Get comfortable being uncomfortable.. Brilliant.. As humans we run from that but it's our greatest teacher.. Adversity

Awesome awesome chat, thank you so much, so so many gold nuggets.

I'm really glad that Rangan kept asking about how this can be applied to those of us who aren't regularly exercising and going to the gym. I am struggling with depression and anxiety. Looking for answers on KZread and Rangan's podcasts & books. I KNOW exercise is the answer, but I am struggling to self-motivate when everything feels pointless & hard work. It's so hard to battle a depressed mindset. It tells me things like if you start exercising you'll only end up having to do more! I was trying to take home the positives you spoke of, to 'just get started', but I have such low self-esteem that I've ended up feeling that maybe I'm just not the right personality type for this to work on. Maybe Rangan & Ross are certain "winning/competitive/stubborn" (in a good way!) personality types. I just don't feel at all like that. I'm not at all competive. I had it beaten out of me as a child. Dominant parent actively sort to break my spirit. Now I just feel defeated by my life circumstances. No money, no job, no partner etc. But then I do believe in science, so I think to myself that the science of human biology applies to all of us, we all evolved the same...so if I can just push myself... I do really appreciate what you are trying to do to empower people to be the architects of their own health, Rangan. I want to get well so I can help people achieve holistic wellbeing too. I'm deperately looking for answers. Don't want to go back to anti-depressants. The intrinsic thing is so hard when depressed, and everything feels like a massive effort. Even cooking an evening meal, let alone running or swimming for miles! Ross seems superhuman to me! I've been trying to use mindfulness & gratitude to try to find tiny little happinesses to motivate and make myself feel better. Even just watching from my window, how beautiful the leaves on the trees look when blown by the breeze... I know getting out into nature helps and costs nothing, but sometimes I struggle to even go out into my own garden! Especially when my neighbours are out there being loud, it makes my anxiety worse. But I've found listening to Rangan's podcast on headphones helps get me out into fresh air and to block the noise out. I don't know if this will help anyone else struggling like me. I've rambled on too long. I will take from this podcast, 2 points 1) To push myself to step out of my (tiny, shrinking) comfort zone and 2) To just start somewhere! Thank you both!

@spacered949

4 жыл бұрын

Josy Posy I was you 6 months ago, exactly same situation, off antidepressants, shit job and social life, anxiety at the max. Using all my will power to research tips tricks hacks and plan my day/week.... then feel like total shit when I failed miserably. What changed for me? I accepted my position, and put all my focus into daily exercise. Getting yourself and the rest of your life together is soooo much easier when you have the baseline of daily exercise. You don’t just feel better, but you think better, daily exercise makes antidepressants look like skittles. How to put your focus on daily exercise? Do it the first thing. The mornings are the hardest and impact the rest of your day. I start every day by getting up, changing into gym wear, going to the gym and sitting in the bike machine. As soon as I wake up I repeat the mantra “get to the bike, get to the bike, get to the bike”. It’s all I allow myself to think, if something else comes to mind I just forcefully think ‘no, I can think about that later... get to the bike, get to the bike’ Forget trying to fix your job or your mood or your social life or whatever else. I found it impossible to fix that stuff without the baseline of daily exercise. Get to the bike. Reply if you have any questions mate.

@spacered949

4 жыл бұрын

Also, you don’t need to have an intense work out, even if it’s only 5 mins of light peddling, the routine and development of self discipline is what’s important at first. After it becomes a habit you’ll naturally increase the workout intensity. Don’t pressure yourself to do a certain amount, don’t pressure yourself in any other aspect of your life. Don’t even pressure yourself to do other things after the gym. The only focus is that first 30mins in the morning, get to the bike.

@josyposy1626

4 жыл бұрын

@@spacered949 thank you so much for taking the time and trouble to reply to me. It really helps coming from someone that's been through it. Your mantra tip of "get to the bike" will really help focus me. It's a great tip for everyone. It makes so much sense what you said about putting exercise first, so then you can focus on whatever else needs doing. I'm really going to give it a go. Also great advice about not putting pressure on. I have an exercise step in my kitchen and I was thinking even if I don't get out of the house to exercise maybe if I just concentrate on going on the step for even just one song! At least it would help get my heart rate up and get me moving. Thanks again. Good luck with your recovery too 😊

