Next Level with Devan Kline

Do you have health and fitness goals you continue failing to reach?  If so, I bet you are making the number one mistake when it comes to setting goals.  Most likely your goals have something to do with losing weight, losing body fat, or losing inches. Everyone’s goals are centered around losing. But in my opinion, the world “losing” has such a negative connotation with negative vibes attached to it. What if the reason you can’t reach your goals is because what you are focusing on is bringing more negativity into your life?   In this episode of Next Level, I talk you through shifting your goal setting mindset from "losing" to "gaining".  Wherever you focus is where all your recourses, energy, time and attention go. Which means, if you are so focused on something with negative vibes, you’ll bring more negativity into your life. Instead focus on everything you want to gain. Focus on gaining strength, gaining momentum, gaining confidence, gaining happiness, or whatever it is you want to gain.   There is so much to gain, you don’t need to focus on what you need to lose.  Tune into the full episode where I ask you pressing questions and share my best advice on how to set goals and reach them with greater success. Find more from me:  Instagram: @devan.kline Youtube: youtube.com/devankline Workout: burnbootcamp.com

In this episode of Next Level, I chat with Jessamyn Stanley who is a true icon for body positivity and a world-renowned yoga teacher breaking all the yogi stereotypes. Jessamyn shares her journey from self-hate to self-love and gives you real life advice for learning to accept your body.   My favorite point Jessamyn makes in this episode is: body shaming and self-hate are addictions and need to be treated like one. She says, “I learned how to shame myself at a very young age and I feel like I’m in a permanent state of recovery. It’s something I literally work on every day.”  Jessamyn makes it clear there is no quick fix solution when it comes to learning to love yourself and your body. There is no mantra to repeat and there is no magical trick you can do. You need to put in the work. It’s unpleasant and not pretty to look at but the results are beyond what you could ever imagine.   The first step towards rehabilitation is detaching from what others think about you and starting to focus on how you feel about you. Most often why we fail to love ourselves is because of caring too much about what others thinks. We need to realize the people who judge us are projecting their own insecurities onto us. We should never allow their personal insecurities create insecurities within ourselves.   Want more amazing insight like this? Check out the full episode.  Read more on my blog!  Find more from Jessamyn:  Instagram: @mynameisjessamyn Website: jessamynstanley.com   Find more from me:  Instagram: @devan.kline Youtube: youtube.com/devankline Workout: burnbootcamp.com

I think it is so important to make eating healthy easy.   When you overcomplicate nutrition, there is no way it will become a lifestyle. The reason we don’t eat healthy isn’t because we don’t know how. We all know what foods we should and shouldn’t be eating. The reason we don’t eat healthy is because it’s not the easiest choice.  So how can we make eating healthier easier?   In this episode of Next Level, I’m giving you my best five tips for simplifying nutrition and helping you develop a healthy diet you can maintain long term.  Here is my first tip for making it easier for you to start eating healthier in your life...  Start with one small thing you know you can do.   Oftentimes when people want to make healthier choices, they go from 0 to 100. They either cut everything out all at once, or they cut out the one thing they love most.  I’ve had so many clients addicted to drinking soda, and when they decide they are serious about reaching their health and fitness goals, they also decide this is the first thing they need to eliminate from their diet. But, since they are addicted, this is also the more difficult thing for them to do.  My advice is to pick one thing you know for a fact you can hold yourself accountable for, either eliminating from your diet or adding to your diet. If cutting out soda seems way too hard to do right now, what is something that doesn’t seem as hard?  Once you chose the one habit you know you can successfully eliminate or add, and you do so for a certain period, it will create momentum for you.  You will feel proud of yourself and it will get you excited to continue to make more changes. I like to call it the magic-of-momentum cycle. Soon, you will have the willpower and strength to do that one thing you know is the hardest.   Love this tip? Download the full episode to hear for more tips on making healthy food choices easier in your life.   Read more on my blog! Find more from me:  Instagram: @devan.kline Youtube: youtube.com/devankline Workout: burnbootcamp.com

