806: Motivation Monday - Get Ultra Lean For Summer, Learning Your Body Fat Levels & Dealing With Injuries
Fit, Healthy And Happy Podcast
Colossus Fitness
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🗓️ 18 May 2026
⏱️ 38 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 get ultra lean for summer, learning body fat levels and dealing with injuries.
Josh quote: “You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems.” - James Clear
Kyle quote: “Preparing to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Scheduling time to do the thing isn’t doing the thing.
Making a to-do list for the thing isn’t doing the thing…
The only thing that is doing the thing is doing the thing.”
“Go and do the thing.
What has us excited or intrigued:
Client shoutout: Jennifer M
Weekly questions:
I hear you talk about losing fat and gaining muscle what is the best way to know how much of each you have in your body? And if I’m doing both at the same time, how do I know I’m losing fat and gaining muscle? - Sandra
How do you deal with hip flexor injuries, and how long do their recovery typically take? - Tiaan
How would you get ultra lean for summer? Not just lose some weight but get seriously ripped. I’m already lean and want to take it to the next level.
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| 0:00.0 | Before we jump into the new episode, make sure to check out our brand new website, Colossus Fitness.com. It'll be the top link in this episode. You can head over there to submit a question, get our free resources or apply for coaching. So don't miss out. Check out that brand new website. Be sure to poke around on it. We're super proud of it. There's a lot of value there. You can also learn more about how we can help you one-on-one. |
| 0:21.6 | Grab those free resources or like I said, submit a question for Mailbox Monday. |
| 0:25.2 | Now into the episode. |
| 0:34.6 | What's going on, everybody? |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome to the fit, healthy, and most of a happy podcast. I'm your |
| 0:39.7 | coach and host Josh here with his co-host and co-coach KG and I'm in the house. This is |
| 0:46.5 | Motivation Monday. So we're here to get you motivated, inspired and educated with an incredible |
| 0:51.5 | episode. And once again, we shared the website recently. We asked for some amazing questions to be submitted through the website. And we got some really good ones, but we are always hungry for more. So if you have a question, there's something you want to ask us. You want to be featured on the podcast. We're going to start including the names because we have a better system for it now with the website. This is your opportunity to do it. Once again, |
| 1:11.0 | the top link, glossfinness.com, head over there, submit, learn more, all that great stuff. |
| 1:16.3 | Now into the first question of today. I hear you talk about losing fat and gaining muscle. |
| 1:22.6 | What is the best way to know how much of each you have in your body? And if I'm doing both at |
| 1:27.4 | the same time, how do I know if I'm doing both at the same time how do I |
| 1:28.6 | know if I'm losing fat and gaining muscle and this from Sandra I love this question Sandra I think |
| 1:34.7 | this is absolutely amazing I see it is there being two parts to this question so the first part being |
| 1:40.4 | how do you know how much fat and how much muscle do you know you have in your body? I think people love to get numbers and say I'm holding 50 pounds of muscle, 100 pounds of muscle, |
| 1:48.5 | maybe I have 20 pounds fat. But this is quite a complex thing. I think people that put too much merit |
| 1:53.9 | in this are kind of wasting some energy. Like the main thing to me is visually, can you see that |
| 1:58.7 | you're getting leaner your muscle is taking more |
| 2:00.9 | shape you're getting stronger are there indications that muscle is being put on and is there |
| 2:05.4 | indications that you're getting leaner that fat is being taken off ultimately is the theme |
| 2:09.1 | i think that's more important than you quantifying i have 30 pounds of muscle now if you absolutely |
| 2:14.0 | need to there are tools that can help you do this especially in figuring out fat you can use things like a scale at home which will tell your body fat and you absolutely need to, there are tools that can help you do this, especially in figuring out fat. You can use things like a scale at home, which will tell your body fat and you could try to calculate that online and kind of some crazy metrics or ask chat or something like that. It's going to be horrendously, horrendously wrong. You could use calipers to get an indication of where you are at fat-wise. There's a lot of human error in the measurement. |
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