Speaker 1 10:33

Um and again though, uh, just knowing that, hey, we're gonna figure this thing out, go to men's group and uh, meet you. And I told you that before I even talked to Vicky. Then I get ahold of Vicky. I I was like, hey, vicky, I met this dude. You can tell he works out just by the way you how he looks. I mean, he definitely is a fit dude. He's never worked in fitness, but I told him that we're hiring so he might be stopping by. But just wild right.

Speaker 1 10:59

And it just so happens too that you live closer to the West side. But we had been an opening at Central, not at West. So we went through that whole process and we ended up hiring you as a coach for Central the week that you were going to start. It just so happens that our head coach at West decides to put in his two weeks. And again we had no idea that this was coming. But all of a sudden. So here it is on a Monday you're going to be starting with us.

Speaker 1 11:30

You were supposed to be set to start at Central, but it just so happens that West would be more convenient for you as far as where you're located. And all of a sudden now we have a position open at West, and so we move you. Like, get a hold of you. Hey, would you rather actually coach at west? We just so happen to have a position, come and we'll fill in central, uh, somewhere somehow else. And so we move you to the west location, and if we just kind of hit the fast forward button because so many crazy things have happened like what's it even? How long has it been?

Speaker 2 12:01

nine months, uh actually it's been July, june, may no.

Speaker 1 12:07

June is before. Oh, you're going backwards.

Speaker 2 12:09

I'm going backwards. So I got 10 months in 10 months.

Speaker 1 12:11

Okay, I got it. Got it, and in 10 months we hire you on as a coach and then, with the weird turn of events, we end up moving you over to West and then our facility leader at west ends up putting her notice in and we're like, oh my goodness. So then we get a hold of another coach and you know kind of just, uh, time wise, um, it would make more sense, like he's put in more time, obviously, than than you have. But he is super content, coach r, with being the head coach and leading that front, and actually wasn't looking for the opportunity to run a facility more so lead the coaches, and so he was content with where he was at. So then we opened up application for that within our team. First you applied for that and we end up now having you as facility leader at West. You're on our leadership team and it is just wild to see that. So if that's been 10 months, 11 months ago you were jobless, oh yeah 11 months ago you were jobless.

Speaker 2 13:23

I had no idea this was the plan that God had for me.

Speaker 1 13:25

No, no, neither did I. I had no clue that we would be here. But here, fast forward, 11 months from jobless. You are now. It's me, you, vicki and Jensen. There's four of us that are on the leadership team that are leading these locations and working on continuing to grow them and just change lives here in our community, and it's been wild to see all of that. It is so. I did kind of give the audience a little preview that you're stepping into a couple new roles and so you are stepping into kind of overseeing finance and HR. They're very new. Within the last month. How's that been going, you know?

Balancing Fitness and Family Life

Speaker 2 14:12

it's it's going good. It's stressful just because of the fact it takes time to learn new things.

Speaker 1 14:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:20

And it seems like the responsibilities have actually increased. Yeah, but it seems like time doesn't do that, though you can't get more time on the day no, no, so it's been a challenge, just because it seems like every God wants to challenge you every single day of your life.

Speaker 1 14:38

Yeah.

Speaker 2 14:39

Not in a way to put you down, and you know, keep you down. It's a way for you to grow, yeah. And every time that I've gotten comfortable like saying I was comfortable with a coach Yep, well, time to be a facilitator, yep, had to grow into that position, still growing the position, still trying to, you know, be the best leader that I can for that facility Well, now it's like, okay, here, here's another plate for you to now work on. Yeah, so it's, it's really learning and managing and balancing your life.

Speaker 1 15:07

Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:07

And knowing you know, knowing what's important, knowing what's going to make an effect on those around you in a positive way. Yeah, and honestly, just keep in keeping moving forward.

Speaker 1 15:17

Yeah, you know, I kind of am wondering this here as you were talking. So here you are, not only brand new to Fit Body but brand new to the fitness industry. Yeah, and so kind of this is a two part question. One is how long have you been like working on your own health and fitness?

Speaker 2 15:40

I first started rigorously working out in the, I would say, summer of 2016. Ok, that was the year of my deployment over to Iraq and Kuwait. Ok, I had figured, you know this is my time to really focus in. I actually started kind of down in texas where we were doing our pre-mob training. Yeah, I started, you know, watching a lot of videos, just kind of working out, um, got on like a free program, like, you know how do you work out for a beginner? Yeah, um. The one thing that it didn't cover, though, was nutritional side of things. Yep, um, so that kind of came later on down the road, but, but I really focused in on, you know how, how the body moves, how those muscles work together to move weight, yeah, and the whole fat loss kind of thing. That came more when I was about in country for probably about six to eight months I was in there and kind of got my. Okay, you know I'm working out in Iraq and Iraq.

