 Our next caller is Michael from Florida Michael. What's up, man? How can we help you? Hey, what's going on guys? So I in the past I guess 12 years I've had two Major weight fluctuations where I gained a lot of weight lost a lot of weight the first one I lost 50 pounds or I gained 50 pounds lost it all I did that. I'm actually training for a triathlon The second one I You know got a job met a girl got comfortable gained a lot of weight Actually got a serious injury I was non weight bearing for 90 days and I pretty much gained all the weight back again And then I lost the weight the second time by doing your favorite exercise doing CrossFit And then I kind of plateaued for a while I tried a bunch of different things that a carb cycling which screwed up my stomach so bad I had to stop doing that And I recently just completed an Ironman this past weekend. I'm actually still down here now in Florida and I'm kind of like nervous that I think I used to love lifting weights and now everything I've been doing is Endurance and like beating myself up and I feel like I've screwed up my metabolism over the past 12 years Doing this up and down up and down especially with the crazy endurance training I've been doing the last six months, and I'm kind of done with it And I want to get into lifting again, and I'm just like kind of lost. I don't really know where to start I don't want to just go into the gym and and do the same thing every day So I'm just kind of looking for your advice. Yeah, no good good question. Yeah, sure. So, okay Okay, why why do you do these these events? What's the motivation behind Ironman triathlon CrossFit CrossFit like what's the real I want to I want to hear the truth of like the root motivation So I grew up swimming and I was actually a really bad place during the first triathlon. I did I got laid off from my job. I I was working in Atlantic City, which is like, you know crazy nightlife and I was just going down a really bad path So I found a local triathlon was coming into Atlantic City. I decided to sign up for it And I was really motivated to train for it. I actually met my wife. She was training for an Olympic Trap distance triathlon and kind of got into it And then we decided to have a family and I Ironman seems really cool and this was kind of my last shot to do an Ironman for the next 10 years because We have hopefully have another one on the way. So the time to train really isn't going to be here So I did the Ironman the CrossFit thing. We're honestly I moved to a new area and I needed to lose weight and I mean, I was I kind of need to lose like 40 pounds at the time And I jumped into a CrossFit and they kicked my ass and I was gonna be great and it helps don't get me wrong I mean, I end up losing a lot of weight But I feel like it might have done more bad than good Aside from the things you do say like, you know, I was delicate thing I was squatting I was doing things that I haven't done in the gym before which, you know, I was done within 500 pounds at one point So I know at long term. It's not healthy for me And especially with like I said the gaining weight and losing it all the time But I'm done with the advanced stuff at least for now Yeah, do you feel like if you don't sign up for an event or a competition? Yeah, that you tend to go in the opposite motivation thing 100% Okay, so we need to address that first Mike because any advice I give you is not gonna work unless that isn't solved Okay, so you have to change the Relationship that you have with fitness and exercise because right now Fitness and exercise is you're using it like a drug. Okay, so whatever the other drug is whether it be Not moving and eating a lot of food or whatever What you're doing is you're replacing that drug with fitness and because fitness is better for you gets you to move It's not as bad as maybe what the other drug was So we tend to not identify the fact that it can also be damaging and I've had lots of I've had Situation with clients that you know quit smoking and then they started using exercise like smoking and overdid it in that direction as well So I want you to change your motivation. You said you're having another baby I don't know if this will work for you this has worked for other clients of mine, but I want you to focus on Longevity and quality of life. So what I mean by quality of life is like think of the most important things that you have in your life Maybe being a father being productive at work being a good husband What kind of workouts make you better at those things and keep reminding yourself of that while you're going through what? I'm about to recommend because if you do that you'll stay on the right path If you maintain the kind of relationship that you've had in the past with exercise the advice I'm going to give you right now is not going to work it'll be very short term and at some point you'll either fall off and then rebound by Signing up for another event going or going extreme in another direction or by giving up entirely because it just doesn't feel good Okay, so the route has to be there But once you can do that and remind yourself of that I think for someone like you a program like maps performance I'm glad you went that way. I was sure you're gonna go that way and I do like that a lot for him Because you have the athletic background. I think you'll appreciate the functional component of maps performance There's a mobility component in there So I think it'll you'll enjoy that so you can do some kind of fitness every single day Brandy stimulus and a lot of different directions totally. It'll make you feel good But you got you but you got to remind yourself of that route. What's making me a better person today? Do I feel better today? Do that quality of life, you know longevity that'll put you in the right direction Otherwise, like I said this advice I'm giving you's not gonna help I also like the idea of maps performance to I just recently was sharing with the guys that I had a phone call with my nephew Who just moved from maps anabolic is now going into performance And I was trying to coach him that you have to complete yet to change your mindset going into this program And it's all around movement And so what Sal saying about quality of life and the child and all this like I would totally reframe the way I look at Exercise it's like One my goal is like what's the the least amount I