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The Fit Perception
The Fit Perception
The Great Debate: Doctors vs Health and Fitness Experts
Ready to challenge the status quo? We're shaking things up this episode as we navigate the glitter and grime of LA while taking a deep dive into the world of young professional athletes. My personal experience teaching a mega fitness class in LA left me with strong feelings about the self-obsession and attitudes in the city. Furthermore, I raise a controversial opinion on why the minimum age for professional athletes needs to be 25. It's all about ensuring these young talents are mentally ready for the fame, fortune, and the demanding spotlight.
As we journey through the bustling world of sports, we scrutinize the intense pressure on young athletes and the lack of support systems in place. Fame and fortune may sound exciting, but it can be a double-edged sword. Can the sports industry really just stand by while these young stars struggle to cope? And let's not forget the media's role. I share my candid views on how uninformed opinions can cause unnecessary damage to an athlete's mental health.
Now, here's a provocative question to ponder - who contributes more to humanity's overall health: doctors or health and fitness experts? We pit the in-depth education and expertise of doctors against the preventive measures and lifestyle guidance offered by health and fitness experts. Though the debate heats up, you might be surprised where we land. So, brace yourself for an episode filled with insights, a dash of controversy, and a good dose of reality checks. Let's hit the play button!
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What is good, fam. It feels good to be back in the studio. I'm feeling re-energized. My schedule has been wildly too crazy, kind of had to take a little a week off because went to LA for a big old party. Here's the thing. Hey, la don't suck so much. How about that? Okay, you have like the best weather in the whole wide world. You suck. Maybe that's harsh. I have a lot of friends that live in LA. Hey, move, it's horrendous. And here's why everyone there is so unbelievably obsessed with themselves. And hey, I get it, you're trying to make your way, trying to be famous, trying to, like, make your money, whatever. It's all good, maybe don't be a dick, though. Maybe that you know we were driving around, so I flew out there. Okay, rewind, rewind. My brain's firing in all cylinders.
Speaker 1:I had the opportunity to go to LA for Barry's stuff it's their 25th birthday and so I went out there. Very, very cool opportunity actually to help teach these mega classes, okay. So in our studio in Houston there's only 52 spots in the red room. In these mega classes there's 225. Okay, so it is massive. So I had the really cool opportunity to go out there and co-teach with the CEO. So really, really grateful for the opportunity, very flattered and yada, yada, yada anyway.
Speaker 1:So go out there on Wednesday, get out there and immediately when I touched down I was like, oh, this weather's amazing. Got in the uber and I was like everyone sucks. I just I don't deal well with people who feel like they're more important than everyone else, like it just makes me want to break faces. And I don't, I don't. I keep that emotion deep down inside till it explodes on my podcast. You know, yeah, I just I don't deal well with those kind of people. And that's the entire state of Calif, okay, the entire city of LA, the whole thing. It doesn't matter if you're homeless, doesn't matter if you're a billionaire yourself. A speech crap. And maybe I'm biased, I'm very biased, but it just drives me crazy. There's such a beautiful place, is such a crappy place to live, oh man, anyway. So the experience was really cool, met some awesome instructors and awesome clients and felt very lucky and fortunate to be there. But again it just LA, stop sucking, because you could, you could be so cool, like it could be literally the best place in the whole world to live and everyone just freaking ruins it. But anyway, now that we all know that Thomas hates LA. Let's move on the. The class itself was really really cool. Now we all know.
Speaker 1:If you know me at all, you know that when I'm in the red room or I'm teaching, I am on freaking 11. Like the energy is wild and crazy and I just love that so much that it's hard for me to not have crazy energy. And when you are like me and you don't really care what people think of you as far as like energy wise, like when they see me, I'm just who I am. I will always be that way and I really don't care what you think about it. And everyone in that class was like who the freak is this crazy dude? Huh, because they I guess they're just not used to that much wild energy anyway. So, like they were down, like afterwards, everybody was like dude, your energy was great. I loved it. You know it makes me want to come down to Houston and all this stuff. And I was like but why were you giving me all the weird looks in there while it was going on? Though, just again, be better, la, be better. Okay.
