March 28, 2018 • 51 mins
Shaun T is one of the most motivational humans you'll ever come across and we touched on a lot of topics from how to finally do a push up, what types of workouts you should be doing, how to balance your physical goals and stay happy with who you are, how to sick to a diet, holding yourself accountable, having reasonable expectations and some tough love you need to show yourself. You also have a few days left to join Shaun T's Diet bet. Go to Dietbet.com/ShaunT
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Wednesday podcast. My name is Anthony. If you somehow just
happened upon this podcast, I normally host the morning show
on Power, but this whole podcast is about health, wellness,
how to get to your goals, whatever, whatever goals you have,
whatever journey you're on. Hopefully you can find something in
one of these podcasts that helps you out week over
a week and then we all kind of grow together.
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But I'm really excited for this week's guest because it's
someone that I've worked with in the past, someone you
probably know, and it's someone who honestly is one of
the most motivating people that I've ever been around. Just
you hear him talking, you could run through a wall
if you ask you to. So without further ado, someone
who I love listening to and talking to, but hate
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seeing him on my screen when I'm working out. Shawnty,
Welcome to the Workout Wednesday podcast. Thank you very much.
With how how often do you hear that? How often
do people say? I love you? Shaunt but honestly, I
curse you out every time I see you on my
TV or on my phone or on my laptop. I
hear it and read it. Everything okay, But you know
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what I say. I say, if you hate me, that
means you're doing it the right way. That's t people
who say, oh my god, I just so amazing and
like insanity is so fun. I'm like, are you doing
the same workout that I created? Because if you think
it's fun right away, you're of be not doing it right. Yeah,
pretty much. But I mean you do get to a
point where you kind of love the love to hate
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the pain or you just love the pain, so you
know it's all good whether you hate me or love me.
At some it mean it's all positive to Yeah, And
you could probably speak to this too. I feel like
every time someone asks me, like, oh, I want to
get into working out, you know, how do I how
do I stay consistent or whatever. I've always told people,
if you give it three weeks to a month, it's
gonna suck in the beginning. Your first week, you're gonna hate.
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Your second week, you're probably still gonna hate that third week,
you'll you might actually feel a difference. You won't see
anything yet for the most part, but you'll feel a difference.
And once you feel the difference, everything else becomes a
little bit, if not easier, um easier to deal with. Yes,
So here's the thing I mean when people people have
to understand when you start any kind of journey, it
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could be it could be a new job, a new relationship,
weight loss, food. The thing is, what we try to
do is we try to rush the results, you know,
we we try to get to the endgame right away.
And there is you definitely have to embrace the challenge immediately.
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You immediately have to embrace the challenge in the sense
of this is going to be a step by step
process and I'm not this is not going to happen overnight,
and you have to leave yourself onting more because what
happens is people, every single person out there, no matter
how amazing you are. It could be Michael Jordan's or
Serena Williams or um, you know, Bodie Miller. And like
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any athlete. I use athletes because I know, you know,
people look at them as like wow, they go for something,
and they go for the goals that you will. Everyone
hits this thing called the implementation dep And so the
implementation dep is once you begin something, you feel like
you're on this unbelievable high and you have these super
high expectations of yourself and you have this goal that
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you want to achieve something and you want to go
so hard and spearhead right after it. But then we
all hit this thing called the implementation dip, which is
immediately after you begin something, the pressure and the weight
of the challenge begins to basically become a piano on
your back. And when that piano starts to hit you
on your back, then you start to feel the pressure.
So for someone who starts a new weight loss journey,
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you're gonna feel your body becomes sore right away. And
some people are like, oh, I'm sore, I need to stop.
I need to take a break, and then that brake
turns from one day to five days, and then you
feel like you gave up, and then you forget all already,
you forget about it, and you feel like it's just
not gonna work. And then what happens. But what you
have to do, I should say, is you have to
realize that the soreness is part of the challenge. It's
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part of the momentum that actually put you put yourself
through such rigorous stress and you've accomplished something so hard
that now you're sore, and you actually have to utilize
that pain and utilize that that struggle that wow, like
I have to actually I actually have to go through
this pain. You have to use it as momentum to
push you back up that hill, because once you dip,
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you have to utilize the things that are tough to
propel you forward on the other side of the dip,
which is like pushing you back up the hill. And
when you and that's the three weeks that you're talking about.
So once you hit that three week, you know, I'm there.
If this is really tough, I might I'm Some people
start to see it. Some people start to feel it.
That is the rise of the implementation DIP. And you know,
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we always set super high expectations of our course. Sometimes
they're not realistic. And then but when you feel like
when you hit that first implementation DIPP and then you
feel yourself say, hey, I'm still here, I'm still committed.
When you start to feel the rise again, that's when
you can say, Okay, I'm on my way and I succeeded.
But don't give up just because you encounter a little
bit of struggle. Well, the soreness means that it's working,
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you know. I mean, yeah, I mean that's the sortness
means that you're working, you know. I mean it means
that it's working in terms of like if you're doing
bicep girls, if you're doing a trespass, you're gonna you know,
feel your muscle pain. But you have to look at
the soreness as wow, this was me, Like I actually
did the work, and so I'm proven to myself that
I can push myself hard enough to feel working in
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my body. Okay, now I can continue. You know. One
of the reasons I love talking to you. Hey you're
a pretty decent person, you know, but hey, we're both
from BS. You say, we're both from Jersey, and we
both did track at some point in our lives. And
I feel like one of the things that I loved
the most about track, I didn't even realize until years
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after I was done doing track and track. I don't
think that I'm ever going to push my kids to
to be like greatest sports. If they want to, that's great,
but I think I would want all of my kids, however,
money end up having um to try track at least
because it teaches you the idea of a personal best
as opposed to just coming in first or winning a game. Absolutely,
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you know. I mean, I didn't even know that phrase
existed until I did like my third or fourth meet
my sophomore year of high school, and I came in
like twenty. Like, I was not very good when I started,
and I remember my coach, you know, he saw that
I was a little piste off, that I didn't do
as well as I wanted to, and he goes, hey,
just so you know, you ran the fastest time you've
run this season. That's the fastest time you've ever ran,
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which means you just beat everything you've done before in
your life exactly. So if you can only do one
push up, but that's the massive, most massive amount of
push ups you've ever done, then you just beat zero. Yeah,
you know when I I'm not sure if you've heard
of my work Alcohol Insanity max thirty and what I
have people do is write down to max out time
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when they when they're inside the workout. So the first
time you actually have to take a break within that
thirty minutes, I want you to write it down because
when you if you stay committed to the program, then
next week when you repeat that workout and you see, wow,
the first day I went four minutes and thirty seconds,
and then next week you're you're saying wow and seven
in minutes, you're basically hitting your new pr And it
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really is. You know, people guys do it in the
gym in terms of well, some girls too, and the
bench press. How much can you bench? I get that
question all the time, which kind of annoysing, like, don't
compare yourself to me, compare yourself to you. But you know,
people are like how much can you bench? And then
it's like this thing like Okay, if I did twenty five,
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I want to do too. You know, maybe twenty seven
next time, you know you want to keep pushing through.
But the pr is very important. Yes, in track and field.
It was the same way for me. I remember, I
mean I vowed to never run slower than I did
in a previous race, and uh and I was a
foreign to me to hurler, and throughout my entire career
as a runner, I never ran slower because I just
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was like, I never ran against anyone, because I said,
if I actually run my death, then I know I'm
gonna beat people. But I'm but more importantly, I know
that I'm getting better. And when you start to get
better at something, and when you commit like a fitness
program or for your eating, you're gonna build confidence. And
nothing looks as good as confidence feels. So you just
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have to continue to be confident and and and stay committed.
You have to literally act like you have a bank
account of confidence. And the more you continue, the more
you feel successful, the more confidence you have. And I'm
telling you right now, nobody can take your confidence away
unless you literally open up your wallet and give it
to them. So I just tell people to hold on
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to the fact that you did this, like you actually
did the push ups, you did the work, you ran
the race and so no one can take away your mouth. Yeah,
and you know you mentioned Insanity Max story, which is
funny because I think that was the first time we
worked together. I think you were doing kind of your
promo stuff for Insanity Max thirty. And when I met you,
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then you were you were Shawn t the DVD fitness guy,
the motivator, the infomercial guy, however you want to whatever
hat you want to wear at that moment. And then
when you came to Seattle and we had you on
Power three, you were not only all of that, you
were also Shauanti the author. And now that we're talking again,
you have those hats, but you're also Shanti the dad.
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H Now, as someone who has motivated a ton of
people who were parents, have probably had that busy parenting lifestyle,
have you noticed a change in your day to day
like what do you do to kind of continue to
stay on top of your game? So you know, one
of the things that I actually talked about in my
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book is one of your superpowers is being selfish, and
I mean positively selfish and giving yourself time every day
or complimenting yourself every day, or having that mirror moment
where you go to yourself and become proud of yourself.
And one of the things that I learned kind of
the hard way as a dad was once your kids
are born or kid and my crass kids. Yeah yeah, yeah.
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Once your kids are born, you start to really it
becomes baby TV and you basically and and everything you
do in your life is surrounded around them. But more
than just surrounds around them, you do for them. And
then you can actually lose a little bit of yourself
and forget that they need a strong parent in order
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for them to thrive. And I remember I was running
my first Spartan race and I couldn't do the rope
climb because I said, wow, I actually didn't do the
pull ups and and do the weight training that I
normally do, where you know, it's because the kids are here.
And it's not saying that you should neglect your children,
but you have to take time, you know, for yourself.
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So Shanty the dad had to. I had to change
the way I think and say, Okay, we need we
need help, we need babysitters, we need people, so that
I can actually feel very energetic and when I come
home I can actually give to them. You know, and
being an entrepreneur and working from home, you kind of
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have this I don't know, I kind of you kind
of have this obligation, well, I'm home, so I should
be spending time with when you don't realize most you know,
most working class people, entrepreneurs or not, they're you know,
they either have a nanny, babysitters, or they take the
kids of daycare. And so, you know, when I thought
about it that way, I was like, oh, I don't
actually have to feel bad because a lot of parents
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don't see there, you know, three months old baby. For
you know, seven, eight, sometimes nine hours a day, I
still get to see my kids more throughout the day.
That being able to have a selfish moment was able
to help me build my day. So now I can
wake up, I can go have you know, breakfast meetings,
I can work out, I can have my tennis practice.
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I can you know, film stuff for my online academy.
You know, I can give stuff to what I need,
the energy I need to give it to to continue
to thrive in who I am. And the book, by
the way, is it's called T for T is for Transformation.
And I actually just got past chapter where you talking
about being selfish. Um, you were nice enough to give
us a copy when you came to Seattle, and I'm
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let's see, I think at page like two right now,
so I'm almost done with it. I'm a slow reader
and I take very long breaks between the times I
actually do read. And uh, the podcast you have Trust
and Belief, because here's what I wanted. I want to
actually take one step back. I said that you were
coming on this podcast, and I said, you know, if
you have any questions, hit me up on Instagram. And
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I got this from Emily on Instagram. She said, no question.
