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And you trainers and coaches, you're the soldiers.

Well, I mean, people are like, who's they, right?

All right, you know, to paint the picture a little bit, it's, I mean, we could be more specific, you know, big pharma, government, marketers of products and services.

Yeah, if you're unhealthy, you consume more.

If you're unhealthy, and you feel insecure, you're easily manipulatable.

You walk into the grocery store, look at all the products that are geared towards, you know, technically unhealthy behaviors or people.

So they want to promote that healthy fit.

And I mean health in the truest sense, like total like health, not just like you look buffed or whatever, but you're really secure and healthy.

Like you don't consume as much, you don't rely on others or, or, or feel like you need the safety and promises of others as much.

And this is definitely a war and it's coming from all angles and fitness solves this.

Healthy, fit, secure people, they don't want that.

Do you think that this is a product of what happens in, unfortunately, in like a capitalist society?

Do you think that at 1 point, because we are so driven by money and making more that eventually you're going to get evil actors that are going to find ways to manipulate the masses to get the most amount of money out of them?

But The truth is that those desires exist whether...

I know, no matter what system we're in, right?

I know the next question I would have, the follow-up is, is there a better system than that?

Because no matter what, you're going to find evil actors, no matter what, there's going to be people that manipulate.

But is this, and so is this more of a product of evil in society or is it more of a product of because we incentivize making more money?

Well, the commissars in the Soviet Union were just as power hungry and greedy as owners of corporations or the investors in Pfizer or big pharma, for example.

So it's no different, but the difference is, in markets, the consumer has more power to influence.

So this is where things get really interesting.

Think about all of the collective innovation and ingenuity that we have as a society.

Now think of where it gets directed, right?

It gets directed towards the products and services that the consumer wants.

So if the products and services that the consumer wants reflects good health, This is where we're going to get innovation.

If the products and services that the consumer wants is to distract us, to numb us, to medicate ourselves, then that's where the innovation goes.

There's no better example than the internet.

If you look at the internet, so much innovation goes towards porn sites.

Imagine if that much consumption power went to people who are like, we want to solve real problems.

I don't want to just numb this headache or this joint pain or distract myself from depression or whatever.

I want, like imagine if all the innovation went in that direction.

Imagine if you walked into the grocery store And the average consumer wasn't just looking for something fast and tasty, but was looking for something nutritious and healthy, something that was really nourishing, right?

Imagine what the products would look like or what the grocery store would end up looking like.

So we have a lot of power, but the key is to know and understand, you know, where we're going and what the right, where the direction is and who is trying to manipulate.

This is always the optimism for me is, is to see that that's really where we have the most say at all is like where we're going to spend our money and our, and what we do in terms of like our behaviors.

And at the top, if you want to look at it as, as, you know, companies and government, handlings of these things, Trying to kind of shape culture and move in a certain direction, you know, maybe it's money-driven maybe there's other reasons for it control whatever it is, but as You know in the capitalist kind of setting at least we have that that ability to you know, spend our money here and and you know be it like have have some kind of say in terms of like how we do things and how we empower ourselves with healthier practices so that way We at least have that bit of freedom within the system.

Yeah, so look, no market is impervious to this, okay?

Our space, our space is as corrupt as the other ones I just mentioned.

We've talked about this on the show many times.

The gym industry, if you look at the winning model, the winning model in the gym industry is the following.

Charge a cheap enough membership to where people sign up, they don't show up, because if they show up, you got to close your doors, got too many members.

It's cheap enough that they sign up and that they don't cancel because it's only 9 bucks a month.

The winning model in the gym industry is literally, we want people to not work out.

If the gym industry were really doing this in the, in the right way, what I mean by the right way is like, we're really trying to help people.

You couldn't have a 30, 000 square foot facility in a city with a million people and charge $9 a month if people are actually showing up, actually working out.

Like the people who are the, by the way, in the gym industry, they talk about this.

The people that cost you money, that you lose money on in your gym?

Yeah, they don't show up and buy all your supplements.

They pay their monthly fee and they show up every day and use your equipment.

So my point with this is that we literally, and I say we as those of us in the space as coaches and trainers, we actually are soldiers in this war because healthy, fit, secure people, Look, let me put it this way.

Look at all the, look at the big problems in society.

Look at, you know, people like to talk about the climate.

