Helping People To

Discover Your “Why”

Old Way: In the past, you would never even consider to have an honest, internal dialogue with yourself about “why” you desire to lose weight, gain strength and prevent injury/illness. This step is generally bypassed as you jump right into the newest fitness craze or dieting fad.

Old Result: Because you’re “why” is superficial, so are your results. If you’re seeking help from outside sources before understanding yourself, why you respond or react in certain ways, your own behaviors etc… You’ll never gain control over your mind, thus you’ve made it significantly harder on yourself to lose weight, gain strength and prevent injuries/illnesses. Ph.D and clinical psychologist Joseph J. Luciani reports to US News that “outside-in solutions such as dieting, joining gyms and so on are doomed to fail because you’ve done nothing to enhance your capacity to either sustain motivation or handle the inevitable stress and discomfort involved in change.”

New Way: Do some “shadow work” before jumping into any health and fitness program. Shadow work can be described as “uncovering the hidden parts of yourself that has left you with a sense of feeling out of control”.

New Result: Discovering your “why” gives you an honest connection with your actions and desires. Once you understand why you want to regain control over your health, unbelievable and sustainable results are soon to follow.

Find Your Tribe

Old Way: In the past, finding help generally meant hiring a personal trainer. Personal training sessions were exactly that… sessions with zero outside help or guidance. You could easily end up paying thousands of dollars upfront for a few hours of your trainers’ time. After the session is over, you wouldn’t hear from your trainer until the next session.

Old Result: Your workouts are probably fantastic. You work hard during that hour, you feel that “push” is exactly what you need. But if you’re on your own for the other 23 hours of the day with zero guidance, accountability or community, your chances of regaining control over your health is around 20%.

New Way: Hire a coach or subscribe to a product that provides additional 24/7 resources, accountability and community. This is a lifestyle change, your support system should provide you exactly that… support.

New Result: Guided workouts, resources and community throughout the entire week is key to regaining control over your health and fitness. After a workout, there are still 23 hours left in your day. Finding a program that covers you for the entire day gives you a 90% chance of success.

Use a Phased Approach for Nutrition

Old Way: Do it on your own and crash diet. The old way is to be completely left alone to your own devices. Many trainers/coaches claim that nutrition “is not in the scope of their practice”, therefore they make vague recommendations and leave it at that. But you want to see quick results, so you turn to the new fad that is completely unrealistic to sustain and sometimes incredibly dangerous.

Old Result: If you’re attempting this alone, the obvious result is that you fail at learning and maintaining proper nutrition and you fail at sustainable results. There is absolutely way too much temptation, stress and anxiety in life to have the self control to do this yourself, much less understanding the education behind this new crash diet your trying. This frequently leads to eating disorders and shame.

New Way: Phase yourself into healthy eating. The new way involves phasing yourself into healthy eating and nutrition education. You don’t have to learn and do it all overnight, that’s unrealistic. What you need is a 5 phase nutrition plan to ease you into proper and sustainable eating habits. Once you master one phase, move on to the next!

New Result: Breaking down nutrition into phases allows more sustainable results. This allows you time for your body to adjust to the changes and knowledge + control.

Monitor Your Sleep & Stress Levels

Old Way: Sleep? Stress? What does that have to do with weight loss?Recovery (stress recovery) is something that’s largely been ignored in the health and fitness industry. There are few coaches, gyms and fitness pro’s looking at recovery as a necessary part of your weight loss, injury recovery or illness prevention.

Old Result: High blood pressure, pain, injury and chronic issues like migraines and tension headaches.The American Institute of Stress reports there are 4 major ways stress affects the body. It affects the Endocrine System (your body’s hormone/cortisol regulation system), your Respiratory System (meaning your cells don’t get enough oxygen), your Circulatory System (causing high blood pressure) and your Musculoskeletal System (tight muscles leading to pain, injury and chronic issues like migraines and tension headaches). So, if you, your coach or your gym is not addressing your recovery, your hormone regulation is probably off, you’re not getting enough oxygen to your body, you probably have high blood pressure, injuries and headaches as a result.

New Way: Monitor, log your sleep/stress levels and adjust your fitness plan accordingly. This means if you’re not sleeping and overstressing, your body may be telling you to switch to a low intensity workout or yoga. If your body feels refreshed and ready to work, let’s get those high intensity workouts in! Overtraining is real, and it leads to the same results as undertraining. Hit maximum results faster by monitoring recovery.

New Result: Recovery really ties the whole program together. If you can regulate your hormones through sleep and stress management, you’ll stress less. If you stress less, you make better food choices. If you make better food choices, you have enough energy to hit a really good workout, if you have the energy to hit a really good workout, you sleep better. And on and on the cycle goes, making it easier and faster for you to hit your goals.