REAL AF with Andy Frisella - 113. #75HARD vs Lexi Tejcek

Episode Date: June 5, 2021

How many times are you going to tell yourself you're going to start tomorrow? On today's episode, Andy is joined by Lexi Tejcek to discuss the transformative qualities of the #75HARD program, how daily actions compound to produce a massive change in your life and why having mental toughness is crucial to your success in life. LINKS MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Book Andy to Be on Your Podcast Follow Andy on Instagram Follow Andy on Facebook Take complete control of your life - 75 HARD Get my raw & uncensored advice about success & life delivered to you daily!

What is up guys, you're listening to the show for the realest. I can't remember our intro, so I'm just going to make some shit up about that. Now today we have, is that good enough? We're going to roll with that? All right, let's just fucking roll with that. All right, we don't get a real intro today. Guys, today I do have an awesome show. It's going to be a 75 hard focus show. For those of you guys who are doing 75, who are curious about 75 hard, or who are in the midst of 75 hard Hard or any phase of the Live Hard program, this is going to be a show of interest. Today, I have a really cool guest. I'm going to intro her in just a second, but if you guys follow me on my stories, you know that I promised you guys I was going to start bringing people in who had completed various aspects of

the Live Hard program, including 75 Hard, and interview them and just find out what they thought about it and talk about it and get their story. And that's what we're going to do today. I have my friend Lexi Tachek. Is that right? Sounds great. Tachek. Perfect. Tachek. Whatever you want. All right. Whatever I want. Thanks for coming in. Thank you for having me. This is unbelievable. It's really cool to have you here. Sorry we had to reschedule the first time. No, you're totally fine.

So where are you guys from? Arkansas. Yeah, where at? I'm from Hot Springs but I've been living in Fayetteville going to school there. Yeah? And you're just getting ready to... I, so I just graduated with my bachelor's degree and I will be moving to Florida where I will start PT school, physical therapy school at the University of Florida. That's awesome. So that's awesome. So you guys probably wonder how I find people to bring in for the show. And Lexi made an awesome post. She talked about her journey and talked about the ups and downs

and what the program was about and what she learned. And that's what really intrigues me, guys. It's not so much just the before and after pictures. It's how you explain what you learned. And I'm excited to talk to you today to basically unpack what you learned. And, you know, so let's just start. I mean, where did you come up with the idea that you were going to do this? So the first time I heard about it was back in probably September and I heard about it on social media and I saw it and I said, that's crazy. I'm never going to do that. And then I came across it again in December and I said, okay, it's looking a little more intriguing. And by that point I had, um, applied to PT schools and I actually had already gotten into a couple of schools at that point.

And my stepdad actually talked to me and he said, there's one thing I need you to do before you go to PT school. And he said, I need you to get mentally tougher. And I said, that's not a coincidence. That's like a sign. This is a sign. And so I said, all right, I'm doing it. I think I looked up your podcast, listened to the episode with 75 hard and stayed up till probably three or four o'clock in the morning doing all my research, writing everything out. And I was like, all right, I need to do it yeah we got to do it and then I started mid-January once I got back to Fayetteville for school and so were you active like physically at this like what kind of physical stuff were you doing at the time when you started

um so I had gotten pretty out of shape thanks to COVID yeah man A lot of people did. Yeah. But I grew up fairly active. I played actually a year of college basketball my freshman year. And after that, I transferred schools and then I just got into a rut where I was working out sometimes and then not working out. But it just got to where I was at my heaviest and was not doing hardly anything. And you knew it was time to change. I needed something in this program. It's unlike anything else. I heard you say you get a lot of slack for it and people think it's too much. It's ridiculous.

I think it's the best program out there because if you actually want to change your life, you're actually going to do it. Yeah. And like 30 day stuff is, it's too fast. It's too fast and it doesn't do anything. Yeah, man. I'm going to do it yeah and like 30 day stuff is it's too fast it's too fast and it doesn't do anything yeah man i'm gonna ask you about that while you were doing it did you get a lot of pushback from like your friends or your like anybody close to you or social media or

anything like that um i really only told my close close friends that i saw on a regular basis that i was doing it and i mean i didn't think my mom knew about it until probably a month or so in. Um, so I really didn't broadcast it by any means. I was like, I'm just going to do it. I don't want to tell anybody because a lot of times in the past, I feel like you start something and you kind of get going. And then if you, I mean, it was kind of hesitancy for me. Cause I was like, if I fail, everybody's going to know. But at the same time, I was like, I need to do this for me. Not because my mom was going to be like, you're doing great. I didn't need that.