Speaker 2 16:38

Yeah, and I'm working on, you know, twice a day I'm like I'm not getting stronger. You know I've gotten bigger, but I'm just been kind of maintaining right now?

Speaker 1 16:45

And were you looking to gain size or were you looking to lose weight? Like where? Where were you at? Like what was your physique? Physique Like when you started your fitness journey?

Speaker 2 16:56

I was 180 pounds, 180 pounds, 180 pounds. I was skinny Okay.

Speaker 1 17:01

Very, very skinny. What do you weigh now?

Speaker 2 17:03

I'm sitting about 230 right now. 230. Yeah.

Speaker 1 17:06

Put on about 50 pounds Yep, yep. Probably 49 pounds of muscle, yep. Yeah, okay, pretty close, pretty close.

Speaker 2 17:13

Yeah, I did realize. Then you know I need to change up my diet habits. Yeah, when I ended up leaving country, I was 230 pounds. Downside was is that my body fat percentage also increased? Yeah, I was good by my nutrition, but there was also a lot of snacks available on the army buffet.

Speaker 1 17:33

I'm sure, like what are you eating for snacks on the army buffet they had?

Speaker 2 17:36

cheesecake, they had cookies, ice cream, it was not. So this is actually back in Kuwait now. Okay, they didn't have that extensive of a buffet over in Iraq, Sure, but Kuwait, you know, they had everything you had. They had seafood, they had, you know, american burgers, italian pizza, so it was like I just want to eat food, so I'm going to. Yeah, and they actually had four meals available during the day they had the morning, the lunch, the evening, dinner and then they had midnight chow. Midnight chow was the best, because you either got dinner or you got brand new breakfast. Okay, yeah, okay. So I was eating a lot and I just I wasn't really, um, you know, super, super precise with my nutrition, sure.

Speaker 1 18:19

Sure. So you've been really working on your health and fitness since like 2016. Um, so we're almost a decade in. You know we're two years away from from hitting that, uh, that decade mark, um, and and so you know, they they really say that if you can do something for 10 years, you can become like an expert at it. And so you're almost an expert Almost We'll call you a pre-expert. So you're getting there, so keep it up. But so you now come into the fitness industry and you have all this knowledge that you've gained on your own. But all of a sudden now you head into this facility with hundreds of clients that don't know you. But all of a sudden, now here you are as facility leader. How was that transition?

Speaker 2 19:08

It was tough just because I love to challenge people, but I had to quickly understand that not everyone has the strength capabilities that I do. It was hard for me to transition from this. You know I would bench press, you know 200, some pounds. Well, some clients, you know they may to use a quite a bit lighter weight, sure, and that's okay, but I understand, like their physical capabilities and how to effectively progress them through the weights.

Speaker 1 19:36

Yep, effectively progress them. Yeah, weights, yep so, and I know coach ryan um definitely helped you a ton. Learn, learn how to. Because also, too, there's something way different to be said about. Well, one, personally working yourself out, um, but in a strength manner. You know where you're in a traditional gym, just moving weight, um, or a fit body, where's number one it's not one-on-one, it's group. And then number two, it's more hit, it's it's high intensity interval training, which isn't just getting under that bar and pushing the weight, it's. It's really a whole different game.

Speaker 2 20:11

It is.

Speaker 1 20:12

Um, and so you've been just doing awesome, diving in and learning. One of my favorite things is just your appetite to always be willing to take on more and always willing to learn more. Yes, um, but now that you, you know you're in this role, that you're in um, life keeps moving. Like you say, um, recently married and so, uh, congrats on that, thank you. But so you find yourself here Now. You are married, beautiful wife, beautiful family. You've got your daughter, you've got her son, and how, as a family, do you? Because I know Katie comes from a fitness background. Yep, she comes from CrossFit and CrossFit is her baby. She loves that.

Speaker 2 20:58

Yes, she does.

Speaker 1 20:59

And and and. That's the thing I love about fitness, and I think that you even found it in strength training. Like you, just you, you are, you're in love with going in there, because it's a place that you can clear your mind, it's a place you can focus on you, and in this fast paced world we don't have many places where we do that.

