Making Fitness Fit: How to Stay Consistent & Prioritize Your Health with Chad Austin

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hi and welcome to the you. World order, showcase podcast where we feature life, health, transformational coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs, stepping up to be the change they seek in the world. I'm Jill Hart. The coaches alchemist on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs, amplify their voice, monetize their mission and get visible leveraging podcasts and a million plus audience. Over on the Gnostic TV network.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Today, we are chatting with Chad. Austin Chad is a performance results coach. He has

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: over 20 years of experience as a personal trainer, strength, coach educator, and is the founder of the fitness pivot which is designed to help you fit fitness back into your life. Whether you're struggling to find the time or motivation to work out, he will help you take a different approach to wellness by recommending a training program for you that fits you based on your unique goals, schedule and lifestyle. Welcome to the show, Chad. It's really great to have you here.

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Chad Austin: Thanks for having me on.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So we're gonna ask you the big question, are you ready?

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah.

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Chad Austin: What's the most significant thing in your opinion, we can do as individuals to make the greatest impact on how the world is going.

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Chad Austin: I think, 100% it is. Take care of yourself so you can show up as the best version of yourself. It always it comes back to what you hear every time you go on a flight these days, that you got to put the oxygen mask on yourself 1st before you can help other people. And so if you're showing up

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Chad Austin: to, not, you're showing up to world as a negative part side of yourself, or a grumpy side of yourself, or just a, you know, depressed or sad, or anxious, or stress part of yourself weak, part of yourself, then you're not helping anyone. And so that is why fitness is such a big part of my life, and it's why I have such a passion for helping other people make it theirs.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love that. So what do you think causes people to fall off the track of the fitness plan? I mean.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, 20 years in now, I have learned definitely. The answer to this is something that is fitness, professional. When you, you help people, and then you. And then at some point, those results don't stick, and you gotta. And you're it's coming back around for you to help them again. And you, you always have this question, what what could I have done differently, or what you know even, or if my own fitness results too, whenever I've come off fallen off track.

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Chad Austin: And I've definitely learned the common factor that whenever we do fall off track with our fitness routine, it's not of lack of us wanting to be fit. It's that life's changes has happened. Life's unexpected curveballs that none of us are immune to. We all are. None of us are immune to life's changes and obstacles and adversity that we're inevitably going to go through. But I found that when those happen in life

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Chad Austin: we're really good at adapting to them when it comes to our family, our career, our faith, and the most important things in our life.

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Chad Austin: But when it comes to our health, it's always the thing we're going to table till later. It's always the thing we're going to get to later, because we don't think we can now. And

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Chad Austin: and that is that that is ultimately what gets us to kind of fall off track. We're not adapting to life's changes. So we're still trying to fit fitness in a way.

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Chad Austin: fitness in our life in a way that it no longer fits us. And that is really I've learned to be the golden rule that sounds like common sense, but it's so hard for us to grasp. Is that what you do for fitness has to fit in your life? You can. You can force something to fit for a while that doesn't necessarily fit in your life. But the longer you do that, the more it's going to hurt the other things in your life that matter most like your family, your career, your relationships. And so eventually, you're going to be in a

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Chad Austin: place where

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Chad Austin: that's the thing that doesn't fit, and it won't be there anymore. So fitting fitness in our life in a way that it fits is how we can stop from getting onto that inconsistency roller coaster. We all get stuck on.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That's really profound. I never actually thought about it that way. But it's

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I can see how you know you start out.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know, most people have some sort of a fitness routine when they're young, because, you know, you're young and you have lots of energy. And then life starts happening and different thing. You know, kids come along or you have a job, or you change jobs. And so what worked for you in the one position

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: isn't really convenient for you and the other. But instead of trying to figure out and adapt.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: we don't really have resources out there that help us figure out how to go from like we were doing it this way over here. But how can we do it

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: in a way that works for this new change that's happened in our life.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah.

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Chad Austin: We really have a tough time changing. And I think it's you know, we have to remind ourselves, like even professional athletes. You know, they go through seasons. They're not working as hard as they can all year round. They, their intensity, their volume, and everything of training changes throughout the course of the year, but it's always a part of their life. And so that sometimes I think we get stuck on that like that, we're, you know.

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Chad Austin: doing, we have to realize doing less does not make it less of a priority. And I think sometimes we get stuck on that like we want to pick up where we left off. We want to do what we did the last time. We had great results. And that doesn't necessarily fit our life anymore, because we so because our life is different now.

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Chad Austin: like I know, I can't work out the same way I did 20 years ago when I 1st became a trainer, and I was brand new to Kansas City. I lived right behind the gym. I was single. I was a brand new trainer to a gym that already had 15 trainers, so I didn't have that many clients yet, and so I worked out 2 HA day every single day I was in amazing shape.

