Tag: fitness

A Truth Bomb

Posted on August 2, 2022 by - Health Blog

Here’s a truth bomb (and trust me, I’m saying this out of love)… YOU are the reason for why you haven’t reached your goals. Was that hard to digest? Let me explain…

 

MY PROBLEM

I used to feel super uncomfortable in my clothes; the mushroom top program was REAL. Ugh! After having baby number two, I felt like I’d gotten to the point of no return and I thought I would be stuck with my post-pregnancy body. I wanted to change, but I just kept making excuses. Day after day, week after week, month after month. There I was. Every time I looked at my clothes, I saw imaginary labels on them. They said “when I lose the weight”…  Yet, time went by and nothing changed. I kept loathing in my self pity.

Draw a Line in the Sand

Posted on May 2, 2021 by - Health Blog

Breaking Shackles

My job as a coach is to interrupt what you’ve done up until this point. I think we can both agree, what got you here won’t get you any further. It’s my job to help break shackles. Sometimes that requires tough love. Things I say will be tough to read, even harsh at times. Exercises I give you will be difficult to do and feel painful. Good. That means I’m doing my job and you’re doing exactly what you need to be doing at the moment. Do not, however, under any circumstance, run away from the challenge. Instead, run toward it. Right here right now we’re going to go over the key decision you must make. It’s time to draw a line in the sand.

Fix How You Fuel Your Body

Posted on March 11, 2021 by - Health Blog

Breakfast, The Most Important Meal of the Day

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, right? It lights our inner fire and gets us ready to tackle the day ahead. How many of us are currently on a weight-loss journey and the breakfast shown on the right in this picture is our regular? ⁠If it is, STOP.⁠ Fix how you fuel your body.
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Special K & Other Like Items⠀

Eating cereals like Special K and being even HUNGRIER only a few hours later is super common. What happens is when you are eating for fat loss, your body has to be put in a caloric deficit BUT, not all calories are created equal. One bowl of special K cereal and milk usually has somewhere between 300-400 calories. ⁠The problem is Special K Cereal is mostly CARBS with little protein and fat and the sugar rush from the cereal will give you with a blood sugar spike.
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Proper Fueling

Stop The Insanity Please

Posted on February 24, 2021 by - Health Blog

There’s a great quote from Albert Einstein that says, “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results.” Such an easy concept to gasp, but such a hard habit to break. Folks, it’s time to stop the insanity, PLEASE!

 

Creatures of Habit

How many times have you complained about your current status in life regarding your health, finances, etc? Now that you reflect upon it, you’re realizing that it’s probably a lot, right? We sit and moan about not being where we want to be, but don’t take action to change that. Why? It’s simple, people do not like change. We are creatures of habit. Change is uncomfortable and can be downright scary. It requires us to step outside of our comfort zone. When you step outside that zone, you stop the insanity. It start with you stop making excuses.

 

Why The Cycle Continues

Maybe you’re sitting there thinking about times you’ve tried to stop the insanity and stepped outside your comfort zone only to fail and retreat back to your old ways. It’s a safe bet to say most people have been there and done that. This happens a lot with diet and exercise for people, especially with New Year’s Eve resolutions. There are a few reasons why so many fail. Firstly, people set unrealistic goals instead of S.M.A.R.T goals. Secondly, people fall of the wagon when they don’t see results as quickly as they want. Another major reason, they make too big of changes to their lifestyle and it becomes overwhelming. All of these attempts have the same goal in mind: stop the insanity to get different results. 

Focus on Yourself

Posted on February 18, 2021 by - Health Blog

The Characters At The Gym

Ever find yourself scanning the gym and judging the people you see? We’ve all done it at some point or other. Before the pandemic it was probably just out of curiosity or jealousy. Nowadays it might be to make sure that everyone is taking the proper safety measures to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Let’s be honest, it’s rare that you’re there always to focus on yourself. Anyhow, to get back to what I was saying… at the gym you’ll find a wide variety of characters doing a wide variety of things:

  • The middle aged man staring at the cable machine unsure what weight he should use so he doesn’t hurt himself.
  • A young woman on the treadmill running at full speed like very survival depends on it.
  • The senior citizen struggling to lift a 10 pound dumbbell.
  • News mom reluctantly handing their babies over to the childcare center for the first time.
  • Some guy drenched in sweat sitting on the bench resting after hitting a new personal record.
  • A teenager or twenty-something-year-old just sitting on a bench or machine busy texting and posting selfies to social media instead of actually working out.

Look and you’ll find them all. They are at the gym for one reason or another. For some, the gym might be a place to get away from a stressful home life, a place to socialize with peers, a place to work off some stress, a place to work on a New Years resolution or a general fitness goal, etc. You might relate to one or a combination of those things. Doesn’t matter. What matters is that you are there to focus on yourself.