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[SPEAKER_00]: Hey power at the nation, I am gonna take a slight detour in the beginning of 2026 and do a slightly different format than we've ever done in a power at the radio.

[SPEAKER_00]: Normally we always have a guest, whether it be virtual or in person, but this time I'm gonna talk directly to you and see if we can maybe set up a slightly different format on this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, if you love it, give me a thumbs up, tell me I'm doing a great job.

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[SPEAKER_00]: But what I wanted to do is share some of the interactions that I've had in the last few months, especially leading up to our January Res program, where we do an annual deal for training, and then you get a nutrition set up and then also a consult.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I do a ton of consults.

[SPEAKER_00]: And one of the share some of the questions that I get on those consults, but also some of the questions I've been getting towards info.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, [SPEAKER_00]: The January rises very dynamic, and at this time of year, people don't fail because they're lazy.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know there's just feeling that, these guys are lazy, they're not gonna make it, but they fail because they're inconsistent, they're distracted, and they're jumping between plans.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the most well-laid intentions will fail without solid execution and support.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what we do here at PowerFlate.

[SPEAKER_00]: We support you in every way, whether it be in the training, putting the game plan together with the consults.

[SPEAKER_00]: All of these are just little stones [SPEAKER_00]: structure that looks like your life you're training and how we help you get there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So today I'm not so in your motivation.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're just going to lay out some ground rules that help you produce results over the long haul and I'm going to back into them for questions.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let me discuss seven questions that I've gotten recently and then I'm going to give you a rule to stand on so that as you go forward if these things pop up or you encounter them, you know how to combat them.

[SPEAKER_00]: because at power athlete, because it's pretty simple.

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[SPEAKER_00]: So let's get into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right.

[SPEAKER_00]: So question number one, if training could be reduced to a single non-negotiable rule, what is it?

[SPEAKER_00]: And why do most people consistently fail to follow it?

[SPEAKER_00]: pretty good question and I'll just go with consistency as can't.

[SPEAKER_00]: The person that is able to train with the greatest relative intensity over time is the one that meets their goals.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, well, I didn't say intensity in terms of, you know, the person that trains the hardest because if you go into the gym and you absolutely slay it that day.

[SPEAKER_00]: and you're so physically drained and beat up and sore and you can't do it, you can't get back in the gym for three or four days.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we're not going to be able to continue to stack in that move, the dirt mentality, where you're doing a little bit every single day, tends to fall by the wayside.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we see a lot of people that have all this motivation, you know.

[SPEAKER_00]: January 1 comes in, you know, they strap it up and they're the resolutionist and they're going to charge over that hill like Mel Gibson and the Patriot and they're going to take, you know, everybody out and they're going to meet their goals this year and this is the the year that they're not going to be stopped.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what we see is we see a ton of motivation [SPEAKER_00]: and not a lot of consistency because they go hard out the gate and then all of a sudden life gets into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Meals get into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Significant others get into it.

[SPEAKER_00]: All the other things that kind of happen within our lives start to kind of attach like rust or barnacles and sort of weighing us down.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what I've asked people to do is just be consistent.

[SPEAKER_00]: Give me as much as you can today so that you have enough time and enough physical ability to continue to do something tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like with the zone two work that we, you know, prescribe them a lot of different training programs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't need you to do it every day, but if you can, that's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you can, I just need four days a week.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you can give me two days on one day office, which is the cadence that I follow.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's very consistent and very easy for me to follow.

[SPEAKER_00]: I wake up first in the morning and I have to pay the man.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to give a [SPEAKER_00]: a tip of the hat to to to my boy Josh for the pay the man and I look at you know what I jump on that echo bike that I owe that thing you know 30 minutes and you know being able to kind of hit some of that zone too stuff helps me with all my autonomic systems helps with sleeping helps with just [SPEAKER_00]: everything else being a little bit better, but also for my knee.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that's one of the things that's kind of a non-negotiable for me.

