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The Fit Perception
The Fit Perception
Ambition Is Your Downfall??
Hey Fit Fam, it's your boy T. Have you ever been hit with a realization in the most unexpected of places? That happened to me at Barry's, where I stumbled upon the intersection of fitness and skincare. Tune in as I recount the tale, give you the lowdown on my ambitious fitness app journey, and discuss why balancing hard work with family time is an exercise worth mastering.
This week's workout for your brain muscles is a deep exploration into the world of sports, with a side of respect for diverse expertise. From celebrating the historic serve of women's volleyball to sparking debate over NBA and WNBA dynamics, we're not holding back on the discussions. Get ready to cheer for the underdogs, ponder the economics of sports, and maybe even change your perspective on the power of positivity in coaching.
And let's talk ambition—can it be both the fuel for your fire and the water that douses it? We're getting personal, discussing how ambition impacts our happiness and professional lives, especially when it comes to pursuing passions. Remember, your feedback is the protein shake to our motivation, so keep those thoughts coming. Here's to pushing limits and setting new personal bests in fitness, in life, and in chasing what sets your soul on fire. Let's crush this week!
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Oh, what's up family? Uh, it's your boy T. Welcome back to the show. Um, the fit perception podcast. Am I debating changing the name? Yep, yep, sure, sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I'm sure, I don't know. I'm always.
Speaker 1:I'm the type of guy that's like always questioning if what I'm doing is what I'm supposed to be doing, for whatever reason. Um, anyway. So what's? What's going on? Well, I'm busy, I'm busy, I'm, I'm doing a lot of things. Let's retract that. I'm trying to do a lot of things and a lot of things. A lot of the time make for too much, too much things, too much of the time. You know what I mean. Uh, it's all good. I like being busy, I like staying active, but at the same time, there is nothing better than not doing anything, like just hanging out with my boy, my wife, just chilling, just not worried about anything. Um, when people, uh people, ask me like hey, what are you up to? It's always the same thing. I work and I hang out with my family. That's it, that's all I do, that's it. Um, but it's all good, that's, that's what I love about life. Uh, I love working hard, I love hanging out with the family, so it's all good, that's my, that's the thing that I get the most out of life. So, um, anyway, not to bore you to death. And now everybody just like clicks off, all good. Um, so Been trying to make this app for fitness, you know, trying to get like all my clients on programs to make this more accessible and make for the people that don't that we can't train together, they can get on the app and they can train with the workouts whatever.
Speaker 1:Yada, yada, yada, yada yada really boring. However, it's way too much work. Thought it was just going to be easy Click, drag, put these workouts together. Well, no, no, it's not. I have to do the whole thing. I have to put the workouts together, I have to put programs together, I have to put the macros together, I have to click and drag and then I have to edit the videos and then I have to put the videos in and then I have to adjust the workouts and the reps and the sets and the. It's all good, dude, it's all good. Am I exhausted? Yeah, so hopefully it'll be worth it. Probably not all good, but anyway. So watch out for that.
Speaker 1:If you're a long time listener of the show, there will be an app for my workouts that I do personally. There will be programs in there, there will be packages you can get, um, cause you know your boy is trying to spend more time with his family and still do what he loves, aka helping people feel amazing about themselves. So, trying to put this program slash workout app together for y'all so that I don't have to do as much in person training and I can put some of that training into apps. Um, any who? Okay, so let's get into it Right out the gate.
Speaker 1:I got a lot to say. Uh, I'm sitting there at berries, right, and I love. Let me just preface this Saturday mornings at berries are my favorite time of the week. The rest of the week is great. I have great experiences, I have great interactions, but there is something about Saturday morning that is just next level, like people come in, they're motivated, they're driven, they've had a good night. Either they went and got crazy drunk or they didn't. They got a lot of rest, um, anyway, they either. They come in and they just, they want to just go hard, and those are my favorite type of people. That's. That's how I am. I just like to go hard for no other reason than to go hard and, um, you know, not to be biased, but those are the they're like my favorite clients that come in on Saturdays.
Speaker 1:Um, and so this specific Saturday, um and so when, so when I have those type of people in class, I'm very hyper, I'm very energized, I'm very loud, I'm very, you know, um, all of it. And so we have this company come in. I do not remember the name of the company. If I did remember, I wouldn't tell you anyway, cause I don't want to crap on him. I'm going to crap on him. That's why I say that, um so, um, this company comes in. There was a skincare company and so the skincare company comes in and they're offering free facials after class.
Speaker 1:And, uh, I am not a great skincare routine type of guy. Um, not that I don't have anything against it or that I have anything against it, it's just I just it's hard for me to get into a routine, it's hard for me to care about it. I just, I genuinely don't care. Um, you know, and I know you're supposed to wear SPF sunscreen all the time and you're supposed to do this. You're supposed to. I just don't care. I really don't care. Um, maybe I should a little bit more, probably carry my skin, but I don't. Um and uh.
Speaker 1:So this, this company comes in, they're giving me free facials, and so I had a break. I was going to take the nine 40, but my boy, jason, sold it out, so couldn't take the nine 40. Um, so I'm just sitting there chilling and, uh, they're like, do you want a free facial? I was like, yeah, sure, why not? All good, um, might as well, I'm just sitting here anyway, not doing anything, not doing anything. So I go over there and, okay, let me just say first of all, if you are a business, you should never, ever, ever, ever, ever be negative about what people do in regards to what you're trying to sell them. Okay, so pivot, we'll. We'll get back to the facial goat.
Speaker 1:Like, this is just a better example, I guess, before I just go hot on the press, I cut my own hair. All right, Do I look fire? Yeah, look at that fade. Look at that fade. If you're watching the video. Look at my fade, fool. Um, I cut my own hair, anyway. Um, I've been doing it for well over a decade. Um, so I'm very used to cutting my own hair and I know how to make it look good. And no, I could not cut anybody else's hair, I couldn't make anybody else's hair look good because I'm not a uh, a hair stylist. I don't, I'm not a barber. I don't know how to do that.
Speaker 1:However, I'm at the gym. I'm at the gym and I get a compliment from somebody, um, who was walking by, and they're like oh, my gosh, I like your hair, thank you, um, who doesn't? I was like oh, thank you very much, I appreciate that I do it. And they're like oh, wow, that's so cool. Da, da, da, da, small chat, chit chat, whatever it is, and they peace out.
Speaker 1:Then this guy who comes by, no hair, completely bald, um, walks by and he's like hey man, um, who cuts your hair? And I was like I do. And he's like yeah, yeah, yeah. I could tell hey, I'm a barber, hey, man, I don't know what that means, I don't know if that's, I could tell that you cut it because it looks like garbage, or I could tell because it looks really good, but I could do it better. Either way, don't like you right off the bat. If you try to give me a business card now, I want to cut you with your business card. Okay, don't ever, ever, ever try to sell me something by crapping on what I already do. Otherwise I'll fight you. How about that? Okay, so he goes yeah, I can tell I'm a barber. Here's my business card. You should come through.
Speaker 1:And I literally looked at him and I said, yeah, never going to happen. Have a good day, cause that's just bad marketing. You're bad at marketing. You're bad at marketing. If you go, hey, what you're doing sucks. Hey, come over here, I'll do it for you better. No, no, how about? Wow, dude, that's really impressive that you do that on your own. Have you ever thought about doing your own thing? Hey, I'm a barber too. I respect the game, da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da. And now I feel like you're my pal. And now I feel like, yeah, I'll come see what you're all about. All good, dude. But if you start with, hey, man, you suck, come see me, you won't, then there's problems. Okay, so now that's out of the way.
Speaker 1:Basically, I got some opinions about that way of living your life. And so, going back to berries and this facial, let me just start with I just want the facial and no talking. I want to relax, I want to close my eyes, I want you to just do your thing. Make me feel pretty right, Because that's what facial is all about Make me feel like a pretty princess.
Speaker 1:And so this guy. Now, could I leave out the fact that he was overweight? Yeah, I could, but am I going to? No, he was out of shape. Okay, that adds to the story. You'll understand in a minute.
Speaker 1:So this guy out of shape comes up and starts like doing the skincare routine and wiping my face down, da-da-da-da-da-da. Small chit chat about like, hey, what's your skincare routine? Do you have one? No, I don't. Oh, why I don't care. And so he starts going off about like, oh, how I should be doing this and this and this and this, and have I tried these other things? And I was like, yeah, I tried. Lumen was a company I tried for a little bit. I tried this and this. And again, if I've tried something, you should go as a person oh, that's cool, I'm glad you tried something. Have you ever thought about this type of skincare?
Speaker 1:Not what he did as ooh, ooh, that just makes my skin crawl. You need to use this type of hey, dude, now I hate you. Now I want to get off the bench and break bottles over your head. Okay, do I have anger management? Maybe, I don't know. But to just take something that somebody said oh yeah, I tried to do this and then you completely crap all over it. You suck as a person. So he craps all over what I've tried to do in the past and now instantly defensive Do I need therapy for it? Yeah, okay, all good, so he goes. Oh, that makes my skin crawl Anytime anybody ever says that you need to use our products.
Speaker 1:Did I stop listening? Yes, I did, because I don't care anymore. So then he starts going off about how, like, skincare is so huge and how you need to do it. Da, da, da, da, da da. But, dude, you've already made me angry about saying how my effort makes your skin crawl. So okay, guys. So when we know that I have opinions, obviously I've just been ranting for the last five minutes.
Speaker 1:Also, I really like to argue with people and I really enjoy confrontation. Okay, like it's one of my favorite things in the world. Is this something I'm working on? Yes, because confrontation is not great. So I really like confrontation and I'm very, very, very fast thinking on my feet when it comes to insults. Is that a good thing? No, am I proud of it Originally? But I am very quick-witted and I know what just gets. Ya, you know what I mean.
