Fitness for Busy People: Dealing with the Fake Fitness Industry

Chris Albert 00:00:00 (link to this point)

What's going on everybody? Welcome to the Warrior Soul podcast, and we're gonna get into this in between episode today. And today's topic is about fitness for the real person. I'm talking about the person who's got a job, a real job, who's got kids, mouths to feed, and who's got bills to pay. And I just thought it was really important to do this around this time because it's still the beginning of the year, people are getting bombarded with these fitness fantasy BS ads and I think that that's counterproductive.

It's not really helping anybody be fit, it's helping people buy stuff from the industry and then eventually they get frustrated because their lives aren't perfect and they don't know how to adapt fitness to a real life, so they quit. And so we'll get into that today, but first I want to talk to you about our sponsor, f bomb nutrition. Absolutely amazing company. One of the good companies in the fitness industry. They make delicious portable packets of fats.

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Now I wanted to talk to you about an article I wrote earlier today. And well, I published it earlier today. I've been writing it throughout the week. And this article is about fitness for everyday real people who have jobs, who have kids, who've got mouths to feed, and bills to pay. The reason why I wanted to write this article is because I've been in the fitness industry for over a decade now.

I've been a trainer. I've been a gym owner. I've been somewhat of a fitness personality because, you know, I guess I publish on YouTube and people listen to what I have to say. And I've been around fitness models because we used to have photo shoots in the gym all the time. A lot of fitness models are friends of mine.

I've also trained a few of them, and I've coached a bunch of them on their diets. And, there's one thing I've learned about since being in the industry, and it's something that annoys me quite a bit about it. And that is that the fitness industry, by and large, is fucking fantasy. Right? And what do I mean by what do I mean by that?

Think about what you generally get from the videos you watch or the magazine articles you read, what types of images are put out to you. Now if you're a woman, it's generally some girl doing yoga on top of a mountain. Right? She looks serene. Her hair looks great.

She she's up there. It's early morning. If it's a guy, you're generally getting pictures of him, you know, doing high intensity workouts on a beach or, you know, pumping iron in in the gym. And, again, his hair is perfect. Everything is set.

He's he's, completely shredded. And, you know, what they're not telling you is that life really isn't like that. And the reason why this pisses me off so much is because, you know, when you your life is perfect. Like, let's say everything's going right for you in your life right now. Right?

You don't have to worry about bills. You don't have to worry about kids. You don't have to worry too much about your job. You got a stress stress free job. You know, in that case, training would be easy.

Everybody would would try to get to the gym. You know, I don't believe that that the public is stupid. I don't believe that the public is is, you know, that they understand the implications that they don't under the implications of not exercising and not eating right. Right? I don't believe that.

I believe a lot of people are familiar with the dangers of diabetes and heart disease. I believe a lot of Americans out there understand what's gonna happen if they don't take care of themselves because it's it's being put out there every single day. But what happens with these this fitness fantasy that people get sold to them is that they see, you know, the guy doing the high intensity workout on the beach in Malibu, and then they see him, you know, come home to his perfect house with his perfect supermodel girlfriend preparing a kale smoothie shake for him, and then they see him, you know, maybe spending his day, you know, out there on the beach, or maybe he's by his pool, or maybe he's writing his next book, and then he goes and he hits another workout in the gym. Right? And this workout's super intense.

His muscles are bulging, veins are pumping out. And maybe I'm over over, you know, characterizing the the whole whole thing here, but, you know, the thing is, I think when people see that, they get this idea in their head that they've gotta spend hours in the gym every day, that they have to prepare all their own meals, and that they can't survive, or they can't be fit if their schedule isn't perfect and their day is not perfect. And, you know, they feel like if they their their lives aren't perfect, then what business do they have going to the gym? It's kinda like an extracurricular activity. But in my mind, if your life isn't perfect, if you've got bills to pay, if you got kids to feed, if you've got a wife or a husband, if you've got a real job, you have more reason to be training, more reason to be taking care of yourself than that fitness model does.

And so I think it's a tragedy that so many people out there, they've they've been they've kind of bought into this lie. This lie that you don't have time for fitness. This lie that you don't have time to work out. And, sucks. So the reason why I wrote this article was because I wanted to put some tips out there that were practical tips for real people.

You know? Things like the fact that you don't need a gym to train. You just need your body, that you could do push ups in between commercials while you're sitting in the living room watching TV with your family. It could that you could do sets of squats or burpees. You don't need a lot of space for that.

You know, in in let's say you don't wanna work out at home. Let's say you wanna hit the gym. Well, you could find a gym that's closer to your to your place of work. Or if you don't wanna spend the money on a gym, you can, you know, keep a kettlebell at your place of work. Do some kettlebell workouts there.

Hit some dips. Hit some push ups. If there's a stairwell there, you could do stair sprints. There's a whole bunch of things you can do, and it's a matter of just opening up your mind to the fact that you, one, don't need to train hours at for hours every single day. Sorry, I can't talk today.

And two, you don't need a gym. And in fact, on that time note, you know, a lot of scientific research out there says that doing smaller, shorter workouts throughout the day is probably a lot more beneficial for you than working out an hour a day and then not training the rest of the day. You know, you could do sets of push ups throughout the day. You could do sets of squats throughout the day, and all that stuff adds up. But the big point of this is, you know, what's the danger in doing it?

There is none. Right? If you're doing something more than you're doing right now, you're gonna feel better. You're gonna look better, and you're gonna feel better about yourself. Right?

That's the biggest thing. You know, put that workout work in. And and, you know, this thing about chronic disease, there's so many people out there who are suffering right now chronic disease. And here in the veteran community, one in four people is suffering from diabetes. One in four veterans admitted to the VA system is currently suffering from diabetes.

All of this stuff is preventable by simply exercising and making better choices about what we eat. Now on the eating front, this is another thing. I I hear from people all the time, I've got nothing around me but fast food. There's nothing for me good to eat at work. The the work cafeteria is is loaded with junk food.

And this is the thing, guys. This is 2018. Number one, even if you go to a fast food restaurant, most of them have salads. If they don't, you can get a lettuce wrap burger. There you you reduce your sugar, reduce your carbohydrates, and you'll make that burger 30 times healthier for you.

Right? It might not be the healthiest thing in the world, but it's better than going in there and getting a combo meal. Nobody's twisting your arm to do that. You can make a healthier choice there, guys, and it's easy. And then, you know, beyond that, if you wanted to prepare a meal for yourself, it's pretty easy to learn how to cook.

There's so many recipes out there on the Internet, and they don't they're not time intensive. In fact, if you get yourself a slow cooker, you could stick the ingredients in it before work really quickly. It takes about five minutes to do. You just put that thing on on on low and set it for ten hours, and by the time you come home, you've got a perfectly cooked meal. Now, again, I hate to preach about this stuff, but I want you to know that it is possible for you.

It is possible for all of you. And so if you guys wanna check that article out, you can check it out at www.warriorsoulagoge.com under articles, fitness articles, and, it's right there. Alright? And so I'll get you the title right now. I gotta pull up my computer screen here.

It's called five practical fitness tips for people with busy, quote, unquote, real lives. Alright? So that's that guys really quick today, but I hope you're all doing well. And I will be back at you in a day or two with an awesome interview.