can do to get the most results because I rather spend more time with my Family than in a gym or hammering myself training for like an Iron Man So that's first and foremost and then I want to be able to do things like squat down and play with my son While he's on toy and not feel like my back is killing me and my knees are killing me So when I exercise I'm doing movements that are going to support That and that is like a win for me It's that's more of a win than hitting a new PR in the deadlift or the squat And so when you approach this program, you know approach it with goals like that is hey I've never really focused on my squat depth or the my movement quality Can I look at these exercises watch the you know the model that's dimming on them And my goal isn't can I get the weight way up and get stronger in this moment? My goal is can I make this movement look perfect like I'm the model Can I make it look better than what they're doing it and and approach your your exercise like that? Yeah, you're re-examining a lot of these familiar exercises that you've been in a race to get through And I don't know if that resonates at all But for me like I I very much have had that mentality that you've had in terms of Trying to find the next super hard punishing thing to get involved in and it was always a race for me to get there and I just felt like I always needed that but This is this is one of those things where you can re-examine a lot of these types of Exercises and find out the real value if you just slow down if you slow down your body is gonna benefit Tremendously and into to be able to kind of like shift your mindset towards that's gonna be able to take it more in a sustainable Direction in terms of longevity, right the the race really is Sustainability for you. What can you stick with the longest and not want to just jump into the next thing and Punish yourself. Yeah, it's gonna be a practice. Okay, not a workout now. You're definitely gonna work out But I want you to think of it as a practice a daily or almost daily practice Whether it's one of the foundational workouts or mobility session Maths performance gives you the option to be working out or doing a mobility session one of those Five days a week, you know, three of those workouts will be a little longer and the other two will be shorter kind of mobility sessions But go into it like a product think of it as a practice. So very Zen, okay that's the mentality I want you to go into it with and Use that that same competitive Mindset that got you to lose 50 pounds to do a triathlon or whatever Think of yourself Zen quality of life. It's a practice Once it clicks you're gonna find this rhythm That's gonna feel very good very balanced and serve you well rather than pushing you to red line and then causing you to stop and You know continue the cycle and by the way, you mentioned your metabolism being ruined. It's not ruined It's doing exactly what it's supposed to do. So don't worry. You don't think you like you. Oh my god I damaged my body. What am I gonna do your body? Your body responded the way it evolved to respond and it will do it will respond the way it evolved to respond If you do what we're telling you yeah, if you do what we're telling you what you'll find is your metabolism We'll start to not worry so much about being so hyper efficient. You're gonna build some muscle You start to move better and you'll develop a comfortable You know good relationship with exercise where it feels Not ex not just exhilarating because I know you know what that feels like or punishing or like I survived like that's okay Occasionally, but the kind of relationship you develop with exercise is like I said a practice like this sets me up and boy Can I be a great, you know father business owner employee husband? Whatever it's gonna improve the quality of your lifelong term So go into it that way and I think you'll have tremendous success and if you don't have maps performance We're gonna send that over to you right now Yeah, I definitely don't have it. Yeah, my wife will be pleased to no more 15 hour training weeks Yeah, you're maniac dude just tell her say hey look the guys said to replace my workouts with sex You're welcome you go. All right. Thanks Michael. Thanks guys. No problem Yeah, that's the the old I had this isn't like the most common thing, but I had it's pretty common I mean, I wouldn't say it's like a majority But I definitely had those clients that they'd finish one race Got to work out for the next race. I'd actually say it's like this. It's like they had to do it that way Yeah, I'd say it's really common But what is hard is getting somebody who's into all these things to convince them that that's their issue And it's not a it's not a good thing Right, they all I mean you when you're in this on this track a lot of times It's a good thing for you like oh, I'm gonna sign up for the next ironman. Oh, I'm gonna sign up for the next This I'm gonna sign up for the next that and they don't realize that they have this pattern of oh, wow Unless I'm signed up for something like this. I'm terrible at being consistent with my diet and my training You know, is there something else underlining there or is this a good behavior to have for the rest of my life? There's all the gurus out there that they're probably following that, you know Really, you know, hype this up like you gotta you gotta get off You gotta get up at 4 a.m. And like beat you like there's just so much of that that this Message here is just not elevated enough Yeah, I had a female client that she just was just repetitive over and over again and she got to the point where She was doing like an event every other month And what finally got her to open her eyes was when she could not lose she could not get leaner Eating under 1200 calories Running 20 plus miles a week and lifting weights four to five days a week. Yeah, and she's like, why can't I get any leaner? I'm I can't get below. You know, I don't remember what it was like below 20% body fat And I said, well, this is all the stuff. I've been telling you and she finally like, okay I give up I surrender. I'll do what you say a year later She was eating 20 something 100 calories a day and leaner than ever and working out way way less works It totally works. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip You can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe