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Make it Make Sense: Understanding the Fitness Journey is a podcast for everyone, from beginners to seasoned athletes. Hosted by pro men's physique athlete and experienced fitness coach Frank, the show explores all aspects of fitness—physical, mental, and emotional. With candid conversations, practical advice, and insights from across the fitness spectrum, this podcast is designed to inspire, inform, and empower all demographics on their unique fitness journeys.
Honest motivation. You know? And I often give my background, started training when I was in Florida, following a an accident. I was rear ended by a drunk driver. Good medical, you know, background story is that I ended up with 2 bulging discs in my lower back.
Speaker 1:Doctor said I needed to work out to avoid surgery, so I started working out. So there was definitely cause and reason, you know, to start at least, adhering to some sort of, weight resistance program. Right? But in all honesty, the honest motivation was a day I'd gone to the beach with some friends of mine. We got to the beach.
Speaker 1:All the guys took their shirts off. The guys have been working out for a while. I was, I guess, they didn't tell me that we were gonna start working out. And so, like, right then and there, I was like, yo, I wanna go to the beach and I wanna take my shirt off because, you know, like, when I was there, like, I felt insecure. So when I'm training people, you know, I always like to ask, you know, what's your honest motivation?
Speaker 1:I remember once, I'd asked a client, before we gotten started, you know, what's your honest motivation? And she said, she wanted to be healthy. And I was like, you know, well, watch what you eat, walk around your neighborhood 4 or 5 times in a week, you know, and you'll be healthy. But then, you know, she she made a face and she paused. And I was like, alright.
Speaker 1:So let me ask, was it more so you got out of the shower one day, the steam cleared from the mirror. You looked at the mirror, saw yourself, and you saw a version of you that you didn't want to see or you don't wanna be anymore. And she was like, well, yeah, that's that's it, Frank. I was like, exactly. So that's your honest motivation.
Speaker 1:So that's the reason, you know, when I'm asking you to, do your workouts and log your workouts and and log your foods and things like that, your honest motivation is that that reflection of you that you saw that you no longer want to be. Because, you know, I find it that people will go the health aspect. You know, I just wanna be healthy, this and that, but it's it's easier to give up on a goal that isn't really your goal. You know, it's really it's easy to deviate from a plan that you don't see any reason for it. You know, just being healthy is not a reason to go to the gym or to your workouts from home or to do any of that training if the intent is not built on a a an honest goal, which is always the honest motivation.
Speaker 1:And then I always tell people, if you're gonna work out, you you gotta have a reason. Right? So it's even when when you're doing exercises. You know, I I I train my clients based on the actual contraction and the stresses on muscle fibers, you know, what I call reps. And my reps are the stretch and contraction of the muscle fibers of the group in the muscle group that you're working along its full range of motion.
Speaker 1:Right? Basically, just using the muscle for the exercise for the exercise that you're doing to improve that muscle. And so when doing exercises, I'll ask, you know, just to make sure that they're getting the form. I'll ask, you know, this sort of when did you feel it? Did you feel it?
Speaker 1:Things like that. If they say no, then I'm like, well, how many reps do you think you did? And they're like, well, I did, you know, all, you know, 10 to 20 reps. Alright. Well, then how did you move if the if you don't feel it in the muscles?
Speaker 1:And, you know, they're like, what do you mean? I was like, listen. Muscle dictates movement, and there is no movement without intent. You know, you have to be focused on the goal at hand. So it's like if you're doing, you know, a back exercise, you don't wanna focus on doing the exercise.
Speaker 1:You wanna focus on contracting the muscle fibers that are needed to do that exercise because you can't improve an exercise. You can't improve machines and and cables and bands and things like that. You can only improve you. So you have to focus on you when you're working out. And and that's true with anything that you do, your your honest motivation, you know, in any situation that you're in.
Speaker 1:If it's, if it's job related, if it's your, you know, your home relationship with your family, things like that, you know, there has to be an honest motivation for any of those things to actually work if you want them to. Right? So it starts with being honest with yourself. You know? And I think one of the things that helped me when I first started working out was I was honestly able to tell myself that what I was doing wasn't working.
Speaker 1:You know? I worked out, you know, even though I had my honest motivation, I wanted to go to the beach, you know, take my shirt off, you know, things like that. But I worked out for a full year, and I got absolutely like, there was no change at all. I was still the same size. Like, there was no difference in me at all.
Speaker 1:But instead of just continuing to go, I made a change. I was like, okay. This isn't gonna work. And to be honest, the the change I was going to make was I was quitting. I was just gonna give up.
Speaker 1:I was I was at LA Fitness, back home, Oviedo, Florida, and I I got in to cancel my membership. It was exactly 365 days after I had, started my membership. Went to the LA Fitness, played a little bit of hoop. Was getting ready to leave, passed by a childhood friend who I hadn't seen in years, and he was just a a specimen. Like, I wanted to look like him.
Speaker 1:So I just asked him, hey, man. What have you been up to? He's like, man, you know, you know, I just work out. I was like, like, when? He was like, every day.
Speaker 1:I was like, what time? He's like, around this time. I was like, oh, I'll see you tomorrow. And I started working out with this guy every single day. But, you know, had I closed my mind to what my honest motivation is, then I probably never even would have said anything to him about being able to work out.
Speaker 1:I probably just woulda, you know, just had the basic conversation that you have after seeing someone that you haven't seen in years. Hey. How's it going? How have you been? And you keep it moving.
Speaker 1:But, no, my honest motivation was still there and was still very real to me. So when I saw someone that I believe could help me get there, I stopped. Hey. How can I get to my honest motivation? Which is my real question when I was asking him, you know, when do you work out?
Speaker 1:Things like that. The intent behind my question was, you know, how can I get to my honest motivation? How can I reach my goal? You know, that was a good friend of mine, Chris Perkins. And, you know, from that, I developed a a love for the gym.
Speaker 1:I learned to be consistent in the gym. And, you know, like, probably, what, 6, 7, 8 years later, I was a professional bodybuilder. So I went from being a £140 underweight to now a a pro bodybuilder men's physique division because I stayed true to my honest motivation. Alright. So that's episode 1.
Speaker 1:We're gonna call this, of the Make It Make Sense podcast. This has been your boy, Frank Hamilton. Remember the motto. It's gonna be be grinding or be nothing. I'll have that word out in the next segment.
Speaker 1:I trust. Episode 2. I won't make that mistake.