The Fitness Ripple Effect - Chris Chandler Part 2

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Welcome to Lifestyle Strength

Speaker 1 0:00

Welcome to Lifestyle Strength, your guide to mastering health and well-being in the real world.

Speaker 2 0:05

I'm Ariel, a massage therapist with over a decade of experience in holistic health, and I'm here with Lucas, a seasoned fitness coach, who's transformed the lives of hundreds in northwest Arkansas.

Speaker 1 0:14

We're here to share real stories and expert insights about embracing a healthy lifestyle while balancing the everyday hustle.

Speaker 2 0:21

Join us as we explore practical ways to achieve wellness and thrive amid happen with other people.

Speaker 3 0:47

Like you seem like you're on the path to loving it. I don't know if you're there yet, I mean I'm getting there.

Family Motivation and Personal Growth

Speaker 3 0:53

I'm getting there, gosh, it's. It's like it's kind of it A lot of mine's more, you know, I wouldn't say experience or anything like that. It's more like an internal like I know, I know what I can do, and if I push myself to do it, then it's like it just. It's just that satisfaction of I accomplished something, but then also it's like, well, is that the best, really best I could be? And I was like like always answers, no, there's always. It's always this work in progress. I'm always trying to improve somewhere somehow.

Speaker 3 1:27

And it's funny last night my son drew and I were sitting there looking at some weightlifting stuff and he saw this dude's like jacked this day, that guy's jacked and he looked over and he goes, fills my arm and he goes. You're getting there. He goes maybe a couple more times a week. You look like him. I was like thanks, buddy, appreciate that. Well, hey, I mean that. Uh, him saying that you know, talking to you just in that way, I think is, yeah, both motivating and and good for him, right, he's on the right path.

Speaker 3 1:56

And I would say, you know, also, going along with being, you know, being self-motivated is like having having this like feeling from your family and it's really, you know, morgan, my kids are so supportive people and they always want what's best for me and what's best for us. So, um, you know, morgan's so tough on me and I love it and it's it's some people just shy away from that and I've really tried to embrace it and be like, um, this is great for me, she. She's pointing out the things that I need to work on, because she could see it and sometimes you kind of got to get out of your way and she's really helped me realize that. And then, you know, it's like sure, I've been doing some like small group stuff with guys and really trying to, you know, talk about feelings and things with business and things you really don't get a chance to share with other guys, like a Black-minded.

Speaker 3 2:46

And one of the things we did was we wrote a eulogy For ourselves, but I had, and they also had said hey, have your wife, your kids, write one for you. So I shared that with you. But that was like, you know, like what's important to you at the? In the grand scheme of things, it's like do I want to be known as a business leader or a lot of stuff? And I really don't. I want to be known as a great husband and a great father. That's all that matters. So that motivates me to take care of myself, eat better, show up for them, right, yeah, it seems like you bridge the gap between thinking that you come last, come last in in that sense, right, you know, I I think that in our world with all the distractions, all these ideas of things that we think success is.

Speaker 3 3:35

Well, we're getting pulled in, whether it's the direction of career and you know, people choose to have a family. They obviously care about their family, hopefully, and then just the pleasures of life, but it seems like the, the, the fitness, the personal health gets kind of put on the back burner because there's easy fixes later down the road.

How Fitness Enhances Family Relationships

Speaker 3 3:57

I'll do that later, can I can take medicine to fix that right, versus the investment that you get, you know, by showing up every day but, right, making the right choice on what to eat, right, um, and how that fuels all the other things, so that you know if that's better than all the other things. Like 10x, right, and it sucks because you can't put numbers to it, you can't, right, you can't put like a oh I, I literally 10x how much love I had in my family until you have done it already. It's a feeling, yeah, it's not something that you can measure, that's right. Okay, do you feel, like over the last few months, that that is something that you know, you've seen in your kids? Like, has that extended down to them? Oh, oh, definitely, I think.

Speaker 3 4:44

I mean, I would say, where we are right now as a family, I'm super proud of, like, it's like so wholeheartedly. I mean, it's like my heart's as big as it's ever been and I would say it's, you know, just changing my health, just being a healthier person in general. Exercising, working on myself has helped just spur the relationships to. You know, we enjoy being together and doing things and, um, I'm a lot sharper thinking wise, I'm not as harsh, um, there's no, you know, I don't know. It's like, I just want to build them up. Yeah, it's like it like seeing morgan go to the gym and do really hard stuff. I'm super proud of her.

