Speaker 1: Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio.
Speaker 1: I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted. So
Speaker 1: I was at a hockey tournament away from home a
Speaker 1: while back, and we're going out to dinner, the hockey
Speaker 1: team doing some car pooling, and I had a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids and a bunch of parents and we're all
Speaker 1: jumping in my truck, my suv, And when we got in,
Speaker 1: one of the moms looked around and remarked at how
Speaker 1: clean the truck was. Now, let me say that I
Speaker 1: am not someone who won't let you eat in my truck.
Speaker 1: I am not someone who doesn't get it dirty. I
Speaker 1: have two dogs, two labs that are in the truck
Speaker 1: just about every day, and when they are in the truck,
Speaker 1: they're wet and dirty from swimming and going in the woods.
Speaker 1: And I'm doing car pools frequently and a lot to kids,
Speaker 1: lots of eating and drinking. And I'm not someone who
Speaker 1: says you can't. And so why is it that clean? Well,
Speaker 1: it goes to everything I preach here on Fitness Disrupted.
Speaker 1: It goes to excessive moderation. And when you start to
Speaker 1: embrace that concept and the other ones I talk about.
Speaker 1: You will see that it applies to fitness, and it
Speaker 1: applies to nutrition, and it applies to so many facets
Speaker 1: of our lives. End it makes it easier, not harder.
Speaker 1: The alternative is harder. And so this fit tip is
Speaker 1: about car washes, consistency, and change. I love alliteration if
Speaker 1: you haven't caught on yet from the titles of many
Speaker 1: of my podcasts. But there's so much in my truck
Speaker 1: and car washes and consistency and change that we can
Speaker 1: apply to exercise, nutrition and living our best bibs, right,
Speaker 1: And it's about doing a little bit a lot rather
Speaker 1: than a lot a little bit. So let me just
Speaker 1: give you this perfect analogy for this fit tip. Two.
Speaker 1: Reinforce how much I believe in and practice excessive moderation
Speaker 1: and everything I do because it works, all right. So
Speaker 1: I got the new truck actually probably a year ago,
Speaker 1: not even yeah, maybe a little over a year ago.
Speaker 1: And as I like to say, there's a great meme.
Speaker 1: I don't have O c D. Doesn't mean that it's
Speaker 1: like I don't have O c D. I just like
Speaker 1: putting things in there. They used an expletive place I'm
Speaker 1: not going to. But there is a difference between being
Speaker 1: my mom was over the top. I would argue with
Speaker 1: with Klein litness, but when you have six boys you
Speaker 1: kind of need uh that that's a whole different ball
Speaker 1: of act, right, But no, I just believe in maintenance
Speaker 1: and consistency and not letting things get to a point.
Speaker 1: I'm getting ahead of myself, as I often do when
Speaker 1: you have to make major change, and oftentimes you can't
Speaker 1: because you didn't do the things that I'm going to outline.
Speaker 1: So the analogy is simple. Car wash opened up really
Speaker 1: close to my house, less than a mile, probably half
Speaker 1: a mile, and that is extremely important. And a bunch
Speaker 1: of these factors align exactly with things like Jim's. So
Speaker 1: when people ask me Tom what Jim should I join?
Speaker 1: My first question is which one is closest to your
Speaker 1: house or where you work? Where? Where are you going
Speaker 1: to go from? Are you gonna go from your house?
Speaker 1: You're you gonna go from your work? Okay, which is
Speaker 1: closest because that is the most important thing relative to
Speaker 1: how frequently you go. It's not how expensive, it is,
Speaker 1: not how much you like it, And like literally a
Speaker 1: mile can make a difference. And many of you know
Speaker 1: that you've experienced that already you've joined those gyms that
Speaker 1: you haven't gone to, and you thought, well, this is
Speaker 1: two miles from my house I'm gonna go, or two
Speaker 1: miles from my work I'm gonna go. Can't be that far.
Speaker 1: That can be far, and it's different for everyone. What's
Speaker 1: too far? But if this was a mile farther away
Speaker 1: from my house and not in my normal path that
Speaker 1: I'm going out every day, I wouldn't have done it.
Speaker 1: Because this leads to number two. So you got the
Speaker 1: closeness right location, location, location, And then they have a
Speaker 1: monthly unlimited car wash fee you can pay for this,
Speaker 1: you know, gets taken off your credit card, debit card,
Speaker 1: whatever every month unlimited. When I see unlimited, I'm like,
Speaker 1: I'm in. But it's not cheap. It's not expensive, but
Speaker 1: it's as expensive as what, just like a gym, how
Speaker 1: frequently you go. And so this car wash, the monthly
Speaker 1: fee is about a little less than two car washes.
Speaker 1: So if you go three times a month, you're already
Speaker 1: ahead of the game. Now I don't go three times,
Speaker 1: so on I go a minimum pretty much of eight.
Speaker 1: So I go every Friday to have it cleaned from
Speaker 1: the prior week and ready for the weekend because again
Speaker 1: often traveling, doing sports, whatever, and then Monday cleaned up
Speaker 1: for the week. So get it ready for the weekend,
Speaker 1: get it ready for the week, and then if there's
Speaker 1: snow generally in the winter, I might go again on Wednesday.
Speaker 1: So minimum generally of eight times a month. So when
Speaker 1: you take that monthly fee, which is enough to make
Speaker 1: me want to go, I'm not wasting that money. There's
Speaker 1: no way. I'm not going a minimum of well eight,
Speaker 1: but at the very least three. But I've never gotten
Speaker 1: that low because I don't want to waste my money.