Speaker 1:So I don't want to spend the whole time talking about LA. It was really really, really, really cool, but that's why I wasn't able to get on the podcast. I just I had zero time going back and forth anyway. So I'm back, it's all good. Obviously, the world is falling apart. I don't really want to talk about that because it makes me sad, it makes me really upset. My wife was over there in Lebanon when all this stuff was going down with Israel. It was very stressful, it made me very anxious, and so I kind of want to just move on. We don't need to talk about it, number one, because if you don't have anybody over there or you're not personally involved, mmm, shut up. So that's my stance. We're moving on.
Speaker 1:What else is happening? Well, best thing of all time, the NBA is starting, and I can't wait because it's the best sport. It just it's the best sport. It's fun, it's fast, it's intense, it's getting crazy. It's so much fun to watch anyway. So that is gonna go down in the next two weeks. The preseason's coming up and I can't wait. I really really can't wait. Now. Here's the thing also, I feel like so I've been watching college football and I've been watching the UFC, obviously, and I've been watching basketball and CrossFit, so I've been watching all these sports.
Speaker 1:Now, I don't think that you should be allowed to be a professional athlete before you're 25. Now everybody's like hey, but that's like too old to compete. Here's the thing. Caveat you can be a professional athlete if you've been trained to mentally handle it like there's. It's so insane to me that all of these young athletes are just expected to handle fame and wild attention and they're not like so you, you as a person. I need you to like whatever you're doing right now.
Speaker 1:Stop it, take a second and let's do some introspective work. Okay, think about you as an 18, 19, 20 year old person. Okay, what were you like? What were you like? Would you be able to handle I don't know millions of people having opinions on television and social media about every single thing that you do? Would you be able to handle it? And, if so, how? I know for a fact I wouldn't, and I'm pretty. I'm pretty good with handling my emotions. For the most part, I'm pretty real with myself. I have a very I don't know ponderous type of personality where I think about all the things that I do and I think about how I interact with people and I try to control what happens with my interaction so that it it's a positive experience. I really do a lot of introspective work.
Speaker 1:I've been doing that for a long time and I can tell you right now, as an 18, 19, 20 year old person, that much attention would, 1000%, absolutely destroy my life. There is no chance that I would be able to handle that much attention, that much criticism, that much like legitimate hate that gets thrown around for you just existing and doing what you love to do. And so like we come down on all of these like athletes that have breakdowns and they freak out or they do dumb things and it's like whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. This is all of our fault. We gave them too much attention and too much fame too early, with zero help, with nothing. Like we didn't give them any sort of like classes or training on how to deal with all of this. So I really don't think anyone should be able to be a professional athlete until they've been trained in handling all of that type of stuff Millions of dollars and attention in the most egregious way, with with opinions that are negative and positive and the attention that you get from everyone and all of the things that you have to do, the hoops that you have to jump through to stay on top and the people that you have to network with so that you don't lose, and like there's so many things that have to go down to be a successful professional athlete and we don't give them any sort of training to do it.
Speaker 1:Just imagine, okay, so they're the best in the world at what they do, right, the best like the NBA players, the best basketball players in the world, the UFC, the best fighters in the world, the NFL, the best football players in the world, like whatever it is professional league, they're the best in the world. Now, take that to like doctors or take that to lawyers or take that to I don't know anybody else who's the best in the world. But in like not an athletic performance based model, they have so much training leading up to that and I know it's different. I understand that like it's not based off of physicality and your body needs. Like the younger it is, the healthier it is, the harder you can go. Whatever, it's fine. They get so much training leading up to being the best and having that much money and that much tension as far as being hugely famous for whatever reason. Now, there's little incremental steps leading up to that and if those steps aren't taken and there's a sense or a path of maturity to handle those type of things, of course they're going to crash and burn.
Speaker 1:Why the F would be any sort of surprise when people like John Morant go and pull out guns and wave them on social media and do crazy things just because they don't know how to handle what's going on and we're like they're having a breakdown. What is happening? Hey man, it's not their fault, it's yours. We're the problem, not them. We're giving them too much fame, we're giving them too much money, we're giving them too much attention and they can't handle it, and I don't blame them for that. That's crazy. If they are going to be a professional athlete before the 25, there needs to be some sort of training or classes or things that go down, so that there's incremental steps to get there, rather than just like hey, here's $200 million, don't kill anyone, that's basically it, that's all. Good luck, figure it out.
