5 Minutes to Freedom: Simple Steps to Growing Your Coaching Business W/ Max Shank — The Strong Coach #14
Barbell Shrugged
Doug Larson
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Max Shank (@maxshank) has written 3 books and taught over a hundred courses in countries around the world. These experiences have allowed Max to help 10's of Thousands of people across the globe improve their lives through physical fitness. Max has also had the pleasure to operate one of the best gyms in Encinitas, CA called Ambition Athletics, where hundreds of people get better every day.
Max likes to experiment and explore the human condition. He believes that there is so much joy to be had from taking great care of your body and enjoying humans ability to navigate the world in a limitless variety of ways. If you get the wild idea to take up tennis, kickboxing, wakeboarding, or gymnastics in your 30s, 40s, 50s and beyond, Max wants to make sure you can do it-- without the fear of getting injured.
In this episode of The Strong Coach, Mike and Danny talk with Max about how to adopt the craftsman mentality, why humans need challenge to evolve, the power of taking care of the individual to preserve the community, how to identify noise in your life, and much more.
Come join us at www.thestrongcoach.com
-Mike
Episode Breakdown:
⚡️0-10: How to adopt the craftsman mentality, opportunity cost, and the 5 minute guy
⚡️11-20: The spectrum of sensations, why lack of stimulus is leading the human body to atrophy faster, and Max's mission in the health industry
⚡️21-30: The impact you can have on your life in one hour, why enthusiasm is critical to the success of your team, and the power of the present moment
⚡️31-40: The importance of having SOP's for everything you do in business and training
⚡️ 41-50: Why keeping your mind and body sharp is the best way to help the community and how to identify the noise in your life
⚡️51-59: Max's advice for the new coach
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| 0:00.0 | 5 reasons why you've already begun to fail to achieve your goals for 2019. |
| 0:07.7 | 1. |
| 0:09.1 | You really didn't want to achieve the goal in the first place. |
| 0:12.8 | Most people set other people's goals. |
| 0:15.0 | It was suggested it would be a good idea by a friend, coach, family member, and dare I |
| 0:20.2 | say it, the media. |
| 0:22.2 | That Instagram model or athlete was pretty convincing. |
| 0:25.8 | It was never an alignment in the first place and that's why the follow through has been |
| 0:29.3 | so weak. |
| 0:31.0 | 2. |
| 0:32.4 | You're out of touch with reality. |
| 0:34.9 | Creating a clear path to your goals requires a radical honesty with yourself. |
| 0:39.6 | Most people avoid recognizing where they currently are. |
| 0:42.5 | We create stories of grandiosity because the truth hurts. |
| 0:46.8 | The other side, so number three, the other side of being out of touch with reality. |
| 0:52.4 | You're actually a lot closer to the goal than you think, but there's one thing in your |
| 0:55.8 | life keeping you from getting there. |
| 0:58.2 | It's part of your identity and for some reason or another, you won't let it go. |
| 1:02.7 | Your good friends can likely see it, but you're completely blind to it. |
| 1:06.3 | We call it a blind spot. |
| 1:08.1 | Now your shitty friends will only assist you in keeping the blind spot because it's likely |
| 1:11.8 | theirs as well. |
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