731: Motivation Monday - What Is Pre-Workout & Does It Actually Work, Lose Weight Without Exercising & Does Heavy Lifting Make You Bulky?
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Colossus Fitness
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🗓️ 25 August 2025
⏱️ 40 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 what pre workout is, how to lose weight without working out and if lifting weights makes you bulky.
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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 what pre workout is, how to lose weight without working out and if lifting weights makes you bulky.
(0:00) - Intro
(00:53) Question 1- What does pre workout actually do, does it work and should I take it?
(11:30): Kyle quote “Don’t forget to dance with the one that brung you”What has us excited or intrigued:
(15:34) Josh quote: "Discipline is remembering what you want tomorrow more than what you want right now."
(25:34) Client shoutout: Heather S
(27:48) Question 2- Is it possible to lose weight without working out. I primarily just want to lose weight with diet because I’m too busy to go to them gym.
(34:25) -Question 3-Does heavy lifting actually make you bulky? Some girls are just too built for me and I’ve been hesitant to up my weights because I don’t want to look that way.
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| 0:41.8 | This is Motivation Monday, so sit back, relax. |
| 0:44.7 | We're going to answer some of your favorite questions, share some fire, share what's on our mind, |
| 0:48.6 | showcase a client who's been crushing it, and most importantly, answer your questions. |
| 0:53.0 | We're going to jump into it with the primary question |
| 0:55.2 | of the week. And this is when I get asked quite often. And that is what does pre-workout actually do? |
| 1:01.8 | Does it work and should I take it? So I used to have no conception as well what pre-workout is. |
| 1:07.3 | If you're not someone who takes it, you might be like, I don't really understand |
| 1:11.3 | what it is or why it makes sense or I want to stay away from it because it seems crazy and I've |
| 1:16.1 | just heard crazy things or maybe you've tried it once and you've taken too much of it and didn't |
| 1:20.3 | appreciate it. Maybe that left you feeling not the greatest or maybe you're someone who takes |
| 1:24.8 | it regularly. Regardless, I want to try to really get |
| 1:27.7 | into this and explain not only what it is if it works, but also the breakdown of the ingredients |
| 1:32.6 | you want your pre-workouts, as well as how to identify if you actually have a good pre-workout. |
| 1:38.0 | So essentially what pre-workout is is something you take before a workout to get you motivated |
| 1:42.6 | and fired up for the gym. Most often the core ingredient |
| 1:45.4 | of this will be caffeine because caffeine is going to give you energy. It's going to get you a little |
| 1:49.3 | bit fired up and it's going to put you in a great mindset as well to really focus in on the gym. |
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