I needed it all to come from inside. Yeah. And so I really didn't tell anybody about it until probably honestly halfway through. Yeah. When you knew no matter what, I'm fucking finishing. Oh, yeah. Yeah. And I remember my cousin got married.

And so I was home a lot for bridal showers and whatnot. And when I was home and I was waking up at 6 a.m. to get my first workout in, they were just kind of like, what is she doing? I was like, I'm doing this right now. And then we got to talking about it. And I told them and they were like, you've been doing that for 35 days. And I said, yeah, I have.

But yeah, at first I didn't really tell anybody. But then a few of my friends, I remember driving to my second workout at 11 o'clock at night. And my friend was like, I can't believe you're going to work out right now. And I was like, I have to get it done. Like, what are you talking about? So I didn't get a whole lot of pushback from it really, because I just didn't really tell anybody. And then by the end of it,

everyone was just kind of like, that's crazy. And I was like, I don't care what you say, it's getting done. Yeah. So yeah. And dude, that's a, that's a necessity of the program, you know, the people, it forces you to realize how flexible you are on things that shouldn't be negotiable. You know what I mean? Oh yeah. That's one of the things about the program and usually something that people learn pretty quick. They see it in themselves in the first two or three weeks, you know, they're like, holy shit, just like you said, um, where, you know, I can relate, holy shit. Just like you said, where, you know, I can relate to that a lot where, you know, you get to a point where you're not, you're so far not in control of your ability to finish things that you just don't even want to tell anybody

anymore because you've said 400,000 times, this is the time I'm doing it. I swear I'm doing it this time. This is the time everything's changed. I I swear I'm doing it this time. This is the time everything's changed. I'm serious this time. Yeah. You know, and that I could totally relate to, to not, not telling people for that reason, because I think we all get there. I think we all find ourselves there at some point in our lives where we feel like we're not in control. We're not in an over basic shit too. Like you start to notice how easy it is to just not put shit in your mouth that shouldn't be there.

You know what I mean? Or how easy it is to actually just get up and go do the workout. Like it's way easier than having to live with that like internal shame of knowing that you're weak, you know? And that's something that you know i see a lot of people criticize the program they look at it from the outside they haven't done any research

into it they think it's an actual program that tells you how to eat and how to work out which it doesn't um and so you know they they throw rocks at it but they don't understand what's actually happening what's actually happening is is we're training out of you um your ability to compromise situations that shouldn't be you know so we're the first couple weeks i know the first time i did it dude i was sore yeah how was that um it was good i i like i said i played college athletics. And so I have done the two workouts a day and sometimes three and was used to that, but not every single day. Yeah. Yeah.

We may have had two or three workouts a day, but we at least had one day off. Yeah. And so to do that every single day. Yeah. I was sore. And then I think a weekend I had gotten about seven blisters on my feet. Yeah. And I was like, what have I gotten myself into? It's at that point,

it was, it's interesting. I read your book and the, how you have the days marked out as. Did you find that pretty accurate? Yes. Yeah. There was, I mean, a few things here and there that were different. It's a little different on an individual basis, but I mean, I'm always curious to find people who I know actually did the program if they found that in line, because that's basically how it was for me. I took very detailed notes the first time through and that's how we came up with those brackets of time. So. Yeah. So that first week, um, because I was used to college athletics, I was like, okay, I'm sore. I'm going to be sore and was used to that.

But then, yeah, just doing it every single day and having to keep going. Because a lot of days I'd be like, well, for example, the blisters. Normally I would have been like, okay, just one workout. We're just going to do upper body, keep impact. But nope, I taped them up. I went on my outdoor workout, got my walk in. And what happened to the blisters? They away that's right yep just like it's um accredited to you i found i found out about uh iron cowboy james lawrence and that man yeah is incredible he sure is um it's

just like what he says you just make that decision to take one step and one step will turn into two and two will eventually turn into 26.2 miles yeah and another thing i took from him when i got those seven blisters i said you know what the man lost feeling in his fingers and his toes but knew that his body would adapt yeah so i said okay i have seven blisters now yeah they're gonna go away eventually yeah right now i just got to deal with it. But yeah, that first week was excitement. But yeah, by the end of it, you're like, I've got a lot more to go. But you just, the biggest thing for me

was focusing on just today. I could not think about tomorrow even or the next workout. You just have to think about what's in front of you. And so that was hard at times. I mean, like getting halfway through, you're kind of like, I'm halfway done. I still have halfway to go, but I was like, you can't do it. So. Let's talk about that mental toughness for a second. Cause we talked a lot about the physical of it so far. I mean, the physical of it's hard. That's it. Okay. It doesn't matter, but it's scalable. Like,

you know, if you're, if you're 400 or 500 pounds, there's things that you can do to work this program. So let's, we all know, okay. It's hard as fuck to have to work out and do all this shit. Let's talk about some of the things that the program is designed to do, which is, you know, help develop your grit, help sharpen your mental toughness, your fortitude, your self-control, your self-esteem, your self-worth, your confidence. Let's talk about that for a minute. You know, what did you notice mentally going through the program? Because like at first you said, like, dude, we're all excited, right? The first week and we get through that.

