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Relentless Podcast

Reduce Stress in 10 Steps, Take Charge of Your Future Self, and Create Clarity

Posted on October 19, 2015

It’s time for Episode 14 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast:

LISTEN UP!

State of Relentless: 

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Relentless Main Event: 

  • Consider who you want to be and/or what you want to create in 1, 10, 20 years. Is today contributing to that? Consider and chart your course.
  • Be honest about your stressors and don’t be fooled by the presentation of others – everyone has their unique set of struggles.
  • Make sure that your go-to stress reaction is not always flight. Balance it with some fight.
  • 10 short-term stress reduction strategies.

Relentless Actions: 

  • Mind: Create a Mastermind group with personalities offering a fresh perspective and external accountability to your hopes and dreams.
  • Body: Eat and drink seasonal, local, and fresh – you’ll be better for it.
  • Business: Provide crystal clarity for yourself first, which extends to others.

Relentless Ask:
Hit me in the comments or at roger@relentless-fitness.com with a question, topic, or theme you’d like addressed on a podcast episode soon!

If you like what you hear on these episodes, rate, review, and/or subscribe on iTunes.  Thanks for your support!

Relentless Podcast

The Fine Line Between Grind and Rest Your Mind

Posted on October 12, 2015

It’s time for Episode 13 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast:

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State of Relentless: 

Relentless Main Event: 

  • The dark side of being an entrepreneur – when caring, taking on more responsibility, and persisting after your vision overwhelm you.
  • Employing three strategies – internal adaptation, external adaptation, and systems – to lessen your burden.
  • Fighting the urge to run and finding a way through the pain.

Relentless Actions: 

  • Mind: Removing social media phone notifications and batching it like your email.
  • Body: Taking advantage of the beautiful Fall season while it’s here via hikes and outdoor activity.
  • Business: Seeing the opportunity in the holiday season, which is a common ground for many.

Relentless Ask:
Help our youth out. Make a tax-deductible donation to the at-risk youth benefited by Steve’s Club.

If you like what you hear on these episodes, rate, review, and/or subscribe on iTunes.  Thanks for your support!

Relentless Podcast

Always Show Up

Posted on September 28, 2015

Always Show Up
In Episode 10 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast we talk about asking questions, evolving from amateur to professional, and consistently executing your highest ROI activities.

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State of Relentless: 

  • Press: Train along with our public Spartan Training workouts via Philly.com. Last week? Grip strength training. This week? Bodyweight manipulation.
  • The Dr. Colin Champ (aka Caveman Doctor) podcast interview talking about training health versus training fitness and questioning everything, including your physician.
  • Next up on the interview front: “Powerful” Tony Federico!

Relentless Main Event: 

  • Evaluating your day-to-day, targeting high ROI (not just $) activities, batching your efforts, and creating a concrete calendar.
  • Growing as an “entrepreneur” from someone who takes on too much to someone who subtracts in order to add.
  • Using a realistic calendar to remain consistent no matter what occurs.
  • Referencing Steven Pressfield as a mandatory resource and model of professionalism.
  • Extending the analogy to your physical world – training consistency compounds.

Relentless Actions: 

  • Mind: Highlighting the Pressfield book The War of Art, and this quote: “Turning pro is a mindset. If we are struggling with fear, self-sabotage, procrastination, self-doubt, etc., the problem is, we’re thinking like amateurs. Amateurs don’t show up. Amateurs crap out. Amateurs let adversity defeat them. The pro thinks differently. He shows up, he does his work, he keeps on truckin’, no matter what.”
  • Body: Challenging you to tackle one of our #RelentlessPope workouts, a collection of videos our trainers recorded at Relentless Fitness to have fun with the Pope’s arrival.
  • Business: Analyzing your highest return activities based on your long-term goals. Will your day-to-day schedule repeated over and over produce an end result that you can be proud of in several years?

Relentless Ask:
Send me a question! Comment right here, shoot me an email at roger@relentless-fitness.com, Facebook me, or Tweet me. Let me know what you want to hear about in future episodes. You ask, and I’ll answer!

If you like what you hear on these episodes, rate, review, and/or subscribe on iTunes.  Thanks for your support!

Relentless Podcast

Get on Your Grind

Posted on September 15, 2015

Get on Your Grind
In Episode 6 of the Relentless: Real People, Real Results, Real World podcast we talk overhauling your input to produce the output you desire.

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State of Relentless: 

Relentless Main Event: 

  • The creative recharge provided by time off the grid and musings on replicating that in the day-to-day grind.
  • Two truisms on input/ouput:
    • What you put in becomes what you put out.
    • The more you put in, the less you put out.
  • Drawing inspiration from:
    • Gary Vaynerchuk and his 30-year-old “freak out” life re-evaluation.
    • Steve Liberati and his Relentless Action of “counteracting” yourself.
  • Performing a self-assessment and honing in on sales, business growth, and consistently “putting myself out there”.

Relentless Action: 
Take honest stock of your goals of 10, 5, 3, and 1 years ago. Are you on the trajectory to achieve them? Is your proportion of input to output satisfactory? Do you need to qualitatively or quantitatively make alterations?

Relentless Ask:
Feeling charitable? Jump on board and sponsor a teen from Steve’s Club, benefiting at-risk teenagers via fitness and mentorship. I’ve seen firsthand the impact of the dollars – $25 for an unlimited month – and they go a long way!

If you like what you hear on these episodes, you can rate, review, and/or subscribe on iTunes.  Thanks for your support!

Transformation 5.0

Family Matters and Training Transitions

Posted on July 14, 2014

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Home is where the bad habits are.

If you’ve come around to the notion of thriving health in your adulthood like I have, your family time and family environment come with all sorts of baked in and less than healthy associations.

I know it’s not just me because I can’t tell you how many client conversations have taken place on this subject.  Home is where you can expect to find the exact special box of cereal and/or bagels in the morning.  Home is where you have a family tradition of ordering out for Chinese food (and it’s not the steamed stuff either).  Home is where you open the fridge to find that ridiculously nostalgic ice cream brand staring back at you and a double sized bowl to put it in.  These things are like clockwork.  They are ingrained.  They are unavoidable.

You have two options: embrace the hell out of it or impose a different plan. Continue Reading