Focusing On Your OWN Goals In The Gym

Next question is from Andy Penson. How do you deal with the weird looks you get doing the mobility sessions in MAPS performance? Why does no one do walking or moving exercises normally? Did we? We should ask Aaron Alexander. Did we put, yeah I did a post like way long ago, I don't even know if it's still on there, of doing froggers in the gym. I did a video, I was teaching it. Did we program that in MAPS performance? Do you know? Froggers are in the mobility. Is it in there? Okay so yeah that one looks really weird because you're humping the floor. Yeah it just, you know what, I tell you what, some of the best results I ever got working out in the gym was when I stopped caring. Yes. Always. When I cared so much about what people thought when I was working out, I would do the wrong lifts, I'd train too intensely, add too much weight, didn't do certain exercises because I wasn't good at them so I don't want to use lightweight on them and it was so stupid and I had lots of clients that would have challenges with this. You know, I feel intimidated by working out and I'm a new beginner and you know what's funny? Working in gyms, I realized nobody cares. Nobody really gives a shit. It's all in your own head. Not only that but I also think that when you're the one person who's doing the different shit than everybody else, I think you look like you know more than everybody else. Yep. Everybody else is following each other, a bunch of parrots. Watch them start doing it. Yeah, copying each other and stuff like that. I swear to God this is happening every time and so yeah I have a different attitude towards this because this was something that was pretty funny because when I was on my own in training like there wasn't a lot of other gyms that I could you know take my business to and so the closest gym was Gold's Gym. Gold's Gym, everybody knows, pretty hardcore like bodybuilding style gym, right? You know, here comes Mr. Functional Guy, right? And I'm doing all these like crazy mobility moves and so you know I'd get all the looks and the scoffs and the you know big bodybuilder and then they're starting to ask me about it. Why are you doing that to your clients, bro? And so I was doing like crazy stuff like I would do like inchworms and things like in the middle where everybody had to walk in and I'm just like dude not giving any... So that's how I was. I feel the same way too because I feel I mean of course you do know and I do know so like if you train with that confidence that you know what you're doing then I actually feel like you look like the guy that knows more than everybody else because you're the guy who's doing something that everybody else does. Everybody goes over to the mirror and does bicep curls. Everybody goes to the bench press and does bench press but how often do you see somebody do a Turkish getup off the floor and do it with good form? I used to deadlift in the late 90s when nobody deadlifted and members would stop me. I'm a general manager. Yes, members would stop me. What do you do? You know, here's my advice. First off, you're there to train yourself so remember that you're not there for anybody else so who cares about anybody else. So that's number one. Number two, here's a couple things you could do and I've advised clients with this, people who really had issues with being intimidated. Wear glasses and wear and cover yourself up. If you go to the gym in sweats, a hoodie, headphones and sunglasses, you're in your own space. Do your own thing. Nobody gives a shit. It actually does change kind of that internal vibe and sometimes I would do that even on my own because I like to be in my own space and pretend like it's just me. Everything but the sunglasses. I know. I used to train like that. That was especially during competitive time where I don't want any distractions. I don't want to talk to anybody. I would be fully hooded out and big headphones on and head down like I just want to be in the zone. I don't want to be bothered by anybody. But your best results are gonna are gonna start to happen when you stop caring about that. It's all about you, how you feel, what works for your body. Stop worrying about anybody else and I promise your results will be much better versus when you're really concerned about, you know, everybody else and I, you know, you can, by the way, working in gyms for as long as I have, I mean you can you can not only see but you can smell the people who come in who care what everybody thinks. It's like that the girls that would come in, perfume would just like stink up the whole gym and full-on makeup and they got flashed. None of them know what they're doing. Yeah, dude. Don't talk trash about them. I appreciate them. Yeah, right. Or the guy that's like, you know, the view got to make sure I load up this trap bar machine so everybody knows how much I could, you know, it's like, all right, dude, nobody really cares. Nobody gives a shit. Nobody cares. Hey, if you enjoyed that clip, you can find the full episode here or you can find other clips over here and be sure to subscribe.