I think for a lot of people, you know, we've had hundreds of thousands of people go through the program now. A lot of people will say that first week that on day seven or eight, where they've gone a whole week with, because that's a big day for them. And I get that because I had, I don't think I had gone a full week without cheating on my diet before this program so it was a huge deal for me to get to that day seven or eight I remember that very clearly where I was like fuck dude this is a huge milestone for

me yeah but then after that yeah it was like what you said where I'm like holy shit like I barely started yeah so let's talk about that. I mean, what, what were some of the changes that you noticed, you know, in your confidence as you progressed through the program? Well, to start, um, I have to bring in all the physical aspects of it because, um, it's a huge part, but for me at first workout specifically it was like okay this is what i think i'm gonna do and maybe i can do it maybe i'm not we'll just try and get it done um but then as it progressed it was like all right i this was my previous mile time all right we're beating it today yeah or um we did i did a circuit this fast i want to do it faster yeah you're training with

intent now yeah oh yeah at first it was just get it done it was it was get it done with but still with intention but then it turned into a competition and really like wanting to see improvements yeah um but then yeah mentally for sure i actually um actually did the David Goggins 4x4x48 around day 50. Yeah. So you threw that right in the middle. Yeah. That's cool. It was awesome. A lot of people have done that. That was really cool. It was horrible. It's funny though, because those 48 hours really mimic the program itself. Yeah. Like you start. I remember when I was going to run those first four miles, I was pumped. I was like, let's do this.

And then after that first four, I was like, what have I done? Which they weren't even that bad, but just to think I had to do it that much more. And then, yeah, you get through it. And that's a whole other story. But I remember doing it and I was like, yeah, I'm going to get get it done I don't care if I'm crawling those four miles yeah and a friend of mine was like I'm not gonna lie I didn't think you were gonna make it and I was like what are you talking yeah and that's something I noticed was the and it just the program proves that the only person you can count on is yourself and anything you do yeah and. And so mentally at that point, that for me, when my friend told me that I was like, OK,

I've seen a shift now where I was said I was going to do something. Yeah. And you're not questioning it. I was like, I don't it didn't matter how I felt. Right. I had like a knee injury at the time. And then that just lack of sleep and all of that just played in. But yeah, it was, it was done.

That's pretty cool, dude. Cause that's like your, your friend sort of making an assumption based off who you were previously to that point. And that much difference had happened in that short of time, 50 days. You know what I mean? Cause I could tell you this, um, you know, I talked to a lot of people about this program and you know this because I know you've actually done it you know there's people that coast through that don't really you could just tell that they didn't fucking do it um but one of the things i always hear is people are

super surprised at how fast they make the switch from not being able to control literally anything, including a beer or a cheap food or French fries or anything to that having zero impact on whether or not it affects them. Right. And dude, when you think about that and you think about all the decisions that we as humans make in times of weakness for the instant gratification. And we think about all these decisions that we make and how it negatively affects the big picture of our life to have the control that someone has in just 50 days or 75 days to be able to look at a plate of food and say, no, I'm not doing that. It's not for me. Or to be faced with an 11 p.m. workout and say, dude, it's getting done. That's an extremely massive amount of progress to be made in a very short time, especially when you think about what it's going to be like after the program that now you know

that you're in control of that. There's no more of the Lexi who was, um, you know, unsure that she was going to be able to finish something. You know, for me, I know that's been the biggest takeaway of living this lifestyle for me is knowing like there is like my confidence at this point in time it's it's immune from outside influences you know what i mean like you can't fucking dent it and i don't care who you are you know what i mean and how did you like how has it been since you finished the program so i so i have decided to go on and do live hard yeah and i finished phase one and i can now start phase two but i think i'm gonna wait until i move yeah anyway um i wasn't sure if i was gonna do it yeah until day 76 um i felt

