IDan Batat

Why do you train?

I train for purpose. I train for self-improvement and to add value into myself.

Training conditions and adapts you to putting forward hard effort, to struggle.

If I’m adding value to myself, I can make others better because I know what value means.

I understand what value means because I add value into myself on a daily basis.

When I put forward real effort I become better, sharper, stronger. And that makes everything else in life easier for me. Relationships, family, dealing with people, coaching.

All your daily life goals that you have are much easier to achieve when you can adapt to pain and struggle and embrace it. To use it as a stepping stone.

A man cannot truly know himself if he’s not being tested and pushed to higher levels.

When you train hard in any sport, that’s where you find your purpose and your why. It’s a life-changing thing. That’s where the purpose comes from.

You’ll know how much you can push yourself, how much you can do. Because your work ethic in the gym, how you train, the discipline you have on a daily basis carries over to everything else.

So if you’re not training hard in the gym, skipping days, and your diet is all messed up then that’s how you’ll do that at work, you’ll let things slide, you’ll just stumble across your daily life.

But if you have a routine and you train and put forward effort on a daily basis, that’s where you find that growth. Through that struggle.

You have to train every day, like brushing your teeth. It’s an emotionless thought. You have to do it because it will give you a sense of pride and it will make you want to achieve other goals too.

I’m trying to help people understand and discover they are meant for more. And they don’t realize it, they are going through a life of pain.

They wake up in the morning, go to work, spend some time with their kids, watch Netflix, play video games then go to sleep. And repeat that. And that is a life that shouldn't be lived because you cannot help others if you’re not helping yourself.

You have to love yourself to do that. How do you expect to help others and help others find their why and purpose if you’re not doing it yourself?

People lack a certain pride in themselves, there are no goals, no drive for them.

Do I need to train to achieve unrelated goals (financial, spiritual etc)?

You can have those goals but you won’t have the happiness or the strength to appreciate or love those goals. Training is the number one part of the foundation. Your relationships won't be great. Even if you’re doing well financially, will it make you happier?

In this life it’s not what we have, it’s what we build and what we can say we’ve done. The number one is to have a foundation of training first then everything else will be better.

Why do you want to struggle to get to those goals if you can train hard and those goals will be much easier to achieve?

The point of training is having the discipline and the consistency, and you get the discipline and the consistency from training.

So if you have goals, and you’re training, and you have discipline and consistency and all the other things that come with it, then those goals will be easier for you to achieve.

When you put forth real effort when you train, that creates the winning mindset. Then everything else can come.

Why do you train others?

If you are not here helping others, what are you doing? Why are you here?

We are in this life to help others. The fruits that we have are not just for us, they’re for everyone.

I help a person find their purpose. I give them value and I give them progress. Leave the results, that’ll come. It’s about loving the journey.

I give them progress, I give them purpose, and I give them value.

It’s not out of business strategy or for my benefit. I do it to genuinely help others discover who they are and why they are here.

Who do you get the best results for?

Every client I coach, whether they have injuries, whether they’ve been with five personal trainers before and they’ve been with me and they’ve stuck with me.

Because they trust me. That’s the biggest thing with me.

All clients, depending on what they want, that’s what they get.

I work more in depth with what they need specifically. It’s not just a general exercise session for everyone.

For example, someone comes in and says in three years they’d like to box really well and be really strong. I can do well with that because it’s specific.

If someone comes in just to improve their strength, just to be able to put their kids on their shoulders and walk up a hill, so their kids can have their dad for a long time,

I know how to work specifically with him in detail and get him to a point where every session he feels the progress, and it’ll be lining up towards his kids and getting stronger for his kids.

It won’t be changing sessions, one time it’ll be fitness, one time next thing. It’ll work specifically on his goal and what he needs.

I deal with difficult, demanding clients. I meet their needs in the person they are. I know how to identify a client’s personality so I can give them what they need.

What goals, dreams, and outcomes do you help your clients achieve?

What we are looking for as people, all of us, is progress.

The other two words are “more progress.”

It’s so important because that’s when you feel self-worth and value. You gain confidence from it. You’re moving forward all the time.

Moving and progress are not the same. You can be moving but not going anywhere. Steering a ship without a destination. Or you can have progress. Steering with a destination.

Happiness will come from progress.

People are looking for happiness in the wrong places.

Happiness, strength, power, love comes from within. You seek nothing outside of you.

People are looking for happiness saying they need to be in a relationship to be happy. Or they need a new car to be happy. Or they need to go on trips and vacations to be happy.

If you are not happy with yourself first, you cannot be happy in a relationship. You cannot make others happy.