Do you ever feel like you should always be internally motivated, but sometimes you're just not?

I've got a trick to help you solve that problem.

Spartans, welcome back to another episode of the Spartan Way

podcast I'm coming to you from Boston at Spartan headquarters and in today's

episode I want to talk to you about that struggle of motivation. As a Spartan you likely feel or think

that you should always have this fire burning within you and then there are times

where you just don't have that fire. You feel like you've run out of steam or there's some sort

of obstacle in your way. Well, I'm going to share with you a cool story that I learned from

my buddy Jim. He was telling me about how he lost momentum.

He was training and working out hard,

but he wasn't eating right.

He was very inconsistent with his exercise habits and the nutrition.

So he decided he's going to sign up for a bodybuilding

competition he signed up for a competition ten weeks out and he said man it just

put me in the hot seat to eating the right way training hard and being dialed in with

consistency intensity and effort. So a lot of times we're thinking you need to

have self-motivation and it's all on your own. But if you speak to a power

lifter, he or she will say, write a check. And what does a power lifter mean by that?

Sign up for a powerlifting meet. What do we say at Spartan? Sign up for a local or

maybe even a not so local Spartan race because with the race or the competition

and a deadline now you're going to be fired up.

You've got something that you're training for and look this could be even outside of exercise

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