riverside sam & anthony oct 28, 2025 001 infinite gold podca
In this episode of The Infinite Goal Life, hosts Anthony and Bree Goldner interview Sam Rifkin, a lifelong fitness enthusiast, entrepreneur, father, and coach. Sam shares his personal journey—from early construction jobs to real‑estate investing and building a family‑centered life—explaining how training since age 13 shaped his identity. He emphasizes the value of youth sports for teaching cooperation, patience, and resilience, and describes his hands‑on coaching of his children’s flag‑football, tackle football, and Muay Thai. Sam introduces the concept of “positive vanity,” encouraging listeners to look in the mirror, celebrate progress, and avoid sacrificing health for work. He offers practical tactics for busy people: schedule the day, use an external accountability partner, wake up early despite the brain’s safety‑mode urges, and “win the battle with yourself” through mental reps and mirror work. He discusses mental fortitude, citing Mike Tyson’s use of fear as fuel, and urges stepping out of comfort zones. Community is highlighted as a catalyst for growth; Sam explains his involvement with The Final Percent, his initial skepticism, and how surrounding himself with like‑minded, health‑focused individuals amplified his impact. He outlines his coaching brand, Infinite Strength, which blends his entrepreneurial experience, unique training methods, and bio‑hacking knowledge to help others add “more life to your years.” The conversation also debunks a common fitness myth by championing the “Knees Over Toes” approach to knee health. On nutrition, Sam recommends simple, repeatable food categories (protein, carbs, fats) and basic meal‑prep guidelines. The episode closes with three “golden nuggets”: make sacrifices for health, pay the health cost now or regret later, and aggressively exit the comfort zone.
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You're listening to The Infinite Goal Life, the definitive blueprint for the dual-track achiever to build an integrated legacy of success, vitality, and presence. Today we have a special guest, Sam Rifkin. How you doing today, buddy?
How y'all doing? What's up?
We're good, we're good.
So good.
Your host, Anthony and Bree Goldner. Our goal here is to provide you with tactics and tools that are going to help you with your life, longevity, and the legacy that you're building. Today, Sam, he is an entrepreneur. He's been training in fitness and health since he was 13 years old, so just a couple years ago, and he is a life and health mentor for people that are struggling with their fitness and your health. And today we're gonna have an action-packed episode on anything that you need help with on those two avenues. Sam, we'd love to hear a quick 3 to 4 minute bio as to who is Sam, who's this Sam Rifkin guy.
Well, um, I'm an entrepreneur, lifelong entrepreneur. I don't think I've ever had a real job other than working construction as a kid, being a bartender, doing catering jobs, you know, odds and ends when I was younger. But I dove right into real estate, move that on to get involved in other investments. I've always had a really good risk appetite. Definitely never been conservative. You know, I've, I've been, like you said, I've been training since I was 13 and that's just so centered to my life. I, I believe that all humans need some muscle on their body and need athleticism. Yeah. So I always tell people the only benefit that I feel I have, although you will need to put a lot of time in, is that I got started young. Just somehow, some way it clicked to me and I said, this is how I have to live my best life. Beyond that, I mean, my favorite thing I probably am is a father. I'm a proud, proud father. Proud husband is my favorite thing. I'm a football coach. I coach my kids in flag, in tackle, in basketball, anything I can to volunteer and help. Yeah, I'm all about my health and fitness. I'm all about having fun. I'm really quiet though. That's the thing about me. I'm like super quiet. So you really got to get it out of me.
I don't think so. I think that's the opposite of you.
He might, he might be quiet at first if he doesn't know you, but once you get to know Sam, he comes out of his shell and it's like you've been best buddies forever.
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure. I've been, I've been told that, you know. I feel like I'm a— I feel like I've naturally been a pretty good people person over my life. I've encountered people from all walks of life, and my friends even said that before. They're like, you know, one of my best friends, like, a year ago was like, you know, it just clicked to me, Sam, you have You just get along with everybody and you have such a wide friend group. I'm like, I don't try to do that. It just is what it is.
You're just being you.
We love that. That's right. That's all you could be.
That's perfect. One of the things you talked about, and we love it about you, we're the same way, our kids are everything. And a lot of our listeners are moms and fathers. And you mentioned sports being very prevalent in your family right now. Um, why is that and what makes that different than maybe some other families out there?
I I believe that you accomplish so much more than athleticism when you get kids involved in sports.
Yes.