Speaker 1:And so I'm sitting there, I have to bite my tongue. So I sit up and the facial was done. I had stopped talking, I had stopped listening to this guy, I didn't care anymore. Whatever, do my thing to my face, get me off this freaking table. So he, I sit up and he goes, he goes. So what do we think about skin care routine now? And I legitimately had to bite my tongue so hard, not figuratively, literally had to bite my tongue for about 10 solid seconds because what I wanted to say was hey, you can talk to me about my skin care routine when I get to talk to you about your workout and diet routine, because that you fat bro. That's what I wanted to say. Did I say it? No, sure, didn't, Sure, didn't. But what I did say was yeah, yeah, yeah, no doubt, thanks for the facial. And then I walked away because I didn't want to fight him.
Speaker 1:Anyway, like I hope that just makes me so mad at how quick people are to put other people's efforts down when they're so called experts in that specific area. Like I would never as a trainer and and I know I would never do this because I've put in, been put in situations where I could have done it and I never have. I would never listen to somebody who was like so like talking to them, saying you know what's your, what's your fitness background, what have you done? What's what's worked for you, what hasn't worked for you? I would never listen to somebody about their fitness stuff.
Speaker 1:You know, oh, I tried carnivore or I tried keto diet, or I tried this, I tried that, I tried this, I tried that and I would never listen to that and then say, oh, okay, yeah, yeah, that was cute. Well, it was really dumb of you to do that. Let me help you out. Like, that's so bad of a sales tactic. Like, if I want to get you to pay me money or to do what I'm asking you to do, I need to build you up and build confidence in you saying like, oh, yeah, yeah, that was a lot of effort. I'm so glad you've tried it. At least you know, like, that you can do stuff, that you can stick to things. You know, maybe let's try this way. I think this way might help you a little bit easier for you. This might be a better route for you to follow Might be a little bit more doable.
Speaker 1:Based off of what you've told me how you do things, you know that is so much more effective and successful, rather than trying to, like, constantly push people down and make them feel horrible and that you are above them and that you know way more than they do. Yada, yada, yada. Like that is just bad, bad. Bad marketing, bad salesmanship, bad, just living as a human, that's just bad, anyway. So, no, you can't talk to me about my skincare routine if I can't talk to you about your, your, your workout and diet routine. Okay, how about that? Just, that's how we go forward, anyway. Just woof, yada got me heated and then I had to go teach another class and, man, I was on fire. Anyway, it's just I, you don't get to talk to me about things if I don't get to talk to you about other things. You know what I mean. As far as, like, hey, what are you doing for this? You know, to be successful? Oh well, what are you doing for this, for you to be successful? That's your area of expertise. We're going to talk about my expertise as well. Anyway, moving on, what's going on? Well, I mean, there's always things going on in the fitness world. That's not really like super applicable right now. Well, okay, I take that back. So there was I don't remember, maybe this was like two weeks ago, three weeks ago.
Speaker 1:Pro women's volleyball has never been a thing as far as like a league is concerned. Like there's been like sand volleyball and like the Olympic and the national and like the country level and there's been like minor leagues, I guess. But and I'm not a huge follower of volleyball I enjoy playing it, I enjoy watching, I think it's very fascinating, but I've never been one that like religiously follows it. Anyway, so apparently the first pro match ever like female pro match ever happened like three or four weeks ago maybe, and it was the Atlanta vibe versus the Omaha star or something I don't remember. I know it was Atlanta versus Omaha and they drew in 11,000 people to their first match. Like yo, 11,000 people is no joke. Now, is that anywhere near football standards of like 70,000? No, it's not.
Speaker 1:But it obviously shows that there is a large interest in the sport and I think it's about freaking time that we have pro leagues in other sports. We talked about this a lot. You know about how the obviously baseball, basketball, football, hockey, those kind of like baseball, like what did I say? Baseball, basketball, football, hockey, soccer, like those just dominate in America, just massive, massive leagues with bajillions of dollars in revenue and sponsorships and advertising and marketing, all those things. I think it's about freaking time that there's more pro sports that are put on major networks, because the problem is you have all these leagues that don't make it to the pro sports. Like you've got round net, you've got tennis I guess tennis is a little bit bigger, but I mean you could have badminton, you could have pickleball, you could have table tennis, you could have bowling, you could have racket ball. For heaven's sakes, you could have a lot of these different way, smaller sports that are still very, very entertaining to watch, but they're not on the national like ESPN or the Fox Sports or whatever major sports network.
Speaker 1:And people are lazy, right, they'll watch whatever's in front of them. So if you start putting that out there, they'll watch it. They will, because they're lazy. They're just going to sit on there and go oh well, I didn't know I was in there, I guess. Sure, yeah, now I'm a volleyball fan, cool, so it's not the fact that there isn't interest, it's that these massive places are not promoting it, probably because they're not getting a lot of money back. But again, you know your boy's not a huge fan of money. Forget the money, just provide entertainment, provide variety of entertainment. So I hope that this pro girls volleyball league like legitimately takes off and blows up and becomes this huge sport, because I think it'd be massive, not just for women but for just sports in general. Like sports in general, women's sports will go up, like everything will just elevate if we're able to build up other leagues and pro sports outside of basketball football, baseball, soccer and hockey, anyway.