@BeardyBaldyBob

4 жыл бұрын

I'd also add, if you slip up, don't be too hard on yourself! If you miss a workout, or slip and smash a greasy burger, don't be too hard on yourself or you'll get despondent and depressed. Learn to forgive yourself, pick yourself right back up, and get back on it. As long as you get right back on it you'll be fine, EVERYONE slips up occasionally. I used to get seriously bummed out if I missed workouts or ate something unhealthy, but once I learned to just forgive myself, resolve to try harder and get right back on program, it made a big difference to my state of mind. And little slip ups happen less and less until it all just becomes second nature to eat right and exercise without it feeling like a chore. 👍

@steffanmorrishernandez5497

3 жыл бұрын

Even acknowledging these fears and things that hold you back is a great first step. That awareness is what will push you forward in the future. My advice would be, try to stick to a routine but don't try too many things at once. One step at a time. One day at a time. By slowly changing your existing routine and mindset to a more positive one, your mindset will begin to shift creating habitual positive thought processes. Keep listening to inspiring podcasts and being in nature like you said. You'll be okay mate. One step at a time.

So great! Thanks guys!! Found my okugake in the last couple of weeks and starting the research and training 💪

I'm a simple man, I see Ross, I watch, I smash the like button

So true.. U need a why.. When u have a why, u won't give up

Ross has done some impressive fears and I love his first book. I am however a little confused in the message he is trying to put across hear. On the one hand he is saying that people should follow a general approach to fitness and then he says that concurrent training dilutes the training effect. Maybe theirs a way of structuring multiple fitness modalities that he doesn't enlighten us with here. I'm looking forward to the release of his next book, it's a long time to wait until May hope it doesn't disappoint.

@simpletraveler.mp4

4 жыл бұрын

He talks about it by pointing out specifically that, "doing it in a single training session dilutes it" ( 53:00 ). You get around it by separating the training across the days of a week, which allows your body to adapt. In a single session your body doesn't know which to adapt to, but doing one style one day and another style another day, it gives you body something to adapt to specifically. Another option is training 3 months one style, and 3 months another style. Training from both methodology will carry over to the other in a general fitness sense. i.e. training for a triathlon - day 1: running, day 2: swimming, day 3: cycling, and so on. another method is having two training sessions in a day, morning workout one way, and evening workout the other way.

@russelldawson720

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your reply, I did watch the podcast again and saw the explanation you talk about. I'm wondering weather crossfit workouts where running or rowing are quite often combined with barbell exercises would be considered less than optimal. Also I think that using three month blocks like you suggest in unrelated disciplines, say deadlift and cycling would result in a massive retraining in the first exercise by the time the second block is complete. I think my point is that training multiple fitness elements is complicated.

@simpletraveler.mp4

4 жыл бұрын

@@russelldawson720 I get what you're saying but i'd argue that it's not as complicated as it seems with training multiple fitness elements. Ross also points it out later down the road on his explanation that it's quite beneficial to be a multi-sport athlete. Even more so there are numerous cases of pro athletes who were multi-sport athletes before specialising in one, and they tend to be the better performing athletes compared to those who only specialised in just one sport. Sure your body has a period of adjustment, say in your example deadlift to cycling, but your body benefit from both disciplines in which the fitness from one will help the other. Like the power developed from deadlifting will help tremendously in your ability to generate power in cycling. Yeah your endurance may not be there, but then you'll develop that from the cycling training and the increase in cardio endurance will in turn help improve your deadlifts, number of reps or increasing your work capacity to increase the amount of weight you can deadlift. As for your thoughts on crossfit, I can't really comment on that. I dont have experience or knowledge of the sport to be able to give a substantiated answer. Furthermore, I'd be curious to see if there are differences in the benefits of the two styles of training. 3 months of deadlifting and 3 months of cycling versus alternating deadlift days and cycling days for 6 months.

@russelldawson720

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for conversing with me on this. I agree you can work multiple fitness modalities at once and as a beginner you will make gains in both, however if you want to excel specialization is required. And to do that something has to at least take a back seat. You cannot be a champion power lifter and marathon runner. GPP is good for someone new to fitness or searching to find where they excell. However once you find this, if you want to win you need specialization. Maybe supplemented with some general work in the off season to correct imbalances. Since watching the podcast I have started to 're read Ross's book in which he says this, always nice to debate these things though. Thank you.

Ross you are fucking hyper here wtf, don't know you this way haha. Big fan, thanks for the podcast!

3:40 and on gear

If someone natural can do this, now that would be crazy

ive just notice Dr Chatterjee's posture.

Mel robbins

rumor has it that performance enhancing drugs can help , too.....However, a strong, bulletproof mind will get you everwhere

Oh what he meant was that good genetics gets you as far as you want 😂. Of course everyone wants the super human aspect of their own nature but you have too be born with it sorry