They, they learn how to cooperate. I mean, it's just so funny how the ages progress. In the beginning, you're just trying to get them motivated. You're just trying to give them a good experience. You want to have a good relationship with it. I used to coach when Mason, my oldest, was 4.
Mm-hmm.
Literally, he wouldn't go in the games. He wouldn't, you know, he'd want to play with a butterfly. And because he was, I would try to reel him in. I had to be head coach. Sometimes I didn't have even have an assistant coach, so I couldn't even be like, hey, gimme a minute. But a point I'll make on that is just you have to have extreme patience with kids. I've had parents that have taken their kids out of sports because they're 4 or 5 years old and they're not getting it or they're crying. Some of them are great athletes, and I wish I could get ahold of these parents and just say, keep them going. My son went from being that guy that wasn't the best, wasn't even into it, from now he's a contributor. He loves it. He, he couldn't be without it. So. It teaches you so many lessons in patience, in teamwork. Now he's on a football team in tackle that's extremely competitive. He is, uh, you know, kids are getting older, you're interpreting, you know, messing with each other, they're getting in little fights, they're getting along, but then they're best friends. So they're just, I think they're seeing it and you, you really see a lot of progression as far as him being resilient, you know, whereas it was like, oh, this kid picked on me. It's like, yeah, we're just, we're just talking crap playing ball, you know? So. I encourage everybody, it doesn't matter if your kid's an athlete or not, they should be involved in some team sport. I also really promote, my son takes Muay Thai lessons too. He hasn't since he's been in tackle, cuz it's been a pretty rigorous schedule. But that too, you wanna know, because not only do you know how to defend yourself, but it's also humbling more so when you learn combat skills, as I'm sure you know from your time in the police force. You, you just, you, you humble, you're just like, rather than trying to prove a point, you know what you're capable of and you're chill, you know you'll be relaxed in this scenario, correct? And you will be— you're the least likely to get into a fight. It's just got to come to you and you're like, you don't really want to do this, you know?
We call it verbal judo. A lot of times, a lot of times you just let things happen and you don't have to say much and things will play out the way they're going to play out.
Yes, sir.
So health and fitness, it's a huge thing that's part of your life, why is it so important for others to be conscious about their health and longevity rather than just wing it?
You know, beyond wanting to look good, it's, it's a concept that I talk about in my coaching called positive vanity. Be proud that you look good.
Yeah.
Talk about, you know, look at yourself in the mirror and say, damn, you, you did good. You're doing good. Yeah. Your body's looking good. You're taking care of your skin. You're doing whatever. But You know, beyond that, like, what are you— what are you doing everything for if you're not giving it all in your life? What are you doing it all for if you're maybe sacrificing 20 years off your life because you've just grinded? You say, I'm so busy. Oh, I can't get in time. I'm taking care of kids. I'm running a business. I'm doing this and that. Not only are you not even giving yourself the time to enjoy the fruits of your labor, you're giving your kids less time. You're saying, hey, I am merely a sacrificial lamb here to bust my butt into the ground, grind myself to the bone, be unhealthy just so I can leave something or take care of myself and my family. So you're basically saying you're robbing people that need you of your time. And with working out, with keeping your health right, you are supercharging everything. It all starts there. It's the easiest thing to control. Getting control of this. It's pretty tough, right? Yeah. The mind's pretty complex. The body is too, but I can control this hand and I can go, I could control my feet and walk my butt into a gym and get to work and get a W and start stacking Ws and be in that good positive mindset, that good body feeling where everything else is good. I'm a better husband, I'm a better friend.
Boom.
I'm an inspiration where you are walking around, somebody sees you and says, I want to be like that person. And you start getting asked questions. You know, I'm always the greatest joy I think I have is I'm, I'm called by parents and kids, I'm called the Jack Dad.
Because you look like your habits.
Yeah. Yes, exactly. And it's come from different resources and the kids on the football team, they stop, they go, oh, you look strong. Oh, you're jacked. I was like, thanks buddy. You just made my day. So that's the best, you know, you, you should be a walking billboard. You should do that to represent your business, to represent your family, to represent your friend group. You should put your best foot forward and health and wellness, it just, you just gotta get in a routine. And I think anybody that put the time in, that put a solid year of just being on a routine will be like, I cannot live without this. Mm-hmm. This comes number one because if not, I just feel like all the efforts are, are, they're slightly shallow. Yeah. You're not gonna be around as long as you can be. You're not gonna make the impact. So that's basically how I stand on that.
