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Speaker 1: In this episode, I'll share the top six reasons you
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Speaker 1: might be failing in your fitness and what you can
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Speaker 1: do about it.Namaskara and welcome to The Stronger Men Project.
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Speaker 1: If you want to be a better man, become a
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Speaker 1: stronger fitter and a better looking version of yourself and
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Speaker 1: fulfill your fullest potential in all areas of your life.
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Speaker 1: You have come to the right place. I'm also on
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Speaker 1: the same journey. I'm your host,Adarsh Desai, a mechanical engineer,
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Speaker 1: turn fitness coach and a gym owner. And here I'm
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Speaker 1: going to share my knowledge, experience and lessons and also
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Speaker 1: bring on experts and achievers who can help us all
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Speaker 1: win together, get ready and let's dive into today's topic.
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Speaker 1: If you're someone who is struggling to stick to your
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Speaker 1: fitness routine, you cannot continue your exercise for a long
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Speaker 1: period of time, you lose motivation to follow up on
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Speaker 1: your diet or you just keep losing track, then you're
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Speaker 1: not alone. This is a very common problem. And in fact,
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Speaker 1: I myself have struggled with this problem for
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Speaker 1: 15 long years until I found a solution for it
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Speaker 1: and got great results in my own fitness. So much
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Speaker 1: so that I became a fitness coach and I have
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Speaker 1: been able to help quite a few of them to
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Speaker 1: get rid of this problem and have great results in
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Speaker 1: their own fitness journey.
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Speaker 1: So, coming to the
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Speaker 1: reasons, the reason number one is you hate exercise.
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Speaker 1: Yes, this is true. And this is very, very common. Again,
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Speaker 1: if you are an unfit person, someone who is not
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Speaker 1: used to exercising, you will definitely feel that exercise is
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Speaker 1: stressful and painful. And probably after you exercise, you feel
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Speaker 1: lot of soreness and pain. And this is the reason
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Speaker 1: a lot of people hate exercising or let's say they
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Speaker 1: don't like exercising and try to avoid it.
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Speaker 1: It may also be that if you're not good at something,
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Speaker 1: you don't feel good about it. If you expect to
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Speaker 1: be very good at exercising and put up a great performance,
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Speaker 1: even without trying it or even without being in the
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Speaker 1: routine or habit, it is not the right expectation. It
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Speaker 1: takes time for you to become fit. It takes for
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Speaker 1: you to be consistent with your exercise and then your
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Speaker 1: fitness level goes up and only then you'll be able
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Speaker 1: to put up a performance. The solution to this is
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Speaker 1: don't treat exercise as a perform.
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Speaker 1: It is not the show of your absolute physical capacity.
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Speaker 1: It is rather a process of putting your body through
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Speaker 1: a certain kind of stress so that your body is
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Speaker 1: used to it. And when you back it up with
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Speaker 1: right nutritional support, your body actually becomes better at doing
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Speaker 1: that thing. And when you go back and do it again,
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Speaker 1: it becomes easy. You might have observed if you continue
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Speaker 1: to do it again and again and again, your fitness
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Speaker 1: levels will go up gradually, your performance will also go up.
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Speaker 1: That's how you become a fitter person.
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Speaker 1: The second reason is over exertion or over exercising. There
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Speaker 1: are two reasons for this one is impatience. People want
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Speaker 1: fast results and they want to do more and more
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Speaker 1: of exercise to reach their goal fast,
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Speaker 1: uh which is uh not the right approach because exercise
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Speaker 1: also causes a lot of stress and it takes time
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Speaker 1: out of your regular schedule and it may not be
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Speaker 1: sustainable if you keep on doing a lot of exercise.
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Speaker 1: If you keep on spending 2 to 3 hours in
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Speaker 1: the gym, it may be sustainable for a very short time.
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Speaker 1: But in the long run, it will not help you.
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Speaker 1: And it may also start affecting
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Speaker 1: other areas of life because you may get very tired,
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Speaker 1: you may lose a lot of time, pressure may pile
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Speaker 1: up and you will be forced to quit. And the
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Speaker 1: second reason is a lot of trainers actually want you
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Speaker 1: to feel that they can actually push you and make
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Speaker 1: you do stuff which you rather not do. That approach
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Speaker 1: is again, very, very wrong because the goal of exercise
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Speaker 1: is not to over exert and
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Speaker 1: yourself in the gym. The goal of exercise is to
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Speaker 1: improve your fitness. It is not to burn a lot
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Speaker 1: of calories, burn a lot of energy and lose weight
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Speaker 1: as quickly as possible. If you're approaching it that way,
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Speaker 1: then it's a wrong approach. The purpose of exercise is
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Speaker 1: always to improve your fitness levels. If you go to
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Speaker 1: gym and lift weights, your purpose is to become stronger
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Speaker 1: and build muscle.
