#96 - Q&A: Parenting Standards, Business Burnout, & Aging Like an Athlete
Choose Hard with Cody McBroom
Cody McBroom
4.9 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Are you addicted to the scale moving? Do you struggle with an "all-or-nothing" personality that sabotages your progress after one bad meal? In this high-intensity Q&A episode, Cody McBroom tackles 10 listener questions that bridge the gap between elite physique science and the psychology of high performance.
From the "Maintenance Mental Block" to the truth about functional training and the pitfalls of "soft" self-care, Cody delivers a masterclass in brutal honesty and logical decision-making. Whether you’re a parent trying to instill discipline in your children or a 35+ trainee looking to stay athletic into your 50s, this episode provides the "Choose Hard" blueprint for leveling up every area of your life.
✅ Mastering the Maintenance Phase: How to stop viewing "protect" seasons as wasted time and channel your addiction to progress into other areas of life.
✅ The Logic of Rest vs. Avoidance: Distinguishing between genuine recovery needs and just being "soft" by using third-person perspective and brutal honesty.
✅ Training for the Long Game: Why age doesn't dictate volume, but skill acquisition and joint-friendly exercise selection do.
✅ Rewiring the 'All-In' Fallacy: Using the "Is that really true?" technique and if-then statements to build resiliency after a slip-up.
✅ Legacy and Success: Why "ignorance is bliss" in business and how the evolution from Boom Boom Performance to Choose Hard changed Cody's perspective on the difficulty of success.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Choose Hard podcast. I'm your host Cody McBroom. I am a father, husband, coach, |
| 0:06.5 | and entrepreneur, and the founder of tailored coaching method, a world-renowned online fitness and |
| 0:11.9 | nutrition coaching company helping average people achieve above-average physiques and live above |
| 0:16.4 | average lives. In this episode of the Choose Hard podcast, I am going to do a rapid fire Q&A. |
| 0:23.5 | These are 10 listeners questions and we are going to cover everything from mastering maintenance to |
| 0:30.1 | improving your parenting to choosing hard when you should be resting or when your mind |
| 0:35.6 | tries to tell you that you should be resting and so much more. |
| 0:38.9 | So tune in, listen up, take some notes, and get ready to choose hard, level up, and get better |
| 0:44.6 | results from these 10 questions that I'm about to answer. |
| 0:50.0 | The greatest things in life all start with a challenge. |
| 0:53.9 | You must accept that everything is hard before it gets easy. |
| 0:57.7 | Everything you want in life begins with a hard path. |
| 1:04.6 | Now let's get into this podcast. |
| 1:08.0 | So the first question we have, and we have 10 specific questions, okay? |
| 1:11.5 | So we're going to talk about maintenance. I have a question about the 80, 20 of choosing hard. |
| 1:17.3 | Programming for longevity is one of the topics. A question about the all in fallacy, |
| 1:23.0 | parenting and discipline, truth about functional training, supplements versus just the basics, business and |
| 1:29.4 | burnout, social media sanity, which would be a funny one, and then the legacy question at the end. |
| 1:34.8 | So I'm going to try to do these rapid fire. |
| 1:36.4 | I know I say that all the time for the long time listeners. |
| 1:38.1 | That never happens. |
| 1:38.9 | But I chose 10 intentionally. |
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