How To Stay Disciplined When Times Get Tough - Jesse James West - #866

**Chris Williamson** (0:00)
Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the show. My guest today is Jesse James West. He's a YouTuber and an athlete. Fitness is supposed to be enjoyable, and so is creating content about your favorite hobbies. But what about the dark side you don't get to see in your favorite influences? How low were the moments that they got to, and what are the lessons to take away from that? Expect to learn how to overcome the fear and judgment of others, what running every day for 30 days does to your physique. Jesse's experience from his first time competing in bodybuilding, the current state of male body dysmorphia, what it was like spending an entire day with the Liver King, the hardest challenge that Jesse has ever done, and much more. People of the UK, I am finally coming home this November, Thursday the 28th. I will be performing at the Eventim Apollo, home to BBC's Live at the Apollo. 3,600 people and me stood on stage. I can't wait to be back. The show is going to be awesome, and tickets are already very limited. So get yours now by going to chriswilliamson.live. That's chriswilliamson.live. But now, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jesse James West.
Where does Stay Relentless come from?

**Jesse James West** (1:34)
The relentless part, that comes from my father, 100%, where he definitely ingrained in my head being relentless. I feel like without saying, stay relentless to me, just sort of by his actions throughout life. And I believe that as I have gotten older, as I played sports my entire life, and obviously not now, but from 11 years old, all the way until 18 years old playing sports, I discovered the whole like nonstop, continuously grinding. And the more work you put in, the more you get out. And I feel like that sort of defined who I am. And I feel that that's something that I've always aspired to be, is to be the hardest worker in the room. And to do that, you need to be relentless. I mean, like you look at the dictionary definition, I'm sort of explaining it. And it really stuck with me. And I was like, I feel like this is something that I embody, and also can sort of motivate others to become hopefully.

**Chris Williamson** (2:33)
What's your dad got to do with that?

**Jesse James West** (2:35)
My dad, so my dad, he's a blue collar guy. He is, his name's John. So John is a blue collar man. He has worked many jobs. He's cut wood in the winter and made me load it next to him and stuff. So he has always had a lot on his plate and just never really complained or anything. He just always did it, did it, did it, get it done, get it done and never had an excuse either. And I was like, sort of growing up around him was very much, he believed that that's how I should be as well. So one by showing me and two by always like telling me like, if there's something that needs to get done, you don't wait, you do it now. If you are trying to be great at something, you go practice, you get better and you will be great. Like it was very like tough love and stuff, but he always was, he had a million, he had five rental properties all at once. He was a landlord too, he fixed everything in the house, rebuilt the entire house on top of a normal nine to five that he wakes up at like four in the morning, driving an hour to the city, doing work. So it was like witnessing that firsthand, it was almost like I grew up with no excuse to be made. So I feel like that really ingrained in my head from a young age, just being relentless. And like, that's just who I am. And it's like, I can't not be that way.

**Chris Williamson** (3:51)
It took a while for me, my sport growing up was cricket, which is much more gentlemanly.

**Jesse James West** (3:56)
You played cricket?

**Chris Williamson** (3:57)
Yeah, that was my game for a decade. But it's also not only gentlemanly, but quite gentle as well. It's very much an art form. It's almost exclusively about skill. S&C for it is primarily just for injury prevention.
So the line of the hard work, what you put in is what you get out. That line wasn't really made clear to me until I got into the world of business and university. Even at school, I don't know, I just didn't, I kind of wish that I did, but I didn't draw the line between hard work equals good performance. I'm aware that that's a very basic realization. It didn't come to me until I was much older. But what does being an 11 to 18, 19 year old lacrosse?