Pumping Up Your Profile w/ Dan Flores

On Episode 3 of Season 8 Robert is joined by fitness director of The Mark Hotel in New York, Dan Flores. During the conversation Dan shares tips on the lifestyle of lifting, diet, schedule, social media and who could benefit from personal training. They also touch briefly on the vision, manifestation and the law of attraction.

 

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Show notes:

2:52- Flores is the director of fitness at The Mark Hotel in New York City. 

 

4:44- The one minute pull up is one of Flores’s favorite exercises. 

 

7:17- Patton and Flores both enjoy drinking red wine. 

 

8:27- Being able to fall into a calorie deficit consistently is a way to ensure you don’t gain excess weight. 

 

9:54- Once Patton switched from eating bacon to oatmeal for breakfast, he felt more energized throughout the day and in his workout.

 

12:08- A big part of helping clients for Flores is ensuring they know how to count their macro nutrients. 

 

14:02- Patton and his wife are raising chickens with the hopes of having farm fresh eggs in abundance. 

 

15:40- Most people are under the impression that eggs have to stay in the refrigerator. 

 

17:00- Flores was born in Manhattan, New York and resides in Brooklyn. 

 

19:19- “The homeless are on the subway like it is their living room.” (Flores)

 

20:45- San Francisco and New York City have some major problems with homelessness. 

 

22:32- Inflation has been very crazy lately and Flores has seen his home price increase. 

 

25:40- Flores has high end clients that are prominent in the financial industries. 

 

28:43- The experience in the gym is what long term clients value the most. 

 

30:35- The longest client relationship Flores has is eighteen years. 

 

32:19- Another side of training his clients is checking in and doing a fitness consultation periodically. 

 

35:00- Being in the Upper East Side allows Flores to select other trainers in the area he can use at the hotel. 

 

36:50- “Be careful what you wish for.” (Flores)

 

38:17- Flores stays motivated when he has the opportunity to help someone. 

 

40:23- Patton and Flores are both forty four years old. 

 

41:40- Because of the pandemic, Flores realized how important social media marketing was and began to do online classes via Zoom.

 

45:00- Continuing to refine and develop the product is a necessity for Flores. 

 

47:41- Flores has a positive relationship with the physician at The Mark Hotel and plans to have him on a podcast to talk about biohacking and the different approaches for optimizing.

 

48:35- Flores is an intermittent faster will usually have his last meal around 11:00PM and won’t eat again until 4:00PM.  

 

50:51- Being two hundred and twenty pounds requires Flores to eat at least twenty nine hundred calories. 

 

54:40- “I gotta bring the energy to the session.” (Flores)

 

55:27- Flores played as a professional football player for an arena league. 

 

56:27- Flores began personal training in 2000. 

 

58:55- In the early phase of his personal training business, Flores read many self help books to give him insights and advantages. 

 

59:52- “You’re never done with goals, it’s always you reach one goal, and then it is the next goal.” (Patton)

 

1:02:55- There is a good quality to remain hungry and never be fully satisfied for too long. 

 

1:06:00- Patton extend an invite to Flores for a workout in Colorado. 

 

1:08:30- Flores was able to double his Instagram following since November.

 

1:11:15- Patton and Flores are both fans of Mr. Beast.