Summary: Are you counting calories and exercising, but still not getting in shape?<br> Jay Kim had the same problem, and after a lot of research, he found a way to get into the best shape of his life… while only spending three hours a week in the gym.<br> <br> In this episode, we talk about:<br> <br> * Jay’s personal journey<br> * Why most exercise equipment is a complete waste of time<br> * The simple formula to getting ripped<br> <br> <br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hack-Your-Fitness-Achievers-Getting-ebook/dp/B06XH823M7/" target="_blank"></a>You can buy Jay’s book <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Hack-Your-Fitness-Achievers-Getting-ebook/dp/B06XH823M7/" target="_blank">Hack Your Fitness</a> on Amazon.<br> You can learn more at <a href="http://hackyour.fitness" target="_blank">HackYour.Fitness</a>.<br> <br> <br> What is the #1 take away from your book?<br> Honesty. If you want to hack your fitness, you have to be honest with yourself on why.<br> For the longest time, the only reason that I wanted to hack my fitness is because everyone else around me was doing it. I never actually thought about why I was going to the gym. It was just a career accessory. Everyone was going to the gym after work and then we’d all meet up for happy hour drinks afterward. It made no sense. There was no goal.<br> I was just doing it because it was almost like peer pressure. I thought I had to do it. Everyone’s doing it.<br> When you really drill down and you do that exercise where you ask yourself “why?” five times, and figure out really why do you want to be fit, only then will you realize what you need to hack your fitness. It’s different for everyone.<br> For me, it was vanity. I wanted to look good. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on fitness.<br> <br> Once you actually figure out why you want to be fit then the rest of the stuff is actually quite simple. The education part is very simple. I was able to consolidate and distill all the education stuff in about 200 pages in the book. It’s very simple science. You just learn the simple science behind nutrition, diet, and then the lifts are actually even easier. The lifting part, it’s only one chapter where I go through all the lifts and that’s it.<br> <br> Who is your book for? <br> People exactly like myself. I’m not a fitness guy. I spent a lot of time researching. I read a lot of articles and did a lot of my own research and spent a lot of time at the gym. At the end of the day, that’s not my life. My life isn’t just fitness.<br> When I took an honest look at myself, my own was the main driver behind my fitness journey. A lot of people in life, I believe, if they take a look back, a step back, and really look at themselves, they might find a similar motivation. That’s one of the first things that I tell people to do is to take an honest look at themselves.<br> If there’s one thing that people like to boast or brag about that’s not money, it’s fitness and how much they’re putting up in the gym or what triathlon they just did and what time. It was a metric.<br> <br> “Because I had to struggle with my fitness, I wrote it off as having a slow metabolism. It wasn’t that at all. I just wasn’t doing things right.”<br> <br> I was not doing things in the right order, in the right syntax, in the right amounts. That was my biggest issue, and that’s the issue for a lot of people.<br> <br> I would look at these people that I would call “genetic freaks” and they had it all, right? People that are super successful in their career, they have the perfect marriage, perfect life in their perfect house and the guy is perfectly ripped. He just always seems to have everything together. You look at this guy that’s perfect and you’re like “how does he do it?