i obviously felt great from date from 75 hard and had seen all these benefits but then it wasn't until the next day when i let like i mean i let myself have a cheat meal that day i didn't do there's nothing wrong with that right yeah and so i did that and i just remember thinking why yeah you and it right then and there i said said, I'm doing live hard. It's getting done. Let me ask you a question. Did it scare you? A little bit. A little bit. Yeah. Me too. Because I had gotten not to make excuses, but I had gotten sick and was dealing with a knee injury. So I said, I'm going to give myself a couple of days. If I'm feeling better, I'll continue resting. If not, forget. Cause why, why waste my time? But

those next couple of days, I just remember thinking, this is what I've let myself do. Yeah. And you get a real big slap in the face of reality. You're like, holy shit. I used to live like this every day. You know, it was, yeah, it was scary scary yeah it was and that scared me to the point where like because the first time i did it i did have a day between my phase one and it was the same reason that you did i was i was fucking my feet were fucked yeah like i couldn't do anything with them but that next day i ate a meal and i remember thinking dude, it would be this quick for me to go back. Exactly. And I'm not fucking going back. And that decision that was made on day 76 for me was that I'm never, ever, ever fucking going back. Yeah. Ever. I'm never going back to that life. And I think that

meal that, you know, that one day off, I hear that a lot. Like a lot of people will take one day and they're like, oh, fuck that. I'm getting right back in. Yeah. I ended up taking about a week, but that just that week too. Yeah. I was just laying around honestly a lot, just trying to feel better. But at the same time, I was like, I feel awful at the same time. And it was exactly what you're saying. It was, I mean, it was a, it was a couple of days and I was like, I feel like I had lost a month's worth of progress in those two days. Yeah. Cause you're addicted to the progress now. Yeah. And so I was like, yeah, forget it. Cause I remember the, the cold shower for me was what I was like, do I want to do phase one? But then I said, forget it. It's,

and it's, um, it's like what you've said in the book too you feel the best about yourself when you've done hard things and I said I felt great doing so just and I hadn't like physically changed I hadn't put on the 30 pounds that I lost in those two days yeah at the same time I felt like mentally like I had yeah and I felt honestly embarrassed yeah you went right back to that same person that was on day one and you're like fuck this I don't like this yeah I was I didn't want to walk out of my house I didn't want to and I was like even though you look no different right like that's crazy yeah it shows it's a big huge wake-up call for sure and so I said I'd rather feel physically in pain from soreness and be proud of myself every day then maybe not be

feel sore but like it's going to take a toll on like my organs and whatnot and i said i'll take the soreness and that pain over the mental pain of not having my life together yeah essentially and so yeah day 76 i said said, yep, I'm doing, I'm starting phase one. That's awesome. And we're getting it done. Dude, I totally relate to that. That's exactly how it went for me too. I went, I remember I stopped my feet. I'm like, I'm taking at least a day to let my feet rest and I'll eat. And I think I had like, I think I had like sushi and some French fries or something, which really wasn't that bad considering like how I used to eat before. And I was like, nah, I'm going right back in.

Like, I'm not risking going back to being that. It's almost like how, you know, the Alcoholics Anonymous, like where people quit drinking forever. That's almost how I feel. Like, I'm just like, dude, I'm not fucking doing it. You know, I'm not going back. Like it's total abstinence for me now when it comes to like laziness, you know, I can't fucking do it. And I get a lot of people that reach out now and they're like, you know, dude, you could get better results if you just rested every, yeah, that might be true. I might look a little better, but you don't see

what's going on in the inside. You don't see how I feel mentally you don't see how what my strengths are what you know and I think to me that's way more important than what I look like you know so um what books did you read let's see I started with James Lawrence, his book. Then I read David Goggins, Can't Hurt Me. I read your book, 75 Hard. I read, gosh, I have a stack of them. You'd think I'd remember. Well, those are some good ones to read. Well, those are four winners to read during that program.

Yeah. Yeah. They were, I mean, all phenomenal. And I hated reading growing up. It was, we had to for school and all that kind of stuff, hated it. But that was something that I really enjoyed about this program because I was reading books that were helping me and I learned so much, um, reading those books. And that's something regardless of if I'm in a phase or if I'm not that's something I'll continue for sure

but and it and it shows you along with the whole program like I'm I've learned so much since that first day yeah but I also know now that there's so much more for me to learn yeah and I think that's something that mentally I saw throughout the program. And that's something that I would catch myself doing beforehand. I kind of would put on a front, like I knew this, I knew that, or you don't want to, you don't want to seem weak in that you don't know things. But now I know that it's right of me to like want to learn and to like express that I need to learn these things. And the books were phenomenal.

