Monumental Strength – How to Get Fit (and Actually Enjoy It)
Financial Independence Podcast
The Mad Fientist
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2018
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
I made two big mistakes when I was pursuing financial independence…
The first was I put off happiness until I hit FI.
The second was I also put off my health.
In today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I chat to my personal trainer, Doug from Monumental Strength.
Doug has spent the past two years taking me from a puny computer programmer to a strong, healthy weightlifter!
It’s been a fantastic journey, with numerous unexpected benefits, so don’t wait until FI like I did. Start focusing on your health now and drastically improve your journey to FI (and your life beyond)!
Highlights:
- Why lifting weights is a perfect activity for improving your health
- How to build a good workout plan
- Why free weights are better than machines
- What to eat if you want to build muscle
- Why weightlifting is better than running for burning fat and losing weight
- How to progress to doing more difficult lifts
- The benefits of intermittent fasting
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blind to give you a true finance. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey what's up everybody. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Financial Independence Podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the best and brightest in personal finance to find |
| 0:13.2 | out how they achieved financial independence. I'm excited to introduce my guest |
| 0:16.9 | today he's Doug from monumental strength.com and Doug is actually my personal trainer |
| 0:21.9 | he's been working with me since I quit my job back in August of 2016 |
| 0:27.0 | and he's whipped me into the best shape of my life. |
| 0:29.0 | I feel great, I'm sleeping very well, I'm stronger than I've ever been and it's been a fantastic |
| 0:35.1 | change and I wanted to get him on the program because that was probably the |
| 0:39.4 | second biggest mistake I made on my path to financial independence. The first being I was putting off |
| 0:44.6 | my happiness until I reached Phi, but I was also putting off my health. So I figured you know I was |
| 0:51.0 | too busy when I had my job so I was was like, well, you know, I'll worry about health and working out and getting in shape after I hit Fai. |
| 0:58.0 | And that was really stupid because I would have felt so much better in my job and in my life at that time had I been focusing |
| 1:06.7 | on my health because the benefits of getting into shape are so much more than just being |
| 1:10.9 | healthy. Like I said before, like I sleep better, I feel better, I'm happier, |
| 1:15.6 | I'm better moods, I eat better and I wish I had taken advantage of it before five because it would have made my working |
| 1:22.4 | career so much happier. |
| 1:24.6 | So I wanted to bring him on the show to chat about everything that he's been putting me through |
| 1:28.5 | over the last two years and I wanted to release it now before Christmas so that you get a few weeks head start before everyone hits the gym in January. |
| 1:36.5 | I've been going to the gym for the past two years consistently and I definitely notice an uptick in people that are there in January and then not so much in February and you |
| 1:46.0 | don't want to be one of those people so don't put it off until January 1st don't make it a New Year's |
| 1:50.1 | resolution hit the gym now the first two weeks are probably going to be |
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