294: How To Bounce Back
CONSISTENT by Primal Potential
Elizabeth Benton
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🗓️ 9 February 2017
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Summary
The other day I was in the middle of a hard workout and I thought of a lesson I learned from one of my past trainers (and great friend), Nathan Keil.
See, I used to use the transition from one exercise to another as a build in pause or rest. Whether it was 5 seconds or a minute, it was a built-in rest.
One day, during a particularly intense workout, Nathan said, "go immediately to the first rep of the next movement. No rest. No pause. Get to the next rep as fast as possible".
Even if I just did one rep of the next thing, the point was to break the habit of that pause.
After my workout, I realized just how applicable this is to life.
Let's say you eat something you wish you hadn't or don't feel too proud of. Isn't it so common to hem and haw about how to get back on track? How to bounce back? We use the transition as pause.
We overthink and overcomplicate.
What if we just got to the next great choice as fast as possible? No thinking, no planning, no strategizing. Just get to the next great choice as fast as possible.
Don't miss today's short episode to figure out how you can bounce back faster and take your performance to the next level.
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| 0:00.0 | This is Primal Potential and I am your host, Elizabeth Menden. |
| 0:06.6 | Through education, motivation, and implementation, we will bridge the gap between knowing and |
| 0:13.7 | doing so we can master fat loss naturally and help you reach your highest potential. |
| 0:21.2 | Let's get started. |
| 0:25.2 | Hello everybody and welcome back to the Primal Potential Podcast. |
| 0:28.9 | I am Elizabeth Menden and I had a bit of an aha moment the other day while I was working out and I wanted to make sure to share it with you guys. |
| 0:37.7 | And at first, it might seem like this aha moment is about working out like fitness, but it's not. |
| 0:45.4 | So hang with me for a little bit while I talk about my workout and where this lesson came from because I think the application to life in general is really powerful, especially for anybody who feels like it. |
| 0:58.8 | And I felt like this before so I'm wondering if you guys are with me on this. |
| 1:02.4 | Once you make a choice you don't feel good about like you let yourself down or you break a standard that you set for yourself or you just feel ashamed of a choice. |
| 1:14.3 | That it's hard to get back to a rhythm of making choices you feel good about. |
| 1:20.3 | It's sometimes we feel like one choice is enough to make us off track and I hate the notion of on track off track, |
| 1:27.6 | but I know that's the way a lot of people feel about it and I get what you mean. |
| 1:31.2 | So I think that this particular strategy that I'm going to talk about today is going to be most helpful for anybody who feels like after a choice in action, a decision or an indecision that you wish you hadn't made. |
| 1:46.8 | It's tough to reel it back in and get back on track. |
| 1:51.2 | So it comes from something that one of my trainers shared with me related to workouts and I've worked with a huge number of trainers over the years and I haven't always had a personal trainer. |
| 2:03.2 | I don't have one now. I haven't for a while actually. |
| 2:06.5 | I had my first personal trainer in middle school and I know that's a typical, but as I talked about in the episode I did way back when with my mom, there was a lot of pressure on me as a kid to lose weight and that was one of the strategies we took. |
| 2:17.6 | One of my favorite trainers, I've had awesome trainers and God awful trainers. |
| 2:23.1 | One of my favorite trainers was Nathan Kyle. |
| 2:26.0 | He actually was on the podcast in episode 74. So if you want to hear his perspective on training for fat loss, definitely check out 74. I'll link to it in the show notes over at primalpotential.com, but we're not talking about training for fat loss today. |
| 2:40.2 | The setup though for this lesson, this aha moment I had the other day does come from something that Nathan shared with me as a strategy during one of our workouts. So by design, most of my workouts include moving from one activity to another. |
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