5 Ways A Personal Trainer Can Transform Your Health | Mind Pump 2385

if you're looking to improve your Fitness your health you want to lose body fat build muscle just feel a lot better one of the best possible things you could do is hire a good trainer today's episode we're talk about the five reasons why most people should hire one I like it yeah this is a good one because um when you look at the data on uh people's success rate and really the best data we have is has is in regards to weight loss um because that's what what tends to be tracked the fail rate with weight loss is incredibly High incredibly high it's like U um some estimates put it at like 90% so like 10% of the people that lose weight will keep it off whereas 90% gain it back and if you're watching listening to this right now odds are you've experienced that um yourself now working with a trainer dramatically improves the odds that you'll succeed dramatically at the very least it's going to Triple your success uh in my experience working with good trainers and I you know all of us have did this for for a long time your success rate is even higher than that far higher than that um so it's one of the best things you can invest in and of all the things that people invest in to improve their odds of fat loss or changing the way they look or their health I can't think of a single thing that has a better return on investment I can't think of a single yeah anything there's nothing that you can invest in and people spend a lot of money on this a lot of money on supplements and um you know diet plans and all that kind of stuff um but really it's like if you have a guide you have a trainer like you're that's there's there's nothing better you can do for yourself to ensure that success 24-h Fitness used to have a stat that was in regards to this and very useful uh for those of us that were managing gyms and I remember it was uh the the reason the main reason why they started to include five personal training sessions with the purchase of a um keyfit Plus Membership which was like their lifetime membership or membership that you prepaid for three years right and they found that the average person that bought a membership and got started uh would use the membership consistently for the first two months then fall off but continue paying for seven months so the person would use the gym for two months consistently fall off to where it was sporadic or not anymore at all and then for 7 months after that continue paying and then so nine months you got someone right and they found that the client that bought a membership that also got a member or also got a personal trainer even if it was for just five personal training sessions would stay for three plus years of consistency yeah and so that was a a major pivot for that company to start to include five personal training sessions with and I really attribute a lot of the growth and success that 24-Hour Fitness had back in its hey days to figuring this out of realizing wow if we just got you know these members in front of a trainer for five visits uh their longevity in in the business or in coming to the gym uh substantially increased and of course I mean it it makes sense because and there's other there's other factors that I think play into this too because I forget what the stat is on on um injury in the first couple months it's really high too so not only is this cuz people are probably thinking oh that's not me I I I'm motivated and I'm going to you know I'm I'm not the person that's going to quit well it's not always just because people quit a high percentage get hurt for for from doing things improperly and so having that that personal trainer uh especially when you're first getting started and I would make the case regardless of where you're at in your journey but especially when you get started is is Paramount well how you open it up I think the biggest distinct f is that people end up gaining the weight back and the easy part well I guess not the easy part the one that's marketed to people the most is that if you there you can come in and you can you can basically lose weight if you uh throw the kitchen sink at it if you do all these things at once if if you just put hard work into it and you show up um but after a while if you don't have the right plan if you don't have uh you know the right uh programming for you to to sustain and to create like a a longevity to this to this weight loss Journey uh the psychological piece to that is is so much um it's a lot more than I think people uh give weight to uh and to have a personal trainer there to really like coach you through a lot of the pitfalls uh to keep you going and realize that there's there's going to be setbacks there's going to be challenges that you didn't foresee uh really helps to keep you going and keep you you um on the right on the right path yeah look um it's it's interesting because I think people get you know you kind of tapped in this a little bit Justin there's this misconception misconception on the challenge and difficulty of getting fit and then staying fit I I think there's a huge misconception or misunderstanding I think the understanding is well if I just go sweat and move um and then if I just eat less then it's all good I'm going to succeed but the again the data shows you probably won't and it's actually one of the more of all the things that people attempt it's actually in terms of the data it's actually one of the most challenging things I I don't know if people would try other things knowing how challenging it was based off of data and not hire someone to help them you know it's very interesting I think there's a misconception around an exercise too where well if I just move that's good it's better than nothing but um if you if you move properly it makes a profound impact on on your success here's the I mean the top reasons why people stop I'll tell you what they are one injury is always there two I feel like I'm putting way more effort and getting very little return if you feel like you're putting a ton of effort into something and you're getting very little back uh it's the you're going to want to stop it doesn't make any sense it's logical discouraging it's very disc like any relationship