 If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go Mind pump with your hosts Salda Stefano Adam Schaefer and Justin Andrews In this episode of mine pump whoo-hoo hello Adam Justin and I have some fun introductory conversation we start off by talking about poop Unique poop characteristics basically break down The science the science coming from Adam on that one. I know Adam. I don't know Adam knew so much science about poop Interesting we talked about the health IQ quiz and how we had I don't know 5000 people take the quiz yeah, good Jillian to try to beat our score now health IQ is one of our sponsors now If you go to health IQ comm forward slash mine pump into your information you'll get a free quote for for life insurance Good prices for very fit people and you can tell take the health IQ quiz Try and beat my score. I got a hundred and eighty-eight. We talk about Adam's headache and how cacao I like saying that It's not like like a Batman like a punch. Oh, yeah, yeah, how cacao One of the compounds in cacao may actually help him with his headache We are also sponsored by organifi and they have a cacao powder That is amazing if you go to organifi shop comm forward. Oh, no no forward slash this organ if I shop calm Enter the code mine pump you get 20% off. We also talk about talk about morning wake up rituals Justin's morning would would be his Ritualize it and don't wake the sleeping bear and then we talk about Oprah. What she's one of our favorite running for president She might be running for president. Don't do it against the rock against the rock versus Oprah and and Trump would be like a celebrity death match We got to bring that back MTV We don't want anybody to die now Then we get into the questions the first question was in our experience Which mental characteristics tend to be the biggest roadblocks for people who are on the road to fitness What mental characteristics stops people from getting to their fitness goals? The next question was what do we feel is one of the best assessment tools for clients prime duh It's all written out boom. That's it right next question If you had a hundred pounds to lose one of the top ten immediate changes You would make good question good time of year to talk about this definitely You know when someone needs to lose a hundred this a lot of it's a lofty goal A lot of our motivation behind what's going on the YouTube channel right now Definitely someone just like this. Yep slow progress move it slowly finally the last question Do we have any thoughts on how you could channel addictive tendencies into productive behaviors? For example? How is my smoking weed going to help me? Yeah If you're a crack addict you could turn that you Into be very productive you could clean your house all the time Share this episode with your friends also in January Get a free Mind pump t-shirt. 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Well, you're coming with a hard clothes right the super clothes today We're guilting you into buying shit today get the super bundle and that will take care of almost everything for you Then you got to do it I thought I was ready then I looked in the mirror to get the program and to get the free t-shirt that I talked about Just go to mind pump media comm dude. Have you did you go to the bathroom just now? No, why after Justin? He must did he just got it. Did he crush it again dude? It's You know what it smells like it smells like that one burned your asshole, bro I didn't even go to the bathroom dick. Oh, that wasn't you. No, I was on the phone. Was that you mr. DeStefano. No, no, I didn't poop in there That was a cross you dug dug the crossfit don't maybe Sal We're talking. I mean maybe Taylor. We go talk Taylor or the new guy that's in here I know could be him. Mm-hmm whoever it is. There's a new phantom dumpers. I'm pretty certain his asshole is burning Yeah, you know it has it don't you feel like that like chemically you well Don't you think that something like a like certain types of poops have distinct smells to it And there's like a burn your butt like you know, there's a burn your butt that one singed Then there's a sulfuric sulfuric one, right? You guys know that one, right? Iggy, then there's like the Then there's the Iggy mess. Oh, there's the Asian kitty litter smell that's weird A little bit of tuna what I worked on that when I worked at that one after for Monday Club 505 right the East side East side where we had a lot of Vietnamese a lot of Asian people in there And when they a lot of them would go in there and take a shit. It's not like kitty litter. Whoa. I don't know what that was You actually put that together I did well yet because it wasn't like it happened once happened I guess different food. I was there for two and a half years and there's this distinct like kitty litter smell weird I don't remember what kitty litter smells like. Oh, you didn't have a cat. I've had a cat I always like is it like is it a poop smell or is a distinctive like it's different Well, it smells like a litter box, you know So it smells a little bit of poop, but then maybe they're pooping and then sprinkling Kate litter. Yeah Cuz kitty litter has like it's designed to have like a friend and do what is it called like a odorized doesn't when Deodorizes it. It's not deodorized, but it's what's the word I'm looking for You know where so there's it clumps. No, no, it does that too though. Yeah, it clumps it It helps it keeps this it keeps like a friend, but it has a very distinct smell And so I don't know and maybe I'm not this The only time I get sounds totally racist. I don't know but I'm just saying that there's There's not there was a direct correlation Do this so I and I feel like so poops have these distinct smells, you know, I noticed it all time Yeah, I feel like I know your shits mine. Yeah, you don't know mine. Yeah, do you very chemically? I have chemical Dumpers very meaty Now yours is very cheesy Yeah, it's very cheesy. It's got like a rotten I leave straight like a rotten cheese to it. They are heavy Yeah, it does look like heavy loads It does when every when Justin leaves and he flushes the toilet. It looks like a car chase just happened down that All the way down Terrible dude, how many are you guys still getting? Screenshots of people's health IQ quiz tests, bro. I'm still getting them every day Health IQ that they don't pay us nearly enough money because I think out of all the sponsorships we ever done That was probably the greatest response we've ever had. I mean to this day still today I'm getting people comparing that the test they took on there. Yeah, they take the test down Do you or can you still know you can still do it? It's different someone someone message me and said there's so We if you go you go to health IQ comm forward slash mine pump and then what you do is you enter some information To get a quote and then you can take this fitness quiz and it's it really is Here's a fascinating thing about it is because when I first saw this I'm like, what are they gonna ask me, right? It's a legit quiz. No, it was tough It's a legit quiz and what they're what they're doing is they're testing your fitness knowledge and it's not easy questions It's not like, you know, what you know, what exercise works your abs or anything like that It's actually legit questions and then your score Kind of helps I think with your quote because if you're if you've got real questions are very current for the most part Is that how it's all set up and it works? Yeah, that'd be one factor that would be in Used for determining whether you get preferred rates. How do I know if I'm even getting a good deal? Like what's the price range? What should I expect like a guy my age as it does it matter? I've heard like if you're younger you get a better deal. Yeah If you're less likely to die, you'll get a better deal This is how it works the younger you are makes it less expensive it is So if you're looking at like a term policy now a term policy is for a specified term It could be a 15 year 20 year cover for 30 years or whatever. That's exactly So a lot of people they have children for example, and they figure their children gonna be around home for say 20 years So they go out and get a 20-year term policy. So that way if I die takes care of the kids Okay, that's shocking how many people who have children do not have a policy dude This is this is this is for reels now if you have young kids for sure Think about it this way if you have a dual income or especially if you're the soul, you know the only breadwinner Mm-hmm, and you're married and you're you know and you die Imagine what that could possibly do For the future of your kids you could automatically throw them in poverty. That's a hard sale. It's If you want the hell like you it's not paying us enough bro for that hard Comes on with this like listen listen here parents if you are cave you have kids and you have not signed up for health Oh, it's for when you die if you know what you're leaving them shit It's true. That's how I bought mine if you want to screw your your widow and your children die without a policy Unless you're independently wealthy. It's pretty much urgent Bro, think of it this way if imagine I mean if I was a sale If I was a health insurance sales guy, this is how I would sell though. I mean, I would fucking make you feel Yeah, and the funny thing is it's not expensive So most people have car insurance, right? Yeah, because you might get into an accident, right? There's one thing I can guarantee you you will die at some