[SPEAKER_00]: I got to get up and I got to get some aerobic work done, just gets me moving, and then within my training space, we have a certain amount of training that needs to be done each week, and I look at them on a weekly basis.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, if something comes up and I miss a day, I just kind of push it to the next, or I just kind of go on, but I know that as long as I have seven days to be able to get [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, and uh, right now I'm having to throw in rehab because I had knee surgery in December.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I've been pretty consistent three or four days a week going over and getting rehab and trying to get a range of motion back.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, um, no person.

[SPEAKER_00]: able to kind of just peek and hit it once and those effects are able to kind of continue on.

[SPEAKER_00]: Its consistency is king and the person that's like I said is able to train with the greatest relative intensity for the longest period of time is the one that meets their goals.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what I want you to do [SPEAKER_00]: just take a deep breath, take a step back, and don't feel defeated, and realize that we have 12 months, 365 days, 52 weeks, and that the marker for 2026 is what you do over those 52 weeks.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not what happens within the first couple weeks in January, so I look at that as kind of like warming up.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, when I jump on the bike or we start training, there's always a bunch of warm-up, there's a bunch of prep and all the different programs we put out.

[SPEAKER_00]: That prep is just getting you ready.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, [SPEAKER_00]: getting ready to launch a boat like we're getting everything ready the motors are warmed up everything's you know ready to get this thing in the water and take off that's just about getting ready so consistency is king and I just want you to think about you know consistency that we're going to judge everybody based on what they're able to do over 52 new weeks not what they do in the first month or even a few a couple weeks in January so stay consistent.

[SPEAKER_00]: question number two, people don't fail with good programming.

[SPEAKER_00]: They fail because their training doesn't match their lives and their needs or their current schedules change.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do I combat this?

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a pretty good one too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Rule two, know what you're training for.

[SPEAKER_00]: I taught a lot of seminars, when we were doing CrossFit football, I taught a shitload of seminars.

[SPEAKER_00]: And everybody that came was [SPEAKER_00]: I can't say everybody was amazing, but I was definitely impressed that everybody showed up at eight in the morning to let me thrash on them and my coaches beat on them for two days.

[SPEAKER_00]: And anybody that showed up to that thing gets a tip of the hat.

[SPEAKER_00]: But one of the questions that always popped up where people would kind of give me these, hey, you know, what if I'm doing this?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm training here and I'm doing all these things and people like wanted to like keep talking about, [SPEAKER_00]: this training system or this exercise in this and I always took a step back and would always couch it with what are you training for?

[SPEAKER_00]: What's the intended outcome?

[SPEAKER_00]: What are you looking to do?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because people were like, you know, I'm going to use cross a football and I'm going to follow cross it endurance and then I'm going to mix in the outlaw way and [SPEAKER_00]: and now I'm really dating myself because it's just really old.

[SPEAKER_00]: But people were trying to create these like secret squirrel hybrids and they never really came forward and told me what they were training for and I asked them, what's the intended outcome?

[SPEAKER_00]: What are you training for?

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was always at that time like when the CrossFit Games.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know, you guys are hatching a pretty good plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: But [SPEAKER_00]: If I was, and I'm obviously, I competed in the crossing games, but I can't say I'm, and so they're crossing games highlighted athlete, but those guys that are training are doing it very, very specifically, and they know what they're training for to try to podium with the games.

[SPEAKER_00]: So whether you're training to be the best version of yourself and trying to win the crossing games, you're trying to make it in a win a college scholarship or get to the NFL, it helps to know your destination.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think the old, or there's an old saying that says, you know, a boat without a destination is just floating around aimlessly.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the one thing that we don't want to do in the training space is just floating around aimlessly.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like having a plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like to know what I'm training for.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like to have goals.

[SPEAKER_00]: I like to know which direction this boat is going.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that old question I used to ask was, what are you training for?

[SPEAKER_00]: And which was the original tagline for power athlete?

[SPEAKER_00]: seem to hit home and it just really helped people, you know, take a step back and be very honest about what they were training for.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then at that point, we were able to put a plan together and then drive forward.

[SPEAKER_00]: And if that training plan or if that goal is to be the best version of you, uh, then we just have to figure out what that looks like.