Speaker 1:You see these poor, freaking, basically kids. Take these two girls from CrossFit, haley Adams and Mal O'Brien, two of the most talented, gifted, hardworking girls in the sport. They're 18 years old and they're already in the top five In the world. In the world. They're 18 years old, top five in the world, and both of them didn't quit. I don't want to say they quit, but they took a step back because they said my mental health is important to me and I need to take a step back.
Speaker 1:I can't handle this. It's too much pressure, it's too much attention and I will break if I keep going. So much respect for those girls. So much respect, because obviously there's a lot of desire to be the best. I get that. I 100% get that. But to have the maturity to have people around you that support you when you go I'm going to freak out if this keeps going and to support you going okay. Well then, don't do it anymore. You're so close to being the best, but that it doesn't matter as much as you being content and happy and satisfied with your life. And that's what we need more of.
Speaker 1:Less of these idiots, stephen A Smith, douchebags that just fly off the handle because their opinion about these athletes is so important, and degrading every mistake and every outburst and every phrase that they've ever said, as if sitting behind a desk and having an opinion is important. I feel like all of these media personnel should be, I don't know, degraded down to hey, you make $50,000 a year because you're a glorified idiot. You just have opinions. That's all you have. You just have opinions and you're good at talking. That's all. Other than that. You are a worthless person. Take your shows away. Who are you? Oh yeah, nobody.
Speaker 1:The fact that we give these media personnel any sort of attention for any reason is so insane to me. Like I get professional athletes that then become analysts I 100% get that because they actually have a real take on what's happening. All these morons that have never played the sport and yet get to hate and spread these opinions about athletes is so crazy. It's so crazy. And to watch them and to realize that they really think that they're important is mind-numbing to me.
Speaker 1:If they were just gone, vaporized, guess what? The sports would still be awesome, they would be amazing, and then we wouldn't have to listen to 40-year-old A-hole children fight with each other about a person that they don't have any business having an opinion on. Wow, I'm real hot, I'm real hot. La sucks, media sucks, hey, world, be better, be better, don't suck so much. You know what I mean. Anyway, I just I want I wish people would focus on just being happy more than what makes me wealthy and famous. The world would be so much better if people were just like hey, am I happy today, am I not? How do I get happy? That would be the best world of all time. Um, anyway, what else is happening?
Speaker 1:Oh, um, so I got a video the other day or I got a client sent me a video the other day of there's a guy I can't remember his name. He's a big YouTube fitness person. Um, jacked dude, massive dude. Um, who does these, like, going off of having an opinion. Um, he does these reviews of people's training videos that they post online. And you know, like there's a lot of celebrity trainers that get a lot of heat for the workouts that they put their celebrity clients through, like the Kardashians or Henry Cavill or Chris Hemsworth or Hugh Jackman or all of these really A list celebrities, tom Cruise that that go through these workouts and their trainers, um, or not their trainers post them, but like they get posted. These workouts get posted and everybody just like freaking roasts these videos like oh my gosh, that's not effective at all. This is stupid, this trainer should be fired or whatever. Um, here's the thing.
Speaker 1:So this guy was talking about Henry Cavill, and if you don't know who Henry Cavill is, he's Superman, and I don't mean that like facetious, like he is Superman in the movies. He is Superman and Jack dude, real shredded, just a dimey dime piece. Um, and this PhD level fitness expert was talking about was breaking down his workout. Because Henry Cavill made a video, I guess, um, of his workout and why he was doing the workout and what he was doing it for and the way he was doing it. And you know it was nothing crazy.
Speaker 1:It was very simple moves, you know, and and uh doing like oblique training and resistance, band training and GHDs and reverse GHD, glute lifts and like all this other stuff that you know I have seen before and I know that they're not the most effective or efficient moves. I get that, I 100% get that. But this guy was just like, oh my gosh, if he would only just like do this, you don't need to have you, you don't have to do it that way. That's just complications and fancy fluff that you don't need to do. And is he right? Yeah, he's correct. But also, here's the thing that everyone everyone listening right now should like really tune into this, because this is important.