point. Okay Okay, here's the years old Right now so Sal was talking about how he was spending what how much a month for car insurance for a while there Oh 600 bucks or that's because I was a terrible. Yeah, $600 a month most people if they're within say 30 40 year old will spend Less than that a year for life insurance. Oh, is that cheap? It's that cheap And that's like that's probably what a half a million dollar policy Let me just tell you I got some averages for life insurance off the internet here So if you're a 30 year old woman web You have a million dollar policy. Guess how much it costs you a year How much $347? You trade $347 for a year of a million dollar policy basically 30 but not even 30 bucks a month And this how this is how this works So if you were to sign for this policy pay your $347 for the year get hit by a bus guess what your family gets they get a million dollars That's a really crappy bet for the insurance company. Of course, they're expecting you to live Right because they what they're seeing is you're young Especially if you're fit and healthy Here's a big one like if you're really fit and healthy you'll get a low price if you're obese and you smoke and whatever you're 60 Yeah, it's gonna be more expensive But if you're young healthy if you're fit especially if you're fit and you've got good You know blood lipid levels and all that stuff because they'll test that Um, because I got it. I have it and I'll tell you what think of it this way If you're the average american, let's say you're earning what's the average now in america Was it like $60,000 a year or something like that you earn? So let's say you and your spouse combined earn A hundred grand a year the together you're both working and you're able to pay for your home You've got your bills and if you're like most americans You have a little bit left over every month to save if you're smart some people don't but smart families do You know if you die, dude, that's terrible. I mean the cost alone of all that stuff But then you're gone now your spouse has to Figure out what to do. So it's just piece of all right So tell me where that where's the where is the website for people to go and go do this Because I I know they changed it before it was like a direct link right no Okay, so it's health iq.com forward slash mind pump and then you register for a quote But then you can take the quiz I scored 188 you scored 188, right? Justin you haven't taken it. Yeah, I'm gonna hold out until I get super motivated Or I'll do some research. He's been studying. Yeah, this is exactly ever since we did the test He's been studying. I want to crush you guys That's like my motivation. This is not an open book test too, by the way, bro Not open and it's tight. They time you. Yeah, well, I'm screwed and I was gonna mention that they have Looked at their quotes and they're about 25 under industry standards, too So, oh, they're better cheaper by 25 by up to 25. Yeah, so it's gonna be super cheap if you're in good health Absolutely. Okay, so do it get out there and save your children. Take care of your family Take care if you love your if you love your kids Just listen to them like fucking hey, bro anybody who's got kids right now if I just got guilted in that shit right there Right to the heart as they should be Dude, I have a fucking massive headache. Do you have a headache still? Do you does anyone have any Advil or Doug? Do you have any Advil or Tylenol anything laying around here? Nothing, you know what you can do for your headache that for some people Don't give me some of your bullshit stuff right now squeeze right here, you know Yeah, yeah, right Rub this rub on your head like this and you know, like this doesn't work This isn't working put this in your mouth. Do you guys watch modern modern family? Yeah Yeah, the girl you have the older ditzy girl and then the middle girl That's really smart and her her battery is dying on her cell phone and she's like, oh you take the you can That's just because the static energy has died down. She did she said something so I rub it on And she said rub it on your hair so the the fucking ditzy girls walking around rubbing her battery on her On her head like crazy trying to get it to charge So for for headaches you can try a vasoconstrictor like caffeine or three Chocolate pheobromine may actually help so but extend instead of buying a chocolate bar do the the cacao powder From organify. Oh, yeah, so mix that in some with some Cedrin has the caffeine and caffeine. Yeah, so So pheobromine is chemically very similar to caffeine and then you have caffeine And both of them on the brain act as a vasoconstrictor Which is why some of the strongest headache medicine Will have some kind of an NSAID in it like ibuprofen or semenophen or aspirin and then they'll combine it with caffeine I thought you were bullshitting with me. No, it's for real So what do you think about like if I were to get coffee right now and put sprinkle a little bit of our cacao in there That's what I'm saying boom boom. I mean if you if you have a really bad fucking headache It's getting like worse right now. Yeah, I would recommend to make a coffee run You're like a girl. You always have like girl stuff Girl things happening. That was so sexist. Yeah, look at this. It's the sexist. Where are we going? We're gonna hit it all today You get headaches moody cravings All kinds of why do you have a headache? What's going on? It's just the moody side I don't know. I have a headache drinking up what's going on. You know what since we've been We got a lot dude. We just got back and I feel like there's a ton of shit and justice taken off Yeah, we ain't healthy over there and stuff. Did you sleep good last night? I did but now I felt like I wanted to keep sleeping. How did that sleep situation go by the way? He's big spoon. I know you're a snore I'm not a snore. I snore when I'm sick though. So I might have snored a little bit I roomed with you once and he did it was cool because I snore too. Yeah So if I'm sick, I'll snore but if I'm not if I'm not sick, I should be fine No, you know and you slept you slept you slept through my entire Photoshoot I did of you while you were sleeping. It didn't wake you up at all creepy bastard Me one time I was watching you while you were sleeping. You look so He's so calm. He's a pretty good roommate other than the fact that he does wake up on auto on fuck It's 6 30 o'clock and 6 30 in the morning. 6 30 sleepy does that like like vampire like I'm up, right? You know, and so and then as soon as he hears me wrestling around a little bit He's like right pulls open the other the shades. Hey, it's time to get up like hey, bro We don't gotta be there to like 10 o'clock. There's no reason to be. Yeah my eyes are I'm like Bro, this is what I do. I wake up in the morning because I've roomed with the people a lot of people like you It's not just it's not such you but I'll wake up. Yeah, usually before actually Doug Doug wakes up early Doug is the same way. He'll wake up early too, but I'll wake up And you were still sleeping so then I go to the bathroom and I do my my my poop I take my cold shower And I get out and I I'm listening while I'm getting ready. I'm listening. Is he awake it because I I want to be loud. I like to be loud in the morning. I don't like to be quiet and soft I like to fucking let's rock and roll So then I hear him like he like rolls over a little bit in bed and I'm like what up, dude Hey, man Rips and I'm the opposite like and he's already talked about this You're the guy who wakes up abruptly and just springs out of bed I am the alarm goes off snooze once or twice Kind of wipe the crust out of my eyes. Maybe reach over to my phone Look at look at what I got going on today lay in there prop my head up on the bed a little bit But still under the covers and oh, yeah, no, I'm a slow. I'm a little worried I'm gonna be rooming with taylor going to ces and I know that guy. Oh no, he's got the long hair He's like, you know, mr. Snail. No, bro. He's so fucking. He's so easy He'll be sucking his thumb still sleeping like a little baby. Oh, yeah. No, he's he'll sleep He'll sleep. I'll just carry him on my back and we'll we'll go barge it He'll be blow-drying his hair for an hour and a half No, man, it's all good sweet. No, my girl So my girl is very much when we wake up in the morning because we both wake up about between 5 and 5 30 Because we work out, right She is very much a slow riser in fact I have learned to not turn the lights on because if I turn the lights on anywhere near her It hurts her. She's like a she's like a real vampire like she can't have any light on her So it's the whole house is dark until Probably an hour later So she walks around the dark for like a like a zombie and I'm like moving around and I so not me because I like to turn the lights on Right away. Well, I'm with her on that one. That's how I am too. I don't like the lights on No, and even like how you rip open the blinds area like if I open the blinds at all I like I crack it open let some of the light come in I like this a slow adjustment period to get ready. Yeah, get ready for it. Dude. Did you guys see? You know what I just saw in the news Uh that what did they have the golden globe awards or something like that? I don't recently. Yeah. Okay. So Oprah Hinted that she may be Running for president. Oh my hey, here it is bro. I'm calling it. You knew it You're gonna have oprah as the the liberal you're gonna have the rock as a conservative. They're going head to head. No No, no, no, no, I