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it strong or is it faster?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it more fit?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is it a smaller version of bigger version?

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we have to add nutrition.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we have a lot of levers to pull.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we have to know which levers to pull and [SPEAKER_00]: and what's recommendations to make.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it really helps to have that kind of intended outcome and use some of that reverse engineering, little said principles, specific adaptation to impose demands.

[SPEAKER_00]: That really helps to know what the intended outcome is and then we can kind of work backwards.

[SPEAKER_00]: So rule number two, know what you're trying for.

[SPEAKER_00]: Alright question number three.

[SPEAKER_00]: How often do you see people putting in the work in the gym and killing their results with poor nutrition and what's the simple fix?

[SPEAKER_00]: Wow, I've seen so many people shoot themselves on the foot by just not eating well and just eating like an asshole.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now that there's a [SPEAKER_00]: There was a, I don't know, I put this.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was like a feeling for a lot of years where there was like good foods in bad food.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I used to get a lot of this when I did the nutrition talk for, I crossed the football seminars.

[SPEAKER_00]: People would always be like, well, what are the good foods in the bad foods?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I always asked them like, what's a bad food?

[SPEAKER_00]: is it a food that breaks into your house and steals money out of your wallet when you're not looking?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, is it good food?

[SPEAKER_00]: The one that's going to pull over and help you change a tire?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, it was kind of weird that people had touched these kind of good and bad, you know, a good needle, black and white, the very things towards food.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I think any food is not good if it's over eaten.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, I look at like, there's no necessarily bad foods, there's better choices to make.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, if I have the opportunity to let's say eat a steak and I can have a, you know, a steak, [SPEAKER_00]: for me and my taste buds, that's a lot better than chocolate cake.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I had a client who was extremely emotionally attached to chocolate cake.

[SPEAKER_00]: And for him, like that was like the best thing he could have for me, it's a great steak, but those were just tastes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not to say it's chocolate cake was bad, but at the volumes he was eating that chocolate cake, they tended to be pretty bad because it was putting them in extreme caloric surplus.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what we've seen is, is even a kind of questionable shitty diet, eaten in caloric restriction, tends to produce better results than even the best diet over eaten.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, calorie balance is a real thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And, you know, calories in calories out, whether or not how you look at law of thermodynamics, but there's definitely more positive results in terms of body composition when you're lifting heavy weights.

[SPEAKER_00]: core restriction now how you get there is up to you it's a lot easier to kind of under eat a little bit than it is to train into a core deficit or you can do a little bit of both.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what I tend to do is I know exactly what my amount of food and how many calories you need to eat and then I use my trained to help me get into that deficit but it's a lot easier to kind of just under eat just you know you think about jumping on an echo by a combustion out 300 calories.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now those 300 calories are not actual they're just units of measure for that [SPEAKER_00]: measure these things to figure it out, but I mean in those 300 calories on the echo bike, you're going to burn somewhere between 450 and 500 calories.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's probably a fairly small slice of chocolate cake.

[SPEAKER_00]: So figure out and [SPEAKER_00]: how many calories are kind of associated with it and why I recommend everybody when measure your food at least for the first couple weeks to know exactly what that bowl of rice is or this steak is or this chocolate cake or how this whole thing kind of fits together so you can start kind of taking control of of your diet and stop eating like an asshole.

[SPEAKER_00]: don't eat like a little kid.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a, I watch this because I have kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: Kids just, you know, like they eat what's in front of them and so it's upon you as a parent to put the best options you have in front of them and if you don't want your kid eating shitty food, don't buy it.

[SPEAKER_00]: don't put it in front of them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't make it easily accessible.

[SPEAKER_00]: I find that those rules also apply to adults.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't want each shitty food, don't have it in the house.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't make it accessible.

[SPEAKER_00]: I think it was Jed Logan or sorry, Jed Linehart.

