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MM114 - Training on the Road is Good for You

Get out of your comfortable pond once in a while. A new/different environment forces you to focus on doing everything right, or at very least trying to do it right.

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[INTRO]

♫ Trenches by Pop Evil ♫

*Alex*

Welcome to Morning Mindset. A daily dose of practical wit and wisdom with a professional educator & trainer, Amazon best selling author, United States Marine, Television and Radio host, Paul G. Markel. Each episode will focus on positive and productive ways to strengthen your mindset, and help you improve your relationships, career goals, and overall well-being. Please welcome your host; Paul G. Markel.

*Professor Paul*

Here we go again. Welcome back to Morning Mindset and thank you once again for joining me today, for taking just a little bit of time out of your day to spend it with me, here at Morning Mindset podcast. If you have not done so, you know my producer does not just produce the show, but he also produces cool things like Official Morning Mindset coffee mugs, and if you go to MorningMindsetPodcast.com, that’s MorningMindsetPodcast.com You can find a link to purchase your very very own Morning Mindset coffee cup, so you can enjoy your hot beverage with your book, with the podcast.

We're having a good time here, aren't we? Now what is one of the things that I have said and what is the the quote that is on the coffee cup, “You will not find inspiration behind a desk. You have to seek it out”. You have to get up go out and find your inspiration, now once you have inspiration, yes, you can sit at a desk at a laptop or a typewriter or a drawing board or whatever and you can create.

That's true. You can create at a desk, but you don't find inspiration there. That's not where you find inspiration, and when I need inspiration for show topics, so that I can come to you five days a week and speak into this microphone, I get up and I go out. Sometimes I just go out to the field, sometimes I take a little trip, you know, and recently I took a trip.

I was at I went drove down to Las Vegas, I drove through Utah, which is gorgeous. Just a beautiful state, drove through the top corner of Arizona through an area called the Virgin River Gorge. That's about 30 miles of desert Gorge that you go through to get into Nevada, if you've never been there, it's beautiful. I highly recommend that you down there and and look at the-, especially if you're in the East.

If you are east of the Mississippi River, and you've never been in the mountainous west of the United States of America, you need to make a point, you need to make a plan to do that. Maybe not this year, or next year, I don't know but get out to the west and see the mountains. The deserts, the Gorges, the vistas and the boots and all of that stuff.

You want to see you want to take it in for yourself. So that's what I did, I drove down to Las Vegas through, Utah and Arizona and Nevada, obviously and while I was down there I trained because you know, I am on a weight training program, and I needed to train while I was there. I didn't want to skip, so I went to an Olympic barbell training gym, it's called Average Broz.

If any of you are find yourself in Las Vegas, and you are on a weight lifting or. You know a barbell training program and you're looking for a place that will have everything you need to continue. I would suggest Average Broz. It's all the way down on Las Vegas Blvd S. It's way, way south of what they, you know, the the Vegas Strip, but it's not hard to find, and they're very accommodating. Super nice people. So there I am training on the road now, obviously, I have my own personal setup here in Saratoga, where I live.

I have my own barbell, my own rack, my own weights, my own bench, and I am very comfortable using all of my own gear. You know and, as silly as it may sound, but once you've used your bar or bars and your rack and your gear, you become very very comfortable with it. It's like, you know comfortable pair of boots or a comfortable pair of gloves.

It just feels right, and that's good, right? Then you go on the road and you go to somebody else's pond, you leave your comfortable pond, and you go into someone else's pond, and you have to train in a different gym. So there you are, in that new gym and think you know, the weights aren't in the same place as yours are, or they're not set up the same way as yours are, or yours are English pounds, and there's our metric, because that's how Olympic people train is with freaking metric plates.

I don't know why it's just I dunno why, it's just because that's the world that we live in. But the bars are different, they feel different, you know the racks that you use are different, and it's uncomfortable. Not necessarily really physically uncomfortable, but it's like illogically uncomfortable to go into a new place, a different place, and do what you need to do. But that's a good thing, it is.

That's a good thing, I'm going to tell you why. I was standing in their rack, in their squat rack with their bar and their weights, which are different than mine. They make different noise and they feel a little bit different and so forth, and I was focusing and I found that because I was in a different setting, because I was not in my own comfortable pond, that I was forcing myself to very, very deliberately do everything right. I was thinking of all of the advice that my coaches had given me, I was thinking how to perform the move, how to start it, how to breathe, how to finish all of that.

I was focusing very, very intensely because when you're in a foreign element, you need to find something you need to find comfortable ground, and the comfortable ground when you're in a foreign gym, when you're training on the road, used to go back to your programming, your coaching, the way you're supposed to do things, and do them as perfectly as possible.

I'm not, I'm not having any illusions that I did absolute perfect squats, or absolute perfect presses or deadlifts or whatever. But I focused intently, and my mental focus was on doing every single thing, right and that's what I'm going to, you know, I'm going to recommend that to you. Don't be afraid, to leave your comfortable Pond.

Everybody gets in their own Pond, their own comfort zone, and that's cool. I mean, it's part of being a human. That's what we do, we find a comfortable place and we stay in that comfortable place, and that's how we we survive as humans, but every once in awhile, you need to deliberately and purposefully Shake It Up.

Get out of your comfort zone, whether-, and you know it you may not barbell training. You may not strength train, and that's fine. I don't care, whatever it is that you like to do, or you know, with your hobby or your job or whatever, leave your comfortable pond. Go somewhere else, get into someone else's pond and experience that that discomfort.

Go to a new place go to a different place and force yourself to be a little bit uncomfortable. There's nothing wrong with it, it's going to help you grow. That's how we grow muscles, right? We don't grow muscles by making them comfortable, we grow muscles by doing the exact opposite, we grow muscles by making them uncomfortable.

Then after they have been uncomfortable, they grow and they're better than they were before, and that's what I want for you. I want you to go out there get out of your comfortable pond. Experience some discomfort, something new, something different, something strange and grow. All right, ladies and gentlemen, that is it for today.

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*Alex*

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