 Ladies and gentlemen silent mic back with another video before we get involved We're going to talk about how to stay motivated how to keep going how for long-term success in the gym with your fitness goals Which if you take these principles and kind of move them into business relationships They may have some application allow you longer term success before we get involved Turn on notifications click that thumbs up be sure to subscribe check out twitch I'm streaming every single day. We're having a lot of fun. Check out 50% facts every Wednesday Comment below what you guys want me to cover in the next video nutrition fitness life Whatever might be we'll talk about it and let's dive in so the question for you guys was I'm not enjoying lifting right now and it's causing me to not go to the gym for long periods of time How can I get some spark back to start enjoying the gym? And now there's a lot of things you guys kind of know me here on the internet as a powerlifting Strength and conditioning type coach and you guys see me a lot of times in my highlights, right? Because that's all I could show on the internet I'm not gonna film myself laying on the couch in the conversation I'm having with myself to not want to go to the gym today or while I'm actually in the gym I'm not filming the conversation in my head or showing you my thoughts like man. I really just want to skip cardio I just want to head home or when I'm sitting that at my kitchen right now And I want to I want to go just order a hamburger on uber eats rather than cooking up You know a little bit of steak and eating some veggies with it You don't see those conversations, but I'm just as human as all you guys and happens to all of us We go through lulls motivation is fleeting Disciplines hopefully what's gonna keep us going but even that When outside stress of our life gets involved it's gonna be very difficult for us to juggle everything and that's just life The older you get it gets slightly easier to control some of these stressors Hopefully you're self-aware enough to start to eliminate some of the negative and start to enhance the positive in your life Whether that be relationship business and we find our own path But sometimes, you know stuff just happens and we get involved with negativity drama stress from work stress from friendships relationships wives husbands boyfriends girlfriends were Whatever it might be and it becomes a speed bump it can affect and ripple down effect and the gym you know our self-time our Meditation whatever it is to maybe bar cardio eating healthy those things are what we really need to start focusing on during those times to allow Us to be in the right mental state and personal state to handle the stressors that's coming I've trained people for over 12 years now in the gym You know over the last seven years on the internet. It's been more powerlifting base But I've worked with tons of high school and college athletes basketball rugby, etc. A lot of just every day people people with normal jobs Whether it's doctors sales people whatever it might be You know the elderly some people that are retired people going through injuries rehabs Whatever it might be so if I have a scope of people and they all come down At some point not wanting to work out not wanting to get out of bed Whatever you want to call it depression a lol we all have these negatives And these are just some tips that I found out help me get back in the gym And have helped some of the people that I've coached over time Some of them may seem a little bit corny and they may seem a little bit cliche and maybe you read them in people's magazine But for me they've worked and so Let's dig in number one is always going to be goal-setting for me whenever you have a direct goal with a direct Timeline there's something that clicks into the human mind and especially if you're a competitive athlete in your past Present whatever it might be those things will allow us to kick in shift into a next gear and you're going to train differently Now some of them may be simple. Hey, I have a wedding to go to and I want to drop 10 pounds by May 10 That's a date and kind of a you know something you want to look a little bit better for the wedding You want to be in pictures whatever might be and sometimes it might have to be a little bit extreme Hey, I haven't done a competitive sports since high school or college But I'm gonna sign up for a powerlifting meet come July and now you're really putting your buttocks on the line And things are gonna get a little bit more extreme Maybe you're gonna take more care and get your sleep taking more care of getting your food because you're putting You know your reputation on the line and you're gonna walk the walk and talk the talk So those are a couple things that I look into it all depends on your goals overall And for me right now, I've gone through similar roles You know, I've had this back issue going on for my whole life, but more dramatically the last two or three years And again, you know, you all know me as a powerlifter I don't love powerlifting competitions, but I do love lifting heavy and right now I just can't deadlift heavy It's just not possible for my body So I've had to switch gears and change my mentality to focusing in on my health I've made a goal in my mind to find better balance in my life having a little bit of fun with my food Having a glass of wine at dinner Well still getting my cardio in and I'm slowly trying