Speaker 1:So, oh, sticking with women's sports, speaking of women's sports, so here I'm a little bit conflicted on this next one. So I'm a huge fan of basketball, right, we all know that, aka Kobe Bryant's right behind me, all good, the man, the myth, the legend, my hero. And so I love the NBA All-Star game. If you haven't ever watched the NBA All-Star game, it's really cool. They have a celebrity game which is really hilarious to watch. They have, like you vote on all of the biggest NBA stars that you want to go and participate in.
Speaker 1:The NBA game. All-star game happens in March, I believe, yeah, and they have a three-point shooting contest. They have a slam dunk contest, which used to be my favorite to watch. It's not so much anymore. They have a skills contest. They have the NBA game, which is really cool now the way that they've put it up together, because they get to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars to the charity of their choice, whoever wins. Also, the players make like $10 million if they make it, if they win.
Speaker 1:Anyway, that's beside the point. I'm talking about their contracts, all good, but there's been a lot of push recently for the WNBA, the women's NBA. If you've listened to other episodes, you know that I have opinions about the WNBA, about how I don't think that it's a lucrative endeavor. I'm very realist when it comes to things like that, where the women are like oh, we only make X amount of money and the men make this amount of money, yeah, but the men also pull in millions of more views than you do and it makes the network millions of more dollars. So if you want more money, bring more people to your games. Anyway, that's beside the point. Maybe that's rude, whatever, don't care if it's triggering.
Speaker 1:Anyway, there's been this massive, massive, massive push for women's basketball. All good, I'm a fan, anybody who plays basketball, totally respected Would an NBA team, absolutely shred a WNBA team. Yes, I don't think the score would be even funny. It'd be like 200 points to maybe 30. Like it would be absolutely ridiculous, just based off of physicality. Anyway, the push is great. I'm down. Great Women's sports. I totally support it, as long as, you know, you don't have men playing women's sports, all good. So they're pushing and pushing, and pushing and pushing.
Speaker 1:And now there's something that's going to happen this NBA All-Star weekend where Steph Curry, the greatest shooter in the NBA of all time not just of our generation, of all time Like he's the best shooter ever, and there's a girl named Sabrina Lawn I don't know how to pronounce it Lawn Ski Lawn, eski Lawn, I don't know. She's the best. Like, she holds the three point record, I believe three years in a row for the WNBA. She's won the WAA three point shooting contest. She's an amazing, amazing shooter, crazy athlete, very talented, anyway. So she challenged Steph Curry to a three point shoot out, a three point contest just between her and him, and I find it very interesting that they're going to use this. I think I'll be interested to see how they use this, because it'll be, you know, steph versus Sabrina, nba versus WNBA.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing it's not equal. It's not equal. Sabrina will be shooting from the WNBA line, steph will be shooting from the NBA line. Steph will be using NBA basketballs, sabrina will be using WNBA basketballs. And you go no, no, no, that's fair, that's what they've played with their whole time. Yeah, no, no, no, no, I get that, that's what they're used to. But Steph's NBA three point is beyond the WNBA three point. It's not fair. It's a lot easier to shoot closer to the basket. That's just statistically how things go. If you're farther away from the basketball hoop, the percentage of you making the shot goes down right. So it's not fair, it is not equal. And you go oh, but it is equal. You know, that's where she's used to shooting from. That's what she does.
Speaker 1:Great, but statistically, mathematically, just by sheer number based away from the distance from the hoop to your hands, statistically, steph is still doing something more difficult. Aka, the guy is doing something more difficult than the girl, right? I'm just I'm not trying to be, you know, political or you know sexist about this, just math, right, just mathematically, what he does is harder Anyway. So I'll be interested to see if you know if he wins, great. If he loses, this becomes a massive, massive deal between oh see, women are just as good as men. Hey, shut up, women are just as good as men. But for you to say that they did the same thing is totally inaccurate, because they didn't do the same thing. He shot from farther back with a bigger ball. It's way harder, way harder. So the I can see how this will be spun, just because the media kind of blows and they're very easy to predict how it goes. And so when, when, if Steph loses, this will become massive.
Speaker 1:Oh, the WNBA is better than the NBA. Why are they not paying them as much? Obviously, they're just as good. Da, da, da, da, da, da, da, da and all this other nonsense. That isn't true. And if he wins, nothing is said, zero, things are said they go. Oh, that was fun, cool, it's insane, it's so wild at how different. And I will bring it up again Once the NBA, once it goes down. I will bring it up again just because I love being right, I love it, I love being right, anyway. So, yeah, it'll be. It'll be interesting to see how the media spins that one. And it's not even part of like, it's not even like a legit, like a lot of NBA players shooting against WNBA players. It's just Steph and Sabrina in the middle, like between the real shooting contest and the dunk contest, because there's like four hours between those, so they're just going to sneak that little guy in there between the two events.