Look at the carbon footprint and the pollution that sick, unhealthy, dependent people create versus healthy, fit, and secure people.

And then look at where the innovation goes.

Healthy people want to innovate in a direction, tend to want to innovate in a direction that's healthy.

Unhealthy people are looking to innovate in a direction That is less healthy.

In an eight-hour workday, a healthy person who feels good is far more productive.

Now we have lots of data to support this.

None of this is, by the way, that I'm saying is just anecdotes.

When you exercise right and you eat right, nothing's more powerful at lifting people from the everyday type of depression that people experience or anxiety.

It makes you feel less irritable, more positive, meaning the normal stuff that happens in your life, you're stuck in traffic.

If you're fit and healthy, you're less likely to be so pissed off by it.

You're less likely to wanna have conflict with people.

Here's another 1, tolerance is a big buzzword.

Tolerance, inclusion, by the way, those are weaponized by politicians who wanna control you.

The most tolerant, inclusive place on earth, I'll make this argument, in fact, I did a post like this.

Father Steve, who's the producer for Word on Fire, is a Catholic, very popular Catholic podcast.

When I made this tweet, he actually commented underneath and he says, I'm afraid you're right, and it's even better at doing this than the church.

The most inclusive place you'll find anywhere is a gym, a hardcore gym.

You go into a hardcore gym, it doesn't matter what you look like.

I don't, nobody cares what your political beliefs are.

And the most tolerant, inclusive people in that gym are the most hardcore people.

And anybody who's ever experienced, who's done this knows it's totally true.

So this is a very powerful, very powerful vehicle that has tremendous benefit, not just the aesthetic, you know, the obvious, I look better or the health, I feel better, you know, all that stuff, man, just think of right now, if you look around the world, look around your town, imagine if everybody were 20% healthier, in the truest sense, not 20% look better, but I mean healthier.

How different do you think experiences would be for people in your town?

And you know, I know I'm making it sound like we're, you know, this is like this, like this, this crazy crusade.

And if you're a trainer or coach, by the way, I'll say this is a, And you guys managed trainers, you know this.

It's really hard to tell, to get a trainer who comes in and starts.

It's hard to teach them how to, let's say, build their business or make money.

Not because necessarily they don't want to do that, but because they're not driven necessarily by that.

They're driven by this, they know, they have this deep fire.

Like I wanna do this because I believe in this.

And so as a manager, I used to have to teach them how like building your business actually helps you do that.

So trainers and coaches listening right now, especially those that haven't been jaded by the fitness space yet.

Right now, as I'm talking, you know how they feel.

They're all like, oh yeah, that's exactly what I'm doing.

And we had that conversation with Arthur Brooks and talking about like how you're going to make the most impact in the world really is to shape your local community and to do it like 1 person at a time and think about that in terms of yourself and what you're Grow how you're growing and what that's gonna do in terms of like affecting everybody else around you and then from there it grows it fosters it it spreads And it's just such a more effective approach is to like be able to kind of take that self-assessment and take personal accountability and to improve every day and try your best to kind of infuse that in other people.

And who does that better than personal trainers and working with somebody one-on-one and helping them grow and foster that mentality and that ability that they have that strength and that ability to shape their lives in a better direction.

optimistic are you guys that we can even win that war?

And is it more, we just wanna lose less than what we're already losing?

Because I totally agree on everything that you're saying.

My fear is that human behavior has already proven that we're going to take the easier route.

I would rather numb myself with cigarettes, with alcohol, with food, with drugs.

And of course, the big corporations know this.

And so it's us against them on the messaging, right?

We're trying to, our message is it's gonna be hard.

Or is it we just are trying to lose less.

Because look, Adam, you're a serial entrepreneur, a successful serial entrepreneur.

When you start a new business, do you inundate yourself with the statistics or do you go in there being like, I'm gonna win?

I don't fear the soldier who goes to war who's like, man, I don't know if we're gonna win.

I fear the soldier who's like, I don't care.

I'm going and I'm gonna win and I have that belief.

So if we're gonna win this war, There's only 1 way to do it and that's to believe that you can whether or not we do or not.

I think that's the right answer because I And what a great Analogy to you know, just having success in entrepreneurship because 80% will fail

I think we're facing horrible odds, horrible odds.

