No music, audio-only version: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hybridcalisthenics/episodes/Your-laziness-could-be-a-feature--not-a-bug-e2cck8c Other Coffee With Hampton podcasts (less fitness related): www.youtube.com/@CoffeeWithHampton Have a wonderful day everyone!
I been trying the beginner workout u have (it's a shorts instead of a full video) but I'm wandering is there something I can do in place of the short bridges.....(something to where I don't have to lay down on floor)
I like how when you explain about a subject, you provide as many examples you can find and make it as relatable as possible for everyone. You’re not telling people to strictly adhere to a single belief but to be open to many. This is what actually makes your content insightful and motivating. It’s genuine information from a genuine calisthenics-loving dude. Your soul is kind and it is definitely reflected upon your community. We spread all kinds of positivity in your channel. Keep it up Hampton!
When I feel unmotivated, I make myself follow a 5 minute warm up on UA-cam. Most of the time it will give me a burst of energy and I’ll want to carry on working out, if it doesn’t, well hey I’ve done 5 minutes of something which is better than 5 minutes of nothing
@@wshyangifybetter realise soon that it's not enough, you need to atleast take care of yourself and make minimal living, both high vary from person to person imo. So you do that and important thing is to keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone but not too much that you lose all your hopes, just a little amount and try to make it into positive feedback loop by nothing small achievements etc. Gaming is fine once in a while to cool off, but we have lot to do if you look it.
My problem with motivation is this: if I don't hit progress fast enough if something becomes a labor instead of pleasure - in other words if results don't come easy - my inner voice tells me that perhaps that "goal" isn't for me and I usually agree with it (who am I to argue with me?) and simply quit. Oh and another problem I have is: I don't set goals; I take up an activity and see where it gets me.
Nothing describes me better than this when it comes to goals. I often just think about things i wanna try doing and see if it's something i can see myself still doing it in the future (some ive stopped doing cus i felt like i was going no where). Ive been pretty lost these days so im really just doing new things to see if it can spark something within me and hopefully find my purpose and set up goals so i can feel like im going somewhere and working towards something compared to being locked up in my room doing nothing but watch videos all day. But all that being said, im not too upset not having found my purpose or not having a life goal and just being patient with myself, enjoying the things i found myself enjoy doing, and thinking new things i wanna do. Maybe my goal is to just to enjoy cool and neat things in life but i aint completely sure.
Hampton, this is EXACTLY what I needed to hear! I am 70 years young and recovering from hip replacement surgery. I have been doing my PT exercises regularly, but the past week I have really been strugfling with motivation. You have made sense of this slump for me and I feel like I'm back on track again. Thank you so bery much!!💚 PS I can't wait until I can start back on my Hybrid Calisthenics Routine!
i saw a post a while back by someone who was bedbound and they said that just existing is basically exercise due to the nature of their condition, and that theyve focused specifically on exercises that will make their life easier. things like practicing turning over in bed. i think that whatever skills you need are the ones that matter. i dont know any details about your pain or situation but if "typical" exercise routines put you past the point of that pleasant, post-workout ache, youre definitely right to avoid them. i hope everyone else in this comments section understands that, and im sorry you got a yoga reply 😔 have a good day!
always struggled with chronic fatigue, to the point where i barely went anywhere and did the bare minimum to survive. what i learned is that Literally Anything is good. i've not gone too much farther than walking yet, but i worked myself up from "to the corner and back" to "multiple laps around the block". it took a long time but even that much was transformative. when you're in the trenches of any type of chronic illness, what helps is to seek out those small wins.
I think giving up is often undervalued and stigmatized in our society because people think it's a sign of weakness when it is often the wisest choice. More often than not, when things feel bad, I think trying new things is more productive than trying to force yourself through things and most likely still failing
I’ve been hitting a wall here for a while now. I was showing results, but somewhere along the way, even in the midst of dragging myself to the gym, I still didn’t want to be there. But, in consistency is true self improvement, and thats whats been keeping me going. Nothing comes over night, it comes with the consistent discipline of doing. Your content has been very helpful my friend, so thank you ❤
watching this as i finish a gym workout on the stair treadmill. was feeling defeated and almost like giving up because ny performance today was negatively influenced from grip struggles after yesterday's really great session. i have become well at self discipline coming and saying all i can do is devote my best effort and always need to respect my body. sometimes i wonder what my methods are missing that make me stumble to arrive here and make the progress i desire. thanks for the video. fair perspective!! more people need empathy for balance
I'm old (60) and my problem is getting started to being with. I've never ever started then stuck with any kind of exercise, not even something as simple as walking. My husband was a fitness fanatic, he never missed a day of our entire marriage, no matter what, rain, storm, sickness, late at night because he had to work overtime, he would not miss his workouts until a few weeks he suffered from cancer and died. I know how badly I need to exercise even here in my old age I just cannot get motivated. No matter what I say to myself or what others say to me. I was a cheerleader for 8 yrs and when that ended that was the end of any kind of fitness I ever did for myself that I really enjoyed. Once I walked for a year 5 miles a day then just like that I quit. Even tho I felt healthier. After that the most I've walked for exercise was 2 months at the most. I don't know what's wrong with me.
What’s the smallest amount of progress you can make without expending any real energy? This could be something as simple as walking around your living room one unnecessary time before you sit down
Sometimes getting started is the hardest part! I'd find small things you can commit to incorporating daily. Maybe just a walk after breakfast. We have a free fitness routine if you want something simple to follow. Also a workout of the day: www.hybridcalisthenics.com/wotd When I don't feel like doing something, I tell myself I'll start and stick to it for 5-10 minutes and stop if I really really want to stop. I usually keep going!