Just love Shaun Ti. He's been a huge motivator for
me since having a baby in July. Love his podcast
and waiting on his book, which I recently ordered. Um,
what do people find in your podcast? My podcast is
literally so you know this the series that's happening right
now is about the seven Superpowers and the keynotes that
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I gave while I was actually on tour on my
book tour. But Trust and Belief is about anything you
need to trust and believe and who you are, and
they can be personal stories from me that I help
people out there who are going through any kind of struggle.
Or journey, or even if they're going through some successful moments,
how to attach to themselves and how to believe in themselves.
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Because one of the things that I see in my
demographic or people who set out for any kind of goal,
be a fitness, nutrition, weight loss, family, you know, career,
is some people are afraid to encounter struggle. And like
I say in my book, everybody's in the closet about something,
and I help you open that closet because if you don't,
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if you don't accept your path to deal with your past,
you're gonna stay in the past. And so it's really
about helping you think internally about who you are so
you can trust that no matter what happened to you
or no matter what you're going through at this moment,
even if it's something great, if you actually are present
in the moment, you can trust yourself. And once you
start to trust yourself, you can believe that this is
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happening and this is not an illusion, and that your
success is in real time. And um, you know, to
believe in yourself, you must accept yourself, and to accept yourself,
you must trust in your power to believe. And I
want people to accept who they are because they will believe.
And that's what we talk about in the podcast. Um,
you know, I'm not something. One of my seasons, I
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had a lot of guests, But for me, it's not
about It's not about um really, for me, it's not
about the numbers or like having a different like expert
come on. It's it's about me telling you, like, hey,
this is what I'm going through or this is some
stuff that I learned along my way in life. And
I've had a very interesting and sometimes rough life. But
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you know, I want people to feel that if you
really connect to who you are, that's when change starts
to happen. And to remember that change is kind of
like perfection is temporary and change is constant, and so
it's we change and I want you to know that.
And that's what we talk about in the podcast. And
actually you meant you mentioned the book a little bit.
I don't want to give anything away, but if you
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think you've been dealt a bad hand, or if you
think you've got it rough, I think what's great about
your book is you show people right away, like very
very quickly in that book that even if you've been
kind of dealt a bad hand, even if you may
not have been born into a great financial situation or
a great just home safety situation in general, you can
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still do what you want to do if you kind
of embrace everything, which is really a really cool lesson. Yeah,
I mean we like you know, I don't think my
story is any like harder or rougher. I mean people
have had rougherence stories or whatever. But I think at
the end of the day, I just want to utilize
my platform to help people understand that. This is why
I know you can get through the struggle, and it's
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not really about you know, comparing your story to mine
is just to open to your mind up that if
you've been through something, you can get through it. Like
once you if you're still breathing and you are functioning properly,
you now have a choice and you have a choice
to say I'm gonna I'm gonna get through this and
I'm gonna go as hard as I possibly can, or
you can give up, and unfortunately a lot of people
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give up. But I just want to be that voice
and that person to be there for you. Even if
you think you've fallen short before, there is a way
to get on top. Well, you know, talking about giving up. You,
I'm sure have encountered thousands and thousands of people that
have at least attempted one of your workouts, one of
your programs. What do you think is a common trend
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in people who just didn't get over that hump, didn't
make it, maybe gave up a little too soon or
right before they reached the point where they could have
kept going, they gave up right before. Then. Is there
something that you just you wish you could shake out
of people? Yeah, I think not that, I think. I know.
I want people to stop comparing themselves to other people
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and comparing themselves to magazines because in fitness, man, we
are motivated by bodies, and we are motivated by We're
motivated about being on a cord magazine or the girl
or guy next to you at the gym, or somebody's
performed after picture that we saw on Instagram. But once
you realize that your body can only be shaped by
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who you are and you can't rush the process. These
are two major, uh major systems was what I like
to call it, that could really stop you in your
tracks the minute you start looking outside of yourself to
try and get those results. When you have to focus
on the inside of yourself to get your results and
then rushing the process. And that's why I don't like
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situational exercise. Um, what is that? What a situational exercise?
Situational exercise? I want to fit into this by the
time I get into my to my wedding. I got
a trip to Vegas in three weeks and they need
to look at good none pool party. Right. Only time
situational exercise can work is if you're saying, I'm starting
his journey and I have a date that I want
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to be here, and then I want to create another
milestone for myself. But if you are just focused on
fitting into that one dress that's a size three, then
guess what you're chasing the number. And every day when
you walk into your house or your bathroom and you
get on the scale, you're gonna look down at the
scale and you're gonna either be happy or sad, and
then a number is gonna dictate who you are. It's
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like for people who are building their resume. You don't
start out making you know, six figures, right, but if
you look down and every day you're like, well, I'm
only making I mean I started my first job out
of college. I was making twenty seven thousand, five hundred
dollars a year. And instead of me being like, oh,
I want to make a hundred thousand and I said,
we're gonna do this twenty seven thousand, and how can
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I experience this? How can I make this experience great?
You know? And that's what I want people to do
with their weight losses. How can you make if you
went away fifty pounds less, if you lose one town,
how can you make that one pound great? And then
it becomes more about a feeling and less about the number.
I mean, Listen, when I started in radio, I was
making seven dollars hour, seven bucks an hour. It basically
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it took me about two and a half weeks to
make enough money for the monthly train ticket I needed
to get to work. You know, there were times I
have to ask my parents and I think, you you
bring up a really good point. You it's easy to
look at the end result and then compare yourself to it,
whether it's financial, whether it's fitness, whatever, um. But everyone
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had a most people, I should say, had a journey
to get to where they are. You can't look at
the people at the top and say, oh, I deserve
that too, right now. I mean in my career, I
could look at someone like a Ryan Seacrest who makes
a buttload of money and it's all over the place,
but he had his journey. That's not where I am
on my journey yet. And when it comes to to
weight loss or fitness, I mean, I'm sure it happens
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to people say, oh, Shaunty, you have you know, great
abs or whatever. You're in such good shape, but you've
worked on that for like twenty years and working and
is poor like somebody like Ryan Seacrest, who I mean
he's still working at any point. Yeah, I mean, yeah, okay,
he might have a fat bank account, right of course,
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but I tell you right now, if he's unfulfilled, he
much rather have less money and be happy. And so
that's that's the point of all of this. Like your
journey from making seven dollars an hour till now, it's
because of the choices that you made to get you
where you are and then learning how two to change
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lanes when you need to. You know, you didn't stay
in the same job because at some point the seven
dollar an hour job might be fun, like you might
enjoy the people, but it might not be fulfilling you
and where you want to go and uh and also
you know, just to be clear, like yeah, you know
some people will be like oh such and suches on top,
but you can only be on top right now, meaning
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once you reach the top of where you are now
you have to say, okay, now I need this is
a plateau because people are afraid of plateaus and weight
loss business. But I'm like, this is the plateau, Like
I'm at the top now. That is where I can
recalibrate and refocus and let me go find the ladder
so I can get to the next part of the building.
How can I get to the next roof? You know?
So um, you know, I just that's what again why
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I tell people it's a journey, not a destination, of course,
And it's also like you mentioned before, it's also actually
being happy because you know, what if you you could
work out every day for a year and end up
being the fittest person in your neighborhood, but okay, that
what happens then, because there's gonna be someone that ends
up being younger, better looking, fitter than you're coming along,
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and then you lose all your identity if that's all
you cared about. But I mean, it's about sustainability once
you get like it's the S word, you know, I
tell I tell some of my fit fam I'm like,
the S word, not S word, is not shown. Well
you know you also, um, I know you do like
challenges and stuff, which I think is really cool because
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I actually in this podcast, I set up a fifty
days of Fit challenge where it was basically just trying
to do something for half an hour for fifty straight days.
Because at that point you've got this habit that you've
formed and you're almost addicted to it. It's become part
of your day. After fifty days, and then at that
point you can then grow and expand and say, okay,
I worked out for half an hour a day, let
me bump it up to forty minutes, so let me
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do a different half hour workout every day, and then
do another fifty days and you kind of grow. Do
you challenge? You challenge yourself like that? Yeah, I mean
I challenge myself. It's funny. I wake up and I
have you know, I have my friend, my friend Bess
in Neumatic Sans. She as a tennis player and we
have this thing called Miracle Mornings that we try to
do once a week when we're in town. But I
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am constantly challenging myself. It goes back to kind of
like that tracking field and now you're like, I want
to run faster. I mean, it's just it's just the
way to how to elevate your life is to constantly
challenge who you are. And what's this The Challenge the
forty thing I saw you tweeting about. Yeah, So Challenge
the forty is, so I'm turning forty on May second
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to do something. You know, I wanted to do something
because you know, obviously I'm always going through a dynamic
shift in my life and I think decades are really
great too to reassess who you are. But I wanted
people to go in the journey with me. And so
the Challenge the forty is actually a Live your Best
Life UM challenge group where you get nutrition tips, you
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get a workout calendar, but every day you are see
you have a five minute less than five minute videos
where you go on a journey and I challenge every
day and you get lessons every day so you can
connect because a lot of people that go through fitness
journeys is kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna follow this
calendar and I'm gonna check it off, but are you
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looking internally? So in order to live your best life,
you have to literally look inside the core of who
you are. And then once you're able to really attach
to who you are and and kind of assess how
you're going along the journey, it kind of goes back
to where you said where it becomes more of a habit,
and then you have a better habit of connecting to
yourself and talking to yourself, and then that helps you
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again trust yourself because now you're being honest with yourself,
and when you're honest with yourself, you can believe yourself.
That's a pretty good, pretty good step by step guide
right there. And I know that one of the things
I always tell people, like because I'll talk to Carlinbury,
who you obviously know, um my co host you're on
Power about holding yourself accountable, because you know you can
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say to yourself, oh, I want to lose ten pounds
in that's my goal for the year. But if you
don't put something on the line, or if you don't
hold yourself accountable or tell someone at least then it's
really just it's a random thought in your head. You know,
you can start by writing it down for yourself and
then telling a friend or even tweeting it or posting
on Instagram so that you're then held accountable. Is there,
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I don't know, like a tip or a way that
you find people can hold themselves accountable and make it,
make something real, make a goal real. First of all.
I mean I want to say that visualizing what you
want is really a great first step to success. So
everyone can congratulate themselves in some sort of successful knowing
that they need to change. But in order two to
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really go there and not just talk about it, but
be about it a lot. There's a couple of things
you can do. Number one, you can join a challenge group,
or you can call a friend and you can say, hey,
I like text me every day, make sure I worked out.
But again it comes back to it being on you.
