What is going on, everyone?

Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and most of all, happy podcast.

No, no, no, nah.

I'm your coach and host Josh here with.

No, no, no, no. KG in the house.

You know, a lot of people say, why don't you get like those super intense like intros and

everything?

But the honest reason, I've always hated them. Like, I hate when i go to a podcast and it sounds like bombs are going off and it's like a frenzy and there's like a party and like fireworks and all these things i'm like i just want to hear the podcast so me and kyle just kept our little intro we've rolled with it i mean you know let us know if you think that's something you would like like like a little theme intro. I don't know. But anyways, as always, I'm your coach and host, Josh, here with. His co-host and co-coach, KG, and I'm in the house. And today we got a great episode. You know, we're like, hmm, what's on our mind? We were a little stumped on what we wanted to film from this episode and then it hit us and then we're like oh we love this because time and time again I've had

both males females everyone pretty much reaching out saying you know why or sorry not why I've had all

different types of people wanting to build muscle which I've loved like I've loved seen that rhetoric

change of you know it's okay for everyone to build muscle and you know a lot of people want to build muscle, which I've loved. Like I've loved seeing that rhetoric change of, you know, of it's okay for everyone to build muscle. And, you know, a lot of people want to build some serious amounts of muscle, right? Just like people want to take off on wanted fat. So we're going to give you six reasons why you aren't building the muscle you want to. And, you know, these are carefully thought out. Make sure you listen to all them. Number six in particular, you'll find quite interesting. So make sure to stay to the end. But number one is you're too scared to be strong. So you probably knew this one was coming, but very often, this is where I'll see a lot of people messing up. I'll put someone on a great routine. It'll be periodized. You know, they'll be focusing on compounds. I'll do all these wonderful things. And then eventually I'll say, hey, send me a form video. I want to check your intensity for the exercise. And I use an RIR scale most frequently, which is reps and reserve. It's a way for me to gauge if people are pushing to their potential for that movement. So if I have an RAR2, essentially it means I have like two reps left in the tank at the end of my exercise gun in my head where I see people go wrong is they'll be doing something like a bench press, you know, they'll do their eight reps. I'm like, ah, you could probably do 20 more reps, you know, like you you got to embrace that feeling of challenge and yes, it's hard to get strong. Yes, it's scary to have that waist start to get tired, to feel those muscles pumping up, to feel everything coming along. But that's totally okay. And there's nothing wrong with that. In fact, being strong is a very important metric of health. It's really going to help you add new lean muscle. It's going to help you feel better. It's going to help improve bone density, all these important things. So don't be scared to be strong.

You know, the other common thing I'll hear is,

hey, I don't have a spot.

How can I be strong?

You know, it's really important you learn how to fail safely at the gym, you're using the right equipment to do that as well. And you're on a routine that does have it safe. You shouldn't be failing all that often. And if you do, it should be in a very controlled manner

or it should be based off an AMRAP or something like that.

A good routine won't have you doing that too much.

But strength in general is an important thing. And, you know, that's why I really also recommend, you know, if you're really serious about training, I recommend everyone try percentage-based training once. I love getting my clientele on percentage based training because it just shocks them.

They're like, oh my goodness, I didn't realize like this was a level I could work at. Like you even my brother has been lifting for a long, long time and he wanted to his first pile lifting meet. So I made him a program. And it just really shocked him. You know, he's like, oh my goodness, there are tools here I will use for the rest of my journey because you realize the potential you can actually work at when you do something like a powerlifting program or something based in that. It just absolutely blows your mind out of the water. But once you realize that potential, you can really accelerate your results. So it's really important. It's worth filming yourself. It's worth working out with other people that push you. There's a lot of different ways to do this, obviously having a coach, but don't be too scared to be strong. This is a big metric to actually building muscle. Yeah. And I think like one common mistake, especially, you know, for all you awesome women out there is just like, you know, a lot of people just constantly trying to do like 20 wraps, like, you know, leaving like 10 reps left in the tank, as you had said already.

And like, you know, just even power lifting aside, just for anybody here who's looking

to improve their body composition, eat more calories, just overall look better.

Like simply building muscle is the most important.

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