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Chad Austin: But now I'm married, I have a business, I speak, I write, I drag my own in person clients. I do all these different things. It just would not fit in my schedule to try to work out like I did then, but if I tried to force it, thinking, that's the only way I can do it. Then it would hurt all the other aspects of my life. And so that is something we get kind of stuck on, and how we get stuck on that inconsistency where fitness is just a part of our life and spur.

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Chad Austin: because we'd never really adapt to how it fits. Now, after our life has changed.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And do you think that fitness.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: our fitness goals change as as we get older? I mean, I just from listening to you. You're talking about. You know, when you were young you were doing like 2 HA day in the gym every day, and and then, as you you progress, I mean you. You're still very fit, but your your goals for what? What is fit changes.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, it's not only our goals, our own definition of fitness changes. So that's when I 1st start with a client. When I 1st start helping someone. That's the 1st thing I help them realize that they that they need to do is redefine what fitness means to them right now, it's like our definition of changes or our definition of fitness changes, and also, or maybe another way to think of it is what fitness means to us changes. It's like all of my clients, it may be different. It's different now

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Chad Austin: for me than it was like, I said when I was in my twenties. It might have been all about being as lean as I could, or as strong as I could, being as big of muscles as I could have back then. And now it's more probably, I mean, that's always. Those are always important in how we look.

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Chad Austin: But it's more important now. Probably. My, how I handle my anxiety, how I handle my stress, how I handle my energy, how I can show up as my most confident self, be energetic, and for my dad or for my mom, maybe more, about being able to live pain free, or being able to be active grandparents and have energy to do all the things they did 20 years ago when I was a kid as a grandparent. And so our definition changes, and we have to adapt to how it changes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I know, at 65. My goals are more like I need to stay flexible. I need to have consistent movement in my life rather than just being sedentary. It used to be all about, you know, weight loss and trying to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: look a certain way. And now I think you know, I don't really care about that so much.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Eating better is is a priority for me.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and and paying attention to sleep patterns and and things like that. And exercise really does come into play in those areas, too, as you as you age, you know.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: staying active.

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Chad Austin: Absolutely it does. I mean, it's just it, and it's

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Chad Austin: it may look differently, but it's still serving the same purpose. And so and that's it's just. It's tough for us to grasp sometimes. But yeah, it works less is not make it less of a priority. But it's it's got to be there. You have to find a place for it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So how do we get off that inconsistency roller, coaster and make health a bigger priority.

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Chad Austin: Basically, Joe, I have it. Of course I go through with my clients called the cleanse and Reset, and so the cleanse is a little bit of what I said a second ago, where it's redefining what fitness means to you.

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Chad Austin: But you do the cleanse and reset every time after a life change happens so every time, and I've learned that the life changes that cause us to fall off track. It doesn't matter if it's a good change or a bad change, or big or small, if it disrupts your routine and disrupts how fitness fit in your life before, and you don't adapt to it. Then you're going to end up in a place where fitness is not a part of your life, and the longer you're in this place where fitness is not a part of your life, the farther you get away from being the best

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Chad Austin: version of yourself, and then the deeper the desire for us to get change is, and which makes us then easy prey for all the scams and stuff out there where our judgment gets the most clouded for for things we would normally not not fall for right, which is, it's just which is just. It's funny to think about. But it's actually absolutely true. It's like that's when that's when our judgment gets clouded and we we don't we? It's like our.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Bacon.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, yeah, we want the turkey bacon. We want all of the anything that's going to give us fast results. Right?

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Chad Austin: But the way you get off of it is just simply adapting. And so it's it's very simple. The cleanse and reset. I have. People go through defining what fitness means to you, and then the next part is figuring out how fitness fits. So whenever a client comes back in my life, or a client is restarting with me for the 1st time, or starting with me for the 1st time. And basically I'll learn what obstacles, what challenges that stop them from having fitness in their life the last time it from the last time they were in good shape.

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Chad Austin: And and so we'll basically let them know we're not. We're not picking up where you left off.

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Chad Austin: That's what you want to do every time. Your desire is the best for the highest for change. We think of the last time we were in great shape right the last time. We had great success, and whatever we did then that becomes the bar, like whatever we did for our workouts, whatever we did for our meal plan. That's the bar, and like doing anything less than that is not enough. And it's something we'd almost be ashamed of. So that's how we get to the spot where I don't have time.

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Chad Austin: We'll get to it later, because we can't do that and telling people just to get rid of that way of thinking, reframe that way of thinking. That's not all or none. It's just because you're doing less, doesn't make it less of a priority. But you have to take a bird's eye view of your life now, like, what does my family schedule look like? What does my work schedule look like? What are all my passions look like, and what time pieces have already taken up?

