Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

That was my Scottish accent to welcome everyone.

I hope people enjoyed it.

Some people do say that I have a Scottish accent

and then other people think, no not at all, so interesting.

Apparently I just sometimes mold into it flow into it

i don't know anyway these say that episodes are becoming quite frequent but i have something else that

i would like to share with people and i had really good feedback about the weight gain podcast so I am going to do another

one on the training side of that because that was more the nutrition side and what to expect

when you're gaining weight so I will do one on the training side and how to optimize

hypertrophy from a training perspective. But today is more about mindset. And I've

spoken about this quite a few times before. But the more I do work on myself on this, the more I

realize how sounds so gimmicky, but like how transformative it has been for me.

And I see some of these like perfectionist traits in other areas of my life,

not just in relation to food and exercise, but just generally if you are someone who is quite a perfectionist, it usually affects

every area of your life. And dealing with that and catching yourself out doing it and changing

your mindset around that is so useful. Useful isn't like a big enough word, but it's the

word that's at the top of my head. And what I want to start with

is starting. And this is why I have so much respect for people who join Commit to Six or the EC

method or sign up for one-to-one coaching. Because starting is the hard part. Like starting with intent is the hard part I think a lot

of people do sign up to things almost in the like mind frame of oh I just sign up to this and

hopefully I'll just lose weight because I've signed up to a program like people who start with the

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