don't think I think the rock will because he's done. I've done my research Okay, so dwayne johnson. I just made that up about what he his political dwayne johnson has gone He's actually campaigned or done stuff for both conservatives and liberals. I think he's libertarian, maybe No, I well that would be cool. I think yeah, I think independent um oprah probably democrat and then you've got trump who's the You know the the the republican You know, what's happening right now? What's happening is the political parties are besides the republicans are freaking out because They were so guaranteed to win the presidency with hillary clinton. There wasn't a single Like polling anything doubt about it bro when the polls were coming out like the where they were not the polls But like like the statistics and whatever she had like a 99 percent chance like nobody even and then he won So like what can we throw at this to win another celebrity another celebrity and oprah as a fucking beast powerhouse That would be an epic. Yeah, he might be going down. She's got a good chance I don't know man. If oprah's listening I Don't do it do not do it They will run the anytime you run for office. They run you through the mud. They will find shit on you It will destroy It destroys everything. I would never want to go. I tell you what though. I mean, she's pretty Gangster man. She's resilient bro. She's been associated with so many celebrities and so I guarantee you they'll find pictures of her hanging out with Harry Weinstein and their best friends and if that's not already popping up Those they will find stuff on her. I know you don't fuck with that machine, dude, and she's like loved, right? She's super loved by everybody. Yeah, but I think I think that's inevitable for everyone, right? So I think the difference now and what we see out of context They'll just throw it out there. I mean when you have enough people and we see this with with our audience Right, like we've we've built a by no means am I comparing us to oprah and you are it's sound did it already I'm just gonna keep riding. She's listening. Yeah She's listening. Let me tell you. No, but when you have someone Especially of her level there is a cult like following Of rat rabid fans, right that would just do anything for her and it doesn't mean if you showed her doing anything bad And now some of them would jump ship and be like, oh, I can't believe she did that I don't like her anymore. But for the most part She is like solidified her audience and her fans that even if the worst stuff come out They're more likely to stick by her than some fucking politician that most people didn't know until they got into the limo You're looking at your life is the future. It's like a trump. Trump is an example of that Trump they've I mean trump came out They said chunks came out and said grab the grab a girl by our pussy and people still Still stood by him So that's because he had enough celebrity power because of what he did on social media To do that and I mean you give someone like oprah oprah is oprah is jesus of social and here's and here's the thing like I could see how another celebrity running you could talk shit about. Um, in fact like like dwayne johnson He'll get hit because what has he shown other than the fact that he's built a business based off of a celebrity Oprah's a legit business woman. She has created. She's the wealthiest woman. I think in the world if I'm not mistaken She was for the longest time, but she's built like she's a real deal entrepreneur Which is trump's strength, you know I'm saying like that. He's built businesses, right? That would be a battle fighting Yeah, fighting fire bro. That would be a battle for that's why I think she would have a Chance and she would have all of Fucking hollywood and whatever of course All of the celebrity which might actually hurt nowadays. It's interesting nowadays like having celebrity support you Not necessarily a good thing because they're not looking too good right now But we'll see what happens man. That's interesting. What else we watched that you and I watched, um, Corey Corey Feldman's uh interview and story where we were gone. Oh it was an extension of it I was the old one, you know, he talks about all the pedophilia and shit. Oh god. It's so terrible You guys watch that? That's depressing. It's so terrible. I haven't heard any of those interviews Like I know I've seen like little bits of things, but I haven't watched an actual full interview and we watched a full interview of it He talks about it like it's this like culture Oh, you know, I mean not like one person norm like it's a thing. Yeah that people That's so gross. Oh, there's the richest women right there. She's number five. She's in america She's worth three billion dollars Wow You want to know what's crazy if you so I think the last presidential election I think it caught I think the total cost for running those campaigns I don't know. It was over a billion. I don't know the three girls above her. Yeah Yeah, I don't know them either. I don't know who they were. How do we not know who they are? But uh, if you're if you're uh, you know, you figure if you're worth three billion dollars You could probably finance it quite a bit Of your own campaign. Yeah, but would you want to? You imagine that you tackle all that you're this incredibly successful woman. You've got all this money Why would you want to do that? Where's it goes? What's crazy to me? Right. Well, so if you if you invest that much of it You only what do they make like a half a minute like a president makes a half a million dollars Doesn't it make you really wonder like god. Why is the motivation? Right? Why is it you're gonna get brought? I mean power. Yeah, you're in the inner circle, bro You want to be you get to see all the no, you know, all the hand you all the files all the secrets, bro You want to be the shit? Illuminati. You know what? Always amounts to that But uh, yeah, we'll see the future and what's gonna be really crazy is in the future right now. It's these She's worth 33 billion. No, no, that's alice walton From the walton family. She's oh, yeah from now. That's not that's not opera. No. No, I know that Obviously, that's not opera. It's a white woman. It's a white woman It sounds like that's not opera. I'm like, yeah, no So she's the air 60 year old not a white lady So that other woman was the air opera is not my opera She was the heir to the founder of walmart that first woman alice walton. Uh, that doesn't count that Yeah, yeah, this person here last named mars. Would she heir to the mars? She owns mars. Okay the planet She owns mars Wow Getting some of that red. No, opera's self-made. That's that's all I have to say. That's a self-made Billionaire that's what's gay. She's awesome. She is she is a badass. You know how many millionaires she's created Oh, look at there's an article. Yeah, it's opera running for president. Yeah. Wow. I would she's got to consider it I I think this is a real thing. I would hate to run against opera. How do you how do you tear her down? She's so awesome. You feel like a piece of shit if you do, you know what I'm saying She's so awesome. I don't want I don't want her to either because I don't I know I don't want her to Yeah Mud throwing make me not like I'll vote for anybody if their economics makes sense I'm with you. I like opera. I like her a lot If she comes out and talks about you know freaking silly economic bullshit, uh, then I can't vote for her Sorry, I don't care how much I like you but I do like you Come on my show enough of the politics Since you're already listening opera, right, right? Yeah, whatever. We'll just say we love you Since you listen to us bring on the patriotic bird Today's quads being brought to you by chimera coffee It's the only coffee that is infused with all natural Neutropics for a cleaner calmer and more focused buzz without the crash Put the chimera link at mind pump media.com and input the discount code Mind pump a check out for 10% off. It's the motherfucking Eagle has landed Quee kwa First question is from Godzilla 11112 In your experience, which mental characteristics tend to be the biggest roadblocks on the road to fitness success Easy, I can think of one real real fast It's uh people who want Results now and who go after it super hard super fast out the gates I can pretty much guarantee you those people will fail I would challenge that because if in your experience mental characters tend to be the biggest well the biggest plural right here so I I would say um people like um self doubt So just not believing that there they could look like that not believing that I can get in shape not believing that You know a lot of people subscribe to this I'm you know, I just I'm I'm genetically not blessed and I was so my my mom is fat My dad is fat. My grandparents are I'm just destined to be a fat person. So I think self doubt Uh, it has to be up there too a lot of you Yeah, and I think along those lines too It's it's sort of depending too much on somebody else to motivate You know or like like external factors to dictate whether or not like their success is happening or You know like I I didn't make it and so-and-so is going to be upset with me And don't really internalize it. Like this is my process. This is my journey Yeah, see as I'm thinking back to you know training clients And when people would come to me to hire me first off If you're already going to hire a trainer you've already taken a pretty big step But when someone would come to hire me and they would