Speaker 1: Same exact concept as a gym. When I owned the gym,
Speaker 1: which I always said I would never do, I started
Speaker 1: out with a hundred dollar monthly rate, hundred dollars Connecticut gym,
Speaker 1: twelve square feet, full service classes, the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1: Actually getting hot flashes just thinking about it again because
Speaker 1: it was such a crazy experience that I said I
Speaker 1: would never do. But I learned a lot. But when
Speaker 1: people would come in, I sold memberships like crazy. And
Speaker 1: one of the things I would say is for that
Speaker 1: hundred dollars, you can come every day, you can come
Speaker 1: twice a day. You can take yoga in the morning,
Speaker 1: you can take you know, spin class the evening. You
Speaker 1: can use all these weights like it is as expensive
Speaker 1: as the number of times you use it. Car washes, gyms,
Speaker 1: so many things exactly the same. No, why does a
Speaker 1: car wash and why do jims do that? Why do
Speaker 1: gyms have ten dollars as a monthly female bi price
Speaker 1: high volume because they know you don't care. If you
Speaker 1: don't go at all, you'll eat that ten bucks. Well
Speaker 1: that's genius, I mean, and it's frightening. The number of
Speaker 1: members of some of these gyms thousands, thousands, and if
Speaker 1: showed up at the same time, chaos and so the
Speaker 1: same exact concept with car wash. I'm going frequently. I'm
Speaker 1: getting more than my money's worth. But it's convenient. It's
Speaker 1: in my you know, common roots that I'm going. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't have to go in a different direction, so
Speaker 1: it's not a close it's in my flight plan, and
Speaker 1: it's expensive. If the opposite, I don't want it to
Speaker 1: be ten bucks because they don't go. Ah, not a
Speaker 1: big deal. I don't have to go this Friday, don't
Speaker 1: have to go this Monday. You go, So what's a
Speaker 1: big deal. It's not that expensive. You're not going that's
Speaker 1: where I'm going to end up because it's about maintenance.
Speaker 1: It's about maintenance. I never let the car get to
Speaker 1: the point where I have to make a major overhaul
Speaker 1: like so many people do that New Year's well, right
Speaker 1: before the summer, you go, look at what's happened, look
Speaker 1: at what I've let myself get to, and now you
Speaker 1: need to make major change. No small steps are the
Speaker 1: best steps there are. They all lead you forward towards
Speaker 1: your goal, and they don't get your hurt, and they're
Speaker 1: not hard. You just have to be consistent. And so
Speaker 1: such a perfect analogy with our bodies. Are cars. Car
Speaker 1: wash clean it frequently, so you never get to that
Speaker 1: point where you go, oh my gosh, no I gotta
Speaker 1: pay two d bucks or whatever it is. Let's get
Speaker 1: the whole thing overhauld. And here's the final kicker with that.
Speaker 1: When you get to that point, they are oftentimes what
Speaker 1: things you can't clean, things that won't come out right,
Speaker 1: that candy that you let the kids, you know, eat
Speaker 1: that if you had gotten it up quickly enough, it
Speaker 1: wouldn't be an issue, just like your body, but when
Speaker 1: you let it go too long, it's exponentially more difficult
Speaker 1: to deal with if you can deal with it at all.
Speaker 1: Boom like, I am loving this analogy. You know, we
Speaker 1: talked about the car analogy with fuel put on a
Speaker 1: you know, cheap gas in get cheap performance. It's a
Speaker 1: good one. It's been around forever, though. I like this
Speaker 1: one even better because it has all the components not
Speaker 1: only of gyms, but of a fitness plan in general.
Speaker 1: And it just shows you that doing a little bit
Speaker 1: a lot twice a week for this incredible. And I
Speaker 1: always say I'm gonna have had done this, but another
Speaker 1: thing just came to me. Not in my notes. I
Speaker 1: enjoy myself. It's like I'm not the one in the
Speaker 1: car saying to the kids, Oh, I can't have that,
Speaker 1: don't eat that. I don't worry about it because if
Speaker 1: there's a big spill or if something happens, I'm going
Speaker 1: half a mile to the car Washington dealing with it
Speaker 1: because I've already paid for it. And so there you
Speaker 1: have it. There are no secrets, people, it's doing the simple,
Speaker 1: basic stuff consistently that works. We are bombarded, I ambarded
Speaker 1: with products and potions and programs that are supposedly never
Speaker 1: been seeing for the hacks. But what No, there's nothing
Speaker 1: that works better than consistency of the basics. But you
Speaker 1: have to have those different elements convenience, actually invest enough
Speaker 1: that it matters. That's totally counterintuitive for you. That's one
Speaker 1: reason people. I never wanted to own a gym because
Speaker 1: I didn't want to sell memberships in the hopes that
Speaker 1: you didn't come. And that's the model. That's the model.
Speaker 1: You don't make money. If you charge ten dollars and
Speaker 1: you have a hundred members, you go out of business.
Speaker 1: And so think about it. Car washes consistency and change
Speaker 1: and start to utilize excessive moderation in all aspects of
Speaker 1: your life. Oh, I feel good about that one, all right.
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Speaker 1: You guys are the absolute best, the smartest, and you're
Speaker 1: seeing results. That's one of my favorite direct message to get. Hey, Tom,
Speaker 1: couldn't run followed your tips about strength training and stretching
Speaker 1: and cross training and moderation and everything. And for the
Speaker 1: first time, I'm running again. All those incredible, incredible messages.
Speaker 1: That's what I do this for, to help all of us,
Speaker 1: myself included, live our best lives. All right. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna waste your time, not gonna waste my time. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna waste your money on products or any information
Speaker 1: that's not gonna help you achieve that. All right. If
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Speaker 1: Tom Holland this is Fitness Disrupted. Believe in yourself. Fitness
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