Be Relentless Podcast

Isaac Wilkins

From three trips to the point of rock bottom - physically, mentally, and finally spiritually to building a life and business worth talking about, my name is Isaac Wilkins, and I'm a student of fitness and performance training, mental toughness, and finding your purpose in this life.

I share everything I learn about fitness, nutrition, higher purpose, mental toughness, and overcoming adversity so you can break free of your rut and win.

This show is for former athletes, warriors, and those who have a vision and feeling inside them that they are able and destined for more. Regardless of your current situation and struggles, big or small, you have that drive to level up, winning, and getting the self-respect you desire.

I share all of my most significant insights and clarity from my personal journey as well as lessons and strategies gleaned from my clients' journeys. I interview some of the most successful visionaries, celebrities, and thought leaders who've been to the wall and back.

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Mar 20, 2018 · 10 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 17 - Dream Big Plan Small
How To Reach the Stars, Not Just Reach For Them Everybody wants to talk about reaching for the stars and maybe you'll hit the moon. The thing is, that doesn't give you anything to really grab on to. Sure, if you dream big, you'll get farther than if you dream small. However, you need to have a way to get there. That's what we're going to talk about today: How to go for the big stuff by actually doing the things that are going to get you there.
Mar 15, 2018 · 40 min
Be Relentless Podcast 31 - Building the High Performance Body Part 3 - Supportive Nutrition
Part 3 of a 3-Part Series on Building Your High-Performance Body To finish up our series, we've got the car built through training and our driver, the mindset, is on point. Now it's time to fuel it up with great, supportive nutrition. Nutrition is one of those areas that is full of dogma, conflicting views, and can become very complicated very quickly if you let it. However, to simply build a good, functional nutrition plan to keep yourself healthy, strong, and operating at a high capacity doesn't have to be all that complicated. I go over some simple guidelines and directions to not only give you what you need to be successful, but also to help make it as "automatic" as possible with good habit forming and behavioral change.
Apr 13, 2017 · 23 min
Be Relentless Podcast 30 - Building the High Performance Body Part 2 - Training to Perform
Part 2 of a 3-part Series on Building Your High-Performance Body On this episode I take on the actual training of your high-performance machine. We start with talking strength training. I talk about how we wave strength movements and intensities for the everyday athlete who is looking to have lots of SHOW and GO. From there I get into how you can "build the supports of the foundation" to round out your performance, take it to another level, and see the body you want. I share what NOT to do if you're trying to see long-term success. Next up is conditioning. We talk about the Relentless motto for conditioning and how to best achieve it with the minimal effective dose, including the "no go zone" that will lead you down a path of ruin. Want to recover faster, look better, perform better, and train harder? Then you need to listen to what I said about conditioning. All that stuff is great but it falls down if you're hurt and can't move. So that's why I finish the episode with my mobility and flexibility guides. I have an easy way to sneak in mobility sessions to get you doing them the right number of times per week and looking at the right things. Find out here.
Apr 7, 2017 · 25 min
Be Relentless Podcast 29 - Building the High-Performance Body Part 1 - Mindset
The first of a three-part series of a step-by-step plan for building your high-performance body. Talking training or nutrition might be more sexy, but the bottom line is that if the mind isn't ready to go then you're going to have a very hard time getting to your end goal. In this podcast I'm going to go over a step-by-step method including: -The pre-step, even before your plan, to getting your mind right. -Where a lot of people mess up in their planning and accountability, and what to do instead. -How to find the difference between perfect and real life, and how to blend the two.
Apr 3, 2017 · 6 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 16 - Make One Change Per Week
I sat down a few times over the past few weeks with some of my coaches and clients talking about what not only makes the most successful transformations but also LASTING transformation. When most people want to make a transformation they focus on doing EVERYTHING all at once and at first they see some great success... until they crash. Instead we focus on what we've discovered will go a long way to making lasting change. This can apply to everything you do, not just fitness.
Mar 27, 2017 · 9 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 15 - The Law of Attraction Without the Woo
In the Personal Development space there's a lot of talk about The Law of Attraction, which basically means that if you focus hard on something the Universe will bring it to you. Now, there are a lot of people out there who are pretty woo-woo about that stuff and insist that it's a totally mystical force. I'm not qualified to give you a good answer on whether or not that's true. However, I was having a couple of beers with my old college roommate this weekend, who's a very smart and philosophical guy, and we got on this topic. We're in agreement that there IS something to the Law of Attraction, but it might not be quite what all the spiritual hippies think it is. Give it a listen and you'll see how I mix the rational with the woo and the rational wins out!
Mar 20, 2017 · 7 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 14 - Who Got To You
