Welcome to the Root Strength Podcast, bringing you worldwide experts from all areas of health and fitness.

We cover training, nutrition, coaching, and mindset.

Welcome your host, Strength and Conditioning Coach,

2012 and 2013 Cross-Tic Games Champ,

Michael Kaju.

Mind, Body, Brute. body brute.

Hello, this is Michael Kaju, and today I'm going to teach you how to go from zero to competent, how to go from knowing next to nothing to actually feeling and being competent in something so that you can feel

confident in your abilities in any area so that you can feel confident in

yourself in general and so that you can really feel like you're learning at the most rapid rate possible.

And to do this, I think you only need two things. Number one is you need to avoid the trap of thinking you need to be an

expert immediately or train or behave like an expert immediately. So an expert is

essentially a collection of hundreds or maybe dozens of different

habits that they've put into place over the course of many years.

And you as the beginner simply cannot expect to immediately adopt all of these different habits that an expert has.

The mistake that people make is, they're one of two mistakes that people make when they think this way.

One is they think that they have to do everything that a professional or an expert does and

they get so scared or so overwhelmed they don't even begin.

The second is they think that they have to train or behave like a professional or an expert and they actually start doing it

and they're able to maintain that pace for two, three, four weeks and then everything falls to

shit. And they mistakenly think that they are no good

at whatever it is rather than their approach was no good.

So let's use this example. If you want to get a little bit stronger, but you're trying

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