No Fear Friday

Fear is holding you back.

Read it, think about it, believe it because it is true. When you get around to deciding you want to change your life for the better this is what holds you back. You want to make the change, you want to start working out and you want to start eating better. Why don't you? Because you are afraid. You are afraid what people are going to say about you in the gym, afraid of looking stupid. You are afraid that you can't give up 6 sodas a day, afraid you can't live with out the caffeine/sugar buzz getting you through the afternoon slump. You are afraid giving up your weekend partying will cause your friends to make fun of you at first and then just quit calling all together. You are afraid you can't follow through. You are afraid of letting go of your current life......  Your afraid of being uncomfortable!

Until you can truly overcome the fear you will never succeed. OK, its Friday everyone loves Friday! Let's start this thing on Friday. Everyone starts Monday with good intentions and they let everything slip away by Friday, party time right! Quit it Friday is No Fear day! Drive home from work put on the most important thing you can wear a smile look in that mirror and say I am not afraid. No matter your situation remember that opportunities are created and circumstances are an illusion. You are where you are because you decided to be there.......  Don't go drown your fears in booze and bad decisions. Drown your fears with happiness and love. Make one good decision on Friday and let it carry you through the weekend. Make another good decision on Saturday, again on Sunday. When Monday comes around you won't dread the idea of starting off on the right foot, you are already there. Monday will be about continuation. If you don't really want to, deep down have an urgency that you have to do this it will never get done. So go out today sign up for that gym membership. (Tip: most gyms are trying to meet a quota at the end of the month you can most likely negotiate a deal.) Go to the grocery store and don't even wheel the cart down the junk food aisles stay out of the aisles completely. Shop the produce and the fresh meat without even trying to weed through the traffic in the abyss that is the grocery store aisle filled with junk and processed cardboard. No Fears today No Fears. Escape your Fear become your Dream!!

Program vs. Effort

If I were to follow in the footsteps of most other trainers I would tell you something like this "Follow my program and get results faster than you can imagine. My program uses a modern technique the I developed to help clients reach their goals!!"

There are some key words there that catch your eye and get you thinking right away FASTER, MODERN, DEVELOPED, GOAL all of which are used by any advertising company or salesman trying to get the consumer to buy their product. I want to tell you most of what you hear from trainers is complete bull. There are better trainers than others but from what I have seen in my experiences little to none of their talent has to do with the program they have you follow. Almost any program can be successful if A. you believe in it and B. if you give it 100% intensity. I'm not talking giving 100%, 50% of the time like most people do. I'm saying that if you stick with a workout/nutrition program and complete it with a high intensity and an urgency for success you will be successful. Now at first glance you may say that I think every trainer is a good trainer and every program is a good program. This is not true there are bad trainers, average trainers, good trainers and phenomenal trainers. This is another subject completely. The subject I am focusing on is the Program. There are programs that are not designed to meet the goal you have in mind but the millions of programs out there that are designed to reach a common goal... Fitness. There are different aspects of fitness whether it be athletic prowess, weight loss, muscular strength, aesthetic build, heart health etc. That is not the point either. My point is that any one of the programs can get you to the goal that it was designed for. I can not tell you that a workout system will or will not work for you by looking at the program itself. I can watch you perform said program and tell you almost immediately. How you ask? By watching you perform the program I can judge your effort. Results are all about effort. If you put the right amount of effort in to just about any program it will most definetly be a successful program. Your attitude before starting the program could also determine the outcome. The more excited or pumped up you are will translate to how hard you work. Programs like Crossfit, P90X and even Zumba work because they get you excited about working hard! They also continuosly keep you pumped with a number of techniques including competition, participant involvment and record keeping. So when you are choosing a program what you really need to do is choose to give it 100% effort! Chose something you are honestly excited about. Going through the motions will get you no where in life and it will especially get you no where in your workout. A program is only as good as the intensity you give it!! If you can't push the intensity.... Hire a trainer! Hey I know a guy ;)

The Decision

My life as a trainer to date has been filled with A lot of ups and downs. This is not based on who my clients are, my number of clients or the results my clients have achieved. This based solely on my opinion of my training in general. I have always wanted to be the best trainer that I could be and thought that I had done everything in my power to achieve that success. The type of success I'm talking about can't be measured by money or social standing but it is measured by my peace of mind knowing that I could not do better. What is holding me back is one thing that I have let slip out of my minds eye. Something I want to hark as an importance not only in fitness or wealth but life. You will get nowhere unless you have a goal. A concrete goal, something that you can look at everyday and say, YES that is where I want to be! With out a goal you are living a life without purpose. A goal gives you a reason to wake up in the morning. It doesn't matter what that goal is, it's yours and nobody can take it away from you. A goal costs nothing. A goal takes no skill to make. A goal can not be destroyed but only created. A goal is the first step in a decision. That brings me to what I am writing about today. I have decided I will stop living day to day life and start controlling the outcome of my life. My goal is my goal and I will not share it with you, as I would not have you share yours with me. If I shared I would only fuel the haters, the naysayers and all the lot. Everyone is the same those who say that you will fail are the losers. They are the ones that have failed not because they did not get where they wanted to be but because they quit trying. This I believe is what has held me back and continues to hold me back. I quit trying, I think I am trying but in reality I have quit. I have become what society wants me to be. An hourly worker who has a job like everyone else. What was once my life has become a job. Job is such a dirty word in life. You don't go to a job to achieve greatness. You go to a job to earn that dollar. When you can make your job part of your life again then can you become what you want to be. It doesn't matter what it is. Flipping burgers, changing tires, punching numbers or whatever when that job becomes a task. When the only reason you do that job is because your "supposed" to that is when you have failed yourself. If your flipping burgers and enjoy it your goal should be to own the burger joint. If you change tires and enjoy it maybe you should become an engineer that designs safer, more efficient tires. If you punch numbers you already know the equation staying in the same place your are will continually produce the same number. I personally love my job, have a passion for my job, work hard at my job but none the less I have let it become a job. I count the hours worked, the people I have provided a service for and said eh... not too shabby. Today is the day my friends that is ending. No more not too shabby. I will work my butt off and this job will get me to my goal! It doesn't matter what your job is you can do the same. If you can not I say you are a failure. Get out now! If you hate what you do everyday I want to tell you something it took a lot of trying to realize. Deep down you are exactly where you WANT to be! If you did not want to be there you wouldn't be. You made the choice you made the decision now make another choice. Do Work everyday. Put everything in to it truly everything you have and find out where this job can take you. Jobs don't get you anywhere in life WORK does! Give it your all or get nothing in return.......