Speaker 3 5:28

That's another one. That's like gosh, she's crushing it and she gets comments all the time from people men and women and it's flattering. I like to sit back and watch her smile and it's really it's like because you're earning it. I mean, that's what's's what's really cool. She's doing it. She's doing it also. Yes, it's that much better. Yeah, y'all been crushing it fully, like I don't know if you could crush it anymore, okay. So yeah, as you've gone through this, as it's been something that has obviously had a huge impact on your life, impacted your family. I know you're going through business changes right now as well. You don't have to go into the details if you don't want to, but have you seen that?

Speaker 1 6:14

it's freed you up mentally and you said it impacted your clarity with making decisions?

Business Transformation Through Personal Health

Speaker 3 6:19

Give us some more context to how that's worked in business for you. Sure, so really I have made a huge change at work. I've been in the same office for gosh 16 years and really I decided to move out of my office and I had a big executive suite you know, you, david, I had it in there there, moved out into a little tiny space that had open windows and I'm staring at all the other workers that we have in one of our divisions. And then I also decided to give up control of our main business. So I went into more of a visionary role with that side of our company and I took one of our smaller brands, backwoods, and, and I'm running it exclusively, and so we have a small team.

Speaker 3 7:10

This is six people and then we have production workers, but I mainly deal with the six, the six people in the, the front, the front section, uh, sales, marketing, engineering and um, life's gotten real simple for me, which I get back to building small business again, which I really enjoy, yeah, and so, and those guys especially, and even our executive team, they're like man, we've seen just a huge change in you. I was like, well, I've done a couple of things health, fitness but that's helped me make better decisions in our company and do what's best for us, and sometimes, like I have to get out of the way because I have all these ideas and it confuses. But we have 105 people, so it's like in our company it's I always feel responsible for them, like I feel like they're part of our family and so I want to make the best decisions and sometimes I confuse them by well, this is a great direction, but this is also a great direction Instead of it, you know, laying, laying it out there and saying you guys run with it instead of me getting in the way. So deciding to move and do that was been fantastic, but has it been easier to do it? To get more like narrow, yeah, like for you as a vision, it's so. It's so much easier, like I can just say, hey, this is where we're headed, this, oh, it's so much easier, like I can just say, hey, this is where we're headed, this is what we're trying to accomplish, and then you let them do it, and then, on the backwards side, I'm able to get back to the basics of what really builds a business, which is, you know, are we solving a problem for somebody? Are we do. We have great, great customer service. Is it a great experience buying from us? Are we supplying a great product? We, you know it's just. It's just a good atmosphere to be in, right, like building that small team feel and where it's not so corporate. I felt like our company got real corporate all of a sudden and had too many layers, and doing this really stripped it down into back to little kind of sub departments and they take care of themselves and, um, it's been really great. But really it's helped me like shake out of the old business, like because it's a it's a family company, so there's a lot of things that get tied up and you know, when my grandparents started it and my dad was there and just old feelings and uh situations that came up and that I've learned from tremendously, you know, and I've always said I want to learn from both directions the stuff that was challenging and the stuff that went great right, and then take the best of both worlds, but really trying to like I'm still holding on to all that stuff and so when I moved out of the office, it really just like got me free. Yeah, let's just share this. Just share this. I was a new person.

Speaker 3 9:45

I think it's interesting that you said that as far as the way it's able to help you get clear in your vision and make straightforward decisions, see those systems and implement those things directly. It's like the same thing that people struggle with in fitness is that there's all these shiny objects. There's a thousand ways to lose weight, there's a thousand ways to do things, to eat foods right, and you know as much as there is science behind some of those things. The science changes, like you know, what we did 30 years ago, what we thought was healthy, it's not what is healthy today, right and so and still. But people still made changes back then. So you know. It goes back to understanding just what the basic things work.

