Mastering the Art of Setting Extreme Goals: Redefining Your Limits

So yesterday it was all about , and inspired about , the idea and how passionate I am about setting extreme goals for yourself and busing your ass to achieve those . I'm not a fan of setting realistic , smaller goals . If you will , that society would tell us to do . So I want to expand on that . How do you go about that ?

And I'm just the guy figuring out life , just like everybody else . So I'll give you some examples in ways that I go about it . It's not like I have all the answers . There are people out there that are more qualified than me but here we go and I'm going to let you guys know how I go about it .

So when you set an extreme goal or a big ass , audacious goal , you know whatever fun words you like to use that tickles your fancy . Here is this going to sound , contradicting to what I was saying yesterday , that there is a fine line between being realistic and being extreme .

So obviously when you set an extreme goal , its borderline pushes you out of the idea of what you think you can accomplish . So if I said I wanted to like when I first started training the example I used yesterday was me working up to a heavy squat and not even knowing what a squat was .

So now being able to back squat 500 pounds pre knee injury , which is what I'm dealing with right now .

But if I said when I first started squatting , man , I want to break the world record for the back squat and squat 1500 , because I think the world record for a geared squat meaning in powerlifting they essentially wear a squat suit that in a way , keeps them from snapping in half that I think the world record is a little over 1400 pounds .

It might be more than that now and raw squat , meaning that they can wear a belt and knee sleeves . I think the raw squat is like a thousand something .

You know it's been a while since I've actually looked at the exact numbers , but anyway , the point is , when I started training , if I said , oh , you know what , I'm going to beat the record , I'm going to squat 1500 pounds raw like let's go . You know that's not . I don't like using the word realistic .

It's at that point that's delusional , right if I said I wanted to do things that don't even make any sense . I haven't been training my whole life like some of these guys . I'm not pushing 400 pounds , like a lot of these guys are , to hit these numbers . They're massive , massive gentlemen . It just doesn't make sense .

Like there is a certain level of like between being dumb and actually setting something that is extreme for you . Now and I have had conversations with people who have set some , let's just say , some fairly big precisys and thanks a lot to my friends out there for being a tuner Not going to be unrealistic goals in the sense of like .

It didn't even make sense to do what they did . So again , when you set an extreme goal like this , how do you attack it ? So , for example , we're on the physical train here , like , let's just talk numbers .

If you're trying to hit a number when it comes to weightlifting or conditioning or whatever it is , it's going to take a lot of dedication , a lot of training , a lot of prep . All many , many , many things are going to go into it . But how you back off from that kind of training and recover is just as important .

So if I am all gung-ho for , you know , two weeks and I'm going hard , I'm going hard , I get bad ass . I got people around me that know my goals and they're cheering me on , I can only maintain that intensity for X amount of time .

An example could be like when a cheetah you know a cheetah is the fastest animal on the planet right , it can run like somewhere in the mid-60 mile an hour range or something like that , something crazy . But it's not like the cheetah runs that every single day . It has the ability to do that .

You know it's God designed it to haul ass when it takes down its prey or is running from something . But it can't sustain that for a very long period of time and nor can it do it every day because it takes so much energy . So you can only push it so hard for so long . You have to know when to back off .

But on the same token , when you back off , because the intensity and the training is so high that it can also be easy to fall back into an old habit of when you back off , that you kind of settle back in there in your body and your mind and everything goes like man , this is way nicer than busting my ass like I was , let's just stay here .

You know , then you get stuck in this trap of like , ah , you know , if you're going to take a few extra days , or like , let's say , two , three days , to kind of back off , then you might get to day three in your body and your mind and everything goes like ah , you know , what's one more day . And then after that you go ah , what's one more day ?

Okay , let's jump back into training . But your body is prepped to go super hard again , but you are mentally not there to do it . So you go ah , you know , let's just stay back here .

You know , maybe a better example of this if any of you have tried eating super healthy and I have fallen into this issue , I guess , before is , let's say , you're trying to eat super healthy and you go from eating some junk food and not drinking tons of water , you know , just kind of like the standard American diet .

And then all of a sudden you say you know what , screw it , I'm going to eat super healthy , starting right now . Let's go . So the next day you're just eating raw tomatoes and drinking gallons of water and eating a whole cow , you know , for every meal Like you just you went from one extreme to the other .

That shit is not sustainable at all whatsoever and your physical training can go hand in hand with that , and that type of training can go hand in hand with just if you don't even have any lofty goals . There has to be a balance and there has to be a way that you know how to push it , based off of your personality and how you approach things .

If you know that you're one to kind of I don't know a better term for this , but like , fall apart after doing something like that , then your , your steps need to be smaller .

If you have a very extreme personality like me , like all or nothing kind of personality is I'll go dive straight straight into the deep end with boulders attached to my feet and a weight vest on , like , but then I am obviously going to end up drowning .

You know that's probably a terrible example , but is I'm either doing that or I'm not even getting in the pool at all . You know it's one or the other . So I know that when I jump into something like this , like podcasts , for example , you know we would do a podcast once a week or twice a week , kind of consistent , and then fall off the bat .

