WEBVTT - Fit Tip - Carwashes, Consistency and Change 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:05.880 Welcome to Fitness Disrupted, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:11.840 --> 0:00:17.800 I am Tom Holland, and this is Fitness Disrupted. So 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:21.319 I was at a hockey tournament away from home a 0:00:21.480 --> 0:00:25.640 while back, and we're going out to dinner, the hockey 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:28.360 team doing some car pooling, and I had a bunch 0:00:28.400 --> 0:00:30.040 of kids and a bunch of parents and we're all 0:00:30.120 --> 0:00:32.960 jumping in my truck, my suv, And when we got in, 0:00:33.040 --> 0:00:35.640 one of the moms looked around and remarked at how 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:40.760 clean the truck was. Now, let me say that I 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.680 am not someone who won't let you eat in my truck. 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:48.159 I am not someone who doesn't get it dirty. I 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.880 have two dogs, two labs that are in the truck 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:53.720 just about every day, and when they are in the truck, 0:00:53.720 --> 0:00:56.920 they're wet and dirty from swimming and going in the woods. 0:00:57.240 --> 0:01:00.560 And I'm doing car pools frequently and a lot to kids, 0:01:01.080 --> 0:01:03.920 lots of eating and drinking. And I'm not someone who 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:07.840 says you can't. And so why is it that clean? Well, 0:01:07.840 --> 0:01:11.360 it goes to everything I preach here on Fitness Disrupted. 0:01:12.240 --> 0:01:17.640 It goes to excessive moderation. And when you start to 0:01:17.680 --> 0:01:21.760 embrace that concept and the other ones I talk about. 0:01:22.760 --> 0:01:25.880 You will see that it applies to fitness, and it 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:31.480 applies to nutrition, and it applies to so many facets 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:36.920 of our lives. End it makes it easier, not harder. 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:44.200 The alternative is harder. And so this fit tip is 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:48.680 about car washes, consistency, and change. I love alliteration if 0:01:48.680 --> 0:01:53.200 you haven't caught on yet from the titles of many 0:01:53.240 --> 0:02:00.360 of my podcasts. But there's so much in my truck 0:02:01.160 --> 0:02:05.520 and car washes and consistency and change that we can 0:02:05.600 --> 0:02:11.480 apply to exercise, nutrition and living our best bibs, right, 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:17.360 And it's about doing a little bit a lot rather 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:20.160 than a lot a little bit. So let me just 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:26.000 give you this perfect analogy for this fit tip. Two. 0:02:26.280 --> 0:02:31.720 Reinforce how much I believe in and practice excessive moderation 0:02:32.280 --> 0:02:35.200 and everything I do because it works, all right. So 0:02:36.200 --> 0:02:38.399 I got the new truck actually probably a year ago, 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:40.720 not even yeah, maybe a little over a year ago. 0:02:41.320 --> 0:02:43.480 And as I like to say, there's a great meme. 0:02:43.720 --> 0:02:45.679 I don't have O c D. Doesn't mean that it's 0:02:45.720 --> 0:02:47.440 like I don't have O c D. I just like 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:51.399 putting things in there. They used an expletive place I'm 0:02:51.400 --> 0:02:56.400 not going to. But there is a difference between being 0:02:56.520 --> 0:03:00.320 my mom was over the top. I would argue with 0:03:00.320 --> 0:03:03.080 with Klein litness, but when you have six boys you 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:07.720 kind of need uh that that's a whole different ball 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:12.080 of act, right, But no, I just believe in maintenance 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:17.840 and consistency and not letting things get to a point. 0:03:19.280 --> 0:03:22.000 I'm getting ahead of myself, as I often do when 0:03:22.040 --> 0:03:24.600 you have to make major change, and oftentimes you can't 0:03:24.800 --> 0:03:27.040 because you didn't do the things that I'm going to outline. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:32.840 So the analogy is simple. Car wash opened up really 0:03:32.880 --> 0:03:36.640 close to my house, less than a mile, probably half 0:03:36.640 --> 0:03:44.320 a mile, and that is extremely important. And a bunch 0:03:44.360 --> 0:03:48.600 of these factors align exactly with things like Jim's. So 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.120 when people ask me Tom what Jim should I join? 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:54.520 My first question is which one is closest to your 0:03:54.520 --> 0:03:57.240 house or where you work? Where? Where are you going 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:58.960 to go from? Are you gonna go from your house? 