tell me I don't think my body can change I don't think this can happen That was very easy for me to work with because I could they could I could very much walk them through the process Show them small, you know Yeah, but again, that's that's you That's them coming to you and you walk I agree with you that I but that's I'm saying that's a huge one Because I know I've even the people that came to me I've had tons of those How many people think that in their head and they never even take the chance to Why would they even waste their money? You know what I'm saying? So that's why I think it's the biggest But think about those people that you would get as a client who would join your gym who overweight And you know, whatever and they come in and they're like, all right I want to get in shape and you lose weight and you're 30 pounds in a month I'm going to do this do my class and I do this whatever this workout and they come in Gung-ho and I can almost guarantee you That they almost always stop they burn out or they stop I used to have gone too hard dude. I would have these boot camp classes or these workout group I didn't do very much group training, but when I did they were these I call them boot camp, but they're a little different and These people would come in and I could spot them a mile away and for sure I'm like this person's going to fucking stop because they're so Gung-ho and they want the shit to happen like yesterday It's just not going to work out that mentality is a very difficult That's a such a bad robot and it's tough because it's that's what gets stressed so much Is that like the motivation you have to hype up, you know, I got to do this This is the the time is the year and I got to accelerate the results and there's all this urgency And inevitably, you know, that's gonna that that's something that's going to disappear And so what's the plan after that? What's the plan after your five to ten pounds? I also think that a lot of people Um Do you see some good results based off of whatever it is they're following and then they get they identify with it And they get stuck there forever and a lot of people See a plateau or they get to this point and I'll be the first one to admit I was somebody like this I had like a a look or and that I could a shape that I could get into that was like this would be considered me in shape And at that point in my life It was the best shape I could ever get in in my life And a lot of that was because I identified with a way of training a way of eating and that was my go-to right It was I'm either on the wagon or off the wagon. I'm off the wagon. I'm eating like shit. I'm not really training consistently whatever now I'm on the wagon. I'm doing it. I'm doing the things that work for me This works for me So I go back to doing all these things that have showed me the most results in the past And so I'm just in this vicious cycle. I think a lot of people struggle with this And a lot of there's I don't think there's a lot of people that have never been in better shape of their life Right, I think everybody at one point has made a conscious effort to be in better shape Whether it be restricting calories or watching what they're eating or doing some sort of exercise But whatever it is they've done They tend to attach themselves to whatever showed them the most results for them And then they just do do this vicious cycle and they keep doing that same thing They're doing it over and over and over and then they realize they've been doing it for months on And it's like they're not seeing any more results and then life happens and they just get you know I can always spot the people who Um at one point we're in shape from running I can always spot them because you see them running down the road and they have terrible Biomechanics obviously not fit to run But at some point in their life running made them lose weight. So they're like, I need to lose weight I'm starting right. These are the people I'm talking about and I watch the run. There's a lot of that, dude There is there is a lot of that. You know, it's another big one is the the martyr mentality is a big big Mental roadblock and it's it tends to be different for men and for women But everybody has it like I've had the male, you know the the men who will tell me No, man, I don't got time to work out. I got to focus on work I work too much. I got to you know focus on my business or the mom who's like, you know I don't have any time because I just want to focus I just do everything for my kids and it's all about my kids and They think that taking time to take care of their fitness Is taking time away from other things and then they do this comparison where They compare the two so they think okay, I can take time away from my kids For my myself, but my kids are so much more important than me. They're a priority So I'm not going to take that time away because I have this false paradigm where they're going to be a martyr and where it's it's this trade-off when in reality Of course, you can overdo it But in reality moderate exercise doesn't take time away It gives you time. It gives you more quality time. I'll tell you something right now. You're that investment, dude If you have that martyr mentality Um, you're probably not as good of a parent or not as good at work as you could be Just because you feel like shit and because you're not fit and because you're not healthier because you feel stressed out or because you feel a little bit of Resentment, you know how many people I would how many times you guys get clients who kind of resented Their jobs or their families because I can't do anything for myself and they resent it It's like all you got to do is take a little bit of time and watch what happens And you start to you know, trade like what like what your uncle says trade dimes for quarters Right, you know, I mean you put a dime in you get a quarter back And uh, that has to be one of the biggest ones that you know that I see Yeah, I was so self-doubt Overdoing it overdoing it right overdoing it so too much intensity too fast martyr martyr mentality Yeah, those are those are some big ones. I'm sure we're missing another one too because there's a there's a lot of the characteristics that tend to be roadblock this one isn't necessarily a mental characteristic, but it is a roadblock and it's uh a lack of um a vision and a plan and so what I mean by that is if I if I have a Goal of something if I say to myself I want to climb the top of that mountain and that's all I know And I think to myself i'm going to go up to that base of that mountain. I'm just going to start climbing and I don't have a plan It can make it very difficult. I'm not prepared for what may happen. I don't know what to do next I don't have the preparation to know that I need to stop at this point to You know get my food here my water whatever same thing for fitness. So I think a lot especially right now in january a lot of people enter into The fitness realm they end up going to a gym and they're like I need to lose weight and all they know their whole plan Is I'm just going to work out and move and sweat and burn calories based off of what's worked for them in the past Right like we've mentioned it's it that's a very common thing to to go along those lines of like not having a plan It's like you're gonna your default is going to be what worked for you and you're like 20 or 18, you know But it's just doesn't translate now and it's a simple plan. It's like I'm just going to keep moving I'm just going to move twice twice a week and I'm just gonna so many people don't know that they don't know They think they they think they know because like I said at one point Everyone's been in better shape than they're probably sitting at right now Right unless you just happen to be in the best shape of your life at this moment to listen to this podcast Most people can say Oh, I was in great shape when I did this like imagine if If I identified with a men's physique guy and identified with that being as the best shape of my life Which it was I was in the best shape of my life competing and what if I identified with what I had to do To be there as like the way you forgot all the ramping up and right right and it was just you know Doing all the doing that whole process of carrying my food around and training seven days a week and that and I'm either on it Or off of it I'm either have the time to make that commitment to be that guy or I don't have that time to people do that That's obviously an extreme analogy But like Sal's saying with the running I mean I see this every day right now where I live near a park There's a lot of people that go by jogging and I always look at the people that are they're running and it's I always see them like fuck dude, you should not be running You just tell by their posture and the way they're running like dude I'm guarantee that guy or girl goes home later that night and their joints are aching like crazy and it's like Why why would you even choose it? Like just walk right now I'm saying go for a longer walk or restrict from something or pick up some weights But that's because you know people that have done that in the past They knew that they lost the weight the fastest by just getting out there and running around it It helps a lot to look at your goal and then to break it up And to see what your plan is and to do it in a very slow methodical fashion So if you're if someone's not working out and they decide they want to get fit Then maybe for the first three weeks, they're only exercising