In this episode of Next Level, I’m joined by well-known fitness trainer and transformation expert, Bruce Pitcher. Bruce chats with me about his journey from weighing 420 pounds and losing 201 pounds in year. Bruce was featured on the hit ABC show Extreme Weight Loss with celebrity trainers Chris and Heidi Powell. Through his transformation journey, Bruce learned the keys to success: mastering your mindset, keeping your promises to yourself and learning to unconditionally love yourself. Bruce opens up about what led him to obesity and the tools and tactics he used to regain his health. No matter what struggles you face or what tragedies you’ve dealt with, Bruce will give you the empowerment you need to reach your goals, love yourself and build a better future.    My favorite quotes from Bruce in this episode...  “How do I not love myself enough, to do these things for my health and happiness? This became my ‘why’– find unconditional love for myself.”  “My macros, diet and workouts didn’t matter if my mindset wasn’t right. Once I fixed my mindset, I became unstoppable.”    Find more from Bruce:   Instagram: @brucepitcher  Book: Larger Than Life 

Do you think you know everything and have nothing left to learn?  Do you try to control everything?   Do you think you’re already good enough and don’t need to grow?  Do you get defensive when someone provides you with criticism?  Do you think you’re more important than everyone else?  If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you have an ego problem.  The one thing that will stop your progression more than anything on this planet is your ego.  You and your ego are two different things. If you’re living out of your ego, it will be impossible for you to become the best version of yourself, because your ego is your false self.  I’m not going to lie to you, I had an ego. I used to live through my false self, allowing my ego to control every part of me. I thought I was the best and the smartest and I couldn’t handle it when someone told me otherwise. I realized I was lying to myself when I thought these things.  The greatest thing I’ve learned, and my overall message for you in this episode, is to speak your truth. It wasn’t until I began speaking my truth and was able to overcome my ego problem, that I began to see real success in my life. I learned the hard way that our truth lies within ourselves and our false reality lies within our ego. That’s why I want to share with you seven signs of having an ego problem, empowering you to cultivate the same awareness and avoid making the same mistakes I did.  When you become aware of the fact that you are living in your false reality, and begin working towards living through your true self, you’ll experience more success in your life.  The last question is: do you have an ego problem? 

What’s stopping you from reaching your goals? Most people would say it’s their lack of motivation. They think developing more motivation is the key to their success. But what they really need to do is determine the reason they are lacking it in the first place. Lack of motivation is just one layer. When you peel back that layer, you will expose yourself to what is actually keeping you from achieving your goals. You will reveal your insecurities and your fears, and your lack of self-confidence and self-love. You will realize it’s not motivation that’s been stopping you but is actually the fact that you have no idea the potential you hold within yourself. The hardest thing to accomplish in any goal isn’t the goal itself. The hardest thing is cultivating the ability to believe in yourself–believe you are capable of achieving your goal. No matter what you’re trying to accomplish, all the power you need is already within you, you just need to believe it’s there and work to unleash it. In this episode of Next Level, I’m joined by Chris Downing, Beachbody Super Trainer and motivational speaker, who will empower you to take your health, fitness and life to the next level through showing you how to unleash the power you already have within yourself.   Find more from Chris:  Instagram: @thechrisdowning Website: thechrisdowning.com

Your entire evolution of being a human is a pattern. The pattern begins with the information you take in. This information creates thoughts, and your thoughts create choices, which creates behaviors, experiences and emotions. All of this triggers new thoughts, and the pattern continues.   When you find yourself stuck in your life and aren’t taking in any new information, you get stuck with the same thoughts. If these thoughts are negative, they create negative emotions and so on. When you aren’t able to take control of these negative emotions, they take control of you and your life. If you allow your negative emotions to have control, it means you are never the one in control.   The question is, how can you change your negative emotions so you can finally regain control?  In this episode of Next Level, I share three practical and impactful ways to reverse engineer your psychology and successfully change your negative emotions.  

