The Unf*ck Your Fitness Podcast

161. Choosing Commitment: From All or Nothing to ‘All In’ with Your Fitness

• Kristy Castillo

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When it comes to your fitness journey, something that has to be top of mind is COMMITMENT.


Being fully committed to your goals doesn’t just pertain to fitness though - it can apply to your career, finances, relationships, or anything else in your life. Whatever you’re committing to (whether that’s your fitness or something else), going ‘all in’ and really committing to the process WILL lead you to success!


I know this may not be earth-shattering information, but honestly… the simple, boring, and ‘unsexy’ stuff is where the magic happens!


I'm currently in a season of re-committing to my fitness journey, and making necessary changes to achieve my goals. For me, it’s not a matter of ‘I’ll try’ - it’s a matter of ‘I’m going to’. There’s a HUGE difference when you change how you’re thinking and speaking!


I want you to figure out what is realistic for YOU in this season. Stop comparing yourself to others, and fully commit to ‘XYZ’ on your fitness journey. There’s no ‘plan B’, and there’s no reason for you to keep falling ‘off track’, when you have the right tools and support in place!


I hope you enjoyed this little pep talk. Remember - when you fully commit to something, there’s NO WAY you won’t succeed, friend!!



In this episode, we cover:

  • Why committing to & going ‘all in’ with your fitness journey WILL lead to success
  • What my commitment to my fitness journey looks like in this current season
  • Changing what you’re thinking & saying from ‘I’ll try’ to ‘I’m going to’
  • Fully committing to what you’re doing because there’s no other option
  • Why *not* committing & quitting too soon is a HUGE part of the problem


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Speaker 1:

Welcome to the Un-Fuck-Your-Fitness Podcast. I am your host, Christy Castillo, and I'm here to give you real talk and cut the BS so you can actually enjoy building a body you love. I'm a personal trainer obsessed with giving you simple action steps to take you from feeling stuck to feeling sexy. Let's go. Hey guys, what's up? Welcome?

Speaker 2:

to today's episode. Happy Friday if you're listening to this in real time on the day that it was launched and meant for you. I hope you have a great Friday. I hope you have a good weekend. I am popping in to talk to you today about being fully committed and how that helps you in your fitness journey. This was kind of I saw this on a reel and it was not talking about your fitness journey but I thought, wow, it was actually talking about business and which honestly finances Wow, it was actually talking about business and which honestly finances business fitness.

Speaker 2:

In my brain, they all very much work together. You need a plan, you need to commit, you need to stick with it, you need to execute and you need to wait a really long time. You will not see the fruits of your labor the day you plant the seeds right. So I this was kind of said in a reel talking about business where if you fully commit to making however many reels or whatever it is, then this is gonna work and fully commit to your audience and who you wanna help that this is gonna work for you. But my brain immediately went to it's the same thing for fitness. So this is kind of the way that I want to put this it's only when you are fully committed to this new way of looking at fitness unfucking your fitness, if you will. Let's call everything that I kind of talk about on here we're unf your fitness. We're getting fit and we're making it simple. Right, we're cutting out the bs, but all of these things is is essentially I'm I'm unfucking it for you. I'm making it simple. You still have to do the things. You still have to believe in yourself. There's a lot of work, there's a lot of things that go into it, but but it is pretty simple when you think about it. It's only when you are committed, all in, ready to go, that you realize you're going to succeed. Like it's kind of as simple as that when you have all the bits and pieces, if you're like okay, christy is saying to me that if I start tracking my food, it won't help all of my food issues, but if I start tracking my food, I will then understand where the problem lies that I'm maybe overeating, even though I say I'm not.

Speaker 2:

If I'm tracking everything, I'm like, oh shit, I'm not really doing as good as I thought I was right, and if I start lifting weights, I will gain muscle, so I will look differently. My body composition will change. If so, I will look differently. My body composition will change. If I do drink enough water, I will feel better. I will be healthier. My body will be happy If I go to bed at a decent time and get a great amount of sleep instead of fucking around on my phone. I'll feel better. I'll be happy. My body will have more time to reset itself and do what it's supposed to do while it's sleeping. Right, if I give it more time to sleep.

Speaker 2:

I know none of this is really earth shattering, but we need it. So if Christy's saying this is the plan, this is what she did, this is what works for her clients, we're not messing around. I'm not lying to you. Right, like, all these things will work If you have a plan and you're like okay, I'm going to do this for as long as it takes. I'm not just going to like commit to this 30-day program. I'm going to do these things for as long as it takes, until I understand it. I'm going to track my macros until I can see how long I've been eating too much, or I'm going to lift weights for as long as it takes for me to see muscle growth. As long as it takes for me to see muscle growth, I'm gonna do as many banded pull-ups as it takes until one day I do my first non-assisted pull-up, right, whatever it is like, I'm just gonna fully commit to this workout program. I'm gonna fully commit to this lifestyle. I'm gonna fully commit to whatever this fitness journey is. It doesn't even have to be a program. In fact, it should not be a program, it should just be all these habits. But when you fully commit to it, you realize you're going to succeed. You honestly have no choice because now you've committed to the habits, it's like me last week saying, okay, I'm not going to eat.

Speaker 2:

I did start tracking my food again, but it was more of a more of a way to figure out what I'm currently eating. Because currently, up until this week, I was saying yes to pretty much all the food which is great, fine, fantastic, and I kind of needed it after being sick and I needed to bulk up pretty quickly, I needed to grow some muscle, and then I'm at the point where I'm like, okay, I'm kind of ready to scale back. So for me it was like I'm going to commit to hitting 10,000 steps daily, whether that means I take the dog for a walk, whether that means I get on the walking pad, whether that means I do circles around my island in my kitchen, like walk around on my deck, get up and take coaching calls and move, whatever it takes, however long I have to stay up and not go to bed. I'm going to hit 10,000 steps, no matter what. I'm fully committed period.

Speaker 2:

And then also I was like well, I'm not going to buy Cadbury eggs this week. I'm going to cut out certain things. I'm just going to be more cautious of carbs, really, and say no to more of those and make them healthier. So, instead of eating Cadbury eggs, I'm eating blueberries. Instead of eating a bowl of cereal for breakfast that maybe has like seven grams of protein, I'm eating oatmeal that has 20 grams of protein. So just these little changes, right, but I'm committed to it. I know it's going to work, and by work I mean I know I'm going to feel better and I know I'm going to make these steps to getting back on track with my journey.

Speaker 2:

I don't have necessarily an end result. I mean, yes, I'm working towards cutting, but these simple actions that I committed to this week controlling my carbs and making healthier carb options and hitting 10,000 steps. I'm going to succeed because I freaking said that I would. I'm committed to it. It's not an option. I'm fully committed to getting 10,000 steps this week regardless. So I have no choice but to do that.

Speaker 2:

If I'm like, oh, I'm going to try to get 10,000 steps this week, I'm going to start trying to get 10,000 steps this week and I'm going to still buy Cadbury eggs, but I'm going to try not to eat them. Do you hear the difference in my voice and by what that means? And if I'm saying to myself, well, I still have the Cadbury eggs in the house, but I'm going to, I'm not going to eat them, I'm going to eat blueberries. No, you're not. And I'm going to really try to get in 10,000 steps every day this week. But if it doesn't happen, it's fine. Like I have some busy days coming up, so000 steps in this week and I'm not buying Cadbury eggs and if I do want a Cadbury egg, I have to put a blueberry in my mouth. Like, do you hear the difference? It's fully committed to the bit here. I'm fully committed to these actions.

Speaker 2:

It's only when we're trying to figure out what program I'm going to do no-transcript in this week. I think I can. I don't know. I might still need to like cut some carbs, keto. I might still need to do a little bit of like intermittent fasting. I don't. I understand. I've been there. I'm also telling you it's going to work for you. But I understand the difference between being locked in like nope, I'm not doing intermittent fasting again. I'm not worrying about keto. I'm not cutting carbs in a not healthy way because I can never have them again. I'm not cutting out processed food. I'm not doing a 30-day challenge. I'm committed to X, y and Z period. That's the difference. It's.

Speaker 2:

The disconnect is when you're like I just don't know if I can do it. This program doesn't. I'm not able to get it in. Like, I keep purchasing these programs and they're for five days a week and I can't do five days a week, okay, well then, delete two of them from your phone and do the other three. It's not a big deal. Or stop buying programs that are five days a week if you can't do them right. Stop committing to or saying you're going to or thinking about. Stop even considering 12,000 steps a day if you can't do it. I know I can hit 10,000 steps a day. I know that I can replace some snacking with healthier fruit options. That way it's still carbs. I'm really still getting the calories. I'm just cleaning it up. I know I can do that.

Speaker 2:

If I were to say I'm going to hit 10,000 steps, not eat any sugar, hit five of my workouts this week, five days a week and drink my water perfectly, if I were to say I'm going to do all of these things perfect this week, I would have failed and I would have been like, oh, I really don't know if I can do that, but I'm going to try. Or I would have maybe even said to myself I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, but I'm not really committed to, because in my head I'm thinking there's no way I'm going to get five workouts in this week. There's no.

Speaker 2:

If I just posted on my stories this morning, it was a video of me on the walking pad and I'm like it's a matter of when I'm going to get my steps in. I was walking before my client calls and stuff. I was doing podcast notes and I was doing them on my phone so that I could walk and because I know like right now I'm recording. I have to stand still. I know on my client calls I most of the time have to sit down and sit still. So I was like, okay, I have to get my workout in. That's going to be later, but I have to just hop on my treadmill, my walking pad, for 10, 15 minutes at a time today, when I can, when I can, not if I can. Do you hear the difference? Okay, it's when I can.

Speaker 2:

So start saying I'm committed to these two things this week. When I get them done X, y and Z right, I'll be proud of myself. I'll move on to something else. I'll add something into my routine, not if I'm not committing to things I can't achieve. It's a when. It's when I can do these things.

Speaker 2:

But I think there's so much power in that you will achieve success by committing to something and stop comparing and stop looking at your friends and wondering should I do intermittent fasting? I mean, I did it again and I dropped a couple pounds, but I also gained head back afterwards. Right, it didn't really work for me, but it's working for her. Like, should I do that? Should I do keto? Should I do Weight Watchers? Should I get on the shot? Should I, should I, should I? And you're, just God, always going around and around Like, if this doesn't work, then what's next? What if this doesn't work? What if this isn't for me? What if I can't do this? Stop doing that.

Speaker 2:

I know for myself I don't want to get on the shots, I don't want to do keto, I don't want to do Weight Watchers, I don't want to cut out carbs. I don't want to do those things ever, unless medically necessary. Even then, I don't want to do them. So I'm fully committed to this other way of doing it and unless something really drastically happens to me, it and unless something really drastically happens to me, I'm going to be committed to it forever. I committed to this bit, this unfucking your fitness way of doing things, the way that I do things I'm committed to and I've been committed to for a long time.

Speaker 2:

If someone comes up to me and says do you think this would work? Would you ever try this gimmick? Would you ever try this routine? Would you ever try X, y and Z this app? Do you ever? No, no, I will not. I know exactly what workouts I like to do. I know I like to track my food on my fitness pal. I know I love my Oura ring. I know how much water I need to drink. I know the exact water bottle I like to drink it out of. I know what walking pad I like. I know what gym gloves I like. I know I know I'm committed to it. If someone, if a company, reaches out to me and says hey, would you like to rep our brand? No, I don't want to rep your brand. I already have one that I love. Would you like to try out X, y and Z? No, I don't. Would you like to? Would you ever do intermittent fasting again? No, unless it's medically necessary, I'm not doing that again. I'm committed to what I'm doing.

Speaker 2:

A lot of you out there listening are not, and I need you to start committing to what you're doing. A lot of you were like oh, I did it for a couple of weeks and it's kind of working, but it's kind of not. And so I went off track for the weekend. Stop going off track Plan in your days so that you don't have to go quote, unquote off track. It's part of the plan. If you have to go off track from your calories and consume 300 extra calories every day of the weekend Friday, saturday, sunday you're just like fuck it having drinks and pizza, plan it in and if it matches with your calories then it's fine. If it's not matching within your calories, then give it up.

Speaker 2:

You're not committed. You're not committed, so it's like cut season. It's this fitness way of life. It's your lifestyle. Are you committed to it or are you not? If you can't be committed to not drinking, not going out for pizza, not hanging out with your friends, things like that, you don't have to do it forever. But if you're not committed for a little bit, if you're like for 12 weeks, I'm in a cut phase. I can't have drinks, I can't go out for pizza, I can't hang out with my friends at the bar, because then I'll want to eat things that I said I wasn't going to eat. And I'm committed. You have to start committing to something. That's a lot of the problem Not committing to something and quitting.

Speaker 2:

They're linked Obviously. You see that If you're quitting something, you weren't committed to it. Those are the two main issues that lack of consistency. If you're committed and you're quitting something, you weren't committed to it. Those are the two main issues that lack of consistency. If you're committed and you're never going to quit, you'll find a way to make it work. You'll find a way to fit it in. You'll find a way to be consistent. If not, you're quit, and then you shouldn't have committed to it in the first place.

Speaker 2:

Because if you can't commit to doing 10,000 steps a day, commit to eight. Comm, commit to 6,000. Commit to something that you can commit to because it feels good to say no, I'm doing this. And if I'm your coach and you're out there listening, you can text me and be like hey, I hit my step goal this week. I did such a good job. I said I was gonna do it and I did it. I pre-tracked my food this week. I said I was gonna track all my food for the week and my fitness pal, and you'll start to see results and you'll understand that that is where the magic happens.

Speaker 2:

But the longer you stay in this limbo of, I don't know if it's going to work for me and if it doesn't, I'll have this plan B. There needs to be no plan B. You're not going back to any of those things. Throw away the DVDs. Unfollow the people. Get rid of the gimmicky shit that you have in your house. Get rid of those supplements that don't work. You don't need them, right.

Speaker 2:

But if you are fully committed and you have no questions about it and you have a plan and you have a path, you have a podcast to listen to, you have a trainer to go to, you understand, you can just search in the Unfuck your Fitness search bar for motivation, for macros, for whatever you need to look for, you can search for it, you can stay locked in and there's no reason to sway because you've committed and you've got this. So that is my pep talk for you on this sweet, short, spicy episode. Because, yeah, I heard this and thought, yeah, I do need to do that for my business and I'm doing so much better at committing to that, because there are a lot of shiny objects out there in fitness, in a business and in life and parenting and in all the things. But I thought, yeah, I do need to do that in my business, for sure, and I did make lists and I went through things that I need to clean up.

Speaker 2:

But in your fitness, if you can commit and stay locked in, you will succeed because you have no other choice. There's no other way that you can't right, if you do this, then you do this, that's it. If you do this, it works. If you do it half-assed, it works half-assed. If you commit to it Monday through Thursday and then Friday, saturday, sunday, which that means you're only being good on track one day more than you're not, it's kind of a 50-50. At that point it sucks. Stop doing that. So commit, commit, commit, commit, and then you won't quit. If you commit, you can't quit. So commit to something that you actually can stick to. You can tweak it, but make a commitment and get everything else out of your head.

Speaker 2:

That's where the confidence comes from. That's how you're like oh, I can't fail at this because I'm committed. I know exactly what I'm doing and I'm doing it and I'm gaining confidence Like I'm a badass. I finally committed to something. I finally am doing it. I'm doing it Keeping promises to myself. This is how it works. Then you're confident. You're like I don't need any of that other stuff. That's why, when people come to me and ask me if I can rep this or rep that, or if I'd like to try this, I can confidently say no, I don't need it. I'm doing fine with what I'm doing. I don't need anything else to take my money, to take my time. I don't need it. I don't care. It's a no and that's what I want for you. So I hope you enjoyed this little pep talk. Figure out what you're going to commit to today and do it, and you have no other choice but to succeed. I'll talk to you in the next episode.

Speaker 1:

Thanks for listening to today's show. Go ahead and leave a rating and a review and, of course, follow the podcast so you don't miss out on any future episodes. And I would love it so much if you came to connect with me over on Instagram at ChristyCastilloFit. I will see you next time. Bye.