In Just 3 Words…

There is a very important fitness question that I want to ask you. If you could meet yourself walking into the gym for the very first time and you are allowed to say three words, what are you saying? In this video, we are going to discuss the 6 bits of wisdom that I would say to myself in this exact

What s up guys, Jeff Cavaliere, Athlenex. com. Jesse Laico, Athleanx. com. So today we have our Ask Jeff videos, right?

But this time, Jeff  does the asking. I’m going to ask you a question that I can’t wait to hear the answer to. I  actually did this on Instagram, and tons and tons of people gave some answers that were really,  really incredible. I think it can be very helpful to everyone that gets a chance to read these  and participate. So, here’s my question for you a very important question.

I’m actually going to  follow up with this with my answers. Okay? You meet yourself walking into the gym  for the very first time. You can say just three words to yourself. What are they?

I know what you’re going to start with. What? Hire Jesse Laico. No, actually probably if you ask me  today, I would say fire Jesse Laico. Well, that’s not very nice of you to  say.

Okay. For real, though, probably face pulls are forever. That’s actually pretty good. So, you get the gist here, guys. Three words What are they?

Let me share with you, because that one actually brings up my first point. And that is address your  weaknesses. And what that means is don’t always migrate towards the things that you’re either  good at or like to do. You see, the best gains are going to come from finding the things that you’re  not so good at in the gym or that need the most work and then finding a way to be consistent  when incorporating them into your plan. Oh, so like me working on my posture.

Your posture, again Face Pulls are very beneficial to most people, but they oftentimes get relegated  to the end of the workout, or they never are done at all. Hopefully, I’ve done a lot to maybe change  those patterns. But think about it like a golfer, if you’re always spending your time with  the driving range but you suck at putting, you’re not really going to ever score  much better than if you go and you have to actually work on your putting. So, that’s why I’m really bad at golf? That’s one of the very many  reasons why you’re bad golf.

But that’s the point, guys remember. Don’t  overlook your weaknesses when your goal is to ultimately be the best you can be. And  speaking of being the best you can be, that actually leads me to my second three-word  phrase. I guess I’m using 15 in this. But look, it’s going to spark some conversation here.

And  that is you versus you. You see, if I were to show you a picture of yourself with a group of  your friends who are you looking at first? Yourself. You re going to look at yourself in a picture first? Always.

Everyone does that. Because ultimately, guys at  the end of the day, we all care about ourselves first and foremost, I’m not saying we don’t  care about other people, but we care about what’s happening with ourselves when we’re judging  what’s going on around us. That actually happens in the gym, too. I think we go into the gym  thinking that everyone’s looking at us. Oh, yeah absolutely.

That s  how I started at least. I did, too. I’ve mentioned here before,  in college, I actually was a fairly skinny guy working out in an area where there’s a  bunch of guys that were a lot bigger than me and always sort of working around like this,  looking around thinking people—they didn’t care. They didn’t care. As a matter of fact, they  were sort of cheering me on and rooting for me.

But the fact is, you think that you’re always the  one under the microscope when you’re not. The best part about changing your mindset to always  just wanting to be a better version of you, is that you’ll always win that game. If you’re  viewing life as a competition and you are just making sure that you’re doing one thing to get  better each and every day, you’re going to win that competition every single day. And that brings me to my third little nugget of wisdom that I would give young  Jeff on his first time into the gym. Oh, I know what that one is.

Rehire Jesse. You know that rehire is one word, right? Rehi—Oh shit, that s right. Can I continue, please? So, the next phrase that I would say is, effort is everything.

And it  actually ties into the first two things we talked about. If you know what your weaknesses are and  you know that your competition is yourself, then the only thing that’s going to determine whether  or not you see the results that you want to get for years and years down the road is the level  of effort that you expend in your workouts. And you know if you’re  shortchanging yourself there. Yeah, absolutely. Right?

You know whether or not you’re showing up and giving it your  best. I say all the time you could train long, or you can train hard, but you can’t do both. I  opt for training hard, so I make sure that every single time I go to the gym, I’m doing something  that I know I push myself further than I was really willing to go. Right? And if you can get  yourself into that space there, that is where the best results lie.

But again, if you don’t  ever really put in the effort just showing up, which might be one of the things that someone  might say in three words, is not enough. You have to put in the effort in addition to showing  up, and that’s where the real results lie. And so, the next three words are three that  oftentimes get used far too often here, in my opinion, on YouTube. But nevertheless,  it’s a decision point that every young lifter sort of is presented with in terms of at least  in their own head. And that is, Natty or not.

How do you choose to sort of pursue your path,  your lifelong pursuit of fitness? Right? Mm-hmm. Now, I think what happens every young male at some point sort of looks at someone like  The Rock, or they look at a guy who’s much bigger than them at the gym and they fantasize about  what their life might be like if they had those gains already. Maybe they’re an athlete in high  school.

I’ll share my story in a second here. We fantasize, well, what would it be like? I’d be so  much better if I was bigger to play the sport for me, football. So, this Natty or not question,  though, sort of leads to a moral question of cheat code or not, in my opinion. Can I make a confession?

Oh, do you have something  to share here, Jesse? I do. On Natty or not. It’s very embarrassing. Is this what we’re going to talk about Juicy Laico in terms of your new gains?

No, I never beat Contra on its own. I had to use a Contra code. Okay. Up, up,  down, down, left, right, left right. B, A start.

I haven’t blazed in the back of  my head, and I’m embarrassed of it. Do you need a moment here to  share or are you good? I’m good. All right, you got it off your chest. I never beat Contra either.

So, when I grew up, I said I’d share my story, for those who’ve already heard it, I’ll share it  again when I grew up my father was a physician. He still is actually a practicing physician  these days. I grew up in a divorced household. And my father threatened me that if he ever caught  me with anything, any drugs, even alcohol, he’d throw me out of the house. So, he said steroids,  recreational drugs, alcohol out of the house.

So what did I do? I actually never got drunk a  day in my life, and that’s a true story. You need to loosen up. I was so scared of losing the foundation of my home that I decided I’m not doing  any of that. But what happened is what played out ultimately for me was a sense of reward of  achievement and accomplishment that I got because every single thing I did was the result of my  own achievements and my own hard work.

Going back to sort of the you versus you concept that  we talked about. So, I think that when you’re pursuing—when you have this this path presented  in front of you,