Speaker 1:Anyway, what else? Oh, speaking of basketball, have I ever told you that Mark Cuban is like one of my favorite people of all time? He used to be the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and then he sold his stake. I think he still owns a majority but he sold a crap load Like I'm talking like $2 billion I think it was in the billions as far as like how much he sold his shares for Wild, wild number, and so he sold that and he's still like, he's still involved. He just doesn't have to do all of the things that an owner does, which is great Spend more time with your family. All good, dude.
Speaker 1:You have other interests, but from like everything I know about Mark and everything that I've seen from him, like he just seems like the most I don't know if I can say down to earth, because when you have billions of dollars I think it's very hard to be down to earth but the most level headed kind of like normal quote unquote billionaire type of guy I've ever seen on any interview, seen at games, seen just on shows, whatever he's at. You know, read interviews or watch interviews or read things that he's little quips, that he's put in the media or whatever. But like everything that he does seems to be like pretty legitimately, for the good of people. Like like he built this pharmaceutical company that tried to take out the middleman to make pharmaceutical drugs way, way cheaper for people, which is massive because the pharmaceutical company is the biggest criminal organization in the world, hands down, and so he's tried to make it so it's way cheaper for people to get the medications they need. So shout out to Mark Cuban. But also like, so he sold his shares in in the Mavericks for billions of dollars and he just announced, like last week or so, that he's going to be donating $35 million in bonuses to the Mavericks staff. And you know, I don't I don't know how that translates down, I don't know, maybe, maybe you get a hundred dollar bonus I don't know how many people work for the Mavericks but just to give back $35 million in bonuses to people, regardless of what that actually comes out to be for the specific person. You know, I'm sure it ranges for your, your career, position, your status, but like that's not Trump change, like that's $35 million that he could use in other places and yet he's going to just give it back to to the people who work for that organization, which is huge, regardless, again, regardless of how much money you get.
Speaker 1:That's a show of like hey, this dude's dope, this dude's really cool. Like he could have not done that. He could have easily not done that. And you know there's always these idiot, dumb, frickin, moron people that always go yeah, but he has more, he could have given more. Hey, dude, shut up, just be a nice person for half a second in your life instead of being a complaining, utter piece of garbage. Like he gave back $35 million and if you go, oh, but he has more, you suck. Figure out how to be more human. Okay, um, anyway. So shout out to Mark Cuban If I ever get to become a billionaire which I won't, because I don't have any sort of, I do not have the energy or the mindset that it takes to be a billionaire and I do not care to become one, but if I had a billion dollars, I think I would love to do that.
Speaker 1:Just give a crap load of money to a lot of different people, just like here you go, like all yours, Um, anyway. So pretty, pretty cool to be able to do that. I wish I could. Um, anyway, um, oh, and speaking, oh, you guys. Okay, I almost forgot.
Speaker 1:Before we get to the devil's advocate, I have to discuss this because I am so unbelievably interested and excited and all the things about this new venture that I discovered. So there's a bunch of venture capitalists that have way too much money just to burn. They don't know what to do with it. So they're going to do something really, really, really fun for your boy. Um, the guy who invented PayPal ties teased.
Speaker 1:I don't know their names, I don't care about their names, um, but there's a bunch of these venture capitalists that are getting together that are going to put together a. They're calling it a, a um, 21st century Olympics, all it means. They're calling it the enhanced games. All that they're going to do is have these really elite sports with zero drug testing yeah, no drug testing, which means we're going to see world records absolutely obliterated, absolutely destroyed, and I can't wait. I'm so excited to see these. And here's the thing that's going to be wild? I don't know, because you have all these Olympic athletes that you know they're unbelievable.
Speaker 1:I have to preface that All the anyone who makes it to the Olympics is the best of the best of humanity. And I'm not talking like moral or value, I'm just talking physical specimen. They're the best that we have and they've proved it over and over and over again that they have the mindset, they have the discipline, they have the drive, they have the talent, they have the work all of that to be the best in the world at what they do. And you know, everyone who isn't really dumb knows that those athletes have used, or 99% likely have used, steroids at some point, because the game is not don't use steroids, it's how much can we use and not get caught. And we know that they've used them because Russia's been busted for it a lot, china's been busted for it a lot. A lot of other countries have been busted for it. I'm sure the United States have a lot, but we have way more strict drug rules and procedures, so not as much for the United States, they don't get busted as much. But so we know that those athletes have used them. So now I'm interested to see if the same athletes that have participated in the Olympics are going to be participating in the enhanced games. And I'm sure I know for a fact that the Olympic committee is going to lose their absolute mother effing minds over this endeavor and try at all costs possible to stop it from happening, which is so dumb, it's so stupid to do that. But I guarantee they're going to try to stop this from happening because it's going to be so much more entertaining than the Olympics Like. So much more entertaining, like.
Speaker 1:If you don't understand how steroids work, then this might not like make a lot of sense to you. But steroids enhance everything that you do. It enhances your strength, it enhances your recovery, it enhances your speed, it enhances all of those things that make you an athlete, an elite level athlete, and obviously you can't just like do it willy-nilly and be crazy Like. You have to have some sort of semblance of guidance and order to this. But the fact remains that steroids enhance everything. That's why people use them is to enhance everything. You know.