remember this is a relationship that you build with Fitness imagine having a relationship where you put all the effort and you do everything to nourish uh and and help this relationship flourish and the other person is like not returning your calls they don't want to show up they don't she like this is a waste of time I'm not going to you know I try for a month or two if you really care about this person be like you know this is not worth it well imagine imagine going to work for 40 hours and and getting your paycheck and it say zero doar on it exactly I mean cuz this is laborous right this isn't just a relationship I got to call you on the phone or send a letter to you every now and then I got to show up to the gym and put labor and and so imagine going to work for 40 hours opening up your paycheck and then theek a dollar yeah and you show up and you're in pain while you're going like so to your other point of like people just not knowing how to uh uh address certain issues that they have before they even get started I think a personal trainer is so invaluable in that regard they they also another reason why people quit is they don't know what they don't know in terms of the challenge now experienced trainer knows what you're going to experience so people who embark on a fitness Journey think that the the the biggest challenge is getting to their Fitness goal it's not the biggest challenge is not getting to your Fitness goal that's a challenge it's one of them it's not the biggest one but they think if I can get to my goal I'm done I'm there I won I succeeded no maintaining it is far bigger challenge in fact far more people will lose weight than keep it off lots of people lose weight it happens all the time people don't keep it off and then third once you get there the other challenges uh that um you come upon for example okay now I'm here now what how do I keep this going this you know is great but it's not what I thought it would be or you hit stumbling blocks along the way and maybe the first stumbling block you hit you could overcome by simply doing more and eating less but then at some point that doesn't become feasible I can't do more this is imply I have a family I can't work out more than I am now I don't want to or eat less than I currently am I'm already feeling like I'm super deprived and I can't even enjoy myself uh on a you know a date night with my spouse um and so it's just the fail rate super high so hiring a guide a trainer who knows what they're doing they're going to forecast the challenges to you they're going to tell you here's what you're going to experience that makes a big difference they know how to properly uh train you and they can take you along this so imagine this challenging Journey that you're on you're going to try and go from here to uh somewhere else and and then after you get there you're going to keep walking anyway you don't know what the directions are you don't know if you need to climb a mountain if you need to Wade through a river you don't know if you're going to drive Bo you don't know if there's a dragon around the corner you don't know if you know what is going on but then there's this person that's like oh that Journey I've walked that Journey uh myself and I've walked in Taken hundreds of people on that exact journey I know what the path looks like I'm going to walk you through it I'm going to make sure we don't take a wrong turn I'm going to show you how to avoid those pitfalls and then by the way some of them you can't you're going to fall in I'm going to be there to put a ladder down help you climb out I'm going to help you through this journey so you can always look to me as we move through this that's why the success rate is so much higher uh working with with a good trainer has the interest in personal training uh increased or stay the same or it's always growing is it ever since they were tracking it yeah it's yeah personal training has always has grown nice and consistently over the years I think as more and more people realize the the value in it the interest seems to be going up there seems to be a uh Resurgence uh especially too with like everybody going back to the gyms and I think that you know that's sort of the first step always as we always you know saw people like this rush to get into the gym but now it's like what do I do and there's a little bit of a confusion there so you know the interest in personal trainer to at least uh spend a few sessions so it's like okay I I can like navigate through here that's at least like your your second step yes uh people find but yeah they they're there has to be like uh you know this this need for people to to understand like how do I do this how do I how do I resistance train because I'm hearing all these great benefits from it and you know a personal trainer will really help you with that well I used to tell people this when I would talked to them when I was a gym manager CU you know managing a gym you sell memberships but then you sell services in there including personal training a membership the investment for a membership is far less than the investment for personal trainer one session with a trainer will cost you more than uh three months of access to the gym just one session typically sometimes even more than that and so when I would talk to people about training and they would they would bring that up and say look um let me put it this way would you rather take $20 out of your pocket and light it on fire or would you rather spend $1,000 and get $2,000 in return right one is a larger investment but you get twice your money back the other one you just light on fire so it yes it it costs more money to work with a good trainer but you're going to get what you want if you don't you're not going to you're not going to anything do you think that that's the number one reason why why if like we're going to go over all these five important reasons and uh we can make all these cases we laid the set the table with the stats on how much so why is it that still a majority of people don't invest in a personal trainer when they get a gym membership because they say I can oh oh it's I don't know $100 an hour 80 bucks an hour whatever do it on my own yeah yeah I think it's