[SPEAKER_00]: when I was on his podcast made an interesting observation about dry crunchy carbs, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd never thought about dry crunchy carbs, but you think about tortilla chips and potato chips and like crunchy like the good stuff, which is what I kind of dig.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you ever had gotten in and seen me have Mexican food and you know that like I either have one chip or the whole basket, so I just don't even mess with the chips.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just take them away.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want anyone among them on the plate.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, [SPEAKER_00]: be smart with your diet, know exactly what you're consuming, be conscious enough to weigh yourself to know whether or not your employer restriction.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you eat, you train, and the body weight goes up, you're in clerk restriction.

[SPEAKER_00]: Regardless of whatever, you know, my fitness pal or whatever the calculations are putting.

[SPEAKER_00]: And just know, rule three, you can't, how train is shitty diet.

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[SPEAKER_00]: Question four, I've heard you say most people don't actually have a plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: They just have good intentions.

[SPEAKER_00]: What do you mean by that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I think it's a pretty self-implanned explanatory, but it's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: Most people don't have a plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: What they do is they have lofty goals.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what I mean by good intentions.

[SPEAKER_00]: people want things, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be in good shape.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be healthier.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to feel better.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to be stronger.

[SPEAKER_00]: I want to run faster.

[SPEAKER_00]: They have these kind of lofty goals and then they have good intentions, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go out and I'm going to do something about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: The problem is is that if you don't have a well-laid plan and you don't have like a support team backing that plan, [SPEAKER_00]: it's going to fail you know like that's what I've seen just over and over again we've been doing this a long time we worked with tens of thousands of athletes around the globe and that people that have a planted place and use the support system that we've laid out end up meeting their goals and what I mean by support system is reaching out whether it be on the discords on the feeds [SPEAKER_00]: we have a very, very robust discord that we use for power athlete, you know, thousands of people are in it and hundreds of people a day are really conversing and going in and that support structure becomes paramount when you have training because as you go into the garage or with your training partner and this kind of like little microcosm and to know that you're connected in this ecosystem of power athletes around the globe is extremely supportive and people take a deep breath and they're like [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not alone in this.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're not alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're here to help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're here to support.

[SPEAKER_00]: So what I want you to do is, I mean, ideally, by the annuals sign up for the consults and let me craft a plan with you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's myself.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do a bunch of them, but I also have other coaches, but one of the things that we want to do, and I always say everyone, and you guys said, to have me as your, for your consult, what do I say?

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, this is John Wildburn.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is your [SPEAKER_00]: And as they get into it, I'm like, all right, what's the plan we're going to put together?

[SPEAKER_00]: As we're going through this plan, I want you to write this thing down.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because next year when we do this again, I'm going to ask you, how did the plan go?

[SPEAKER_00]: Did we execute it?

[SPEAKER_00]: What were our blind spots?

[SPEAKER_00]: How do we improve?

[SPEAKER_00]: So like I said, one on one, consults are great.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the idea that, you know, direction versus motivation.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just remember, you need a well laid out plan and you need the support system and the infrastructure in place whether we're using train heroic, the feeds, the discord, we have things like Hammer 90, which I brought up, all these different programs, whether if you want to one coaching, what, you know, we have an endless amount of options for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: It just behooves you to take advantage of them, to reach out and grab it with both hands and engage us.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, rule number four, build the game plan.

[SPEAKER_00]: Question five.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why does going hard all the time break people and what should the training actually look like over a year?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is big.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's next to impossible.

[SPEAKER_00]: you know, to be on this kind of linear progression of intensity where, you know, I'm going to add a pound of the bar every single week and I'm going to add a wrap in this and you're going to get time.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have the Edmund flows in your training.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's why we pride a plan D loads.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, the training should kind of continue to go and there should be almost a light heavy medium approach.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the guys asked yesterday, [SPEAKER_00]: you know, like looking at grindstone, I can't understand the template.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, well, let me give you a background on what's how this is going.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we break through, you know, X, Y and Z axis, vertical pole vertical push, horizontal pole horizontal pole or 7-primal movements, three planes of motion, saginal frontal transverse.

