414: Motivation Monday - How to Avoid Burnout, Our Thoughts on Cheat Days & Does Soreness Mean Your Muscles Are Growing?
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
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🗓️ 8 August 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Welcome to Motivation Monday, where every Monday we answer all of your questions and have some real talks about life & fitness & get you fired up for the week! In this episode we talk about how to avoid burnout, our thoughts on cheat days & if soreness means your muscles are growing and you're making progress.
(0:00) - Intro
(0:30) - Kyle quote: We do not stop exercising because we grow old- we grow old because we stop exercising” -Dr. Kenneth Cooper
(2:50) - Josh quote: "People ask me what's my secret: I keep working even when no one is looking."
(5:47) - Weekly thoughts/recommendations
(19:13) - Client shoutout: Jeremy W
(22:25) - Question 1- How do you guys avoid burnout? I’ve been feeling myself a little more tired and don’t have the energy I used to.
(32:25) - Question 2- I try to do a cheat meal on Sunday, but it leaves me feeling groggy and crappy going into Monday, any thoughts or advice on this?
(38:50) - Question 3- My muscles aren’t as sore as they used to, is this a bad thing?
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on, everyone. Welcome to another episode of the fit, healthy, and as always, most of all, |
| 0:06.1 | happy podcasts. I'm your coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. |
| 0:13.4 | This is Motivation Monday. We're here to get you fired up to expand your thinking and to give you |
| 0:17.6 | tools you can use to implement in your week to succeed in your fitness, |
| 0:20.9 | health and happiness. As always, we like to kick these episodes off with one of the most |
| 0:25.0 | powerful quotes we've found this week. And I'm going to go ahead and let Kyle kick us off here. |
| 0:29.7 | Yeah, so I'm going to jump right into my quote. And basically it was from Dr. Kenneth Cooper. |
| 0:35.6 | And he had said, we do not stop exercising because we grow old. |
| 0:39.9 | We grow old because we stop exercising. |
| 0:43.4 | And I just think this is such a powerful quote. |
| 0:45.8 | And, you know, just, I don't know, you know, shout it to anyone who continuously exercises. |
| 0:49.5 | And like it's just for me personally, I think it's one of those things that like everybody should be doing. |
| 0:53.8 | Obviously, you know, as an online coach and, you you know personal trainer um it's something that i'm very |
| 0:57.8 | passionate about but i just think a lot of times like you hear these different things and |
| 1:01.7 | just where people you know kind of end up getting injured or just like you know become out of shape |
| 1:06.5 | or just don't end up having energy and like feeling you know not as great but i do believe that |
| 1:10.4 | exercise is a solution to everything um you know not as great but i do believe that exercise |
| 1:10.8 | is a solution to everything um you know not everything but i'd say a good chunk of it is once we |
| 1:16.6 | start to incorporate that and especially as you know we get older and everything like that and you know |
| 1:20.9 | just things kind of get a bit tougher shoulders get a little bit weaker and everything whatever this |
| 1:24.7 | situation is i truly believe that exercising will help so |
| 1:28.3 | much of that, you know, and I'm just so passionate about it. So that's why I wanted to share this with everyone today. Absolutely banger of a quote there. And, you know, that's the thing, right? At the end of the day, even I was listening to a podcast and I loved it. He was just talking about the formula of how when we work more, you know, we see more results, |
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