Episode 460: Wesley Hunt: The "Sweat Every Day" Rule That Built a Congressman's Unbreakable Mindset

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1:56Okay, so let's talk about discipline. I think it's a big one. We said it a few times here, right? How to build discipline, right? I'm a big person. I'm a believer that the number one thing, besides doing all these other, you know, ancillary things and this that and the other i think the first thing is you need to have a daily like workout regimen that's the best way to build discipline in my opinion it teaches you so many different skills how do you feel how what are the best ways if someone's listening to this podcast if and if they're not that disciplined how do they start like training that muscle My first word of advice is do something where you sweat every day.

2:38When you're starting off, it doesn't matter what that is. Go on a walk. I don't care. Go on a walk. Go to the gym whenever you can. Even go to the sauna if you need to do something where you break a sweat every single day. Because that's the challenge that you have to put in your mind, that you have to overcome that. And it lingers in your mind every day. So, you know, if I start getting to the afternoon, even at night, and I've had a very busy day, and I get back to my house in Houston, I get back to my apartment up here in D.C. and I haven't worked out yet, I'm not putting my head in the pillow unless I go do something where I work out.

3:11There have been times where I've been busy all day, went out to dinner, had a steak and dessert and all this stuff, haven't worked out, get back to my apartment, and I go walk on the treadmill for five miles. For five miles? Or once I can't sleep. I mean, also, I think working out, people have this idea that like, Like, oh, I'm too tired. I can't work out. But like energy begets energy, right? Like I feel way more energized when I work out. Not to mention the mood enhancing thing. Like if I don't work out, my productivity throughout the day is so much worse than if I actually did that workout.

3:48The human psyche, human condition, human condition thrives on accomplishment. So as difficult as it was to get to the gym, the level of accomplishment that I feel when I am done is always worth it. Yes, I totally agree with you. It's just sometimes getting there is always the hard part. But once you get there and show up, you're surprised at what you can accomplish. I think that level of accomplishment is like, I think that's a really great way of putting it because that level of accomplishment, it kind of proves to yourself, like, A, number one, I did it. So there's like this feeling of confidence that you get that you actually followed through and that you finished something.

4:28but it does like shift in your brain something where it just it allows for everything else I feel like to me that's why it's the most fundamental habit before you before anything else and I get like I get why you did that like even though it was like 10 let's say you go home from dinner you had this huge steak or whatever else but you probably felt so like gross that you needed to kind of do that to kind of offset it yep offset it right yeah

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6:46what are other things like tell me how other ways that people couldn't start training that discipline muscle in your opinion my best friend from westbrook was a par was a powerlifting champion while we were there his name was adam smooth he was a physical freak of nature that's a complete animal and everybody would always ask him for advice like adam like what do we do? Like what program do I need to do? What supplement? Like how much protein do you do pre-intel? Do all this stuff? He had the best answer that stuck with me now for over 20 years. He said, it doesn't matter what you do. Just do it consistently.

7:22He goes, go find a workout program. Go find a workout regimen that's conducive for your schedule and your life and your needs, what your goals are, and just do it consistently and you will ultimately get better. And then as you get better and you see improvement, well, then you want to see more improvement. You want to get better. And then that's how you start to build that drive within you. You start losing some weight. You start getting stronger here and there. You're like, well, I'm going to get stronger. I'm looking pretty good. How can I get better? That's one way of doing it. The other thing you talked about was setting a goal for yourself.

7:54So like summer is coming. Summer is always coming. Brain break is always coming. This is back in the day. We're going to Cancun and Acapulco, all that fun stuff. It's like, you don't want to go and Kinoa Nacopoko look like a slob. So you start realizing that, like, I want to work out because I want to look good when I'm on the beach. That might seem like something that's like so mundane and so subtle that, like, who cares about that kind of thing? Or so just like, it's so superficial, but that sometimes is all you need. Exactly. Like, how do you motivate yourself to give yourself that drive? Yeah.

8:30I'm a huge Michael Jordan fan. And now that you're seeing all these stories come out about Michael Jordan and things that he did to motivate himself, he would lie to himself about one of his opponents talking trash about him just to get himself going in the game. And then he would obviously go out and score 40 points and be like, what happened? Well, I told myself that this dude said that I wasn't the best player in the world. Another player would be like, I never said that. Well, I told myself that to get myself going. That's just one example. I know. Whatever you can do to motivate yourself, it might be literally as superficial as, I want to look good when I go to the beach.

9:07Totally. And there's nothing wrong with having these mental mind tricks. You should hear some of the crazy ideas or the crazy things that go through my hand when I'm running just to kind of keep me from stopping, right? Because I think the funny thing is everyone thinks for me, they're like, oh, how would you stay so motivated? Believe me, it's not motivation. It's actually discipline. I don't love working out. I hate it. I hated it today. I hated it yesterday. I dread it. But it's that feeling of accomplishment and feeling of I did something that helps me go through the rest of my day in a different mindset.

9:43So it's not about liking it. God knows. I do a lot of things I hate. But I was also going to say about the Michael Jordan thing, to me, it's like whatever gets you to do what you need to do, who cares? But what I was also going to say, And I can't really remember what I was going to say now, but that, well, I don't remember now, but one good thing for me too, is like, I have little kids. I have six, four and two year old and I want to be healthy for them. Yeah. I mean, by the time they're graduating high school and college and all this stuff, I still want to be, I still want to be a tip top shape for them.

10:16You know, so it's not just about, it's not just about you. It's about your family. It's about your overall health. It's important to be a healthy person, to have a lean or phenotype. Like all these things are really important, not just for, you know, for the superficial side of it, for the look side of it, but for the functional health side of it, too. Absolutely. So what is your routine? Give me your day. What's the day in the life now? For my workout splits? Or just in general. Like give me your, what's your habits? Like what are your, what's your morning routine? What's your habits? Like how do you stay?

10:43Here's the crazy thing about being a congressman every day. I actually don't have a set day. So a set like time. Like I'm going to go at the same time every day. It depends on when I can squeeze it in. And so usually I carve out time at some point, a couple of hours between noon or o 'clock is when I go to the gym. I also eat one meal a day. That's my thing. I eat one meal a day. And that meal usually comes at about between four and six o 'clock because you get up to D.C., running around, you're traveling all over the country. I was on 138 flights last year. And so by the time you're done with breakfast and then lunch and then cocktail hour and then happy hour and then dinner, you look up and you've gained like 20 pounds.

11:23So I have made this a very simple proposition for myself. One meal a day, work out between noon and four o 'clock at some point. Accomplish those two things. I'm good to go. That works for me. Doesn't work for everybody else. Some people don't have time to leave working middle of day. So you got to get up in the morning. You got to do it at night. Well, I discourage people from working out at night because by the time you get home and you've had a full day, it can be quite difficult to motivate yourself. Therefore, getting up in the morning and knocking it out is also not a terrible, not terrible walk.

11:54Right. Why don't you do that then? Why are you waiting until noon to four? Why don't you just knock it out first thing in the morning? Because I got old. Are you old? And? I got old and getting up in the morning. I'm not, I want to have a good workout. I want to walk around for a little while, get the joints going, get moving around, feel awake and then do it. If I have to get up in the morning, I will though. So there are times where I look at my schedule and the only time I can do this at five o 'clock in the morning and I'm in the gym at five o 'clock in the morning.