517: Finding Fitness Not Fanaticism with Mike Nelson
Age Less / Live More
Lucas Rockwood
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2022
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Most of us overestimate what we can accomplish in a year and underestimate what we can accomplish in the next five years. With health and fitness, most of us focus so much on the short term that we don’t allow ourselves the space to make lasting change. On this week’s podcast, we’ll discuss finding fitness, not fanaticism, by focusing on doing things you enjoy to achieve sustainable long-term results.
Listen and learn:
- How negative self talk, even subtle negativity, can undermine your success
- How to be fiercely consistent in your plan
- Why it’s important to fail forward
- How it can take a full two years to change into a ‘lifelong exerciser’
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ABOUT OUR GUEST
Mike T. Nelson has a Ph.D. in exercise physiology. He’s an adjunct professor and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. He teaches something called the Flex Diet and hosts a podcast by the same name.
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| 0:00.0 | Most of us overestimate what we'll be able to accomplish in the next 12 months and the next |
| 0:08.8 | year. But most of us simultaneously underestimate what we can do the next five years. When it comes |
| 0:15.0 | to health and fitness, almost everything is focused on five weeks, five months from now, |
| 0:18.9 | almost nobody is thinking five years. But what if you could, how would that change your perspective? |
| 0:24.4 | If you've been missing out on something for many years, maybe even a decade, |
| 0:28.8 | whether that's strength training, cardiovascular training, mobility training, you know, you've neglected |
| 0:33.6 | it. Probably not going to be able to unwind that in the next year. But in the next 24 months, |
| 0:38.0 | 36 months in the next five years, yeah, you could unwind that. In fact, you could give yourself |
| 0:42.0 | a whole new body, a whole new life. That's pretty exciting. If you're new here, it's the Lucas |
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| 1:31.2 | yogabody.com-forward-slash-sign the app. Welcome, everyone. It's Lucas here. Today's show is called |
| 1:38.9 | Finding Fitness, Not Fanatics, and I'm joined here with Mike T. Nelson. Mike has a PhD in exercise |
| 1:45.2 | physiology. He's an adjunct professor and a member of the American College of Sports Medicine. |
| 1:50.1 | He's just something called the Flex Diet, which we'll chat about today. He has a podcast by the same |
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