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Chad Austin: And where does fitness fit right now? And it may look different than it did before, but all you got to do is figure out where it fits, and that way you can use it as the tool it's supposed to be, which is to help you become the best version of yourself.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: When you talk about cleansing, are you talking about like the

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: the dietary cleanse? Or are you talking about.

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Chad Austin: No, I really I when I came up with it, it was really just I realized this. These were such good questions I wanted everyone to answer and like, Well, how do everyone wants to do a cleanse? I'll call it a cleanse, because everyone wants to want to do that. But no, this is really more of a cleanse for your mind. It's nothing for your body, it's a cleanse for your mind, so just like a cleanse would rid your your body of toxins or things that aren't doing you any favors. This is ridding your mind of bad

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Chad Austin: of thinking. That's not doing you any favors, and helping you, reassess and kind of refurbish, I guess, into what does fit you and suit you the best right now towards your goals. So.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So do you do this coaching one on one? Is it a group? Is it a course? How? How does all that look? I know you do it like

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: in person in Kansas. But for the rest of us who aren't don't live there, who aren't in

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: this anymore.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, this is available for everybody on my website. thefitnesspivot.com. That's easy to find. Right is right above my head. Here, thefitnesspivot.com. That's where you can find me, and that is a free service that I give is the cleanse and reset which is priceless. And so that is a phrase I've coined is the fitness, fisherman. And that came from the saying, you know you give someone a fish. You feed them for a day. If you teach someone to fish, you feed them for the rest of your life.

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Chad Austin: I think anyone that's been a personal trainer for a long time, which for me. It's about 20 years now, you know, you learn early on before you know it. So this is really your career, that a tough lesson, which is that, you know.

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Chad Austin: short term motivation leads to short term results. It's like most people. I started my career at 24 h fitness. That's a really big gym. You train a lot of people and you'll learn right away that people come to a personal trainer fueled by short term results. So if you're listening right now, this may be you from you. Can 0 back on a time where this was you where you started with with someone you started full force because you had something coming up. You wanted results, for it could be a wedding.

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Chad Austin: a vacation reunion, a trip or an event you were training for. You weren't fast results for something, but if you never took the time to look past that event.

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Chad Austin: then, once that event came and went, all the motivation to do. Your work is gone with it, and then so that makes it towards you. Know all those results you got are just going to be temporary. All that hard work you put in is just going to be temporary, and that sucks as someone that's in a field because he likes helping people. That's not what I signed up for. I want to make an impact long after my time with my clients is over, and that is what the cleanse and reset course, the really simple questions

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Chad Austin: you learn to ask yourself, but it'll help teach you how to adapt to life changes so that you can. You can keep fitness a part of your life, no matter what is going on in your life, so that you have the ability then to show up to life as your best, no matter if things are going good or bad, and that that is what a fitness fisherman to me is.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love that love that. So how do donuts fit into this.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, there's a. There's a chapter in my book series. I had to make fitness. A priority was my 1st book that started years back when I kind of when I, all my content, started kind of coming to me in speeches and writing. But when I was a college athlete I was a wrestler, and when I was a freshman, my coach, he had a handbook for us, and and part of it. One of the lessons in there was how to

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Chad Austin: how to be a dragon slayer, and so dragons these were all the things that could get a 19 year old college freshman, wrestler in trouble during the course of a season, so you can kind of let your mind go of what all those things could possibly be.

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Chad Austin: But and so, and I've always remembered that, and and I used it when I was a teacher and coach as well. But the donuts to me donuts I use the word donuts, because to me donuts are both the best and worst thing on the planet they can be my favorite treat or cheat meal I've been waiting for, or if I'm not in a good headspace for that cheat meal, they could be the downward spiral that starts to get me off

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Chad Austin: track of my food right but the donuts. And so that whenever you start a fitness plan especially for for a majority of us that have had a different many different fitness plans and restarted fitness many times. You know we know certain obstacles that are going to show up, because our history tells us these are some things are going to be a challenge for me at a certain point. These are going to be obstacles I have to overcome. These are this is what stopped gotten my way in the past.

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Chad Austin: so we can plan on those. But your donuts are the curveballs you can't see coming. These are the things that you cannot plan on that you have to learn to adapt to at the time, and there'd be easy excuses to say, because of the donut, or I can't get my workout in, but there is still a way, and so an example would be the bad weather. Donut. So this means you're you're trying to get up and do a walk or a run before work.

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Chad Austin: and you have everything ready. You set yourself up for success. You have your running shoes out, you got your workout clothes on top of it, so you can just hit your alarm. Get dressed and go out the door, and you do all that, and you open the door, and it's pouring down rain. So you think, okay, I could run in the rain. But if I'm really against that, then

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Chad Austin: how am I still going to get my work out. I wasn't planning on this as a curveball, so I could use it as excuse not to do it, or I could find a way. There's always a way. And when the don't to be a donut slayer, there's basically you have. You have the only resource you need to be a donut slayer, and that is your own brain.