Maybe just try for 5 min walk around the neighbourhood? Just to make it an automatic habit, I’ve read somewhere it takes 45-55 days to pick up a healthy, long-lasting habit. Anyways, wish you health and happiness ☺️
For me it's that I always get unmotivated because I end up in pain. My body is just... broken in different kinds of ways and the slightest mistake can cause pain for days. Whenever I have a personal trainer (like, when I go to rehab every four years), I don't get demotivated, because when I do something wrong, I have someone to figure out what it was and how I can improve and for those four weeks, I do some kind of activity every single day and then I get home and I continue and everything goes well for a few weeks and then something goes wrong and I get demotivated again. And sadly, I can't afford a personal trainer at home.
Listen to your body! If something is hurting you or making you uncomfortable, make adjustments to make it less painful. You're supposed to feel a change, not be burdened by the change. So if you find yourself hurting, do something else, try something easier.
@@zacharyhansen8250 Well, I kinda hurt every single second of every single day, so that's kind of a problem... even while doing excercises that lessen my pain overall, it hurts more while I do them (and for the next 10-20 minutes). So listening to my body is kinda a problem. My body is just constantly screaming "don't do anything, don't eat, don't move, just don't", so I tend to ignore it. Unless, of course, I experience some kind of pain I'm not used to, that's usually a injury. But I get injured really easy, since my body is just broken in all kinds of ways. For example, a few days ago I tried to lift something that was apparently too heavy for me (11kg) and I injured my foot(?!) I don't even know how I managed that. I'm getting better at figuring out how slow to take things tho (and by that I mean I decided to take everything at snail pace, so currently I am increasing the distance I walk on my treadmill by two minutes every two days). Apparently lifting weights also needs to happen at snail pace - was thinking that would work, since I usually only hurt my legs and not my back/arms, but apparently you can hurt your feet by lifting weights... I mean, makes sense, since the feet have to balance that weight, but still - it was 24 pounds! I'm 28, not 78!
@@cirrus.floccus 24 pounds is a lot! wow! the weights i use for lifting are 3 pounds each, one in each hand i hope someday you can afford more consistent physical therapy
Just discovered you buddy and love your positivity. Been a long time gym goer but your type of videos make me want to focus less on the egoistic aspects and more on health and fun! You rock!
I saw one of your videos 4 years ago, it was the first fitness related content i saw that wasn't all macho or about being "hot." I suffered intense trauma and was unable to do the most basic exercises, but your attitude made me try the easiest variation. Now calisthenics is an integral part of my life. I was hopeless and depressed since I was i kid, but you inspired me to turn my life around. I will try to follow your example and show others what our bodies are capable
Probably one of my favorite videos here So genuine, major cool points, Deep enough that everyone gets something special out of it, and inspiring of doing whatever you want to do to make your life better. HybridCalisthenics for president! Wait what Oh Hampton for Rising Star Award!
Hey Hampton. I rarely ever leave comments on videos but yours felt different. You've somehow managed to hit a lot of the points I'm going through in life right now and it feels nice to feel acknowledged or that I'm not alone. After 6 years of working in corporate, I finally came true to myself that this is not what I want to be doing for the rest of my life and now pursuing a career in law enforcement. It's a drastic change and I'm scared, but I'm loving every moment in preparing to become a police officer. I seem to be pushing myself pretty hard and disappointed in myself for not seeing the results fast enough which often leads to discouragement, but I can't disregard the tremendous progress I've made in my push ups, sit ups, timed runs in just about a month of practice. I think I'm especially harder on myself because pursuing this dream meant I had to end my long distance relationship with a girl I loved because it would require me to stay in my current area and our future seemed uncertain indefinitely. Countless times I ask myself if I made the right choice.. but I think that's just my fear talking out loud. I have my physical assessment exam for a department tomorrow and even if that doesn't go as I hope, I won't give up. I already gave up so much to make this dream come true.
another thing i find helpful is to constantly ask myself what is my fitness goal-if it's (just) to look aesthetic, it's so easy to get demotivated few weeks of getting started. but if my goal (and it is, now) to be healthy overall over the long term and, more importantly, just have a sense of control over it, even having a run or doing simple reps in a day already provides satisfaction for the day because "oh nice i just succeeded making myself do a run or some pull ups"-and that makes it much easier to be consistent (and wish me luck it'll keep being so) XD
Re-committed to my physical health this year and new to strength training entirely this year. Fear of failure, developing a habit/routine, fatigue, ADHD hyperfocus/dopamine mining, all have me oscillating and afraid that rest will become the habit instead of progress. But I did some form of cardio or strength every single day in February and I realized that just wasnt sustainable. I still have some problem days but actually building rest days and measuring my growth has given me more flexibility and permission to move my routine around.
I feel like this also applies very well to mental health, maybe you’ve been struggling with depression for a really long time and you’ve been trying everything to improve it but it never seems to help much or at all and maybe it turns out there was an underlying thing making your depression worse and focusing on that would help get your depression to a point where those other solutions that didn’t work before can help. Maybe you’ve been trying to talk about your problems but maybe the way you talk about them doesn’t make you feel any better or maybe it just leads you into hopelessness. Maybe you’ve been trying to do the thing on your own and it doesn’t work but maybe if you got someone else to help you in that same effort it would start to change things or maybe you’ve been trying to let someone else help you but what you really need is to take time to think about it to yourself to work through the issue.