once a week and they're focusing on a particular You know goal or a particular metric and then the next three weeks They ramp it up ramp it up a little bit in the next three weeks They add a little bit of meat or whatever actually we're doing something similar on our youtube channel What we put out this this workout this 30-day workout and if you follow it you'll see how it's a Progress it's a plan, but it's it's progressive And if you don't have that plan at some point, you know three months later It's usually about two or three months. That's about The the drop-off right isn't it right people will join gyms in january usually around average Yeah, it's yeah. No, it's there's there's statistics on this the average person There's actually this is uh the the stuff that support like planet fitness and and companies like this 24-hour fitness For their EFT model The average person signs up for a gym membership and uses it for three months and stops using it But continues to pay for seven months after that So the gyms are getting a hold on a second. Let's do the math here. I'm going to show you guys something interesting Let's say the average cost of a of a monthly You know membership at one of these gyms is what would be the average 24 fitness right now 30 25? Yeah, say 30. Okay, so 30 and they're paying for 10 months Right because they pay for three and use it. Yeah, but then seven they don't use it Right, so they know they're going to collect 300 dollars from this person Right now they're going to divide that by how many months they know the person uses it And now they're figuring about 100 bucks a month Is the value of that client in terms of how much they're going to use equipment How much they're going to use a facility right and their crowd right and that's how they do their numbers Absolutely right there. Absolutely. That's how they figure out their monthly dues and If they're advertising and pulling from a part of the population that they know is is because I guarantee you planet fitness numbers are worse No, they are because what they did was they they found the people that are that will pay for a while That are less are less knowledgeable about fitness and then this is not to not if you're using planet fitness I'm not saying you're not as smart as somebody else. It's just the fact that You are gonna get somebody they're actively advertising to that crowd Yes, if you're so you're if you're a gold's right if you're gold's gym You are more likely to get somebody who is passionate about lifting weights who reads all the magazines and reads all the articles They probably use the gym more. No, it's a fucking fact. It's a fact This isn't like me speculating. There's a fact that if you get going to golds You're more likely to find somebody who is that is very very passionate about lifting weights You go into planet fitness You're more likely to see the average jain or joe and the average jain or joe that doesn't know any better Doesn't know exactly what they should be doing Has no idea and that's and then they take that and that struggle with staying consistent and fall off like these numbers That we're talking about then we feed them pizza once a month, too It's like we're just increasing the odds of them not seeing seeing the results And the membership is so cheap because the statistics show the cheaper the membership The longer a person is likely to keep it exactly while they're not using it because oh, it's only $9. It's only $17. Oh those bastards Next question is from image writer. What do you guys feel is your best assessment tool for clients? This has changed over the years. I mean when I first became a trainer what we looked at was um Real basic we did posture assessment. So someone just standing there and we'd look for common posture deviations Then we would do a squat A pushing movement a pulling movement And that's pretty much it that was the basic one as I got into it more It got more complicated and more and you know, it's funny posture will tell you a lot about somebody But I won't tell you I won't tell you nearly as much as movement Um, one thing that I noticed is sometimes you see somebody with posture that may not look Textbook but then you have the move and they've got great biomechanics when they're doing exercises The problem I have with that statement though, it's like saying that if you're racing a car It's you know better to have a stick shift than an automatic But if you're just learning how to drive a car telling somebody that the best assessment or your brand new trainer telling them the best assessment tool is Uh movement and walking because I 100% agree like I'm I agree with you like that's to me I not only do the squat assessment and do our prime pro assessment that we have on there But then I also make somebody walk and pay attention to their movement as they do exercises stuff like that now a lot of that is because I have evolved as a trainer. I have learned to get I have learned Way more than what I knew when I first started so that's the only problem I have with that statement that you're saying right now because You know the first let you and you guys all know Our best assessment tool. So yeah, this is one of those things that I've like My quest as a trainer has interested me the most right Like nasm coming out with their squat assessment, you know, it was really helpful. It was revolutionary It was it was think about before that right what did we have before that not not a whole lot So, you know from that and then I went into more fms and you know what that Protocol consisted of and just like now they're getting into more You know multi-planar type movement assessments, which was cool And then I'm using very specific exercises that you can See what the performance and the response was you know from the joints and then now with frc How we're seeing that evolve into really seeing if you can even articulate the joint like it's supposed to Which makes a lot of fucking sense to me And which is the whole entire reason why I tried to invent this product to be able to capture You know what your body could actually Generate force wise because if you don't have connectivity and you don't have the abilities that your Joints are supposed to have Where the fuck what the fuck are we building on top of right? So I just I feel like a shaky foundation Yes, it's just like one of those things that gets kind of breezed over but I feel is is Been the basis of like me deciding whether or not I'm current and my training skills are up to date Well, this is why I'm really proud of how we put together maps prime pro was because We took a lot of our knowledge We know that you know the movement like sal was saying is a deal But then we also know that we're providing this tool for you know potentially thousands of people all over the world On okay, you're about to start working out. What is a good assessment? How do you assess yourself before you just start piling on all these exercises on to and on top of these deviations? So I think the prime pro assessment is fucking badass I mean, I think it's incredible for people that are just kind of learning about movement in the body I think it's a and I think it's an advanced enough that even somebody who's a professional Can utilize this tool to get a a really good idea in the first introduction when we just did prime, right? That's those three very simple foundational basic Type of movement patterns that we can see it tells us a ton You know right away, right? It's that quick like I can see I can okay Here's kind of the area That we're going to need to focus on now. Let's hyper focus. I look at it like this like prime is A fucking badass assessment tool for all trainers and all average people that were to buy any of our programs this I believe if you own any maps program, you should own prime to come to compliment it just because Bottom line is we all have imbalances. We all have deviations This is designed to help the average person who's going through our program Understand more about their own body and their mechanics Now if you're a professional or you're just a person too who wants to seek more in-depth knowledge And you want to break down the movement in every single joint. There's prime pro for you. That's why we created prime pro between those two tools I mean, uh, of course i'm biased because we created it But we created it based off of all these other great programs na fsm frc What you're talking about? I mean, oh all of us. It's a shared amount of knowledge, right? Yeah, we took every all the all the information and knowledge that we've all gained over these years from all these different Other great people. So again, we're standing on the shoulder standing on giants, right 100% I'll say this is something we're forgetting to mention. That's really basic Um, because i'm thinking as you guys are talking thinking myself like what part of the assessment could I do Could I never do without and I totally forgot about the first What's the very first thing you do when you assess a client the very first thing you do is you ask them questions Which is also part of the assessment. Yeah, and that is the one thing I could do I could never do without I have to be able to ask them particular questions very basic ones like What are your goals? That's fucking basic. What is your fitness history? Do you have any injuries or any pain? That is a super super basic part of assessment But you would be so surprised how many trainers don't ask questions Do you know how many times I've had clients come to me