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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We deal with enough complications in life, we need more simple in our life. Our guest is here to share how you can look better feel better and gain confidence simply.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hi, and welcome to the you. World order, showcase, podcast where we feature life, health, transformational

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: coaches and spiritual entrepreneurs stepping up to be the change they seek in the world. I'm your host, Jill Hart, the coaches alchemist on a mission to help coaches and entrepreneurs amplify their voice, monetize their mission and get visible leveraging podcasts. And the huge audience on the Gnostic TV network.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Today we are chatting with Andrew Paletto. Andrew is a certified trainer, writer, speaker, entrepreneur, podcast, host, son, brother and uncle. He started top fitness strategies as he felt there was a void in the let's just say, older folks, demographic

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: for information and online help to improve their overall health and fitness. He is also the host of the podcast top fitness, strategies, welcome to the show. It's great to have you there, drew

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drew: Thanks for having me. I'm looking forward to this. It should be a lot of fun today

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It should be so in our 3rd season, which we we just rolled into recently, I'm starting to ask everybody this one big question, and I already told you what it was

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drew: Should I be scared

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Well, that's why I tell people before we start rolling, so we don't just like ambush you with it.

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drew: So.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Are you ready

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drew: I'm ready. Let's go for it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: What's the most significant thing in your opinion, as individuals, we can do to make an impact on how the world is going

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drew: Probably the best thing I would come up with is to treat yourself as an individual correctly, and by that I mean.

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drew: you only have one life to live. You only have one body on this planet. However, you think the body the human race got here. It's irrelevant. There's only one of you take care of it the better you can take care of it the more of an impact you can have if you're not taking care of your body. Guess what you're not going to have impact anywhere. So take care of yourself

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drew: and and go from there. Start with yourself.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So as a as a fitness coach, and you you're primarily aiming at the older folks. But apparently you're you're a high school coach as well

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drew: I currently, at the time of this recording I teach at local high school. Yes, but not in in the fitness realm. I teach a different subject altogether.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Okay. So you, you have an influence over the younger generation to kind of help them understand the importance of starting early, because it's really hard if you start late

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drew: Yeah, oh, yeah, we definitely in my classes, we do talk about health and fitness. Yeah, even though the class itself is not a health and fitness class. I kind of turn it into one for the younger kids. Yeah, absolutely. Yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Hard to avoid it.

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drew: Yes, very much so

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: When you see the damage that can come down the road just

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drew: Ha! Ha!

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We're not starting early enough

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drew: Yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So? Did you? Have you always been really into fitness? Or did this start later in life?

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drew: Yes and no, I mean, just like most of us. And I say most of us, because not everybody's like this. I was an athlete in high school, and it carried on to college for a couple of years. I thought I was good enough to play college ball, but I wasn't, so I played baseball. I wasn't, but I played for a couple of years, and after sitting the bench for a while, I'm like, you know, this isn't for me, but because of that I was constantly working out, being in shape, doing physical activity, as every high school athlete and college athlete does, whether they realize it or not.

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drew: After that, you know. Then I started going to the gym with my buddies, because, you know, that was the cool thing to do back in your twenties after after college, because everyone who is an athlete thinks they know everything about the gym, especially us guys, are like that.

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drew: Then life happened. I moved from place to place job, family blah blah, and I found myself around 35, 40,

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drew: out of shape, but still thinking I was the athlete of yesteryear, and I started going back to the gym, and it was a completely different experience. Couldn't lift as much, couldn't run as far. Couldn't do this couldn't do that like, hey? What happened just yesterday? I was an athlete that said, wait a second. Yesterday was, you know, 20 years ago, one of those kind of things. So then I once I hit the age of 45 fast forward quite a bit. Here again, life still happened.

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drew: Job family situations. Blah blah blah.

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drew: basically wrap it all into one like, I say, life happens at 45 is when it hit me one day. I was like, you know I'm not the the 21 year old, the 25 year old I used to be. Why do I want to continue to act like it at the gym.

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drew: and that was just the way I looked at it. So I started talking to some of my friends the same way. I said, You know what.

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drew: How do you guys feel at this age? Because we're all about the same age? Give or take a few. And most of them were saying the same thing I was, you know. It's not like we were back in the day with the family, with the time commitment that we don't have anymore, like we used to.

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drew: We're just not the same, but in our heads. We thought we could still go to the gym and bench, press the same amount, curl the same amount we used to do, and all that good good jazz, but in reality we couldn't. So I told myself. You know there's a there's a there's a market out here, and that's when I decided I was going to get my personal trainer's license started getting different credentials

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drew: to understand more what I'm working with to the people my age. So I tell folks all the time that I'm working with, and I know I'm condensing everything really, really quickly here.