Let's, let's dive a little bit deeper into that. You mentioned something where a lot of people will come to you and they'll mention, I don't have enough time, or I've got so much going on. What are some tactics or tools you like to give people that may feel like I don't have the time or the energy to do something? What are like, just like these one or two little things that they can do to try to build up that motivation, build up that discipline?
I think that no matter who you are, you should have an outside source that can help you try to schedule your day. Number one, plain and simple. Talk to me. I could tell— talk to you right now, Anthony, and tell you, and you could probably say, hey, why don't you do this? And I'll, I'll get it. I'll get golden nugget from you to say, oh, I should fit that in there. And so there's that, right? Just making sure you have your routine, making sure you have your schedule. That's number 1. Number 2, knowing that you're no different than the toughest guy in the world waking up at 4 or 5 in the morning. They all don't wake up and like, it's a struggle. And the mind will play that trick on you. It'll say you need that sleep. You're tired. All this sucks. You just gotta get moving.
Mm-hmm.
The third and the third thing that I talk about a lot is the battle, the, the balance between the, the human spirit and the body. So like right now I've switched, I've shifted to waking up at 4:00 AM. I'm getting slightly less sleep, but I have things I need to accomplish. I'm trying to build things. I'm doing my best to get to bed a little earlier, but my human spirit needs that time now. So I'm waking up a little earlier. I'm sacrificing a little bit of sleep where obviously I'm the guy that's gonna preach to you, try to get 7, 8 hours of sleep. I'll get back to that. Mm-hmm. But right now I'm probably getting 5 hours and 45 minutes average. I catch up a little on the weekend, but these kids' sports have been early too, so I'm still waking up early. And, um, so I think it's that you, you have to find the time. You have to know that it sucks. You have to know that even these bodybuilders, like, yeah, it's more of a hobby to them. And they're, they might be more invigorated than somebody who genuinely doesn't love it, but you just have to do it. Everybody has to do it. It should be a non-negotiable in everybody's life. But you just have to know that they don't, like I said, they don't wake up like a spring chicken ready to go, hey, let's go get it. Like they're tired. They're more tired than a lot of people, but you gotta get after it. You got, you gotta, you gotta have that battle within yourself. You have to win the battle with yourself.
Oh, that's good. Win the battle with yourself. That's, that's a huge one, especially you mentioned earlier about the whole mirror stuff. Can you elaborate a little bit more about the win the battle with yourself and the mirror? Mirror?
Well, you're gonna— excuses are gonna come. And what I'm realizing more with some of the books I'm reading and some of the things that I'm learning is just that, that the brain is there to trick you in, in a way of— it's not in a, in bad way per se. It wants to keep you safe. It wants to convince you to get that rest. It wants to convince you to go into safety mode. So that's what I'm saying. You're always in a battle with yourself, and you have to understand that that's no different. One thing that I love, I love, um, referencing is Mike Tyson. Mike Tyson talks about how when he walked out to every fight, he had fear, but he used that fear as fuel. He knew what he had to get done, and he knew when he got in there, he got comfortable and he perfected his craft. But Mike Tyson, one of the baddest the world walked into the ring scared because it's a natural thing. So I think that some people have to get those mental reps, have to get those calluses on their mind because they think they're different. They think, oh no, that's just me. I'm not meant for this. It's like, no, you just haven't tried. And that's what I tell a lot of people. It's not, I'm not meant for this. You just haven't tried. You need to get in there and see, because I have that battle all the time. There's things I don't think I'm going to like, I'm going to endure. There's, I, I, I've had little, little things that I've in within 5 minutes of trying, I feel like I like this and I'm doing okay. Mm-hmm. Yeah. But people get intimidated and you have to find that mental fortitude from whatever practice you do to overcome it and just get in there. Just get in, get up, show up, get in the door. It's as simple as that. And some people just think, ah, you know, they make every excuse and time goes on and all of a sudden you've been delaying for years.
Yeah.
Well, so unless you flip the script on it, like it, it's scary to do, or it's uncomfortable, but what's more scary is staying the same and you not ever changing because you're not willing to try or to step outside of that, that discomfort or step out of that, your comfort zone and into discomfort and realize that there are results behind getting in The uncomfortable zone.