Another saying I did on my transformation tour has actually
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had people write a letter to themselves that I'm going
to mail back to them in six months. And so
you know, when you get that letter in the mail,
you either you either not going to read it, you're
gonna be afraid to read it, or you're gonna open
it up and be like, yes, like I actually did this,
and that just basically holds you accountable. And then if you,
for some reason you fall off the wagon, you're gonna
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be reminded. And it's not gonna be in anybody's words
but your own. And but situationally, I just have to say,
stop being lazy, because I mean, I don't mean to
be mean. That's that's hashtag tough trainer alert, Like stop
being lazy people, if you want to stop talking about
you should have, could have, would is because the thing
is if you start like people have started a new
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Year's resolution, and I can't even tell you the percentage
of people that didn't follow through with it, and right
now if they look back and say, man, I should
have stuck with that. We are three months in, like
we are about to be finished March. You could be down.
You're one to two point two pounds a week. If
if weight loss was your saying that you could be
like chilling getting ready for summer time. But no, because
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you were lazy, because you let life get in a way,
and outside of any medical issue, you should be slaying
the game. Like, if it's not a medical issue, even
if it's some sort of mental issue, you seek help
because I've been in therapy to let's go stop being lazy,
stop talking about what you want to do, and be
about who you are. And that's tough, trainer alert, but
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I mean, I'm just like, the thing is like every like,
I get a lot of questions in magazines and interviews,
you know, which is I'm kind of glad you brought
it up because I know you from Jersey. Be keeping real.
Of course, people are like, well, what can I do?
I'm like, stop being lazy, because the majority of eating,
including myself. You know, if I have a week where
I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be like bom and I
don't do it, the first thing I do is I
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go to the mirror and I'm like, you lazy. That's
the only reason you didn't do it, because there was
there was no reason, no physical reason why you could
not succeed at what it is that you wanted to do.
But your mind not letting you well, you're not letting
yourself do it. And that's why my arm on my arms,
my tattoos say conquer your mind. To transform your life
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because it all happens upstairs, like let's go You know
someone I was on a different podcast actually that I
recorded with a friend recently, and he ended up he
ends every podcast like, if you could change one thing
about people, what would you change? And my answer was,
I actually the sounds messed up at first. This, I
guess could be type of one of your hashtag tough
trainer things. But I wish people would be just a
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little I don't know if it's harder on themselves or
just more real with themselves, because I think it's so
easy to make an excuse for yourself. You know, we
hold everyone else to these really high standards of how
perfect everyone else in society should be. They should use
their blinker every time they emerge. Um, But then we
make all these excuses for ourselves when at the end
of the day, it's like, you know what, it's okay
to give yourself some tough love and say, you know what,
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I messed up in the past, That's why I'm in
this position now. But at least let me look at
the mistakes I made, the places I wasted time, the
places I wasted energy, and let me learn from that
and stop doing that right now. Yeah, exactly, And so
I'm gonna I'm gonna give a little preface, a disclosure,
a little disclosure agreement. Um, I've said this, what I'm
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about to say, I've said this to myself. But excuses
our tools of incompetence that build monuments into nothingness. So
the more you you talk about, oh my god, I
shouldn't did this, but I can't because guess what, you're
building a monument of excuses. And the more excuses you build,
it's gonna be hard. It's good you make it even
harder to get over the mountain or whatever hurdle. So
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just stop making excuses and be honest with yourself. And
you know what you said about, we hold everyone else accountable.
And as far as like the traffic, you beating somebody
for cutting you off, and then three lights later you're
in a rush and you do the same damn thing.
So you know, that's why my religion is actually the
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golden rule doing to others is you would have others
do unto you because you don't want to. You don't
want to buy acting crazy to you, So don't act
crazy to everybody else. But more importantly, you know treat
yourself with some respect and like follow through with what
you said. You're gonna follow through it. And I know
that sounds it might sound harsh, but this is the
message that I had to tell myself. And some people
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might be like, oh, shaunt, you know it's easy, like you,
it's easy because you know you've done it, or you
know you have whatever resources to make it happen. I'm like, wow,
I didn't always because I moved out of my house
and I was fourteen, and I had to devise a
plan to get out of what I call a living
hell and a toxic environment. But it just takes one step.
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It takes one step, like you know in the Spartan race.
I run Spartan races and at the end of the race,
you jump over fire. And I'm telling people, like, jump
over the fire because it's gonna burn like hell. But
once you on the other side, you're gonna cool off
and you're gonna be calm and breezy. You know. Another
kind of like motivational tool that I think works well
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is find someone who's got a similar goal. And everyone's
goals are gonna be a little different, but finds only
was a similar goal and put some money on the line,
like challenge them and say, all right, we'll throw I
don't know, fifteen bucks in the pot, and whoever loses
this bet has to buy the other one lunch or something,
I don't know, something like that. It's funny you say that,
because right now I have this diet that going on.
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But you can go to dietbt dot com slash Shaunte
and it's my challenge Aforety died that and you got
thirty bucks and in twenty eight days you have to
lose four percent of your body weight and if you do,
you get the money. You get, you split the money
in the pot, and it's it's really cool. It's really fun.
And I think you have up to April five. People
have up to April five to join. I tell people
to join. We give I give nutrition tips, I give videos,
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I give you know, workout challenges in there, and you
basically spend thirty dollars. My goal is to have everyone
like win their money back. But for the people who
you know, don't finish, they lose the money, and the
people who lose the weight when the pot it's you
know what I'm saying, That's what it is. And so
where was that again? Where can people check that out?
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Diet that dot com slash seawan t um. But I
wanted to say like that, I wanted to go a
little further than that and outside of the diet that thing,
and just talk about money in general. You know, like
when you think about what you're eating and the amount
of money you spend on food, if you're not eating
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the stuff that's gonna get you what you want, you're
also wasting money because you if you go to if
you want to if just spending money, why not if
you're spending money to eat, you said, I'm gonna eat healthy,
but then you look back and you're like, damn, I
could have spent that money and I could have lost,
you know, twelve pounds or I could have felt better
about myself, but instead you gained twelve pounds because you
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know you're choosing the stuff that's not the best for you,
Like this is an investment, Like you have to look
at yourself as an investment. Yeah, if I didn't spend
that extra six bucks on my Uber Eats delivery on
a burrito, I probably would be richer and in better health.
And that's that's an actual thing. I did like two
days ago. But you know what, sometimes you gotta do
it healthy fun. I mean truth people, you shouldn't be
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you shouldn't deprive yourself. And nobody wants to eat lettuce
and bland assid grill trick anyway. So I mean you
gotta have a little fun. But I'm saying that, you know, overall,
if you look at all the food you ate this
last month, you can really be like, oh, maybe I
should spend my money a little bit more wisely so
I could feel it and on the inside. You know.
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I bet if people went through their their bank aco
ounce or went through their like credit card statements and
realized everything they spent money on that didn't help them
get to their goal would be a shock to a
lot of people. I know. Um, let's jump into some
questions from Instagram and snapchat. Is that cool? Let's all right?
So Instagram, this came from delon dot m. Is it
better to work out in the morning or at nighttime?
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I have zero energy in the morning and I'm most
efficient in evening time. But after I work out in
the evening, I have a huge dinner. Is that like
bad practice? No? I mean, if you're eating the huge
dinner thing. Are you first of all, are you eating
a huge dinner because you didn't eat all day and
you're starving, Because that's probably what happens because people go
to work and they try to act like they want
to eat some little raggedy caeesar salad because they're in
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front of their co workers and they want to act
like they eat good, and then they get home, they
might do their workout and then they're like, damn, I'm
hungry if I didn't need all day. But if you
eat efficiently throughout the day, then a big dinner is
only a big dinner if it's full of healthy food,
and then you'll make the right choices. As far as
when you should work out every day. If you don't
have the energy the morning, don't work out in the morning.
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Workout at the time of day where you have the
most energy, because that's going to keep you consistent. All right,
Let's see another one from Instagram. This is Ace of Spades.
What's the greatest morning workout I can do in fifteen minutes?
Or actually, just do you have a quick get this
done and you're actually good for the day type of workout?
I'm telling you Max Out fifteen Insanity Max thirty. That
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workout is literally like I was on tour and I
was like traveling. I was doing this one tour through Pennsylvania,
and I remember waking up a couple of days and
being like, oh my god, like I literally have zero time,
and I was like, but I have fifteen minutes, and
it completely not only did it, the other thing about
trying to get something done, even if it's fifteen minutes
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is that you feel good, your muscles are good, you
feel inspired, and then you're more apt to eat a
little healthy because a little a lot more healthy because
you say, like, Okay, I didn't work out as much
as I wanted to, but I did work out, and
so now I'm actually gonna eat healthy to enhance the
time that I couldn't move. And I've done that workout,
by the way, it's it kicks your ass. And on
top of that, one of my favorite go twos, because
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I have like Beach Body on demand is uh, I
think it's max out abs or three sixty. Yeah, do
that one because you're laying on the floor the whole time,
flipping over up and there. It's just it's really good.
I know. You go from ab the oblique to the
lower back is good. Let's see Instagram. This is a
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plus hill. Best way to jump start to workout and
stay motivated to not quit. Like for people who may
have not worked out in two years, what's like your
one tip. So there's gonna be really funny, but do
it like you're sleep training your baby. You know, like
it's sleep training your baby. They say you're gonna put
your baby in the crib. They're gonna cry. And then
you go back a minute later, and then you walk away.
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You let them know, hey, I love you, I'm here,
and then you go back two minutes, and then you
go back four minutes, and then you go to eight
minutes later, and in sixty you double the time every time.
So I say, don't do it if you like, if
you know you're gonna have a tough time. Committee work
out for five minutes the first day. I had plenty
of five minute workouts on my YouTube channel. Right, So
you work out for five minutes. The next day, maybe
work out for seven to ten minutes. The next day
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you add another two minutes, maybe twelve minutes. Give yourself
a little more. Uh working out every day instead of
like going balls to the wall and again hitting that
implementation to that we talked about earlier, and then you're
you're burnt out. But the best way to sustain results
if you're not a part of like some group where
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if you have low accountability, is say five day, five
minutes a day, seven minutes, tomorrow, nine minutes, the next
day eleven minutes, or however you are, and do your
increments until you hit thirty minutes. Get consistent at thirty
minutes for a month, and I'm telling you you will
be on your way. You know what's great? It really
just goes back to that personal best personal record thing
from track that we were talking about exactly, and the
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first introduction that I had to the beach body world.
That's how I ended up kind knowing everything that you do.
But my first introduction was actually back in the day
with uh oh yeah. And the first thing I did
was I started light And there's a lot of pushups
in that workout, and I started light, but I told myself,
every single week, I'm adding five more pushups to every round.
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By the end of that workout, I was doing sixty
push ups at a time. But I started easy. I
knew that I was new to it, and that's kind
of just what everyone should focus on. Let me start
with something I know I can do, and then just
build on that every single week, every day whatever. However
often you're working out, Yeah, when I meet people in
a supermarket or anywhere, and they're like, oh, you know,
I really want to start, but I'm like, and I
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motivate them, and they're like, Okay, I'm gonna start on Monday.
