#151 // 10 HARSH Fitness Truths
Fitness Stuff (for normal people)
Tony and Marianna
4.9 • 644 Ratings
🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 76 minutes
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Summary
The truth will set you free… but first, it’ll piss you off. In this episode, Marianna and Tony walk through the top 10 harsh fitness truths you need to know when it comes to training, nutrition, and mindset. These aren’t easy to hear, but accepting them will save you time, energy, and frustration. The good news? Once you embrace these truths, real progress becomes so much easier — and way more rewarding.
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Timestamps:
(4:50) Your new life will cost you your old one
(9:35) Health ≠ fitness
(16:35) Some people have to work harder
(25:57) You're going to fail (A LOT)
(34:15) It's going to take longer than you think
(38:45) Healthier choices can develop unhealthy habits
(46:48) Don’t compare yourself to others
(51:58) Mental health
(57:38) Body positivity
(1:05:16) Consistency
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | The truth will set you free. |
| 0:02.2 | But first it'll piss you off. |
| 0:03.6 | That's what we're talking about today. |
| 0:05.2 | The top 10 harsh fitness truths when it comes to different aspects of your training, diet, |
| 0:10.2 | and psychology that you have to get behind. |
| 0:13.4 | Why? |
| 0:14.4 | Because if you can know and accept these uncomfortable truths, the amount of time you will save |
| 0:19.0 | and how far you will actually get will be |
| 0:21.2 | astronomically further than if you choose to ignore them. But first, if you want to get more |
| 0:26.5 | out of each episode, like access to every single one of our 12-week training programs programmed |
| 0:31.6 | out in Google Sheets so you can track and guarantee you are making progress, like our ultimate |
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| 0:48.8 | per month. That gets you bonus episodes, access to all of our complete training programs, |
| 0:53.9 | and so much more. |
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| 0:58.9 | Okay, good. |
| 0:59.7 | I wanted to make sure you didn't miss that part. |
| 1:01.2 | But before that, if you have just like a few seconds and you haven't followed us on Spotify |
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| 1:10.2 | Uh-huh. |
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