and be like, oh, I worked with this other trainer And when I showed up they just took me through a workout They didn't even ask them to tell you what to do. They might ask what your goals are. That's about what are your goals cool Let's go for a workout. Which is always weight loss muscle building. You know, that's a good general health, right? You got to ask questions That's like the the absolute first thing you do and here's the thing The bottom I mean, I hate to say this but if you're if you're a trainer And you're doing an assessment on a potentially potential new client the assessment serves two roles One is to give you some information on your on this potential client So you could show them things that are good for them And two all of this is so that that you can build down and they can hire you Because the truth is the hard truth is the assessment process never stops I never in my life Constantly asking for feedback you're always assessing them always so and the reason why I say that is I remember having trainers who would treat the assessment Like like they had to gather all the information like all the information they possibly could get every little bit of information They ended up bombarding the client with too much shit. They weren't able to tie it to how they could help the client The client never hired them or if they did That assessment that initial freaking super long Ridiculous detailed assessment process was worthless in about a week or two because the client's body changed as they started exercising So the reality is Yeah, it's liquid you have to constantly get feedback. I you know when I'm working myself out As I'm warming up as I'm priming I am mentally assessing my body noticing You know, oh my hip feels a little tight in this direction or my ankle Seems like I have more mobility here or less mobility or I feel like I can't connect To abduction, you know as I'm going through this light priming set of squats or whatever That is the information that's really going to benefit you because it's real time It's right before you do your exercises So, you know, if you're if you're assessing yourself or using an assessment tool recommend you do it Before every single workout prime bundle. That's where it's at Next question is from jenny dinner bell If you had a hundred pounds to lose, what are the top 10 immediate changes you would make? I love this question Yep, I love this question. I don't know if I we'll see together. Maybe we can put together 10 of them I have my number one on a few but um, I got a I got a few things that I I tell people I think Where would you start someone right? I would start somebody okay, because they're 100 pounds overweight. That's that's very obese The first thing I would start them to do is to track in an app like fat secret or married fitness pal for a week or two And this is because and not to change anything to eat their normal patterns because even if you don't have a trainer This will help you make connections with your own habits and patterns. I don't know how many people I have told or shared this with or had them do and they go Well, I didn't realize I was eating that much. I didn't realize I was doing that much that I didn't realize I wasn't getting enough of that they don't realize it until you help them that so I think The first step is to track your food for a week or two and be diligent about that and don't try and Make a bunch of changes and be totally different because you want to get an idea of your habits And the way you've been feeding your body. That's the first one for me. So how many let me ask you guys this because Right as I'm thinking about this question I'm trying to envision what the client looks like and if they're a hundred pounds overweight They look like they're a hundred pounds overweight. Well, there's well what I mean is uh, not just on their hips not literally look yeah, not literally but um, there's a different Mental shift between the average client that wants to lose like 20 30 pounds And then the 100 pound overweight client I I haven't worked with a ton because it's not actually not a large percentage population But I've worked with I've probably a few at least I can think of Three clients who've lost A hundred pounds that I've worked with. Yeah, because it's not super common at least at least it wasn't for me Oh, wow. I've actually I've dealt with a lot. Yeah, so Well, you you were connected weren't you didn't you at one point work with the hospital across it? Yeah, I did They send you guys that's why I say I've done a lot So I've had a lot of clients that were coming over there. We've done they would do the surgery I ran I used to I think two or three years in a row. I ran a biggest loser challenge So like when the biggest loser was a big thing and I was trying to tell people that it's a shitty way to To try and die and get ready and like this is if you want to do a biggest loser challenge I remember we did that with the body bug right. Yeah, right We had so I have I've whole thing with that I've dealt with quite a few of them and you're right. There is a it's it's different right different mentality You're I think as a good trainer is mentally preparing somebody that's that overweight that listen This 100% and this story is the same to the 20 pound person that needs to lose weight or whatever with that But I think it's just you really got to nail that down with someone is that overweight that listen This is going to take some time This is not we're in fact we don't want it all to come off like biggest loser I always used to use biggest loser as an example for them because most people that are over 100 pounds of weight Know what biggest loser is and they've seen that before and and no matter what they say But in the back of their mind, they all kind of want the same thing You know, they're all like Fuck I saw a biggest loser and this guy lost 100 pounds over the six week course with that and you're just like No, you don't want to do that. So we had we had one client who came in who Want who had to lose over 100 and I think 130 pounds And the doctor told him he had to lose 30 pounds before he could get the surgery A lot of people don't know that that many times when people go in to get gaster bypass They're they're they won't operate on them until they lose some weight On their own and I think that serves two functions, you know one It's obviously probably unsafe if you're super super overweight to operate on them So it's just too much of a risk and the second reason is psychologically I think they want to see that the person can do Some of it on their own because the the psychological issues that follow I think they're starting to they do psychological now that they'll have them meet with like a psychologist They'll have them take classes. There's a whole process now, but This gentleman comes in and had to lose 30 pounds before he could get the surgery And this was a very uh, it was a pretty incredible success story because he opted out of the surgery and actually lost all the weight Without getting the surgery because of the the whole process But uh, the success that I've had with people in this situation always starts off So slow like the first thing I tell somebody in this situation is literally and it depends on the person But literally be like, okay step one all you all just just drink water. Don't drink anything but water That alone for some of these people. I remember this guy You know doing that was a challenge because he didn't drink water only drank with soda It's all he had like two liters. That's it. So we're like all yeah all Yeah, step one don't do anything else you're coming in here to work out with us But there wasn't much we could do with him because he was so big and it was like just drink water and the dude lost like I think it was like 12 or 15 pounds right away just from cutting out just from drinking water So along those lines, which I agree This is why I think the tracking for the first week is so important because I too will take and we can use water because I think water is a great one to start and is so true Most people that have that that overweight are drinking a lot of calories So that makes a huge difference just to switch them over from all the Sugar drinks that they are drinking over to water. But maybe this person is already drinking good amount of water This is how I individualize the tip that you're giving right now is I look at that week And I pick one thing One thing only that that we're lacking in maybe it's not enough fiber. Maybe it's way too much sugar Maybe it's too much drinks sugar drinks and not enough water. Maybe it's whatever it may be But we will find trust me. There's going to be plenty of things to find that is wrong And pick one thing and we're going to we're going to nail that down and we're going to master that We're going to create good habits of you and you I might have to some some people that are that overweight I have to normally scale like I've dude. I've trained people that drink six to nine cokes a day I don't know if you guys ever I've had that You don't take someone who's drinking six to nine cokes a day and say here's your meal plan For every meal. Yeah, right. Here's your meal plan that my computer at 24 finished printed out for it. Follow that and let's go You know, no that person. It's like, okay, you're drinking six to nine a day. Just do that shit away Let's cut it down to three. Yeah, you know, let's cut it down to two. Let's cut it down to one Let's go every other day. Let's see what it's like