Yep. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. Another thing I'll bring up is like, not even, you know, how many months ago was it? Like, not even a year ago, I finally started putting my workouts on camera. I never thought I'd be that guy. So number one, it was uncomfortable to me. Yeah. So I got over that. I did it. I did it. Number two, I thought that people would be like, oh, what's he doing now? Or people in the gym would look at me or be like, oh, it's the guy with the camera. Nah, man.
Yeah.
Yeah. But I feel like, um, and I forget who, who said this and it resonated with me, is that more people are rooting for you than against you. You know, we go there thinking I'm the weird guy, I'm putting down a camera, I'm doing this, or I'm shifting gears. I'm talking now on camera. I'm giving motivational speeches. I'm singing on camera. Oh, they're probably like, what's he doing? This and that, you know, but more people are rooting for you. Yeah. Yeah. More people have your back and are rooting for you. It often takes that one bad apple to try to ruin it, you know, of course, in the world. But you gotta overcome that and not let that one piece of negativity ruin it, because that one piece of negativity has power. Unfortunately, it has a lot of power.
Even let it—
oh yeah, if you expand that into the world, it's into the media, into what's going on in our society. We have so many avenues that show us the bad thing that happened, but we're actually in the best times of our life with proper technology. People are learning, people have big open hearts, but you see that one piece of negativity in anything and it could drown you out. That's the power of the devil right there, you know?
Yeah.
But you gotta know how to just silence that out and know that more people got your back. More people are rooting for you. More people wanna see you succeed than the haters. The haters should just fuel you and know that they're, they're small compared to the people that actually have good hearts and are rooting for you in this life.
Right. Add the haters and their, their fuel, or you that use their hate as your fuel and put it in the bank. Like, all right, cool. Now I've got something to work off of, something to work harder for.
Amen.
So another thing you talk a lot about is community. Um, it's heavily involved in sports. It's heavily involved in the health and fitness world. Why is community such a big part of your life and why should it be a part of everybody else's life?
If you're not around good people that need you and you need them, What's your purpose? What are you doing? You, you, you some sole survivor on this earth? Did, did, did God, did science, whatever your view is, make people to just be on their own, walk their own path and disregard and walk by and say, you do you, I do me. You know, there, there, there's times for doing things on your own, but I've just realized since, you know, getting involved in The Final Percent, since meeting, meeting people like yourself, that there are so many good people that will fuel you and make you better. Cause don't get me wrong, I have periods of, of, of lone wolf thoughts. I have periods where I've been Mr. Lone Wolf. And let me tell you something too, beyond that, I love being around people, but I feel like I'm one of those introvert extroverts. I don't— I can be— I often say this, like, I can be alone in my house and not see a human soul for a week and just get my stuff done and do whatever. I'll probably start fiending that human connection, but I have that ability and I have that strength that I can be alone. I could be by myself and feel good. But the energy you can get off of other people, other people that give a crap about you, other people that don't want anything about you. You know, one of my, one of my favorite quotes of all time is the true measure of a man's worth is how they treat somebody that can do them absolutely no good. Are you genuinely being a good person? Are you genuinely just doing, are you trying to get a benefit out of something? So community, I do feel just like we talk about repeatedly, community supercharges everything, having people around that you could impact. And I, Another thing I talk about a lot is I believe that everybody was put on this earth with a debt to pay. You don't just get put on this earth to enrich yourself and just to go about walking like a zombie and doing you and disregarding people. You owe it to the planet. You owe it to society. You owe it to your family. Whether it's one, whether you're trying to help one person or you're trying to go mainstream huge and help millions across the world, you have a debt to, to make some impact and to help people out and to do something for our community. And or, and for a community to get something off of you, you know?
Mm-hmm. That's huge. So with The Final Percent, since you mentioned it, you were very skeptical of it at the beginning. What would you say to somebody who is either skeptical of joining The Final Percent or joining a community in general, or somebody who, for example, like us, have been part of communities that didn't benefit them in the right way? What would you say to somebody like that?
Well, for the second part, you said you just said anything in life, you can never give up.
Yeah.
You can't give up on people, you know? Cause again, there's good ones out there. Yeah. Those few bad ones will completely ruin it for you. And, and I mean, for a man, I think a lot of men, we come, we walk around with that machismo. We think, oh, you know, my thing going into Final Percent when Bernard was trying to convince the crap out of me and I was like, I don't, I am the hype man. I don't need, I had no idea. I had no idea what it, what it was involved with. And he, You know, he did the thing, you know, didn't really explain it fully, just said, show up please.
Mm-hmm.