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drew: At our age, if your goal is to just, and it's my tagline as well look better, feel better, gain some confidence. I'm your guy. If your goal is to show off your body on stage somewhere, which is a fantastic goal to have. Don't think it's not, I mean, at any age. That's a great goal to have

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drew: the way I teach the way I train. The way I come across probably isn't going to get you there. I know people that can get you there. That's a whole different mentality. So let's just work on getting you that one step. You need to be better tomorrow than you were today. Let's forget about the onstage presence. Let's forget about the how we looked back in high school and college presence. Let's just work on what we have. Now see if we can mold that a little bit to

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drew: make us, for lack of a better term, more happy tomorrow, if that if that even comes across the correct way. Does that make sense

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Totally. Totally. And it it's

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: there's maybe 1% of the population than our age group that's thinking about. You know, I want to have that rock, hard body and go on stage. But there's 99% of us out there that are just like we're just trying to preserve muscle mass, or maybe even for the guys, build a little more muscle mass, and it is possible after 50 to still be buff. I mean, you're in really good shape

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drew: Yeah, yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You don't have to have that 6 pack and rock hard

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drew: Well, no, there's a lot of people my age and yes, and I'll just say I'm over 50, that's all I'll say. I'm not going to get into details about that over 50, a lot of guys, and also ladies who get out of breath bending over to tie their shoe

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah.

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drew: You know that

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Can't bend over and tie their

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drew: Yeah, yeah. And that's just not healthy when you think about it.

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drew: And I used to say this until recently, and somebody just like yourself says you know, only about 1% of the population wants to get that buff body. Blah. Blah, I used to say, yeah, everybody wants a 6 pack Abs. Everybody wants the James Bond or James Bond girl body coming out of the out of the water. Well.

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drew: and I was talking to some over 60 year olds, male and female, says, No, that's not what we want. Yeah. So I cut back on that because the clientele I deal with online my peers. They all look like that. I don't. But they all strive for the 6 pack abs. They all strive for the, you know, 3% body fat type thing. But no, no, not everybody does. So I had to step back and take a look at. Okay, my clientele does not.

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drew: It's not, doesn't want to work for that because they know at this point in life it's probably not going to happen. So let's just focus on what we can do versus the the dream that's so far away that we can't comprehend it. And I'm not. I'm not doing that

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: That you can't comprehend it so much as are you willing to give up what you have to give up in order to achieve it

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: life. I'm not, you know. I like chocolate

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drew: And there lies the problem, especially for us guys. I don't know why I got a pen

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Poorest guys.

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drew: We a lot of guys that I deal with that are not my friends that are my clients, not people I grew up with, and stuff like that. The guys especially have the mental attitude like, you know what I was in high school. I was in college. I was an athlete back then I know how to do this. So what if I'm 400 pounds now? A couple of sit-ups here, a couple of weeks of the proper diet, and I'll be back in fighting shape in no time. Well.

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drew: you know, that ain't gonna happen right away. Can it happen? Sure, it's gonna take a heck of a lot of work, and if that's something you're willing to do, we can work on it. But let's just focus a little bit at a time to get you to that next step. Let's make it so you're and I use this example all the time. Let's make it so. You're not out of breath. When you tie your shoe, let's focus on that, and then we'll get to the next hurdle

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I think a lot of times as we get older we lose muscle mass and metabolism happens in your muscles.

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drew: Oh, absolutely! Yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Most people don't really realize that, and as you lose muscle mass it, it cuts down in your ability to lose all that weight really fast. It's like those young guys in high school.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and guys could lose weight faster than women, but because they have more muscle on their body than women have traditionally and women, you know. We're supposed to have a little bit of fat

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: not a lot, not as much as most women have these days, but you know ideally you have enough to be able to bear children, because if you get too skinny, you stop having that ability. But

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: yeah, it's it's all about the muscles and

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drew: Pretty good.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Building muscles responsibly.

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drew: Yeah. And the key word there is responsibly. If you're wanting to build muscles, if you want to get those great big biceps, yeah, can you still do it after age? 50? Of course you can.

