I must admit, sometimes I get my ideas from places that you wouldn’t think possible. If you read my posts often you know I draw parallels between things in life and fitness. That’s because I believe fitness is a life thing – not a “I need to lose weight” thing.
Right now I’m reading a terrific book. It’s called The Shack, by Wm. Paul Young. Last night I was really taken by some of the lines I read:
“…I will take a verb over a noun anytime.”
Now I don’t want to give you the context of this as I don’t want to spoil the book – I want you to read it on you own!
But more importantly I wish to talk about that statement and how it relates to life and your fitness. Read the rest of this entry »
Fitness is all around us. There are lessons everywhere we look – if we are looking. How much exercise is right vs. too much, what are the best exercises for fat loss, etc.
Saturday morning I was snuggling on the couch with my boys, Trevor and Andrew, during their usual wake up ritual of cuddling and watching TV. I was thinking about my next fit tip, or fitness blog entry and my plan for my womens bootcamp at 10am.
We stopped channel surfing when the popular Bob the Builder animated program flashed acrossed the screen.
Bob the builder was constructing one of those exercise trails. You know – you run or walk for a bit followed by an exercise like pull ups, push ups, stretching etc. I started to pay attention. Read the rest of this entry »
I was sitting in the lobby on the Hilton Hotel in Stamford Connecticut, surrounded by the top 1% of the fitness industry professionals in the world. An overwhelming thought keeps crossing my mind that I believe I need to share with you. These people get it done. Since last night there have been a virtual sea of laptops with keyboards being pounded as these true professionals are working on their business and with their clients from a far.
I initially questioned how many of these trainers and business owners are actually accomplishing tasks that will ultimately help them reach their goals and how many of them are just doing “busy work”? Another word for busy work is procrastination.
Atleast that is the picture that is trying to be painted by a few commercials that are airing on television. Fellow fitness pro Scott Colby first blogged about it last week. At the conference in Connecticut I went to I was able to chat with Scott about it for a few minutes with Scott Tousignant, both are very respected and extremely successful in the fitness industry. We all agreed there is a play on words and it was very interesting that in both ads the target market was not the people in the actual ads…it was kids.
What obstacles stand in the way of you losing weight and getting in shape?
The first time I saw this video I cried my eyes out. Followed by the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th times. I can now watch it keeping my composure but I still become very emotional and it has as much to do with the underlying message as it does my own personal faith in God.
No matter what your own personal religious beliefs (or even if you are agnostic or an atheist) you can relate to the struggle. The struggle of trying like hell to lose weight and workout from home. To many things – LIFE – pulling at you to get it done.
Watch this video. Get motivated and win!
Do you workout religiously but never seem to get the results you are looking for?
More realistically, most people workout from home like crazy…for a short period of time – then life gets in the way and they stop. What comes next, eventually, is another restart after going through the emotions of submitting to the fact you can’t lose weight (again), feelings of failure and negativity followed by acceptance that “this is the way it is”.
It doesn’t have to be.
Get more done in 10 minutes than most people do with their hour and a half workouts.
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