Only a minute in so far but man.. The fall off after three weeks and feeling like I need someone to help drag me through to keep going hits me so hard. I've been struggling with that wall for years anytime I try to start getting myself into shape and have a good flow going, only to keep puttering out again and again and again after three weeks. It's been demoralizing to trying to better myself.
My motivation is to be strong and have visible muscle tone. Your method is so supportive, kind, and approachable and it makes me feel like I could finally get in shape. I started the hybrid routine 2.0 yesterday! I can’t really do many squats or leg raises yet but it’s exciting to have begun!
I decided a long time ago to try not to beat myself up over things. A friend of mine said I was "too forgiving " of myself . I have a boatload of regrets. No longer having her in my circle is not one of them.
Hello old friend, its been a while since I’ve seen you. It’s good to see you’re doing well. It may be a while till I see you again but I wish you the best.
This is what I needed to hear. With my BJJ sport I have been losing interest and it’s because I’ve just been blindly listening to my instructors always and it seems redundant. I like to go research on my own and apply it. This is a good perspective Hampton, thank you.
Great video! Perhaps one of the most important lessons I've learned this year is to "ride the wave of motivation" whenever I get it. Immediately if I can! Because it really can produce a good domino effect. If I just wait to do it again another time, it's most likely I won't want to do it anymore..
Absolutely loved this video! I recently discovered a similar thing when it comes to reevaluating your progress over a course of time and maybe tweaking technique to make better progress.
Hello, Hampton. I love your system because it gives me the ability to start doing an exercise routine even at my low level of fitness, however I just wanted to give you a heads up on ME/CFS and other people with my condition. I'm in week 9 of your program and I'm doing the Solid Start legacy program, because it gives my body more time to recover. It's worked well to this point and I can tell I've gotten stronger. But I've gotten too confident and tried to progress too quickly, leading to post-exertional malaise that has set me back now for at least a week and possibly even a month or longer. Please warn any other ME/CFS patients to take it slowly and listen to their bodies when trying to progress to more difficult versions of the exercises. We should know that already, so it's not really something you should be required to teach us but it's obvious that you really care about giving the best chance at improved fitness to the most people possible, so I thought I'd mention it to you in case it helps you to generalize your routines. Thanks for your wonderful system and for the increase in my fitness that it's making possible. It's been an enormous help to me!
I appreciate this video and your perspective in general. Thanks for all your videos and for sharing your expertise! The questions you pose are extremely helpful and make sense to explore when you feel stuck or unmotivated.
I mean being able to do entire college essays starting from nothing the day they're due seems like a pretty cool feature. But idk if the unnecessary stress of doing an essay for hours straight is better than just spending 30 mins a day for about a week😅
Being motivated by the stress will lead to burnout pretty fast. It's way healthier to try to get things done with proper organization. (And if you're *really* struggling with organization, might be worth looking into ADHD or something similar.)
When you talk about not making progress due to bad technique it makes me think of the glass ceiling analogy. With a certain amount of technique you can only get so good at something before you hit the glass ceiling and can't get any better. When you improve your technique your glass ceiling gets higher. The other thing with this that's worth noting is as you improve technique you often have to relearn and/or refine all the progress you've made so far.
I lost 90 lbs in 4 months to join the army. Was doing well, then got discharged because of an ankle injury. Gained more weight than I lost and have been struggling to lose it again. I needed to hear this and want to thank you.
Love the hybrid calisthenics program! Recently bought your book and me and a friend have been accounting to each other daily. On another note, have you considered doing some shorts or even a small video about different resistance band exercises?
For any problem you can look for the 4Ms: Mind (did I learn the thing?), Method (is the method I learned the right one?), Material (when I do what I have to do, do I use the right things to do it, do I have the right information?) and Machine (are my tools up and ready and in good shape?). Example for calisthenics: - Mind: did I actually learned a training to do a L-sit? - Method: is this training the good one for me, could I tinker something a bit to make it easier for me? - Material: have I eaten properly these days? Have I drunk water or too much alcohol/soda? I wanted to go for a run but it's rainy, I should have looked to the weather forecast to adapt my training - Machine: it's getting colder and my training outfit is not very warm and feeling cold make me want to stay under a blanket Of course there are other factors, maybe you are trying to achieve something for the bad reasons. But looking at your conditions is a very good start to solve your problems. Learning is all about solving problems one after the other, to build progress. And it's a neverending game! Good luck out there.
Thank you for this perspective. It seems so obvious but it helps. I have been praying about my current job and a hope to switch to something that is a leap of faith. Ultimately God knows what we do not. And perhaps self control is easier in certain circumstances.
4:21 that's fine as long as you're using an appropriate measure. With appropriate volume, intensity, progressive overload, and recovery, a beginner will see strength gains every week or 2 until they hit their first plateau. That dream physique, though? That takes 3 to 5 *years* of hard graft
There's also people who label themselves and give up: I'm not built for this. I can't learn these complicated things. I'm not a good musician. I always lose my motivation and don't finish anything.
Motivation is fleeting just like emotions are yet I would rather be a critical thinker with discipline haha a lot of coaches and athletes over the years have talked about how motivation is essentially useless to rely on, similarly to what I mentioned first. You have to want something, then come up with several plans on how to obtain. Life is like the ocean, endless in many ways and comes at you in waves and if you are a pile of sand you will get pushed around by every wave but if you are a solid rock, you will stand firm and not move
I can never stick to any kind of exercise. So many people talk about how they feel great after working out, but it just makes me feel bad and angry and it's hard to stick to something like that
I like to do interval jogging so even if I like to do more in a week, I'm compelled not to since I might get injured. It fits right in with my actual laziness.