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drew: Is that realistic? Well, it depends on the time commitment you want to put into it the way I present things

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drew: a half hour to an hour workout 3 to 5 times a week with that kind of productivity. You're not going to get the

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drew: with that kind of time commitment. You're not going to get the 24 inch pythons, brother, you know, like the old Hulkster used to say, you probably won't get that. You have to have more of a commitment. Can you do that? Absolutely? You can do it. You and I were talking off air. You have somebody very close to you male, who's pretty buff. Yeah, he does it, but I bet he spends a little more time than a half hour to an hour, 3 days a week at a gym

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: He? He actually well, he spends 3 h 3 times a week at the gym

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drew: There you go. Okay, there you go. Yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Part of that is like in the Sauna and in the booth to his friends.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: But he he also he pays attention to his diet.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It's not.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: It is a large part of this

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drew: Absolutely.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And he also understands that you need to rest. And he has a system, and he works different muscle groups on different days. It's not like

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: We go to the gym and we slam it hard, and we're doing all this stuff

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: that doesn't work. It's a good way to hurt yourself

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drew: He has a plan absolutely. Yes, you need to have a plan. If you haven't been working out or doing any kind of physical activity last 1015, 20 years. You can't just start right back up and think you're going to do it like you did back in the day. The body just doesn't work that way. Can you build up to it? Sure.

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drew: But it's going to take a little bit longer one, because we're getting up there in age, and our body isn't as resilient as it used to be. The human body is a wonderful, wonderful machine.

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drew: Push, pull, bend, stretch, does all this, and as long as you treat it the right way, it's going to respond the right way.

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drew: So if you don't treat it the right way, guess what you think they're not going to respond, and therefore you're not going to be able to get to whatever level you want to get to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Or you'll get hurt, and then

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drew: Absolutely you'll get hurt. Yes.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You start all over again, if you're even motivated to start all over again once you get hurt when you're older. Yep, because

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: recovery is a thing

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drew: It is absolutely, it is

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So what are your? What are your thoughts for helping people who maybe have been

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: letting the fitness aspect of their life slide? Where? Where would you say they should start?

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drew: It's all a mental thing. You have to start by

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drew: accepting the fact that your life is going to change

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drew: time. Wise lifestyle, wise. Once you decide that mentally, then the sky's the limit. Then you can do whatever you want to at that point, working out wise, I mean, maybe not like you used to when I say whatever you want to. I mean, if you want to go to the gym for a half hour, you want to spend 3 h like your husband. It's great, but you have to put your mind in the game because it's completely different. If you haven't done it for 20 years. You're way out of the realm of

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drew: mentally putting that time commitment in. So you have to 1st realize that it's going to be uncomfortable at first, st just like anything new is you start a new job. It's uncomfortable@firstst You move to a new area. It's uncomfortable@firstst Same thing with working out. It will be uncomfortable@firstst You have to.

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drew: I don't wanna say force yourself to do it, but mentally prepare yourself. Okay. At 4 o'clock Monday, Wednesday, and Friday I'm gonna hit the gym, and I'm gonna do XY. And Z. At 9 o'clock in the evening. I'm gonna do XYZ. 5 o'clock in the morning. I'm gonna get up and do it. I'm not gonna like it, but I gotta get in the habit of doing it.

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drew: It's just going to be a whole different process at first, st and once you get the mental part of it, everything else is going to start happening in the way you like it to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Do you? Do you talk to people about coming up with their why? Because it sounds like you're talking about developing habits.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and if you have a strong enough.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: why, the habit tends to be much more likely to take

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drew: I kind of get away from that a little bit. And here's why. Because here's why. Why don't I get away from the why

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drew: being a have an online business and and being associated with different businesses throughout my life. Everybody always says, Well, you have to put the why in front of you have to put your why in front of you. Well, after a while, for me at least, it's almost like a

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drew: it's irrelevant to me what my why is. And that's just me personally for me. I can't put that in front of me because it doesn't motivate me. But I do ask people, for instance, if you're over 50, you might have grandkids. Do you want to play with your grandkids? That's a huge motivational thing for people that they have grandkids, especially by the time you're 50. Your kids are old enough. You're not going to be playing with them so much. But your grandkids different because you want to spoil them.

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drew: Do you want to go to that?

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drew: Pick them up?

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drew: Yeah. Do you want to go to that high school reunion next year and look halfway decent, better than you are now, if you're down on yourself that way.

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drew: But to put that focus in front of you, I don't

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drew: coach on the mentality of, okay, we're working toward this. I don't coach on the why. And I'm not saying that in a negative way. And if somebody else does. That's fantastic. Great! Great go for it!