Speaker 1:There is so much more to a workout other than just the exercises that you are doing to have a good, effective, well, well put together, uh workout. What I mean by that is, yes, there are very effective moves right For muscle growth and for weight loss and for strength and for whatever you're doing it for. The most basic moves are probably the best right. The most simple moves are probably the best. The um, the less fluff there is, the better the exercises are going to be, and all of these professional trainers always come down on these people that post these videos of this like complicated moves and really not the most efficient use of your time. If you're in the gym, however, imagine training Superman, imagine training the Kardashians. They're probably paying you so much money and your job at that point is to make it worth it to them.
Speaker 1:Okay, so you have to provide an experience outside of just an effective workout. Literally, anyone that has done any sort of research or gotten a certification can take anyone else through an effective workout. It's not hard, it's not difficult, it's not complicated. Literally anyone can do that. Not everyone can provide an experience that centers around a workout, and what I mean by that is if you imagine that your job is to train these unbelievably wealthy and famous celebrities. If you just give them a basic workout, they're going to go oh, I can get this from anybody else.
Speaker 1:If you want to keep your job, you have to provide them with something new, something exciting, something that they don't think, that anybody else knows or does. You're making them feel things that they haven't felt before. You're making them experience things in a different way. And, yes, you keep some basic moves, the most essential and important and efficient moves in there, but then you start to add fluff to it. That isn't non-effective, it still does something, but it provides the client with something fresh, something new, something exciting, an experience, right, so it's a fine balance that a lot of trainers don't understand that there's so much more to a workout experience than just effective moves. I will say it again literally anyone can give you an effective workout. It's not hard. But not everyone can give you a workout experience, and that sometimes is the most important part is what happens psychologically, mentally, in that workout. What are you thinking, what are you feeling beyond just the move?
Speaker 1:So all these people that come down on these celebrity trainers or other fitness people, they're like, oh, they could have just taken all the fluff out. Yeah, they could have, but also they're providing something more than just a workout, and that sometimes is the most important part. And so, like I, just as a person in the fitness industry, that is something that's very important to me that my clients come. Yes, I will give them a great workout. Yes, I will give them an efficient workout. Yes, I will give them an effective workout. But more than that, I'm going to give them an experience during the workout where we add things to it, where we do some interesting tweaks to the moves here and there that aren't game changers, they're just a little bit extra, so that the experience is something more than just a workout, because that's my job. My job is for them to have an amazing time and have a great workout.
Speaker 1:So all the people that have these opinions like, they're kind of lame, but they're so lame that all they think that is effective and important is the workout, like, okay, that's fine, I guess, if the people that you train are really boring losers, but most people aren't boring losers and they deserve to have a good time while they work out. Anyway, I just it drives me crazy Again, people's opinions that don't matter, that are so dumb that are so just flat. There's no real depth to them, just be better. I think that's like the 12th time I've said that this episode Like. It's not nearly like. What you do isn't nearly as important as why you're doing it and what is happening while you're doing it the thing itself.
Speaker 1:So take a leg workout. Here's a leg workout. Go do squats, deadlifts, leg extensions. Boom, there's your leg workout. Do five sets of 10 as heavy as you can go on the leg, the squats. So that's a leg press, a barbell squat, dumbbell squats, hack squats, whatever the move. Go to five sets of 10. And then go to deadlifts and start at 12 and then work your way down to three reps and get heavier every time and then go burn out your legs until you cry on the leg extension machine. There you go, there's your workout. Have fun. That's a very, very effective and efficient leg workout. You're welcome.
Speaker 1:Now who in their right mind is going to pay me money for that? Lots of people will. Lots of people will. And then, guess what? We're probably going to do something similar every single time you come in. Cool, so after about three sessions you don't need me anymore. Go, have fun. Now I can take that workout and make it way more of an experience.
Speaker 1:Okay, guys, we're going to do these hack squats. We're going to do four sets here. We're going to get really, really heavy. Then, on that last set, we're going to add a pause at the bottom. We're going to sit there for two seconds and really try to focus our energy on those quads Like, and then we're going to go do these deadlifts. However, when we do these deadlifts, we're also going to superset them with walking lunges and then we're going to go do these leg extensions and we're going to do a three count on the way down for five reps and then we're going to burn out another 10 with no tempo, like. That's an experience.
