#59: Daniel DeBrocke on Stacking Small Wins, Understanding Your Own Behaviour, Taking Personal Responsibility for Your Goals, Sumo Vs Conventional Deadlifts, and More!

Daniel DeBrocke (@daniel_debrocke) is a coach, athlete, writer, podcaster and newly appointed education coordinator at Kabuki Strength. He began his journey into fitness through the sport of boxing, and has since transitioned into the sport of powerlifting.

Many of us rush into making changes in our life. We try to overhaul everything about our lifestyle in an effort to get in shape, and inevitably don’t follow through. Rather than trying to overhaul one’s life, Daniel outlined several examples as to how one might aim at small goals to collect small wins along the way that eventually lead to big wins.

This was part of a larger discussion around human behaviour, and how our actions most of the time do make sense based on our past. Often, it’s not even our past history with fitness, but the sum of the past history of our entire life. All of these experiences create the person you are today, and therefore, they are layered in to the decisions we make on a daily basis. Understanding why we do the things we do is a big first step to positively influencing our behaviour.

This goes hand in hand with taking responsibility for your actions. The results we get don’t happen by accident, and they are well within our control. Of course there are external factors swaying us in every direction, but ultimately, we must take personal responsibility for our actions.

I had a question from social media about sumo versus conventional deadlifting that we also touched on towards the end of the episode. Daniel has written a very in depth article on the exact subject that we referenced, and you can read that here.

Be sure to follow Daniel DeBrocke on IG, listen to the Stacked Strength Podcast, and keep up with all of his articles and content through his website, https://www.stackedstrength.com/. 

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