I'm like, no, you're gonna start right now. Give me
five squads, And then you could say I did something
literally I made people, did me five squads in a
grocery store or five lunges or five jumping jack literally
right there, and then they're like, oh snap, and I'm
like do that again tomorrow, do that until Monday. That way,
you have already had some commitment in your life before
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day one't even begins. And there was another Actually that's
a great transition to this next question. Uh, someone hit
me up on Instagram. Can't do a single push up?
What should I do? Because they want to do actual
push ups? Is there? Do they start on their knees? Like,
what's the the best way to kind of kick that off? Yeah?
So basically here's the thing. Day one, do wall push ups.
That means, take your stand up against the wall, walk
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your feet out, extend your arms and basically do push
ups on the wall, and then do that for like
three days. Do however many you can. You can max
out if you want. Then you want to transition to
the floor. When you get to the floor, which you
want to do is put your knees down and just
hold the plank position so you don't even need to
do it push ups. Hold it for as long as
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you can. I would say anywhere from like you know,
anywhere from twenty second intervals, maybe five times too minute intervals,
five times, depending on what you could do with your
knees down, arm street plank position. Then what I want
you to do is then start to do Once you
get comfortable with that and your shoulders get strong and
you're you're getting maintaining something, then you start doing slow
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push ups on your knees. Do reps of five to five,
take a fifteen second rest, do five, takes fifteen second
rest until you burn out you can't do anymore. Then
you lift your needs off the ground. Then you hold
the plane position without doing push ups, which your needs
off the ground. You do that for a while, and
then you start bringing in the push ups up top.
If you do that and you go slow and you
just progressively increase the time, you'll be able to do
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some push up, and again it just goes back to
that hole. Keep getting better, keep pushing yourself a little more.
These are actually two kind of similar questions. The first
one is from Reggie on snapchat said how much strength
training should I be doing in a week? Uh? Well,
you could do strain training every day if if you
only if you want. I mean the rule of some
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is giving your muscles forty hours rest between working out.
So between working and muscles. So if I'm doing chesting back,
which is my large upper body muscle groups, I can
do chesting back on Monday, and I'll do chesting back
again on Thursday, because I gave my top my body
enough time to rest two full days, right, two full days,
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and then on Tuesday I can do my I can
do my legs which is my large muscle groups at
the bottom and the so same thing Tuesday and then
on Friday, and then you can do um your small
muscle groups that on Wednesday, which is your shoulders, bidis
and tricepts. You work out your small muster groups, and
then you can do your small muscle groups again on Saturday,
and then you can rest on Sunday. Or you can
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add cardio at least fifteen to twenty minutes of sustained
cardio every single day before I says, say do it
before you lift, so that you can warm up your body.
And there you gave yourself enough exercises. You gave yourself
enough um strange training, I mean, and then you're good
to go and enough rest. And there's another one from snapchat,
kind of similar, talking about routine and stuff. How often
should you change your routine because obviously you have different
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routines You've got I mean, you started with hip hop abs,
but you've got sean week and insanity max thirty and
regular insanity, which is a weird thing to say when
you talk about regular insanity. But how often should you
change a routine so you don't get stuck in the
same thing? Were you change when you get bored, and
or you change when you feel like you've hit a
stale moment and you have to spike and you have
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to feel that soreness again. It's all up to the
individual person. The one thing you want to do is
always have fun when you work out, So and may
you start getting bored with whatever it is, change it up.
And then if you don't feel you're getting you're progressing
as fast as you were before, or if you're maintaining,
you feel like you can have a little more progress
than change it up. Then another one from snapchat, what's
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your opinion on protein shakes while trying to still lose weight?
I don't eat enough protein according to that's what this
person is saying Tea Murray, Um, and I need a
good source of protein while I'm still trying to lose weight.
First of all, eating protein is not going to make
you gain weight. So uh, that's the biggest misconception. And
the only way you're gonna gain weight if drinking protein
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is if you're drinking something with a ton of sugar
in it and you're not working out at the same time,
or you add more than one protein shake a day,
or if you are basically using it as a meal
replacement and you're still hungry and then you eat more.
So um, a protein shake is not something that's going
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to make you gain weight. If you eat the correct
protein shake, and it's as pure protein as you can get,
like I would say, egg white protein. Then your body
is only going to excrete what you don't need anyway,
so you're good to go. You know. It's an interesting
misconception and I think a lot of people have and
I talked about this when I had Whitney Miller on
the podcast in like the first couple of weeks. For
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some reason, people are super worried about starting to work out,
whether it's lifting weights or whatever, any type of strength
training and getting big. But I feel like I've been
trying to do that for years and it takes a
very long time. It's ridiculous. So if you're not eating,
if you're not eating uh high enough colork, high enough
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colork intake, you're not going to gain weight. And so
especially when a lot of women, I said, oh my god,
I'm gonna get bulky exactly, so you're not. You don't
have that kind of testosterone in your body. The only
thing you're gonna get is super super lean. Yeah, if
you start lifting heavier weight, you're gonna be harder, you're
not gonna be as rip per se, but your muscle
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will be a little full. But you're not gonna get bulky,
and you're not. It's just impossible. Yes. And the other
thing is that people have different genetics, Like I can
look bigger because I have my body just react to muscles,
I mean react to muscles, react to weight training. But
for someoneth it's the biggest misconception in the world that
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you're only going to get big, because I know plenty
of guys who lift heavi as hell and they're full
of testosterone and they don't get big. They have to
eat that way. And it's it's you're not gonna work
out for two weeks and all of a sudden look
like Arnold Swarzenegger, like that takes. That takes You're gonna
work out for a year and never look like. I
don't know what the misconception is. There um one last
question I have for you. So I saw you post
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a while ago. Uh actually at the beginning of the year,
and I guess sean week was like the most watched
thing on Beach Body on demand something along those lines.
Do you remember that, Yeah, it was last year. It
was like, okay, so late last year that I think
maybe December or something like that. There's that time of
the year late December, early January every every year, where
obviously everyone's trying to get in shape. And then I
just realized that when I went to the gym earlier
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this this afternoon, no one's there anymore. Is there something
you wish? Like? Why do you think that happens so often?
Because it's like because people aren't serious, and it goes
back to laziness, and it goes back to people letting,
I mean, letting life get in a way when next
the end of the day is them getting in their
own way. It's such a I mean, as a motivator.
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People might get mad that I say this, but I'm
so over it. I'm actually very disappointed because the reason
why I'm disappointed is because it's you don't have to
try and look like a fitness model. You don't have
to be like people say, Like if I said I
wanted to be an hundred and eighty five pounds, just
because I'm not a hundred and eighty five pounds don't
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mean I need to stop moving and stop focusing on
my nutrition. It's just that I'm just not a hundred
eighty five pounds. And I believe that people are number one,
they become a motivated and number two, they give up
because they reach their their goal. And here's the other thing.
The majority of people need to be seven and ten
pounds higher than what they want their quote unquote goal
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away to be because people try to go back to
high school. And I'm like, listen, if I went back
to high school, what would Shaunty looked like at a
hundred and seventy eight pounds? You would literally be like,
it's something wrong with you. You know what I mean?
But in high school, as a sixteen seventeen year old,
hundred seventy eight pounds fit who I was. But I'm
like about to be forty years old and trust and
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believe I'm good with a good one nine because that
booty is right. But you know, so I tell people
like you, I wish you go away Okay, great at
about seven pounds of that and and you'll be fine. Wow.
And it's just I feel like we all wish we
could take all those people that were watching Seawan Week
in December and be like, just keep doing it. You're
you're doing a good job. Just keep at it. Don't
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dip off in March, don't don't stop going to the gym.
Don't stop watching Beach Body on Demand. Don't stop you know,
listen to the podcast that help get you to your goal.
The thing is like, there's there's change, and I do
get the fact that people get bored or whatever. But
that's why I say every day is not necessary, but
most days are. So if you can't commit to six
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five six days a week, can you commit to three?
That way, you're always looking forward to something. And honestly,
you are one of my go to workouts when I
need to, when I need to kick my ass or
jump start to day or whatever, I log onto Beach Body.
I usually hit one of the insanity max thirty accounts
on there. Um, so thank you for motivating me. I
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got your back, man, trust to believe. And if people
want to check out the Diet Bet, it's a diet
bet dot com slash shawnty right, that's right, and the
book is out there. T is for Transformation, the podcast,
I know we have it. You're part of the I
Heart Radio family now, I know. I'm so excited. I'm
excited about that. And then obviously all the all the workout,
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Speach Body on Demand, your Facebook page or YouTube channel
are all under Shaun t Fitness, right, Shawn t Oh
just saunt. Yeah. You see, that's why you're here. Otherwise
I screw this whole thing up by myself. YouTube I
think is YouTube dot Com, slash, shawnt fitness, Instagram and
SHAWNTI Twitter, shawnty, and I believe Facebook. So when I
was messaging you yesterday to get you ready for the podcast,
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I give you one little homework assignment. You have to
give everyone in this podcast, because it's something I do
every week, a tip to kind of take with them
for the week and then build upon towards their journey. Right.
So here's the tip. You have to get a little artistic,
very simple make create right down, get a blank piece
of paper and create a road map for yourself. So basically,
(49:09):
I want you to take that white piece of paper. Yes,
I want you to get an actual opinion paper, draw
a road, and I want you to draw seven boxes
along that road, along the sides of the road, and
I want them to be milestones that you're going to
hit over the next seven days. It doesn't have to
be fitness related. It could be life related. But each
and every day for the next week, I want you
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to write down a milestone that you're gonna hit And
then at the end of that seven days, turn the
paper over and I want you to write down all
the successful moments that you have because a lot of
times we all, you know, we're we're a world full
of oh my gosh, Like you know, everything is a
struggle and we all struggle and everyone knows we struggle.
But what I want you to do is at the
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end of the seven days, once you get to the
end of that road, turn over and like, let's celebrate
all the great things that happened to you. And you
will see that life is about celebratory moments that can
help you stay positive. And they're all things that you
created as you rode rolled down the road, right. So
that's the homework assignment. And you know what I want
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people once they do that to uh to hit you
up Shaun TI on Instagram. They can snap you the
picture or whatever you up on Twitter all that stuff. Um,
thank you so much. I know you have a jam
pack day, but thank you mate for making time for
the workout Wednesday podcast. Man from Jersey to Jersey love
you too, buddy. Thank you so much. Have a good one, um,
and tell everyone I say hello, yeah and everyone out there.
(50:33):
Continue to dig deep and trust them, believe in who
you are. And so all the questions that I was
asking Shawn T obviously came through uh Instagram or Snapchat,
but you can hit me up on anything Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter.
It's all at Worst Anthony and if you have like
a really long thing, you want to write my day
Friday show at Gmail and until next week, I mean
(50:55):
listen to Shaun Tis tip. Hopefully you you draw that
little roadmap and you cold tweet both of us at
Worst Anthony at Shawn T. And you know, good luck
on your journey whatever it happens to be. Good luck
and thank you for making a lot of time This
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Wednesday podcast. My name is Anthony. If you somehow just
happened upon this podcast, I normally host the morning show
on Power, but this whole podcast is about health, wellness,
how to get to your goals, whatever, whatever goals you have,
whatever journey you're on. Hopefully you can find something in
one of these podcasts that helps you out week over
a week and then we all kind of grow together.
