Hey everybody and welcome back to the ground up show. I'm your host Matt Diavella and today we have a very special podcast.

One of my favorite topics to cover habit change making drastic changes in your life that actually stick and before we get to that podcast I've got announcement on a similar threat.

So I'm actually in the process of developing and producing a course it's a three week course on habit change.

So if you have ever had trouble starting new things building a new workout routine or developing a healthy lifestyle.

If you find yourself starting whether it be at the start of the new year otherwise and within a couple weeks completely quitting.

I know I know how you feel I've been there myself and I've learned a lot about how to make these habit stick over the long run.

So I'm packing everything I've learned and even the lessons that I've gotten on this podcast into a three week course and that's going to be done in about a month.

So if you want to get access to this course head over to matdeavella.com slash newsletter and I will follow up with you as soon as it's ready.

The podcast today is with the brilliant Nate Green. He's a fitness expert and author that advocates a simple approach to well being.

So we break down what it takes to make lasting changes in your life.

How a degree isn't necessary if you have experience and connections.

Parado's 8020 principle and why focusing on the tiny hacks and the tweaks will actually prevent you from starting in the first place.

Alright, let's get right into this podcast. I think you're going to love it. This is Nate Green.

I'm interested in understanding how do people connect the dots between knowledge and action.

So so many of us know what to do. We know the right diet to be eating. We know that this shit that we're putting in our mouths is not good for us.

But we still can't make a change. So how do we connect those dots and how have you seen those transformations happening?

This is really interesting because I've spent a lot of time I'd say about the last six years working with a nutrition company called precision nutrition.

And the biggest thing that we teach and it has nothing to do with health and fitness, but it's all behavioral psychology.

Right. So it's how do you take complex things like getting in shape? You may not think it's complex.

Right. It's like, oh, eat less food and worked out more.

But those are like complex behavioral like modifications. You need to make in order to in order to actually accomplish that goal.

So we've spent a lot of time and a lot of research looking into how do people change?

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