 Next question is from year 95 kiddo What are some things I can do to stay disciplined and motivated to work out at home? I've gotten so bad that my husband started calling it naps anywhere You know dude, hey, so so real talk here, right? So there's a thread in our private form right now I'm glad you went to this and you know, someone's like man I am I'm basically people are on their venting how they're just they're cracking at the seams You know fitness dude fitness enthusiasts First off, I'm sure a lot of people are feeling this way, but if you're a fitness enthusiast you have a Wonderful mechanism to deal with stress. You've probably done it for years. It helps you deal with anxiety You feel healthy so you can handle things differently and for a lot of people It's been taken away because they can't go to the gym So now they have to do it at home totally different environment very different challenge Maybe not as motivating for the person. Maybe they're just feel like oh, this is a bad substitute So I totally can relate to how difficult it is right now this now on the podcast we've talked many times about the difference between motivation and Discipline motivation comes and goes circumstances definitely affect it. Sometimes they're internal circumstances Sometimes they're external circumstances and when we're motivated Nobody needs to convince us to exercise. Nobody convinces us to eat, right? We're just it's easy because we feel it But sometimes and all of us go through this motivation goes away and this is where Discipline comes to play and discipline is hard motivation is easy And so my advice to people in this situation is number one except that it sucks Accept it. Okay. What's the next step now? I'll tell you what I've been doing I have an alarm on my phone that goes off every single day 740 family mobility time now Why do I set that alarm because at 740 at night? I'm many times Unmotivated to get gather the kids, you know, move the couch and everything get on the carpet We're all gonna do mobility together. I just don't want to do it. Maybe I'm in the middle of watching TV I finished writing a blog for the company. I'm whatever. I don't want to do it But the alarm goes off and what that alarm does is it reminds me to stay disciplined So now I have to ignore the call So it's one extra thing that reminds me like okay, and you know what sometimes I get up and I'm like I don't want to do this. I don't want to do this, but I do it. I keep doing I don't want to do But then I do it and you know what ends up happening when you do this consistently it gets easier It gets easier. I don't necessarily feel more motivation It just gets easier to be disciplined when I'm not motivated So I hate to say that that's the answer Because it's not an easy like hack or trick, but it is that's really the only answer Did you I'm gonna go a different direction with this? Did you see my response on that thread? No, I didn't okay, so I responded later on that on that thread that you're talking about and I went a different direction and in everything that Sal said I agree with but And this is totally not favorable for this company. In fact, you know, we haven't really talked much about this But if it wasn't for us creating maps anywhere four years ago, we probably would have had to furlough some of our employees We wouldn't have been able to keep the business Operating going it would have been very challenging for us But luckily we were blessed we created a program that literally Fet the needs of tons of people in this situation and so it's it helped keep us alive during a time when I think everybody is struggling Now that being said what I'm gonna say it doesn't support our business whatsoever But it is what I replied to this person on this forum I told them that you know, I too have felt this right now. I love the gym I like we have our own little private gym here and I prefer to go where there's people Lifting and grunting and sweating and music pumping and great physiques walking around It just it helps me stay focused and push through my workouts and it's it's the guy I was complaining to who wrote this in the forum You know that that's kind of been his sanctuary and you know home is home And the the two of them blending together is really not making him feel like he's being able to detach from all the home Stuff so I can totally relate to this My response is this I'm not following any program right now. I'm not following our maps anywhere. Although I did a maps anywhere work out the other day I'm not following our program to a tee right now. I'm playing and And that's my attitude one day. I might bike ride one day. I may row One day. I may do bench press the entire hour and just work on my mechanics one day I'll do an hour of intense mobility work. I might swing the clubs around try and get good like Justin I'm not putting this pressure on myself that I can't lose muscle. I gotta make gains. I need to maintain I mean maps anywhere. That's why it was designed It was designed so you could go and train at home and see fucking results That's it's an amazing program But the reality is if you if it's starting to mess with your mental space like this because you're putting all the pressure around You know needing to keep training a certain way to maintain or to see results It's like, you know for me This is not that time but this time for me is like hey I recognize that I am trapped in my house way more than I've ever been I Recognize that I'm probably not gonna get to go to my sanctuary gym and stuff like that I'm not gonna worry so much about it But I do know smart enough to understand calories in versus calories out that I could really easily start to creep up And put a lot of body fat on if I don't stay active and make good choices So I'm playing right now. I'm playing with no rhyme or reason with no structure No real this this is why I'm doing this I just go where my heart leads me and sometimes that is hey hon Let's go over and and get the bikes out and let's just go for a two-hour ride on flat ground and just Look at the scenery and shit like that or it might be I'm gonna go down in my garage and just rip the row or and see What I can get the freaking watts up to or it might be you know what man I've been meaning to get better at those Indian clubs and Justin's so good at it I want to get good at and he's got great shoulder mobility I need to do that my shoulders bothering me and so I do that for a whole hour like so great great advice Stop good stop putting so much pressure on yourself that we need to be making gains Or we need to be cautious that we might lose muscle right now Yes, we have the shit the program for you out there, but right now. You know what? It's I think your mental health takes the front seat on all this and find things that you just like to do No, it's great because I think you know a lot of it, too Is like you get this this insecurity you're not being productive like I get this all the time Oh, yeah, you know if I'm at home and in something's not getting accomplished like so I've I've been torn between Workout or you know improving something on the house and it's like you can't always have that energy You just can't always have the energy carrying with you because then you start you know interacting with your kids with with your your spouse like and And then you get short and then and then you get frustrated Then you get irritated and all these things kind of stack up on you and and to kind of break free of that for a bit Is necessary sometimes and but also having like a foundation you can come back to is how I kind of look at it So I do have like a solid workout I've tried to accomplish at least three times, you know during the week, but I'm playing as well I think that's great advice. I'm going outside. I'm grabbing unconventional equipment I'm I'm taking my kids on hikes. I'm I'm trying to go where I'm allowed, you know Which is really hard for me because our our family is is definitely this is something I've learned from from this whole lockdown thing We are so much of a family that is on the move and active and out like we don't stay at home Very often and so this has completely changed our dynamic and to try and figure that out So it's a tough thing and and we're all trying to adjust and so I can I could totally You know feel from where you're coming from in terms of the frustration of it And I do think yes allow yourself to sort of break free sometimes it'll help your mental state Well, you know what one of the big problems is you we tend to compare our worst selves for our best selves We tend to compare we're on lockdown. We have no access to a gym It's a little scary and uncertain right now And so now I'm going to compare my activity levels of my diet in this situation to how my activities and diet was When none of that shit was happening before so not fair totally different so not fair you're in a different situation now It's harder. I think you're probably doing okay all things being considered Do not compare yourself to yourself at your best when none of this shit was happening so unfair yourself You wouldn't do this with anyone else. Don't do it with yourself