Category: Motivational

Be Kind, For Everyone You Meet is Fighting a Hard Battle.

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There is a famous quote that has been attributed to Plato and John Watson (aka, Ian MacLaren) that goes: Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. This quote is my mantra of teaching. It is also the hardest part of teaching. I know that people come to class expecting to suffer. I know how hard it is to have a body that might have been neglected or traumatized by injuries, aging or disease. The courage that it takes to focus on something that most people choose to ignore is immense. When we challenge ourselves with any…

112 Simple Ways To Break Your Plateau

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According to the law of overload, we must place new demands on the body in order to make it change. For example, if you want to lower your fat percentage, you must exercise in order to burn more calories and become thinner. If you want to make your muscles stronger or faster, you must load your muscles with heavier weights or train in a way that makes you faster. We add some recovery and rest to the formula so the body has time to adapt and what you have is a stronger, faster, bigger or smaller frame. Once your body…

Yoga and the Art of Letting Go

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We tackled poses such as eagle or cow. We crossed our legs tight and bound our arms; so when we finally opened up and let go, it felt so good. I could feel myself shedding my skin, not just the trauma and stress I hold in my hips and shoulders, but the silly restrictions I have put on myself by planning out my life.

If You Don’t Stand for Something, You’ll Fall For Anything

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Last year 17.5 million people died of lifestyle related diseases that could have been prevented with a change of diet or exercise.  More than 75% of people who start a fitness program give up within three months.   Exercise is prescribed by doctors. It is a must for staying healthy, yet only 10% of the population exercises regularly. The rest are leaving it up to their doctors to keep them alive, relying on prescription drugs to solve problems they would not have if they only got off the couch. Yet, while the average American spends seven hours a day entertaining themselves…

Why Am I Not Improving?

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I started this website as a means to educate all of my group fitness students on lifestyle choices that will help them get results outside of the aerobic room. In today’s post, I would like to address important lifestyle components that could make the difference between making our goals, and never getting there. These components are, diet, recovery and consistency.

Meditation (A Running Into Reality)

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I’d like to address a common misperception I have heard from the public in their attitude towards meditation or people who meditate. This misperception is that practitioners of meditation are escapists. They meditate in order to escape reality. They escape to the mountains or to retreats in order to get away from things because they cannot handle life. This misperception is contradictory to the true meaning of meditation. To Quote Psychologist and Mindfulness Expert, Larry Cammarata, “meditation is not an escape from reality but a running into reality.” Meditation is not worrying about what we said or what other people…

How to Make Your New Year’s Resolution

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It’s that time again when we make our New Years resolutions to shed off those extra pounds we gained from the holiday festivities. This is also the time that we decide to take better care of ourselves this year. But losing weight is not easily done on a whim. Every year, many people make the choice to lose weight in January. By March, a very small percentage stick to their resolution. It is one thing to make the choice to lose the weight, but doing it is another matter. This requires proper goal setting and planning. After all, twenty pounds…

You Inspire Me

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This post goes out to every student and client I ever had.  I appreciate your support and I have received much gratitude from you for my teachings.  So I just want to let you know that you absolutely and truly inspire me to be the best that I can be.  You motivate me to come in every day and make something of myself.  Every time I see a mom or dad taking care of their health and being a great role model of health for their child, I am inspired.  Whenever I see people work hard and change their bodies…

Seven laws of success

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I was so inspired by Deepak Chopra’s Seven Law’s of Success that I broke down the laws for my students to read: Law 1: The law of Pure Potentiality: “We are, in our essential state, pure consciousness. Pure consciousness is pure potentiality; it is the field of all possibilities and infinite creativity… When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.” Practice silence: water ripples example. “In…

Empowering and Disempowering Beliefs

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The longer I train and teach others, the more I realize how greatly our personal beliefs and attitudes affect our results. “Do you know the story of the four-minute mile? For thousands of years, people held the belief that it was impossible for a human being to run the mile in less than four minutes. But in 1954, Roger Banister broke this imposing belief barrier. He got himself to achieve the ‘impossible’ not merely by physical practice by constantly rehearsing the event in his mind, breaking through the four-minute barrier so many times with so much emotional intensity that he…
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