Who Got To You? I was listening to a great podcast from Joe Rogan and Henry Rollins, who was one of my heroes as a speaker during my college years. Rollins is a dynamic guy and at over 50 he's still doing amazing things with his life. He was talking about guys he sees that are way younger than him and have already given up on their dreams and have put themselves in a box. He asked the question "who got to you?". That's a pretty profound question. Who got to you? I have some things to say on it, and I have what I feel is an even more important follow-up question for you. Give it a listen and find out!
Jan 2, 2017 · 8 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 13 - Stop Lying In Your New Years Resolutions
I work in the Fitness Business, so the idea of the New Year's Resolution is fully a butt of jokes. We all know about the people who show up every year, flood gyms, and then are gone by the end of January or February. The issue is, that all of those people, just like you, if you made a New Year's Resolution, did it with the intention of changing their lives. They set a goal. Why did it fail? Why did they quit? Why do you have New Year's Resolutions that you haven't met? Because they, and you, are lying to yourselves. Stop it! Wait, that's pretty harsh language. Well, listen and I'll tell you what I mean, and I bet I'll hit on the number one reason most turn their New Year's Resolutions into a lie.
Dec 22, 2016 · 20 min
Be Relentless Podcast 28 - 5 Speciality Sets To Gain Muscle and Build Strength
Just lifting weights in what we call "straight sets" is great as the backbone of your training. Straight sets are simply lifting a weight for a prescribed amount of reps, resting, repeating, and so on. However, over time you'll want to do some different stuff to push your muscles to grow, break the staleness in your program, and to target your sets a little more for certain results. In this podcast I get into five of our favorite types of "specialty sets" at Relentless and how we use those to push our clients to better results. You'll learn: -Techniques you can use to put more weight on the bar and target your sets for more muscle in certain areas. -How to build and improve that important "first rep" technique. -How to make simple changes to work around injuries. -How to increase the metabolic distress and time under tension, two of the primary factors of muscle growth. -How to lift more in less time, more safely.
Dec 19, 2016 · 5 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 12 - Control Your Self Talk
What you say to yourself matters! Look, we all have self-talk. Learning to control my own self-talk to keep my mood from crashing and to keep myself from getting into a reactive and negative state from life's events was one of the biggest keys to changing my life. Is life going to always be sunshine and roses? Of course not. Are you going to make everything ok just by being positive and telling yourself that? Nope. However, often things aren't nearly as bad as you can convince yourself that they are by listening to the voice in your head. In this Quick Hit I'm going to give you my number one tip to quieting that demon down and putting your self-talk into perspective.
Dec 15, 2016 · 19 min
Be Relentless Podcast 27 - Considerations on Programming
Programming an exercise training plan is a bit science and a bit art. There are a lot more variables to look into than just plugging in a bunch of exercises. Do the exercises balance? How long should the athlete go without a deload? What is a deload? Should it be a full or partial? What are the outside considerations for the athlete? I go into these and several other programming variable considerations in this episode of the Be Relentless Podcast. Give it a listen and up your programming game!
Dec 12, 2016 · 7 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 11 - NEVER Apologize For Improving Yourself
Have you ever tried to improve yourself somehow, either in the gym, the classroom, studying some personal development, learning a new trade, only to have people (many of them friends, families, or partners) knock you down and hate on you? This is one of those things that makes my blood boil. Unfortunately I see it all the time as a trainer. I often have clients come in who are doing their best to change their lives, get healthy, lose fat, gain muscle, and they've got someone at home belittling them and sabotaging them. And you know what? A lot of them end up apologizing for DARING to try to make themselves better. That makes me furious. I don't throw the word "right" around very often, but you have a right in this world to try to be better and to make yourself better, if you so choose. Don't you dare apologize to anyone who makes you feel like you don't.
Dec 5, 2016 · 6 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 10 - Consistency Is King
Whenever someone is successful at something people love to talk crap about how they were lucky, got given a good hand, or happened to be in the right place at the right time. That does happen. It doesn't happen very often, though. The one attribute I see people who are successful when it comes to losing weight, getting stronger, gaining muscle, building a business, being successful parents is that they are consistent. They do the small things every day that add up to big things down the road. Success takes hard work, but it doesn't take as hard a work if you're consistently doing the right things.
Dec 2, 2016 · 21 min
Be Relentless Podcast 26 - Do You Believe What I Do
"The unexamined life is not worth living" -Socrates That's one of my favorite quotes. Honestly, I think it should be taught at the beginning of every school year and it should be carved in stone on every public building. The issue is that the vast majority of people you see out there do not examine their life. They go from one TV show to the next, refusing to be about anything. I simply can't get behind that type of existence because that's all it is: Existence. Life is awesome. Sometimes it's really hard. But just the fact that you get to have it and experience versus not is a very cool thing. So why would you want to go through it not even paying attention to what it's all about? That's not the Relentless way, for sure. When you examine your life you start to come up with some things that you believe. I'm going to share some of my ideas and beliefs and would love to hear yours. Find out what I think is the most valuable thing in your possession. What is the most important thing you can do to control your health? What is so precious and so easily cast aside by most of our society? What do I think that, if everything else is equal, is always better to have more of? Give it a listen and find out!
