How To Stay Physically And Mentally Fit As You Get Older – BJ Gaddour (Ep. 391)

Elite Man Podcast

Justin Stenstrom

Psychology, Elitemanpodcast, Self-improvement, Datingadvice, Naturopathicmedicine, Men, Education, Relationship, Health, Alternativehealth, Finance, Productivity, Confidence, Biohacking, Motivation, Health & Fitness, Relationships, Holistichealth

4.2 • 700 Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2023

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

BJ Gaddour is a world-renowned health and fitness expert and the former fitness director for Men’s Health Magazine. BJ talks about the evolution of his training and how things have changed in the past few years since turning 40. He describes his midlife crisis and some of the mental health struggles he’s had the past couple of years and what he’s done to overcome them. If you’re wondering how to adapt your training as you get older and be at your physical and mental peak, check this episode out now you’re going to love it.

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In our episode we go over:

• The mid-life crisis BJ went through the past few years

• Not missing a workout since he started training as a teenager

• What BJ did to get himself out of depression

• Fool’s gold of bodybuilding

• How the pandemic hit BJ mentally and what he did to overcome these challenges

• Being natural vs. taking steroids and taking the fast-track to physical success

• Dealing with insecurity in the current time we live in

• The devolving values of our current society

• Cultivating happiness as you get older in age

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Transcript

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0:00.0	All right, guys. We're live. It's Justin Stenstrom from EliteLife Nutrition.com and the Elite
0:04.3	Life podcast. And my guest today is BJ Goddor, a men's fitness expert, health expert, and the host of
0:13.7	the fairly new show, I believe, the Daily BJ podcast. How new is the show? Six years.
0:20.0	Oh, okay. Never mind. Most of my people are still trying to
0:23.1	figure out that I actually have a podcast. So I guess it is new. Yeah. Well, you know what? Because I figured
0:27.4	you just mentioned that you don't promote it as much, you know, and you go on different shows and stuff.
0:32.0	I figured it was fairly new. And I heard of you, as I mentioned before we jumped on, I've heard of you a long time ago, probably, you know, 10, 15 years ago on men's health, men's fitness, all these different websites, these big sites.
0:43.8	I just kind of figured, you know, you were off doing something completely different because a lot of these guys will start on, you know, YouTube or they'll start doing clips on Instagram, become an Instagram fitness model, and then they'll
0:54.7	kind of evolve into the podcasting or some other platform. So it's been, it's been how many years
1:00.2	since you've been in this, PJ? This is my 20th year and business. You know, I basically got
1:05.8	started. So you're an OG. You're like're you're you're doing this stuff for a long time
1:11.8	online trainers i i started right at the beginning of facebook and then youtube so um it's kind of a
1:19.4	good and a bad thing you're around for so long that you know i it just it gets boring to like
1:24.7	have to the same shit day and day out but uh that's part what we'll talk about today, you know, motivation tends to shift as you get older and turns
1:32.3	40 recently last year and, you know, have my little midlife crisis and, and, you know, just got to
1:39.7	keep pushing forward. Yeah, what did that look like, the midlife crisis? Well, you know, I think a big part of
1:46.6	you talk to motivation. Like when you're younger, you want to get name recognition. You want to
1:53.1	become famous. You want to make a lot of money. It's all about like the ego, right? And as I've
2:00.0	gotten older, I just, I can't get motivated.
2:02.8	Like, by the way, I look anymore or praise from other people.
2:07.2	It's just really money at this point, if I'm being honest.
2:09.9	I want to make really good work.
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