1485: Ten Life Lessons from Lifting Weights
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2021
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover ten lessons they have learned about life from their experience lifting weights.
- Why it takes a lot of consistency applying discipline towards a goal to see its benefits bleed into other aspects of your life. (1:57)
- What makes fitness so powerful? (5:02)
- The Ten Life Lessons from Lifting Weights.
- #1 – Change your relationship to pain and struggle. (11:14)
- #2 – Embrace failure as part of the process. (14:55)
- #3 – Learn to care for yourself like someone you care about. (18:35)
- #4 – Learn to focus on what you can change and ignore what you can’t. (22:22)
- #5 – Perfect doesn’t exist. (25:46)
- #6 – Be humble. (30:30)
- #7 – Consistency is the key to success. (34:34)
- #8 – The journey is far more important than the goal. (39:34)
- #9 – Healthy self-criticism. (43:11)
- #10 – Balance. (46:08)
Related Links/Products Mentioned
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- Mind Pump Store
- The exercise effect
- The Key to Fitness Success is Self-Love – Mind Pump Blog
- Mind Pump Podcast – YouTube
- Mind Pump Free Resources
People Mentioned
- Layne Norton, PhD (@biolayne) Instagram
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | If you want to pump your body and expand your mind, there's only one place to go. |
| 0:06.0 | Mite, op, mite, op with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You are listening to the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pup. |
| 0:18.0 | Now in today's episode, we talk about life. |
| 0:21.0 | Life lessons you learn from lifting weights. |
| 0:24.0 | That's right. You thought you were just building your biceps in your body? |
| 0:27.0 | No, you're actually getting better at life. |
| 0:29.0 | We actually talk about 10 life lessons, real life lessons that you get from lifting weights. |
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