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But I'm really excited for this week's guest because it's
someone that I've worked with in the past, someone you
probably know, and it's someone who honestly is one of
the most motivating people that I've ever been around. Just
you hear him talking, you could run through a wall
if you ask you to. So without further ado, someone
who I love listening to and talking to, but hate
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seeing him on my screen when I'm working out. Shawnty,
Welcome to the Workout Wednesday podcast. Thank you very much.
With how how often do you hear that? How often
do people say? I love you? Shaunt but honestly, I
curse you out every time I see you on my
TV or on my phone or on my laptop. I
hear it and read it. Everything okay, But you know
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what I say. I say, if you hate me, that
means you're doing it the right way. That's t people
who say, oh my god, I just so amazing and
like insanity is so fun. I'm like, are you doing
the same workout that I created? Because if you think
it's fun right away, you're of be not doing it right. Yeah,
pretty much. But I mean you do get to a
point where you kind of love the love to hate
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the pain or you just love the pain, so you
know it's all good whether you hate me or love me.
At some it mean it's all positive to Yeah, And
you could probably speak to this too. I feel like
every time someone asks me, like, oh, I want to
get into working out, you know, how do I how
do I stay consistent or whatever. I've always told people,
if you give it three weeks to a month, it's
gonna suck in the beginning. Your first week, you're gonna hate.
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Your second week, you're probably still gonna hate that third week,
you'll you might actually feel a difference. You won't see
anything yet for the most part, but you'll feel a difference.
And once you feel the difference, everything else becomes a
little bit, if not easier, um easier to deal with. Yes,
So here's the thing I mean when people people have
to understand when you start any kind of journey, it
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could be it could be a new job, a new relationship,
weight loss, food. The thing is, what we try to
do is we try to rush the results, you know,
we we try to get to the endgame right away.
And there is you definitely have to embrace the challenge immediately.
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You immediately have to embrace the challenge in the sense
of this is going to be a step by step
process and I'm not this is not going to happen overnight,
and you have to leave yourself onting more because what
happens is people, every single person out there, no matter
how amazing you are. It could be Michael Jordan's or
Serena Williams or um, you know, Bodie Miller. And like
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any athlete. I use athletes because I know, you know,
people look at them as like wow, they go for something,
and they go for the goals that you will. Everyone
hits this thing called the implementation dep And so the
implementation dep is once you begin something, you feel like
you're on this unbelievable high and you have these super
high expectations of yourself and you have this goal that
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you want to achieve something and you want to go
so hard and spearhead right after it. But then we
all hit this thing called the implementation dip, which is
immediately after you begin something, the pressure and the weight
of the challenge begins to basically become a piano on
your back. And when that piano starts to hit you
on your back, then you start to feel the pressure.
So for someone who starts a new weight loss journey,
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you're gonna feel your body becomes sore right away. And
some people are like, oh, I'm sore, I need to stop.
I need to take a break, and then that brake
turns from one day to five days, and then you
feel like you gave up, and then you forget all already,
you forget about it, and you feel like it's just
not gonna work. And then what happens. But what you
have to do, I should say, is you have to
realize that the soreness is part of the challenge. It's
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part of the momentum that actually put you put yourself
through such rigorous stress and you've accomplished something so hard
that now you're sore, and you actually have to utilize
that pain and utilize that that struggle that wow, like
I have to actually I actually have to go through
this pain. You have to use it as momentum to
push you back up that hill, because once you dip,
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you have to utilize the things that are tough to
propel you forward on the other side of the dip,
which is like pushing you back up the hill. And
when you and that's the three weeks that you're talking about.
So once you hit that three week, you know, I'm there.
If this is really tough, I might I'm Some people
start to see it. Some people start to feel it.
That is the rise of the implementation DIP. And you know,
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we always set super high expectations of our course. Sometimes
they're not realistic. And then but when you feel like
when you hit that first implementation DIPP and then you
feel yourself say, hey, I'm still here, I'm still committed.
When you start to feel the rise again, that's when
you can say, Okay, I'm on my way and I succeeded.
But don't give up just because you encounter a little
bit of struggle. Well, the soreness means that it's working,
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you know. I mean, yeah, I mean that's the sortness
means that you're working, you know. I mean it means
that it's working in terms of like if you're doing
bicep girls, if you're doing a trespass, you're gonna you know,
feel your muscle pain. But you have to look at
the soreness as wow, this was me, Like I actually
did the work, and so I'm proven to myself that
I can push myself hard enough to feel working in
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my body. Okay, now I can continue. You know. One
of the reasons I love talking to you. Hey you're
a pretty decent person, you know, but hey, we're both
from BS. You say, we're both from Jersey, and we
both did track at some point in our lives. And
I feel like one of the things that I loved
the most about track, I didn't even realize until years
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after I was done doing track and track. I don't
think that I'm ever going to push my kids to
to be like greatest sports. If they want to, that's great,
but I think I would want all of my kids, however,
money end up having um to try track at least
because it teaches you the idea of a personal best
as opposed to just coming in first or winning a game. Absolutely,
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you know. I mean, I didn't even know that phrase
existed until I did like my third or fourth meet
my sophomore year of high school, and I came in
like twenty. Like, I was not very good when I started,
and I remember my coach, you know, he saw that
I was a little piste off, that I didn't do
as well as I wanted to, and he goes, hey,
just so you know, you ran the fastest time you've
run this season. That's the fastest time you've ever ran,
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which means you just beat everything you've done before in
your life exactly. So if you can only do one
push up, but that's the massive, most massive amount of
push ups you've ever done, then you just beat zero. Yeah,
you know when I I'm not sure if you've heard
of my work Alcohol Insanity max thirty and what I
have people do is write down to max out time
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when they when they're inside the workout. So the first
time you actually have to take a break within that
thirty minutes, I want you to write it down because
when you if you stay committed to the program, then
next week when you repeat that workout and you see, wow,
the first day I went four minutes and thirty seconds,
and then next week you're you're saying wow and seven
in minutes, you're basically hitting your new pr And it
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really is. You know, people guys do it in the
gym in terms of well, some girls too, and the
bench press. How much can you bench? I get that
question all the time, which kind of annoysing, like, don't
compare yourself to me, compare yourself to you. But you know,
people are like how much can you bench? And then
it's like this thing like Okay, if I did twenty five,
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I want to do too. You know, maybe twenty seven
next time, you know you want to keep pushing through.
But the pr is very important. Yes, in track and field.
It was the same way for me. I remember, I
mean I vowed to never run slower than I did
in a previous race, and uh and I was a
foreign to me to hurler, and throughout my entire career
as a runner, I never ran slower because I just
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was like, I never ran against anyone, because I said,
if I actually run my death, then I know I'm
gonna beat people. But I'm but more importantly, I know
that I'm getting better. And when you start to get
better at something, and when you commit like a fitness
program or for your eating, you're gonna build confidence. And
nothing looks as good as confidence feels. So you just
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have to continue to be confident and and and stay committed.
You have to literally act like you have a bank
account of confidence. And the more you continue, the more
you feel successful, the more confidence you have. And I'm
telling you right now, nobody can take your confidence away
unless you literally open up your wallet and give it
to them. So I just tell people to hold on
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to the fact that you did this, like you actually
did the push ups, you did the work, you ran
the race and so no one can take away your mouth. Yeah,
and you know you mentioned Insanity Max story, which is
funny because I think that was the first time we
worked together. I think you were doing kind of your
promo stuff for Insanity Max thirty. And when I met you,
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then you were you were Shawn t the DVD fitness guy,
the motivator, the infomercial guy, however you want to whatever
hat you want to wear at that moment. And then
when you came to Seattle and we had you on
Power three, you were not only all of that, you
were also Shauanti the author. And now that we're talking again,
you have those hats, but you're also Shanti the dad.
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H Now, as someone who has motivated a ton of
people who were parents, have probably had that busy parenting lifestyle,
have you noticed a change in your day to day
like what do you do to kind of continue to
stay on top of your game? So you know, one
of the things that I actually talked about in my
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book is one of your superpowers is being selfish, and
I mean positively selfish and giving yourself time every day
or complimenting yourself every day, or having that mirror moment
where you go to yourself and become proud of yourself.
And one of the things that I learned kind of
the hard way as a dad was once your kids
are born or kid and my crass kids. Yeah yeah, yeah.
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Once your kids are born, you start to really it
becomes baby TV and you basically and and everything you
do in your life is surrounded around them. But more
than just surrounds around them, you do for them. And
then you can actually lose a little bit of yourself
and forget that they need a strong parent in order
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for them to thrive. And I remember I was running
my first Spartan race and I couldn't do the rope
climb because I said, wow, I actually didn't do the
pull ups and and do the weight training that I
normally do, where you know, it's because the kids are here.
And it's not saying that you should neglect your children,
but you have to take time, you know, for yourself.
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So Shanty the dad had to. I had to change
the way I think and say, Okay, we need we
need help, we need babysitters, we need people, so that
I can actually feel very energetic and when I come
home I can actually give to them. You know, and
being an entrepreneur and working from home, you kind of
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have this I don't know, I kind of you kind
of have this obligation, well, I'm home, so I should
be spending time with when you don't realize most you know,
most working class people, entrepreneurs or not, they're you know,
they either have a nanny, babysitters, or they take the
kids of daycare. And so, you know, when I thought
about it that way, I was like, oh, I don't
actually have to feel bad because a lot of parents
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don't see there, you know, three months old baby. For
you know, seven, eight, sometimes nine hours a day, I
still get to see my kids more throughout the day.
That being able to have a selfish moment was able
to help me build my day. So now I can
wake up, I can go have you know, breakfast meetings,
I can work out, I can have my tennis practice.
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I can you know, film stuff for my online academy.
You know, I can give stuff to what I need,
the energy I need to give it to to continue
to thrive in who I am. And the book, by
the way, is it's called T for T is for Transformation.
And I actually just got past chapter where you talking
about being selfish. Um, you were nice enough to give
us a copy when you came to Seattle, and I'm
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let's see, I think at page like two right now,
so I'm almost done with it. I'm a slow reader
and I take very long breaks between the times I
actually do read. And uh, the podcast you have Trust
and Belief, because here's what I wanted. I want to
actually take one step back. I said that you were
coming on this podcast, and I said, you know, if
you have any questions, hit me up on Instagram. And
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I got this from Emily on Instagram. She said, no question.
Just love Shaun Ti. He's been a huge motivator for
me since having a baby in July. Love his podcast
and waiting on his book, which I recently ordered. Um,
what do people find in your podcast? My podcast is
literally so you know this the series that's happening right
now is about the seven Superpowers and the keynotes that
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I gave while I was actually on tour on my
book tour. But Trust and Belief is about anything you
need to trust and believe and who you are, and
they can be personal stories from me that I help
people out there who are going through any kind of struggle.