Speaker 1 21:15

You, we don't have many places where we do that. You know we're always doing something right in front of us and we're not working on us. Yep, we're working in the mix of the busyness. So now you're married, you've got your daughter, her son, combined together. How do you guys fit fitness or nutrition or health, active lifestyle into your now new family? Do you guys do it? There's a lot of self-sacrifice.

Speaker 2 21:43

Yeah, um, I had to completely switch up my workout routines that way she could get her workouts in too do you mean like the timing?

Speaker 2 21:53

timing was okay, yeah, um, so I would normally go at, you know, super early in the morning or in the afternoon, but now it's we have to now trade off. You know who is available to go when. Who's going to take care of the kids. There's a lot more planning involved, yeah, and that's kind of the biggest part about all. This is just like planning ahead. You know, hey, we're going to go work out these days, you're going to take care of the kids during this time. Yeah, you're going to go work out at this time and just, you know, working together on it and then just kind of pre-planning everything.

Speaker 1 22:21

Yeah, so do you find and I think I kind of already know the answer, but I don't want to lead the witness Do you find, though, that when you do plan when you're going to be able to work out and plan the actual time and who's going to be watching the kids when that it makes it easier to get your workouts in? Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 2 22:38

Yeah, there's no like oh, hey, I'm going to go work out. I mean we, what do you mean? You're going to go work out? We didn't talk about this. Yeah, I got to watch the kids. I already had planned, so it's like pre-planning, you know, with your significant other is a huge part, just because you're just communicating. Yeah, communication is so key.

Speaker 1 22:53

You know, I think I actually gave a presentation on this. This has probably been probably six years ago now, but I titled the presentation. It was for a whole bunch of nurses and doctor's assistants and whatnot, and I titled the presentation Become the Doctor. And the reason that I titled it that is because when you think about a doctor, a lot of times if you need to go be seen for something or whatever it is, you have to schedule an appointment, and many times it's like weeks, months, sometimes I've heard of cases where it's like years, where you have to have this appointment scheduled because that's when the doctor is available.

Speaker 1 23:38

And for some reason, we live in this society or this world where we will plan these scheduled appointments with a doctor but we won't plan or schedule appointments with ourselves. Right, we will plan or schedule something with anybody else shooting this episode. We planned it, it's been on the calendar, we put it on there, and so you and I both made it to this appointment. But the funny thing is is that if we'll do it for the doctor we're, why won't we do it for ourselves? Like, why don't we plan and not only plan literally put it on your calendar, cause and it's kind of be weird.

Speaker 2 24:22

It's going to be weird hearing this because we've been told not to do this, but you have to be selfish for yourself. Yeah, and not in a way where it's like you know, I want all this, but it's like you have to be selfish Then in a way where it's like you know I want all this, but it's like you have to be selfish, then you know what's going to be best for you.

Speaker 1 24:34

Yeah, speaking on that topic, I think that one of the biggest I don't know just normalisms that this world has made normal is is not being selfish. And again, like, you have to make sure that you're not taking this out of context, because you could and totally hear the wrong thing here. But if you truly understand that we are only able to be as good for those around us, or the people around us, that we are for ourselves, then we must learn to be selfish and first work on us. Yeah, you know, because it's that old adage of you can't fill someone else's cup out of an empty cup, right? So we have to be selfish, and not selfish in any of the negative ways that the world has. Like, the world tends to take certain words and then place their own definition on them. Oh yeah, right.

Speaker 1 25:28

And so I've been having fun lately redefining words and just putting my own Because, like, if the world says it's this like, why does? My favorite one that I've been working on most currently is success. That's been my most favorite word to totally redefine, because, for myself, I got stuck chasing the worldly view of success and it leaves you empty. It really does, and so, when it comes to selfishness or being selfish, you can chase that worldly version, or we can define it as what it can mean for us, which is filling your cup first, yep. And so you found scheduling your workouts, planning them with Katie, helps not only you, but also then helps her. Yeah, and then you guys can help pull each other accountable right. Exactly, yeah, yeah. What about nutritionally? How do you guys do with that?

Speaker 2 26:21

That one's a little more difficult.

Speaker 1 26:22

Sure, I'll be honest with you.

Speaker 2 26:24

Sure, it takes a little, a lot more effort into planning. Yeah, because obviously we want to eat as healthy as we can, because obviously we want to eat as healthy as we can. Yep, having kids that are under the age of 15 and under the age of five, yeah, it can be a little more difficult, yes, but I think you also have to recognize too that they are still kids. They can still have, you know, those little bit of treats here and there. Yep, it definitely takes a lot more self-preservation to know, hey, those kids are having that treat. I probably shouldn't have that, yeah, but if I do decide to have it, I'm not going to eat the whole bag of Oreos. I will have one or two and then that will be it. And then I'll go hide that Oreo box inside the shelf so I don't see it again and get taken by it.

