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Speaker 1: losing excess body fat, building muscle and strength and becoming
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Speaker 1: a fitter, stronger and the best looking version of yourself.
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Speaker 1: Those are all great benefits. Fitness can get you, but
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Speaker 1: fitness is much more than that. It can be an
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Speaker 1: excellent part to personal development. And that is what we
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Speaker 1: are talking in this episode.
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Speaker 1: Hello and Namaskar. Hope you're doing great today If you
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Speaker 1: are a first time listener. Welcome to the Stronger Men Project.
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Speaker 1: This is a podcast dedicated to men's fitness and personal excellence.
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Speaker 1: And I'm your host A Desai, a mechanical engineer turned
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Speaker 1: fitness coach. If you are a return listener, welcome
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Speaker 1: Thank you again for tuning in. Now let's move on
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Speaker 1: to today's topic.
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Speaker 1: In the last five years, as a fitness coach and
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Speaker 1: helping over more than 800 people in their fitness journey,
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Speaker 1: I have realised one thing. The people who get the
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Speaker 1: best results in their fitness journey
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Speaker 1: end up finding more benefits than just losing weight and
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Speaker 1: getting in shape. Of course, that is where most people start.
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Speaker 1: They are frustrated with excess belly fat, and they want
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Speaker 1: to look good. Or there are people who are skinny
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Speaker 1: and weak, and they want to get in great shape
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Speaker 1: and build some mass and become stronger. But the people
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Speaker 1: who actually get results and stick with fitness lifestyle for
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Speaker 1: long enough period of time will realise that it is
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Speaker 1: not just about those things.
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Speaker 1: It is about an overall personal improvement and how fitness
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Speaker 1: helps you in becoming a better version of yourself, not
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Speaker 1: only physically, but mentally and emotionally. That is what we'll
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Speaker 1: talk about Now.
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Speaker 1: The number one thing about fitness is that if you're
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Speaker 1: only looking to lose weight or looking for some magical
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Speaker 1: solution to get out of your current physical state, then
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Speaker 1: it will not work. It takes more than that. For that.
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Speaker 1: You have to become a different person. For that, you
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Speaker 1: have to become a fit person. A fit person is
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Speaker 1: someone who will always make the right choices, which will
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Speaker 1: take him to his goals. That is,
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Speaker 1: he will exercise regularly. He will eat the right kind
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Speaker 1: of foods. He'll eat the right quantity of food. He'll
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Speaker 1: also take care of his routine and be disciplined and consistent,
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Speaker 1: and he is focused on his goal. Only then he'll
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Speaker 1: be able to reach his goal. And this in itself
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Speaker 1: is a major personal improvement for most people. And when
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Speaker 1: that happens, so many other things happen. And also a
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Speaker 1: person learns so many other lessons. Let's start with the
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Speaker 1: first one that is confidence.
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Speaker 1: Confidence comes with two things. The way you look. If
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Speaker 1: you're in a better shape, you'll be more confident around
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Speaker 1: other people. That is something which happens naturally. Apart from that,
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Speaker 1: in order to reach that state, you'll have to put
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Speaker 1: in work right. You have to exercise regularly. You have
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Speaker 1: to change your lifestyle. You have to change your eating habits.
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Speaker 1: You have to have a healthy routine and you have
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Speaker 1: to be consistent and it takes a lot of work.
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Speaker 1: It is a hard work,
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Speaker 1: and whenever you put hard work and get results, that
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Speaker 1: increases your belief in yourself. And that is what gives
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Speaker 1: a person confidence. Confidence is nothing but is to have
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Speaker 1: belief in yourself, and it comes only with taking action
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Speaker 1: and getting results. And if you get results in fitness,
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Speaker 1: your confidence will surely reach the skies and it overflows
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Speaker 1: into other areas of life and you do better in
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Speaker 1: other areas of life. Also,
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Speaker 1: the second thing that fitness teaches anybody is to have
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Speaker 1: discipline and self restraint,
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Speaker 1: because if you get results in your fitness, that means
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Speaker 1: you have to restrain yourself. You have to control your
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Speaker 1: eating habits. You have to exercise regularly in spite of
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Speaker 1: not feeling like exercising, and you have to put efforts consistently.
