New Decade, New Fit Body
Are you ready for the next level of fitness? You are at the starting line of a brand new decade. The air is charged with possibility. Opportunity is all around you… This decade will inevitably pass quickly. In a flash, it will be gone, and you will be 10 years older than you are today. Other than 10 more trips around the sun, what do you want to claim at the end of this decade? It’s time for you to stick your neck out and to go to the...
Read This Before Making New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year! Before you move forward to set new resolutions for 2020, let’s take a moment to look back and reflect on your results in 2019. Did you accomplish your goals this past year? (YES or NO) If “NO” then answer these 5 Questions for insight into your failure. 1️. Were your goals clearly written down and reviewed regularly? If you’re ambiguous about what you are setting off to achieve then it will never culminate in...
Do you really want to be fit?
Do you ever give up what you want MOST for what you want NOW? Think about it… If what you want most is to lose the weight—once and for all—but then you give in and order pizza for dinner, you’ve just given up what you want MOST (a healthier, leaner body) for what you wanted NOW (convenient and comforting food). It’s worth thinking about. Are your actions congruent with your goals? This is true of any goal, it’s not limited to...
The Single Best Way To Achieve Your Weight Loss & Fitness Goals
We are living in a have it all, have it now world. Access to anything you desire is literally a key stroke away. There’s one-click ordering. There’s food delivery in 30 minutes or less. There’s credit available with the swipe of a card. More so than any time in history, we have forgotten the art of sacrifice. Can you blame us? Mainstream marketing tells us hundreds of times each day that we should have it all, and that we should have...
Have a goal? Here’s how to meet it.
Do you have a specific fitness goal that you are hoping to achieve? This goal could be a number on the scale, or a clothing size. Or maybe you are hoping to wear a certain cut or style of clothes like strappy tank tops, shorts, or a bathing suit. While having this goal is great, it will NOT guarantee success. You knew that, though, because this isn’t the first time that you’ve had a fitness goal. A goal that you didn’t meet. In fact,...
Focus On Progress Not Perfection To Lose Weight and Get Fit
Do you follow fitness stars on social media? Their perfect, chiseled body images popping up in your news feed to give you just the right amount of motivation to get you into the gym. Or does it? Striving for perfection usually doesn’t work. Quite frankly, perfection is unattainable and will always leave you falling short and feeling bad about yourself. Instead I like to remind myself of this quote: ‘Strive for progress, not...
Jerry Seinfeld’s Magical Fitness Tip
Do you ever struggle with sticking to your exercise and diet routine? One skipped workout leads to another, and another, and another. Then, before you know it, your fitness progress grinds to a halt. This frustrating cycle is all too common. Many of my clients have asked for a magical tip to stick with their exercise plan, and I found the solution in an unlikely place: from the mind of Jerry Seinfeld. The story goes like this… A few...
New Years Resolution Weight Loss Snap-Back Effect
According to popular statistics, only 8% of New Year’s Resolutions are successfully kept. This means that 92% of us that are brave enough to set out for self-improvement will fail. Those aren’t very good odds. Thankfully there is science that explains this curious “Snap-Back Effect” and offers us tools to make the effect work in our favor. Snap-Back Effect: A term coined by Dr. Maxwell Maltz, the author of Psycho-Cybernetics to...