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This podcast is for people who want to feel fit, strong, and energised again β but havenβt found a way to make fitness hold when life is busy.
Youβve tried plans that work on paper but fall apart under pressure.
Youβve had periods of momentum, followed by long stretches of drift.
Not because you donβt care.
But because most approaches werenβt built for real life.
On this podcast, we talk about how to build strength, energy, and confidence in your body inside a full life β not an ideal one.
Training that adapts when work ramps up.
Nutrition that stays simple when attention is limited.
Habits that survive travel, stress, family, and changing weeks.
These are honest conversations about systems, mindset, and identity β and how fitness stops slipping to the bottom of the list and starts reinforcing the rest of your life.
One of the things that people misunderstand most about fitness, health, getting in shape, whatever you wanna call it, is that it's solely about vanity. People use the vanity argument to dismiss the importance of it. I think there's all sorts of reasons for that. And this isn't me trying to tag point fingers at anyone or accuse anyone or put anyone's opinion down. I'll let you make those assumptions for yourself why people judge those that are in shape or those that are focused on their fitness, their bodies.
Speaker 1:But I truly believe that it is something far, far greater than vanity, and we can talk about it on so many different levels. On one level, it's purely health. Right? We wanna be healthy. We wanna be fit.
Speaker 1:We wanna feel good. We wanna live a long time. If we've got a family, we wanna be around for them and be the best version for them we can. We wanna feel good in the moment. We wanna feel energized.
Speaker 1:We wanna feel pain free. We wanna feel capable, feel strong. But there's also another element of it, which kind of like the vanity thing really kind of I wouldn't say it upsets me, but it triggers me sometimes because I'll often be on calls with potential clients, and they'll be embarrassed to say that they want to look better. Right? They're happy to go, oh, this, you know, this isn't about how I look.
Speaker 1:This isn't about getting leaner. This isn't about having more muscle. I don't wanna be, you know, a cover model, all these sort of things. And it's almost like an embarrassment of actually admitting that they wanna look better. Right?
Speaker 1:And I always say to them, look. Let's take a step back here. What do you really want? Right? This isn't about vanity.
Speaker 1:Surely, this is just about confidence in yourself. And I truly believe that we all deserve to feel confident in our own skin. And poo pooing it as something that's purely vanity and ego based, I think, is truly wrong. And with everything in life, there's a small subset of people or a small subset percentage that may be doing things for the wrong reasons, although we could argue that who's to say anyone's motives are wrong or right. Like, that's their own decision.
Speaker 1:But let's assume that maybe a small percentage are doing it purely for vanity and maybe some distasteful reason. But I think most of us, when we wanna look better, it's just because we want to feel confident in our bodies. And like I said before, we all deserve that. We all deserve to feel good, and we all deserve to feel capable and energized and confident in who we are. And to shun fitness as a whole as something that's like a vanity project, really, it grinds me because I know that it's so much more than that.
Speaker 1:And like we said, the obvious health things, the obvious fitness, but then there's that confidence and just feeling good in yourself. And then one thing that gets overlooked so often is the mental health benefits. I honestly I don't know where I'd be mentally if I couldn't train. And even just not exercising for a few days, I feel it psychologically. And the way that training can change my mindset just within a matter of fifteen, twenty, thirty minutes is astounding.
Speaker 1:And there's no drug that can do the same. There's no prescription that can have that same impact. And the same goes for food as well. We all know what it feels like if you've been following a really nice, solid, whole food, nutritious diet for a few weeks, and then you have that day where you eat a load of junk and it's literally like you're hungover the next day, and the impact on your mental health is huge. You can really feel your body respond in a negative way and vice versa.
Speaker 1:Same with sleep. Right? So all of these things, they are allowing us to express ourselves at our highest level. And I usually think that in the modern world, it's not even about expressing ourselves at this exceptional level. It's just about bringing ourselves to average.
Speaker 1:Right? Like, this world we live in is so oppressive in so many in so many ways. We are we're working long hours. We live sedentary lives. We don't have much time.
Speaker 1:We're worried about work all the time. We're stressed. All the food has shit in it. We're surrounded by chemicals from plastics and all the cosmetics we use. And nowadays, I think training, eating well, getting good sleep as a fundamental is purely just bringing us up to average and just this is how we should feel.
Speaker 1:It's not normal in your thirties, in your forties, even in your fifties to feel tired all the time, to feel sluggish, to feel in pain, to feel weak. It's not normal. Normal is feeling full of energy, feeling strong, feeling confident, feeling like your body is actually capable. And a lot of the practices that we do are just combating against the modern world, allowing us to actually bring ourselves back up to average. And let's hope that with persistence, we can go far beyond that too.
Speaker 1:But I think that's one of the main things that we're doing in this project. So going back to the original sentiment of shunning fitness as a whole because it's vanity, like I say, I don't wanna point any fingers why people might do that, but I'll let you assess for yourself why you think people might judge others that way. And at the end of the day, you don't know what other people have gone through. Right? Like, you'll see guys in the gym who maybe look a bit hardcore in whatever way, but for all you know, they have had a drug problem all their lives, or they've had people die around them or a really hard upbringing.
Speaker 1:And the training and the focus on themselves and the betterment of themselves has actually been the thing that's allowed them to come out the other end in a positive light and actually strive towards a better life. So fitness is a huge thing. And as I always say, your body is your vehicle. And if your body is operating at a high level, at a capable level, at a level that allows you to feel good as your baseline, it then acts as that almost that trampoline into all the other areas of your life. It's not just about looking good.
Speaker 1:It's about how that impacts your work, your family, your social life, your ability to go out and do the things that you wanna do. So I'd love to hear from you guys. How has fitness and health and pursuing it impacted your life in a way just purely beyond looking better? What has been the most profound thing that it's impacted your life? I'd absolutely love to hear from you.
Speaker 1:And if you've got any challenges or thoughts about what I've talked about today, I'd love to hear from that too. So drop it in the comments. And if you're not subscribed to me and you wanna have more down to earth, pressure proof advice when it comes to getting fit, getting healthy in a busy life, then hit the subscribe button too. Peace out, guys. Have a fantastic day.