Speaker 1 27:09

A tip that I used to talk with our clients about when I was doing more of like the nutritional coaching.

Speaker 1 27:14

I would always help them come up with this tip of creating a cupboard that was off limits to them and, if you can take all because a lot of times we tend to not do this on purpose but next thing, you know our cupboards they end up having all these unhealthy items kind of all over, like the cereal is in this cupboard and the chips are in that cupboard and the snacks are in this cupboard, and so it's like every time you open a cupboard there's always something that's unhealthy tempting you in that cupboard as well.

Speaker 1 27:44

So if you look at, kind of your living situation at your house and you're like, okay, let's clear all of the unhealthy temptations and put them all in one cupboard, then that way when you have to open up whatever cupboard to get whatever it is, you don't have that temptation staring you in the eye and and I think that you know, uh really can help too with kids, because you put their snacks next to your. Also, uh, the chips and all the stuff that you would have as well, but you put it all in one cupboard, yep and and you don't go into it unless it's time to. You know, have a snack, yep.

Speaker 2 28:20

Yeah, that's what we've done so far. I've actually consolidated like all of these sweet treats onto one shelf on the tallest, tallest shelf inside that cabinet. So it's the it's the most work to get to and it's the least tempting to see.

Speaker 1 28:33

Yeah, I love that. So that's a great tip for anyone watching or listening Take those temptations and get them out of sight, out of mind, so that you can have more healthy items more readily available.

Speaker 2 28:46

Yep exactly.

Speaker 1 28:47

And they're out there they are. You just have to start looking for them and finding them and then you know, try the ones out that are going to best help you on your nutritional journey. Um, cool, let's kind of transition a bit here into you as a coach. So so you're a coach, you help run these sessions, you keep the energy up, you meet with clients. What would you say is your favorite part about being a coach?

Speaker 2 29:19

clients. What would you say is your favorite part about being a coach? Oh, yeah, I love and a lot of my clients will say this too I love to push people. Yeah, I love to break that mental barrier that someone thinks this is as hard as I can go. Yeah, I hit that next gear for them, or I motivate them. Hit that next year they go faster, they go, they push themselves just a little bit more. Yeah, like whoa, I can do that, I can go, I can go move a little bit faster, I can move that a little bit heavier weight. Yeah, and building those, those slow transitions upward and their speed, agility or strength, or even just in holding a low plank position just for five seconds longer, is like I'm getting better and it shows that these clients are progressing, they are making those results and they're just working towards those goals.

Speaker 1 30:01

Yeah, that is the best thing ever. Sometimes you'll get a different answer from a coach, but a lot of times it is seeing the client progress. There's many industries that are industries where you get more fulfillment out of other people's success and we definitely work in one of those industries as well where we can be having just a rough day. But when, all of a sudden, we get a message from a client or we meet with the client, or a client walks in and shares a win with us, it can take that hard day.

Speaker 1 30:34

Because the truth is you guys and those of you watching and listening, we all know this outside of the four walls that we're at right now, life is difficult. Life is difficult and there's so many things trying to weigh us down, and so you never know what someone's going through. But as a coach, we do our best to leave what might be weighing us down, leave it on the line and we step into that coach position so that we can make sure that we can help our clients and help them carry whatever may burden that they have. But so we can be going through these tough days and all of a sudden, the coach or a client comes in and just shares a win, or we see them. Progress Makes it all worth it.

Speaker 2 31:16

Oh, absolutely.

Speaker 1 31:17

Because, also, too, coaching early mornings, late evenings Not the most desirable of a schedule. No, not some days, no, on a lot of days it's not. Let's be honest, you know, thankfully for you, living as close as you do to West, you have a little bit of upper hand on me, but it is my fault. I moved over to the East side, so when I have to coach at the West location, I have to plan it, I have to schedule it, I have to put it in my calendar, I have to make sure my truck's full of gas. I got to make sure that my tires are full of air, because it's a trip, it's a road trip, it is.

Speaker 1 31:54

I mean, it's not that bad, but it is about 25, 30 minutes to get over there. It's a minute and um, it's more than a minute, um. But so if we have to be there first sessions at 5 15, we're getting up like before four, yeah, to get ready to get going and get over there, and that's early, man. So how do you deal with that? Because I mean, you worked kind of more in like the construction field before this. Yep, were they also similar hours or no?