when you only do it once a week In psychologically speaking, it's very powerful because the person yes They accomplish something you need to give these you need to give somebody you're gonna win when you have a massive goal Okay, and it's just like this is life, man When you have a fucking massive goal, I want to be a million million air one day I want to lose a hundred pound whatever your fucking goal is Taking it in small steps So you start to get these victories along the way versus always focusing on the end goal Which is a is a long process when you're trying to lose a hundred pounds I mean you lose 10 pounds and you work hard toward and all you're looking is that at that number 100 You want to give up? Yeah, especially when you know how hard it was for you to get that 10 I've had clients. I literally had a lady and I Didn't believe I couldn't believe what I couldn't believe it. I thought for sure This is no way this is true, but it was very true She did not drink water ever Never she woke up in the morning and had a coke and that's what she had all day long Now, of course, she's getting water through the coke So yeah, you can survive that way But it was so shocking to me that she never drank water to the point where like you're saying I started having to replace one coke at a time with water and she would gag She would she would message me and be like, I can't do this. It's too just it's too gross And I don't think like water is gross. It's water. What do you mean? It's gross I've had some crazy. I had I had Another person a hundred pound overweight who every meal and there were several more than three So they did like five or six times a day every meal Was a fast food meal from a fast food restaurant every single meal, right every single one It's so the the steps you take have got to be small the one thing I like That now that I look back. I didn't realize that this is why it was successful But we've talked about this since we've been on the show Is rather than taking things away is adding You know what I mean? So yes, so and I now that I think back It was always very successful when I did it, but it was almost on accident So what I would do is I'd say, you know Instead of telling them like, okay, you're eating three fast food meals a day and instead of saying You know, don't eat fast food out of you know, one of those meals or something like that I would just say I have to eat broccoli Yeah, I would say eat two cups of broccoli a day and then continue doing what you're doing And that seems to be a more successful approach than the takeaway So I used I used to go like this with someone this big of a goal I would go You know movement You know strength nutrition Adding something and I would kind of rotate through them So like this this time the thing I'm talking to this person, right? All I'm talking about is just the water thing what you're saying And then let's say we've been training for three four weeks and they've lost a couple pounds Maybe they didn't even lose anything But they've got the habit now of drinking water instead of all these sugar drinks Then I look again and I'm going like okay. Well, we're not getting enough fiber So it's like that I'm just driving home the fiber and then I move over to mobility Obviously this person's probably going to have some mobility issues or have something going on And I give them a goal which is hey, you know three times a day when you see the sticker I used to do I used to do this a lot with clients. I used to give these stickers out And I think I've talked about this on the show before and I'd have them stick a sticker Throughout their house. I give them like four stickers and each sticker represented something different Scratch and sniff. Yeah, right and I would put it throughout the house Maybe one's on the refrigerator one of them and I let them pick wherever I just places that you walk sporadically through the day and when you see this sticker I want you to do this thing whatever the task was whatever I was focusing on whether that be drinking more water Getting more fiber in the diet doing a mobility stretch real quick And you start to create these new habits and patterns that I know ultimately are benefiting the big goal Which is lose a hundred pounds because I guarantee this person wasn't doing a mobility exercise Wasn't drinking enough water wasn't getting enough fiber eating too much sugar So instead of bombarding with them all the things that they were doing wrong Let's just pick one thing like every week or two and we just keep hammering those homes and we keep building on it And it's amazing. You start to get some momentum. So, you know, you talk about the 10 immediate changes I wouldn't do 10 immediate changes. I might pick 10 things too many I might pick 10 things that this person probably needs to work on and I'd give them one at a time And master those sometimes just sleep Right That's something I had to do with the client. It's just like I'm not gonna be eating a lot of times I sleep a lot of times you cannot mind blowing to me. You can't um I really can't stress enough how much you need to appreciate what state This person is in I remember I had one uh individual who was losing a lot of weight and He would uh come in and talk to me about how bad his digestion was And one workout, uh, I saw him outside waiting for me because I was with a client And the dude is eating jack-in-the-box So he came in and I said, hey, you said shout out the jack-in-the-box tacos Had a lot of those the Colossus burger You heard that thing We're not even sponsored by them He comes in and it was it was relatively early in our our training relationship and I said to him I said, you know, I said I I I bet you a lot of your digestive issues may be coming from the fast food that you're eating And the look on his face. He was shocked like that like he didn't even understand that that could possibly be influencing his digestion Really? Yeah, he looked at me. He's like what you really think it. I said, yeah, I think that might be a why don't you try And it's like at that moment. I realized like We take for granted how much you know, we know and how much we what we think is obvious Right, but people don't even realize so these little tiny things. Oh, it's crazy. I have to check myself Next question is from freaky jake Hey, it's justin's buddy My favorite. He's freaky Any thoughts on channeling addictive tendencies into productive behaviors? Have you ever dealt with this in your lives? Oh, yeah story of my life This is um, this is like a page out of louis howell louis howell's books the book that he just released the Yeah, the mass, right? You really you really put a exclamation part on that book I This book Yeah, no, this is uh, this is I think more people are there's not a lot of people that realize that Uh, we all kind of do this, right? We tend to Gravitate towards what's working for us and a lot of times it is the things that we are most addicted to And a lot of times a reason why we're addicted to them is because we're interested in well No, it's like it's it's given us some sort of return Whether it be relief from something and you're addicted to drugs and it gives you you're you're no longer Present and so you're that way that's giving you that and so they're you're drawn to that or You know, maybe you're a workaholic and that's provided a living for you and the toys and the things that you want So a lot of times the things that uh, that we're really addicted to have already do this I think the challenge more is is recognizing and seeing it, right? Yeah, it's it's funny because the question is like channeling addictive tendencies Into productive behaviors the the very act of being addicted to a behavior Means it no longer really serves you and becomes productive. It has a negative connotation. Yeah. So like you can work hard But you could also be addicted to work Both of them yield you different results You may be successful monetarily with both of them But being addicted to worth work probably means It takes away from well, this is other parts remember only if we uh, I think the first time I talked I talked about Your greatest strength is your greatest weakness. This is a lot of what that means You know a lot of times the things that we are best at also can be the things that hurt us the most and that's Right into this just about what you're willing to compromise because if you want to be you know I'm the greatest basketball player of all time, you know, of course I'm going to have addictive behavior and it's going to be unbalanced on you know, certain levels And certain things are going to suffer as a result and you know, you could you could put that into any situation And you're just going to have to identify that like okay Is this feeding what my ultimate vision and my ultimate goal is or is it not you know contributing towards that? It's negative. I think there's a lot of confusion though around the word Addicted I think people think addicted is the same thing as driven or right focused No addiction literally means it is uh detrimental Like to your life and do anything about it. There is a mental You know issue that's going on here It is not the same as being focused because you could be very focused You could be super focused on a goal and bust your ass and people around you But people will replace that word all the time. Yeah, they might say like, oh, you're just addicted to You know what you're doing and you may even joke around be like i'm addicted to it But being addicted, uh, it doesn't feel