hard for them to justify yeah I can do it on my own what do you mean I don't need a you know I hear this I don't need a trainer I'll just go work out they think they just need to lose weight and it's just about movement yeah so I I would make the argument that it's less about money it's more about they actually think they they think it's easier than what it that's what I mean so they look at the money and it's just not I mean if I sold you a house which is really interesting to me because when you understand the complexity of uh the metabolism the brain you know like and you are uh attempting to solve that equation it's it's far more difficult than popping the hood of your car and fixing the engine I mean that's actually way more straightforward to fix and you could literally YouTube the exact car the exact problem and have a step byep with yet we Nobody Does that nobody does that you take it to a mechanic right yet with your own body Which is far more complex far so you can't YouTube you know uh I weigh 230 pounds on this and that I can't lose weight fix it and actually get the answer that's how that's how complex it is because there's so many variables with the individual it's like imagine if that's what fixing in the car was like yet we have no hesitation of taking our car into a mechanic when something goes down but yet and and we don't have the audacity or arrogance to think oh I I can fix it easily even though I know nothing really about engines but I could I could toally you you still take that in so it's so interesting to me that we don't yeah people's expectations yeah exactly people's expectations are completely off because of how we've marketed to them and we know we know that the most effective way to capture their attention is to uh Market that we're going to solve their problem in a shorter amount of time and it only is going to take XYZ to get you there and you know any good trainer that has any weight knows that it's much longer Journey than that and and okay yes the human body is far more of a complex machine than a car but it's also not just a machine it's also a feeling breathing Behavior right uh creature so a trainer is although they are going to know what to do they also have to know how to guide you because you are going to get in your own way and this this is why I said the metabolism and the brain right because within the brain comes the emotions and the all the trauma and all the other things and so you think why can't I stop eating like this if the brain is one of the most complex things that we know of and the gut is one of the metabolism is one of the most complex things you have to you have to work with both of those to to have somebody successful at Weight Loss or building muscle or health right and yet we uh have this arrogance of oh yeah I could do this I could figure it out no problem but with something as as simple I would think I would say as complex but as simple as a engine to your car we don't even think about troubleshooting that we'll just take that right into now before we get into some of the most important reasons uh because someone might be listening and say okay well how do I get a good trainer we've done other episodes on this but uh but just a couple easy things a good trainer is typically educated and experienced so if somebody's been training clients uh who are like you okay so if they're like an athletic trainer and you're just a everyday person maybe find someone that works with someone like you but experience probably a couple years at least two or three years and educated they're they're certified um uh you know maybe once or twice but they're experience experience shows one they know what they're doing because they could last the training business it's hard to last as as a trainer longer than a year if you don't do a decent job you made it Beyond five years as a personal trainer you're probably pretty good probably doing something right yeah yeah at what level of great you are yet I don't know but if you've made it five years uh you've you're probably pretty good at what you're doing that's right so experience in education and then and obviously um you know those are the two biggest things you want to look at today's program giveaway is Maps strong if you want to enter to win leave a comment below this video in the first 24 hours that we drop it subscribe to this Channel and then turn on your notifications do all those things and 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part of their value yes if you're a trainer you need to know exercises and yes if you're a trainer you need to know proper exercises but that's not the hard part the hard part is applying them and programming workouts and using the right combination of exercises for the individual that you're working for I mean it's it could be as as simple as here's a here's proper form for a barbell row which is a great exercise generally speaking but depending on the person wrong exercise for you we're not going to do this one or right exercise for you we're going to do this one and a good trainer knows when that exercise even done properly is wrong for the wrong for the it's not the right exercise and the only way they know that is by a proper assessment so that's the first key a red flag I should say if you are interviewing a personal trainer and you're going through the process and they don't take you through a proper assessment where they're really getting all those details and information not just what you're telling them in terms of past injuries and all that kind of stuff but they're taking you through movements and they're really like absorbing a lot of this information uh from having you move and obing yes they also know how to take you as an individual have you pick the right exercise we'll get into programming in a second but take the right exercise for you we'll just keep it to one movement watch you do that exercise show you watch you and then Coach you on how to move properly now you might be thinking what's so hard about that I watch them do it and I copy it oh really have you seen a golf swing can you go swing a golf club have you seen someone throw baseball can you go throw baseball like they do it's the same thing with exercise they're