Simple Principles: Fitness and Business Success

Speaker 3 10:33

As far as showing up, you know doing some sort of resistance training yep, eating whole foods, like those simple basic things, and then do as showing up, you know doing some sort of resistance training, eating whole foods, like those simple basic things, and then do over and over again and how it helps you be so clear in how to move forward. Like it's. It's the same principle. It's the same principle of fitness that is in business Right, that is in family Right, cause if you show up every day for them. You're gonna create more love and gratitude than you ever could. Works. Great, right? Yeah, it's mind-blowing. Yeah, I will.

Speaker 3 11:00

I will say, like the the fitness side, uh, fitness and, and you know, the food, the food world that we live in now is, it's very commercialized, yeah, you know, and, and we're all everything's about making money. It's not about what's actually good for you, right? Who do you listen to? Why you listen to them? You can, for me, like go back to saying there's so many different ways. Right, get there, um, and I think ours has been just so straightforward and simple. Like, like, eat all foods, eat stuff that's actually good for you, don't? I mean not saying you can't splurge, you have something every so often. That's not the case. You, you can, but it's like your, your consistent diet is I'm gonna eat the same macros every day or, depending on what we're doing. Um, be consistent. You taught me that more than anybody. Morgan knew it. She's been doing it for years. Of course, I don't listen, morgan, easy for me, yeah, but it's really just saying like, oh, yeah, I should listen to you because I'm stupid, you know, but that that's helped so much.

Speaker 3 12:00

And then you know the just going back to showing up and working hard. I mean, you get, there's tons of people that show up to the gym. They don't work hard, right? You see it all the time, I'm sure, but it's just like and people ask us like, well, gosh, you guys are crushing it. What's going on? Like we're just doing basics, yeah, like we're just. We're keeping it simple. It's the difference between feeling like you're doing work and actually doing work, and this is something that I've struggled with in a different area of my life. You know, fitness comes really naturally. You know I, I'm a big kid on the playground. It always happened. You know, like I, I just want to play.

Speaker 1 12:38

Yeah, I just want to hang out, I just want to run and feel what it's like to be alive, and I think that's why I fit, I'm gravitate towards fitness, yeah, um, and so it's really easy it seems easy at least to to push myself physically, um, when I'm sitting behind the computer and needing to do administrative work. That's like pulling hair, pulling nails out.

Beyond Instant Gratification: The Long Game

Speaker 3 13:01

And it you know it's not something that I particularly enjoy, but I know I have to do which are a lot harder to kind of wrangle that focus and and and the difference of you know, this thing's actually going to progress me forward and this is kind of feels like I'm doing work, but I'm really just kind of wasting time because it seems more fun, right, so it makes sense, right. Absolutely, I don't know if you have any things like that that you, you fall into or that they have. Well, I've had experiences in the past. I mean, I mean, really I'm, I'm, I feel like I'm a big kid too, like I love sports and just enjoying time and whatever we're playing, and uh, it's like being being the dad. At home, too, the dads have fun and that's just part of you know, your kids want to play, and it's like trying to make time to go out and play with them. But it's also like it's rewarding at the same time. Um, and really I mean gosh.

Speaker 3 13:54

Other than that, there's just, I mean, I love to play golf, I love challenging. It's, it's the hardest sport of all time, but it's so frustrating. But at the same time, you hit that one shot and it's like that's why I come back right, because I keep doing it. Uh, plus, you get to be outside with friends and do stuff like that, but, um, I don't know really that. I mean gosh, I love, I love work so much too, and that's fun for me, right? It's fun just being creative and like seeing things work, and it could take 10 years for something to work if I like, oh, it happened, it actually worked, but I don't know. That's the difference you're, you're willing to wait 10 years, you're willing to do all of those things, those steps for 10 years before you see the result and right.

Speaker 3 14:37

I think that just means that you're willing to make all that sacrifice and that's why you have such a big result at the end. Right versus. You know most, most people want it in a couple hours, a couple days, a couple weeks, sure the instant gratification right, right, then that's the whole slew.

Speaker 3 14:54

Oh, it's problems and topics. I think we all. I think it takes a particular person who's done a lot of deep inner work to get that out of their life entirely. So I think we all have it's somewhere. Oh yeah, somewhere we want to start Education. Sure, it's just being aware of how that is for us, right, or where that area is for us, Right.

Episode Closing and Next Steps

Speaker 1 15:17

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