3147: Five Fatal Fitness Mental Roadblocks (And How To Overcome Them) by Daniel Freedman with Bach Performance

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4.4 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 9 October 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3147: Daniel Freedman explains how most people fail at fitness not because of lack of knowledge, but because of self-sabotaging mental roadblocks. By overcoming fear of failure, shortcut-seeking, all-or-nothing thinking, dogmatic training approaches, and dependence on motivation, you can build sustainable discipline and lasting results in both strength and health. His insights provide a framework for cultivating resilience, adaptability, and consistency in your training. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://bachperformance.com/five-fatal-fitness-mental-roadblocks-and-how-to-overcome-them/ Quotes to ponder: "Failure happens. You only fail when you refuse to get back in the game." "The short and easy road is often the quickest route to failure. Taking the hard and long road is the only real way to succeed." "Motivation serves only the limited purpose of giving you a quick initial impulse to take action. There is a better way. It’s the old-fashioned virtue called discipline." Episode references: Bigger Faster Stronger Program: https://www.biggerfasterstronger.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.8	Five fatal fitness mental roadblocks and how to overcome them.
0:37.0	By Daniel Friedman with bachperformance.com. and I'm Dr. Neal, your very own personal narrator.
0:43.2	This is one of many podcasts where we read to you from blogs for free, so that you don't have to
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0:56.1	optimize your life. Five fatal fitness mental roadblocks and how to overcome them by Daniel
1:06.7	Friedman with bachperformance.com. Most lifters have the drive and knowledge to eat and train their way to a high-performance
1:15.5	body, but few succeed.
1:18.0	Why?
1:19.1	They fail to do what's most important and what makes all the difference.
1:23.6	Win the mental game going on between their ears.
1:27.8	Conquer these five mental roadblocks to stay focused.
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