all skills and a very good trainer knows how to teach a skill of an exercise effectively it is not at all one of the other misunderstandings is that oh I just watched the exercise and I can copy it this by the way for new trainers is always a shock I remember Justin talking about this oh yeah you walk in you're like oh here's how you do it here you go Miss Johnson and then you're like why aren't you doing what I showed you they can't look anything like I just did they can't what do I do with this their body doesn't move that way they don't know how to get their body body to move that way and then your skill comes in into play on how do I get this person to move properly how do I pick the right movements to to to train their body to move this way how to IQ them properly what am I telling them to do why can't they move proper okay let me figure this out and then they teach you the skill it's so important that people understand this too because your return on your investment is dependent on this so if you just like investing in the stock market like anybody can go put money in the stock market but having a professional teach you how to do it really dictates the return on investment of that money like anybody anybody can go out and go do the movement but how well you perform the movement really dictates the return on that investment and so you can't stress enough that it isn't as simple as it's like as going in and just doing the movements it's how effectively you do the movements dictates how much muscle you build how much body fat you take off like that's the stuff that matters like if you don't do it properly then you don't get the same return on your investment and so I I think it's important to recognize that yeah of course you can go under there and go try and just do a bench press but having uh somebody who's a professional who's going to teach you how to do that properly makes a huge difference on the return on the investment by the way I use the golf swing as an example I like that one because uh an expert would see two golf swings and could tell if one is good and one isn't where's the average person might look at both of them and say they kind of look the same like a a small change in a movement can take it from being effective to dangerous no joke especally especially with some of the most effective and sticking with that analogy s that same professional can look at that goall swing and give you the slightest detail of oh open up your grip a tiny bit and it make all the difference you know versus like the average person looking at it and it's like yeah they both swings look pretty bad try to hit it to the right in yeah right both swings look pretty bad try this try that try this and it's like you no no where you a coach goes oh widen your stance by two inches you know it's like that's a trainer also knows proper intensity everybody thinks hard is what you need to do that's not true intensity has to be individualized if it's not you will fail they also understand volume how many exercises how many reps for the individual I keep saying the individual because one of the values of working with a trainer is they train you not a million of of a bunch of people you as an individual uh need to be trained as an individual they also know order of exercises combinations of exercises what we're doing through the week through the month how progress how we regress how we move through the workout that's what I mean by they understand uh proper exercise now the second thing is that this one's really important is they can guide you through pitfalls there are going to be pitfalls you are going to plateau and you are going to be challenged now you might be thinking I just need someone to kick my ass I hear this I used to hear this all the time I want to hire a trainer just to kick my ass and motivate me no you don't this is not effective period end of story if it was as if all you needed was somebody to yell at you to get in shape then uh you know everybody with an abusive partner or parent or whatever would do just fine Would Be Jack it doesn't work it only works when you're in the early stages of motivation believe me it makes things so undesirable so crappy it fills you full of Shame as you fail and eventually you just don't want to do it anymore because why are you telling me just to be motivated like this is a good trainer knows how to guide you through those pitfalls and those challenges for when the scale doesn't move for when you feel a particular way for when you're not motivated that's when it's hard I never ever had a challenge getting a client to show up who was motivated they would show up on their own it was when they weren't motivated that a lot of my skills came into play this what a good trainer will do yeah and a lot of times too like a good trainer is going to be able to simplify a lot of things for you so it's going to be able to make things relatable uh and really be able to peer into like your personality and how to steer you based off of uh a lot of behaviors that you know you observe as a coach uh that's going to move the needle the most and so you know for the most part it's it's just like very simple very direct kind of cues and things whether it's your exercising or whether it's with your nutrition uh to focus on for those few days or for that week uh and it's it's a very deliberate targeted approach uh which you know it helps I think a lot of the the the stress and and the anxiety over working out is because of it's it's actually a lot once you get into it there's a lot of variables there a lot of factors to it and to be able to just have Clarity of like this is the simple thing to focus on it goes so far the art of forecasting is so unbelievably powerful uh it's reminds me of what just happened to me recently with uh and my wife does this to me with things right so and it's so funny how I can clearly see the difference of how I respond in these situations and it right away I connect the dots to this is so much like coaching a client through a weight loss journey and that is we just got back from a trip where we were down in Universal Studios during the Fourth of July weekend so you can imagine how just over the toop ridiculous Crowds Are and that and