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Avik Chakraborty: hello! And welcome to another episode of healthy mind, healthy life.

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Avik Chakraborty: where we explore the powerful connection between our mental and the physical well-being.

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Avik Chakraborty: I'm your host, Avik, and today we have a truly inspiring guest joining us.

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Avik Chakraborty: Yes, I'm talking about dive in Atlantic. So welcome to the show, Taiwan Wayne.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Thanks for having me, Eric. It's a nice it's good! Bingo!

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Avik Chakraborty: Yeah, lovely, lovely. So, tavin like, before we start our conversation, I would quickly love to introduce you to all of our listeners that Kevin is not only a dedicated father of 5 and a loving husband, but he is also a seasoned fitness coach with over 15 years of experience.

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Avik Chakraborty: so he has helped thousands of men transform their lives, guiding them from fat to fit in just 90 days without the need for fat types or the guesswork.

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Avik Chakraborty: So Diamond's journey is nothing sort of remarkable, like from being born into a world of adversity, battling against the odds and eventually

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Avik Chakraborty: excelling in sports, earning a full ride scholarship to play division one football.

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Avik Chakraborty: But his journey didn't stop there.

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Avik Chakraborty: After discovering the corporate world wasn't his calling. He found his true passion into the fitness where he's made a lasting impact for over a decade.

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Avik Chakraborty: So in today's episode, we will delve deep into the power of health and the fitness, exploring how it can fuel, not just your body, but your mind and the spirit as well.

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Avik Chakraborty: So he will share his insights on building a healthy lifestyle, overcoming the challenges and achieving the lasting transformation. So let's get started. Welcome to the show again. Diamond.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Thank you.

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Avik Chakraborty: So diamond like your journey has been incredibly inspiring. So from overcoming the early life challenges to excelling in sports and then transitioning into fitness. So how did your experiences shaped your approach to the health and fitness.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Yeah, absolutely. And again, thank you for having me on. I think you know, we all undergo certain circumstances and and scenarios growing up to kind of mold us inform us to to become who we are. They just look different. So for me it was being born a drug and alcohol addicted baby thrown

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Tywin Kalandyk: straight into foster care.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And it was kind of trials and tribulations and ups and downs from the get go but I'm grateful for that, because that really taught me early on what life was like. And I think anybody that's listening to this understands life's a series of ups and downs and twirls and twists.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And it's how you handle those things that are really gonna dictate. The direction your life goes and your fitness journey is no different for most people. It's a it's a whirlwind of ups and downs and whirlwinds of figuring things out. But then, when you figure it out. And when you get an alignment the whole thing actually becomes really, really,

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Tywin Kalandyk: really simple to actually do believe it or not.

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Avik Chakraborty: Wow! That's that's real lovely. And so you coach men on how to go from fat to fit in 90 days without relying on fat diet. So

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Avik Chakraborty: what's the secret to

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Avik Chakraborty: creating such effective and sustainable transformations.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Yeah, sure. I think the very 1st step is getting uncomfortable.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Because when you're in a a state of being comfortable, people don't want to make the change needed, you know, cause it's

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Tywin Kalandyk: it feels good when you're comfortable. It's it's it's a good place to be so. 1st step is getting uncomfortable, and I do that just by even telling people you know, by saying fat to fit, I might say fat for a reason. I don't use overweight.

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Tywin Kalandyk: I don't use like these soft words, because words have meaning

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Tywin Kalandyk: and words have a way of moving us. So when you, when you even just hearing the word fat. It stinks. It's even hard sometimes when you 1st start saying the word fat, because you say well, I don't want to be rude, or I don't want to judge people or no, it's not about that. I'm not judging someone's character

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Tywin Kalandyk: in all actuality. I'm just stating the truth.

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Tywin Kalandyk: but a lot of times we don't like hearing the truth. So the very 1st part is just

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Tywin Kalandyk: getting in a state of being uncomfortable. So you're willing to do the things needed.

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Avik Chakraborty: Yeah.

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Tywin Kalandyk: To see the changes, because it's not like the things needed are hard. It's just most people are very comfortable doing what they've been doing?

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Tywin Kalandyk: So I think that's the 1st step is getting them uncomfortable.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And then I I think the second step that happens pretty much right after that

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Tywin Kalandyk: is building the belief.

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Tywin Kalandyk: building the belief in yourself.

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Tywin Kalandyk: building the belief that you can get the results. And starting start immediately rewriting your story.

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Tywin Kalandyk: because we all have a story that we tell ourselves.

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Tywin Kalandyk: and unfortunately.

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Tywin Kalandyk: usually that story is

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Tywin Kalandyk: wrong. Usually that story is accumulation of

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Tywin Kalandyk: what your parents told you, growing up what your teachers told you, growing up all of these outside influences, and you just make them your own.

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Tywin Kalandyk: So it's time to kind of rewrite that. So those are probably the 1st 2 steps, and

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Tywin Kalandyk: give them the the biggest steps you need to take.

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Avik Chakraborty: Lovely, lovely.

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Avik Chakraborty: So many people struggle with finding those motivation to maintain a fitness, routine.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Beautiful.

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Avik Chakraborty: How do you help your clients, I mean, stay committed and motivated throughout their journey.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Yeah, absolutely. Great question. And that is something that's very common is, people have a hard time staying motivated. It's probably one of the

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Tywin Kalandyk: top. 5 questions I hear is, how do I stay motivated? Well.

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Tywin Kalandyk: here's the thing.

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Tywin Kalandyk: The reason you're not motivated is because you're not going for what you really want.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And when I say that a lot of times I'm like, Well, what are you talking about? I'm like, well, you you told me you wanted to lose 50 pounds, and that's what you're going for. But that's not what you really want. That's what you think you want.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Because if that was what you really wanted. I've never had a person lose the weight

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Tywin Kalandyk: and then walk around with a scale and stand on it in front of people and say, Hey, look how much weight I lost, and and then do it to the next person. Step on the scale and look how much weight I lost. It's not about the weight.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Maybe it's the confidence you wanted. Maybe you wanted to feel more. Affection from your spouse. Maybe you want people to respect you more. It wasn't the actual weight that you were going for. So once you get clear

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Tywin Kalandyk: on what you actually want

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Tywin Kalandyk: is is, it's it's easy. It's it's something you're gonna do, naturally. And I like to tell, I like to use the example of. You know, I know we all have people that we love and we care about. And I know this is a little graphic. But I want, I want people to understand this like, imagine someone you love and you care about, and and you would do anything for.

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Tywin Kalandyk: and they get kidnapped.

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Tywin Kalandyk: and the people that kidnap them say, hey.

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Tywin Kalandyk: you need to come up with a hundred $1,000 in the next 72 h.

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Tywin Kalandyk: or you'll never see this person again.

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Tywin Kalandyk: even if you you have no idea you don't have that kind of money. You've never seen that kind of money. I guarantee you don't have to be motivated to go figure out how to get it

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Tywin Kalandyk: like, it's you do it naturally. And the reason you do it naturally, you're gonna figure it out is because.

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Avik Chakraborty: Hmm.

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Tywin Kalandyk: That's something you really want like this is someone you love and you care about. So you want to get them back. So you're willing to do whatever you don't need motivation to go, do what needs to be done.

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Avik Chakraborty: Very true, very true. It's it. It happens definitely. It happens so.

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Avik Chakraborty: And also

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Avik Chakraborty: you have been in the fitness industry for the over 15 years. So

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Avik Chakraborty: how have you seen

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Avik Chakraborty: the trends or the practices for the long term? Success in the industry.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Yeah, awesome question.

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Tywin Kalandyk: So unfortunately, I wish I could say we've made, you know, leaps and bounds, and everything's getting better. And

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Tywin Kalandyk: honestly, I don't think it is, and and here's why I say that there's more gyms now than there's ever been.

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Tywin Kalandyk: There's more different fitness facilities than there's ever been. There's more information out there than it's ever been.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And I think one of the problems is

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Tywin Kalandyk: we're we're chasing down instant gratification.

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Avik Chakraborty: Right.

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Tywin Kalandyk: You know, when I say instant gratification. People are looking for

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Tywin Kalandyk: the quick fix, the new gadget, the new thing, the new Gizmo.

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Tywin Kalandyk: and it's not the gadget, the gizmo, or the thing that's gonna make the long term lasting change. That doesn't mean the gadget or the gizmo or the diet doesn't work.

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Tywin Kalandyk: but that alone won't

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Tywin Kalandyk: work. It really starts with 1st and foremost, like

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Tywin Kalandyk: getting your mind right, getting your beliefs right? Getting your programming right? Otherwise you're never gonna stick to the diet, the workout, whatever it is you're trying to do. So it really starts internally, and I think a lot of

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Tywin Kalandyk: trainers and coaches out there. They don't understand that aspect of it. So they're able to get their clients results temporarily.

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Tywin Kalandyk: But long term, I think that's where we kind of struggle.

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Avik Chakraborty: Understood.

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Avik Chakraborty: So that's really awesome answer, and and also at the same time.

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Avik Chakraborty: so on. Healthy matter, healthy life. When we're talking about this, and also mental health is very closely tied up with physical health. So how do you incorporate the mental wellness into your fitness programs, I mean, and also at the same time, why do you believe that this is so important.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Yeah, absolutely have it, man, you have some great questions.

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Avik Chakraborty: Yeah.

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Tywin Kalandyk: I would say. 1st of all, it's it's it's

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Tywin Kalandyk: it's so important, it's it's so important. Because if cause, whatever is happening, internal is just going to be expressed externally.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And I think a lot of times we don't. We don't realize that I don't know if it's because we're not taught that I I don't know but whatever's going on on the inside, it's gonna be expressed on the outside.

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Tywin Kalandyk: And so it's definitely important. So for me, I use a lot of visualization. I think it's super important to visualize

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Tywin Kalandyk: and there's a lot of different ways.

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Tywin Kalandyk: You could do this. Some people visualize and

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Tywin Kalandyk: and start thinking about the future self. Some people use affirmations.

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Tywin Kalandyk: Some people use meditations sometimes just sitting alone

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Tywin Kalandyk: and then deciding like, are these my thoughts.

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Tywin Kalandyk: or are these someone else's thoughts? Do these thoughts serve me.

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Tywin Kalandyk: or do they hinder me?

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Tywin Kalandyk: So different things like this are super important. I remember, you know I was reading. They did a study. They did a Harvard study, and they took 3 groups of people.

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Tywin Kalandyk: I don't know if India over there, you guys play any basketball or not. But

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Tywin Kalandyk: they did a study of 3 groups of people. We had them shoot free throws

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Tywin Kalandyk: one group actually practice every single day and shot free throws

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Tywin Kalandyk: the second group of people. They didn't practice at all. The 3rd group of people.

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Tywin Kalandyk: They didn't actually, physically practice. They just did mental practice so they would replay themselves shooting free throws in their head. But they didn't actually, physically do it.

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Tywin Kalandyk: The 1st group that did actually practice got better

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Tywin Kalandyk: the second group that didn't practice at all.

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Tywin Kalandyk: They didn't get any better matter of fact, they actually got worse.

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Tywin Kalandyk: The 3rd group

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Tywin Kalandyk: that only did the mental practice that didn't actually physically practice, they actually improved just as much as the group that actually physically practiced.

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Tywin Kalandyk: So that shows like, just how important having your your mindset in alignment with your physical body, because it's your mindset. It's it's it's what happens up here that controls what happens on the outside, anyway.

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Avik Chakraborty: Yeah, exactly.

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Avik Chakraborty: Oh, so

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Avik Chakraborty: what are some of the common myths about? Fitness and

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Avik Chakraborty: health? Do you encounter most often, I mean.

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Avik Chakraborty: if you can share a bit.

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