Basically, use your discipline as like you are staying on the course of your objective, while proper motivation is like the slingshot that will boost you closer towards the finishing line.
To be honest, nutrition is probably by far the most important thing you can do for your motivation and discipline (as well as mood, mental ability, ability to socially/emotionally connect with people, etc). Making sure to get enough vegetables for the potassium (half life of 14 days) which is hugely important for neuron function, not taking Omega 6 polyunsaturated fats (half life of 4 days) from most vegetable oils (instead monounsaturated fat from olive oil and certain other oils) which leads to too much inflammation which feels shit and hurts your body, getting enough protein (there's also super-low-fat meat, fish and dairy, 0.2%-0.5% dairy and fish and 1-2% meat) I wasn't able to do any exercise over 8 months now because of something to do with asthma over the last half year, but my goodness, over the last few months I've been more and more adjusting my diet to just the recommended diet, and with *literally 0 exercise* I've gained a *ton* of very well-defined, even quite large muscles. You know how your body maintains body posture even without you actively controlling those muscles? It just subconsciously sends constant, very low-level signals to your muscles telling them to tense up. And it turns out that that constant muscle tension, just from standing and sitting normally but with proper body tension (which turns out you also automatically get when you do the recommended diet 1:1), already literally exercises your muscles to the point where they grow quite a bit over the weeks and months It also makes you less tired, makes it easier to go to bed early in the first place, etc etc Also, probably really a good idea to quit coffee (entirely), it may not be anywhere near as physically damaging as alcohol etc, but it sure as hell still screws around with neural activity (in fact that's the entire point after all), including with sleep There's also that great thing where if you aren't taking anything that's addictive - whether sugar or alcohol or smoking or coffee or other stuff - then the brain part (ventral striatum) that's responsible for craving slowly shrinks, just as it slowly grows when you do do something that's addictive. You know that whole "gateway drug" debate about one of those substances? Yeah, turns out that really each of those is a "gateway drug" for each of those other ones as well, and if you took none of them for a few months it would be a *lot* easier to withstand, and after a year or two you literally don't think about it anymore (certainly very true for me, and I used to do all 4 of them, just as almost everyone does). After a few months it gets ridiculously easy really, you crave much less, and you may consider this an "exercise" for the brain that you're doing with something physical, abstaining from this caffeine thing, which then also makes it way easier to abstain from other things if you realize they're not that good for you (like certain food, etc)
It's just funny, it seems that barely anyone ever actually tries out what happens when you actually do 100% the recommended diet and no neurostimulants; I was honestly very very surprised to find out just how much better it made me feel, nobody had ever told me about that Also of course the government recommends 0.5g of Omega 3 per day (EPA+DHA), which the vast majority of people also don't get because it's in barely any food, even in most fish it's barely found (the veggie-based Omega 3 is ALA rather than EPA or DHA, which is only converted to EPA and DHA but at a rate of like 2% or 5% or something, so doesn't really do much, so those fish oil pills are the real deal, unless you eat very particular fish)
No music, audio-only version: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hybridcalisthenics/episodes/Your-laziness-could-be-a-feature--not-a-bug-e2cck8c
Other Coffee With Hampton podcasts (less fitness related): www.youtube.com/@CoffeeWithHampton
Have a wonderful day everyone!
Thank you! I really appreciate the no music version!
I’m always using my earphones and the background music feels loud.
I been trying the beginner workout u have (it's a shorts instead of a full video) but I'm wandering is there something I can do in place of the short bridges.....(something to where I don't have to lay down on floor)
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Commented here a year ago that I couldn't do push ups. Now I can do 10. Thank you man
Hey good fucking job my dude, that shit is hard sometimes
hell yeah
Huzzah! Keep that up
How's everything now man ?
this man is my weekly fix of mental health
For reeeal....
Hampton is the man.
He's just a solid dude speaking honestly. Many of us know these things and feel them, but he was willing to put himself online and make these videos.
I like how when you explain about a subject, you provide as many examples you can find and make it as relatable as possible for everyone. You’re not telling people to strictly adhere to a single belief but to be open to many. This is what actually makes your content insightful and motivating. It’s genuine information from a genuine calisthenics-loving dude. Your soul is kind and it is definitely reflected upon your community. We spread all kinds of positivity in your channel. Keep it up Hampton!
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When I feel unmotivated, I make myself follow a 5 minute warm up on UA-cam. Most of the time it will give me a burst of energy and I’ll want to carry on working out, if it doesn’t, well hey I’ve done 5 minutes of something which is better than 5 minutes of nothing
i like this guy
Here’s another way to put it: If you aren’t motivated by your goal, it might not be the right goal
Just watch the whole video. Remove tiktok from your phone
@@manan-543right lol. Cause in the video he said so much more than that.
ok, how do I make it a right goal? life threatening situation?
I want to be, but I sure as hell don't see it being useful :/
What if video games is your only goal? 😅
@@wshyangifybetter realise soon that it's not enough, you need to atleast take care of yourself and make minimal living, both high vary from person to person imo. So you do that and important thing is to keep pushing yourself out of your comfort zone but not too much that you lose all your hopes, just a little amount and try to make it into positive feedback loop by nothing small achievements etc.
Gaming is fine once in a while to cool off, but we have lot to do if you look it.
My problem with motivation is this: if I don't hit progress fast enough if something becomes a labor instead of pleasure - in other words if results don't come easy - my inner voice tells me that perhaps that "goal" isn't for me and I usually agree with it (who am I to argue with me?) and simply quit.
