Hey guys, it's Brett. We're taking a quick break. We'll be back Monday with a new episode. In the meantime, here's a re-broadcast from the podcast archives. It's episode number 415 forging mental strength through physical strength with world-renowned trainer Bobby Maximus.

In this episode, we talked about the mindset of fitness, the mindset shift you got to make to make fitness a priority, how to set better fitness goals, how to nip negative self-talk in the bud, how to do things that you thought you couldn't do.

A lot of great insights in this episode. Hope you enjoy it. We'll be back Monday. See you then.

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness podcast. When you start a fitness program, you tend to spend most of your time thinking about the physical part.

What movements you're going to do, how much weight you're going to live, or how far you're going to run.

But my guest today argues we ignore the mental aspect of our training at our peril. His name is Bobby Maximus. He's a world-renowned trainer known for his brutal circuit workouts and the author of the new book Maximus Body.

Today on the show, Bobby Knight dig into the psychology of fitness, begin by discussing what holds people back from getting started or going further with their fitness goals, and how sticking little green dots all over your house can help you surmount those barriers.

He then shares why it's important to manage expectations when beginning a training program, why there are no shortcuts to any goal.

We then shift gears and get into Bobby's training philosophy. He shares how to train to be ready for everything, why you need to do strength training before your endurance work, and why recovery is so important in reaching your fitness goals.

We under-conversation with some examples of the Sunday sermons. Bobby shares on his website and discussion of why perspective is important when you're going through a hard time in life.

After the show is over, check out the show notes at a-wim.is slash Maximus. And Bobby joins me now via clearcast.io.

Bobby Maximus, welcome to the show.

Hey, thank you very much for having me on. I'm a big fan of what you guys do, and I'm excited to get this going.

It's pretty interesting. You're a trainer. You show people how to get big and strong, but that's not always what you're doing. So how did you get to wear your Bobby Maximus?

I never thought I'd be. When I was younger, and I'll say this with a grain of salt, because the bullying topic today, I think is a pretty big one. I was bullied fairly heavily. So I was 15 years old on bus rides to school. Kids punched me in the face more often than not.

I got my underwear ripped out. It was actually funny. My mom used to wonder why I went through so many underwear. What's because I wear the garbage from getting wedged. Kids used to draw my face with marker.

When I was 15, a group of hockey bullies beat me up and broke my collarbone. I decided I never really wanted that to happen again. So of all things, I joined the wrestling team.

I absolutely sucked. My first year, I lost every match. My second year, I won one match out of about 40.

Then a strange thing happened. I started to actually get good. I found the weight room. I kept working. I showed up every day. And I started to get better. And that kind of vaulted me into a university wrestling career.

From there, I went on to be second in the world for amateur kickboxing. Found myself in the ultimate fighting championship.

I was kind of on my way in terms of the physical things. But along the way, I always valued education. I always valued the things that my mother and father instilled in me.

So I ended up with three university degrees. One Bachelor of Education, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

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