Exercising five days a week won't fix bad eating habits. The speaker repeatedly asks clients "how's nutrition?" to force them to think beyond the gym, and runs in-gym nutritional challenges because nutrition, not just workouts, is what drives lasting change.
They could work out 5 days a week, but if they're not focusing on how they're taking care of themselves outside the gym, nothing's going to change. And then that's just really terrible advertising. So they're gone in February. I started doing something that my mother did to all my siblings and I, and every time we'd leave the house, she'd always say the same words, be safe. And I could just hear this phrase, and it just got to a point where it was annoying. And I remember when I got to college and I'm partying and I'm doing all the things, I remember thinking, well, that's not safe. Oh my God, am I being safe? And then I realized what my mom was doing was instilling this phrase in my head because she knew she couldn't be there every moment. And so then I started doing that with my clients by saying, how's nutrition? Every time they step in the room, hey, how's nutrition? And then they like look away or they, you know, ignore the question. And then it got to a point where they started thinking about it outside the gym. And then I started running nutritional challenges within the gym. And then I realized this is what we need to be focusing on. Exercise is great, don't get me wrong. We need resistance training. You and I both know that skeletal muscle mass Is really what we want. Muscle is key. Yeah. Muscle is your biggest lever towards longevity. And so, but you know, if you're just eating whatever you want or you're undereating or you're doing whatever fad diet is out there, I mean, you're just gonna yo-yo
