Why you should mindfully track everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksu4uNXXP_0 below is just a transcript from the video above, just watch the video

why you should mindfully track things the reason I'm making this post is because most people want you to absent-mindedly go through life and not worry about tracking things. Their reasoning is usually along the lines, of saying, "because you should just live life you should just have fun."

Being inactive vs being lazy whatever kind of excuse they're going to give it's because they're lazy. Tracking things takes a certain amount of discipline in the beginning. Over time it becomes automated and it becomes an easy process. If you're completely dormant then you are essentially useless. A large majority or what you do is automated.

This is called automaticity Like when you first learn to ride a bike you have to mindfully think of how to control the bike.  Over time you can modestly ride your bike and outside of having a look around and watch out for cars and your environment, you're not really actively thinking about how to control the bike. The same with the car when you first start learning to drive you have to really focus on my new details where the brake pedal is where the gas pedal is and how to reverse. Things like  focusing on staying in a straight line in the street etc, but over time outside of watching for the environment and other cars around, you can as you drive from one location to another location, without  much thought.

Applying routine to your everyday life So with that being said tracking  your goals will work the same way it might be a little bit difficult at first. But gets easier over time. Let's say you use MyFitnessPal to track your food you know how many calories you're taking in you know what your Macros are etc. If you ever for whatever reason can't access the app you relatively have an idea what you can and can't eat so it makes it easier to navigate through life. Versus somebody who's just guessing who just says I'm going to eat 1500 calories and they randomly eat things. They don't know if they ate more than 1500 calories or they ate less than 1500 calories.

Track all areas that matter The same can be said about a heart rate monitor. You can track your heart rate on it you can see what zone your heart is and why you're training you can also see  how many calories you're burning and other metrics. The same with the scale if you have a scale that has a body fat scanner on it you can get one off Amazon for twenty dollars it'll track your way it'll track your body fat percentage or BMI your water weight and all that other stuff and send it straight to your phone. It's going to give you objective information to work from I know a lot of people say oh those numbers can be  inaccurate but it's better than guessing and a lot of times a lot of people have these tools laying around they're not actively using.

How to use these tools A lot of people have apple watches never use the heart rate function on it never track their calories a lot of people have scales don't weigh themselves. But want to have a cheat day why would you have a cheat day. Even though you haven't been weighing yourself daily to figure out if you earned that cheap day or not. If a cheat day is important to you, then you should be doing things to ensure that you're losing the weight to earn that cheat day. The same can be said about a number of different things if you're not tracking.

Measure results to determine your success If you're not going to get the results if you're somebody who is in the gym or you say you want to bench press 315 but you don't know how much you bench now or, when you go to the gym for a chest day you're doing random exercises and you don't have a Rhyme or Reason for those random exercises you can't tell me that you're going to miss 315. If you don't know what your Tempo is or your rest period is, or  what you need to do to mindfully scale up, then benching 315 is just aa nice dream. So when you see somebody else hit 315 and it's going to look like they did it easily it's probably because they had a plan and they followed that plan. But it's easier to accuse them of other things. Because you haven't actively been doing what you need to do to improving your life. When you have a goal  you have a list of things that you need to do in order to accomplish that goal. It's easier to chip away at it and eventually reach that goal.

My philosophy A philosophy  I live by  personally is "don't tell me things you believe in that you are not living." The reason I say that is because a lot of times people tell you about the best diet best exercise program best protocol for building muscle is XYZ. Whatever the case is they'll tell you that that's the best thing but you can look at them until they aren't doing it. So since they aren't living it you shouldn't be taking their advice.

A metaphor for understanding The same can be said using religion as a metaphor. A lot of people will be super religious  but if you look at their lives you can see there's several principles that should adhere because of their beliefs. If they themselves don't follow those principles, they can't tell me what to believe in. If I'm actively looking at you living the complete opposite of it so with that being said the goal of this channel is to preach health wealth and mindfulness. I want to give you guys tools that you need to succeed and help you guys understand what you need to do to invest in yourself. I also make these videos, posts and content because it's important to me that you guys can see what a quality trainer looks like. Versus random people online, it's easy to make the top three best ab exercise videos, or the top three chest exercise  videos. I might make some of videos too, but those are gonna be the best chest exercises for me on my favorite three at the time. Does that mean it's the case for you no can you learn stuff from them videos. yes but is it  going to be something that's appropriate for you and your current starting point probably not. I don't know a lot of times people bash people for selling products online or for being personal trainers or you know whatever the case is but it's like if you want the information and the information is important to you you have to invest in getting that information. I also make these type of videos because yeah do I do online training yeah but if you can meet with somebody locally that knows their stuff it would make more sense probably to be with the person in person. locally just so you can get a one-on-one experience with that person versus just doing random stuff on the internet because somebody who's influential told you to do it so. with that being said yes it's important to track things don't go in the gym on chest day or randomly doing exercises. don't tell me that you're bulking or cutting and you're eating a random amount of calories and you don't have a start date and an end date for your cut or a bulk. all you're doing is eating poorly and you're masking it behind a name to sound like you're doing something. a lot of times when people say that they're doing the keto diet or they say they're doing the carnivore diet or they're vegan XYZ whatever the case is you always will find that they have some exceptions to the rules. Like you're not vegan if you still eat cheese like you're not on the keto diet if you're eating crackers and you're eating a lot of stuff that instantly puts you over the amount of carbs that you should be eating in order to remain and ketosis. you're not bulking if you're eating ice cream you're not bulking if you don't know what your Macros are. you're not bulking if you don't have a end weight or end end for that bulk. you're not cutting if you don't know what your protein intake should be you're just attaching names to things to make it look like you're doing something when in reality you're doing nothing and that's all I want to touch in this post.