Speaker 2 32:23

No, no, we usually run from about 7 to 4 each day. Okay, so that's a transition, yep, completely backwards from what I'm doing now.

Speaker 1 32:30

Yeah.

Speaker 2 32:34

How the backwards from what I'm doing now? Yeah, how is that then? Thankfully enough, I did a lot of my workouts either early in the morning or late in the evening, so it just it was a good transition, sure, but I do. I've learned that I need an hour to wake up in the mornings, yeah. So instead of waking up at, say, four o'clock to go or say my past job, I would wake up half an hour early, get dressed, go to work Yep. Totally. Skip breakfast, totally, just not be ready to go for the day. I now know that I have to have a little more preparation before I come in and help all these people. I will wake up an hour, hour and a half before I have to be there. So I know that I'm awake, I am prepared for the day, I'm prepared to help all these people out Yep.

Speaker 1 33:11

Yeah, absolutely, and so you just you adjust your schedule and then you go and you put in the work. What? So? You kind of said your favorite part about coaching. As we think of Fit Body and the new roles that you're stepping into HR, finance and taking on more responsibilities but not getting more time to get it all done what is something that you're looking forward to for the future of FitBody? What are you looking forward to with our company?

Speaker 2 33:41

I would say the probably I've thought about that.

Speaker 1 33:48

Yeah, yeah, Because one of those things a lot of times again, we're so busy living in the now that again it does take time to look and and and plan kind of, uh, the future that you're after, Um and then and then going and making it happen. So so, yeah, so you're taking on the HR and finance. I mean it's been a big transition, but you've been doing great with that. I think. For me, one of the things that I've really been enjoying while working with you and the leadership team, we've just embarked on this new journey, re-going through from scratch the EOS process and I have been in EOS. For any of you that maybe don't know what that is, it stands for entrepreneurial operating system and it really gives us a structure so that we can run our business effectively and efficiently and so that we're all not just running around doing all the same things, breaking it down to why did we start this thing, how can we make it better, how can we be one of the things that EOS is having us do right now, which gotta give a shout out to our implementer, Micah Bruns. Big shout out to you.

Speaker 1 34:59

He's been helping us tremendously, but he had us read the book Good to Great, and so I've read through that book and one of the things that I love about it is it's like, if you can't be the best at it, why are you doing it Right? And so I've been really looking at our business through the lens of like, what can we literally be the best at, and what are we maybe doing right now that we're good at? But we maybe shouldn't be doing it because we can't be the best at it? Yeah, and so that's been super fun at it, and so that's been super fun, and I've been loving having a sounding board and different ideas or perspectives of my ideas, because for any of you that know me, I can have a lot of ideas. I can have a lot of different things that maybe I think we can be the best at. But having someone on a team like you and Vicki and Jensen that can keep me in line and all the rest of our team as well, they do a great job of just helping keep me in line, but it's been fun just figuring out how can we make this thing the best possible for our clients.

Speaker 2 36:00

That's probably the honest now. You say it now. I think it's probably the thing I'm most excited for is really getting better for our team so we can be the best team for those clients out there yeah and that way we can help as many people as we can yeah and then just make Sioux Falls a better community overall. Yeah, 100%.

Fireworks, Fitness, and Self-Care

Speaker 1 36:18

And the thing I love about how tight our team is and and even how tight it's gonna even more tight it's going to become is that when you start with FitBody, you don't just get one coach. No, you get a team of coaches and, knowing our team, if a client needs something, we will figure out how to help that client, do it or achieve whatever it is that they're after. And my thing is, I used to say this I haven't said it in actually a long Um, so you probably have actually never heard it, but I used to say when I'd be in meetings with clients is like I want to replace Google for everything health and fitness in your life.

Speaker 1 37:00

Uh, and so I haven't said it in a long time, but, like, when our clients come to us, I like so many times we have these random questions and now it's probably Siri and Alexa and all the different things that you can ask but, it used to just be Google, okay, but when something pops up, you Google it, and then the next thing that happens is you get a hundred different answers to that same thing, and so I've always loved that, and I guess I don't know why I stopped saying that. But if we can really look at us as the resource for our clients to replace google as it pertains to their health and fitness like who wouldn't want that? A team that they can come to with any health or fitness related question, and we are going to figure out the best answer for them, right, not the, not the most highest searched answer or not the best answer according to the algorithm, the one that's going to be the best for that? Yep, and so it's just been awesome.