Speaker 1:Both of those workouts, we did the exact same moves and I made it more interesting so that you experienced something that was way more exciting, and I guarantee you would prefer the second option rather than that first one, because it's an experience, more than just a sweaty workout. We accomplished the same thing as far as muscle development and strength and overall fitness. We accomplished the same thing. There was just more to the second option and that's the job of the trainer. So everybody that watches that goes oh, there was no need for that. That's just a waste of time. Yeah, kind of, but also you're wrong. Because it wasn't a waste of time, because their mentality and what was happening psyche wise was way more beneficial and positive than what was happening physically wise, and that is why people should keep their opinions to themselves when it comes to how trainers train their clients, unless they put their clients in danger and then start throwing hands. Anyway, I don't know why that made me so upset to watch those videos. It's just. I just don't get why people feel like they have to have the need to have opinions on other people. It's crazy to me. It's crazy to me. What else is happening? I don't know. There's just there's so much happening right now no-transcript, I don't want to go keep going on rant. So, that being said, we're going to kind of bring it back down and it's time for the first in a while the Devil's Advocate.
Speaker 1:So the Devil's Advocate, if you are new to the show, is a section where I get to argue with myself or argue with a guest. This is a topic that I wish that I had a guest on, but I also didn't want to put it off for too long. The Devil's Advocate is something that I enjoy so much because it requires me to think on my feet. It's kind of improv. It's challenging for me to think on both sides of an opinion, a thought, an idea, an experience, a moment, and take two sides. My goal is to be very even on both sides of these arguments so that y'all don't understand or know what my actual opinion is. So that's the goal, but let's get into it.
Speaker 1:Your Devil's Advocate today is one that I've wanted to do for a long time. Like I said, it was something that I wanted to do with a guest, preferably a doctor or a nurse, because it would make it way more entertaining. Because your Devil's Advocate today is who is more valuable for the overall health of humanity doctors, as in medical doctors that work in hospitals or fitness experts, health experts that aren't necessarily doctors in a hospital, meaning they're still certified, they're still maybe they have a degree in exercise science or kinesiology or something like that biomechanics, whatever it is that aren't in a hospital. They work outside of that. They focus more on diet and exercise and holistic approaches. Who is more important Doctors or health fitness experts for who is more valuable to humanity?
Speaker 1:And I'm going to go ahead and say, obviously, doctors, they have put way more time into understanding generally. Generally this is a generalization they have gone to years and years and years of school to understand every inch of the human body, inside and out, to be able to address any complications or any emergencies that happen to a person, whether that's mega injury that happens and they have to go to the emergency room get it fixed, or any disease that happens or any sicknesses that go down. When you all of a sudden get wiped out with a stomach bug or fevers and headaches and sweats and you're going to go to a doctor because they can give you medicine, they can take tests on your blood, they can take x-rays, they can take the MRIs, they can do all of these sorts of things to see what's really going on in your body and to take whatever approach is necessary for you to get back to homeostasis or just a level balance of living. I think the doctors have put in more time and effort and attention into understanding just how the human body works with in relation to outside forces and effects and things that happen to humans as far as injuries and diseases and sicknesses and accidents all of those things that happen to us on a pretty regular basis. Honestly, I think that they add more value and bring more to the safety and the health of humanity as a whole than, say, the health and the fitness experts that haven't really put the amount of time and attention and focus and money into understanding those things and also understanding how to address and combat and fix the things that happen, the outside forces that happen to the human body.
Speaker 1:I think that the doctors add so much value and without them we'd kind of be screwed because think about it back in the day when there really weren't, there were medicine, men and women and shamans and these people that you know, like hey, we're going to leech you, we're just going to make you bleed out, because that's it. Those weren't real doctors. Before real doctors, the lifespan of people was like maybe 40, 50 years old Easy, crazy short lifespan. And because we like humans didn't know what was going on. And then we started having people that really started to pay attention to how the human body worked and how to maybe solve the things that happen to human bodies. And over time, you know, obviously we've learned and we've grown and we've been able to get more knowledge and experience and develop technologically and have all of these amazing medicines and machines that help us to see inside our bodies and understand what's happening inside our bodies and what happens when outside forces get inside our bodies. Because of doctors, we are able to live way longer and in a much more secure type of way, because we know that when something goes wrong, there are people out there that we can go talk to to help us solve it. And those are doctors the people that have put in the time for schooling and done the lab work to open bodies up and to see what's going on inside, and they understand how the body works and how it works with outside forces ruining our level of living and how we are able to be comfortable. Yada, yada, yada.