When we talk about our career as trainers and, you know, it's hard to make money and it's a hard business.

And if 30% of your clients get long-term success, you're way better than most trainers.

How many times have you heard people say, I left my successful career to become a personal trainer because of your show.

The odds being stacked against us, people listening right now who feel this fire that I'm communicating right now, all that does is embolden us.

The odds are stacked against me, That makes me even more angry and even more on fire.

But look, what I'm stating is 100% the truth.

Every market, you can go through literally checklist, every market, go down that list and imagine the changing consumption habits.

If people felt fit, healthy, and secure, what kind of clothes would people buy?

Or how would, How would they purchase clothes, makeup, plastic surgery, medicine, food, homes, organizations, education, like literally if people went on, by the way, this is not a destination, you're not going to be like, I'm fit, healthy, and cured or whatever.

If people kind of wake up a little bit and understand like, okay, this is a very good pursuit.

And they continue to move in this direction and it becomes a movement.

Oh my God, like the progress that we would make in every aspect of society is tremendous.

So again, the soldiers are the good coaches and trainers that are out there.

The people that are out there that are doing this for the right reasons, trying to train people and help people and coach them and simultaneously work on themselves.

Because I guarantee you, by the way, the naysayers are going to do this.

They're going to paint the trainers, the coaches, and the fitness people as hypocrites.

Well, look at those insecure bodybuilders.

Look at those body-obsessed fitness influencers.

Only 1 person has ever lived in the history of mankind.

Don't let them, don't let them discourage you by pointing out your imperfections or the imperfections of the people on this pursuit.

And they will, there's a lot of money and a lot of power behind trying to, defeat the message that I'm communicating right now, but it's the truth.

It is strange how we've seen in the last, you know, a couple of years, just recently, the attack on the health and fitness space, you know, on gyms and gym culture.

It seemed, for a long time, it seemed like that's always been a just like-

Yeah, non-political, it only helps everybody, they don't have an agenda, you know, it's like, so to see The media kind of come after the gym culture and we're exercising That's not a lot of things make me get my cackles up and start thinking like you guys in conspiracy theories, but that's really fucking weird to me, it really is.

I don't think it's like this organized by the way.

I don't think there's like a leader who has meetings with all these.

I think it's just in their best interest, all these markets, all these, it's in their best interest to feed sick and unhealthy.

If you're a consumer, most markets will lose consumers.

And even if they do, you're gonna lose consumers if they become secure, fit and healthy.

I'm not, and so when I'm saying the enemy, you know, I know I'm painting like this, like Sauron, right?

The eye, he's like got all these hoards, you know, whatever.

And you can picture it that way and that gets me fired up because I like to think of things that way, but the reality is it's just in their best interest and they're all trying to do this.

I'll point to another way that our space gets infiltrated.

Look at the division in the fitness space between different factions or styles of fitness.

You got your yoga people, your mobility people, your power lifters, your bodybuilders, your crossfitters, your distance runners, and then they all fight with each other.

We're all reality, like we all join arms, we're all moving the same.

And it's really at this point, if this keeps persisting in terms of like this, this sort of like, deliberate, misinformation and trying to mischaracterize, like the gym culture in the gym itself and make it look like it's this, you know, negative toxic place.

Like we really need to rally, these other, different modalities, different camps and different, I mean, we need to like band up and push back against that and show people it's like we're unified.

It's the only way I think that you can get everybody unified is if there was a concentrated attack on all of us.

Just like, I mean, if you could go back hundreds, go back thousands of years, we would naturally make our own tribes.

We wouldn't give a shit about what the things that the tribe down the road were doing, unless there was a concentrated attack on all of us.

So I feel like that's the only way that this happens is 1, everybody kind of wakes up and sees what's happening and agrees that it's a concentrated attack on healthy people, on trying to keep us unfit and sick and dependent on help and support.

It's like, you gotta look back and see all of these measures that were stacked against us having good health.

And so to be honest with ourselves and to realize the reality of what we're facing, it's a real thing.

It's so hard because, 1, what we're selling is, is much tougher to sell.

And the, the other side has gotten so good at selling and presenting their message as virtuous too.

something that I was getting into somebody with about, did you see that, I don't even know how, I didn't know how the Supreme Court could throw something out And then the the president still come back over and move you

Yeah, he so he's like moving forward on the relieving the

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