Katrina tells me at the end of the day she like God you were so good honey like through the whole day like just patient and this and that but so much of that was her because she mentally pre me going into that you know it's going to be busy you honey you know we're going to have this honey you know that someone going to bump into you when we're doing this you know there's going to be times we're in the Sun and it's like she's like like yeah yeah and I'm going yeah yeah yeah I know I know I got I got it and yet when it happens it's still but then it I had this calming this sense of calm that comes over me because it's like I knew this was coming I knew this was coming and so it doesn't bother me as much this is just like when you're taking somebody through their journey and fitness because it will have pitfalls it will have challenges it will have setbacks it will have plateaus and a good coach and a trainer has the ability to forecast that for you and boy it's such a different experience when you worked your ass off for two weeks you get on the scale and it didn't move anywhere and you knew that was a possibility coming because your coach said hey there's a good chance this might happen and this might happen because we're doing X Y and Z so be prepared for it that's okay it doesn't mean we're doing a bad job I'm prepared for that I expect that to happen during this journey now when you set that expectation for the client and that happens the feeling that they get the result from that is so different than if it is like out of the blue where you're just coaching your client on their 30 lbs of weight loss you don't forecast anything the first two weeks of the scale not moving comes and now they're pissed now they're distraught now they don't now they don't trust you now they don't have faith in unexpected problems or worse they don't have you and they they this happened to themselves and they go oh my God I quit I don't want to do this or they overcorrect because they think oh I'm not doing the right thing so now I need to do this thing that right there is so so powerful and back to Justin's Point too A lot of it is not just telling you where to place your focus because those are the areas where you're going to see the most uh movement but also we're not to place your focus because a lot of people place their focus in the wrong area and a good trainer will say actually uh that's not going to help you that much I know you think adding hours of whatever cardio or doing this other thing is going to help you it's really not g to make that it's not going to make a big difference let's put your focus over here and here's why it's good to have somebody there that can guide you through that process versus blindly going through as somebody and really only using your own past experience as a guide and your past experience was failure uh so that's a terrible guide uh next up is accountability um this makes a big difference especially in those early days of showing up you know especially if you're not comfortable in the fitness environment or gym environment um and it's easy for you to come up with reasons why you shouldn't go but you have an appointment and you know a good trainer is also someone you look forward to seeing by the way um and we'll get more of that a little later but this is somebody look forward to seeing so you know what one thing I got good at later in my career was helping people who'd never really gotten comfortable working in a gym but I knew they would show up because they had me there with them whereas if they came in by themselves they'd probably not show up as often so when you have those appointment with a trainer if you're training with them twice a week the odds are you're going to exercise properly twice a week versus kind of having to count um on yourself and this is shown in the data when people have an appointment with an instructor the odds that they're going to show up and not quote unquote flake are far higher than if they don't have anybody there um helping them at all I actually found a large percentage of my clientele base uh hired me just for this yes so I tend I I had quite a bit of uh professionals that I train right type A personalities CEO Founders uh business Executives right people that were professionals that type of uh archetype I found really uh appreciated the accountability piece in fact many times I'd have them for years I had taught them everything I knew they could totally go do but because they knew the way they ran their life that they don't miss meetings they don't miss phone calls they're they're very professional that if they have a meeting with me they that accountability piece was so powerful that they knew they just wouldn't miss whereas if they didn't have me to hold them accountable or to be there for a meeting they would justify all the other things that are so busy in their life to why they can't make that appointment but just by having that commitment even though they had the knowledge and an experience now of doing they still would do that so this is a really powerful piece when you understand the values especially if you know you're that type of person you know that like I mean I remember leaning into this when uh I started my Instagram page and part of that was I was going to use my body transformation uh as my way of garnering attention and I knew that if I announced it publicly that I'm going to do this I would have this weight of I got to follow through because I said I'm going to do this accountability piece and I'm sure there would have been many times during that Journey had I not announced it had I not put that accountability on me that I probably would have made an excuse of oh I'm so busy right now or I'm sick I can't do it it's like oh but no because I have this accountability piece i' I followed through and execute many people were like this that I trained and and it was something that they leaned into well and I think too A lot of people think of accountability like they could find like a workout buddy or they can you know riff with their spouse or uh you know be part of like a group that kind of does this uh and you know the reason why like a personal trainer is very professional is very detailed in