Or journey, or even if they're going through some successful moments,
how to attach to themselves and how to believe in themselves.
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Because one of the things that I see in my
demographic or people who set out for any kind of goal,
be a fitness, nutrition, weight loss, family, you know, career,
is some people are afraid to encounter struggle. And like
I say in my book, everybody's in the closet about something,
and I help you open that closet because if you don't,
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if you don't accept your path to deal with your past,
you're gonna stay in the past. And so it's really
about helping you think internally about who you are so
you can trust that no matter what happened to you
or no matter what you're going through at this moment,
even if it's something great, if you actually are present
in the moment, you can trust yourself. And once you
start to trust yourself, you can believe that this is
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happening and this is not an illusion, and that your
success is in real time. And um, you know, to
believe in yourself, you must accept yourself, and to accept yourself,
you must trust in your power to believe. And I
want people to accept who they are because they will believe.
And that's what we talk about in the podcast. Um,
you know, I'm not something. One of my seasons, I
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had a lot of guests, But for me, it's not
about It's not about um really, for me, it's not
about the numbers or like having a different like expert
come on. It's it's about me telling you, like, hey,
this is what I'm going through or this is some
stuff that I learned along my way in life. And
I've had a very interesting and sometimes rough life. But
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you know, I want people to feel that if you
really connect to who you are, that's when change starts
to happen. And to remember that change is kind of
like perfection is temporary and change is constant, and so
it's we change and I want you to know that.
And that's what we talk about in the podcast. And
actually you meant you mentioned the book a little bit.
I don't want to give anything away, but if you
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think you've been dealt a bad hand, or if you
think you've got it rough, I think what's great about
your book is you show people right away, like very
very quickly in that book that even if you've been
kind of dealt a bad hand, even if you may
not have been born into a great financial situation or
a great just home safety situation in general, you can
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still do what you want to do if you kind
of embrace everything, which is really a really cool lesson. Yeah,
I mean we like you know, I don't think my
story is any like harder or rougher. I mean people
have had rougherence stories or whatever. But I think at
the end of the day, I just want to utilize
my platform to help people understand that. This is why
I know you can get through the struggle, and it's
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not really about you know, comparing your story to mine
is just to open to your mind up that if
you've been through something, you can get through it. Like
once you if you're still breathing and you are functioning properly,
you now have a choice and you have a choice
to say I'm gonna I'm gonna get through this and
I'm gonna go as hard as I possibly can, or
you can give up, and unfortunately a lot of people
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give up. But I just want to be that voice
and that person to be there for you. Even if
you think you've fallen short before, there is a way
to get on top. Well, you know, talking about giving up. You,
I'm sure have encountered thousands and thousands of people that
have at least attempted one of your workouts, one of
your programs. What do you think is a common trend
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in people who just didn't get over that hump, didn't
make it, maybe gave up a little too soon or
right before they reached the point where they could have
kept going, they gave up right before. Then. Is there
something that you just you wish you could shake out
of people? Yeah, I think not that, I think. I know.
I want people to stop comparing themselves to other people
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and comparing themselves to magazines because in fitness, man, we
are motivated by bodies, and we are motivated by We're
motivated about being on a cord magazine or the girl
or guy next to you at the gym, or somebody's
performed after picture that we saw on Instagram. But once
you realize that your body can only be shaped by
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who you are and you can't rush the process. These
are two major, uh major systems was what I like
to call it, that could really stop you in your
tracks the minute you start looking outside of yourself to
try and get those results. When you have to focus
on the inside of yourself to get your results and
then rushing the process. And that's why I don't like
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situational exercise. Um, what is that? What a situational exercise?
Situational exercise? I want to fit into this by the
time I get into my to my wedding. I got
a trip to Vegas in three weeks and they need
to look at good none pool party. Right. Only time
situational exercise can work is if you're saying, I'm starting
his journey and I have a date that I want
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to be here, and then I want to create another
milestone for myself. But if you are just focused on
fitting into that one dress that's a size three, then
guess what you're chasing the number. And every day when
you walk into your house or your bathroom and you
get on the scale, you're gonna look down at the
scale and you're gonna either be happy or sad, and
then a number is gonna dictate who you are. It's
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like for people who are building their resume. You don't
start out making you know, six figures, right, but if
you look down and every day you're like, well, I'm
only making I mean I started my first job out
of college. I was making twenty seven thousand, five hundred
dollars a year. And instead of me being like, oh,
I want to make a hundred thousand and I said,
we're gonna do this twenty seven thousand, and how can
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I experience this? How can I make this experience great?
You know? And that's what I want people to do
with their weight losses. How can you make if you
went away fifty pounds less, if you lose one town,
how can you make that one pound great? And then
it becomes more about a feeling and less about the number.
I mean, Listen, when I started in radio, I was
making seven dollars hour, seven bucks an hour. It basically
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it took me about two and a half weeks to
make enough money for the monthly train ticket I needed
to get to work. You know, there were times I
have to ask my parents and I think, you you
bring up a really good point. You it's easy to
look at the end result and then compare yourself to it,
whether it's financial, whether it's fitness, whatever, um. But everyone
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had a most people, I should say, had a journey
to get to where they are. You can't look at
the people at the top and say, oh, I deserve
that too, right now. I mean in my career, I
could look at someone like a Ryan Seacrest who makes
a buttload of money and it's all over the place,
but he had his journey. That's not where I am
on my journey yet. And when it comes to to
weight loss or fitness, I mean, I'm sure it happens
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to people say, oh, Shaunty, you have you know, great
abs or whatever. You're in such good shape, but you've
worked on that for like twenty years and working and
is poor like somebody like Ryan Seacrest, who I mean
he's still working at any point. Yeah, I mean, yeah, okay,
he might have a fat bank account, right of course,
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but I tell you right now, if he's unfulfilled, he
much rather have less money and be happy. And so
that's that's the point of all of this. Like your
journey from making seven dollars an hour till now, it's
because of the choices that you made to get you
where you are and then learning how two to change
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lanes when you need to. You know, you didn't stay
in the same job because at some point the seven
dollar an hour job might be fun, like you might
enjoy the people, but it might not be fulfilling you
and where you want to go and uh and also
you know, just to be clear, like yeah, you know
some people will be like oh such and suches on top,
but you can only be on top right now, meaning
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once you reach the top of where you are now
you have to say, okay, now I need this is
a plateau because people are afraid of plateaus and weight
loss business. But I'm like, this is the plateau, Like
I'm at the top now. That is where I can
recalibrate and refocus and let me go find the ladder
so I can get to the next part of the building.
How can I get to the next roof? You know?
So um, you know, I just that's what again why
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I tell people it's a journey, not a destination, of course,
And it's also like you mentioned before, it's also actually
being happy because you know, what if you you could
work out every day for a year and end up
being the fittest person in your neighborhood, but okay, that
what happens then, because there's gonna be someone that ends
up being younger, better looking, fitter than you're coming along,
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and then you lose all your identity if that's all
you cared about. But I mean, it's about sustainability once
you get like it's the S word, you know, I
tell I tell some of my fit fam I'm like,
the S word, not S word, is not shown. Well
you know you also, um, I know you do like
challenges and stuff, which I think is really cool because
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I actually in this podcast, I set up a fifty
days of Fit challenge where it was basically just trying
to do something for half an hour for fifty straight days.
Because at that point you've got this habit that you've
formed and you're almost addicted to it. It's become part
of your day. After fifty days, and then at that
point you can then grow and expand and say, okay,
I worked out for half an hour a day, let
me bump it up to forty minutes, so let me
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do a different half hour workout every day, and then
do another fifty days and you kind of grow. Do
you challenge? You challenge yourself like that? Yeah, I mean
I challenge myself. It's funny. I wake up and I
have you know, I have my friend, my friend Bess
in Neumatic Sans. She as a tennis player and we
have this thing called Miracle Mornings that we try to
do once a week when we're in town. But I
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am constantly challenging myself. It goes back to kind of
like that tracking field and now you're like, I want
to run faster. I mean, it's just it's just the
way to how to elevate your life is to constantly
challenge who you are. And what's this The Challenge the
forty thing I saw you tweeting about. Yeah, So Challenge
the forty is, so I'm turning forty on May second
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to do something. You know, I wanted to do something
because you know, obviously I'm always going through a dynamic
shift in my life and I think decades are really
great too to reassess who you are. But I wanted
people to go in the journey with me. And so
the Challenge the forty is actually a Live your Best
Life UM challenge group where you get nutrition tips, you
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get a workout calendar, but every day you are see
you have a five minute less than five minute videos
where you go on a journey and I challenge every
day and you get lessons every day so you can
connect because a lot of people that go through fitness
journeys is kind of like, Okay, I'm gonna follow this
calendar and I'm gonna check it off, but are you
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looking internally? So in order to live your best life,
you have to literally look inside the core of who
you are. And then once you're able to really attach
to who you are and and kind of assess how
you're going along the journey, it kind of goes back
to where you said where it becomes more of a habit,
and then you have a better habit of connecting to
yourself and talking to yourself, and then that helps you
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again trust yourself because now you're being honest with yourself,
and when you're honest with yourself, you can believe yourself.
That's a pretty good, pretty good step by step guide
right there. And I know that one of the things
I always tell people, like because I'll talk to Carlinbury,
who you obviously know, um my co host you're on
Power about holding yourself accountable, because you know you can
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say to yourself, oh, I want to lose ten pounds
in that's my goal for the year. But if you
don't put something on the line, or if you don't
hold yourself accountable or tell someone at least then it's
really just it's a random thought in your head. You know,
you can start by writing it down for yourself and
then telling a friend or even tweeting it or posting
on Instagram so that you're then held accountable. Is there,
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I don't know, like a tip or a way that
you find people can hold themselves accountable and make it,
make something real, make a goal real. First of all.
I mean I want to say that visualizing what you
want is really a great first step to success. So
everyone can congratulate themselves in some sort of successful knowing
that they need to change. But in order two to
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really go there and not just talk about it, but
be about it a lot. There's a couple of things
you can do. Number one, you can join a challenge group,
or you can call a friend and you can say, hey,
I like text me every day, make sure I worked out.
But again it comes back to it being on you.
Another saying I did on my transformation tour has actually
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had people write a letter to themselves that I'm going
to mail back to them in six months. And so
you know, when you get that letter in the mail,
you either you either not going to read it, you're
gonna be afraid to read it, or you're gonna open
it up and be like, yes, like I actually did this,
and that just basically holds you accountable. And then if you,
for some reason you fall off the wagon, you're gonna
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be reminded. And it's not gonna be in anybody's words
but your own. And but situationally, I just have to say,
stop being lazy, because I mean, I don't mean to
be mean. That's that's hashtag tough trainer alert, Like stop
being lazy people, if you want to stop talking about
you should have, could have, would is because the thing
is if you start like people have started a new
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Year's resolution, and I can't even tell you the percentage
of people that didn't follow through with it, and right
now if they look back and say, man, I should
have stuck with that. We are three months in, like
we are about to be finished March. You could be down.
