Breaking a Plateau listening to Joe Rogan "Fear of Discomfort" - 200 Air Squats in a row! @joerogan

[Music] it's this fear of discomfort people have this extreme feeling in their mind uh when it comes to their associations with exercise they want to avoid discomfort they feel like any type of exercise is just like something to be avoided that's not for me [ __ ] that I don't want to sweat I don't want to strain and a lot of times this Association that they have is about the beginnings of getting in shape it's not about once you're actually fit because once you're actually fit exercise is something you look forward to it's an alleviation of stress it's it feels great like if I can't get a workout in I I look at my schedule I go ah [ __ ] I don't have any time for a workout which means I'm not going to get that good feeling and so instead of looking at it like oh I've got to go Grunt and sweat I'm thinking I'm not going to feel good I'm not going to feel relaxed I'm not going to feel carefree and I'm not going to feel even appreciative like my appreciation of things and it gets enhanced greatly after exercise I just feel better I feel like I can take things in for what they are rather than you know whatever the whatever sensory data that I'm getting from any event is just uh one more distraction that gets in my way and you know that that's a lot of times how I look at things if I'm overstressed or if I'm working too much like our bodies for whatever reason uh most people their associations are to avoid anything that's uncomfortable but it's so illogical because when you look at comfort and you look at success and progress and then eventual the feelings of accomplishment and of getting past certain hurdles and in terms of like how you feel about life a lot of those are connected to discomfort like discomfort is your friend it really is like discomfort and uh and not being happy and content with certain situations in Life or certain feelings in life there are massive massive motivators and they're they're amazing at at facil facilitating change and yet our instinct is to avoid those and just sit on the couch and watch some [ __ ] reality show about dudes who make moonshine with our jaw open like it's it's bizarre and for me at least when I get when I get like really disciplined and really um I get really consistent with my workouts one of the things that I feel I almost feel momentum I feel like there's like a push behind me like all right we're you know like after I get out of the gym I have a really good workout I'm like yeah now I'm doing it I'm doing it all the time now and I'm looking forward to the next time and it makes that resistance much weaker and it makes my motivation and my discipline much stronger I think a lot of it is based on just the consistency you know it's one of the things that I talked about recently on the podcast I said you know like blowing something off it's not just not good like blowing off uh an exercise uh that you planned is not just bad for you physically it's also bad mentally because then that option is now available the option to [ __ ] off is available and you did it before and you're probably going to do it again and you'll get mediocre results not just in that aspect of your life but maybe in all aspects of your life because I think that option to [ __ ] off when you embrace it that is a pathway that you might choose when it comes to dealing with conflict in your personal life dealing with business decisions dealing with uh career decisions like an uncomfortable decision that might be faced with you maybe you need to make a change as far as like what your pathway is in life but you don't do it instead you [ __ ] off and that the inclination to [ __ ] off I think that gathers momentum as well the inclination to be disciplined that comes with momentum too and I think both things like you did you take a path the path of the healthy person or the path of the [ __ ] off like this is not like your body is like a race car that you can juice up your yourself like you can add the fat tires you can add the improved suspension you can beef up the horsepower in the engine you could do all that yourself or you could just choose to have this shitty body that's always falling apart on you cuz we're essentially ecosystems you know and we're we're in charge this weird Consciousness that has all this resistance and has all this inclination towards comfort and [ __ ] off and blowing things off is what is in charge of making all these things happen that keep this ecosystem [Music] healthy