terms of your individual needs and um the thing you always consider is like like uh people that love you they love you and and um you know a lot of times they'll they'll kind of go with when you have that chatter in your head of like well I don't know if I should go like yeah maybe you shouldn't go and like there's you you end up influencing them you end up influencing and then each other and then it just kind of so to have somebody that's just kind of professional and just keep you on track and and um you know we'll we we'll steer it and you trust them like this is where like a personal trainer just totally trumps all the rest look here's how powerful accountability is uh some of the most ineffective forms of exercise are in group classes we've talked about this before on podcast it's a big uh you're instructing a giant class of uh lots of different individuals the workout is going to be inappropriate for 90% of them because it's not individualized and yet people like them because of the accountability and Jim data shows this people that go to classes are more consistent than people who try to go in on their own now I'm not advocating to go do a group exercise class my point is to show the power of accountability of course with the person personal trainer it's individualized so you also get the added benefit of a proper appropriate workout just for you that's individualized for you versus one that's written for a group of 30 people next up is uh that trainers are objective now why is someone that's objective important I'll tell you why your mind will play games on you oh yeah on this journey so much it's not even funny the two biggest Liars in your life when it comes to fit are the scale and the mirror the scale and the mirror are the two biggest liers the scale tells you Mass doesn't tell you fat loss doesn't tell you muscle gain doesn't tell you performance doesn't tell you improved health or hormone profile or libido or energy or anything else it just says weight so cut your foot off you lost weight uh you know put on a heavy jacket you gained weight I mean I'm being silly here but it lies to you in terms of what's actually happened the mirror lies to you as well I'll give you a great example I'm sure most people can relate to this there was a point in your life when you thought you look so terrible and you know and oh my God I don't look good and now it's 15 years later you look back at those pictures and you go what was I thinking I looked amazing but I was so insecure about how I looked I thought I didn't look good in a bikini or in my baan suit I was tripping but you believed it you believed it in that moment both those things lie to you so it's really nice to have a coach or a trainer be objective to when you weigh yourself and the scale goes up a little bit and then you do a body fat test it's body fat loss muscle gain you're like yeah but my weight went up and they go yeah you look amazing your strength is higher you've got more energy we're talking about this look at the curve in your hamstrings and you go you know what I I think it kind of makes sense I think you're right having that objective person inform you of the successes you had when you're focusing on maybe the one failure is also another reason to have somebody who's objective it's great to have that person there who's an expert and a professional to help calm that that that part of you that lies and is often fed by like I said the mirror and the scale I wish I remember exactly at what point in my career that I really pieced this together I don't remember when it was but I do remember what I did because of it and it was it became this conversation that I would be having with my clients and I'm looking at I'm going like I I know they look better they I've just i' I can see it but they would be telling me no like ah I I look worse I don't feel I'm like God this kid and then I started to do this where I said okay every Friday morning you are to take a photo front side and back in the same outfit uh every morning every every Friday morning uh through this journey and that became a mandatory thing that I did with all my clients and it was for me and it was for me so that when we had these conversations pull them I would pull them up and I and I can't tell you how many times I literally had to do this and I put them side by side on my phone and be like this was you 4 weeks ago this is you right now like can you not see the definition in your shoulder here do you see how much your weight and i' have to like literally point to the all the areas on their body that I could show them so wild BL Improvement and and then they would go uh okay I guess I kind of see it and it's like wow like that's that's how important the uh having a trainer for the object objectivity of this is because so many of these clients they have this distorted view of themselves because of whatever said insecurity uh from their past and a lot of times they can't even see when when it they're moving in the right direction so having that trainer to be able to point that out and again this is where I started this was the purpose of the photos was I re recognized this and it was happening to me and I like try getting in that argument without the pictures where they're telling you I see myself atam every day I don't look better today than I did when we first started and I'm going like no I I think you do like no I don't like okay I lose I don't have anything but once I had the photos and then I could break it down and be like look look look look and then they would go and it would even then it was like oh oh okay I guess I kind of see it it was like wow like that's how distorted some people's views of themselves well I mean we all experienced this I what got us into fitness were these insecurities I I thought I was this super super skinny kid I look at pictures now when I was 15 16 years old and I look like a normal kid wasn't this extreme but I felt that way and and it would have been nice to have a coach that I trusted be objective and tell me actually you're doing pretty good and here's what's happening here's what's happening here and maybe use the method like you said Adam but that objectivity can be very valuable because you lie to yourself