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:01.280 You're you gonna go from your work? Okay, which is 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:07.480 closest because that is the most important thing relative to 0:04:07.560 --> 0:04:09.720 how frequently you go. It's not how expensive, it is, 0:04:09.760 --> 0:04:14.280 not how much you like it, And like literally a 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:16.719 mile can make a difference. And many of you know 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.960 that you've experienced that already you've joined those gyms that 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:21.360 you haven't gone to, and you thought, well, this is 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:22.960 two miles from my house I'm gonna go, or two 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:25.760 miles from my work I'm gonna go. Can't be that far. 0:04:26.120 --> 0:04:29.320 That can be far, and it's different for everyone. What's 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:34.159 too far? But if this was a mile farther away 0:04:34.160 --> 0:04:37.919 from my house and not in my normal path that 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.680 I'm going out every day, I wouldn't have done it. 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:44.039 Because this leads to number two. So you got the 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:50.960 closeness right location, location, location, And then they have a 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:57.360 monthly unlimited car wash fee you can pay for this, 0:04:57.480 --> 0:05:00.680 you know, gets taken off your credit card, debit card, 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:05.080 whatever every month unlimited. When I see unlimited, I'm like, 0:05:05.880 --> 0:05:12.800 I'm in. But it's not cheap. It's not expensive, but 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.280 it's as expensive as what, just like a gym, how 0:05:16.320 --> 0:05:21.200 frequently you go. And so this car wash, the monthly 0:05:21.360 --> 0:05:25.279 fee is about a little less than two car washes. 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:28.559 So if you go three times a month, you're already 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.640 ahead of the game. Now I don't go three times, 0:05:31.640 --> 0:05:35.359 so on I go a minimum pretty much of eight. 0:05:36.440 --> 0:05:40.360 So I go every Friday to have it cleaned from 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:43.239 the prior week and ready for the weekend because again 0:05:43.320 --> 0:05:48.919 often traveling, doing sports, whatever, and then Monday cleaned up 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:51.400 for the week. So get it ready for the weekend, 0:05:51.440 --> 0:05:55.480 get it ready for the week, and then if there's 0:05:55.880 --> 0:05:59.600 snow generally in the winter, I might go again on Wednesday. 0:05:59.640 --> 0:06:03.840 So minimum generally of eight times a month. So when 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:07.720 you take that monthly fee, which is enough to make 0:06:07.800 --> 0:06:11.839 me want to go, I'm not wasting that money. There's 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:16.240 no way. I'm not going a minimum of well eight, 0:06:16.720 --> 0:06:19.719 but at the very least three. But I've never gotten 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.440 that low because I don't want to waste my money. 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:27.360 Same exact concept as a gym. When I owned the gym, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:30.200 which I always said I would never do, I started 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:36.560 out with a hundred dollar monthly rate, hundred dollars Connecticut gym, 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:40.080 twelve square feet, full service classes, the whole nine yards. 0:06:41.160 --> 0:06:43.920 Actually getting hot flashes just thinking about it again because 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.440 it was such a crazy experience that I said I 0:06:45.480 --> 0:06:47.480 would never do. But I learned a lot. But when 0:06:47.480 --> 0:06:51.760 people would come in, I sold memberships like crazy. And 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:53.279 one of the things I would say is for that 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:55.920 hundred dollars, you can come every day, you can come 0:06:55.960 --> 0:06:57.960 twice a day. You can take yoga in the morning, 0:06:58.200 --> 0:07:00.880 you can take you know, spin class the evening. You 0:07:00.920 --> 0:07:04.120 can use all these weights like it is as expensive 0:07:05.080 --> 0:07:09.400 as the number of times you use it. Car washes, gyms, 0:07:09.640 --> 0:07:12.520 so many things exactly the same. No, why does a 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.960 car wash and why do jims do that? Why do 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:19.920 gyms have ten dollars as a monthly female bi price 0:07:20.000 --> 0:07:23.760 high volume because they know you don't care. If you 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.760 don't go at all, you'll eat that ten bucks. Well 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:34.320 that's genius, I mean, and it's frightening. The number of 0:07:34.360 --> 0:07:39.280 members of some of these gyms thousands, thousands, and if 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:43.080 showed up at the same time, chaos and so the 0:07:43.080 --> 0:07:48.880 same exact concept with car wash. I'm going frequently. I'm 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.200 getting more than my money's worth. But it's convenient. It's 0:07:53.280 --> 0:07:56.800 in my you know, common roots that I'm going. You know, 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:58.760 I don't have to go in a different direction, so 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:02.800 it's not a close it's in my flight plan, and 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:05.280 it's expensive. If the opposite, I don't want it to 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.640 be ten bucks because they don't go. Ah, not a 0:08:08.680 --> 0:08:11.600 big deal. I don't have to go this Friday, don't 0:08:11.600 --> 0:08:13.960 have to go this Monday. You go, So what's a 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:16.400 big deal. It's not that expensive. You're not going that's 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.600 where I'm going to end up because it's about maintenance. 