And then now here I am , doing another one second in a row . Am I going to maintain this ? Probably not , but I need to come up with what that balance is for me that I can keep that consistent content and value going . For you guys and I mean help myself , like me being able to do this consistently not only help sharpen , sharpen my axe .

Hopefully it will do the same thing for you guys . So point being is being able to find a balance in a discipline to do hard shit is what's going to make you better .

Part of that is knowing when to shut it off , but knowing when to turn it back on when your , your mind and body also says like , yeah , you know , let's not do that or let's fall back into these things drinking , eating like shit , whatever it is , whatever your vices , whatever your temptations are , like it's easy to fall into easy shit , which is what the

whole world does . You know that's pretty much society like . I think everyone would agree to that to an extent . Like if you're doing really easy shit your whole life , you're gonna end up with subpar results and everything and you're never gonna do anything that cool , and you know there are some people that are totally happy doing that .

But if you're in the gym or chances are you listening to the podcast you're not one of those people . So and I'm talking to myself here as much as I am whoever's listening to this you need to or you're not . You need , you want to do these things because we have one life right . We have this one opportunity to be the best versions of ourself .

So the more that we tend to fall into what's called like the the natural way . So , essentially , doing all the easy stuff is only gonna keep us down all the time like we're never going to get in the pool . Not meaning we got to jump in with the boulders attached to us and wait best .

But the only way to learn how to swim is to actually get in that bitch like whatever that looks like for you . Everyone's a little different . Some people learn how to swim faster than others .

Some people got to go full life jacket , water wings and , you know , sit in the two foot end of the pool the kiddie pool for like a year and a half , two years where they can move up .

But the point is you still need to move up like your goal should not be to like all right , I got my water wings on , I got my life jacket on , all right , in about 10 years from now , I'm gonna take one or two of my water wings off . And man , I made it , baby , let's go . I mean , that's not , that's not , that's not cool .

Like you , the goal to is eventually you take everything off , you learn how to swim . Some people , can , you know , go through that process quicker . Some people may not even start with water wings and they start with a life jacket .

They might just start in the kiddie pool , they may start with their parents or whoever holding them up , or some people may just jump in that bitch and figure it out . You know everyone is different , but the end goal is the same and sometimes we get too caught up and having these expectations that our process needs to be just as quick as everybody else's .

But what we need to recognize is that the process to be able to do something badass like swimming that , like I said , this is just an analogy is going to be the same and I would challenge so , like my challenge would be , if I were to use a swimming example in this analogy and setting those lofty goals would be to okay instead of I want to swim , okay ,

like , but I don't know how , doesn't mean that I'm gonna go get a bunch of lessons and I have us have someone who's super qualified to show me how to swim .

But I tell that person , like you know what , I appreciate everything you're saying , but I'm gonna put on my life jacket , I'm gonna put on my water wings and I'm just gonna sit over here in ankle deep and hope for the best .

Okay , the setting the lofty goal would be like you listen to your coach and your coach tells you alright , we're gonna swim five feet at a time , you're gonna swim from this part , you're gonna swim over me , I'll carry you back .

I know it sounds super corny , because this is what you would do with , like toddlers and shit , not grown adults I mean maybe some adults . But point being , you get a set up these goals , these lofty goals , and you are going to tackle them appropriately . But you're also going to find balance .

You're not going to try and swim five feet on Monday and then swim a hundred feet on Tuesday and then say you know what , screw it , I'm going open water ocean swim on Wednesday , like it wouldn't make any sense at all and some people go about it that way .

But then there's also I feel like most of society would sit more on the spectrum of ah , you know what ? I looked at a picture of a pool on my phone and then I drove past one on Tuesday and then on Wednesday I actually pulled in the parking lot . Shit was crazy .

So being able to find a balance being able to get your ass in the pool , get to swimming but knowing when to dial it back , when to do all of the right things , when to listen to your coach and and be smart about your situation allows you to move forward quicker . So I know some of my thought process might be a little hard to follow here .

Welcome to the inside of my brain . In my head it makes sense sometimes . But I just pulled up to the house . I need to go inside , eat some food .

But to recap , you just set your extreme goals , alright , great . How do you go about it now ? Well , you attack the hell out of it , but you know when to dial it back . You know when to be smart , not just dialing it back there's a whole cyclical thing here .

No one to dial it back but also know when to jump back in and when you jump back in , knowing when to push it .

Those few extra pounds , those few extra feet , whatever the hell it is , those few extra emails if it's business , it doesn't matter If you need to know when to do a little extra , little , extra , little extra , because once you build your max output and they're not just talking strike numbers , but it is a great example you build it up , you're one rep max .

All of a sudden , your working sets are much higher . If I come into the gym and , like I said , my max back squat was a hundred pounds and I could only do reps at 60 pounds , 70 pounds , okay , but now my max back squat is 500 pounds , my working sets and reps are 300 plus pounds . You know up to 400 pounds .

Like you can see how this progression is going to accelerate you much farther than essentially being stagnant or being too scared to take the next big step . So be smart , dial it back , but also know when to get your ass back in . All right . Well , you guys , that's all I got for tonight , you know .

Hopefully it was worth listening to and I'll see you guys in the next one , peace .