good. I don't think it's a like Wow, i'm really enjoying what i'm doing. It's it's like you're compelled to do it Even though you dislike it. I don't think I mean someone is a real like addictive You know really addicted to something it's taken quite a you know, it's taken away from the life So the question about well, let's talk about your hypomania a little bit. Yeah, so let's talk about your hypomania and how Uh, how you use that or you channel that to be more successful Um and how you do not allow it to create uh addictive habits. Yeah, so, um, I definitely go through periods where I Would sell also believes that I am to you, right? Yeah, you probably are recently read that self-diagnose I you know, actually I had a doctor client tell me that anyway, so I'll go through periods where I'm just elevated. I'm very motivated I'm very into things and I'll find something and I'll just dive into it Um and in the past see here's a funny thing I don't I think it might tip into some addictive Behaviors if my life is fucked like if I'm in a bad situation in my life Then I can see it turning and developing into more of that addictive damaging, uh, you know type of behavior Uh, definitely, you know towards the end of my marriage when I was and a lot of that Is just because you're you're not wanting to be present You're wanting to disconnect because where being present means you have to deal with this Current issue in your life that probably is painful is challenging That's right. So then you lean to these things you channel that energy, which that's where this can be bad So I think that's a great point. Yeah, because if my life is in a certain, you know position in a good space I could still be extremely focused, but it's not the same Feeling, um, I mean I mean towards the end of my marriage, you know, we were we were both very unhappy And I would get addicted to exercise and work And I just doubt's all I would do And a lot of it was the escape a lot of it was this was my My way of not being present in a lot of my problems and it was definitely Overdoing it. I could definitely look back and be like, wow, there was no need for you to do That much because it was taken away from your kids. It was taken away from your family Today I have I think less of a likelihood to do that But if you're a focused individual and you find that think about this Sal What about a good example to me is our trips that we take You know, and if you think you are and then you think potentially I am too like what we do when we go on these trips Where we take off would be would be totally unhealthy to be doing that all the time 100% right. We we for three days We literally don't leave a building or a house or wherever we're at and we work for probably 18 hours a day That is but we have fun the whole time, right? It's I mean, it's well, it's fun. It's the addictive properties That's what I'm saying. This is how I could give him an example of How we channel something that could be that could become addictive and unhealthy because we are so productive And we are so having we are having fun. It is the rush is fun. Why we're in it But let's be honest, how many of you guys would have successful relationships with your family and your kids If we were doing that all the time So we take something that is a strength of ours this ability to hyper focus on something and totally I mean, I don't even call my girl a lot of times a lot of times I look down on my phone. Oh, fuck It's already. Yeah, I haven't even called her today or anything like that And so I that would be a very unhealthy way for me to maintain our relationship If I treated her like that always now the reason why I love my girl to death We've been together for a long time. She knows that and she allows that to happen for us to go there Do your thing. I know you guys are extremely productive But I guarantee she wouldn't put up with that shit if it was seven days a week every day Where I was like, honey, we're so productive. I'm killing it. Look all the money we're making and that was my excuse But that would be me more addicted to that that habit versus Taking that and using it to an advantage But then also being very aware of it that it can become something There is a personality trait that some people have and I have a little bit of this I think where I can get into something and I can become very focused and enjoy it Until it gets kind of boring and then I move on to the next thing people used to joke on me when I was a kid And they'd be like, oh, what are you into now? Because I'd get really into something and I'd get into it and I'd learn everything about it And that's all I would talk about And then that would last anywhere between a month to a year or two years and then I'd move on to the next thing I don't think there's anything inherently wrong with that and if you You can you can definitely Utilize that if you have that quality because a lot of people have that quality a lot of people will really get into something Until they get bored with it and move to the next thing don't feel guilty I think it's cool because you learn a lot of shit like move to something else if it's fitness for example How awesome would that be if you get really into you know powerlifting for A year and then the next year like oh, I'm really going to get into yoga and then oh, I'm really going to get into, you know obstacle course racing I mean that's a kind of that sounds fun if you ask me But I think a lot of times people Feel bad about doing that because then they feel like they're moving from one thing to the next and it's No, I get addicted and then I lose it and I go I think I think the idea is to channel your strengths The things you're passionate about the things that you do well channel those and and and foster those But then also be aware your greatest strength is normally your greatest weakness So if that is a strength of yours and you're killing it So that may have some perspective Detach yourself a little bit and evaluate your life and be like, okay Well, this is good for this part of my life But is it serving me in other parts of my life and if it's not and it's potentially doing damage Then it's probably becoming addictive and at that point it is not something that you want to maintain You want to find balance that way? Can you guys think of times in your lives when you were Close to addicted to some oh hundred percent I did that's why this is this conversation this conversation around the work thing is I used to do this. This was my mo with Girls that I would date in the past Is when I was over the relationship where I knew that we weren't meant to be or whatever You know my passive aggressive way of ending the relationship Would be to bury it into one of my strengths, which would be fucking work like I could just I would and then I would just start to Leave that relationship and instead of breaking it off. I would just bury myself into my work And it was really easy to justify that and then it would end up causing problems in the relationship And then we would obviously end eventually but it was an unhealthy way for me to approach that I'm sure it it drugged us both through a lot more harm more stress in my life And it was unhealthy for me to be doing that but that's an example of Me taking something and and then become an addictive property, which for me was work And using it to not handle another issue. I think we all somewhat share that in common And I think that's why we have put reserves, you know in place Because of that because we all can see those tendencies and see how that sort of You know like between our relationships and how we're dealing with each other and And it's so helpful to have a partner that recognizes that that's you know weakness and the strength And that you know, you just have to keep that conversation going to know Whether i'm stretching it too far or too hard And whether I should kind of back off a bit and then you know just undulate it a bit more I was uh for years on and off I was addicted to exercise 100% I didn't miss a workout and give a fuck what was going on. It could be anything If I had to be somewhere at 6 a.m. I'd wake up at 3 a.m. This is one of the things you still I still see you struggle with I still see you and I've I know I've teased you about it before where We are somewhere and you really want to get your workout in and it's like fuck bro It just doesn't fit in the schedule to take can we just take a day off and I can see the way I can see your wheels spinning and see it like you dealing with it, but handling it you handle it now Where before I bet it was now I take time off and it's really not a problem But in the past it was like it was gonna happen if I had to wake up literally at 3 a.m To make it happen. I would make it happen. I never missed it didn't matter if I was getting married didn't matter if it was a Family function didn't matter if I was out of if I was on a vacation somewhere I would totally plan it around the gyms or I'd bring bands with me And it was a very healthy excuse me unhealthy Relationship with exercise and it's just it's a compulsion. You know, that's that's where I feel like the addictive You know where addiction comes where you feel like you're complete You have to do it versus I want to do this now had you asked me I'd be like no I want to do this But no it was I I doing it was better than not doing it in the sense that when I didn't do it I'd have withdrawal You know I mean like I didn't work out today. 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