SF Fitness john oconnell

If you find something too hard to stick to then it's too hard to stick to. You don't need more effort, you need the right plan for your current ability

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In this episode I'm interviewed by Sean Rooney. We talk about the injury that guided me into the fitness industry 20 years ago, all the lessons I've learned along the way to develop my ultimate fitness and health philosophy of "find what works best for you"

It was a great talk from Sean

He shared a lot of personal examples of how his mindset has and hasn't worked for him

And how he's developed and changed it over the years

Culminating to a point where he's now undertaken a 12-week challenge prior to his 50th birthday

Plus he spoke about how our mind/brain works along with some pretty cool things you can do with it

Here's what we'll go through


Health & fitness is important to us so why aren't we healthier?
Why starting with the end in mind isn't always an effective strategy even though I said it on the podcast last week
Why motivation is all about leverage and how you can create yours
How being optimistic derails a crucial aspect of motivation
Simon Says...
Asking better questions to ramp up your drive and drive down your doubt
Plus loads more including me walking you through the process I go through to create my goals

>> You'll need a pen and paper for this one

In this next part we covered

- What happens to the metabolism as we age
- A fixed versus a growth mindset
- Protein's role in weight loss and longevity
- How to know how much protein to eat
- What is your fat set point 
- The effect sleep deprivation can have on weight gain
- Cravings & Binge eating
- Fasting
- Can you motivate someone else?
- Sean shares some of the mental blocks he has overcome
- What Sean's been doing to help him over the past few weeks
- Why the 21 days challenge DIDN'T work for Sean
- My experiences with low carb
- Trigger foods and eating in moderation
- Sean's strategy for overcoming eating for boredom
- How to feel bad less often