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Speaker 1: If you go and run, your purpose is to improve
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Speaker 1: your running and your cardio respiratory fitness. And in a
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Speaker 1: similar way, every exercise has its own training outcome. That
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Speaker 1: should be the goal of exercise, not really to spend
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Speaker 1: a lot of calories and lose weight or lose body fat.
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Speaker 1: The third reason is having an ineffective exercise program. Again,
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Speaker 1: here it is somewhere connected to point number two, you
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Speaker 1: should choose an exercise form which suits your requirement. If
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Speaker 1: you are someone who wants to have a lean, good
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Speaker 1: looking physique, then you have to go lift weights in
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Speaker 1: the gym. How much ever you run? It will not
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Speaker 1: help you.
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Speaker 1: If you want to improve your cardio respiratory fitness, if
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Speaker 1: you want to be a better runner, then running is
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Speaker 1: a choice for you. If you want to be better
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Speaker 1: at cycling and also improve your cardio respiratory fitness, then
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Speaker 1: cycling is the goal for you.
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Speaker 1: And similarly, there are other exercises which have their own
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Speaker 1: purpose and outcomes.
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Speaker 1: Any exercise program has to have some structure and plan
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Speaker 1: every day. If you go and do whatever you feel
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Speaker 1: like it will not serve you. You have to have
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Speaker 1: a fixed plan and you have to continue to do
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Speaker 1: the same kind of exercise for a long period of
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Speaker 1: time to have the benefit. For example, if you go
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Speaker 1: to gym and lift weights, the purpose is usually to
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Speaker 1: build muscle and strength. And if you keep changing your
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Speaker 1: program every week or every two weeks, it is not
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Speaker 1: going to help you for any program to work,
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Speaker 1: you have to stick to the program for at least
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Speaker 1: four weeks so that you can see some results. And
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Speaker 1: that is why it is important that you have a
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Speaker 1: fixed program, something which is effective, something which meets your requirements.
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Speaker 1: And instead of going this solo and doing trial and error,
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Speaker 1: it is always best to hire an educated coach or
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Speaker 1: a trainer who can really prepare a plan for you
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Speaker 1: and something which is suitable to you and something which
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Speaker 1: can get you the results you're looking for.
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Speaker 1: The reason number four is having no nutritional strategy. Yes,
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Speaker 1: this is very, very common. Most people when they start
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Speaker 1: into fitness, the first thing they do is start some
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Speaker 1: kind of exercise, they go on a run or a
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Speaker 1: walk or do some yoga or do some body weight
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Speaker 1: exercises or do some stretching kind of thing. But very
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Speaker 1: few people actually think of changing their nutrition. Nowadays, there
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Speaker 1: is more awareness, more people are doing it. But still
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Speaker 1: the percentage of those people is very, very low
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Speaker 1: exercise alone will not get you. The results exercise in
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Speaker 1: itself has its own health benefits. But if you want
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Speaker 1: to get the best out of your fitness routine, the
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Speaker 1: best out of the effort you put in your workouts,
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Speaker 1: then you have to support it with proper nutrition. That
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Speaker 1: is where having a nutritional plan is important where you
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Speaker 1: have to control your food intake in terms of energy.
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Speaker 1: That is calories.
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Speaker 1: If you want to lose weight, you have to eat
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Speaker 1: fewer calories. If you want to gain weight, you have
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Speaker 1: to eat more calories. And if you want to maintain
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Speaker 1: your weight, you have to have the same calories as
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Speaker 1: you are burning
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Speaker 1: and there is a way to it. And if you
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Speaker 1: consult an educated coach or a trainer or let's say
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Speaker 1: a nutritionist, they can really help you in this matter.
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Speaker 1: The reason number five is extreme opposite of reason. Number four,
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Speaker 1: that is to follow a fat diet or highly restrictive diet.
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Speaker 1: The role of nutrition is to meet your requirements requirement.
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Speaker 1: Number one is your energy needs requirement. Number two is
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Speaker 1: to meet your nutritional needs. That is
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Speaker 1: you have to get all the nutrients like proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins, minerals,
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Speaker 1: trace metals and fiber and water. And the need. Number
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Speaker 1: three is pleasure. The food you're eating should be pleasurable
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Speaker 1: to you so that you can stick with it for
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Speaker 1: as long as you need to. Lot of people make
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Speaker 1: a mistake of falling prey to the marketing
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Speaker 1: messaging of different kinds of diets that may be intermittent
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Speaker 1: fasting or keto diet or low carb diet or, or
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Speaker 1: some kind of detox or some kind of juicing diet.