to get into the best shape of my life And right now cardiovascularly, I'm not as in good shape as when I played college basketball But I am in better cardiovascular shape than I've ever been Probably since I was 22 and so those are really good goals for me and they're allowing me to stay steady in the gym I'm adding minutes on the on the elliptical every day on the step meal. I'm speeding up my supersets I'm lowering my rest times between training and all those things aren't visual to you It's not a deadlift PR I can put on Instagram and it's not a flexing bicep with extra veins But for me that's progress and that's enough for me to continue to push towards those goals So soon I'm gonna take that cardio. I'm gonna add it in with my nutrition I'm gonna start lifting a little bit heavier and I am gonna look the best I've ever looked in my life Those are my long-term goals for 2019 And so if you get short-term goals, medium-term goals, you get a month month month out six months out in a year out I think you stick better the plan Here's one of the cornier ones, but you know, honestly, maybe it's just me because I'm kind of a sneaker head I like clothes, but tip number two is buy something that you can use and get excited about in the gym Whether that's a training session with a coach. Maybe that's visiting a new gym Maybe you're gonna go see You know your favorite local gym if you live in LA You're gonna take a day trip and go deadlift at barbara gate whatever it might be maybe a new pair of sneakers Maybe some clothes for me what really gets me going when I have new stuff is making a new music playlist Or buying some new headphones or something like that I use really crappy earbuds for the longest time And so when I got some nice earbuds in the gym and I could their sound cancelling And I could go in the gym and just jam out to my music I made a new playlist all that gets me really excited a new pair of sneakers can often make you excited new squat shoes New belt whatever it might be and so some of that is Short-lived it won't last forever that excitement about that product or about that new item But it may allow you to get in the gym just that extra push for that week And then you can find your role and once you're rolling on anything and you're starting to get in your groove Things become a lot easier tip number three kind of locks in with tip number one in a different way But tip number three would be find or try something new or go to something old that you used to love When I hit my biggest lull I tried to come back from deadlifting I hit like a 585 deadlift within the last six months and I blew my back out a little bit again I think I have a you know the disc issue. I was just like alright I'm gonna totally you turn and I'm gonna go back to what I used to love what's healthy What's exercise and I started playing basketball about three or four times a week and for you that might be something brand new You've never tried yoga and now you want to go try yoga with some friends You've never done a biking class a spin bike class We're gonna go do that you've never power lifted and now you want to focus on strength Whatever it is, but trying something new or doing something different whether that could be as simple as trying a new pro If you're a powerlifter trying a new program or coach or if you're a powerlifter going over here and trying yoga either way Just switching up trying a new routine a new Formal working out when the weather gets better my favorite thing to do is going to go for bike rides Does that directly correlate with all my strength goals or my aesthetic goals a little bit? You know going for a casual bike ride isn't probably the best cardio for me to get into my leanest aesthetic shape But it's a way for me to burn a little extra calories and free my mind It's my meditation it allows me to relieve some stress listening to music whatever and I guess the fourth tip This is kind of just an add-on the fourth tip is to start to find routine and to mitigate stress Stress from life is all the same So we have one little barrel of this the amount of stress that we can handle and if you're deadlifting You know your face off five times a week. You're going through a divorce. You're eating crappy You're sleeping crappy your work's piling up. You've got to do work in overtime. All these things are happening The stress is stress is stress and your body can't adapt to all that at once So we have to start to find different things meditation Extra sleep extra water extra happy family time going for a walk watching your favorite movie watching You know comedy whatever might be for you to start to relieve some of these stressors So then we can overall recover and hopefully live a slightly happier Life and a happy is going to be obviously a whole vague different wormhole We can go down how to find happiness how to find success But for me, it's about finding the routine that allows me to do what it is I enjoy and I can do for a long period of time watching your favorite Rocky III movie Is really good motivation for maybe one workout or one hour But these other tips will hopefully allow you success over the long period of time guys Let me know what you think below comment below what you want me to cover in the next video Keep those questions coming. I'm gonna keep answering them man. Do I appreciate you guys? I'll see you on Twitch I'll see you Monday at Thursday brand new videos. So I'm like, I'm out of here