And I finally gave in and did it. Took me what, a day and a half to warm up. And by day 3 I was like, all right, this is cool. Mm-hmm. But you also have to have people that you respect, you know? Yeah. And honestly, to me, a huge thing, and I, is it, Greg said I have free will to talk about this. Uh, so yeah, one thing about showing up to that Totality in Colorado, Um, was the way that I resonated with it was I got to meet jacked in shape Greg, where if I met outta shape Greg from before, it would've had a different impact. Like, I'm sure, look, he's a magical dude. I'm sure it would've still impacted me.
Mm-hmm.
But when I saw that guy on stage, I was like, okay, this is a bro. This is somebody I could get along with. This is somebody who takes fitness seriously. This is somebody who's in the gym. This is somebody who's a protector of his family. This is somebody who has the walking billboard. This is somebody who takes his vitality. Seriously. So that played a huge effect for me, you know, that's, um, so that helped me want to get more involved where if, and you know, guys, guys like you, you being around guys like Chris Wykeman being in there, you know, okay, like there's some, some, some, some men, some men's men in there. And like I said, I get along with everybody. I don't judge you. I, if you looked at my, my friend group from before, I'm not, I'm not friends with a lot of big bodybuilder dudes, honestly. Like, I— my friends are all over the place, so it's not like that's a requirement. But do I like it? Sure. It shows me what they're about and I can instantly tell, okay, that's what I say. Like, that's why I'm so into vitality, what it can do for anything in life. You see a person who's in shape, who takes care of their health, who looks like they care about their appearance. It's not just vanity to be Mr., you know, looking good or Miss Pretty Girl or whatever. It just says like, I give a shit about myself. And you gotta be able to care about yourself to care for others. You have to take the time out to be selfish in that manner so you can contribute to other people, so you can send that message, so you can say, I know how to help myself, I can help others.
Yes, that's so good. Now diving more into your coaching, um, Infinite Strength, tell us a little bit about that and why you started it.
Um, Infinite Strength was a, an idea that came up with Greg and I, and We started pretty quick because I was diving in, you know, first as a member of the Infinity Club, getting involved in the Final Step, but then realizing that I feel like I have something to offer for my experiences in life, in fitness, in entrepreneurship, my unique personality and what I can bring to the table. So I realized quickly after that, because I had the thought in my mind, I always kind of wanted to life coach. I always kind of wanted to speak because I've done that for my friends. I've been my friends' hype man. They know I've been there for them. I've helped people. I've had friends come live with me to get off of drugs. I've had people get a training regimen off me. I have people call me when they had tragedy in their life, because I've been that guy. When I've had other friends that, God bless their heart, they're great, but might not be as open-hearted as me. As far as open-hearted, yes, caring people, but not verbally. I'm the guy that will tell my friend I love him. I'm the guy that will extend the care. I'm the guy that will show my soft side. I don't care. It's what you have to do for people. So anyways, starting in— Yeah. Starting Infinite Strength was just to show my experience and what health and fitness has brought to me to supercharge the rest of my life.
Mm-hmm.
Because it's been instrumental in my entrepreneurship. It's been instrumental in my relationships.
Mm-hmm.
It's been instrumental who I've been to a community and the image it's made for myself. So I wanna show people that they can get, add not just more years to your life, but more life to your years. Mm-hmm. I feel as in You have to take that seriously to propel everything else. So I want to get people on the, a workout program.
Mm-hmm.
I want to share all the years I spent looking at health, looking at foods, analyzing things, all this stuff with the biohacks, all the techniques I've learned. I had my unique training technique that takes, you know, I obviously want all the muscle, the bench press, the curls, but also athleticism, twisting your body, using bands. So I'm developing my own unique training system based on what I've been plucking from some of these guys that I respect and have taken., you know, some advice from. So yeah, I wanna turn it into that show that I'm an entrepreneur to share all my business ventures. I wanna turn it into business investing opportunities for health and fitness ideas that people bring to the table. I wanna just have a community of like-minded people that wanna better their life, take their health and fitness seriously, take their appearance seriously.
Yeah.