Do you keep “falling off the wagon”?   If you answered yes, this episode of Next Level, is for you.   My guest, Joel Freeman, is committed to helping you live a happy, healthy life long term, and helping you find the right approach for reaching your health and fitness goals. A Beachbody Super Trainer, Master Fitness Presenter, creator of LIIFT4 and co-creator of CORE DE FORCE, with over 15 years of experience, he has become one of the leading personal trainers in the industry.   Joel is motivated by one thing: making a personal impact on people’s lives and helping them see that it doesn’t always have to be difficult to make the necessary changes. You don’t need quick fixes and you don’t need fad diets. You don’t need to overcomplicate nutrition and fitness. And, you don’t need to make it unmanageable in your day-to-day life. In this episode of Next Level, Joel explains what you can do instead.  My favorite thing Joel said in the episode was, “People always come to me saying they keep falling off the fitness wagon and it makes me so frustrated. If you keep falling off the same fitness wagon, you need to think about whether that wagon is working for you or not. Maybe it’s time to get on a different one. You need to be flexible in how you get there. Plan A may not be right for you, so you need to be open to Plan B or Plan C. This is why I don’t believe in wagons. I believe in paths and finding the right path that works for you.”  Joel raises a great point. If you are constantly falling off the fitness wagon, you need to evaluate what you are doing and why.  Is your diet or fitness routine leading you to your short-term goals by encouraging you to use fad diets and quick fixes? Or, is it leading you to your long-term goals that provide you with lifestyle changes you can remain consistent with for life? Are you on it because you know it’s what’s best for you and your body, or are you on it because everyone else has hopped on and you’re just following?  You need to look inward and be honest with yourself: Is what you’re doing to reach your goals maintainable?       Tune into the full episode to learn:  The purpose behind quick fixes and fad diets  The difference between short-term goals verse long-terms goals  What a balanced diet looks like  How to establish a sturdy nutritional foundation  The truth about cheat days  Why consistency helps you avoid deprivation   When to track macros  How to get more defined abs  Why you should never go all in all at once  How many days you should be working out each week    Find more from Joel: Website: joelfreemanfitness.com IG: @joelfreemanfitness

What are the top three priorities in your life?   Are you number one? Are you even on the list?   If you aren’t, I can promise you, you’re not living your best life. We should all be at the top of our list.  In this episode I want to talk to you about selfishness. More importantly, I want to talk to you about how being selfish isn’t selfish at all. Being selfish is actually the least selfish thing you can do.  I challenge you to seriously answer the follower questions: If you aren’t putting yourself first, how can you give more to others when you have nothing left to give? How can you make others happy when you aren’t happy yourself? How can you ever expect to become a better version of yourself if you never save any energy for yourself?  You end up helping everyone else live their life to the fullest and forget about yourself. I mean, come on...you deserve to live your life to the fullest, too! You are a person and you have necessities, and you want all the things you’re so freely giving to others, so start saving some for yourself.  So, be honest with me right now, are you always serving everyone else in your life except for yourself?  It is my hope that this episode will encourage you to evaluate your level of selfishness and cultivate more of it. 

Raise your hand if you are frustrated with having stubborn belly fat?   Alright, now raise your hand again if you think doing a thousand crunches a day is going to help you lose that stubborn belly fat?   False!  In this episode of Next Level, my guest brings you a hard truth: Doing more and more ab exercises is not an effective approach for getting rid of stubborn belly fat.   JJ Virgin, celebrity nutrition and fitness expert, as well as the author of four New York Times bestselling books, including The Virgin Diet and the Sugar Impact Diet, explains the truth behind that stubborn belly fat. JJ discusses why we have it, why doing more crunches won’t solve the problem and what we actually need to do instead.  What you’ll learn:  The research behind the relationship between a calorie-control diet/exercise and belly fat  Different factors that play into weight loss resistance  The effect your friends and family have on your body fat percentage   The two main hormones that cause increased belly fat  Lifestyle factors that play into gaining stubborn belly fat, such as stress, over exercising, lack of sleep and more  How Intermittent fasting can help reduce stubborn belly fat   Where to begin when working to get rid of stubborn belly fat     Find more from JJ Virgin:  Website: https://jjvirgin.com/  Instagram:@jj.virgin  Facebook:@JJVirginOfficial 