you lie to yourself about this fitness journey and then those lies lead you to making decisions that don't help you that actually counter um what you're after now finally and I don't want to um understate this because this is I think one of the most important parts of working with a good trainer is this whole process is far more enjoyable now it's enjoyable for a lot of different reasons one your workouts are effective it's great to this is one of the best feelings in the world is when you feel like your return is greater than your investment that's how you should feel with a proper workout in fact one of my favorite comments I would get from clients is they'd come to me and say I can't believe we're getting these these results it kind of feels like I'm not putting a ton of effort into it I mean I'm putting effort but not like I I feel like I should be for what I'm getting then I knew like oh this is great like we're doing the right stuff that makes it more enjoyable exercising properly is more enjoyable than exercising improperly doesn't hurt the same way there's definitely pain with proper exercise but it's a good kind of pain you don't feel the like like you're like you're dead leaving the gym you're not not walking for 3 Days afterwards because you did it properly that also makes it more enjoyable feeling better at the end of your workout than you did at the beginning of workout is a Hallmark of a proper uh workout that's great that's enjoyable and then one of the final things is the person you're working with the coach that you're working with if you work with someone good you look forward to seeing with seeing them now why is this such an important factor well it makes you come and train with them and do all this stuff but what you're developing because remember if you like I said at the beginning of this episode 90% of people gain the weight back whatever this is a relationship that you're trying to develop for the rest of your life right so if you get fit you want to stay fit it's actually more important that you stay fit as you get older than it is even right now so hopefully you're doing this in your 50s 60s 7s 80s and if you're lucky in your 90s you want to do this for the rest of your life the relationship builds and especially is dependent on how it starts right so if it starts off in this enjoyable way not that the workouts are fun and exciting themselves but rather they give you more than you invest you feel good about it you start to understand your body you get through those pitfalls you know how to do this after you're done with the trainer on your own well now now the odds that you'll have this relationship for the rest of your life go through the roof that's why it's so important to have that enjoyable oh yeah I can't stress like how ort that is in the beginning to really take your time of observing these uh trainers and coaches with their clients and how they interact and um because you you want to look forward to it you want to come in and and know that you're going to have a great conversation in between sets you're going to learn something probably you're going to grow you're going to um you know really look forward to um coming back and and and you know relating with with this person because it's not just like a few uh it's not like a month's worth time like for the most part like you're going to be connected to this person through this journey for for a while and so to be able to have that kind of Rapport um you can you can really kind of sense that when you when you observe somebody for long enough listen if you listen to this podcast consistently you understand this is part of the formula this is what what we knew going into this podcast was we couldn't just tell people the science and information like they had to enjoy the process of listening to the show or else it wouldn't be a show it wouldn't continually come back and listen your J it's and we learn that from this part of the journey with clients is that yeah I got to know the science yeah I got to know the nutrition but they also have to enjoy this process if I'm going to keep them coming back it's no different than the formula that you see in the podcast is like yeah we could just read studies and break down the science of of nutrition and exercise we absolutely can do that but boy it wouldn't be the show that it is today because it it has to have a a piece of it that makes people like you know what I actually enjoy learning about this process through listening to these guys because there's an element that we've tried to build into it that's enjoyable for The Listener it's no different when you're going inside the gym it's like and a good trainer understands this piece of like I've got to help this client change their relationship with exercise nutrition and make it more fun make it more enjoyable if I'm going to make it a lifelong Pursuit bottom line is this the be really good trainers are not the trainers that get the most clients they also get the most clients but that's not makes them really good they're not the the the trainers that get people the best results although that's a part of it they're the trainers that get people to do this after they're done working with them and staying consistent forever and this is a big piece of it and again if you invest uh you know uh in some cases it could be a few thousand sounds like a ton of money but if it turns into this lifelong relationship appropriate relationship with proper exercise nutrition where you improve your health you improve your Fitness and then it's something you want to do for the rest of your life I can't think of anything that costs a few thousand dollars that'll improve the quality of your life more than that literally it'll improve every aspect a healthy you and fit you is better in every aspect of your life I don't care what thing you point out so again one of the greatest Investments uh you can make look if you love the show go to mind pump free.com I have a free fat loss guide there it's totally free breaks down the basic steps for fat loss again it's mind pump free.com you can also find all of us on Instagram Justin is at mind pump Justin I'm at mind pump to stepo and Adam is at mind pump Adam [Music] he [Music]