EP727 - Your Metabolism Isn't Broken and Are You Burned Out Or Just Being Lazy?
The Brad Jensen Show
Brad Jensen
4.9 • 792 Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2025
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
In this solo episode of The Brad Jensen Show, I go on one of my classic rants while answering two of the most common questions I get asked all the time.
First, we talk metabolism. What it actually is. Why almost everyone misunderstands it. And why blaming your metabolism is usually a convenient excuse instead of the real problem. I break down what's really driving fat loss, energy, and body composition and why the internet has completely overcomplicated this topic.
Then I shift gears into a conversation most people need to hear but don't want to. The difference between true burnout and plain old laziness. I walk through how to honestly assess where you're at, when rest is actually earned, and when you need to stop negotiating with yourself and channel your inner David Goggins.
If you've been feeling stuck, tired, frustrated, or confused about why progress feels harder than it should, this episode will hit home.
What I Cover In This Episode
- What metabolism actually is and what it is not
- The biggest misconceptions keeping people stuck and frustrated
- Why most "slow metabolism" claims are misunderstood
- The real levers that drive fat loss and energy
- How to tell the difference between burnout and avoidance
- Signs you genuinely need rest versus when discipline is missing
- Why comfort is often disguised as self care
- How to know when it's time to push instead of pause
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You are now listening to the Brad Jensen show with Health and Mindset Optimization Podcast. |
| 0:04.4 | Let's go. |
| 0:27.3 | Welcome. Welcome back to another episode of the Brad Jensen show. |
| 0:29.4 | Stoked you're here. |
| 0:35.5 | Grateful, you're taking the time out of your busy day to spend a few minutes with me. |
| 0:56.2 | I was going to say with us, but just me today. I super appreciate that. It means the world to me. For real. Like, there were almost four million podcasts now. So if you're taking the time to listen to this one, thank you. Like, that's so kick ass to me. I honestly get decision fatigue something. You guys like when you're like i'm going to start reading i'm going to start reading more like when i did the 30 |
| 1:00.4 | strong challenge that i run with everyone which by the way i think we're going to do another 30 |
| 1:04.0 | strong challenge the beginning of the year i think that would be cool um i always get uh |
| 1:14.3 | i'm like well i got to read every day what book I'm going to read. And then I get all this fatigue because I got 10 books that I bought that I wanted to read that just sit on my damn desk. |
| 1:19.7 | It's how I feel about podcast now. |
| 1:21.2 | It's like, well, that one looks, there's just so many. |
| 1:25.5 | So you're taking the time to listen to this one. |
| 1:27.6 | Hell, yes. |
| 1:29.0 | It's super cool. |
| 1:29.7 | Everyone did like their Spotify recap, you know, and I was really honored how many times |
| 1:35.0 | we made it on to people's like Spotify recap with some kick ass shows, mind you, |
| 1:40.2 | like in the top five, you know, like know my friend jordan science podcast my my friends up |
| 1:46.4 | over at mind pump um john deloney who is a stud i want to get john on the show 100% want to get |
| 1:54.0 | john on the show um love love his work you know you know that's that's an honor to be in there |
| 2:00.5 | and it just, |
| 2:02.8 | when we started this podcast back in 2019, there was probably half as many podcasts, still a lot, |
| 2:07.3 | but about half as many. Um, so it was kind of more, you know, we were doing a lot more stuff in, |
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