Your mental transformation is an essential part of the equation when it comes to your physical transformation. It’s impossible to experience one without the other. You can eat all the healthy meals and spend all the hours in the gym, but you won’t successfully transform physically unless you also focus on transforming mentally.  Most of the obstacles we face, the ones holding us back from becoming the best versions of ourselves, are mental. Which means, it’s mandatory for us to obtain mental toughness to successfully overcome them and reach our goals.   So, where are you on your mental transformation?  It’s simple to keep track of where you are physically–either your jeans fit or they don’t, either you can do 5 pull ups or you can’t, either you feel energized or you don’t. But when it comes to your mental transformation, it’s much harder to know where you are at.  In this episode, I’m going to walk you through seven elements that contribute to your mental toughness. Together, we will take an audit of your level of mental toughness by talking through each element and determining where you are with each. We will determine which ones you are doing really well in, which ones you are lacking, which ones you need to focus more on.   At the end of this episode, you will know the next steps you need to take to build your mental toughness and reach your goals.   

Let me guess, you think doing more cardio is the answer to getting the body you want?   Guess again.   You know I love to bring you the hard truths and this is one of them.   I know you all want to have leaner, toner bodies, but killing yourself with cardio, whether you are running countless miles or spending hours on the elliptical a day isn’t going to help you. There is a huge misconception that more cardio is the secret to burning fat, and that couldn’t be further from the truth.   So, what is the truth?   In this episode of Next Level, my guest explains how you can transform your body composition and create the body you want through diet and weightlifting alone.   I know for most of you women out there, weightlifting is a scary word. You hear the word weightlifting and automatically think you will get bulky.   Guest Heidi Powell explains why you don’t need to fear weight training and the amazing things it can do to positively change your body composition, without the bulk.   The biggest takeaway? Women can lift as much as they want and still will never be capable of becoming as muscular as men because they do not produce enough testosterone necessary.     What you’ll learn:  Why killing yourself with cardio won’t give you the body you want   How you can become the artist and sculpt the body you want  The difference between being strong and being bulky  The relationship between muscle mass and metabolism   Why lifting weights doesn’t mean you will develop bulky muscles   The science behind building bulky muscles and why it is 100% intentional  Why you need to forget eating in a caloric deficit if you want to build lean muscle mass     Connect with Heidi: Instagram: @realheidipowell  Facebook:@realheidipowell  Blog: heidipowell.net  App: Transform 

We all know the seasons are going to change. Summer turns into fall and fall will turn into winter. Each season may be shorter, longer, milder or harsher than another, but we know with full certainty the next season will always come. And with all things, change is inevitable and unavoidable. My question to you is, as the world around you is changing, how are you going to change with it?   Are you going to be chasing a future that is better than your present? Or, are you going to continue living your life defined by the emotions and experiences of your past? If you are locked into who you were yesterday, you’ll never be able to become a better version of yourself tomorrow.   If you want to transform your life, you need to embrace change, and not only embrace it, but strive for it. If you are going to bed at the same time, hanging around the same people, intaking the same information, eating the same foods, doing everything exactly the same in your life, how do you expect to  ever jumpstart change in your life? You need to step out of your comfort zone and experience something new.  In this episode, I challenge you to adopt change in your life. Your ability to adopt change determines whether or not you survive or thrive in your life. No one wants to just survive, so let’s do what it takes to thrive.     My only question is, are you ready?  Find more from me:  Instagram: @devan.kline Youtube: youtube.com/devankline Workout: burnbootcamp.com

If you are ready to stop starting over on your fitness journey, ready to amplify your results and ready to see lasting change, you are in the right place. My name is Devan Kline, CEO of Burn Boot Camp, and I’m here to coach you on taking your health and fitness to the next level.  Every Tuesday I bring you my best advice and practical strategies for igniting your transformation. Every Thursday I chat with the top influencers in the industry on the latest in nutrition, health and fitness.   Find more from me: Instagram: @devan.kline Facebook: @devankline1 Youtube: Devan Kline