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Speaker 1: Regardless of what diet you follow, you have to understand
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Speaker 1: fundamentally that diet should fulfill all the three needs. That
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Speaker 1: is your energy needs, your nutritional needs and the pleasure
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Speaker 1: you draw from having the food. The problem with restrictive
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Speaker 1: kind of diets is it may be very inconvenient for
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Speaker 1: you to follow that kind of eating style
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Speaker 1: or you may be missing out on your favorite food items.
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Speaker 1: Let's say if you follow a keto diet, you may
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Speaker 1: have to give up on the sweets and snacks, which
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Speaker 1: you like very much. But rather a better approach is
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Speaker 1: to follow a diet which meets all your nutritional needs
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Speaker 1: and also do not restrict you from having your favorite
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Speaker 1: food items. Of course, some of your favorite food items
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Speaker 1: may not be conducted to your fitness goals, but that
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Speaker 1: does not mean you have to completely restrict us. The
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Speaker 1: key here is moderation.
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Speaker 1: If you're a person who likes to have sweets and
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Speaker 1: if you're forbidden from having sweets, eventually you'll start having
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Speaker 1: cravings and you may end up binge eating on your
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Speaker 1: favorite food items. When the pressure goes out of your control.
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Speaker 1: That is why it is important to have a diet
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Speaker 1: which is tailor made to you, which is custom made
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Speaker 1: to you, which takes care of all your nutritional needs,
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Speaker 1: which is convenient for you and something which you love
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Speaker 1: to follow. That is how it becomes sustainable and that
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Speaker 1: is how it works for you. For that. You have
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Speaker 1: to
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Speaker 1: understand how nutrition works or you have to hire a
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Speaker 1: coach or a trainer or a nutritionist who can help
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Speaker 1: you in this matter reason. Number six, for your fitness
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Speaker 1: failure is not having track of what you're doing again.
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Speaker 1: This is related to all the points I've stated earlier.
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Speaker 1: If you don't have a fixed training plan, you don't
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Speaker 1: know what you're doing. If you don't track the progress
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Speaker 1: you're making in your workouts, then you don't know if
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Speaker 1: your training is working
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Speaker 1: again. If you're not tracking your workouts, you will not
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Speaker 1: be able to see if you're making progress in your fitness.
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Speaker 1: And if you're making progress in your fitness, if your
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Speaker 1: performance is going up, it will be very, very motivating
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Speaker 1: for you to continue in your exercise routine. If you're
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Speaker 1: not tracking your diet,
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Speaker 1: in terms of how much food you're eating, it may
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Speaker 1: be calorie counting or it may be just portion control.
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Speaker 1: If you're not tracking, if you're getting enough nutrients and
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Speaker 1: especially when it comes to fitness, you have to make
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Speaker 1: sure that you are eating high protein diet.
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Speaker 1: And when it comes to health, you have to take
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Speaker 1: care of all nutrients like vitamins, minerals, trace metals. If
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Speaker 1: you're having healthy fats or no, are you having enough
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Speaker 1: fiber or are you drinking enough water? All these things really,
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Speaker 1: really matter when it comes to long term health outcomes.
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Speaker 1: And then there are your results. Results may be the
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Speaker 1: progress in your fitness levels. If you're into lifting weights,
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Speaker 1: it should be in the form of
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Speaker 1: muscle growth and strength gain. If you're into losing weight
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Speaker 1: and losing body fat, you should track your body weight
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Speaker 1: and your body measurements and body fat percentage. And in general,
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Speaker 1: you may also take progress pictures so that you have
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Speaker 1: a comparison how your body is changing.
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Speaker 1: The purpose of tracking is to be in control of
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Speaker 1: your process, be in control of your training, your nutrition
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Speaker 1: and your outcomes. If you're getting expected outcomes or results,
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Speaker 1: then it will motivate you to continue what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: And if you're not getting the results, which you expect,
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Speaker 1: then it means you have to make changes to your
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Speaker 1: training and nutrition. That is the purpose of tracking. And
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Speaker 1: a lot of people
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Speaker 1: may see some results may see some progress without tracking
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Speaker 1: in the initial stage of their fitness journey. But as
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Speaker 1: you get into the fitness routine, few months after that,
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Speaker 1: the results will slow down and you have to track
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Speaker 1: to see if you're making progress or not. And without tracking,
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Speaker 1: you'll not be able to stick to your fitness lifestyle
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Speaker 1: for a long period of time.
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Speaker 1: And those are the topic reasons why you might be
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Speaker 1: failing in your fitness.
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Speaker 1: I hope this episode has been helpful to you and
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Speaker 1: it has given you a better idea about how to
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Speaker 1: go about your fitness lifestyle.
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