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Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

2152: How to Convince Friends & Family to Work Out

Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth

Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge

Exercise, Health & Fitness, Health, Fitness

4.8 • 11.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

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Summary

In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin discuss five ways to encourage friends and family to start working out.

  • Why this is the most challenging thing to do. (1:52)
  • How can I be effective? (6:37)
  • The two challenges that could come up if you don’t do this right. (9:22)
  • Five Strategies to Convince Friends & Family to Work Out.
  • #1 - Be the example. (10:19)
  • #2 - Invite them to hang out/work out. (17:16)
  • #3 - Validate them. (24:46)
  • #4 - Invite them over for a cooked meal. (33:06)
  • #5 - Talk about your challenges around fitness. (38:01)

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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

MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND with your hosts.

0:09.0

Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews.

0:13.0

You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast.

0:17.0

This is Mind Pump, right?

0:19.0

In today's episode, we talk about how you can help convince a friend, a family member, a spouse, a parent, a child.

0:28.0

Somebody in your life that you care about to start exercising and start eating healthier.

0:34.0

That's such a hard thing to do. You care about this person.

0:37.0

We give you the playbook on what we found to be the most effective strategy to moving people from worst health to better health.

0:45.0

Now, this episode is brought to you by some sponsors.

0:47.0

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0:55.0

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1:01.0

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1:06.0

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1:13.0

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1:17.0

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1:25.0

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1:30.0

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1:37.0

And these are the final hours of this sale. So if you're interested, go to AnnabolicAdvanced.com and then use this code for the half off discount August 50.

1:46.0

So August 50 will get you 50% off. All right, here comes a show.

1:52.0

One of the hardest things for a fitness professional or somebody who's just into exercise and health is to watch a friend or family member slowly decline into poor health.

2:04.0

What do you do? How do you help them? They won't take your advice. They feel like you're condescending.

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