Find Your Why: Reigniting Strength Training When Motivation Fades

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🗓️ 23 September 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Feeling stuck under the barbell? This Strength With Purpose episode dives into how to find your why so you can train with consistency and purpose even when motivation fades, life gets messy, or the excitement of chasing PRs wears off. Nikki Sims and Andrew Jackson share how to punch the clock with minimum-viable sessions, bring variety into your training without losing progress, and lean on coaching and community to reignite purpose for the long haul.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

How to recognize when your training motivation has dipped—and what that really means.
Practical strategies to find your why and keep training consistent.
The power of “minimum-viable” workouts that hold strength and muscle through busy or stressful seasons.
Why variety (hypertrophy, machines, exercise swaps) can renew purpose without derailing goals.
When to talk to a coach, remove “buzzkill” lifts, and reset your program with smart structure.

Timestamps

0:00 – Welcome to Beast Over Burden: why lifters lose motivation
1:00 – Feeling stuck and the importance of purpose in training
3:00 – Recognizing ruts: apathy, boredom, and hidden signals
5:00 – Faith over hype: trusting you’ll feel better after training
7:00 – Punch-the-clock sessions: how to define your minimum-viable workout
12:00 – Travel, schedules, and training through life chaos
16:00 – Buzzkill lifts and how to swap them guilt-free
20:00 – Variety with purpose: hypertrophy, machines, and refreshing programs
24:00 – Coaching consults and the value of real-time feedback
26:00 – Closing thoughts: how to find your why again

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#StrengthWithPurpose #FindYourWhy #StrengthTraining #LongevityFitness #Hypertrophy #StrengthForLife #BarbellLogic #BeastOverBurden

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0:00.0	You're listening to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic.
0:06.2	We're Nikki and Andrew, your personal, professional coaches.
0:09.0	We help you take control of your fitness through hard but doable training and nutrition practices that fit your busy life.
0:17.0	Build a stronger, healthier version of yourself with lifelong habits.
0:24.9	Hello and welcome to Beast Overburden, powered by Barbell Logic. I'm Nikki, your host Nikki Sims.
0:31.4	And I'm Andrew. Co-host, Andrew Jackson. This is the voice of Andrew Jackson.
0:37.0	This is me attempting to stay close to the microphone.
0:41.0	Yeah, it's funny. We're trying to sit close to our microphones and also sit close enough to each other to be in the camera view, even though I don't even know if you're going to see this, but our legs are just having to, we're like pretzling.
0:56.9	So, what are we talking about today?
0:59.4	Today we're talking about that point that some people tend to hit in their training sometimes
1:06.2	where you just kind of maybe feel like you're in a rut and you're wondering like,
1:10.7	what is my purpose in this gym with this barbell, with this body?
1:15.9	What am I doing with my training?
1:18.0	And kind of needs something to give you some more purpose.
1:23.0	So the goal that we're speaking to is finding your why.
1:27.4	I want to find my why with my training.
1:30.0	And we talk about finding your why really often because that ends up becoming your
1:34.5	your Nore star to a certain extent. It kind of helps you set some boundaries, be confident in
1:40.7	tradeoffs, and helps you make decisions with your training. But it's hard to
1:44.6	do those things when you're not really feeling confident in why you're doing any lifting at all.
1:51.0	Have you felt this? I've felt it when I've been going through periods of being kind of injured and
1:56.9	limited. And I know we've spoken to that in other episodes. But I hear it come up with clients when, like, their consistency drops a little bit,
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