Podcast #15 Fitness Motivation with Coach Mike Urso: Get in The Driver's Seat!
Mike Urso brings the in the podcast this week, discussing his transition from working in a restaurant serving people food to becoming a personal trainer and a coach’s coach, helping clients and other trainers grow and gain fitness motivation. We break down motivation and how to get started, how to get un-stuck, and getting in the driver’s seat to take control of your life!
Clip: Motivation? Now Let's Get Results
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0:00 - Intro and Mike’s Background
- His evolution into and through the fitness industry
- Transitioning from being a restaurant server and bartending in New York City during the recession in 2008 to becoming a Personal Trainer - from serving food to serving fitness motivation
4:00 - Mike’s love of exploring being the driver of change, loving how you feel from working out
- The dedication developing over time from commitment to baseball through to fitness
- Helping other people feel and empowered too through coaching and personal training
- “The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.” - Benjamin Disraeli
7:30 - Transition from just working with clients to bringing up other trainers to do the same
- Studying coaching behavioral change, also applied for working with clients
- Same process, goal setting then what are the habits and skills you need to get you there
10:30 - It’s not information that we need, it’s the execution, and coaching helps with the implementation of behavior12:05 - Motivation is crap!
- Inspiration - thought
- Motivation - feeling
- Action - take action as quick as you can when you get that motivated feeling
- Taking the time to understand the deeper reason that people want to do what they do
- Connect them with something powerful within themselves
- Highlighting previous successes
- Kaizen Method: One step at a time, incremental progress
- Make the goals so small, almost silly small goals, then build on those wins
- Momentum can work both ways, positive or negative
15:25 - Importance of emphasis on staying on course and keeping up with fitness motivation... more than setting the perfect coach
- Working with a coach who’s been there and helped others get there
17:10 - At first, mentorship doesn’t have to be in person, books and podcasts can substitute to start, but then having more in person interaction will help greatly
- Then we have to fire the gun ourselves - fail often, make mistakes and grow
- Find out what you’re made of
- Not waiting for the perfect time
- Need to become resourceful
- “most people are waiting for their ship to come in, what you need to do is swim out to it”
20:00 - Helping people through a sticking point
- Go back to why they set the goal in the first place, and what’s prevented the action in the past
- Pay attention to tone, body language, not just words
- Scaling goals
- If the coach came up with the goal, it’s their fault
- Need to ask the client buy in, on a scale of 1-10 how confident are you you can accomplish this
- If anything less than 9-10, need to scale back the goal
- Putting the ownership on the client (autonomy)
- Making sure it’s a good goal for them
23:50 - Guiding a client, not shouting commands
- Self-Determination Theory (Deci & Ryan)
- Intrinsic vs Extrinsic factors
- It has to come from within, can’t come at us
- Sustainable progress driven by intrinsic factors
26:20 - Mike’s one wish to change in the fitness industry
- We have the ability to heal ourselves
- Medical industry as a whole is very reactive (needed for many acute situations, like cancer, trauma)
- More awareness in prevention that I only have this one body to take care of
- All the information is out there for free
- If you can’t find it, ask for help
- Focus on wellness and prevention
- Invest in your health now, reap benefits in the long run
- Holding off instant gratification for future dividends and compounding benefit
- Maximizing your quality life over your health span
- Doing it on your own terms
- EVERYONE is just one decision away from turning it in the right direction
- Like a bad GPS, qualifying information is important
34:10 - Getting in contact with Mike
- Facebook, IG, Twitter: @CoachMikeUrso
- Email: MUrso@GoldenHomeFitness.com
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