How To Fit Fitness In Your Life with Chad Austin

There is a way that fitness fits in your life, and you can use it as a tool to help you feel your best and show up as your best self in everything. When you try to do something that doesn’t fit your fitness journey, you will fall into an inconsistency roller coaster and set yourself up to fail. Changing your story and identity is all about figuring out what works for you, what allows you to be consistent, and cultivating a victory mindset to get the results. Just because something works for someone else doesn’t mean it will work for you. You need to come up with a plan that fits the unique you to move forward. Don’t get stuck in something that is not working. Learn how to make changes, shake things up, and start moving in the right direction.   

In this podcast episode with Chad Austin, we talk about all things fitness and how you can make fitness fit in your life and use it as a vehicle to help you feel and show up as your best self. Chad is a personal trainer for executives, a consistency and accountability coach, and has been in business for about 20 years and in personal training for about 17 years now. He is also the author of a book series, Make Fitness A Priority, and he helps people figure out how fitness best fits their busy lives so they can use fitness to show up as their best selves.

Key Highlights from the Show

[00:01] Episode intro and a quick bio of the guest, Chad Austin 
[01:36] Chad’s backstory and what he does in the fitness space 
[02:59] How to make fitness fit in your life and be consistent
[06:13] How to start building your fitness habits and scale up 
[07:17] Red flags to look out for when looking for long-term success
[09:05] How to measure your progress and why weight is not the best factor 
[11:10] Reframing your thinking and leveraging exercise magic potion 
[12:57] Quick and simple exercises you can add to your schedule 
[17:24] How to set yourself up for success, be kind to yourself and handle failure 
[19:24] Obstacles and limiting beliefs that get in the way and how to overcome them
[24:45] Chad's advice on what to do if you’re doing the work and not getting results [28:49] How fitness changes as we get older
[31:52] What Chad wishes he had spent more money on as an entrepreneur 
[35:16] Best ways to reach out and connect with Chad

Notable Quotes 

• Fitness is a vehicle that helps us be our best selves no matter what our top priorities are; whatever is most important to all of us, fitness is a key ingredient that helps us show up as our best selves.  [01:15]
• Less doesn't mean it’s less of a priority; it just shows how it's going to fit, and success with anything means that you’ve to be consistent. Figure out what works so that you can be consistent [04:31]
• The more important something is to you, the more accountability you should put on yourself to make sure you’re successful. [04:58]

Connect With Chad Austin 

Website: https://makefitnessapriority.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-austin-0146a110/

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