Oh and another problem I have is: I don't set goals; I take up an activity and see where it gets me.
Nothing describes me better than this when it comes to goals. I often just think about things i wanna try doing and see if it's something i can see myself still doing it in the future (some ive stopped doing cus i felt like i was going no where). Ive been pretty lost these days so im really just doing new things to see if it can spark something within me and hopefully find my purpose and set up goals so i can feel like im going somewhere and working towards something compared to being locked up in my room doing nothing but watch videos all day.
But all that being said, im not too upset not having found my purpose or not having a life goal and just being patient with myself, enjoying the things i found myself enjoy doing, and thinking new things i wanna do. Maybe my goal is to just to enjoy cool and neat things in life but i aint completely sure.
Hampton, this is EXACTLY what I needed to hear! I am 70 years young and recovering from hip replacement surgery. I have been doing my PT exercises regularly, but the past week I have really been strugfling with motivation. You have made sense of this slump for me and I feel like I'm back on track again. Thank you so bery much!!💚
PS I can't wait until I can start back on my Hybrid Calisthenics Routine!
Hope everything is fine for you.
When you are in chronic pain and it gets worse with exercise, it is almost impossible to be consistent.
Yoga and Tai Chi are terrific alternatives that will help you heal
You may want to talk to a physical therapist to make sure what you are doing is safe for you
Wouldn't want to make things worse long term
i saw a post a while back by someone who was bedbound and they said that just existing is basically exercise due to the nature of their condition, and that theyve focused specifically on exercises that will make their life easier. things like practicing turning over in bed.
i think that whatever skills you need are the ones that matter. i dont know any details about your pain or situation but if "typical" exercise routines put you past the point of that pleasant, post-workout ache, youre definitely right to avoid them. i hope everyone else in this comments section understands that, and im sorry you got a yoga reply 😔
have a good day!
always struggled with chronic fatigue, to the point where i barely went anywhere and did the bare minimum to survive. what i learned is that Literally Anything is good. i've not gone too much farther than walking yet, but i worked myself up from "to the corner and back" to "multiple laps around the block". it took a long time but even that much was transformative.
when you're in the trenches of any type of chronic illness, what helps is to seek out those small wins.
You have such a warm personality! It’s very inspiring.
I think giving up is often undervalued and stigmatized in our society because people think it's a sign of weakness when it is often the wisest choice. More often than not, when things feel bad, I think trying new things is more productive than trying to force yourself through things and most likely still failing
I’ve been hitting a wall here for a while now. I was showing results, but somewhere along the way, even in the midst of dragging myself to the gym, I still didn’t want to be there. But, in consistency is true self improvement, and thats whats been keeping me going. Nothing comes over night, it comes with the consistent discipline of doing. Your content has been very helpful my friend, so thank you ❤
Hampton.. you’re a good human, my friend. Thank you and, take care.
one thing I love about the hybrid routine is it's simplicity! that keeps us motivated to workout!
Lazyness can also be a fear of failure
Dat’s me
This is true for me!
Facts
watching this as i finish a gym workout on the stair treadmill. was feeling defeated and almost like giving up because ny performance today was negatively influenced from grip struggles after yesterday's really great session. i have become well at self discipline coming and saying all i can do is devote my best effort and always need to respect my body. sometimes i wonder what my methods are missing that make me stumble to arrive here and make the progress i desire. thanks for the video. fair perspective!! more people need empathy for balance
Hampton, your not only an exercise coach, but a life coach.
I'm old (60) and my problem is getting started to being with. I've never ever started then stuck with any kind of exercise, not even something as simple as walking. My husband was a fitness fanatic, he never missed a day of our entire marriage, no matter what, rain, storm, sickness, late at night because he had to work overtime, he would not miss his workouts until a few weeks he suffered from cancer and died. I know how badly I need to exercise even here in my old age I just cannot get motivated. No matter what I say to myself or what others say to me. I was a cheerleader for 8 yrs and when that ended that was the end of any kind of fitness I ever did for myself that I really enjoyed. Once I walked for a year 5 miles a day then just like that I quit. Even tho I felt healthier. After that the most I've walked for exercise was 2 months at the most. I don't know what's wrong with me.
What’s the smallest amount of progress you can make without expending any real energy?
This could be something as simple as walking around your living room one unnecessary time before you sit down
Sometimes getting started is the hardest part! I'd find small things you can commit to incorporating daily. Maybe just a walk after breakfast.
We have a free fitness routine if you want something simple to follow. Also a workout of the day: www.hybridcalisthenics.com/wotd
When I don't feel like doing something, I tell myself I'll start and stick to it for 5-10 minutes and stop if I really really want to stop. I usually keep going!
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Leave it to Hampton for giving a better answer ☺️
Maybe just try for 5 min walk around the neighbourhood? Just to make it an automatic habit, I’ve read somewhere it takes 45-55 days to pick up a healthy, long-lasting habit. Anyways, wish you health and happiness ☺️
Have you tried dance, or something fun?
For me it's that I always get unmotivated because I end up in pain. My body is just... broken in different kinds of ways and the slightest mistake can cause pain for days. Whenever I have a personal trainer (like, when I go to rehab every four years), I don't get demotivated, because when I do something wrong, I have someone to figure out what it was and how I can improve and for those four weeks, I do some kind of activity every single day and then I get home and I continue and everything goes well for a few weeks and then something goes wrong and I get demotivated again.
And sadly, I can't afford a personal trainer at home.