Speaker 1 37:55

Uh, jason, I think we could honestly talk probably all day. Oh, we could, um, but we know that those that are watching or listening they probably have other things to do, especially on july 4th. Like, if you're sitting actually listening to this on july 4th, go light a firecracker or something. Okay, july 4th, what's your favorite firework?

Speaker 2 38:13

Oh man, technically it's not a manufactured, you actually make it yourself. Uh-oh, you ever heard of sparkler bond?

Speaker 1 38:23

No, what is this? Maybe we shouldn't talk about this on the air.

Speaker 2 38:28

I will give a brief description okay, okay, it is a bunch of sparklers combined together, okay you. Then there's one just sticking up. You light that one and it's pretty much like a mini, mini explosion I feel like that's not safe. It's not safe I would not recommend doing it. Okay, but it is my favorite one okay, okay.

Speaker 1 38:47

So it's our favorite, but we don't recommend it yeah, definitely don't try it got it.

Speaker 1 38:50

Got it okay. Uh, I love that. I'd have to say that mine would be the roman candle again. Not, not for the safest of reasons, but I can remember as a child uh, my parents live on 20 acres and you've never been to my parents house. I have not yet. No, we'll have to go out there sometime. They live on 20 acres and and we had four-wheelers growing up and I can remember we made and it was one of my cousins showed me this but PVC piping and you make these Roman candle guns that you can put the Roman candle in.

Speaker 2 39:26

But then we would take turns being the target and we would put a full face mask helmet on.

Speaker 1 39:28

Oh, so there was some safety a little bit, but that was it and then we would go ride the four-wheeler out through the field and then we'd have a couple of us that would have the roman candle guns and we would shoot it at the person driving the four. I mean not safe at all.

Speaker 2 39:40

Not at all probably stupid.

Speaker 1 39:42

you probably don't do that anymore, though. Right, it has been a while, but I might do it later today. Okay, just saying. Just saying, but I think there's something about that. You can't put guys that somehow ended up adults that are still children which I kind of would place you and I both in that category. Like we're living an adult life, but we're still children.

Speaker 1 40:06

Uh-huh, you can't put us around all these fireworks and not expect not to like push those limits of safety you have to yeah, so, uh, but anyways, um, let's reel this thing back in um, what would, what would you say for anyone watching, listening, what would be your biggest or best kind of tip, as it pertains to their health, their fitness, that they could take away from this episode and be like man? I, okay, I can do that. If there's one thing that I'm going to go do, I'm going to go do that.

Speaker 2 40:38

Be obsessed with your own success.

Speaker 1 40:40

Yeah.

Speaker 2 40:41

That is it's. It's a. It's a big thing to think about, but if you change that mindset and realize that you are capable and you are able to do these things, you will be able to succeed way more than you've ever even expected to do.

Speaker 1 40:56

Yeah, I love that answer and it's redefining selfish. It's understanding that you don't have to not be selfish. You actually need to be a little bit, a little selfish so that you can reach those goals that you have, so that you can go out there. You can be a better mom, you can be a better dad, you can be a better friend, you can be a better parent. In. The list goes on. Yeah, absolutely it does.

Speaker 1 41:19

Well, hey, jason, thank you so much for taking the time. Um, I think this is awesome, you guys, if you got any value from this, um, if, if, and also, too, if you are one of the clients that Jason gets to work out on the regular, be the coach for comment down below, just something that you took away from this episode, because there's some stuff that I learned about you in this episode, and I can almost guarantee you that when you're coaching the clients and you're interacting with the clients, you're not talking about your failed marriage or your failed father or all these things that you shared on the show today. Um, so I just want to also say thank you for being vulnerable. Um, I think, to the level in which we can be vulnerable with others, um, the level we can connect with others and then the level that we can change others. So thank you for that.

Speaker 1 42:07

But you guys comment down below. We can get you guys. If you're not a client of ours and you want to check it out, we can get you a free week. We have a new promotion trial going on right now, so if you go to 605fitbodycom you can check both of those out either a free week or the new trial. But other than that, you can catch Jason at our Westside location. Let's go.

Speaker 1 42:29

Sometimes at our central location, but mainly at the Westside. You guys, hey, have an awesome day. Jason, thank you for being here today, my man, I appreciate it. And we will catch you guys on the next episode of Fit and Healthy Sioux Falls. Bye you guys, thank you, bye-bye Peace.