Ep 141 - Jerzy Gregorek: Thrive on positivity, no matter what.

This is how to stop negativity in its tracks and keep progressing.  In this episode, Jerzy Gregorek teaches the art of embracing delayed gratification and accepting the hard choices that will make your life better in the long run by far. A multiple world record holder, he came to LA in 1986 as a political refugee from Poland. Today Jerzy is helping celebrities, athletes, entrepreneurs and everyone in between turn back the clock and become more youthful through mindful exercise and nutrition. For more information on the Escape Your Limits podcast visit https://escapefitness.com/podcast Video episode – https://youtu.be/mR4ez4CCS3o Jerzy travelled to LA in 1986 as a political refugee from Poland. He's won five world weightlifting championships, founded the UCLA weightlifting team, and leads as head coach with his wife. Today he's helping people turn back the clock and become more youthful through a set of standards, teaching the understanding of how to make hard choices that benefit longevity and a positive lifestyle. The Happy Body is a nutrition and training programme by Jerzy and Aniela Gregorek. With mindfulness and movement at its core, it helps people break free of diets, fitness fashions and contradictory advice. The goal is to remove the feeling of powerlessness and depression that many fitness concerns cause, and empower you to engineer your own weight loss within precise timeframes. The 30-minute routine a day will leave you less stressed, injury free, and with a happy body for the long term. Visit www.thehappybody.com for more information.   Episode highlights - Why it's important to be in the present moment and connect with what you're doing. How you can stay positive, even under the pressures of challenging climates and stressful schedules. What you can do to have patience, deal with irritations, control yourself and override impulses that lead to negative outcomes. Which ways you can make the present moment work for you in order to adapt and make things better. How transparency is the difference-maker in fitness, and why without it a business or entrepreneurial venture is just based on entertainment. What having standards for yourself, such as your ideal body weight, will do for your lifestyle and progression towards goals. • Why time is needed to achieve certain results, and why if you don't appreciate the time it takes, you'll never achieve the goal. Patience is key to progress. How to set yourself up on the journey to becoming better, and how to engage with life so that you're able to move and motivate yourself at any age. • What microprogressions and improvements you can make to keep yourself in the unknown and continually escape your limits.   Join Matthew Januszek in conversation with Jerzy Gregorek…