The mindset that makes "getting fit" MUCH easier

hello my friends it is your brother

hampton from hybrid calisthenics i want

to talk about a mindset shift that i had

that was really a game changer for my

fitness journey and really made things a

lot simpler i hope i can do the same for

you now before i start i want to ask you

a question if you had unlimited time

motivation and energy

everything you needed to have the ideal

fitness plan a lot of us have this ideal

fitness life that we we think we would

do if we had enough time we would do if

we had enough money so think about what

that is or phrase another way think

about training hard if you think if you

had to train for an incredible event and

you're like well i had to train for this

what does training hard look like in

your mind now to get this conversation

started i want to talk about how it was

in my mind for quite some time most of

my childhood in the early part of my

adult life so my father was in the

military i think he was special forces

or something i don't know the details

but he had a little squad and he used to

tell me stories when i was a kid about

how hard it was to train in the military

and there was a story that he told me

that always stuck with me about how at

the end of this three-day long

excruciating hike he would fall asleep

in between steps he was so tired he'd be

like oh and then each time his foot hit

the ground that would drill him awake

just enough for him to lift up his other

leg because they were in a line and he

had to keep going and this wasn't an

isolated incident there were a lot of

other things they talked about

rope swings rope climbing

way above the ground where you would die

if you fell and then rolling down the

hill until you were vomiting so in my

mind i was like wow so this is what it's

like if you're training to fight for

your life now fast forward a decade or

so

i'm in my adult life and i ask him

because i'm thinking about these stories

and i think

dad that wasn't a healthy way to train

you're not really thinking enough about

rest time you're not thinking enough

about allowing the body to heal

and you're not necessarily growing more

muscle by going through these dangerous

excruciating activities and he told me

oh no no you're right it really wasn't

about being healthy it was really about

preparing us short term to have the

mental endurance to fight for our lives

and be in these hellish conditions so

even though he trained really hard

whether he was aware at the time or not

he came to realize that this was not

necessarily the best way to train so

when we think about our ideal fitness

routine it's usually very grueling so

let me just cast a vision for you a lot

of people will say well i would wake up

my ideal fitness life i would wake up at

5 00 am i'd go for a 5 mile jog and then

i come home and i would do stretching or

yoga or tai chi whatever you like i

would do that and then i would go hit

the gym and i would exercise for an hour

i would lift weights and then i would go

to work i'd be very productive and i

would spend eight or nine hours working

and then after work i would hit the gym

again and at night i would have my ideal

water routine an ideal diet plan etc so

you think about all those things and

while it's not quite as extreme as the

military training plan i described it is

very lengthy but you think about these

routines whether you're inspired by

rocky or you're inspired by naruto

they're usually very time consuming and

very intense now here's the mindset

shift that i had because eventually if

you start taking your fitness more

seriously and you start researching it

you come to realize that a lot of these

things are not necessary for optimal

health you think what are my actual

goals and the most common goals just to

summarize are something like grow muscle

increase strength increase mobility

increase flexibility

lose fat everyone has slightly different

goals but that's usually the most

popular goals it's combination of those

and you think okay i want to do that

none of that requires me to do the thing

where i wake up at 5 00 a.m and jog for

five miles every day and go to the gym

for two hours a day in fact just to give

some

quick facts some people can get growth

muscle growth and strength in as little

as one set a day you can do that in one

minute two minutes more realistically if

you want to have a full body routine

that you follow week by week you could

take up to 10 or 15 minutes a day and

that's following some studies that show

ideal muscle growth with three sets to

failure now if we take a break here and

we consider the two things i asked you

to consider which is one your ideal

fitness routine your ideal fitness life

and two your fitness goals what you want

out of your fitness life then you might

notice there's a little bit of a

discrepancy i'm just talking to the

average person here and that discrepancy

is that your ideal fitness life doesn't

necessarily match with your fitness

goals in fact in many cases

your fitness goals don't require nearly

as much time and effort and energy and

motivation and all that's required that

you are considering in your ideal

fitness life

so you think about why that is now

there's a lot of possibilities here that

we can get into but

i think a lot of it is the media that we

consume when we're young when we watch

stories and we watch cartoons when the

main character has to fight the villain

they undergo this huge training montage

where they have to overcome hellish

conditions and it's just a struggle

right and then you might combine that

with some other stories you hear friends

and family talk about usually older

people talking about well back in my day

this is how hard i trained which power

to them i'm glad they had that training

and i'm glad if they benefited from that

but it's not necessary for every person

now why is this such an important

mindset shift that i'm talking about why

