The Determined Society with Shawn French
How Iron Asylum Gym Inspires Determination and Discipline in Every Member
Fri, 28 Mar 2025
In this episode of The Determined Society, host Shawn French sits down with Alvin Lapitan and Kyle Florio, the owners of Iron Asylum Gym. They share their journey from overcoming challenges, taking risks, and building a successful business. Discover how determination, discipline, and a willingness to take action can transform your life. If you're looking to push through obstacles, grow in your personal and professional life, and embrace delayed gratification, this episode is for you. Don’t miss out. Get inspired and stay determined! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chapter 1: What is the story behind Iron Asylum Gym?
hear what you have to say because you know they talk about you know it's going to take months to see the physical change i don't believe i don't believe that right because i i saw it in a week i lost 10 pounds in one week just by eating the right foods and exercising right and then by week two i was down 15 you know and then just by then it's just like incrementally gotten better but the crazy thing is is like people say it's 80 nutrition
no it's not it depends right case by case i'd say i don't for me it's like for me it's like 99.9 percent right my body is like dude yes i agree no it's nutrition's huge it's massive it's huge yeah so we say case by case right so i mean obviously some one person could eat more of one thing than another person can but correct um but what are your thoughts on nutrition how important it is
I mean, that's the thing I need to dial in. I mean, but I'm at an age where I'm like 45. I still like to wait five times a week and that kind of stuff. But yeah, I mean, it's just a simple habit. It's like we were talking about. Drink more water, eat, you know, better portions. And, you know, that'll just already in itself. Stop trying to drink so many liquid calories.
I tell people that all the time. You do those three small changes and 90% of the population, you're going to see drastic changes. Dude, just pound that protein.
I don't even know if you like your drink, but just cutting out alcohol. Yeah. will literally change your body's composition.
There's a lot of sugar in that.
Yeah. You could speak more on me. I'm not a nutritionist or anything like that. But when you drink alcohol, I'm pretty sure your body shuts down all its fat-burning cells because now it's working on omitting the alcohol. From your liver? It's just all it's doing. And I think it's like a two- to three-day process that it takes just to get the alcohol out. So you're not burning fat.
You're not gaining muscle. You're just kind of sitting dormant for three days because your body's working to push out all the toxins.
It's crazy. I stopped liking to drink a while ago. I just don't like it anymore.
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Chapter 2: How did Alvin and Kyle grow their gym business?
There's still 80, 90 people here on Friday night at 930. Yeah, come on. That's insane. The thing, dude, that I found is you can shift, right? You can go, okay, I can either be happy and go do what I need to do or I can be miserable the rest of the day and have this burden on my shoulder. Correct.
But the one thing I found, but I think it's so dangerous and I want the audience to really think about this, is the moment you tell yourself the night before I'm going to get up at, six, seven, I don't care what time it is, to go do a certain activity. And you don't go do it. You are setting your day up for failure. Correct. Because now you've already taken the easy road.
And the moment you take the easy road and choose easy over the hard... Like your discipline goes out the window. Now, the next time you have to make a decision through that day about, am I going to do the right thing or am I going to do what's easy? Guess what you choose.
It's easier for you to choose the easy. Yeah. It's easy for you to choose the easy. You lose that self-confidence and self-respect slowly.
It happens. I've been through it. Hey, I've been there, right? That's what got me in trouble.
And one of the tips that I tell everybody, like gym guys, again, back on the water kick, I tell everybody, before you go to bed, put a bottle of water or your Stanley cup of water, 16 ounces. Right when you wake up and set that alarm, chug that thing down. You've already accomplished one goal. Hey, I'm hydrated. I'm ready to go.
If you don't feel like going to the gym, which sometimes happens, set yourself up. Do five sets of sit-ups, push-ups, air squats. Just get some movement going. Stretch, whatever you want to do. At least you've accomplished something today.
Yeah, because the rest of the day might go to shit. Yeah, there's so many hacks, too. Put your alarm clock in your phone on the other side of the room so you actually have to get up and walk to it.
My wife would destroy me.
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