Building Your Transformation Plan in Three Steps
It's common, especially as the weather gets nicer, to want to make a change in your physique. Losing fat, gaining muscle, shaping and toning, whatever you want to call it. It all comes down to making a transformation.
There's all kinds of media sources out there that will give you their idea of a plan, but I find they're usually lacking. Maybe they rely on wishful thinking. Maybe working out is the only answer. Maybe a super-special diet or supplement will do the trick. The thing is, there's some part of all of those in any successful physical transformation plan.
I've had the benefit of helping hundreds of people make tremendous transformations and the method they use is like traveling the journey by car. There are three key pieces to make the journey successful: 1. The car. 2. Fuel for the car. 3. A driver to direct the car. In this podcast, I'm going to get into those three pieces, why I chose that metaphor, and how to maximize each component to build a transformation plan that you'll actually be successful with.
You're blessed with the greatest battery ever!
Your life, your strength, your mental toughness, and your sheer capacity are like an old school battery in a lot of ways.
Batteries are meant to be used, just like your strength. If you don't use them, eventually they lose their flex and they fail. So what do you think happens to you?
Listenfor my thoughts!
Let's be honest, if you're spending time training then you want to get the most out of it, right? Even if you truly just enjoy training, which is awesome, then you still want to maximize progress.
In this podcast I cover five ways you can implement that will have a dramatic effect on the improvements you make from your fitness program, both in the short and long-term. I cover:
-How I start a workout to maximize muscle activation, improve athleticism, and get the most out of every set... and it's not just "warm up well".
-The three ways you can change things up to see continued progress and expand your limits.
-How to take a birds-eye view of your training and use that to maximize efficiency and keep from program hopping.
-The two types of workouts that you should be doing, and the right mix of both.
-The lesson in mental toughness, self-control, AND self-care I picked up and have implimented to great success. Give it a listen here!
Most of you know I've been on a fitness revamp of my own over the past weeks. Fighting depression, injury, and all of that other stuff. Today was 75 straight days of cardio. I've never done a streak like that and it's provided some insights. Mostly, I didn't realize how bad I felt or how much being out of shape was bleeding into other areas of my life: My business My relationship My friendships My overall health My self esteem My self image All of those were suffering and I basically ignored them. Working on this one thing has (with some real effort) led to a major improvement in all of those areas.
Walking Out of Comfortable Misery.
This is definitely the hardest podcast I've done in a while. However, I think that as a coach it's important to put things out there and share the lessons that I've learned from my experience, and boy, have I picked up some stuff. In this episode I give you kind of a quick and dirty version of:
-How I got into strength training in the first place.
-How that strength training saved me and became my "suit of armor"
-When that suit of armor stopped saving me and became a prison that I had locked myself into.
-The trigger that smashed it all home and left me in a state of comfortable misery.
-How I dealt with the "comfortable misery" that so many of us feel and what it drove me to.
-The simple thing that I did to start forging my way out of it.
-How this simple thing has transformed my life over the last few weeks.
-How you can implement it in your own life if you're battling.
Listen here!
There's something that's chewing away at us.
Something that is so common in our society that we don't even really notice it. I honestly think it might be our number one consistent threat, though.
More than war.
More than the stock market.
More than cancer, even... although the two have their relation points.
It's something that I think everyone senses, but few people are putting a name to.
It's hard to fight an enemy that you haven't identified.
That enemy doesn't have any problem fighting with you, but you can't create and implement a strategy against it. Even worse when it uses your own strengths against you.
That enemy? Listen to see!