Speaker 1:If you look at like somebody like me who hasn't really done steroids ever, I mean I tried a. It was called Turquasterone. It was supposed to be like a legal version of testosterone. It really wasn't. They debunked it so your boy got fooled. All good, but I've never taken real steroids. I've never taken testosterone. I've never taken Tren, I've never taken Anivar, I've never taken all these other steroids I could have taken. I've never taken those. I'm not saying I wouldn't. You guys know this If you've listened to the show.
Speaker 1:I don't have anything against steroids If you do them wisely. But take me and then take like a a Mr Olympia bodybuilding athlete. There's a massive difference between us, massive, massive difference. Obviously, they work out way more than I do. They work out way more regimented than I do. Their diets way more regimented. They're, you know, they've got a coach, all these other things, but also they're on steroids and there's a humongous difference. If you've known anybody that's done like workout for a long time and then decided to steroids, you can see an unreal difference from the like right from the starting point they started using steroids. You can see a huge difference.
Speaker 1:So that's, that's what's going to happen with the Olympic games the enhanced games, excuse me, and I cannot wait. I don't know how it's going to work. I don't know what sports are going to be. I don't know if it's going to be every four years, like the Olympics. I don't know anything about this, except that I'm super psyched and I hope that it happens and I hope that it blows up, and I hope that the Olympic commission gets completely shredded and goes out of business, because they're an extremely corrupt organization. They should all burn into that place, you know. So anyway, yeah, the enhanced games are coming, so can't wait. Anywho, this is dragging on.
Speaker 1:I could go on and on and on about this, but I think it's time for diga-daga-daga-daga-daga-daa, the devil's advocate. All right, y'all, it's time for the devil's advocate. And if you don't know what the devil's advocate is, it is one of my favorite things to do, actually, because it requires me to think really quickly on my feet. I take these little thoughts that come into my head, or debates that I've heard about, or something that comes to mind via a conversation that I've had, or somebody will send me one on Instagram. So if you have devil's advocates that you want to send me, go ahead and send me on Instagram Fit Perception Podcast or Thomas Beliston Either one works. But this is an interesting devil's advocate. So what it is is I like to take these thoughts, these debates, these arguments, these things that happen, I like to debate them with myself. Or if I have a co-host, I debate them with my co-host, but I don't have one today. So you gotta listen to me.
Speaker 1:And what the devil's advocate is intended to do is to prove that you and I and everyone in the world doesn't have to be so married to their opinions. You don't have to be so emotionally invested in your opinions that you can't think of another side of your opinion Logically and well thought out. And you know honestly, because I think that in today's world especially, it's very difficult to get even evenly, both sides of the argument. Usually we're just in our own little think tanks and thought processes and we surround ourselves with people of like-mindedness, which I think is totally human. But if you want to elevate our humanity and elevate our intelligence, I think we need to really be able to look at multiple sides of an argument with as much intensity as we do of our own opinion on that subject. So, that being said, today's argument is I'm on the fence actually Like and usually I have, and you can kind of tell sometimes I try as hard as I can to mask my opinion when I talk about these things, just because it's a fun exercise for me and it's something that I enjoy doing, but sometimes I really am on the fence and I don't actually have a settled opinion on the matter, and so this kind of helps me work through my opinion.
Speaker 1:And so today the devil's advocate is based around ambition, and the argument is if you have found and are doing what you love, is ambition going to ruin that or carry you farther within that specific endeavor? And just for example, like for me, personal training right, is ambition going to carry me farther in that, or does there come a point where ambition becomes a detriment to me in that industry? And so I think that we talk about being ambitious and having ambition as a very successful tool in our belt, a very worthwhile type of characteristic for people to have, and I think there's a lot of value in that. I think that ambition is something that kind of separates really successful people from people who just kind of go throughout life. And I know for a fact because I am a very ambitious person. I like doing really ambitious things. I ran a marathon on four weeks, notice, that was very ambitious, really dumb, very ambitious, right. I just like big things. I like challenging myself in really crazy ways. You know, bit off this whole. Trying to set up a fitness app on my own and setting up a podcast on my own, setting up a personal training business on my own there's like massive, massive challenges, you know. So I have a lot of ambition.
Speaker 1:However, I want to preface this argument with yes, you have ambition, but to what point Does that just kind of fade out? Do you keep that ambition? So is ambition a detriment or a benefit once you have found not previous to, but once you have found what you love to do? So you have to be in the right mind space before we get into this argument that we're not talking about ambition straight out of college, like getting into and finding yourself. No, no, no, I'm talking. You have found what you absolutely love to do. Okay, you've already found it. You don't need to go find it anymore. You're there, you wake up every morning and you're excited to do what you do for a living. Okay, so that's the groundwork that you have to be. You have to preface that Okay, because it's a whole other argument previous to that. We could discuss that another time. But we're talking about I have found what I love to do, and now does ambition become a detriment or a benefit to me personally in that industry?
