All right, hello, everybody. My name is Dr. Ray Hainish, and I'm joined here with, of course, the beautiful, wonderful, Blytholberg. Hey, Blyth, how are you?

Oh, double compliments today. I like that beautiful and wonderful. Thank you. I'm great. How are you doing? I'm wonderful. Wonderful. I'm ready to get podcast number 37 out there for these anxious people that can't wait for our next podcast. Oh, yeah. Well, today's podcast is how to virtually guarantee that you will not quit your workout program. Is that sound like an exciting podcast for you? It sounds like it's going to be packed with information. Yeah. Well, you know, here's the problem. A lot of people kind of go through this

cycle, right? They're sitting on the couch watching Dr. Oz or Oprah and the latest health guru comes on, gives them all kinds of wonderful information. They get fired up and they say, this time I'm going to do it. This time I'm going to go out and I'm going to exercise. I'm going to stick to my program. I'm going to lose the weight. And then three to six months later, they're back on the same couch watching the same TV show and haven't seen the inside of the gym for three months. Right. It's the this time. It's for real complex. Right. And so what we want to do,

is we want to spend today helping you not get started. We're hoping that our listeners by now are out there exercising. What we want to do is provide them with a virtual bulletproof vest against exercise demotivation. Right. Love it. So that's the problem. Well, if we want to put numbers to the problem, here is what the statistics say. They say that 50% of people who start an exercise program drop out.

Within six months. That's really 50% Wow. I knew it was high, but I didn't think it was half. Yeah, it is. And it's all about motivation. Right. So what I wanted to do was start by giving what I've kind of formulated as the most simple and basic definition of motivation that I could come up with. Okay. Let's hear it. If you look out there at various psychologists and such and you get a definition of motivation.

The definitions they give are oftentimes complex and hard to understand and you got to spend, you know, 10 years studying just that one definition. But when it comes down to a motivation is really just about wanting to do something. Right. That you feel motivated to do something because you want to do it for some reason. Right.

Right. The want is there. Yes. Right. And so it doesn't have to be something that's enjoyable. For example, if you get a if you get a toothache, you want to go to the dentist. Whereas beforehand, you did not want to go to the dentist.

But if you get a toothache, now you all of a sudden want to go to the dentist, right? Because you work out of pain. Right. Well, I also think that when people start their workout programs, they they continue the motivation for a little while, like you said, three to six months.

But they lose that motivation along the way because we often forget how horrible we felt at the beginning. So you're thriving on how great you feel at the beginning, but so quickly we forget.

Right. I think we've talked about that before. It's called the motivation pressure cooker. Right. We we continue to put on weight up until a certain point where we cross that threshold that line in the sand that we have set in our own brains.

And all of a sudden we weigh more than we have ever weighed and we develop so much pain from that that we decide that now's the time to change. And so we change until we get below that virtual line. Right.

And then we kind of get demotivated. And what that's right. Yeah, motivation, demotivation is not wanting to do something. Right. It's like a chore.

Right. And so I know that that is even an over simplistic definition of motivation. But for our purposes, I think it'll do. You agree? I mean, is there anything you want to add to that? Or is that pretty pretty much inclusive?

I think there are different levels of being motivated. And I think for each individual, there's an importance of finding that happy medium where you can continue the motivation, rather than like spiking it up at the very beginning and letting it dwindle out, what is going to continue to keep you motivated. So it's kind of setting like setting a different goal.

Right. I got you. And you know, today's podcast really isn't about motivation. Is it? It's about how do we prevent demotivation? How do we prevent us from going from that moment where we want to do something? How do we prevent it from going to that moment where we no longer want to do it?

Right. There's a lot of value in this podcast today. Okay. So there's 10 points. We've 10 points as to how to bulletproof yourself against demotivation as it pertains to exercise. So are you ready to get in there?

I'm ready. All right. But before we do, I kind of have to give you a bit of an analogy to utilize that we'll use throughout this entire podcast. And that is every single one of us has a jury within our own mind.

And the purpose of that jury is to weigh the advantages and the disadvantages of any choices that we make or the risks versus the benefits depending upon the situation.

Okay. Does that make sense? Yeah. Okay. So if you keep that in your mind as we go through these points, it almost always comes down to that judgment that we place on whatever action we're taking.

So we're constantly putting ourselves on trial. Yes. Exactly. Okay. Okay. All right. So point number one. All right. The first demotivating reason.

And that is we ask the question, are you knowledgeable or are you a fumbling idiot in the gym? Hmm. You know, look, I know that sounds. That's tough. It sounds tough. It's slow on the hard side, but you know why? Why?

Because that's the type of terminology that we use in our own minds, right? We're not saying, oh, well, maybe I don't know what I'm doing.

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