Speaker 1:Doctors are more valuable. They add so much more value to our lives as humanity as a whole. On the other side of that, doctors are pretty limited. They're very focused on being reactive. They fix things that happen after they happen. Health experts say, like Andrew Huberman, peter Atia, these people that are outside the norm of doctors and hospitals and that type of doctor. They're very smart individuals I'm not saying people like me, okay that just know how to work out and have, you know, kind of an obsession with being healthy and longevity and fitness and mobility and stuff.
Speaker 1:People that have gone to school still and put hours and hours and hours and hours and studying health, not doctor stuff. Man, this is really making me look dumb. I don't have any word other than stuff, but you get the idea. You know the difference. You know the difference between those people that I'm talking about lab coat doctors and fitness experts. But I think that the fitness experts add more value to humanity because they teach us and they focus on trying not to let those sicknesses and those diseases and those injuries Obviously there's accidents, I get that, you get, you know fall off your bike or you fall off whatever and you hurt yourself. Like no amount of fitness expertise is going to fix that. You have to go to a doctor for injuries, you know.
Speaker 1:But curbing sickness and being healthy to a point where your immune system is good enough to not have to get that sick, the health experts can teach us how to do that. They, you know, maybe they're more holistic and they don't make nearly as much money as the doctors do, but they are more preemptive or proactive rather than the doctors are, who are reactive. They just react to bad things that happen. The health experts teach us how to keep the bad things from happening as much as possible. You know they talk about the diet that we eat and how much that affects the inside of our body, our gut health. You know our second brain and the impact that food has on our brain and our nervous system and our bone structure and our muscle density, and how to maintain our body in the best way possible so that it can fight the sicknesses that happen. It can naturally, on its own, combat the outside influences before it gets out of control and we have to go see a doctor. So to me there's way more value in being proactive rather than reactive to bad things that happen, and so for that reason I think that the health experts add way more value to humanity. They're able to help us live longer, more naturally, without being on drugs and medicine and all these crazy things that doctors prescribe very readily as the quote unquote solution to the problem.
Speaker 1:No, the solution is to not have the problem, not to fix the problem, to not let the problem happen, and that comes from understanding how to live a healthy lifestyle, rather than live how you want and then address bad things when they happen. That doesn't solve anything. That doesn't get to the root of the problem. The root of the problem is how you live, not how you react, and the health experts allow us to live our best for as long as possible through diet, through proper understanding of how to move our bodies in a way that supports mobility and longevity and strength for a really long time.
Speaker 1:And I'm not talking a personal trainer Okay, it goes beyond that. I'm not talking somebody that knows how to get you shredded or knows how to get you to lose weight it's not important. But I'm talking about people who truly understand, down to a science, what foods have what impact on our bodies and what exercises impact our bodies the best and which ones don't, and the ones to stay away from that cause injury and the amount of time that you spend exercising and the other things that you can do. As far as like meditation and the supplements that you can take that aren't drugs, that are not drugs or medicine. They're natural, biological supplements that you can take that are found in plants and nature and animals that help our bodies function the best way possible, in a proactive way rather than a reactive way, and it's so much more natural. So I think that is why they're so valuable is because there's so many different people in the world and there's so many different ways that people can live healthy, and the health experts can help every single person live their best individual, healthy life for as long as possible in the best way, the most the the the healthiest way for that person individually, rather than just going to the doctor and saying, okay, here's some medicine for this problem that has happened to all these thousands of people, without even thinking that this person might not react well to that medicine or to that solution. The health experts help us understand how our body works and provide us a multitude of options to mess around with, to experience that may or may not work for the body, but there is a solution naturally for our bodies to live the healthiest way. So I think that the health experts are the most valuable to humanity and society as a whole. That's my take on it.