And translate that into everything else because in my opinion, it starts there. No matter what, no matter what you say, yeah, you be a good person. It's what it's on the inside that counts. But guess what? It's also on the outside that counts. Because on the outside, if you're not respecting that, you're just saying, I don't care about my image. There are children walking down the street that if they see, if children are walking around and they see nothing but people that don't care about their health, people that have let themselves go, people that are overweight, people that are just kind of slugging around. Mm-hmm. That's what they think life is. If a kid sees a lot of people that see people that give a shit about themselves, that put the time in, they instantly say, that's what life is. So do it knowing that when you walk out that front door, you got eyes on you no matter what, and set a good example and show that I'm all about the kids. Yeah. Show the next generation what life's supposed to be, that it's not okay to just grind yourself to the bone and just work and not take care of yourself. That it's okay to go get fast food, that it's okay to not exercise, that it's okay to sit on the couch. We have to set an example. We have to show them that you need to have movement, that you need to have some muscles on your body. And not to mention a point I didn't touch on either is you got to have the strength and the ability. God forbid you have to encounter an evildoer. Hopefully that never happens in anybody's life. But, you know, I know that if I see it happening to somebody else, somebody else, me, my family, I'm going to go into protect mode and they're going to have a problem because I'm around and I'm going to protect what's right. I'm going to stand up for people. And I know that I could probably defuse the situation just with my presence unless I find some real psycho guy and then it's gotta get down, you know?
Yeah. No, I, I feel ya. When, when it comes to the health and fitness industry, there's a lot of myths and there's a lot of this is and that's. What's one of like the biggest or a couple of the biggest myths that you hear about nutrition or the fitness world, um, that you want to debunk right now? Or can you think of any off the top of your head?
You know, my, my favorite thing is, I, I'm not sure if you've heard of, uh, super popular guy, Knees Over Toes guy. He, check him out, he's awesome. He basically, I don't know if you remember the old school way, is when you squat or when you do everything, keep your knees back. Don't, don't overlap like that. Yeah, he, he, uh, cured his knees where he was like, couldn't jump. He was a basketball player. He developed his whole thing just on his own, feeling out his body, where he does all this stuff where he does backwards sled work. He does these lunges where I, if I, I get up and do it right now, but I don't think I could. Like he puts his lunges, he puts his knees over his toes and how that develops knee strength, how that fixed his knees, made him a college basketball player. He can jump all over the place. He could do these crazy things where he like goes down like knees and puts his back on the ground, like hops back up.
Mm-hmm.
So that was a huge thing because the meathead mentality is squat. Don't put your knees over and do this and that. Yeah. Yeah. So try a lunge where you literally try to almost bring your knee to the ground over your toe. That's interesting. That is a huge myth that I really enjoy. And this guy is, follow him on Instagram, Knees Over Toes Guy. He, he gives away a lot of free stuff and he's been on Joe Rogan. He's, he's a great guy for the industry to show what you should really be doing after all these people tell you don't do this. And he got fought tooth and nail. He, he tried to bring it to like the other athletes or something. I hope I'm getting the story right, but he tried to show his program and they stopped him. Like, you can't teach this. This is not what we do.
To do.
And he was like, this is what helped me, this is what changed my life. And yes, now he's got a full platform, millions of followers, and he's, he's showing the world. So he's, he's a great guy for that. That's my biggest myth that comes to mind as far as exercise goes.
Yeah, awesome.
It's called evolution. Things change. Yes, you learn, you learn things as you do trial and error and you're experimenting with stuff. And what it sounds like is he got more mobility out of going knees over his toes.
Oh yeah, that's awesome.
Love it.
Absolutely. When it comes to the health side of things, um, you're very much into obviously eating healthy, longevity. What are like the first couple steps that someone can do either in their kitchen or the food that they're making to help them progress into a healthier lifestyle instead of, you know, obviously just cold turkey, I'm doing chicken and rice type of thing? Like, that's the myth that everybody has. What are like some some, you know, baby steps that people could start doing within the kitchen? Wait, maybe it's what they're using to cook or what have you, but what are some good baby steps for people to take?
I think that the biggest baby step to take is actually maybe not such a baby step because some people aren't doing this, but it takes time, but making your own food.
Yeah.
Yeah. Having, having a guideline. Look, look, you got ground beef, steak, chicken, tuna, salmon. Okay. There's 5 protein options. Right. Nice and easy. Right? Carbohydrates. They're not the devil.
Okay?