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Speaker 1: Only then you will reach the results
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Speaker 1: and if you don't become disciplined, you'll most likely quit.
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Speaker 1: And it's very unfortunate that most people who start into
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Speaker 1: fitness will quit at some point of time. But believe me,
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Speaker 1: the only thing you need to do is to stick
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Speaker 1: around for a long enough time. It's OK to miss
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Speaker 1: your exercise for one or two days. It's OK. If
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Speaker 1: you don't control your diet for one or two days.
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Speaker 1: It's OK if you over
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Speaker 1: on some days it's OK. If you don't sleep well
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Speaker 1: on some days, it is fine, but you have to
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Speaker 1: understand it's a long term game and nobody became fit
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Speaker 1: in one day or two days or two weeks. It's
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Speaker 1: a long term game. It takes months and months and
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Speaker 1: years together. And it's a lifestyle you adopt and something
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Speaker 1: which you do for lifelong. And when it comes to
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Speaker 1: lifelong things,
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Speaker 1: it will not be ideal on each and every day
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Speaker 1: there'll be some places you'll miss. Some days you'll undershoot.
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Speaker 1: Some days you'll overshoot. It's all part of life, so
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Speaker 1: that's my take on discipline. And if you want to
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Speaker 1: be fit, you will have to be disciplined and it
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Speaker 1: will definitely come if you spend enough time.
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Speaker 1: The third lesson, What fitness teaches is that hard work
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Speaker 1: will not always guarantee results. Why I say this is
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Speaker 1: because I have seen so many people who are putting
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Speaker 1: hard work consistently for a long period of time, but
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Speaker 1: still they don't get results. That is because they're putting
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Speaker 1: hard work, but they're not doing everything it requires to
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Speaker 1: get the results.
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Speaker 1: I've seen people who have been coming to my gym
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Speaker 1: for months and years, but they don't go home and
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Speaker 1: take care of their nutrition. And if you don't do that,
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Speaker 1: you're not getting the results which you deserve from the
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Speaker 1: work you're putting in the gym.
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Speaker 1: Let's take it a little further. I have seen people
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Speaker 1: who come to the gym regularly. They also make changes
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Speaker 1: to their eating habits and lifestyle and stuff. But they
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Speaker 1: fail to accept that if you're in a gym and
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Speaker 1: if you want to build muscle and strength, you have
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Speaker 1: to eat enough protein. And lot of people find it
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Speaker 1: hard to come to terms with this one thing, and
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Speaker 1: this is the only biggest change you need to bring
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Speaker 1: to your eating habits, and this is also the most
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Speaker 1: important thing. You need to build muscle and strength
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Speaker 1: and also make your fat loss effective. But if you
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Speaker 1: fail to do this one thing and do everything else right,
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Speaker 1: you will still fail that is what I mean when
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Speaker 1: I say hard work does not always guarantee results for
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Speaker 1: guaranteed results, you have to do everything it takes. Lesson
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Speaker 1: number four is somewhat related to lesson number three of
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Speaker 1: hard work, that is,
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Speaker 1: you cannot get results if you're cheating or if you're
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Speaker 1: doing things halfheartedly or if you're looking for shortcuts. The
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Speaker 1: results you're getting from your efforts in the gym is
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Speaker 1: directly related to the efforts you're actually putting in the gym.
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Speaker 1: If you don't put efforts in the gym, if you
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Speaker 1: just show up and do nothing, if you just show
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Speaker 1: up and do it halfheartedly or half as through your
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Speaker 1: workouts and your diet and your routine, then you'll not
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Speaker 1: get results.
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Speaker 1: So no cheating, no half icing or no shortcuts will
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Speaker 1: get you there. It's a major, major life lesson, something
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Speaker 1: which applies to everything in your life. Now the lesson
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Speaker 1: Number five is again connected to the previous two lessons
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Speaker 1: that is, You reap what you sow if you put
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Speaker 1: in effort. If you do everything right, then you will
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Speaker 1: definitely get results.