You're one to two point two pounds a week. If
if weight loss was your saying that you could be
like chilling getting ready for summer time. But no, because
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you were lazy, because you let life get in a way,
and outside of any medical issue, you should be slaying
the game. Like, if it's not a medical issue, even
if it's some sort of mental issue, you seek help
because I've been in therapy to let's go stop being lazy,
stop talking about what you want to do, and be
about who you are. And that's tough, trainer alert, but
(27:49):
I mean, I'm just like, the thing is like every like,
I get a lot of questions in magazines and interviews,
you know, which is I'm kind of glad you brought
it up because I know you from Jersey. Be keeping real.
Of course, people are like, well, what can I do?
I'm like, stop being lazy, because the majority of eating,
including myself. You know, if I have a week where
I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna be like bom and I
don't do it, the first thing I do is I
(28:11):
go to the mirror and I'm like, you lazy. That's
the only reason you didn't do it, because there was
there was no reason, no physical reason why you could
not succeed at what it is that you wanted to do.
But your mind not letting you well, you're not letting
yourself do it. And that's why my arm on my arms,
my tattoos say conquer your mind. To transform your life
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because it all happens upstairs, like let's go You know
someone I was on a different podcast actually that I
recorded with a friend recently, and he ended up he
ends every podcast like, if you could change one thing
about people, what would you change? And my answer was,
I actually the sounds messed up at first. This, I
guess could be type of one of your hashtag tough
trainer things. But I wish people would be just a
(28:55):
little I don't know if it's harder on themselves or
just more real with themselves, because I think it's so
easy to make an excuse for yourself. You know, we
hold everyone else to these really high standards of how
perfect everyone else in society should be. They should use
their blinker every time they emerge. Um, But then we
make all these excuses for ourselves when at the end
of the day, it's like, you know what, it's okay
to give yourself some tough love and say, you know what,
(29:17):
I messed up in the past, That's why I'm in
this position now. But at least let me look at
the mistakes I made, the places I wasted time, the
places I wasted energy, and let me learn from that
and stop doing that right now. Yeah, exactly, And so
I'm gonna I'm gonna give a little preface, a disclosure,
a little disclosure agreement. Um, I've said this, what I'm
(29:39):
about to say, I've said this to myself. But excuses
our tools of incompetence that build monuments into nothingness. So
the more you you talk about, oh my god, I
shouldn't did this, but I can't because guess what, you're
building a monument of excuses. And the more excuses you build,
it's gonna be hard. It's good you make it even
harder to get over the mountain or whatever hurdle. So
(30:00):
just stop making excuses and be honest with yourself. And
you know what you said about, we hold everyone else accountable.
And as far as like the traffic, you beating somebody
for cutting you off, and then three lights later you're
in a rush and you do the same damn thing.
So you know, that's why my religion is actually the
(30:21):
golden rule doing to others is you would have others
do unto you because you don't want to. You don't
want to buy acting crazy to you, So don't act
crazy to everybody else. But more importantly, you know treat
yourself with some respect and like follow through with what
you said. You're gonna follow through it. And I know
that sounds it might sound harsh, but this is the
message that I had to tell myself. And some people
(30:42):
might be like, oh, shaunt, you know it's easy, like you,
it's easy because you know you've done it, or you
know you have whatever resources to make it happen. I'm like, wow,
I didn't always because I moved out of my house
and I was fourteen, and I had to devise a
plan to get out of what I call a living
hell and a toxic environment. But it just takes one step.
(31:03):
It takes one step, like you know in the Spartan race.
I run Spartan races and at the end of the race,
you jump over fire. And I'm telling people, like, jump
over the fire because it's gonna burn like hell. But
once you on the other side, you're gonna cool off
and you're gonna be calm and breezy. You know. Another
kind of like motivational tool that I think works well
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is find someone who's got a similar goal. And everyone's
goals are gonna be a little different, but finds only
was a similar goal and put some money on the line,
like challenge them and say, all right, we'll throw I
don't know, fifteen bucks in the pot, and whoever loses
this bet has to buy the other one lunch or something,
I don't know, something like that. It's funny you say that,
because right now I have this diet that going on.
(31:46):
But you can go to dietbt dot com slash Shaunte
and it's my challenge Aforety died that and you got
thirty bucks and in twenty eight days you have to
lose four percent of your body weight and if you do,
you get the money. You get, you split the money
in the pot, and it's it's really cool. It's really fun.
And I think you have up to April five. People
have up to April five to join. I tell people
to join. We give I give nutrition tips, I give videos,
(32:09):
I give you know, workout challenges in there, and you
basically spend thirty dollars. My goal is to have everyone
like win their money back. But for the people who
you know, don't finish, they lose the money, and the
people who lose the weight when the pot it's you
know what I'm saying, That's what it is. And so
where was that again? Where can people check that out?
(32:29):
Diet that dot com slash seawan t um. But I
wanted to say like that, I wanted to go a
little further than that and outside of the diet that thing,
and just talk about money in general. You know, like
when you think about what you're eating and the amount
of money you spend on food, if you're not eating
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the stuff that's gonna get you what you want, you're
also wasting money because you if you go to if
you want to if just spending money, why not if
you're spending money to eat, you said, I'm gonna eat healthy,
but then you look back and you're like, damn, I
could have spent that money and I could have lost,
you know, twelve pounds or I could have felt better
about myself, but instead you gained twelve pounds because you
(33:13):
know you're choosing the stuff that's not the best for you,
Like this is an investment, Like you have to look
at yourself as an investment. Yeah, if I didn't spend
that extra six bucks on my Uber Eats delivery on
a burrito, I probably would be richer and in better health.
And that's that's an actual thing. I did like two
days ago. But you know what, sometimes you gotta do
it healthy fun. I mean truth people, you shouldn't be
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you shouldn't deprive yourself. And nobody wants to eat lettuce
and bland assid grill trick anyway. So I mean you
gotta have a little fun. But I'm saying that, you know, overall,
if you look at all the food you ate this
last month, you can really be like, oh, maybe I
should spend my money a little bit more wisely so
I could feel it and on the inside. You know.
(33:58):
I bet if people went through their their bank aco
ounce or went through their like credit card statements and
realized everything they spent money on that didn't help them
get to their goal would be a shock to a
lot of people. I know. Um, let's jump into some
questions from Instagram and snapchat. Is that cool? Let's all right?
So Instagram, this came from delon dot m. Is it
better to work out in the morning or at nighttime?
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I have zero energy in the morning and I'm most
efficient in evening time. But after I work out in
the evening, I have a huge dinner. Is that like
bad practice? No? I mean, if you're eating the huge
dinner thing. Are you first of all, are you eating
a huge dinner because you didn't eat all day and
you're starving, Because that's probably what happens because people go
to work and they try to act like they want
to eat some little raggedy caeesar salad because they're in
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front of their co workers and they want to act
like they eat good, and then they get home, they
might do their workout and then they're like, damn, I'm
hungry if I didn't need all day. But if you
eat efficiently throughout the day, then a big dinner is
only a big dinner if it's full of healthy food,
and then you'll make the right choices. As far as
when you should work out every day. If you don't
have the energy the morning, don't work out in the morning.
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Workout at the time of day where you have the
most energy, because that's going to keep you consistent. All right,
Let's see another one from Instagram. This is Ace of Spades.
What's the greatest morning workout I can do in fifteen minutes?
Or actually, just do you have a quick get this
done and you're actually good for the day type of workout?
I'm telling you Max Out fifteen Insanity Max thirty. That
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workout is literally like I was on tour and I
was like traveling. I was doing this one tour through Pennsylvania,
and I remember waking up a couple of days and
being like, oh my god, like I literally have zero time,
and I was like, but I have fifteen minutes, and
it completely not only did it, the other thing about
trying to get something done, even if it's fifteen minutes
(35:45):
is that you feel good, your muscles are good, you
feel inspired, and then you're more apt to eat a
little healthy because a little a lot more healthy because
you say, like, Okay, I didn't work out as much
as I wanted to, but I did work out, and
so now I'm actually gonna eat healthy to enhance the
time that I couldn't move. And I've done that workout,
by the way, it's it kicks your ass. And on
top of that, one of my favorite go twos, because
(36:07):
I have like Beach Body on demand is uh, I
think it's max out abs or three sixty. Yeah, do
that one because you're laying on the floor the whole time,
flipping over up and there. It's just it's really good.
I know. You go from ab the oblique to the
lower back is good. Let's see Instagram. This is a
(36:28):
plus hill. Best way to jump start to workout and
stay motivated to not quit. Like for people who may
have not worked out in two years, what's like your
one tip. So there's gonna be really funny, but do
it like you're sleep training your baby. You know, like
it's sleep training your baby. They say you're gonna put
your baby in the crib. They're gonna cry. And then
you go back a minute later, and then you walk away.
(36:51):
You let them know, hey, I love you, I'm here,
and then you go back two minutes, and then you
go back four minutes, and then you go to eight
minutes later, and in sixty you double the time every time.
So I say, don't do it if you like, if
you know you're gonna have a tough time. Committee work
out for five minutes the first day. I had plenty
of five minute workouts on my YouTube channel. Right, So
you work out for five minutes. The next day, maybe
work out for seven to ten minutes. The next day
(37:13):
you add another two minutes, maybe twelve minutes. Give yourself
a little more. Uh working out every day instead of
like going balls to the wall and again hitting that
implementation to that we talked about earlier, and then you're
you're burnt out. But the best way to sustain results
if you're not a part of like some group where
(37:34):
if you have low accountability, is say five day, five
minutes a day, seven minutes, tomorrow, nine minutes, the next
day eleven minutes, or however you are, and do your
increments until you hit thirty minutes. Get consistent at thirty
minutes for a month, and I'm telling you you will
be on your way. You know what's great? It really
just goes back to that personal best personal record thing
from track that we were talking about exactly, and the
(37:56):
first introduction that I had to the beach body world.
That's how I ended up kind knowing everything that you do.
But my first introduction was actually back in the day
with uh oh yeah. And the first thing I did
was I started light And there's a lot of pushups
in that workout, and I started light, but I told myself,
every single week, I'm adding five more pushups to every round.
(38:18):
By the end of that workout, I was doing sixty
push ups at a time. But I started easy. I
knew that I was new to it, and that's kind
of just what everyone should focus on. Let me start
with something I know I can do, and then just
build on that every single week, every day whatever. However
often you're working out, Yeah, when I meet people in
a supermarket or anywhere, and they're like, oh, you know,
I really want to start, but I'm like, and I
(38:40):
motivate them, and they're like, Okay, I'm gonna start on Monday.
I'm like, no, you're gonna start right now. Give me
five squads, And then you could say I did something
literally I made people, did me five squads in a
grocery store or five lunges or five jumping jack literally
right there, and then they're like, oh snap, and I'm
like do that again tomorrow, do that until Monday. That way,
you have already had some commitment in your life before
(39:04):
day one't even begins. And there was another Actually that's
a great transition to this next question. Uh, someone hit
me up on Instagram. Can't do a single push up?
