#36 - Being Fit is a Requirement for Success: Lessons from a Black Belt, Gym Owner & Endurance Athlete

Choose Hard

Cody McBroom

Health & Fitness, Self-improvement, Education, Health & Fitness:fitness, Nutrition, Fitness

4.8 • 812 Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Fitness isn’t just about lifting weights or hitting the gym—it’s a foundational pillar for success in every area of life. In this episode of The Choose Hard Podcast, Cody McBroom sits down with returning guest Cody Smith, the owner of Virtuous Fitness Gym in Silverdale Washington. But Cody Smith isn't just a gym owner, he's also a father of 3 boys, devoted husband, Man of God who runs a Men's Ministry, a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, entrepreneur, endurance athlete.... Yeah, he's A LOT OF THINGS! Which is why he's the perfect person to discuss how fitness is a requirement for being successful in life. Together, they dive into the evolution of their views on fitness, how their training philosophies have changed over the years, and why staying fit is non-negotiable if you want to succeed in business, relationships, and personal growth. If you want to push your limits and redefine what fitness means to you, this episode is a must-listen! You can follow Cody Smith on instagram @coachcodysmith --- YOU CAN NOW WATCH THIS EPISODE ON YOUTUBE, TO SEE CODY’S SLIDE DECKS & VISUAL COACHING, AT THE CHOOSE HARD YOUTUBE PLAYLIST! --- 🚀1-ON-1 COACHING: ⁠https://www.tailored-coaching.com/apply-podcast ⁠ ➡️ Jocko Fuel (Use Discount Code CHOOSEHARD10 for 10% Off Your Order) 👥 TAILORED COACHING COLLECTIVE (OUR COMMUNITY): ⁠http://www.tailored-coaching.com/tailored-collective⁠ 📲 TRY MY TRAINING APP FOR FREE: ⁠http://www.thetailoredtrainer.com/⁠ 🛒 GRAB YOUR CHOOSE HARD TRUCKER HAT & DAILY PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT JOURNAL: www.tailoredcoachingmethod.shop --- 🎙️LISTEN TO OUR CLIENT’S TELL THEIR TRANSFORMATION STORIES, ON THE TAILORED TRANSFORMATIONS PODCAST: - SPOTIFY: ⁠https://bit.ly/tlrd-transformations-spotify⁠ - APPLE PODCASTS:⁠https://apple.co/3GPlDxG⁠ --- GET MORE FREE CONTENT AT THE LINKS BELOW: 📖 FREE ARTICLES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/blog⁠ 💾 FREE GUIDES: ⁠https://tailoredcoachingmethod.com/guides⁠ IG -⁠https://www.instagram.com/codymcbroom⁠ YOUTUBE -⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/codymcbroom1⁠ INQUIRIES – ⁠[email protected]

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0:00.0	The greatest things in life all start with a challenge.
0:05.8	You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy.
0:09.9	Everything you want in life begins with a hard path.
0:14.1	So I started my daughter's six and she's as girly as a kid.
0:18.7	So it's not the high school football son but i actually
0:23.5	started to do that like i'm trying to challenge her to love the physical side of this but i actually
0:31.2	started it because she was complaining too much and so oh yeah so i did this uh kind of like a choose
0:36.4	hard moment for her oh good it. It was like, all right,
0:41.1	go grab your shoes, walking shoes, grab a jacket. She's like, what? I'm like, we're going
0:44.9	on a walk. Yeah. Why? Like, because you're complaining a lot. So we're going to go, be physical.
0:49.8	We're going to go walk the trails. We're going to do something hard. Yeah. How far are we going to go? We're going to go really far.
0:55.4	Well, when are we going to stop?
0:56.4	I'm like, we're going to wait until you get tired.
0:58.9	Yeah.
0:59.4	And then we're going to keep going a little bit longer.
1:01.3	And she just looked at me like, I don't get it.
1:03.7	You're crazy, dad.
1:04.4	This doesn't make sense. And honestly, as a parent, like it taught me patients too because I, like, I think we got like 20 yards and she's like, dad, my legs already tired.
1:12.1	And I'm like, oh gosh, this is going to be a long walk.
1:15.4	And so we started doing these trails.
1:16.9	And it's funny because like I bring my backpack, put a water ball in there and she picked a snack.
1:22.8	I'm about saying snacks.
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