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drew: But for me it was never a motivational thing for myself, so

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drew: It's hard for me to expect somebody else to put it in front of them. Now, if they keep telling me. Yeah, I want to play with my grandkids. Great, absolutely. I'll use that for encouragement all day long. Yeah, whatever I can to help the encouragement. But I don't to answer your question. No, I don't. I don't

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drew: follow that philosophy of coaching toward the why is all I could say

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Fair enough. I everybody has their own way of of helping

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drew: Absolutely.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And I agree with you. The why doesn't I always try to think of what's my, why, I'm in the process of doing the thing. I don't care what my! Why is. I just want this result. I'm result oriented more than why oriented.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I'm kind of wired the same way. You

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drew: I can.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Totally understand that actually

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drew: Finally, somebody can understand it. Thank you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So, how? How do you actually work with people? Is it online? Is it in groups? Is it one on one

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drew: Online. A few of my friends locally, I do on a 1-on-one. But usually, if my clientele is spread out around the country, even possibly around the world. At some points. I work with them

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drew: like we're doing here via some sort of online video chat mechanism that seems to be easiest. It used to be by phone call, but that's

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drew: still there. But this is so much more easier. You can see somebody face to face, eye to eye, so to speak. So that's that's mainly how I do it. A lot of what I do.

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drew: They have to want to do it

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drew: and I'm roundabout way getting to the thing of motivation, because people say, Well, how do you motivate people? I don't. I cannot motivate them. There's nobody on this planet trainer wise, can. I cannot motivate you?

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drew: I can, and by that I say I cannot get you off the couch.

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drew: You have to do that. But once you get off the couch. I can feed that or fuel that motivation to get you to the next place. But to start off with, nobody on this planet can motivate you to get off the couch. That's something internally. That's a mental thing. I keep telling people after that. Yeah, then Katie bar the door, baby, we're on. We're going to go for it.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So how do you actually work with them? Do you come up with routines? Do you come up with diets? How? How does all that look

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drew: I keep things extremely as simple as I possibly can. If all they want to do is walk around the block. We'll walk around the block. If they want to do at home workouts, we'll do at home workouts. They want to do body weight.

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drew: gym workouts, whatever we'll do that. So I want to find out what they are comfortable of doing, because if they're not comfortable doing it, and I'm not talking about, I feel this ache. If I do a curl. Well, 1st of all, stop. If it's a painful type of hurt, stop. But if it's the muscles saying, Hey, what's going on here? You know it doesn't feel right if you giggle while you're doing it because your muscles hurt, that's called doms, which is a funny kind of laugh.

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drew: and we'll do that right. We'll do that. But nutrition wise. Keep things as simple as I possibly can.

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drew: I say, cut back on sugar, cut back on salt, drink more water.

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drew: focus on getting a little more protein. I don't like to count calories if you want to. Great, we can get into it. I don't.

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drew: If you want to count grams of stuff great, we can get into it.

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drew: I don't. I'll read what's on the package. Okay, this has so many grams of protein fantastic.

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drew: And I said, Let's shoot for a number per day of grams of protein.

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drew: Great if you want to do that, if not, just focus on eating more protein.

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drew: But the main thing drink more water, less salt, less sugar. We'll get those 3 things going.

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drew: and you'll see some big differences without getting into the mental game of trying to measure out everything, which, if you do, that's great. I'm not built that way. I cannot measure out my food. It drives me nuts. If I do that, it's a demotivation thing for me

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: You can't look at the back of the package, so I'm finding myself writing all the ingredients down, and you know, figuring out what portion of the thing it is, and then you have to add all the calories up. It was a big deal to figure out like, if you're making

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: you're spending more time figuring out what the calories are in this thing, and the macro and micronutrients that are just making the thing and eating it

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drew: You're not going to eat the second portion. What? What's going on with you? What's going on, you know. Same thing with a Hispanic mother. No, no, no, you sit down. You're going to eat, and you're going to eat a lot at those kind of tables absolutely. So. I also have some very good friends personally that are not in the industry, and ones who are in the industry, who are very meticulous at counting every little calorie, every little drop that goes by the food that goes into their mouth, which is great.

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drew: Drive me nuts if I had to do that, and it's a demotivator. If I had to do that, do I watch what I eat. Sure, absolutely do I occasionally have the pizza and beer. Oh, absolutely. I'm a guy, of course we're going to do that. You got a game on, hey! Give me a beer absolutely. But again, my motivation or my

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drew: I shouldn't wait a second. I'm not going to let me rephrase that. I'm going to keep a part of my lifestyle that I enjoy.

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drew: All right. So I say, yes, I will change my lifestyle, but I can also keep that little bit of my lifestyle that I enjoy so I can enjoy life.

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drew: to be healthier. For instance, if you drink pizza, drink pizza, eat drink beer, and eat pizza every night. You know. We shouldn't do that if we're going to be healthy. Of course we know how to do that.