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Speaker 1: This is something which you will experience only when you
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Speaker 1: do it. When you do all the things which you
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Speaker 1: need to do to get the results. You will get
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Speaker 1: the results and you will realise it only when you
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Speaker 1: do it. I have seen this with many people. I
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Speaker 1: keep telling them I keep telling them. But they fail
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Speaker 1: to realise this unless they put in the effort and
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Speaker 1: get results. I have seen people who quit in between.
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Speaker 1: I have seen people who stick around and then at
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Speaker 1: certain point of time, they will start putting real efforts
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Speaker 1: and start doing everything it takes and they got results.
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Speaker 1: And that is when they realised that all they had
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Speaker 1: to do was just follow whatever I was asking them
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Speaker 1: to do and just surrender to the process. So the
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Speaker 1: lesson here is you just have to surrender to the
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Speaker 1: process and do everything it takes and you will definitely
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Speaker 1: get results. And guess what? You can apply this to
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Speaker 1: any other thing in your life
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Speaker 1: and number six, when you put all the efforts it
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Speaker 1: requires to get to your goals and do it consistently,
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Speaker 1: and when you get results, then you get the deepest fulfilment,
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Speaker 1: which is very, very difficult to explain in words. That
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Speaker 1: is something for you to experience.
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Speaker 1: And when it comes to fitness, you don't really need
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Speaker 1: to spend months and years to have this feeling.
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Speaker 1: You can start experiencing this within weeks of starting your fitness.
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Speaker 1: You will experience this when you see that your abilities
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Speaker 1: are going up, you're able to lift more weights or
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Speaker 1: you're able to do more reputations with the same weights.
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Speaker 1: You will see this when you start losing weight. You
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Speaker 1: will see this when your belly measurements goes down. You'll
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Speaker 1: see this when you start looking different in the mirror.
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Speaker 1: You will see this when your clothes starts fitting better
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Speaker 1: on you.
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Speaker 1: This is something which you have to acknowledge and feel
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Speaker 1: it and be proud of yourself. And if you follow
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Speaker 1: this in other areas of your life, your career, your relationships,
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Speaker 1: your money or anything else you're trying to do in
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Speaker 1: your life, if you see the fulfilment in the small
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Speaker 1: results you're getting that will keep you engaged, that will
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Speaker 1: keep you motivated to do more and more. And that
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Speaker 1: is one of the biggest lessons I have learned through
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Speaker 1: my own fitness journey. And
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Speaker 1: that is what kept me going on for months and months,
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Speaker 1: and it's been almost eight years now. I have never
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Speaker 1: quit my fitness journey.
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Speaker 1: I hope you found this episode useful and found some
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Speaker 1: motivation to start your own fitness journey. Or, if you're
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Speaker 1: already in a fitness journey, start taking your fitness journey
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Speaker 1: seriously and making it a number one priority of your life.
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Speaker 1: And if you're someone who is starting your fitness journey
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Speaker 1: and you're completely clueless on how to start it, where
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Speaker 1: to start it and what to do, then I can
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Speaker 1: definitely help you. You can come on a 30 minutes
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Speaker 1: free 1 to 1 consultation with me. How you can
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Speaker 1: do it is by filling a Google form, the link
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Speaker 1: for which I have left in the description. Click on
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Speaker 1: the link, fill the form, and once you fill the
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Speaker 1: form and submit, you'll get a link to book a
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Speaker 1: 30 minutes. Call with me. You can choose the date
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Speaker 1: and
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Speaker 1: time of your convenience, and I'll come on a zoom
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Speaker 1: call and answer all your questions, doubts and help you
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Speaker 1: with strategies to overcome your challenges. And if you're someone
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Speaker 1: who is already in a fitness journey and struggling to
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Speaker 1: get results or want to get to the next level.
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Speaker 1: Then you can also take benefit of this call. And
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Speaker 1: if I and you feel we are a good fit,
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Speaker 1: we can also start a coaching relationship and take your
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Speaker 1: fitness to the next level.
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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for tuning in today. I'll see
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Speaker 1: you in the next one. This is a always here
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Speaker 1: to help you become the best version of yourself.