Hello and welcome to episode 10 of the James Smith podcast.

Mental I've actually put 10 episodes together again. Thank you to everyone.

If you continue to support the shares on your stories and the reviews are brilliant,

it's amazing to see that and I hugely appreciate everyone who's gone to the effort of spreading what I have to say,

just the person I'm trying to with a lot of waffle to give.

And today I'm going to be talking about sleep, stress, sex, relationships and motivation.

And for one of the first times I'm actually going to step up my lane a little bit.

I'm a personal trainer, I'm well versed in personal training, per se,

but I want to give some kind of anecdotal advice from my lifestyle with regards to these topics.

And I'm not claiming to be the sleep guy or the stress guy or the sex guy.

I'm just trying to be myself and trying to kind of get in the heads of potential people that need my help,

whether it's prospects, people that are into fitness, confused and overwhelmed by a lot.

And I often get asked a lot of questions with regards to how these factors affect say fat loss.

I do have clients that work towards muscle growth, but the majority of people are looking to lose fat, let's be honest.

So I'm going to be covering off a few things. I've made some notes in front of me and I actually have a laugh when I make my notes.

I type away just random words and I talk on each subject.

And something that I've been asked a fair bit recently is with regards to mental health and my mental health.

Now I said on a podcast not too long ago that I am incredibly lucky that I have never suffered with anything bad

with my mental health. I had anxiety, never had depression or anything.

And I kind of put it down to luck.

But the person I was talking to said, no James, from what you've said, you actually subconsciously look after your mental health in ways that you don't even realize.

And it probably is a lot to do with sleep, managing my stress, managing relationships and also to do with motivation.

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