Why You're Losing Motivation (and How To Fix It)

Ever feel like you're not making progress, even when you're working hard? 

In today's podcast, Josh shares an eye-opening client story demonstrating the incredible power of monitoring progress. 

Discover why tracking your results can completely change your mindset and motivation, and learn exactly which key metrics you should monitor to stay committed, motivated, and on track with your fitness journey.

Structured Show Notes:

• Introduction: Struggling with motivation and commitment
• Client Story: How tracking transformed her mindset
• The Importance of Metrics: Using the inbody scanner for detailed feedback
• Key Results: Fat loss vs muscle gain and why it matters
• The Power of Coaching and Objective Feedback
• Metrics to Track: Resting heart rate, VO2 max, steps, calories, strength, sleep, protein
• Special Announcement: Celebrating 10 years and 1,800 lives transformed
• Call to Action: Follow, rate, and suggest future podcast ideas
  
  
  • Fitness progress tracking
  • How to stay motivated
  • Monitoring health metrics
  • Fat loss 
  • muscle gain
  • Fitness coaching benefits
  • Body composition tracking
  • VO2 max and longevity
  • Transformation Fit Podcast

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Transcript

Hey everybody, welcome back to this week's podcast today. I wanna talk to you about one of my clients who I've been working with recently and I think this story will be useful for a lot of people who are feeling like they're struggling to stay committed with their health and fitness goals. So a few weeks ago, I sat down with a client for a goal review and she was three weeks into her six week programme. So transformation fit, we like to bring people in on a short term programme, normally free to six weeks in length so that we can demonstrate to you the fantastic results that you can get within a short space of time and it's not too much for you to commit to. Initially, so she was halfway through her challenge and she was, to be honest, feeling a little bit flat, a little bit demotivated. She walked into the meeting and she wasn't sure if what she was doing was really working. She had a goal of wanting to lose weight and she didn't really feel like there was much changing and she was starting to lose faith in the process. Now, a very important part of maintaining consistency and sticking to your goals is actually monitoring your behaviours and tracking your progress. And when we looked at some of the progress she had made, we noticed that each week throughout the programme, she was getting stronger and certain key exercises. And not in all cases, but in most cases, if you are getting stronger on a week by week basis, you will be building some new muscle tissue, which is going to help with toning up your body. So we looked at the numbers and we saw that her exercises and her strength was increasing week on week in only three weeks at this point. So that was a good indicator that. There were some changes taken effect. The second thing we did is we used our inbody scanner. Now, for those of you who don't know what an inbody scanner is, we invested into a medical grade device, which effectively scans your body and gives us a full breakdown of how hydrated you are, how much muscle tissue you've got, how much fat you've got in key areas in your body, how quick your metabolism burns calories, the strength of your bones. So it's a really useful tool that we use to coach our clients to help them stay on track. And when we performed her in body scan, those numbers told a very different story to the story she'd been telling herself. So her main goal was to lose weight. But she also had a low level of muscle mass on the inbody scanner. So she'd only dropped 1 pound of weight within the three week programme, but she'd actually lost £4 pounds of fat and had gained three pounds of muscle. Now, if you lose 4 pounds of fat and gain three pounds of muscle, your body can look remarkably differently. If you just type into Google five pounds of fat on the images, you'll be able to see how much fat that actually is. So these results demonstrate that there was changes taken effect and it only took her a few short weeks. So she kept it was really interesting because she came into the review feeling extremely deflated and when we broke it down and handed her this piece of paper and we performed those measurements, she left feeling completely fired up. And that's the power of monitoring your progress. Sometimes you can get in your own head about your results. You can tell yourself a story about how things aren't working or how you're not great at doing what you're doing and you can beat yourself up a lot of the time. But in actual fact, sometimes all it takes is having a coach, somebody who's objective and external to you and your negative self-talk, that can sometimes creep in to show you how you're doing, measure what you're doing and feed those results back to you. And all it took was showing her the results that she'd achieved for her to feel completely different about how well she was doing with her health and fitness. So it transformation fit. We track pretty much everything. We look at your body composition using the in body scanner. We track your strength increases in your training sessions week by week so that we know the training is working for you. We look at your fat loss, we look at your muscle gain, we look at the changes in your bone strength as well, your visceral fat, which is fat that surrounds your organs. And a new thing that I'm very excited to talk about is we are going to be testing a VO2 max device, which effectively measures how much oxygen your body can produce during intense exercise. And this metric is strongly correlated to your life expectancy. So pretty soon we'll be inviting some of our clients to come and test out this new device that we're considering investing in. So when you track the right things, you get real feedback. And when you get that feedback from your coach, it helps you to stay motivated, stake consistent, and feel like you're actually in control of your health and fitness results. So if you're not monitoring your health and fitness, the likelihood is you're leaving results on the table. When we talk about monitoring some of the key metrics, but I like to look at when I'm coaching somebody is, what is your resting heart rate? What is your VO2 max? If you have that number to hand, how many steps do you do on a daily slash weekly basis? What's the calorie intake, on a daily or weekly basis? What's happening with your exercises or the numbers going up in terms of your strength or are they coming down? How many hours of day do you sleep? How much protein do you take? They're just some of the key things that I would look for if I'm consulting with a client on how to improve their health and fitness. So it's a short and sweet one today for you. If you're not monitoring some of those numbers, which I discussed, it's important that you start doing so, what gets measured, gets managed, and what we manage, we can improve. And just another thing, guys, this month is our 10th anniversary of being in business. And when I looked at the statistics, we've trained over 1,800 people in that time and only 30% of businesses make it to their ten year anniversary. So for all of you who are listening, I just wanted to say thank you, whether you're a client, team member, previous client, or just somebody who listens to these podcasts, I just want to say that I appreciate your input, however little or smaller it is, and I'm very much looking forward to the future. If you find these podcasts useful, then I'd really appreciate you given as a follow. So subscribe or follow on whatever podcast platform you're listening to. And I'd really appreciate it if you could leave me a rating as well. And maybe some comments on what you're finding useful or perhaps some suggestions for future podcast episodes. So that'll be it for this week, guys. Have a fantastic week and I'll speak to you next week. Take care. Bye-bye.