The Mindset Forge - Amplify Healthy Habits and Identify your Daily Focus

Amplify Healthy Habits and Identify your Daily Focus

08/15/23 • 22 min

In this episode, Barton talks to listeners about how we can Amplify the positive habits we already have so we can get the most out of them. He also discusses the importance of "Making Music" and not just playing the notes on the page (a metaphor for how to workout or spend quality time with loved ones).

Meet Barton Guy Bryan

"Throughout my life, I’ve always been either an athlete, a performer, or a gym rat. I love the self improvement, piece of working out and aspiring to be better in sports and in performance. When I became a certified personal trainer, I fell in love with helping other people, find that same passion and enthusiasm for improving themselves through fitness. The same goes with public speaking. The opportunity to get on stage and speak to hundreds of people about how they can prove themselves one little habit at a time through physical activity, lifestyle, change, habits, etc. is the culmination of 48 years of personal growth, helping others, and traveling the world, learning about people, cultures, and things that hold us back."
"My purpose with this podcast is the help men between 40 - 60 maximize this chapter of their life so they can be strong, healthy, disciplined, and purposeful with how they live each day"

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Ironman Triathlete David Garza talks Self-Discipline, Sobriety, & Handling the Ups and Downs of Life

Barton sits down with David to talk about his path as an athlete, father, and fitness instructor. David has completed 17 Ironman Triathlons including the World Championships in Kona, Hawaii. They have taught David about discipline, mindset, focusing on the "controllables" and much more. He is also 5 1⁄2 years sober and so much of who he is and what he prioritized today comes from his sobriety and being the best father he can be for his two teenage kids.
Behind his exterior of muscles and a big smile, Austin local David Garza is just as compassionate at heart as he lets on.

As one of Austin’s most motivated fitness instructors, Garza gladly admits to spending time surfing Pinterest for motivating quotes to share with others. Referred to as the “Tony Robbins of spin” by some of his clients, Garza cherishes being able to make others feel special, whether that’s by playing someone’s favorite song during a class or sitting down with someone for coffee to help them tackle the obstacles in their way to a healthier lifestyle.

“I have been pretty blessed to have found this career, where I can use music and fitness and really talk in a deep way of how we are doing,” Garza says. “And, because I have gone through some ridiculously challenging things in my life, I am able to look at somebody and say ‘Hey man, I get it. Let’s try and figure out what’s going wrong, pinpoint it and see what we can do in a positive way to figure out what we need to get done to get you out of this funk.’”

When Garza came out of college, his lifestyle included smoking and drinking, and at one point, he even weighed close to 300 pounds. Coming up on four years of being sober, Garza says he can consider his past experiences struggling with nutrition and unhealthy habits as a blessing, because they make it easy for him to be able to discuss topics that can typically be hard to talk about.

“I get to share with a lot of people who are struggling, and I have been down that path, and I feel like I can truly relate to somebody struggling with lots of different things,” Garza says. “While I know there are a lot of challenges out there, I also know that you can overcome those challenges, because you want to be a little bit better than you were yesterday.”

Garza is heading to Nice, France in September to compete in another Ironman Triathlon World Championships.
To contact David, find him on Instagram @davidgarza1
He is currently teaching classes at HIT Athletic in North Central Austin.

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It's never too late to build Strength & Discipline w/ Phillip Ricardo Jr.

Barton and 4x Natural Mr. Olympia champion Phillip Ricardo Jr. sit down to discuss the challenges of being consistent with health, fitness, and daily habits. As a Natural bodybuilder, Phillip dives into the importance of:

Warming Up Properly
Having Monthly Programs
Incorporating D-Load weeks for Recovery
The Confidence that. comes from working out
Smart ways to avoid getting injured working out.
And much more...

Philip Ricardo Jr. was born on July 29, 1971. He is a legend in the sport of natural bodybuilding and has been competing for decades. He’s won the Natural Olympia in 2019, 2015, 2008, and 2007, and he’s the reigning Men's Bodybuilding Grand Master's Champion
Philip Ricardo Jr. was born in Rochester, New York, on July 29, 1971. He didn’t always have the muscular and shredded physique he has now. As a kid, Ricardo Jr. was skinny and asthmatic. Despite those adversities, he played Pop-Warner football (favorite sport) in Brooklyn, New York. Philip Ricardo Jr. credits physical activity for relieving him of his asthma and allergies.
At 13 years old, his father introduced him to weightlifting. In 1985, his family moved to Illinois, where he played high school football. The weight training program there helped Ricardo Jr. see dramatic changes in his body. He was slim, lean, and muscular throughout high school.

He enlisted in the Marine Corps upon graduating high school in 1989. After boot camp, he was stationed overseas in Iwakuni, Japan, where he worked out at the military base gym with veteran marines. Ricardo Jr.’s co-worker signed him up to compete in the Iwakuni Japan Marine Corps Based Bodybuilding Championships without his knowledge his second year overseas.

Ricardo Jr. continued to compete in a few small competitions in Japan, then was stationed in San Diego, California. The NPC held military shows, and he saw success in these events.

Later on, Philip Ricardo Jr. joined the American Bodybuilding Association (ABA) – a drug-free organization that is now known as the INBA PNBA. He competed against the best natural athletes globally with the ABA and had great success. He continued to compete with ABA and other federations to test his limits.

Philip Ricardo Jr. turned pro in 2003 with the PNBA. Since then, he’s competed as a natural bodybuilder for almost 20 years and has won professional titles in five different drug-free organizations.