0:08:20.720 --> 0:08:25.560 It's about maintenance. I never let the car get to 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:28.840 the point where I have to make a major overhaul 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:34.040 like so many people do that New Year's well, right 0:08:34.080 --> 0:08:37.280 before the summer, you go, look at what's happened, look 0:08:37.320 --> 0:08:41.080 at what I've let myself get to, and now you 0:08:41.120 --> 0:08:47.360 need to make major change. No small steps are the 0:08:47.400 --> 0:08:52.360 best steps there are. They all lead you forward towards 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:55.880 your goal, and they don't get your hurt, and they're 0:08:55.920 --> 0:09:00.360 not hard. You just have to be consistent. And so 0:09:01.240 --> 0:09:04.560 such a perfect analogy with our bodies. Are cars. Car 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:09.199 wash clean it frequently, so you never get to that 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:10.520 point where you go, oh my gosh, no I gotta 0:09:10.520 --> 0:09:12.679 pay two d bucks or whatever it is. Let's get 0:09:12.720 --> 0:09:16.000 the whole thing overhauld. And here's the final kicker with that. 0:09:17.679 --> 0:09:19.400 When you get to that point, they are oftentimes what 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.400 things you can't clean, things that won't come out right, 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:26.160 that candy that you let the kids, you know, eat 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:31.439 that if you had gotten it up quickly enough, it 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.160 wouldn't be an issue, just like your body, but when 0:09:35.160 --> 0:09:39.559 you let it go too long, it's exponentially more difficult 0:09:39.760 --> 0:09:42.920 to deal with if you can deal with it at all. 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:47.319 Boom like, I am loving this analogy. You know, we 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.120 talked about the car analogy with fuel put on a 0:09:50.240 --> 0:09:54.160 you know, cheap gas in get cheap performance. It's a 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:55.960 good one. It's been around forever, though. I like this 0:09:55.960 --> 0:10:00.800 one even better because it has all the components not 0:10:00.880 --> 0:10:04.520 only of gyms, but of a fitness plan in general. 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:07.440 And it just shows you that doing a little bit 0:10:07.480 --> 0:10:13.480 a lot twice a week for this incredible. And I 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:16.480 always say I'm gonna have had done this, but another 0:10:16.520 --> 0:10:19.880 thing just came to me. Not in my notes. I 0:10:20.080 --> 0:10:24.040 enjoy myself. It's like I'm not the one in the 0:10:24.120 --> 0:10:26.800 car saying to the kids, Oh, I can't have that, 0:10:26.840 --> 0:10:31.040 don't eat that. I don't worry about it because if 0:10:31.080 --> 0:10:35.520 there's a big spill or if something happens, I'm going 0:10:35.600 --> 0:10:37.600 half a mile to the car Washington dealing with it 0:10:37.800 --> 0:10:41.200 because I've already paid for it. And so there you 0:10:41.280 --> 0:10:47.240 have it. There are no secrets, people, it's doing the simple, 0:10:47.480 --> 0:10:54.280 basic stuff consistently that works. We are bombarded, I ambarded 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:59.280 with products and potions and programs that are supposedly never 0:10:59.360 --> 0:11:04.800 been seeing for the hacks. But what No, there's nothing 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:11.400 that works better than consistency of the basics. But you 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:18.559 have to have those different elements convenience, actually invest enough 0:11:18.600 --> 0:11:22.960 that it matters. That's totally counterintuitive for you. That's one 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:26.000 reason people. I never wanted to own a gym because 0:11:26.080 --> 0:11:28.440 I didn't want to sell memberships in the hopes that 0:11:28.480 --> 0:11:34.600 you didn't come. And that's the model. That's the model. 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:39.200 You don't make money. If you charge ten dollars and 0:11:39.240 --> 0:11:41.840 you have a hundred members, you go out of business. 0:11:44.440 --> 0:11:49.480 And so think about it. Car washes consistency and change 0:11:49.720 --> 0:11:56.080 and start to utilize excessive moderation in all aspects of 0:11:56.120 --> 0:12:00.679 your life. Oh, I feel good about that one, all right. 0:12:02.440 --> 0:12:07.360 I love my job. Uh. If you want to reach out, complaints, comments, questions, 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:12.160 Tom h Fit is Instagram as well as Twitter, Please 0:12:12.160 --> 0:12:14.440 follow the show, rate the show. I don't say that enough. 0:12:14.559 --> 0:12:16.920 Anything you can do to support the show is greatly appreciated, 0:12:17.080 --> 0:12:20.040 and I should be saying this hashtag fitness disrupted on 0:12:20.080 --> 0:12:22.960 social media. I see it. I'll reach out. I love 0:12:23.000 --> 0:12:25.679 your questions too. 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