 Next question is from Pat Norrie. What are things each of you preach but struggle to practice yourself? Oh, you know what's funny everything? It's a hundred percent true. It's it's easy to communicate And and this is the key and this is important. I think I'm talking to trainers right now You got to be real and don't feel like you need to be perfect in order to be a trainer now What I mean by that is it's okay to continually seek to be the example For your clients, but don't be afraid to communicate them to them You're the realness of what it's like to eat healthy and get good sleep and exercise consistently because they'll connect better with you, but the truth is Nothing we talk about on the show is easy now We have ways of creating discipline around them. We have ways of you know making ourselves more consistent There are things that I definitely struggle with more than others So I'll give you an example of one that I preach but I'm terrible at in terms of practice and that's Supplement use I talk all we always talk about all the time about how supplements aren't the answer And you don't need to take a million different things and yet I walk around with a bag full of supplements I come to work every single day with the bag of supplements I go in the back and I try different things all the time. I know This is you know something that I have a challenge with I'm way better Than I used to be to give myself a little credit But I'm way far away from you know, what's ideal, but I mean none of this stuff is easy In fact, it's probably what makes a trainer a better trainer is in fact If I were to talk to somebody about the struggles of supplement addiction I would probably communicate it better than somebody who never had a struggle with it at all because I get it I know what that's all you know what that what it's all about But it's all hard man to maintain a fit and healthy lifestyle requires more discipline and is more challenging then to live in some respects than to live a life of You know not exercising and eating whatever you want, of course That's reality is it's more challenging in many other ways as your health declines and all that other stuff But that's also part of the reason why it's meaningful if this was easy I don't think it would we would value it nearly as much. Yeah, I know personally like I I am pretty Consistent about what I'm doing with myself in terms of like training and lifting weights and You know in terms of like stuff that I have that athlete mentality that's still there But with that comes the struggle of the nutrition side Which has always been one of those things that I knew even getting into personal training I'm like, oh man, I got to figure this out now, you know Like it before it was like I was doing enough movement and everything was working enough to where I was that typical stereotypical athlete where I would just kind of eat to fuel my needs and it didn't really matter where the source was coming from You know, I've built in all these bad habits like leading into that Which I didn't really address because I my body was, you know, I had muscles I had the definition I had all that stuff, but it was just because of the insane amount of activity I was you know a part of and so to really nail that in it was a big struggle And I actually like sought a lot of help for it and I've you know incorporated people in that were professionals dietitians You know, even like a personal chef I'm kind of bringing all this stuff into to try and like build more value in what I was presenting my clients and it's like I have this built-in Knowledge now that that's pretty crazy, but it's also to me. I just don't I don't care enough about it personally To sit in the nuance of it and discuss it all the time It actually frustrates me that I don't care As much about it just drives me crazy and it's a struggle But it's also like I know how to manipulate things personally and how how to navigate through it And the knowledge is there the application of it. It's always been a bit of friction for me mobility So and and I'm dealing with this right now. So I do really well with Giving myself a goal and and getting really focused on that specific goal And the last couple years a big part of that was mobility, right? I made a real conscious effort to say, okay I'm gonna get a deeper squat. I'm gonna eliminate this back pain and hip pain that I'm dealing with And I thought I did a great job, but I also completely just I knew in order to do that I had to let go of strength goals let go of how I looked it's all about how I felt and moved and And I had a lot of success with that in the last I would say, I don't know eight months or so maybe close to a year now I've transitioned back into you know building my aesthetic physique again I'm and I'm enjoying it and I'm you know back to sending my wife naked photos again and stuff because I'm feeling myself So I'm I keep tagging So I'm I'm I'm back to feeling good like that. Yeah, I feel really good about What I've done in the last eight months or so and and enjoying it But what I also know is because I got so focused in that direction I've laid off of the discipline that I had built the previous two years and doing my 90 90s in my combat now What's cool is that in that time I did build enough good habits that like I like I still have an incredibly deep squad I showed a video of me still being able to do that barefoot and I've made a lot of progress there um, but I I've been battling with my uh hip pain again and I'm battling that because I know I'm not putting the work into my 90 90s like I should be and You know and I'm also focused on building a body right now more so than that So what I struggle with and probably will always is you know knowing that it's all those things that I should be addressing and I tend to do really well focused on one thing or another versus like being a little more balanced with my training And so I'm there again, you know with that trying to balance myself out And I don't know if I don't ever in I think this the thing that's important and it's kind of to Justin's point Is you know like you is being aware right being aware that that's your issue and then just Never allowing because what we're just talking to somebody about talking about balance How there's there's no such thing as like real balance like real balances You you're you're focused in one area then you shift your weight over to another area You shift your weight to another place like like the same way that you would ride a surfboard or a snowboard or skateboard You're never you know perfectly balanced on the board. You're always kind of as life is changing You're navigating a little left a little right like and so I think that your pursuit and journey to be very healthy and fit And longevity is kind of like that. I don't know if you're wherever Perfectly balanced sometimes one thing you're focused on a little more than other and so you know that's definitely my challenge I I'm I'm not as good on my mobility right now because I'm focused the other way Yeah, I think it's there's a mistake too when people idolize their Whatever their coaches let's just stick with fitness As like that's the ideal and the problem with that is that they're they're human. We're all human Nobody is perfect. Um, everybody has their challenges And there's a long way to fall when you put someone on that high of a pedestal I've seen people like you know, like it's like that that trainer that fitness influencer And then someone sees the meeting a burger and takes a picture and posts it and everybody's like oh He eats a burger too. Like well, yeah, I mean, you know, he's also a human He also lives here just like the rest of us. Well, not only that but they also are You know, you're you're normally idolizing them for like one aspect of their life That and you have no idea about how out of balance they probably are and other things just to my point Like you're never really that balanced. You're kind of and if you like You're so focused right now your personal, you know Journey is I just want to get fit and shredded and my coach is just the amazing physique And it comes so easy for him in this net But then what you might not realize is he's got a shit relationship with his wife and his kids And you have an amazing one because you prioritize that more than he does So yeah, be careful like you say of idolizing these coaches, but it's all hard It's all hard. You're living in a world that you're surrounded by fast easy Extremely tasty food Life is inactive. It's designed that way. It's not designed to be super physically demanding, which is a good thing But of course challenges Come with that We're we're we're brought up in this kind of world to value food for its taste We're we're taught to value, you know things for how they make us feel rather than how they make improve our health Um, so it's it's a struggle. You live in this. It's gonna be tough You have to make conscious decisions every day. It's tough. And so we Struggle with all the stuff that we preach, of course We talked about the ones that we struggled the most with but We struggle with all of them. The difference is this is what we've made our career around This is what we we love to practice and train with the most And when we communicate by the way what you're hearing from us is Our experience but mainly what you're hearing is the clients that we've worked with and their experience because You know my experience is coming from a person who loves fitness and works in fitness Probably not going to relate to you as much if you're the average person But I can tell you a lot about what worked for people that I worked with right who are very similar to you Who don't have any plans on working out six days a week who? Probably realistically are only going to ever work out consistently two or three days a week Who have no desires to do what it takes to get a six pack but want to be fit and healthy They have no desire to eat perfectly, but they want to eat in a way that you know Not only they enjoy how they eat, but they also want to have longevity And so that's what you'll hear us communicate all the time, but it's hard. It's it's hard and hey, but that's a good thing That's what makes it meaningful