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drew: Cut back on the alcohol. Yeah, that's not going to make us healthy. But what do I replace it with? Well, for right now we'll replace it with some water

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drew: you know, eat some protein, forget the second, 3, rd 4th slice of pizza back off on it a little bit. We know we shouldn't eat that to be healthy. So let's focus on cutting back on the things that we shouldn't eat, that we know we should not eat, and we'll work on what we should eat later on. But let's cut back on the bad stuff, and we'll start replacing it with the good stuff. Little by little.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Yeah, it's just the I like the replacement thing.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: So I find that it's easy to get into bad habits. But if you have something to replace that bad habit with, that's good, and gives you the same kind of

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: which is a silly thing. Apples are really sweet. There's so many varieties now

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And and my dog likes to eat the core. So we have

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: At night, where he watches me eat my apple in anticipation of eating the core

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drew: mentally speaking. Yeah, your body's gonna say, hey, wait a second here. Where's the ice cream I'm used to? You got this apple thing. I don't know if I like this or not. So first, st your body's gonna not really reject it. But it's gonna give you that funny feeling like, hey? Something's rough here, you know. I like the apple stuff coming in, and it works the same way as the opposite way, too. If you're constantly eating healthy

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drew: eating a gallon of ice cream a day, eating a couple of pizzas a day. Your body's gonna say, oh, hey, hey! And it's gonna give you that feeling of, you know. Sluggishness. I don't like this. What am I doing to myself?

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drew: as just like your body will adapt to the good way. So you will have that change. You will have that funny feeling, lack of a better term, regardless if you're going from good to bad or bad to good. So which way would you rather have it? Would you rather get to the good or get to the bad?

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drew: for me. Personally, I've experienced that where it's just like I can eat ice cream, but i'm going to have a consequence for it. And you know, do I want that consequence?

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: and not feel like you're having to give things up. I'm a big proponent of. You don't have to give things up. You just need to move in a different direction.

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drew: yeah, I can. I'm an adult. Yes, I can. But is it going to move me to the next phase of feeling better for myself?

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drew: Short term. Yeah, I eat those those dozen wings absolutely. But

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drew: So do I want to feel that way tomorrow. Then I tell myself, maybe eating a dozen wings isn't going to help me. Maybe just back up, maybe just have 6,

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drew: Am I still? Is it still unhealthy? Yes, still unhealthy. But it's not as unhealthy.

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drew: and I hope I'm hope I'm telling this right

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drew: Absolutely.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Apples, pears, peaches, yum, yum! Yum! Yum! Yum!

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And God, they were so prolific! Last year I had so many peaches and apples, and oh, it's like

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: I know that you have inside out, top to bottom fitness program, which is an offer that you make to people. Do you want to talk a little bit about that

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drew: Yeah, this is. And actually, it's an ebook that I wrote a long, long time ago. One of the 1st books I've written several books online. And I used to sell it quite a bit online. And it's a 3 week at home workout program. It's very, very basic. It can either be a stepping stone to get you started to the next level of going to a gym, or it can enhance what you're doing at the gym.

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drew: It's basically all body weight stuff. It doesn't require any kind of weights. It's very, basic, very simple. But I want you to get into the habit of doing it, and also the the nutrition

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drew: how many calories or how many grams of fat. I'm just like you said a replacement method. That's what I basically walk you through it in the book. And if you take those concepts, take what I tell you to do in there.

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drew: It's going to springboard you to, or the design is to springboard you to the next thing. If you do it. If you don't do it, of course it won't, but that's my gift to you, and if it's for you, great, if it's not no problem, I have both. The the book is free, and if you want the audio portion, that's part of it as well

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome, awesome, and people can get that by going to

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: top fitnessstrategies.com. You can find it over there as well, and we'll make sure that we put that link in the show notes

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drew: Thank you.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And they can also get in touch with you through your website and

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drew: Absolutely. Yeah.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Talk to you about how working with you would look

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drew: Yeah, most social media platforms you can find me at either top fitness strategies or at Andrew Poleto, or you can go to topfitnessstrategies.com, and I link to everything through there as well

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Awesome. Thank you so much for joining us today.

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: Thank you for having me appreciate it.

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drew: It's been great

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: And

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Jill Hart-The Coach's Alchemist: if you would like to learn more about what Andrew is doing and get access to his inside out, top to bottom fitness program. Please visit topfitnessstrategies.com, and we'll be sure to link to that in the show notes. Thank you for tuning in with us today. If you have a podcast or you're interested in starting one to get your message in front of our huge and active audience. Be sure to reach out to us at jill@gnostictv.com.

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