Dude, that's such a huge thing to learn, especially at your age. Like most people don't learn that, that ability to humble them. I didn't learn that ability to humble myself until I was probably in my, in my mid thirties where I did the same thing where I thought I knew a lot more shit than I did. And I was afraid to show that there was stuff that I didn't know because I was looked at as like the CEO still then, you know what I'm saying? Like I have to know all this shit. But the truth is, is fuck, nobody knows all this shit. And, um, you know, I, I think that's a, that's an awesome thing to hear you say, especially for where you are in life. That a lot of times I get, you know, interviewed on podcasts or whatever, I get Q and a, and they're asking, you know, what, what do I regret? I think that's my, one of my only regrets is not learning how to learn earlier. You know what I mean? And the book thing, um, fuck, you know, everything I

fucking know, I've learned from books. You know, I didn't learn any, any of the shit I know about business. I didn't learn in school other than how to like make people laugh and have a good time. You know what I'm saying? I learned that at school, but, uh, but yeah, man, that is awesome. What, what was your, what do you think your biggest takeaway was? That's, that's a tough question. Um, I, I think the biggest thing is just, it goes back with just taking one step at a time and not focusing on you. Like you need to have an end goal, but you cannot focus on that every single day. Right.

It's, it's, you have to win the day. That's right. All you have to do. That's right. And I think just then having the confidence to take the first step in whatever it is you need to do.

Like there's going to be so like do, do hard things, do scary things I think. And there's a lot of times in my life where I had backed off from things like that and didn't want to do it. But now just with the confidence and the fortitude that I have just to be willing to take that first step in whatever it may be, that's probably my biggest takeaway is I'm willing to do so much more now. That's huge. Cause it's like your life. You know what I'm saying? Like so many people don't do things because they're afraid they're going to

look stupid or they're afraid they're not going to be any good or people are going to laugh at them. And once you start to have that confidence that you've built, which you have built, um, that stuff starts to not matter. And you start to live in a more free way. Exactly. You know, that's a really cool takeaway.

What would you say to people who say it's too extreme or it's too hard? On one hand, I'd want to just turn away and say you don't. Yeah, you don't get it. And for you. You don't need my time. Like, I'm not going to give away and say, you don't, yeah, you don't get it. And if you, you don't, you don't need my time. Like, I'm not going to give you my time to explain that. Cause you're like,

and that's something I've noticed too, is I can't deal with a lot of stuff now. Yeah. Excuses. Yeah. I'm like, I, I zero tolerance,

zero tolerance. Yeah. It's, but, um, to people that say it's too extreme, I'd say, okay, well, can you do it for one day yeah

i said okay then go to bed and do it for another day yeah and that's it that that's it and that's something too a lot of people talk to me i have the well the coolest thing is like friends of mine or family members that have been inspired by me doing this, which was not a goal by any means. But I had a friend tell me that she wanted to do it and she said, well, I'm not going to be able to do it. Like, like I can't run like you or do this. And I said, you don't have to, that's not. And that's like what you said about it being scalable. I've had so many people say, well, does he have certain workouts you're supposed to do? Does he sell a diet? I said, no, it's a free program. And all

you have to do is make up your mind to do it. And if all you can do is march your legs in place for 45 minutes and do that. That's it. You got to start somewhere, man. Exactly. I mean, I started and all of my outdoor workouts were walking. And then, um, I'd incorporate some running when I was actually in the gym, but I, I couldn't run for more than three or four minutes at a time. And then by the end of it, I was running five, six miles. And so, I mean, I didn't, it's, I didn't start at where I'm at now and you're not going to either. Um, so that was, I'm with you, dude. Like I don't, I don't have it anymore. Like this is part of the reason why I don't do much social anymore. It's part of the reason why I don't post anymore. I do my shit here. I come here and talk. And then if you're going to pay me a whole bunch of money, I'll

come talk to your people too. But I'm not doing this shit of like hearing your bullshit. And let's talk about that for a minute, because for me, that that was it really helped me weed out some of the weaker influences in my life not that i it's almost weird well that's almost where it is it is kind of weird like a lot of the people who i had maintained friendships with over the course of my life and this is going to sound really fucked up, but it's the truth. I just realized they're fucking weak people, dude. And me spending any time literally entertaining it for any fucking reason was holding me back. You know what I'm saying? Going to dinner with friends who are going to sit there and bitch about how hard their life is, it's not something I'm going to do anymore at all. And I think, you know, for me, and I found this consensus