[SPEAKER_00]: and then the majority of the lifts are really broken into light-heavy and medium, but the way that I break everything into light-heavy and medium isn't necessarily a reduced load.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's just using different movements and using a little conjugate for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's give you an example.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you deadlift from the ground that would be a medium, a rack pole would be like a heavy, because you can overload them, whereas a snatch grip deadlift would be more of a light, because we're keeping intensity high, but I'm actually using different movements, because I know that the relative intensity or the percentage of one RM of your pole, [SPEAKER_00]: By changing up these different movements, kind of reduces it because anybody's ever done a snatch grip deadlift knows exactly how horrible it is That you probably can pull maybe 50 or 60% of what your best deadlift is and then you think about when you go into a rack pole, especially one above the knee You can if I could pull the shit out a thing much more than you can [SPEAKER_00]: from the floor and then also within a snatch grip.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, you know, breaking everything into light-heavy medium, you know, we'd love to train a full body, so if you're going to get some form of lower body focus, which is going to definitely be something within the upper body, whether it be a pull-up or whatnot.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then we kind of get into, there's some different movements that power athlete really leans on in terms of accessory movements.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of them are unilateral Bulgarian split squat, do a ton of pull-ups, and for upper body, I'd love accessory for dips.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do dips two days a week.

[SPEAKER_00]: And a bunch of guys that I talked to were like, you know, when we started doing the dips I have a little bit of shoulder pain and now that shoulder pain goes away and I think one of those is actually doing the reverse shrugs on the dip bars as a prep movement, but a lot of that prep goes in into building it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So over the course of the year, I don't want you to get beat up on.

[SPEAKER_00]: or beat yourself up on the idea that I have to train with like, you know, this just like linear version of intensity and volume and that every week work is going to build upon the previous.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to some extent, that does happen, but you're going to have them flows.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to either have, you're going to get a little nicked up, you're going to be tired, you're not going to sleep well.

[SPEAKER_00]: you're going to have something going on at work or something going on at home and you're going to feel that I don't have it today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Something like my superpowers are 100%.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're like Superman where all of a sudden they block the sun and you're not as strong as you were the day before.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: That kind of supercompensation, those oven flows, it happens and you're going to have that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, the reason that I bring that up is [SPEAKER_00]: is so that when it happens you think to yourself oh man I know this you know John told me this was going to happen and this is where the move the dirt thing comes in and I hear it all the time whether it be in the discord or the feeds or people like today was a spoon day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Today was a shovel today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Today I got a fucking back home and I moved a shit ton of dirt.

[SPEAKER_00]: And unfortunately, we're never going to be able to move massive tons of dirt every single day, but as long as we're moving a little dirt every day, we're moving towards our goal.

[SPEAKER_00]: So prepare for those seven flows, know that adaptation beats intensity, which is a key player in this.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you got to remember, you know, like we're here for like the seasons of training, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like as your lifestyle changes and you're going through the year, you know, we have a different different levers that you can pull.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of which is actually rotating through different programs, which there's a lot of people that periodized through the programs.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I think being able to point out that you're going to have them flows in your training.

[SPEAKER_00]: Life's going to pop up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Vacations are going to pop up.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have, you know, massive things happening in life.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's cold here in Texas, which is wild because it's been really hot this winter, but being able to work those friction points and feel that the training is going to be there for the entire year, it's going to keep coming.

[SPEAKER_00]: My power athlete has delivered.

[SPEAKER_00]: at least one workout every single day since March 31st, 2009.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's literally thousands of training programs.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we deliver nine a day now and we deliver that to literally hundreds of thousands of athletes around the globe.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we're not going anywhere.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna be here for you.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the Taption or Adaptation Beats Intensity Rule number five.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, how much of your training successes mental and how many people fail because no one's keeping them accountable?

