How To Build Insane Motivation - Exercise Scientist 

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Fitness MUST become a lifestyle. That is the only way to stay with it.

100% agree. The people who stick to the gym for years and years on end are not those who need to rely on motivation or dedication, it’s those who just simply love working out.

Very few can swear like Dr. Mike! A true skill.

Dr. Mike is the best cross-sectional source for science-based fitness information, realistic MFin motivation, and comedy.

I WAS PATIENTLY WAITING MIKE ISRATEL MY GOAT

The part about going to whatever random gym you find wherever you are traveling in the world and just feeling right at home is something I can definitely relate to. Finding the best and closest gym is always the first thing I do no matter which country I'm traveling to.

3:32 Spot on my man. In a nutshell. I was that guy. Sick and tired of being overweight and sick and tired of being sick and tired. I go to the gym every day, Lift weights. Move my body. Love it!

Buying a bench and a set of dumbbells was what made the difference for me. I just have to step into my backyard and I'm at the "gym". Expensive $$$$ but for me it's the difference maker.

The phrase that made me change my mentality the most was, "Motivation is fleeting. Discipline is not."

This might be the best fitness episode you have ever done! SHOUT OUT COACH MIKE

Finally more content with Dr. Mike Palestine!

That bit about asking how to be motivated resonated with me so much. If you can’t motivate yourself then you don’t want to put in the work.

PASSION. I got my first pair of 15 dumbells as a sophmore at 15. I would do sitting concentrations curls & tri cep kick backs on a metal chair looking at myself in the closet mirror. I am now 42 years old & remain hitting the gym 5 days a week because I love it. 27 years of grinding. Its my safe place / my mental reset & therapy & I dont plan on slowing down anytime soon either. Lets keep getting it. 🧠💪

Stop teasin us and please release this whole podcast please 🙏

This guy is awesome; I highly recommend his channel. I don't even lift; I gave up getting jacked decades ago, but stayed pretty strong indefinitely anyway. That base keeps helping with sports.

Chris, I salute you and team for getting Dr Mike in the chair. This is legendary.

Gotta love these RU-vid fitness guys that can be super educational and funny as hell. Dr Mike and Will Tennyson are my fav's because of that.

I'm so happy you guys did a podcast with Dr Mike

Dr. Mike cracks me up! Watching his content has really helped in my fitness journey.

A straight answer packed with so much value!

Glad to see Dr. Mike on here!

Love Dr Mike. I use systems over goals, works every day.

Finally Uncle Mike on the podcast! Can't wait for the full episode

About freakin time!! Dr. Mike is the GOAT

Dr. Mike is awesome!

Post mushroom trip clarity! Sums it up beautifully.

All the half naked women that I’m not supposed to notice is a huge motivator for me. I go every day.

”We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is not an act, but a habit.”- Aristotle

6:30 hearing this is cathartic as can be. I literally tell me wife whenever we are vacationing with her family, “let me go to the gym and I don’t give a flying you-know-what about the rest of the day”.

Mike is the best in the biz. Great guest to have on Chris

What a knowledgeable and persuasive athlete!

The side-view shot with Mike's crocs really hit at a different level

Can’t wait to see the full talk!!

A very basic, 4 exercise routine took me about 30-45 minutes. It made me feel accomplished and was just challenging enough to make me feel very (necessarily) sore for the first week or two. It was the key to breaking back into the gym routine after 10 years off.

It's simple. Heartbreak, and breakup texts as the "forbidden pre".

This guy is fantastic. No BS. And those guns! I walked into a gym and signed up after I handed in my PhD thesis. After 10 years and age 65 my bone mineral density has improved from being good to even better. And yes, if you need to ask about how to motivate yourself to get to the gym, don’t waste your money.

Two of my favorite RU-vidrs

Dr. Mike rocking his crocs. Badass

More Dr. Mike.. dude is the best

I needed to hear this. Good looking out xx

talk about straight to the point hell yes sir

Holy shit i've never seen Dr. Mike in a polo before. What an absolute fucking unit!

Excellent content. Dr. Mike always have good content

I remember going into the gym being a scared 16 yr old twig surrounded by all these monsters lifting heavy weights. And now 9 years later lifting weights is literally my favorite thing to do in life seeing the other people working hard and trying to compete with someone who doesn’t even know I am plus the hot women walking around and the chance to grind out my frustrations and constantly win these little challenges for myself really makes the gym so awesome for me and none of my non gym friends can understand it but idec bc its my special place

Dude is smart and hilarious. Just great!

I go to the gym on my rest days! 😂 I just do active recovery, stretching and a light walk on the treadmil, but I’ve been going to the gym for 18 years it’s literally a natural part of my life now.

Perfect answer from all aspects, NICE 👍🏻

As someone who just spent two days in a northern cabin doing family time. You get me

It certainly does take that extra motivation. As a personal trainer, when I was single it was so easy guaranteeing 5-6 days a week. Then life got in the way (school, kids, marriage, injuries) and it took me reaching my highest weight ever of 195 to be absolutely disappointed with what I let my body get to and find solutions to all those excuses. Now I have that "addiction" feeling again and can't imagine stopping even with all the new barriers to exercise.

The Thing speaks truth!

Oh boy! Mike is moving up and deservedly so. It's weird how people end up on your feed on RU-vid, you get into them, then suddenly you see them climbing up the ladder quickly. If he's on here, he'll be making the rounds everywhere. Rogan is coming. He's right up his ally.

"I want to put this in a way that's charitable and sufficiently comedic as to be expressive" - Dr Mike letting it slip and talking how thinks ;-) love that XD

Genius as always

The looking and feeling like shit all the time really was my motivating factor to begin going to the gym.