amongst the people who have finished this program to be true, is that because we're holding ourselves to such a higher standard, we automatically see when other people aren't. And it's very frustrating, especially when you care about other people and you're like, bro, you're fucking doing this shit to yourself. You know what I mean? But I used to want to be the person who was going to like be there and fix them and do all the shit and now i realize like dude i can't do that like i have to focus on me just like you didn't tell anybody about the program for the first 30 days but then you went and inspired your whole family and all your circle to at least make some sort of improvements. Now, maybe they didn't do the whole program. Maybe they did something else, but maybe they stopped drinking for a while, or maybe they stopped, you know, eating out or they just, you

know what I'm saying? Those little changes are what lead to big commitments like this program. And, and dude, you didn't go out and talk about it. You just did it, you know? And that's what we got to talk when you guys who are listening now, you know, a lot of you guys are entrepreneurial minded, uh, because that's what the show's about or you're very into conspiracy theories. Cause that's what our show is about too. Conspiracy facts. Um, but yeah, conspiracy fucking facts, motherfuckers. You're gonna have a whole show on that coming up just so you know um keith write that shit down conspiracy facts all right so i'm coming hard with that by the way i'm getting off track but you guys do it your ears are gonna fucking bleed and it's gonna be great it needs to be heard bro it does man it is insane should we just do it now no we'll keep it on target here uh because i know there's a big

there's a there's a whole lot of you guys that appreciate the personal development but don't necessarily jive with the uh with the politics and that's fine with me too man i'm arguing for your rights to disagree with me that's what you don't understand yeah it needs to be heard that's it dude like i'm arguing for your right to have the freedom to say what the fuck you say about me. That's it. So, but anyhow, um, that's so cool about the, the inspiration of the people around. Um, that's something that people soon discover. I think once they start getting into the program, you start to realize how many other people are doing it and how willing those people are to be your friend or help you or talk to you or cheer you on. The community of 75 Heart is something that I'm really proud of.

It was incredible. When you reposted my post, the people that took the time to not only click on my post and then like and then then comment was, and that's seems simple to do, but at the same time they still had to take their time to do it. And it was, they care and they get it. Yes. Cause we've all done it together. Yes. It was, that was the coolest thing. And then, I mean, I had a page full of DMS from just people. I I'm never going to meet them probably, but just the support. And then other people saying that they were in the middle of it and asking for advice. Like that was, that was awesome. Was there a phase like a days that you found to be the hardest or harder than the other days? Not necessarily harder, but I would say, um say around two thirds in,

around day 50 when I did the 4x4x48. You're just kind of like. You're over it a little bit. You know you're going to do it. Yeah. There's no way you're not, but you're still like, I still have 25 days to go.

Yeah. So that's where the grind comes. That's where you start learning about grit. And a lot of people will message me and they're like dude I'm halfway done there's no way there's no way I'm failing now I'm killing it

and I'm like bro just wait because what's going to happen is you're going to get to this point where you're like fuck I get it right except you don't get it right

and that's the part like where you're talking about that's actually what I was wanting you to get to because I feel like that's a super common answer. The 50s, day 50 through 59 are terrible because you're at that mental point where you're like, I know I'm going to finish. I'm kicking ass. I'm doing good. I get it. But what you don't get is that that monotonous grind that you learn from day 50 to 75 is really the most important part. Because what are you going to do when you don't feel like this anymore and you don't want it's not exciting anymore and you think you get it, you know, and think about that in in our lives.

Right. Like, you know, playing athletics or, you know, going to school or having a job. Dude, there's points in time where you just have to grit it the fuck out. And society has groomed our culture to be a throwaway culture, right? Like it gets too hard, quit. You don't like your job, get a new one. You don't like how this is going, start over. And the point is, how it relates to this program is that that's what happens when they get to the day 50 in their lives, right? Like they get the day 50 in their, you know, the theoretical day 50, right? And they say, well, fuck this, I'm done. But dude, the winners, the people who truly win in life and kick ass, those are the people who can pass that point and continue to move when everybody else falls off.

You know, I just talked about this on one of my blogs about, you know, when everybody else goes and sits on the bench, that's when it's your time to keep moving. And that usually happens around day 50 for sure. For sure. And it was like, I was going to finish it regardless, but it was like, okay, I can't just go essentially be a success zombie. I can't go in and just get it done. No, no, no.