What should I do? Because they want to do actual
push ups? Is there? Do they start on their knees? Like,
what's the the best way to kind of kick that off? Yeah?
So basically here's the thing. Day one, do wall push ups.
That means, take your stand up against the wall, walk
(39:25):
your feet out, extend your arms and basically do push
ups on the wall, and then do that for like
three days. Do however many you can. You can max
out if you want. Then you want to transition to
the floor. When you get to the floor, which you
want to do is put your knees down and just
hold the plank position so you don't even need to
do it push ups. Hold it for as long as
(39:47):
you can. I would say anywhere from like you know,
anywhere from twenty second intervals, maybe five times too minute intervals,
five times, depending on what you could do with your
knees down, arm street plank position. Then what I want
you to do is then start to do Once you
get comfortable with that and your shoulders get strong and
you're you're getting maintaining something, then you start doing slow
(40:08):
push ups on your knees. Do reps of five to five,
take a fifteen second rest, do five, takes fifteen second
rest until you burn out you can't do anymore. Then
you lift your needs off the ground. Then you hold
the plane position without doing push ups, which your needs
off the ground. You do that for a while, and
then you start bringing in the push ups up top.
If you do that and you go slow and you
just progressively increase the time, you'll be able to do
(40:32):
some push up, and again it just goes back to
that hole. Keep getting better, keep pushing yourself a little more.
These are actually two kind of similar questions. The first
one is from Reggie on snapchat said how much strength
training should I be doing in a week? Uh? Well,
you could do strain training every day if if you
only if you want. I mean the rule of some
(40:54):
is giving your muscles forty hours rest between working out.
So between working and muscles. So if I'm doing chesting back,
which is my large upper body muscle groups, I can
do chesting back on Monday, and I'll do chesting back
again on Thursday, because I gave my top my body
enough time to rest two full days, right, two full days,
(41:14):
and then on Tuesday I can do my I can
do my legs which is my large muscle groups at
the bottom and the so same thing Tuesday and then
on Friday, and then you can do um your small
muscle groups that on Wednesday, which is your shoulders, bidis
and tricepts. You work out your small muster groups, and
then you can do your small muscle groups again on Saturday,
and then you can rest on Sunday. Or you can
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add cardio at least fifteen to twenty minutes of sustained
cardio every single day before I says, say do it
before you lift, so that you can warm up your body.
And there you gave yourself enough exercises. You gave yourself
enough um strange training, I mean, and then you're good
to go and enough rest. And there's another one from snapchat,
kind of similar, talking about routine and stuff. How often
should you change your routine because obviously you have different
(41:58):
routines You've got I mean, you started with hip hop abs,
but you've got sean week and insanity max thirty and
regular insanity, which is a weird thing to say when
you talk about regular insanity. But how often should you
change a routine so you don't get stuck in the
same thing? Were you change when you get bored, and
or you change when you feel like you've hit a
stale moment and you have to spike and you have
(42:20):
to feel that soreness again. It's all up to the
individual person. The one thing you want to do is
always have fun when you work out, So and may
you start getting bored with whatever it is, change it up.
And then if you don't feel you're getting you're progressing
as fast as you were before, or if you're maintaining,
you feel like you can have a little more progress
than change it up. Then another one from snapchat, what's
(42:40):
your opinion on protein shakes while trying to still lose weight?
I don't eat enough protein according to that's what this
person is saying Tea Murray, Um, and I need a
good source of protein while I'm still trying to lose weight.
First of all, eating protein is not going to make
you gain weight. So uh, that's the biggest misconception. And
the only way you're gonna gain weight if drinking protein
(43:01):
is if you're drinking something with a ton of sugar
in it and you're not working out at the same time,
or you add more than one protein shake a day,
or if you are basically using it as a meal
replacement and you're still hungry and then you eat more.
So um, a protein shake is not something that's going
(43:22):
to make you gain weight. If you eat the correct
protein shake, and it's as pure protein as you can get,
like I would say, egg white protein. Then your body
is only going to excrete what you don't need anyway,
so you're good to go. You know. It's an interesting
misconception and I think a lot of people have and
I talked about this when I had Whitney Miller on
the podcast in like the first couple of weeks. For
(43:43):
some reason, people are super worried about starting to work out,
whether it's lifting weights or whatever, any type of strength
training and getting big. But I feel like I've been
trying to do that for years and it takes a
very long time. It's ridiculous. So if you're not eating,
if you're not eating uh high enough colork, high enough
(44:04):
colork intake, you're not going to gain weight. And so
especially when a lot of women, I said, oh my god,
I'm gonna get bulky exactly, so you're not. You don't
have that kind of testosterone in your body. The only
thing you're gonna get is super super lean. Yeah, if
you start lifting heavier weight, you're gonna be harder, you're
not gonna be as rip per se, but your muscle
(44:27):
will be a little full. But you're not gonna get bulky,
and you're not. It's just impossible. Yes. And the other
thing is that people have different genetics, Like I can
look bigger because I have my body just react to muscles,
I mean react to muscles, react to weight training. But
for someoneth it's the biggest misconception in the world that
(44:48):
you're only going to get big, because I know plenty
of guys who lift heavi as hell and they're full
of testosterone and they don't get big. They have to
eat that way. And it's it's you're not gonna work
out for two weeks and all of a sudden look
like Arnold Swarzenegger, like that takes. That takes You're gonna
work out for a year and never look like. I
don't know what the misconception is. There um one last
question I have for you. So I saw you post
(45:09):
a while ago. Uh actually at the beginning of the year,
and I guess sean week was like the most watched
thing on Beach Body on demand something along those lines.
Do you remember that, Yeah, it was last year. It
was like, okay, so late last year that I think
maybe December or something like that. There's that time of
the year late December, early January every every year, where
obviously everyone's trying to get in shape. And then I
just realized that when I went to the gym earlier
(45:30):
this this afternoon, no one's there anymore. Is there something
you wish? Like? Why do you think that happens so often?
Because it's like because people aren't serious, and it goes
back to laziness, and it goes back to people letting,
I mean, letting life get in a way when next
the end of the day is them getting in their
own way. It's such a I mean, as a motivator.
(45:53):
People might get mad that I say this, but I'm
so over it. I'm actually very disappointed because the reason
why I'm disappointed is because it's you don't have to
try and look like a fitness model. You don't have
to be like people say, Like if I said I
wanted to be an hundred and eighty five pounds, just
because I'm not a hundred and eighty five pounds don't
(46:14):
mean I need to stop moving and stop focusing on
my nutrition. It's just that I'm just not a hundred
eighty five pounds. And I believe that people are number one,
they become a motivated and number two, they give up
because they reach their their goal. And here's the other thing.
The majority of people need to be seven and ten
pounds higher than what they want their quote unquote goal
(46:36):
away to be because people try to go back to
high school. And I'm like, listen, if I went back
to high school, what would Shaunty looked like at a
hundred and seventy eight pounds? You would literally be like,
it's something wrong with you. You know what I mean?
But in high school, as a sixteen seventeen year old,
hundred seventy eight pounds fit who I was. But I'm
like about to be forty years old and trust and
(46:57):
believe I'm good with a good one nine because that
booty is right. But you know, so I tell people
like you, I wish you go away Okay, great at
about seven pounds of that and and you'll be fine. Wow.
And it's just I feel like we all wish we
could take all those people that were watching Seawan Week
in December and be like, just keep doing it. You're
you're doing a good job. Just keep at it. Don't
(47:20):
dip off in March, don't don't stop going to the gym.
Don't stop watching Beach Body on Demand. Don't stop you know,
listen to the podcast that help get you to your goal.
The thing is like, there's there's change, and I do
get the fact that people get bored or whatever. But
that's why I say every day is not necessary, but
most days are. So if you can't commit to six
(47:42):
five six days a week, can you commit to three?
That way, you're always looking forward to something. And honestly,
you are one of my go to workouts when I
need to, when I need to kick my ass or
jump start to day or whatever, I log onto Beach Body.
I usually hit one of the insanity max thirty accounts
on there. Um, so thank you for motivating me. I
(48:04):
got your back, man, trust to believe. And if people
want to check out the Diet Bet, it's a diet
bet dot com slash shawnty right, that's right, and the
book is out there. T is for Transformation, the podcast,
I know we have it. You're part of the I
Heart Radio family now, I know. I'm so excited. I'm
excited about that. And then obviously all the all the workout,
(48:24):
Speach Body on Demand, your Facebook page or YouTube channel
are all under Shaun t Fitness, right, Shawn t Oh
just saunt. Yeah. You see, that's why you're here. Otherwise
I screw this whole thing up by myself. YouTube I
think is YouTube dot Com, slash, shawnt fitness, Instagram and
SHAWNTI Twitter, shawnty, and I believe Facebook. So when I
was messaging you yesterday to get you ready for the podcast,
(48:46):
I give you one little homework assignment. You have to
give everyone in this podcast, because it's something I do
every week, a tip to kind of take with them
for the week and then build upon towards their journey. Right.
So here's the tip. You have to get a little artistic,
very simple make create right down, get a blank piece
of paper and create a road map for yourself. So basically,
(49:09):
I want you to take that white piece of paper. Yes,
I want you to get an actual opinion paper, draw
a road, and I want you to draw seven boxes
along that road, along the sides of the road, and
I want them to be milestones that you're going to
hit over the next seven days. It doesn't have to
be fitness related. It could be life related. But each
and every day for the next week, I want you
(49:31):
to write down a milestone that you're gonna hit And
then at the end of that seven days, turn the
paper over and I want you to write down all
the successful moments that you have because a lot of
times we all, you know, we're we're a world full
of oh my gosh, Like you know, everything is a
struggle and we all struggle and everyone knows we struggle.
But what I want you to do is at the
(49:52):
end of the seven days, once you get to the
end of that road, turn over and like, let's celebrate
all the great things that happened to you. And you
will see that life is about celebratory moments that can
help you stay positive. And they're all things that you
created as you rode rolled down the road, right. So
that's the homework assignment. And you know what I want
(50:13):
people once they do that to uh to hit you
up Shaun TI on Instagram. They can snap you the
picture or whatever you up on Twitter all that stuff. Um,
thank you so much. I know you have a jam
pack day, but thank you mate for making time for
the workout Wednesday podcast. Man from Jersey to Jersey love
you too, buddy. Thank you so much. Have a good one, um,
and tell everyone I say hello, yeah and everyone out there.
(50:33):
Continue to dig deep and trust them, believe in who
you are. And so all the questions that I was
asking Shawn T obviously came through uh Instagram or Snapchat,
but you can hit me up on anything Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, Twitter.
It's all at Worst Anthony and if you have like
a really long thing, you want to write my day
Friday show at Gmail and until next week, I mean
(50:55):
listen to Shaun Tis tip. Hopefully you you draw that
little roadmap and you cold tweet both of us at
Worst Anthony at Shawn T. And you know, good luck
on your journey whatever it happens to be. Good luck
and thank you for making a lot of time This
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