am i making a video about it well it's

important because i believe most of us

are not living our ideal fitness life

that we think in our minds

right even me if i'm thinking well if i

didn't have to work and do hybrid stuff

if i didn't have to talk with other

people if i didn't have to manage this

business i could spend more time on my

fitness routine then it might look

different so we start thinking this and

i think most of us have subconsciously

built up this insurmountable mountain in

our minds about what an ideal fitness

routine would be and all the

possibilities that could come as a

result of that we could be stronger we

could be fitter we can be more muscular

we can be leaner and boy we will look a

lot more attractive and these goals are

great it's fine to have lofty goals it's

fine to work out for hours a day i've

done it before

but i think while considering this you

might have realized that realistically

you're probably not going to get there

anytime soon and as a result

our ideals in our mind the thing that

we're building up as the ideal fitness

routine or the ideal anything really

becomes another barrier to entry you're

like ah because you've built up a way

that you want to do it in your mind

you're thinking well this is no way i

can do that it becomes a dream home

instead of your actual home so instead

of a home improvement that you could do

like building a deck or building a new

sink it becomes a mansion you're like

well

if only i could have that maybe someday

but not now

when in reality most of your fitness

goals once again increasing strength

building muscle etc you could have in a

few minutes a day so that is the mindset

shift that i had when i stopped trying

to do

a thousand push-ups a day a thousand

sit-ups a day going for a 5k jog

i think all of which i've done and maybe

not at the same time but i've done a lot

of crazy fitness routines in my time

when i stopped trying to pursue that

and trying to deal with the burnout of

that like man this is exhausting i'm

trying to do this every day if only i

could have a rest day but no because

that anime character i watched didn't

have a rest day when we start realizing

that we don't need to spend all this

time and we start crafting a routine

around something that can actually build

towards the goals we want then fitness

becomes a lot simpler then it becomes a

lot more enjoyable then it becomes a lot

more doable even when we're tired if

it's a long day at work you're like man

i just don't feel like doing

an hour at the gym today it's like fine

you can spend 10 minutes it's 10 intense

minutes perhaps but then you still have

that time you still have that energy and

then if you build it intelligently then

you can have your foundation of your

routine take five to ten minutes and

then other stuff like oh then i'll go

for a jog then i'll go on the treadmill

then i'll bike a little bit then i'll

jump rope then i'll stretch a little bit

more and you add that on so you can

scale it from anywhere from 10 minutes

to an hour depending on what you're

feeling that day then you really have

something that's adaptable for the rest

of your life

now what routine is that if this is your

first time watching me you'll be like

well this long hair weirdo is going to

sell me a routine right and yes i'm

going to sell you a routine it's on my

website hybrid calisthenics.com routine

i've decided to charge a million dollars

a year for it but luckily for you it is

100 off it has been at the very

beginning and it will continue to be for

a long long time if not forever so it's

basically free if you didn't get that i

know i can be a little confusing

sometime but the routine is free feel

free to check it out hybrid

calisthenics.com routine that can be a

great place for you to start your

fitness journey but i do want to

emphasize something and this is my fault

for not making this more clear but one

of the reasons why it's called hybrid

calisthenics is because you can combine

it with other disciplines some people

look at that and it's too simple for

them it's like well it's 10 or 15

minutes a day but i want to spend 30 or

40 and i'm not going to burn out i just

have that energy right now you can

combine it with other things you can

combine it with boxing training with

wrestling training with jogging with

football with

with soccer which is different in

different parts of the world the ideal

fitness routine is unique to each

individual because we are all unique our

lives are unique our goals are unique

our family and life circumstances are

unique

so all that rambling is just to say that

fitness might not be as complicated and

as time-consuming and as insurpassable

insurmountable as you might think the

first step might be right there for you

it might just be doing a single set of

wall push-ups today it might be a single

set of squats today it might be hmm

i'm just gonna go for a walk today and

then build from there that's all there

is to it this is just a video for those

of you who watch me and think

that's great but i don't know where to

start i think this is a reasonable place

where you can start just start doing

something and then adjust as you go and

so the next time you see a shiny fitness

person you don't have to think boy i

wish i could do that but i just don't

have the time i just don't have the

money i just don't have the motivation

you can think instead

the foundation of that can be built in a

few minutes a day and even if i can't

get to quite that that person might

exercise for hours a day and reaps the

final 10 of benefits even if i can't

have that i can start building with a

few minutes a day and adding and

changing as i go and then when you look

back a few years later you might notice

that you've built quite a bit of

progress that you previously thought was

impossible or very hard my friend those

are just some thoughts i hope they can

help you out have a wonderful beautiful

day my friend