You need your carbohydrates. You just gotta time 'em properly. And different body types are for different body types. I have a friend whose body type is heavy, heavy carbs. He trains MMA, he's ripped, and he eats sweet potatoes like they're going outta style. Yeah. Again, having a simple list that you could find anywhere. Carbohydrates, sweet potato, white rice, quinoa, fruit, berries are really good. Right? Boom. Fats. That's another thing. People are trying to go low fat. I eat macadamia nuts, olive oil, avocados, pistachios. It's my favorite snack. And I love having like, like different types of almond butters and stuff and everything. And, and another thing is, you know, if you're gonna buy anything that's not from the outside things in the grocery store, just understanding some ingredients. And typically if it sounds like a science project, you probably shouldn't eat it. You want your list to be this much stuff.
Yeah.
Not this much, unless it's like some crazy spices and I did the thing again. I think it's a, I think it's a thing from, from my hands. I'm gonna stop using my hands.
Sorry.
I see. No, you're good though. I, at least now I get it.
So, so Sam, I got a question for you. I am an entrepreneur. I'm a mom and I have kids. I don't have the time. What do you say to that?
You, there are ways to make time. You can get a meal plan. Okay. Yeah. It costs more, whatever. What's your time worth? Because one of the things I want to develop actually is like some sort of graph. I don't know how scientific I can get it. It's like, okay, you spent this extra time preparing your food. You spent this extra time going to the gym. How much time is that gaining you on your life? How much are you gaining from time put in? You're, you're, you're multiplying your time. Yeah. Everything is getting in a groove. So I went to Florida State University and one of the most impactful things was you got to take classes like like theory and practice of basketball. It was a great class.
Great class.
And, uh, and they had a, they had a coach come in and he said maybe the best thing I ever learned in college. He said, 2 weeks to any routine. You don't like waking up early. It doesn't feel good. Do it for 2 weeks. Sacrifice the sleep. Get, know that it will adjust. So we often don't think we have time, but we do. And oftentimes we have to create time. Is there a sacrifice that might have to be made?
Sure.
Mm-hmm. Find where you can utilize your time properly. And what's your life worth? Is it worth cooking up some chicken? Is it worth grocery shopping for some good food? Is it worth spending an hour on your fitness? Because you're gonna gain it all back and you're gonna multiply the value of your time because a sluggish, tired, brain fog, out of shape person, slugging around, that's carrying around too much body fat, that their joints are aching, they're having trouble getting out of their chairs. That's not a life worth living. So even if time were to be, you couldn't manage it, figure it out and make a sacrifice somewhere because your health is worth it. Because if not, you ain't around. You ain't around to enjoy all the fruits of your labor. You're not around for your loved ones. You ain't gonna have the time. Make time now to create time later.
Yes. So good. That's good. And we like to end all of our episodes with a question. You kind of alluded to it earlier in the episode, so the answer is the same, it's the same. But what we like to ask is what are 3 golden nuggets you would like for our listeners to know and that you think would benefit them?
Sorry, I'm—
I— you—
it went mega, mega, um, no worries. I didn't even—
I'll ask again. Uh, at the end of all of our episodes, we like to ask our guests what are 3 golden nuggets you think that our listeners should know about the fitness and health world?
Okay. 3 golden nuggets I'd like the listeners to know is you are gonna have to make sacrifices sometimes for your health. So I like talking about the balance of the human body to the human spirit. Find your balance. Sometimes sacrifices need to be made to push certain things along to the finish line, right? Number 2, pay now or pay later. Ooh. Get your fitness in line. Or you're going to look back and you're going to say, what was I doing it all for? You might be on your deathbed. I don't want to get intense here, but you'll be on your deathbed with nothing but regret of why you didn't take care of yourself. When your children are sad, they're looking over you and you know you could have had that time, bro. We can grow with what we have on in the world. We can all be 125 years old. God forbid, right? God forbid we can be 125 years old and live a full long life and be able-bodied, right? And then the third is, it's what everybody talks about, but get outta your comfort zone ASAP with laser speed. Everybody's chilling too much. Everybody thinks they can't do something. So as I said earlier in this talk, is it's not that you can't do it, it's that you haven't tried it. Go try it. Maybe you might not like it and it's not for you, but if it's something that prolongs your life and you need to do, guess what? Get over it. Embrace the suck and just do it. Now, if it's a hobby and somebody says, hey, I wanna be a rock climbing.
Try it.
Yeah, maybe you won't like it, but you tried it. Go to the next thing. Maybe instead you want to go play basketball, which is me personally. I kind of, you know, so you haven't— it's not that you're not good at it, you just haven't tried it. Get out of that zone with haste.
Love it.
The golden nuggets get better and better every time.
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Later.
