 First question is from Lopez 93. What is the exercise you dislike the most, but do regularly because you know, it's beneficial Oh, yeah, you know pull-ups. Really? Yeah. Oh, that's okay. That's actually a good call. Why do you hate them? I was never good at him. You know, I was a pusher. Yeah more in a polar That's not I yeah, but it's true Summing you into there's no sexual You remember the presidential physical fitness test. Yeah, yeah, so I did really well like in in the mile-run Push-up contest like to reach abs on pull-ups. We're just a grind It just sucked and it's always been inside would avoid it and come back to it avoid it now Just like it's a part of the routine by spite, you know, because I just don't want to be weak Yeah, you know what you know what's funny with the presidential fitness test I did I crushed everything the one test used to always to piss me off was the seat sit and reach What a stupid fitness test I don't care I crushed the push all the physical stuff Then you got to sit down and you got to go and reach as far as you gotta give the gumby kid something Yeah, right, maybe so mad The irony that that's probably your Achilles heel today if you're probably the least flexible at all of us No, I think flexibility. I'm pretty good mobility is different though But I got decent flexibility from jujitsu, but my mobility is not that not that phenomenal That's yours and you know, I would have to say the split stance lower-body exercises Bulgarian split squat like that walking lunges Back step lunges single leg exercises. They they're just I Can get now I enjoy them now because I've connected them to the I've played some mind games on myself with it I've connected the benefit to the exercise which now makes me enjoy it It's like switch you do with vegetables, too It's like if I sit and like think of the taste of the vegetables I'm like, but if I start to really connect the dots to the benefit then I start to actually enjoy the vegetables Split stance exercises. You can't go as heavy. I love heavy training, you know I like loading up the barbell like to feel like I'm you know packing on the muscle and You know when I'm doing those exercises, they just they're lighter. They require more balance I need to be slower with them But I've dedicated myself to them for a little while and I see the carry-over so now that I've connected them the benefit I like them a little more, but I still don't enjoy them as much as that's such a good point because I think that Most there's most exercises that I do on a regular basis I might have I probably hated at one point But because I've gone through that process of okay regardless of me hating it or not I'm going to build into my routine consistently and then I've done it long enough that it's showing me the benefits from it that I've learned to like it. I mean squats was like that for me at one point. Oh, wow great point Yeah, I mean you hated squads. I hated squads It's like one of my favorite things to do if there's anything that if I have a week where I do hardly anything I will definitely at least squat so you know a lot of movements that I do on a regular basis at one point Now which because okay. Here's the thing most people Hate the stuff that is most effective and most difficult right most people like pull-ups are pretty hard You know squatting is pretty hard deadlifting is pretty hard overhead standing overhead press is hard You know, they're like, you know Turkish get up hard these are all hard movements and they also come with tremendous benefit and if you've done a good job of Putting it in your routine consistently long enough. It's probably paid you dividends and then you don't have the same feeling about it So it's hard to say this like it's hard it like what is it that I'm doing right now that? I'm in there on a regular basis that I that I really hate doing but I continue to do it really well I mean pull-ups are probably the one that comes to mind the most Justin because I do go in and out of these phases When I am doing pull-ups and I just came out of a phase of not doing them for a while And so I suck at them right now. So of course soon as I see I suck at them. I'm like, okay I'm gonna fix this I don't want to be that bad at pull-ups such a functional movement I love pull-ups one of my favorite exercises But I think when you you know what you guys are bringing up good points because we've been training for so long I think you got to get past some of that stuff because you see the benefit you're like well This is why I'm doing it. Yeah, so I'm just gonna I would never do a standing before you guys I would have never done a standing overhead press on my own. It's not something I like to do at all I definitely wasn't even deadlifting before I would have never done the sled drives Never it was it felt to like it didn't give me the pump and it felt like I was like what I'm not gonna play football or whatever It's hard and yeah, yeah, like less roar But now I do it at least once a week if not twice a week because I'm starting to really see and feel the benefits that it's providing Yeah, but you know, that's another good point. You are gonna go through cycles with exercises There's gonna be times when you're not gonna like an exercise and then times when you like like, you know, here's a deal Certain ways of working out I like when I'm trying to get lean and there's certain ways of working out that I like to do when I'm trying to build size and bulk like heavy lifting for low reps and you know long rest periods you sucks when I'm getting lean because I'm just not a strong I'm not gonna go out and squat or deadlift tons of weight when my calories are low So I tend to pair it with lighter weight and supersets not because of the calorie burner anything But because I already not gonna I'm already not gonna lift as much weight because I'm doing short rest periods Might as well do it my calories alone, right? Well, that's the same I mean, I I just got back into like kettlebell swings. I hate it right now because I just been if doing like no cardio no endurance training like nothing like that kind of explosive and it's oh man And it's very visible and and my body feels the lack of You know work in that direction. So it's just one of those things like I even like well I should probably get back into these just because I haven't done them in so long I mean, that's the takeaway from this is that no matter what it is you hate doing you do it long enough You're gonna see some tremendous benefit from it and that typically switches you hating it I think at one point a lot of the stuff that I do on a really risk and a lot of the stuff that I love today I hate it at one point So if you can discipline yourself to just be consistent, especially if you know, it's good for you Right, you know, it's a movement You know It's a one of those movements that has so many benefits to it and you just have never been really consistent with it for long Enough stick with it and it'll probably end up turning into something you love Here's a little mind game you can because it's all about how you Perceive the movement and what part of it you're focusing on like if I'm focusing on am I good at this exercise now Then there's gonna be exercises that I'm gonna hate if I switch my mindset and fall in love with the improvement of the exercise So not that I'm good or bad at it But rather Wow, I can see that I'm getting better at and I fall in love with that part of it Then what ends up happening is these exercises that you suck at start to become your favorite Because the potential for improvement is so high in them like the exercises that I'm already good at now My potential for improving on them as low. I've been doing them for a long time I'm already good at them, but if I go do an exercise I suck at I'm gonna get I'm gonna see improvements on a weekly basis And so if I don't focus on the wet the fact that I suck at it, but rather the improvements now I start to enjoy doing the exercise so you have to you have to change your mindset reframe it. Yes Hey, if you like this clip and you want to see more like this click right here But if you want to see the full episode where this clip came from click right here