The Best Workout Motivation Ever – Joe Rogan

The Best Workout Motivation Ever – Joe Rogan

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it’s this fear of discomfort people have
this extreme feeling in their mind 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 fuck 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 look at my
schedule I go oh shit I don’t any time
for a workout which means I’m not gonna
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
gonna feel good I’m not gonna feel
relaxed I’m not gonna feel carefree and
I’m not gonna feel even appreciative
like my appreciation of things in 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 that weather or
sensory data that I’m getting from any
event is just 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
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 the 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 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 facilitating
change and yet our
instinct is to avoid those and just sit
on the couch and watch some fucking
reality show about dudes and make
moonshine with our jaw open like its
with bizarre and for me at least when I
get when I get like really disciplined
and really 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 in 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 of an
exercise 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 fuck off is
available and you did it before and
you’re probably gonna 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 fuck 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
career decisions like an uncomfortable
decision that you might be faced with we
may be you need to make a change as far
as like what your pathway is in life but
you don’t do it instead you fuck off and
that the inclination to fuck 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 fuck off like this is not like
your body is like a race car that you
can juice up yourself
like you can add the fat tires you can
add the improve 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
because we’re essentially ecosystems you
know and we’re we’re
charge this weird consciousness that has
all this resistance and has all this
inclination towards comfort and fucking
off and blowing things off is what is in
charge of making all these things happen
that keep this ecosystem healthy it’s
almost like if Earth itself had like a
shitty manager you know if like there
was a manager of or a natural manager of
Earth that was like oh god who cares if
it rains oh god you know like let’s let
you know I’m gonna stop growing things I
don’t give a shit anymore it’s all
stupid anyway I mean it’s literally like
the the just blow it up let’s just kill
all the life
what do it’s all gonna die eventually I
mean the Sun only lasts 7 billion years
you see that is the perspective a lot of
people take with ageing where it’s like
well you’re gonna die you’re gonna age
you can’t stop aging and it’s like yes
you’re right but that’s not the point
the point is to age better like that’s
the point the point is to increase your
health span you know and that is we know
is possible like that can there’s some
there’s some of these like centenarians
and super centenarians I’ve seen that
are like in you know over a hundred
years old and they’re like riding bikes
and racing and it’s like yeah they’re
old they are very old they’re
experiencing a very good quality of life
yeah and there’s experiencing a quality
of life that these other people that
don’t exercise feel they physically feel
their own body diminishing and they just
feel it’s inevitable it’s just what it
is what it is you’re wasting your time
you’re out there running around but no
we’re not because this experience right
now it’s not like no one’s under the
illusion you’re gonna live forever but
you are enhancing the experience that
you’re currently involved in right now
and you are alive you are alive you do
experience this life but do you
experience this life optimally is it is
it as enjoyable as it can be and we all
know that there’s a spectrum for that
enjoy ability like we’ve all had times
in our life where it’s not been so great
and then times in a life where
everything came together like what a
fucking great day whoo like make more of
those like you could make more of those
and then the whole thing’s better and I
think when that whole thing is better it
affects everybody you touch every
but it’s around you everybody come in
contact with and that in turn made it
sound so grandiose but in an in turn can
affect the entire race of human beings
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