How to turn weakness into strength

https://youtu.be/ZCKvdh4b4dA Fitness expert, champion bodybuilder, and MS advocate, David Lyons, teaches Matt and Tara the importance of community when starting (and sticking to) a fitness routine when you have a chronic illness. David talks about mindset, goal setting, and the importance of joining the right program. David shares tips from his Optimal Body Personal Fitness program. You can find David on Facebook where he shares awesome fitness tips and videos. This is part four of our interview with David. The transcript is below. You can also watch the video or listen to our podcast. [00:00:00] Matt: Hey everybody. My name's Matt and this is Tara, and we're from Situation Positive. We're here today with our good friend David Lyons of Optimal Body Personal Fitness. Um, we're here for a special workout because we joined the program and we wanted to learn more about it. David welcome to the show. [00:00:24] David: Thanks for having me guys. So I appreciate it. And you know, something I'm going to get you guys in top shape and I'm going to get you guys feeling better but more important than that, I'm going to get your brains connected to those muscles of yours. [00:00:37] Tara: Alright, so we're ready to get started if you are? [00:00:45] Matt: So those two are great. I like how it's convertible right. Because one of the things I don't want to have to do is move. Like, if I'm throwing this over a door. That's already hard enough to do. Is there a third one that comes out of this or? [00:00:59] David: Oh yeah. I mean, we can do our triceps right now. Now I can show you a triceps movement where it's going to be in the same position as well. The thing is there are groups of muscles that we're working together. Usually, we're doing our chest, our back, and our shoulders on day one. Okay. The next day we're doing our legs so that we're not doing our upper body giving a chance to rest. The third day we go and we do triceps and biceps. So went back to your upper body. The next day is a rest day. So we need to take one or two days off depending on how you feel, but no more than two days of rest, then you do that three-day cycle. Again, there are multiple training methods in my program. So this is only one type of training method. We change training methods over time. So whether do you need 30 days, which would be 10 cycles of this, or whether you need 90 days, which would be 30 cycles of this, you will then change that training method when you feel your body says, okay, I get it. I'm starting to adapt a little bit and you. You get to feel that you understand that your body does adapt. Some people adapt quicker than others. So you want to push forward faster. But no, no less than 30 days. No more than 90 days and anywhere in the middle of that is okay. After 90 days, it's enough. Even if you're thinking that I'm not feeling a hundred percent, the way I want you to move forward, we cannot let our bodies adapt our bodies are lazy. They want to adapt. They're going to find a way to not get any results. So if you trick it into putting a different training method in front of it, it's going to start getting results. So we're constantly forcing our body to get results by doing different training methods that create those three processes. Contraction training, there's stretch training, there's one and a half rep training. There's negative resistance training, there's time and detention training. So there are a lot of different terms to these training methods, all of which are in the program. But let's talk about our triceps and I'll show you how to do one movement for our triceps. So you're in the same position. We're stepping back for enough that we feel resistance to the band. We're locking our elbows into the side. Okay. So we're not up here. We are using our elbows as the pivot point of this movement and we're squeezing. So we're holding the triceps in this squeeze contracted position. 1, 2,