Speaker 1:So I think that ambition is the only thing really that will keep you going in what you love to do. Okay, because once you find what you love to do and you are, like, absolutely obsessed with it, you enjoy it and you'll know that you have found that when the good and the bad excite you equally, where, oh, I got really excited based off of this sale that I made, but also I got really excited based off of the sale that I didn't make, because now I have to work harder, right, that's how you'll know you found what you enjoy to do. The good and the bad are even killed to you. So I think that ambition is the only thing that keeps you going in that field as far as, like, continuing to develop and to continue to love what you do.
Speaker 1:Because if you get to doing what you love to do and then you coast, what will happen? You know, we've all heard that phrase if you're not going forward, you're going backwards, right, you know, and I think that's very, very true. If I just kind of coast, I found what I love to do, it's so fun, it's my favorite thing ever, and then I just kind of chill. What will start to happen is you'll fall out of love with what you're doing because you won't be putting energy into that thing anymore, and so when you don't put energy in, it sucks energy out and you'll have more time to think about all of the negative things that happened and you'll get, quote unquote, bored with what's happening. And so I think that ambition is going to kind of be your saving grace in regards to keeping that energy of what you love to do and keeping that love going.
Speaker 1:You know, because love takes work, it doesn't matter if it's in a relationship, it doesn't matter if it's in a job, it doesn't matter if it's in an industry. Love takes work, a lot of it, and ambition is that work that you put into the love of what you do, and I think that without ambition you will. I really actually do believe that without the push of ambition and setting higher goals and pushing yourself to do better than you did yesterday, and regardless of what that ambition looks like being more in the industry of what you love if you're not actively doing that and being ambitious, you will fall out of love of what you do, and I feel like I can back that up with a lot of people that I've seen, that I know, you know, started down the path of what they love to do, and you could see it they love waking up in the morning, they love going, they love talking to you about what they do, and then, over time, they fell out of love with it, and it's because I personally believe opinion here that they stopped being ambitious, they stopped pushing themselves, they stopped, and you know you could say that they burned out or whatever. But when you're not setting goals for yourself, when you're not saying, okay, that's what I did last time, now I want to do something bigger and better, you're not going to improve. And when you don't improve, it's very easy to fall out of love of what you do because you're not seeing any growth, you're not seeing any improvement, and then you look at yourself negatively, and when you look at yourself negatively, you inherently look at what you do negatively, and so I think ambition is going to be the key that keeps you in love of what you do. So, yeah, I think ambition is very, very, very beneficial. Once you've found what you love to do, it's the thing that will keep you going and keep that fire burning of the love of what you do.
Speaker 1:On the flip side of that, I think that ambition can be your greatest enemy when it comes to what you love to do. And I want to be intentional with my words here and not just kind of like screw this up. I think that being ambitious, yes, it can be good, but it is usually the ultimate downfall of people where they push too hard, they push too big and inevitably they burn out, because they're human and we all, like myself included, we like to set these big goals, we like to see ourselves improve. But once you've found what you love and you truly do what you love, for me, that's training people, that's interacting with people, that's helping people become stronger and better and faster and improve, that's what I absolutely love to do and I would do it for free. That's how I know that I would love to do it, or that I do love to do it is because I would do it for no money, anyway.
Speaker 1:So once you've found that thing that you love to do and you keep being ambitious, what you love to do kind of stops being oh man, how do I say this? I want to be intentional and not misconstrued when I'm trying to think or what I'm thinking. It doesn't become something that you love to do. It becomes a challenge to conquer, it becomes a job, really, because what you start to do is you start viewing it analytically and I know there's a lot of analytical people in the world and that's great. But when you view something analytically, it's very, very difficult to just love the thing for the thing itself. You start looking at well, I could make more money doing it this way, or I could get more out of it if I did it this way, instead of just doing the thing. If the reason, honestly, that I haven't gone down just the online coaching thing, because every trainer knows that the online coaching thing if you are ambitious with it, you can become very, very, very successful and you can make a lot of money. That's not why I do personal training. I do personal training because I love interacting with people. It's not the best way to make money, it's not the ultimate way to make money in fitness, but that's not why I do it.
Speaker 1:If I was overly ambitious in doing what I love to do, I would start seeing the people as numbers, I would start seeing them as analytical data. And how do I get more and how do I go from $100,000 to $200,000 in revenue or whatever? I know personally that when I become too ambitious, I lose the sense of the love of what I do, because I'm not doing it because I love it. I'm doing it to outdo what I did before. If that makes sense, I'm not going to work. I'm not waking up and doing what I want to do just because I want to. But now I have to be better. There's no just doing it because I love it. Now I have to do it, otherwise I won't conquer the challenge that I've set for myself. My ambition has made it so that it's not something that I just enjoy Now. It's something that I have to do because it requires focus, it requires a lot of energy, it requires going over what I did last time. If I want more clients or if I want more money, I have to do more than I did before.
