Knowing what to do is the first step. If you don’t know what to do you need to learn. There is nothing more frustrating than getting busy without any direction or results. You must be confident in knowing that the means of getting from the body you have now to the body you want is going to work. That alone is motivating but it may not be enough. Sometimes there is a gap between knowing what to do and then doing it.
Taking the focus off of yourself and on someone else is motivating. Encouraging others to succeed will give you a boost especially if they reciprocate. Helping others is a powerful human desire that makes us feel good about ourselves and should be harnessed for our own motivation.
You may just be beginning a fitness program in my team and have not experienced any results first hand yet. Observe and absorb the many documented stories of proof that what you are doing does indeed work. You can build your belief on that for endless sources of motivation. There are literally thousands of videos, stories, and other forms of documentation that proves what you are doing is working. Just ask me about it! I can shower you with so many powerful inspirational success stories you won’t believe it.
You must know that you are not alone. No one wants to be isolated. In the context of self doubt, health and fitness you are NOT alone. Everyone has been there at one time or another and their are ALWAYS going to be people who are just starting out just like you. Some people will loathe in self doubt and let it consume then, others will reach out to people who make them feel good for help and then do wondrous things and transform into a pillar of inspiration themselves for others who are where they once were, looking for help in their own transformations. It’s a cycle that keeps on giving and transforming lives. To be part of a TEAM of people who stand each other up to succeed TOGETHER is very motivating if you allow it to be. The energy and pure excitement you find in my Teams online Virtual Gym, the Club, the Interactive message forums and other mediums is world class and allows more support and closer connections to other like minded people. Many, MANY life long friendships and sources of accountabilities have been founded in these interactions. If you are looking for more motivation this will launch you to new motivation.
Your legacy can and must be used as a source of motivation. When you embrace the simple fact that everything you do and say (negative or positive) has an impact on others FOREVER, your motivation to succeed will go through the roof! Step up! Take hold of your life! YOU have the power to create PERSONAL AND GENERATIONAL HEALTH!
We love beauty in our society. Most of us subscribe to a false pretense of what makes the most physically beautiful body beautiful. Many of us believe that dieting and aerobic exercise will increase our metabolism and make us beautiful. Why are so many starving themselves “trying” to be skinny? The most beautiful bodies are ones that are lean, strong, Firm and in perfect symmetry. Peoples methods for trying to be beautiful profoundly underlines the lack of knowledge that exists in our culture. The problem or solution isn’t a mystery. It was medically and scientifically proven long ago that there has been too much focus placed on cardio and dieting and not nearly enough on strength conditioning the body and eating nutritiously to fuel a meaningful workout. Strength conditioning is how you shape your body, trim the fat, feel better, feel healthier, age more gracefully and raise your metabolism. Muscle burns fat! The more muscle you have on your body the more fat your body will burn. Lift some weights! Build STRONG active muscles. Those active muscles will burn off the fat from your body because muscle burns fat!
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At age 25 your muscles start to deteriorate. Women, you have it worse because you begin muscle deterioration right after puberty. Right up to that point your body is still growing. Muscle is still being built on your frame but after puberty your essential muscle growth is over and your muscles begin deteriorating through every stage of life till death. The ONLY way to stop this, and even reverse this, is to regularly lift weights. If you
Enhancing her natural feminine physique with long lean muscle
don’t use your muscles you WILL loose them. Weight training will actually re build your lost muscles making you strong again and more youthful! Lean muscle burns fat AND lean muscle IS the bodies natural fountain of youth!
Many women in our society believe that if they lift weights they will bulk up and look scary. This entirely false belief adds to the epidemic like lack of knowledge in our society. Men have a much higher propensity to keep building muscle than women largely because of testosterone production differences. Ladies, You cannot bulk like a man. