Justin Groth, tell me about your vision. Well, I mean, I'm living my vision. I had a vision
years ago to be a personal trainer, to be a coach to many. And that's exactly what I'm doing
currently. I mean, I have, I just told you off record road, you know, before we got into the
recording that I have a brick and mortar, I have a, an actual physical location where I train people,
I personal training and I coach and you were kind of answer asking me on the difference of personal
training and coaching. And I answered with some people just want personal training. They just want
the workouts. They don't want any nutrition. They don't want to have, you know, targets set
for certain macros. They don't want accountability. They just want to come in, do a workout and then
leave. And that's where coaching and personal training kind of come into a, there's a, there's,
there's, that's the disparity between the two. Now I do much better coaching people because I can set
parameters and I control the variables. And that's where I get the real results of people, as much as
people would like to assume that they're going to get results, just having a PT, it's, it's, it's very
ambitious for them to think that, but it lay in my experience, it just hasn't been the case, man. A
lot of people, they, they slack on themselves and they give themselves too much leeway and they give
themselves too many excuses. And before you know it, they've compounded these excuses to where they
are now setting themselves going in the opposite direction that they wanted to once go. And so
that's where coaching is, is definitely the proper implement to put in place so that they reach their
goals. Cause that's what their desire is. That's what they're with me for. And so it makes sense
that we cover all the parameters and I have more control of those parameters. And there's more of
a communication between me and that person, not just when they're training, but with every day
the behaviors or old behaviors, old habits that they're trying to bust in order to get somewhere
that they've never been before with their body. Justin, thank you for sharing that. Where would
you say that this vision of you wanting to train people and coach people come from?
You know, I, I don't really, I can't really give you the impetus behind it or, or, or the
germination, but it kind of just organically presented itself to be honest. I started competing
in bodybuilding very early on in the 2000s, probably, well, I said early on like 2008, 2009.
And when I started to compete in bodybuilding, obviously before the show I'm preparing for my,
for my contest. And so I'm getting a lot leaner and I'm showcasing a different physique to people
that are around me in my local gym. And then it was only then when people start coming up to me
and asking me what I'm doing, what kind of diet am I on, et cetera, you know, the questions. And
then that started to turn into, Hey, can you watch me do this set? Can you see what my form looks?
Can you, you know, and then they started asking me questions on, you know, what's the good exercise
for this muscle? What's good for that muscle? And I started to, to notice that I love to pour into
people when it came to me just sharing whatever knowledge I had on the endeavor of getting a
better body. And that's what kind of presented itself, the idea organically to become a personal
trainer. And then, so that's really how it started for me. And I've been doing it ever since. And I've
just been doing it at different levels for a very long period of time. But would you say Justin,
after all that you shared with me is what gets you out of bed in the morning? What gets you like,
Hey, I want to keep doing this. I want to keep working out or keep helping people get a chain,
their body and a mindset. What gets you out of bed every morning to do so?
Well, right now I'm my why I don't want to go backwards. And I've done this for so long that
it's just everything that I know. It's I don't know really anything else. And so now I'm on,
you know, this is autonomous behavior, so to speak, I just wake up and I do. And I don't really think
about the why to be honest, I just operate. And my why never even really occurred to me even back
when I started. It was, I guess, if you really wanted to do sit down to something, it was,
I want to get a better body. I wanted to look better. I wanted to look better naked. I wanted to
be more attractive to females. I wanted to be more attractive to myself. And that was really just,
that was the only feasible impetus that I can reflect back on as to the means why I got in the
shape that I got and why I took it to the level that I did with competitive bodybuilding. But
to be honest with you, there isn't a why right now. It is just a do. I just do. I don't think about the why.
Wow. I think you're the first person on my show that has said I just do and I don't have a why.
That's it. You don't think about the why. So thank you for being authentic, Justin, and sharing all that.
Then goes to the next question, Justin. Then what is your goal for being on the show?
You know what? I don't really have a goal for being on the show. If I had to reach for anything
to say, I would say just to have a discussion about fitness, a discussion about personal
development, a discussion about mindset and maybe what holds certain people back from doing what
they want to do, or maybe even embarking on fitness in the first place. If I can be of help for them,
great. If you can be of help for them, great. If just getting people up off the couch and getting
them stronger and healthier and more empowered in their bodies. That's what I hope stems from
this conversation. I don't really, even though humans are obviously goal oriented and we have
intent behind anything we do and anything we do, we expect to benefit us. That's the only reason
we do anything in life. I don't really look that far out in terms of it being a goal. I look at
this being a positive, there's something of positive intention behind it. I think it can
move the goalposts forward for some people that listen in on this discussion. I think that
hopefully the words penetrate certain people and it causes them to react in a favorable way.
That's so it's not really a goal. It's a hope. I don't have a goal. I have a hope for the show.
Thank you for being here today. I'm really happy that you tuned in to Vision Pros Live.
I'm looking forward to seeing your reactions as these episodes continue to move forward. This is
going to get more and more fun. We'll have more and more engagement as well. We'll invite people
to participate in the show and thank you for giving us your time and attention. Have an excellent
time building out your vision and becoming a Vision Pro yourself.