Listen to your body! If something is hurting you or making you uncomfortable, make adjustments to make it less painful. You're supposed to feel a change, not be burdened by the change. So if you find yourself hurting, do something else, try something easier.
@@zacharyhansen8250 Well, I kinda hurt every single second of every single day, so that's kind of a problem... even while doing excercises that lessen my pain overall, it hurts more while I do them (and for the next 10-20 minutes). So listening to my body is kinda a problem. My body is just constantly screaming "don't do anything, don't eat, don't move, just don't", so I tend to ignore it. Unless, of course, I experience some kind of pain I'm not used to, that's usually a injury. But I get injured really easy, since my body is just broken in all kinds of ways. For example, a few days ago I tried to lift something that was apparently too heavy for me (11kg) and I injured my foot(?!) I don't even know how I managed that.
I'm getting better at figuring out how slow to take things tho (and by that I mean I decided to take everything at snail pace, so currently I am increasing the distance I walk on my treadmill by two minutes every two days). Apparently lifting weights also needs to happen at snail pace - was thinking that would work, since I usually only hurt my legs and not my back/arms, but apparently you can hurt your feet by lifting weights... I mean, makes sense, since the feet have to balance that weight, but still - it was 24 pounds! I'm 28, not 78!
@@cirrus.floccus 24 pounds is a lot! wow! the weights i use for lifting are 3 pounds each, one in each hand
i hope someday you can afford more consistent physical therapy
Just discovered you buddy and love your positivity. Been a long time gym goer but your type of videos make me want to focus less on the egoistic aspects and more on health and fun! You rock!
I saw one of your videos 4 years ago, it was the first fitness related content i saw that wasn't all macho or about being "hot." I suffered intense trauma and was unable to do the most basic exercises, but your attitude made me try the easiest variation. Now calisthenics is an integral part of my life. I was hopeless and depressed since I was i kid, but you inspired me to turn my life around. I will try to follow your example and show others what our bodies are capable
Appreciate the no music podcast version!
Thanks, Hampton, I always feel better after listening to what you have to say.
Probably one of my favorite videos here
So genuine, major cool points,
Deep enough that everyone gets something special out of it,
and inspiring of doing whatever you want to do to make your life better.
HybridCalisthenics for president!
Wait what
Oh
Hampton for Rising Star Award!
Thank you for starting to post on UA-cam!! Not sure I would have ever found you otherwise!! ❤
Thanks!
Man the production value of your videos has really shot up compared to before. Glad to see your channel is doing better!
Hey Hampton. I rarely ever leave comments on videos but yours felt different. You've somehow managed to hit a lot of the points I'm going through in life right now and it feels nice to feel acknowledged or that I'm not alone. After 6 years of working in corporate, I finally came true to myself that this is not what I want to be doing for the rest of my life and now pursuing a career in law enforcement. It's a drastic change and I'm scared, but I'm loving every moment in preparing to become a police officer. I seem to be pushing myself pretty hard and disappointed in myself for not seeing the results fast enough which often leads to discouragement, but I can't disregard the tremendous progress I've made in my push ups, sit ups, timed runs in just about a month of practice.
I think I'm especially harder on myself because pursuing this dream meant I had to end my long distance relationship with a girl I loved because it would require me to stay in my current area and our future seemed uncertain indefinitely. Countless times I ask myself if I made the right choice.. but I think that's just my fear talking out loud.
I have my physical assessment exam for a department tomorrow and even if that doesn't go as I hope, I won't give up. I already gave up so much to make this dream come true.
another thing i find helpful is to constantly ask myself what is my fitness goal-if it's (just) to look aesthetic, it's so easy to get demotivated few weeks of getting started. but if my goal (and it is, now) to be healthy overall over the long term and, more importantly, just have a sense of control over it, even having a run or doing simple reps in a day already provides satisfaction for the day because "oh nice i just succeeded making myself do a run or some pull ups"-and that makes it much easier to be consistent (and wish me luck it'll keep being so) XD
*This is a certified golden content right here.*
the timing of this video is impeccable, was literally sitting on the couch feeling unmotivated
Re-committed to my physical health this year and new to strength training entirely this year. Fear of failure, developing a habit/routine, fatigue, ADHD hyperfocus/dopamine mining, all have me oscillating and afraid that rest will become the habit instead of progress. But I did some form of cardio or strength every single day in February and I realized that just wasnt sustainable. I still have some problem days but actually building rest days and measuring my growth has given me more flexibility and permission to move my routine around.
This guy is just so pure
I feel like this also applies very well to mental health, maybe you’ve been struggling with depression for a really long time and you’ve been trying everything to improve it but it never seems to help much or at all and maybe it turns out there was an underlying thing making your depression worse and focusing on that would help get your depression to a point where those other solutions that didn’t work before can help. Maybe you’ve been trying to talk about your problems but maybe the way you talk about them doesn’t make you feel any better or maybe it just leads you into hopelessness. Maybe you’ve been trying to do the thing on your own and it doesn’t work but maybe if you got someone else to help you in that same effort it would start to change things or maybe you’ve been trying to let someone else help you but what you really need is to take time to think about it to yourself to work through the issue.
Just what I needed to hear right now.
This guy has such good energy. I'm sorry we'll never meet because we need more people like this. Go ahead and say hello from Serbia.
bruh you're so calming👀
After watching ur videos, my body and my mind always feel lighter🌞
Only a minute in so far but man..
The fall off after three weeks and feeling like I need someone to help drag me through to keep going hits me so hard.