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Chad Austin: There is always a way to either find an excuse or find a way to overcome that obstacle. And so that is what a donut slayer is. A donut is the curveball you couldn't plan on. But if you're a donut slayer, then it won't stop you, you'll still find a way.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Help people find other alternatives to use as like backups, because

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I get the weather donut. I walk with my husband, and he's

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: he fell the last time we were out there, and it was. There was a little bit of ice on the road, but.

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Chad Austin: Yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You know we're older.

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Chad Austin: It's it's that way.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Be here!

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Chad Austin: Now and.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Fall. Yeah.

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Chad Austin: Oh, I get it, I mean as a jogger or a runner. Whenever I'm doing that, I as a hardest time is, I mean I can handle cold. I don't like it as much. I got to be really in a workout zone to want to do it, but when it's slick that's the worst. If you're running, especially if you're running with a pet. I mean, if you're just if you kind of slip and almost fall one time, that's enough to scare you for going forward, because you never know when you're going to hit those patches. So I mean, I totally get that.

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Chad Austin: But I mean being a donut slayer, I'll tell you it is a is a practice. You're not always going to get it right, but it's just learning every time, you know, coming back. Well, how could I have overcome this if I wanted? What could I have done differently next time? It's a practice you're not going to get right every time, but every time you slay a donut the next one gets easier. So just you have to have that going into it. Have that mindset.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah. And and there's there's things you can do instead of like.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you know, you have backup workout things that you can do.

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Chad Austin: You got to pivot right? So that's kind of where the fitness pivot came from. It's when plan a no longer fits. How do you pivot to plan B, so and there's so much I mean, it's such a learned behavior. But the thing is, we know how to do this behavior, because we already do it with our family, with our job, you know, if something comes up in life. But your kid has a game.

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Chad Austin: and coming up, you're not going to miss that. You're gonna find a way to still overcome everything and be there for your kid or for your spouse, or if you have a deadline at work, you're gonna find a way still to get it done.

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Chad Austin: We naturally use this skill. We have to overcome obstacles and find a way when it comes to our family, our career, everything else. But with it come to our fitness. It's always something. We give it a pass, so we can put it off till later. We can table it, or oh, we couldn't do it today we had. I mean that we justified it because of the donut. And so, but there's always a way we just have to learn how to use that skill we have and practice.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I like that a lot. So you have the make yourself a priority starter. Kit, you wanna talk about that for a sec.

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Chad Austin: Yeah, the make yourself a priority starter, Kit. It's a gift from me for all the listeners that that hear me speak whenever I speak and you can get it at thefitnesspivot.com. You go to my website

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Chad Austin: scroll. Just a tad bit. It'll pop right up on the screen and you can get it, but it is a free copy of my 1st book, so make fitness a priority how to win the fight against your excuses. That was my 1st book ended up being 2 books and then 3 books, and then a whole community. So it's been kind of a growth for mine for about 10 years. Now and then you also get an action course with it which is, win. The fight against your excuses is the name of the action course. So it's just short, little

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Chad Austin: good little stuff of good content. Good call to action steps that you can take right away. That may be new steps for you. You haven't done before. That will be something that you'll you'll take away and remember, and also you get an invite into our community. And so and that is that is important. Whenever, especially on a fitness journey.

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Chad Austin: you don't have to surround yourself with. So, Jim Rohn, I think he says you are the average of the 5 people you're surrounded by, and that I don't. I mean, I do believe that to a certain point, but it doesn't. I don't believe that you have to get rid of people in your life that aren't on the same mission of you. But I do believe you need people in your life who are going to be supportive of what you're doing. So, if you only have people in your life

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Chad Austin: who are not going to be supportive or worse, are going to dismiss all of your wins. Then it's that's toxic for you, and it's you're setting yourself up to fail. So I mean, especially if you're starting a fitness journey, you have a big goal like a big weight loss goal, or you're training for a marathon or something like that. You know it's a long way to that finish line, and you can't focus on that. You have to focus on all the wins you got to stack the wins and celebrate each one of them and focus on

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Chad Austin: that on the way there. And you need to be surrounded by people who are going to celebrate with you, not dismiss those. And so that welcoming you into our community is the least I can do. It's full of people who are on the same mission, as you are going to cheer for you, and are going to help you get up. But you fall.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I love it, I love it. My husband says victory is the winning is the sum of small victories.

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Chad Austin: Absolutely. Yup!

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Gotta gotta remember those. So I'd like to thank you today for joining us today, Chad, and thank those of you tuning in and to learn more about Chad and making yourself a priority, visit thefitnesspivot.com. And we'll be putting that link in the show notes, too.

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