Nov 28, 2016 · 6 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 09 - Get Back On the Horse
I'm back after a hectic week! Sometimes life throws a bunch of stuff at you and you've got to become good at shuffling pots around on the stove. Sometimes it works out, other times not so much. After a complicated week of holidays, real estate sales, and everything else that could get messed up it was important for me to hit the ground running today and get back on the horse. Whether life has thrown you some curves or whether it's just a matter of slipping on your diet over the holidays, it's important that you don't dwell on it. That doesn't get you anywhere. Instead focus on getting up, dusting yourself off, learning, and hopping back up on that business/life/nutrition/exercise horse and getting back on your journey.
Nov 17, 2016 · 29 min
Be Relentless Podcast 25 - Stop Blindly Chasing Your Goals
Stop Blindly Chasing Your Goals! At Relentless we don't view our work as just a place where people get in better shape or improve their performance. They do, and it's awesome, but there's a lot more to it than that. We're a transformation center. That means that we take people and we help them become the best versions of themselves, which often includes way more than just lifting some weights and doing some sprints. The real issue most people seem to have when it comes to accomplishing their goals is that they often go at them blindly. They don't get a firm fix on where they are now but they just know they don't want to be there. That's like knowing that your goal is to drive to San Diego, me giving you a map, and not telling you if you're in Bangor, ME or Charleston, SC. Sure, eventually you could probably puzzle it out, but it's going to be a lot harder. There are four key areas to tackle when it comes to baselining, and I'm going to hit you with both the theory AND the actual measures in this podcast. So get ready to take the blinders off, take a real look at where you are now, and get ready to hit your goals with a true, lazer-like focus.
Nov 14, 2016 · 7 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 08 - Be Extraordinary To Be Extraordinary
One of the things that kills me about the fitness business is how everyone wants all these amazing results but refuses to change their lifestyle. Newsflash! If you keep doing the same stuff that you're doing now, whether it's in fitness, business, relationships, or whatever, you're going to keep getting the results that you've been getting. There's nothing wrong with that, if you're happy with where you are. If you're not, however, and you want some extraordinary results... then you're going to have to do extraordinary things to get them and you'll have to adopt an extraordinary lifestyle. Stop half-assing and expecting full-ass results.
Nov 11, 2016 · 16 min
Be Relentless Podcast 24 - Simple Strategies To Sleep Better
If you're looking for a free, simple, and effective way to recover better, feel better, live healthier, be more productive, have better relationships, and basically take everything currently in your life and upgrade it... Then you need to sleep better. Let's be honest. You don't get enough sleep. You get enough to get by, but not enough to excel. I know, because often I'm in the same boat. The truth is that if you get enough good sleep, you will be able to do WAY more with the time that you're awake. Probably more productivity than you'd get from the time gained from skipping the sleep in the first place. That's not even considering the health benefits of sleep, or the risks of not getting it. High blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, lowered immune system function, more body fat, lower testosterone and growth hormone, diabetes, and the list goes on. So in this podcast I'm going to tell you how to set up your super sleep lair, a trick to get into better sleep, and whether or not those sleeping pills are good for you or whether they are possibly more harm than they are effective.
Nov 7, 2016 · 8 min
Be Relentless Monday Quick Hit 07 - It's Ok To Feel Miserable
So many gurus of the self-help business want you to control your feelings by controlling your thoughts. That's all well and good, but the problem comes up when they ask you to mask your feelings with thinking nothing but happy thoughts. The truth is that we move away from pain and towards pleasure. However, the drive to move towards pleasure is often not as strong as moving away from pain. It's actually pretty easy to get stuck at a low level of pleasure because it's better than pain. If we mask our pain and just seek out pleasure, then often times we'll miss our big goal because we get sidetracked along the way. Feel the pain that pushes and moves you. It's ok to feel it. Just feel it and use it to never feel it again.
Nov 3, 2016 · 16 min
Be Relentless Podcast 23 - You Are Not A Special Snowflake
Sometimes a rant gets a little sidetracked! When the mic is on and you get in a mood... What can I say? You know what holds back most people who start a training program, especially New Year's Resolutioners? It's the Snowflake Phenomenon. See, here's the deal. It's true that every snowflake is unique. That's wonderful. The idea floating around the personal development world is that every person, like the snowflakes, is unique. That's awesome, and it's true. BUT. Snowflakes are all made from frozen water. They're all crystalline. They all fall from clouds. Basically, snowflakes are like 80 or 90% the same as each other. It's only the shape, that 10 to 20% that is different. People are the same way. And that's what we say we want: The simple answer that will work for everyone. But if we get it, we immediately point to our shape and say how we're different. You can't have it both ways, snowflake.