I've been struggling with that wall for years anytime I try to start getting myself into shape and have a good flow going, only to keep puttering out again and again and again after three weeks. It's been demoralizing to trying to better myself.
My motivation is to be strong and have visible muscle tone. Your method is so supportive, kind, and approachable and it makes me feel like I could finally get in shape. I started the hybrid routine 2.0 yesterday! I can’t really do many squats or leg raises yet but it’s exciting to have begun!
I decided a long time ago to try not to beat myself up over things. A friend of mine said I was "too forgiving " of myself .
I have a boatload of regrets. No longer having her in my circle is not one of them.
I truly appreciate the time it took to create this video. Great video, thank you!
Thank you! 🥺 You've changed my perspective.
Hello old friend, its been a while since I’ve seen you. It’s good to see you’re doing well. It may be a while till I see you again but I wish you the best.
This is what I needed to hear. With my BJJ sport I have been losing interest and it’s because I’ve just been blindly listening to my instructors always and it seems redundant. I like to go research on my own and apply it. This is a good perspective Hampton, thank you.
Great video! Perhaps one of the most important lessons I've learned this year is to "ride the wave of motivation" whenever I get it. Immediately if I can! Because it really can produce a good domino effect. If I just wait to do it again another time, it's most likely I won't want to do it anymore..
Absolutely loved this video! I recently discovered a similar thing when it comes to reevaluating your progress over a course of time and maybe tweaking technique to make better progress.
I really this vid rn. Thanks, Hampton.
Thank YOU! I like your profile photo too.
@@HybridCalisthenics okay but what did the guy that loves potato actually say
LOT'S OF LOVE BROTHER ❤💯
Hampton you are the Dude of calisthenics wisdom!
Your content is pure gold and specifically this message! My goal to die healthy😊
Thank you Hampton, after see your video I getting motivation back 😊.
Thanks, I needed to hear this
Hello, Hampton. I love your system because it gives me the ability to start doing an exercise routine even at my low level of fitness, however I just wanted to give you a heads up on ME/CFS and other people with my condition. I'm in week 9 of your program and I'm doing the Solid Start legacy program, because it gives my body more time to recover. It's worked well to this point and I can tell I've gotten stronger. But I've gotten too confident and tried to progress too quickly, leading to post-exertional malaise that has set me back now for at least a week and possibly even a month or longer. Please warn any other ME/CFS patients to take it slowly and listen to their bodies when trying to progress to more difficult versions of the exercises. We should know that already, so it's not really something you should be required to teach us but it's obvious that you really care about giving the best chance at improved fitness to the most people possible, so I thought I'd mention it to you in case it helps you to generalize your routines. Thanks for your wonderful system and for the increase in my fitness that it's making possible. It's been an enormous help to me!
yummy Hampton, full of positivity.. gotta love this guy
I totally agree, and I'm feel the same way in my English learning Journey, by the way you speak clear for me. Thank you
Wow - was not expecting to open up a calisthenics video and see ableton live as ur recording software haha. my worlds are colliding
I love this guy.
I appreciate this video and your perspective in general. Thanks for all your videos and for sharing your expertise! The questions you pose are extremely helpful and make sense to explore when you feel stuck or unmotivated.
I completely agree!
I mean being able to do entire college essays starting from nothing the day they're due seems like a pretty cool feature. But idk if the unnecessary stress of doing an essay for hours straight is better than just spending 30 mins a day for about a week😅
Being motivated by the stress will lead to burnout pretty fast. It's way healthier to try to get things done with proper organization. (And if you're *really* struggling with organization, might be worth looking into ADHD or something similar.)
@@xredragon666 It really does.
Efficiency is just clever laziness
Great insight. Mike Menzter spoke about this too , on weightlifting methods and recovery. Many tried harder and went backwards on gains.
Ty again Hybrid. Feeling motivated already.
Yess he's back😢
When you talk about not making progress due to bad technique it makes me think of the glass ceiling analogy. With a certain amount of technique you can only get so good at something before you hit the glass ceiling and can't get any better. When you improve your technique your glass ceiling gets higher. The other thing with this that's worth noting is as you improve technique you often have to relearn and/or refine all the progress you've made so far.
I needed to hear this
I lost 90 lbs in 4 months to join the army. Was doing well, then got discharged because of an ankle injury. Gained more weight than I lost and have been struggling to lose it again. I needed to hear this and want to thank you.
Love the hybrid calisthenics program! Recently bought your book and me and a friend have been accounting to each other daily. On another note, have you considered doing some shorts or even a small video about different resistance band exercises?
Dragonfruit! Downloading the app right now. Looking forward to trying it out this morning. Thank you and happy holidays.
For any problem you can look for the 4Ms: Mind (did I learn the thing?), Method (is the method I learned the right one?), Material (when I do what I have to do, do I use the right things to do it, do I have the right information?) and Machine (are my tools up and ready and in good shape?).
Example for calisthenics:
- Mind: did I actually learned a training to do a L-sit?
- Method: is this training the good one for me, could I tinker something a bit to make it easier for me?
- Material: have I eaten properly these days? Have I drunk water or too much alcohol/soda? I wanted to go for a run but it's rainy, I should have looked to the weather forecast to adapt my training
- Machine: it's getting colder and my training outfit is not very warm and feeling cold make me want to stay under a blanket
Of course there are other factors, maybe you are trying to achieve something for the bad reasons. But looking at your conditions is a very good start to solve your problems. Learning is all about solving problems one after the other, to build progress. And it's a neverending game!
Good luck out there.
It comes down to figuring out what it is that you really want in life.