It had to be the same intention that you started with on days one, two, and three. Yeah. And that was another big factor to it. And that's kind of why I did the 4x4x48 was perfect right there. It tuned you up. Yeah. And kind of the same thing with that program. I got to where I had three runs left and I was like, I'm almost done. But you're like, I still have to

do this three more times. Yeah. So, yeah, I think, yeah, day 50, you know, you're going to finish, but it's just making sure you're still going as hard as you can every day. Yeah, for sure. I, you know, the one thing that impresses me the most about people who do this program and who, who, who understand it is how different they describe their situations as the time goes on. Meaning like, you know, in the beginning they're like, Oh, you know, my friends, they're having this birthday party and you know, it's going to be hard because I can't drink or I can't eat this and this and that. And then after like 40 days, you're like, yeah, so yeah, exactly. So what, you know what I'm saying? So I, I just, I don't know, man,

like I'm getting hyped just talking about it. Cause I'm like in a, I just, I don't know, man. Like I'm getting hyped just talking about it because I'm like in a, I just finished phase one for this year and I'm like in the lull. Like I'm still doing everything, but it's just different when you're not checking that thing every day. You know, but I fucking love it. What do, when you talk about winning the day, I'm sure that's something

that has probably continued to stick with you, right? How's that going for you? Like in other regards. Yeah, like your school and what you're building with your career and all those things. How have the lessons that you've learned regarding winning the day helped you there? So in phase one with the powerless specifically, doing doing 75 hard, I just use the app. The app was great clicking everything. But then in phase one, I got myself a notebook and every day, you know, wrote out my three additional tasks.

And I just noticed my productivity went way up, even though it already had was 75 hard. You learn to manage your time better but then i just noticed little things just getting different assignments done for school work or mainly school because that was my main focus um during that phase but i just noticed you you create more time for yourself talk about that for a minute because the the the initial thing as you know that everybody says is i don't have time there's no way i could get this all done. So let's talk about how the program actually creates time. I'll let you handle that.

So, yeah, at first you're like, gosh, two workouts. They have to be separate. You can't do them back to back. And then just figuring everything out. You think, yeah, initially you're like, this is I'm going to be up at 6 a.mam every day and I'm going to have to go to bed at midnight. And while that's true in some cases, um, it's for the most part, it's not. And you realize when is it true? When is it true that you find yourself out doing cardio at 1am? It's usually when you fucked up and didn't do the shit you're supposed to do. Yeah. During the day. A lot of time. Right. Um,

so it teaches you real quick, like, Hey, let's stay on the plan. Um, but you start to realize all the extra garbage you were doing. You're like, okay,

well here where I would sit for two hours watching TV or scrolling on social media, cut that out yeah um yeah just overall though time management you learn to actually use it well um did that natural um like pivot start to happen for you where you started to catch yourself like scrolling and you're like fuck it i gotta go work out like here i am i caught like you started to catch yourself like scrolling and you're like, fuck it. I got to go work out. Like here I am. I caught my, like you started to catch yourself. Yeah. I, and I probably made way through the program just with social media can be a great tool, but there's also so much crap out there. And I said, this is like, I basically, I get on Instagram and I look at your posts.

I look at like James Lawrence posts, maybe look at David Scoggins and then I'm done. And I set a limit on my phone. And when time's up, time's up. I don't need to like you. I mean, it's amazing how long you can just sit there. It's an energy suck. It is. For sure.

And you, and there's so much negativity out there that you just don't need yeah and so and you don't realize it until you got other shit to do yeah and so yeah it for me it was i gosh i don't even know but yeah i would just set a time limit yeah and when time was up it was time to go and i would catch myself sometimes maybe getting ready for a workout and I'd get a notification and I'd look on it and I was like, can't do it. I don't need to. It's, it's a lot of it is worthless. Yeah, it is.

It's not contributing. What you did was you, you started to edit your whole entire habit into, um, you know, the content that made you better, you know? Yeah, exactly. That's what we have to do. You think the program helped you figure that out? Or is that something you just figured out because you were busy?

Or like how did, because people have a hard time seeing that. I think I kind of knew it in the back of my head. Yeah. But I think doing this program, I was like, like yeah this is yeah that's a hard habit to cut it is yeah especially i mean i'm a 21 year old right we've grown up on it but and that's hard for me man that's what's frustrating it's like

that's what my generation has been built on and it's it's a it's a scary thing to think about, honestly. I know. I know. Yeah. But the cool thing is, is that there's people like you out there doing things and showing what it looks like to actually improve and actually get better and actually pursue goals. And that's a very noble thing

that I commend you on tremendously. You know, not many people at your age are already looking introspectively to say, hey, here's an issue I have. Here's how I need to fix it. And this is where I need to be mentally. You know, there's a reason I brought you on the show. And it's not because, you know,

when I read your caption on completing the post, I knew that you had actually done the program. And hearing you talk about how it inspired the other people around you, I mean, what's better than that? You know what I mean? Yeah. And you don't have to talk about it if you just do it.