[SPEAKER_00]: all training is mental.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, motivations pretty interesting, and I think I got this from Jaco, where he talked about, you know, motivations important, but habits are really what force people to do and make a change, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you're habit of training, whether or not, like I said, I get up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Two days went off.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do my Echo Bike work, and that's kind of the hallmark for it, and then I train a little bit later in the day, but that is what I've done my entire life.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, weighing and measuring your food, making sure you go out and shop, and making sure that you don't get into a bad situation where I don't have any food in my house, so I just try to eat everything, putting yourself in a situation where I'm [SPEAKER_00]: making concessions today so I don't get into problems tomorrow is a major major player and you know being able to like mentally wrap your head around the fact that like hey this is what I do this is who I am and this is what defines me right like this is this is the training this is what I want and I'm honest about my goals so I also think that people fail because nobody's watching [SPEAKER_00]: All right, nobody's there to keep them accountable.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what these consults are about, and this is what Power Athletes really about, is keeping you accountable.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, here's the problem.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't go to your house and force you accountability.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't knock on your door, almost you want me to.

[SPEAKER_00]: But for most people within this kind of virtual space, accountability is extremely difficult.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now, we're here for you, but you have to plug in.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to fire up the app, you have to get in there.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have to be able to [SPEAKER_00]: like meet us halfway.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to provide all the information.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to provide the support and the resource, but you have to take advantage and that piece of accountability is that kind of symbiotic relation where we have that like we're here to support you, but we have to get you to knock on the door.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then once you knock, we'll open that door and we'll let you in.

[SPEAKER_00]: and we're here to do it and whether or not that's on the team feeds on the discord or any of the support systems we have, you can even take it a step deeper and do the methodology and join our block one coaching network, which is extremely robust and we have a great support system for those guys and you know calls and we'll see how we can kind of extend this stuff, but you know you need somebody to keep you honest, you need somebody who's there for you and keep you accountable and we're up for the job.

[SPEAKER_00]: So rule number six, [SPEAKER_00]: accountability, find somebody to keep you honest, come find us and the final question.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you want results at last longer than a few months, what mind-shift do you need to make?

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to go back to just what I talked about earlier, move the dirt, right, long-term thinking wins.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we're not playing checkers, we're playing chess.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you think about an NFL game, [SPEAKER_00]: You know, when they come out, you know, the way that they're calling plays really in the first quarter, first half of the game, a lot of the plays that are being called are about testing defenses, testing offenses, how do they react?

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they go in at half time, the coaches come in at half time and they make adjustments.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, this is what we're seeing.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what they're doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what we thought they were going to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what they are doing.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they start kind of dialing it up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you'll see those sort of start breaking out the third and the fourth quarter.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once they kind of figure out the tendencies, how they're being played, and more importantly, like how they can continue to win.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that feeling of like, oh man, we ran.

[SPEAKER_00]: We tried to run the ball.

[SPEAKER_00]: We tried to pass in the first quarter.

[SPEAKER_00]: We couldn't do anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: But we're going to keep wearing them down.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that was something that dick for me on.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know, Bill Bella checked in these coaches.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're very, very good at it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's like, you can't judge us in the first quarter.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can only judge by what the scoreboard looks at the end.

[SPEAKER_00]: So we might not go out and be as great as we want the first quarter that doesn't matter because they're not handing out wins and losses in the first quarter.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're handing that out in the fourth quarter.

[SPEAKER_00]: So being able to have that long term thinking and using that move the dirt mentality and looking at it like.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, what happens in January is going to happen, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have people that have all this motivation.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to hit the gym.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, they're ready to go over that hill like Mel Gibson with the flag like the revolutionists.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we call them resolutionists, like revolutionists.

[SPEAKER_00]: But those resolutionists are going to have a ton of motivation, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't been training.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've waited.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're ready to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're ready to go.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then you're going to see him dwindle.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because they don't have a plan in place.

[SPEAKER_00]: They don't have a support structure and nobody talked to them about long-term thinking.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not what you do in January.

[SPEAKER_00]: it's where you are in December, and we got 12 months to get there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, that idea is when you commit more, you get more, you know, the idea that, you know, I heard a great statement that commitment over novelty, you know, and for power athlete and the reason that we've pushed the annual so hard is because that was where people deficient.

[SPEAKER_00]: The reason I stopped doing a ton of stuff at Black Friday is because one I felt it was overly saturated and it just became like an absolute just vomit fest of just emails and nonsense.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I kind of put a massive kind of kebashi on that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I was like, you know what, the end of the year going into January, February.