Speaker 1:I would love to have a doctor here to go head to head on to debate this. But what? What do you think? Who are? Who are more valuable, doctors or health experts? And if you're like well to find that, no, I don't need to define it Think of a doctor that's the doctor. Think of a health expert that's a health expert. Boom, okay, who's more valuable to society as a whole and humanity as a whole? And as far as health is concerned, that's your devil's advocate. Let me know what you think. Let me know what your opinion is. Let me know what you think my opinion is. I think you can probably guess, but and if you have any devil's advocates for me to discuss, let me know that as well. That's your devil's advocate.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoyed it, I hope it was fun, I hope it got your wheels turning, and you know how we always end the show Before you go. I want to leave you with some value, so this is your final takeaway. Your final takeaway is something that I truly do hope adds value to your life and helps you live better, in whatever way that is, whether it's mentally, whether it's physically, whether it's emotionally, it doesn't matter. I truly do hope that it helps you live a better life, and the final takeaway is just something that you can do or think about that, if you do, and if you think about it and implemented in your life, I guarantee will help you live a better life. And it came to me while I was training for my marathon, not to bring up the marathon again, but it came to me while I was training for it. Well, I was running miles, miles, miles, and had lots of time to just think.
Speaker 1:If we want to be the best version of ourselves, if we want to be able to keep being better you know, not being stagnant, not being complacent if we want to continue to improve our lives, we should and we need to make the things that we need to do. We need to make those things easier for ourselves to do them. For example, if we know that we need to go to the gym and to exercise, make that easier for yourself to accomplish by I don't know just going to the nearest gym to you, so that it doesn't take a lot of time. You don't have to drive forever to get there. Maybe you don't like going to the gym. Find a workout that you can do at home. Find equipment that you can do at home. Find a version of an exercise that you like to do wherever. Maybe you get a trainer link up with someone that you truly enjoy being around so they can push you to do it, so that you don't have to worry about that. Whatever it is, make it easier for yourself to do it. The thing itself is always hard, right, because nothing worthwhile is easy, and so the thing itself is going to be tough. But if you help yourself by making it easier to do that thing that you need to do, you're going to be better, because it'll be a lot easier for you to do that difficult thing. Wow, that sounds weird. It's going to be easier for you to do the difficult thing, and that's for everything. That's for eating healthy. Make it easier for yourself.
Speaker 1:What is healthy that you like to eat, great, eat more of that. What is? Is there a healthy restaurant? Maybe you don't like cooking, maybe it's really hard for you to eat in? Okay, well then, find restaurants that are healthy for you. Find a way for you to eat healthy outside of your home. Or, if it's too expensive, okay, let's find a cheaper option. What's the cheapest option for you? Whatever it is, there's a solution to make it easier.
Speaker 1:Okay, you try to eliminate all of the excuses as much as you can so that that thing is easier to do. It doesn't matter what it is. It does not matter what it is, whether it's exercise, whether it's diet, whether it's finances, whether it's relationships, whether it's mindset, whatever it is that you need to do, find the easiest way for you to accomplish that thing, so that you don't have the excuses for not doing that, because it's really, really important. Your health is very important Mental health, physical health, emotional health. It's very important. So we need to make it easier to be healthy. Okay, being healthy is hard, like it takes work, it takes a lot of focus, it takes effort, but it doesn't have to be a whole ordeal. It should just be the thing and we should do the thing, and we should try to make it as easy as possible for ourselves to do that thing, whatever that means for you as an individual. So, if we want to be better, if you want to be better, if you are trying to work out more or if you're trying to eat healthier, find a way to make that easier to do, the easiest way, the most basic way for you possible. Find that and then do it. Make the things that you need to do easier for yourself to do them. That's your final takeaway.
Speaker 1:I hope you enjoyed this episode. I hope that it was valuable to you. I hope it was entertaining for you. Do me a favor, share this with everybody that you know. Let's spread this positivity. If you have ideas for the show, if you have topics you want me to discuss, let me know. Go follow me on Instagram Thomas underscore, beliston or the Fit Perception pod on Instagram yeah, hit me up. Let me know your thoughts, let me know your feelings, let me know your opinions. I love you guys. This is the Fit Perception podcast. I am your boy T. I love you. I hope you know you're important, I hope you know you're valuable and I hope you have an amazing, amazing week. You guys are the best. Thanks for tuning in. I'm out.