The Life Of Bryony - The Life of YOU: Javeno McLean on Movement, Mindset & Living Without Limits

Episode Date: May 16, 2025

Welcome to The Life of YOU!   The bonus series where we tackle your dilemmas and share advice to navigate life’s trickier moments.   This week, I’m joined by the incredible Javeno McLean—personal trainer, community champion, and author of You Are Not Your Limits. Known for his viral videos that show people with disabilities achieving extraordinary things, Javeno’s message is simple: movement is for everyone.   Together, we answer your questions about motivation, illness, self-confidence, parenting teens, and how to stop caring what other people think. Javeno offers practical advice and powerful reframes to help you move your body, quiet your inner critic, and fall back in love with who you are—just as you are. Today:  💬 Ellie wants to move again after chronic illness—but keeps comparing herself to the person she used to be.   🎮 Naomi worries her teenage son has lost interest in physio—how can she support him without nagging?   🧠 Lucas is done with diet culture—but still battles gym anxiety. Can you learn to move for joy, not punishment? WE WANT TO HEAR FROM YOU  🗣 Got a question or a story to share? Text or send a voice note on 07796657512—just start your message with LOB   💬 Use the WhatsApp shortcut: https://wa.me/447796657512?text=LOB   📧 Prefer email? Drop us a line at [e-mail]   If this episode resonated with you, please share it with someone who might need it—it really helps!   Bryony xx CREDITS  🎙 Presenter: Bryony Gordon 🎙 Guest: Javeno McLean 🎧 Content Producer: Jonathan O’Sullivan 🎥 Audio & Video Editor: Luke Shelley 📢 Executive Producer: Mike Wooller   A Daily Mail production. Seriously Popular. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Welcome to the Life of You, where we answer your questions and share advice for life's trickier moments. I'm joined once again by Giovino McLean, community champion, trainer and author of You Are Not Your Limits. When you fully embrace who you are as a person, you get to a point where you don't give a shit what anybody thinks and then you will fully invest in you and a gap into your sight losing wick. Your questions answered right after this.

This one's from Ellie. She says, I used to be incredibly active. I would go hiking, play five aside and even around a 10k once. But a chronic illness diagnosis last year changed everything. I feel like my body's betrayed me. I know I need to move more even gently, but I keep comparing myself to who I was before and find it hard to start. How do I rebuild confidence in my body that's now changed so much? Yep, that's something that happens quite often. One, the first thing I'll tell you to do is get your write on, get a journal. Every single day write down two things that you like about

yourself or two things that are positive and then move. When I say move, notice I'm not telling you what to do. Whatever you're capable of. Just move. Positivity and movement and then as the weeks go on, you'll end up finding that the two positive things that you're writing, you might start writing three and then four and five and then when you get to the state of mind where you're writing so many positive things down, the things that you're grateful for, positive things and things that you're grateful for, when you get to the point where you can write down six or seven things every single day, the list grows and once that list starts to grow I guarantee you movement will start to grow. So get a journal and start writing down every single day, every single

day, points of positivity, points of gratitude. Right and then do some light movement. Light movement. Great idea. So actually to start the movement, you're actually going to sit still. Yeah. And it opens up that. Yep. 100%. It works. There are very few things that you can be certain of in life, but you can always be sure the sun will rise each morning. You can bet your bottom things that you can be certain of in life. But you can always be sure the sun will rise each morning. You can bet your bottom dollar that you'll always need air to breathe and water to drink.

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I don't want to nag him, but I'm worried he's going to lose progress. He's into music and gaming, not exercise, and I'm trying to be creative, but I feel stuck. Any ideas for how to make movement feel less like a chore and more like something He's into music and gaming, not exercise. And I'm trying to be creative, but I feel stuck. Any ideas for how to make movement feel less like a chore and more like something he can actually enjoy? One is a teenager. So he's going to be an asshole. Can we say asshole?

Should I do that one again? Yes, we can. He's a teenager, so he's going to be an asshole. So I think it's a matter of tough love. Yeah. It will benefit him whether he likes it or not. This is something where now I think good parenting, good coaching sometimes comes from taking a step back

and letting that person discover it from themselves. If he was a baby, it's different. He's a teenager. But now it's a transitional period of his life where he has to discover some stuff for himself now. So sometimes taking a step back, giving him the importance of how it, giving him the speech of how important it is to be healthy and fit. But then he has to realise it himself. I think you've got

to be very careful to over force it on him too much because he might, his mum, what the kids do with the mums or the dad? No, and they block him. Yeah. So maybe another tactic could be bringing somebody like me, somebody who's not mummy or daddy, somebody who's not family to give him the hard truths and maybe he will respond better to somebody else because as a teenager, he's going to be a muppet with his mum. ["The Most Out Of Your Time"] Podcasts are great because they help us

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my body can do. And that is from Lucas. So Lucas, you're struggling with confidence. When you get to a stage in life where don't give a shit, it's the most empowering thing. And what I mean by that is I've had people in the past who have been really big and very self-conscious about the way they look. When you get to the point where, and what will naturally happen is because you're so self-conscious, you actually don't train as hard as you should or you're not really present in the gym or the session because you're too busy worrying about what other people are thinking and looking about yourselves. So how do you break that? You break that by putting

yourself in a position where you don't give a shit. An example being, I had a big, big, big man that I used to train, he had Down syndrome and he was so self-conscious. So what I used to do, I used to walk around the park with him, with my full cricket gear on like, helmet, pads, everything. Just to firstly go, look, people are looking at me and he used to laugh his head off, ha, ha, ha, because he knows that people look him, he's just weirdo walking around with a full on cricket rig out. And then I started putting it on him and then he started realising he's just having fun with it.

When you get to the point where you go, I actually don't care what people think. I'm on my journey. He has to fully, you have to fully commit yourself, commit to your journey and not book them up and to be honest the people that you think are watching you, they're probably not. So you have to get to a point in your life where you go i don't give a shit you have to do that by one spending a lot of time alone with your own thoughts and actually just being really falling in love with yourself like falling in love with yourself and i know that sounds really corny but if you fall in love with yourself where you go everything

on me is the way it's supposed to be everything Everything that I say, every hair on my head, every fingernail, every bit of dry skin, every bit of hair, every bit of everything, I'm perfectly imperfect. When you fully embrace who you are as a person, you get to a point where you don't give a shit what anybody thinks, and then you will fully invest in you, a gab into your start losing wick. Thank you so much Javino McLean you are an absolute fucking legend. Thank you darling. Thank you again to Javino for the wisdom, the warmth and the reminder that progress looks different for everyone. If something in this episode resonated with you, please send it to someone who might need it too.

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