My boi Mike Israetel, lets gooooooooo

Gotta find a gym that you like going to. I used to go to PF, and it was kinda depressing. Switched the gym and motivation as well as desire to go increased tenfold.

Consistentsy is everything!

He is like mix of Joe Rogan and Jocko. Intense with humor.

I look forward to the gym

This was the one I’ve been looking forward to ALL week! 💪🏻👏🏻

This is the best! 👌

First time I have heard someone say being sore the entire time between leg days is good. Happens to me and I always thought I was overtraining or my body wasn't recovering well.

Coolness! Thanks guys! Thanks Doctor Mike….Thanks New Dude ( to me ) Just subscribed my Brotha! 💪🏼

"When you wanna go I'll see you there, mother f***er". I've never heard this guy speak before but THAT is THE most honest thing I've ever heard. Too true.

My guy is on it. If you love training, you'll never need motivation.

This guy is hilarious and knowledgeable AF!!

my 2 favorite people

Sure you just could drop the whole interview, but uploading sequence after sequence beforehand allows you to add more ADs. Thats exactly what your boy James Smith called out in his recent video. Some of us are paying for RU-vid Premium and still get Ads this way

Shout out to Dr. Mike !

Dr. Mike, buy more of those shirts. Looking yolked in it. I watch most of the RP content, half for Mike's comedic delivery. It does look like Mike needs to up his calories if he is every going to look like Kyriakos Grizzly!

Mike's Great. Glad you had him on again!

Big mike da 🐐

My thoughts are, unless you are training for something in particular, a show or some sporting event, forget about numbers and what is optimal, treat the gym like a playground. Once you incorporate a sense of fun into your workout, you’ll finish each workout with a sense of excitement for the next workout and you’ll never have to worry about a lack of intensity. I find functional fitness is the best for this approach, although, towards the end of last year and all through January, I went back to good old fashioned bro splits and put on a good few kilos of lean muscle before I decided it was time to start running again.

I just love being jacked and my focus is to get more jacked. That’s enough motivation for me 😂. Plus I have a home gym that I have put together over the years and absolutely love it. My son even started to workout … it’s the best! Anybody can be lazy…work for it. It’s worth it 🤩💪🏋️‍♀️.

training vs going to the gym. training will drive you towards a goal. there is a social aspect to working out but its your individual goals that will really get you to where you got to be.

Dr. Mike 💯🔥

Doctor Mike!

How do you get from hating the gym to loving it? (1) don’t torture yourself. When you first get started lifting, don’t diet at the same time. Eat. Then once you’re in a routine add stuff on. But if you’re weak and hungry and miserable, you’re going to quit. (2) surround yourself with encouraging people. People who believe in you and support your goals. Not their goals. (3). Do what you like doing. Not what’s optimal. At least at first. Try new things. You never know what’s going to click with you. I love climbing. Wouldn’t have expected to. But it motivates me in the weight room because it makes back day just an absolute joy. If nothing else, on back day I’m in there to work. (4) have non-weight related goals, small victories (5) make it easy for yourself. Pick a gym that’s close. Keep things in the house that you can use when you can’t make it to the gym. Lower that barrier.

4 times a week, everyday this year!!!

I take the addiction recovery approach: I am not in control, and even though I don't want to exercise and have thoughts telling me to quit, I listen to those negative thoughts, don't hide from them, but then trust in my higher power, in this case, the gym lol. You can do it with lots of stuff. Helps you ignore yourself and do things.

Dr. Mike is just the funniest, smartest, most articulate guy on the internet ... period!

Personally it depends if you want it bad enough and if you have goals. If you just go just to go because it's a positive thing, I feel like it's easier to say no. Whereas I want to get aesthetic and use it to either become an online PT or just an influencer. I haven't had a single day where I didn't want to go workout for close to a year now. Even on days off, I have this urge just to go workout. I struggle on rest days not on workout days, opposite for me.

I've never liked working out, i still don't. I go 5 days a week to the gym nonetheless. What works for me is thinking about my future self, a guy who is more healthy, in better shape, who has more energy. The version i am working on to become. That idea makes me disciplined and go to the damn gym even when i have 0 motivation. Motivation isn't always available. We have to force ourselves to do things that are good for us regardless of the mood we are in :)

where is the full vod i cant find ittttt

Dr Mile wearing his crocs!

Habit repetition is so important, one day you realize you just do it without thinking about it and then you enjoy it has it becomes part of who you are. Your body and your brain are used to use those circuits, it becomes a second nature and a need.

What he sajd if u have to ask what motivates u to go to thd gym, you wont go/ stick with it, this is 100% facts ive seen it with friends and other ppl, and they all didnt last long term... fitness is about making a bunch of small changes, to the point to where your changig your entire lifestyle...

The hardest part for me is going there after I’m there i always go hard since i think well im here now. But honestly it feels weird to not go period.

1:09 bro i can`t hahah. Such a moster and then this feet position.

I don’t know who this dude is. But I love him.

where's the full pod?

The Northern California thing u said was oddly specific to my life lol

How do you lift more when you go to the gym BY YOURSELF? I can only go to the gym between 1:30a-3:00a?? I work extremely long hours.

I don’t really gym. I do train combat sports though and most days for some reason I never feel like going. What keeps me going is knowing whoever my opponent is I like to think he’s training and I’m not which means the difference between getting my head punched in or not.

Yo yo Mike I am watching you 😎

This guys is so articulate! Not a single umm or like…

Does anyone know where the full podcast is ? I can’t find it on Spotify or RU-vid

Going to the gym and pursuing greatness at the gym 2 very different things

4:50 real talk