[SPEAKER_00]: like that's really where we need to put our efforts.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's how we need to motivate people, we need to get people into a situation, get in the annuals, give them a game plan, give them all support they can, and then push them out, and give them all the support structure they can, so that when it comes around, [SPEAKER_00]: December.

[SPEAKER_00]: We start getting emails about the annuals.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hey, I want to sign up for the annuals.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had such a great experience and then they share some really, really amazing experiences.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then I get to get on the phone, I get to hear about them.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's people that have done counsels with for five years in a row.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I'll keep notes and jump in on my guard.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what we agreed on last year.

[SPEAKER_00]: How close are we?

[SPEAKER_00]: Do we meet our goals?

[SPEAKER_00]: And if we didn't, that's fine.

[SPEAKER_00]: These are going to create a new goal and we're going to create a new plan and we're going to meet next year and we're going to try to figure this thing out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because, you know, I had a blog or I sell a blog that's called Talk to Me Johnny.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I got the name from my favorite movie, which is Rambo First Blood.

[SPEAKER_00]: And in there, Colonel Troutman gets on the radio and he goes, you know, company leader to Raven.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now whether or not it's, I think in the book, it was Coven Leader to Raven.

[SPEAKER_00]: But in the book, in the movie, they say company leader to Raven.

[SPEAKER_00]: And [SPEAKER_00]: He says, you know, talk to me, Johnny.

[SPEAKER_00]: And from there, he's like, they're all debts or, and where it came from, was actually, it was a little bit of joke between my buddy Brad Skeoli and I.

[SPEAKER_00]: And this also happens to be my favorite movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the theme song in that movie goes, it's a long road.

[SPEAKER_00]: And there was a bitch and theme song in it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it's called, it's a long road, which is the tagline for talking to me, Johnny.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a long road.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it is, because training is like a life of endeavor.

[SPEAKER_00]: Like, you know, you think about, you know, performance and answers or what, like, you know, this guy did a six week blast and he looked great for six weeks and then six weeks later, he didn't look as good as he wanted.

[SPEAKER_00]: But like the idea of like, I'm going to be consistent for years and how long does it take to get strong?

[SPEAKER_00]: How long does it take to be the best version of himself?

[SPEAKER_00]: It might take you 10, 10, 15.

[SPEAKER_00]: It might take you 20 years.

[SPEAKER_00]: It might take you 30 years.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it doesn't mean that the [SPEAKER_00]: Cherney is going to stop the best version of you is still around the corner.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, look at the rock.

[SPEAKER_00]: The rock was fucking jacked in his 50s.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was fortunate to meet Duane Johnson when he was when I was in my 20s he was in his 30s when he was just a young, you know, [SPEAKER_00]: He looks now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the guy looks like a pro body builder.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's since lost some weight and looks great now too, but that idea that like if the rock can get in the best shape of his life in his 50s, you can do it in your 20s, you can do in your 30s, you can 40s, hopefully you don't have to wait to your 50s, but if that's how long it takes, then we're here for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: And remember that, you know, much like that talk to me, Johnny, it's a long road.

[SPEAKER_00]: It takes a long time and the reason being is we have life, we have families, we have work, we have jobs, you know, ups and downs, deaths, lives, I mean, bursts, all of these things and it's called life.

[SPEAKER_00]: And the training has to have a place in it and it has to be consistent because the best version of you is right around the corner and I want to help you get there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, real seven, move the dirt, long-term wind, long-term thinking winds, and remember we're here for you, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: We got the annuals, we got consoles, we got everything, so we are more than set up to support you at every step.

[SPEAKER_00]: And remember we're not here for just a reason we're here for the season.

[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you want more from your training, here's what you do next.

[SPEAKER_00]: Go to power at THQ.com and pick the right program, commit to a year, let us build a game plan with the consoles, let us give a new game plan with nutrition, and then let's fucking go.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, like, we'll give you all the motivation you need.

[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to give you all the comfort, all the support we're here to support you in every way.

[SPEAKER_00]: You got a team behind you.

[SPEAKER_00]: We just want you to execute your goals and we're here for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: So like I said, let's fucking go.

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