God bless you. Thanks for encouraging us to be disapline to the goal and motivate. Thanks.
hell yeah!! this is what peeps need to know!!
I love your insights here, Hampton. Thank you for your thoughtful videos!
thankyou teacher for the lesson
Hope you're doing well, brother Hampton! Wishing you all the beautiful things this world has to offer in 2024.
Great perspective
you are actually helping me getting motivated, not there yet though,,, its so hard
Thank you for this perspective. It seems so obvious but it helps. I have been praying about my current job and a hope to switch to something that is a leap of faith. Ultimately God knows what we do not. And perhaps self control is easier in certain circumstances.
Your videos have been helping me to keep my body and my mind rigjt for real!! Have a good new year friend!!
Excellent video
4:21 that's fine as long as you're using an appropriate measure. With appropriate volume, intensity, progressive overload, and recovery, a beginner will see strength gains every week or 2 until they hit their first plateau. That dream physique, though? That takes 3 to 5 *years* of hard graft
There's also people who label themselves and give up: I'm not built for this. I can't learn these complicated things. I'm not a good musician. I always lose my motivation and don't finish anything.
I am learning a new skill. this video is very relatable:)
love from PAKISTAN
Thanks for sharing! ❤
Thank you for posting Hampton, I'm currently so lazy I start to look for signs... Then this video pop up, hope it could offer me some answer. 😂😂😂
Motivation is fleeting just like emotions are yet I would rather be a critical thinker with discipline haha a lot of coaches and athletes over the years have talked about how motivation is essentially useless to rely on, similarly to what I mentioned first. You have to want something, then come up with several plans on how to obtain. Life is like the ocean, endless in many ways and comes at you in waves and if you are a pile of sand you will get pushed around by every wave but if you are a solid rock, you will stand firm and not move
This video is so good
@@Jha9124
Hampton’s videos never miss
Thank you!!
I can never stick to any kind of exercise. So many people talk about how they feel great after working out, but it just makes me feel bad and angry and it's hard to stick to something like that
Not being motivated is a concept. Drop it!
You are wonderful. Thank you so much.
my way to deal with laziness is reducing the number of sets, rep and difficulty of the exercices
An inflection point and voila! the hockey stick effect..
I like to do interval jogging so even if I like to do more in a week, I'm compelled not to since I might get injured. It fits right in with my actual laziness.
I prefer the way of not thinking about it but just to do it.
The only times i am hesitating are when i feel sick or have a severe muscle soreness.
Basically, use your discipline as like you are staying on the course of your objective, while proper motivation is like the slingshot that will boost you closer towards the finishing line.
To be honest, nutrition is probably by far the most important thing you can do for your motivation and discipline (as well as mood, mental ability, ability to socially/emotionally connect with people, etc). Making sure to get enough vegetables for the potassium (half life of 14 days) which is hugely important for neuron function, not taking Omega 6 polyunsaturated fats (half life of 4 days) from most vegetable oils (instead monounsaturated fat from olive oil and certain other oils) which leads to too much inflammation which feels shit and hurts your body, getting enough protein (there's also super-low-fat meat, fish and dairy, 0.2%-0.5% dairy and fish and 1-2% meat)
I wasn't able to do any exercise over 8 months now because of something to do with asthma over the last half year, but my goodness, over the last few months I've been more and more adjusting my diet to just the recommended diet, and with *literally 0 exercise* I've gained a *ton* of very well-defined, even quite large muscles. You know how your body maintains body posture even without you actively controlling those muscles? It just subconsciously sends constant, very low-level signals to your muscles telling them to tense up. And it turns out that that constant muscle tension, just from standing and sitting normally but with proper body tension (which turns out you also automatically get when you do the recommended diet 1:1), already literally exercises your muscles to the point where they grow quite a bit over the weeks and months
It also makes you less tired, makes it easier to go to bed early in the first place, etc etc
Also, probably really a good idea to quit coffee (entirely), it may not be anywhere near as physically damaging as alcohol etc, but it sure as hell still screws around with neural activity (in fact that's the entire point after all), including with sleep
There's also that great thing where if you aren't taking anything that's addictive - whether sugar or alcohol or smoking or coffee or other stuff - then the brain part (ventral striatum) that's responsible for craving slowly shrinks, just as it slowly grows when you do do something that's addictive. You know that whole "gateway drug" debate about one of those substances? Yeah, turns out that really each of those is a "gateway drug" for each of those other ones as well, and if you took none of them for a few months it would be a *lot* easier to withstand, and after a year or two you literally don't think about it anymore (certainly very true for me, and I used to do all 4 of them, just as almost everyone does). After a few months it gets ridiculously easy really, you crave much less, and you may consider this an "exercise" for the brain that you're doing with something physical, abstaining from this caffeine thing, which then also makes it way easier to abstain from other things if you realize they're not that good for you (like certain food, etc)
Text wall, sry
It's just funny, it seems that barely anyone ever actually tries out what happens when you actually do 100% the recommended diet and no neurostimulants; I was honestly very very surprised to find out just how much better it made me feel, nobody had ever told me about that
Also of course the government recommends 0.5g of Omega 3 per day (EPA+DHA), which the vast majority of people also don't get because it's in barely any food, even in most fish it's barely found (the veggie-based Omega 3 is ALA rather than EPA or DHA, which is only converted to EPA and DHA but at a rate of like 2% or 5% or something, so doesn't really do much, so those fish oil pills are the real deal, unless you eat very particular fish)
My ADHD lined brain appreciates this
Seeing him in front of a PC is quite surreal