You know, a lot of people, a lot of people hit me up and they're like, dude, why don't you talk more on your stories like you used to or why don't you do this or that? It's like, dude, cause honestly I'm making a bigger impact by just showing people that I'm doing the shit. You know what I mean? And that's, that's something that all of you listening should remember is, you know, as you go through this program and as you start to progress, you know, preaching about it, that's cool and everything. But at the end of the day, people are going to watch what you do and they're going to, they're going to mimic what you do

because humans by nature are looking for paths to follow that have already been gone down. Most people don't want to go down a whole new path on their own, but if they see Lexi do it, they say, Oh dude, she's a different person. I'm going to try that. I'm going to do that. And what you're doing and what you've done is super powerful. So I hope you really take a lot of pride in that because not many people lead. You know what I mean? They just don't. So, um, you know, we're getting ready to wrap up the show here. What would you say to people who are thinking about doing it? There's so much you could say, but I think I would say just, just start in simple terms, just do it. Don't think about it. Just know what you have to get done every single day and just do it and everything else will follow.

Yeah. You'll, I can talk to you all day about how I've changed and how it's impacted my life. Yeah. But at the same time, I think you just have to do it and do it for yourself. Yeah. And I would, yeah, I would just say do it because it's, it'll be the best thing you've ever done. Yeah. For yourself. Yeah. And I would, yeah, I would just say do it

because it's, it'll be the best thing you've ever done. Yeah. For sure. Yeah. Definitely has been for me. So guys,

if you're somebody who wants to be featured on the show for your journey, just email us in at 75hard at andyforsella.com. If you're interested

in starting the program, you can go listen to episode 14 right now. It'll give you all interested in starting the program, you can go listen to episode 14 right now. It'll give you all that you need to know. It's a free program. It'll tell you everything you need. You don't have to buy anything. There's no sales pitch. There's not even a hidden pitch or anything like that. Totally free. And before I close the show, I just want to say thank you so much for making the trip. You guys out there who are doing this program, I want to say thank you to you as well for being so helpful and accommodating and inclusive of other people doing the program. I would say out of all the changes and the people who have

changed their life and all these things that I've been able and blessed to read about and learn about and see about the last two and a half years of this program being around. The thing I'm most proud of is how much the 75 Heart community is willing to reach out and support each other and help each other and push through. And I just want to commend all of you guys and you, Lexi, for taking the lead on helping people do this because it is a life-changing journey. It will stick with you for life and it will give you the power to turn on the things that you are lacking at any given time for the rest of your life. And so when you're thinking about what you're going to gain out of this program, understand that the ability to be in control of your decisions is the biggest strength you could

ever possess in life. And if you think about why it is where you are and why you're dissatisfied with where you are, it's because you were not able to connect the dots to make the correct decision to be where you need to be. Usually because of peer pressure or uncontrollable urges for alcohol or food or being lazy. All right. Look, dude, I didn't get to be 350 pounds by being fucking super not lazy. All right. You got to work to be that lazy. All right. So I know all about it. I'm not criticizing. If you guys are here, if you're at the point, like you said, Lexi, to be in a show where it's, you know, something has to change. And a lot of times, you know, a lot of people are coming out of these tyrannical lockdowns and all this crazy shit, completely out of shape because they got a year

of their life stolen from it. If that's you, guys, this program is something that will correct you, I believe, faster than anything else out there. So go online on 75hard.com, read about it, listen to the show, episode 14. If you finished the program and you want to be on it, 75hard at andyforsella.com or tag me in your story. I love reading your stories. I love seeing the results, not just physically, but the whole mental process is so intriguing and exciting for me to read about. Make sure you guys are tagging me in those things. And that's how Lexi ended up on the show. She tagged me. She wrote, she showed her before and after she wrote an awesome write up about it. And I'm like,

you're coming on the show. So, so thank you. Thank you. This has been one of the best experiences of my life. Well, that's cool. Well, I'm looking forward to seeing you at the end of live hard. I'm excited. Oh, absolutely. All right. All right, guys,

that's the show. I appreciate you guys. I love you guys. And I'll talk to you next time. We're sleeping on the floor. Now my jury box froze. Fuck a bowl. Fuck a stove.

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