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Food, We Need To Talk

Why You Need a Good "Why"

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Many people set exercise goals without a clear understanding of why they want to pursue them. Here we discuss the importance of finding a deeper purpose or "why" with your fitness journey. Whether it's reducing pain, being more active with family, or finding joy in movement, having a profound reason enhances long-term commitment.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome back to the Daily New Year series where we post an episode every single day of January

0:06.0

and today we are covering one of Eddie's most favorest topics of all time and that is

0:12.2

finding your why. So you know so often people I think they call

0:17.2

us I've got patients saying like yeah yeah I'm going to exercise and I'm

0:20.9

going to set this goal and it was like have you done that before yeah and how to go like I stopped going and and what about that the treadmill in your basement like yeah it's a good place for hanging

0:35.8

Laundry? It's my drying

0:37.2

It's my dryer

0:38.2

I saw this comedian that was like I bought a peloton for my mom. It's a five thousand dollar drying

0:41.2

rack Yeah and and then and they go like what do you got for me? it's a $5,000 drying rack. Yeah.

0:43.0

And then, and they go like, what do you got for me?

0:45.0

And I go like, why do you want to exercise?

0:47.0

And I go, because you're supposed to.

0:49.0

I'm like, no, I need a better answer.

0:51.0

And, you know, why do you want to do this and the way I ask my patients because I'm

0:58.5

taking care of their aches and pains is I try to put it into a positive and I go like what will you be able to do when you have less pain when you

1:06.9

exercise more when you get moving like and don't tell me that you want to do the PT

1:12.3

exercises for the rest of your life.

1:14.0

Like, what is that going to allow you to do?

1:17.0

And once I get someone to like kind of just pause,

1:21.0

and then they sort of imagine, they my back didn't hurt and I were more active

1:26.3

I'd be on the golf course again and like hmm okay would you be willing to do a little bit of exercise so that you could then do the

1:35.9

exercise you really want? And I'm talking about more like therapeutic exercise and I got

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