Speaker 1:That's where the ambition comes in and I think that's where it becomes the detriment. When you have the ambition getting to the point of finding what you love to do, yes, ambition is your best friend. Once you find what you love to do, you don't need to outdo it anymore. Because you've made it, you're happy. That's the underlying principle here is doing what you love to do means you're happy, and it doesn't mean that you don't ever get burnout, you don't ever get sad, but it just means that you are happy doing what you do. And once you have too much ambition, that happiness goes away, because it's not the founding principle of doing what you love. It's just might be there, but that's not the important thing. The important thing is being bigger and better and more productive than you were before, because that's what the ambition tells you.
Speaker 1:So I think that in a very real sense, once you have found what you love to do, ambition is a fast track to destroying the thing that you love to do. And I'm not saying you can't set goals, I'm not saying that you can't improve, but I am saying that being too ambitious will ruin the thing that you love to do and you'll have to go find a new thing and maybe that's not a bad thing, but it will ruin the thing initially that you found that you love to do. That is the devil's advocate. Let me know what you think. I still am on the fence. I don't actually know what my opinion is. Let me know what you think. My opinion is, if you think that I have one. But yeah, does ambition? Once you've found what you love to do? We have to clarify that.
Speaker 1:You cannot let that like, if you talk about this with your friends, like yo, that's the whole point of the devil's advocate. Take this, go talk with your friends, see what they think. See, you know, have a better discussion than just like hey, man, how's work, cool, you're busy, me too, okay, bye. Like have a discussion. That's what this whole thing is about. We just did this for 16, 20 minutes, whatever it is. Go have a good discussion with your friends, see what they think. Does ambition ruin what you love to do or does it enhance what you love to do? But yeah, let me know in the comments on Instagram, send me an Instagram message or whatever. Share this. I'm going to post this, I think, on Instagram. So once I do share that with your friends, if you will, I would love that so we can grow the show and I can get better responses and more interaction and develop critical thinking, you know, anyway. So that's the Devils Advocate. Let me know what you think.
Speaker 1:And before we get out of here, of course, we have one more thing and that is the final takeaway. Your final takeaway is something actually that made me very emotional, and I'm not. I'm going to try not to be emotional in this one, because it always makes me feel weird to cry in front of a camera and there's literally a camera from my face. But your final takeaway, like this, hit me as I was working out doing a hack squat, like legitimately. I was between sets and this thought came into my mind and I started crying. I had like actual tears going down my face in the gym. Probably nobody was around me because if they were, they would have been like hey man, this dude needs help. Anyway, so your final takeaway, if you're new to the show, is just something that I leave with the listeners. That is either a mindset shift, an activity to do, a thought to ponder on just something that I think will improve your life overall, whether it's success, whether it's money, whether it's happiness, whether it's positivity, whether it's peace, it doesn't matter Something that I think will improve your life. And your final takeaway today is very simple and sounds very cliche, but it is very, very powerful if you really think about it. And that is sounds so dumb, but your final takeaway is to set time aside to work out. And I know you go oh, you roll your eyes, hear me out.
Speaker 1:First, when you are going through your day, you are giving so much to other things. You're giving so much to your work and your boss and your clients and your relationships, and you come home and you give your time and your energy to your family. You give time and energy to your friends, your dog, your children. It doesn't matter. You're constantly doing things, regardless of whether you're doing them consciously, subconsciously, happily or not. You're doing things for other people. The actions that you do, even if you own your own business and you can say no, no, no, I work for myself. The things that I do come back to me. Yeah, you're right, but you have to do things via other people for that to come back to yourself, like the energy you put for it. Say, you own a business and you have to make X amount of sales to get money back, obviously. So you are working. Yes, you own your own company, but you are reliant on the action of others for that to come back to you.
Speaker 1:And when you work out and I've been trying to think of other things that you can do that this happened like that have the same effect, and I think reading is one of those things. Developing more knowledge is one of those things. Where you're putting time into this thing that comes directly back to you. It's a very, very cut and dry. If I do this, then I get this immediately or down the road.
Speaker 1:But exercise, working out, is something that you do, that you get all of it back to you. It is 100% yours. All of the things like you go into a workout, every single rep that you do is beneficial to you, not to anyone else. You know, and you say, oh, no, it's for your children, you're healthy for your children. Yeah, that's fine, that's cute, but the reality is every single effort that you put into exercise is a direct positive to you, immediately and down the road. Like there is no middleman, there is no waiting period, there is no. I do it and then this person does this and then I get it back. No, no, no, you get exactly what you give and then some. Every effort that you put into it, whether that's running, whether that's lifting weights, whether that's yoga, whether that's stretching, whether that's diet, it does not matter in the realm of fitness Every single effort that you make is yours, nobody else's. You get the benefit, you get the strength, you get the enhancement. It is all yours. It is not reliant on anyone or anything else but you. It is yours, and I don't know of very many other things that do that. So put all of the other reasons to exercise and eat healthy aside looking good, being athletic, being healthy, whatever put all of those reasons aside. I want you to work out because it is 100% you, all you. Every effort, every try, every rep, every step, every action goes directly back to you. But anyone else, no one else, gets that. It is yours. So go work out with that mindset. It is your time, it is everything to you and that is your final takeaway.
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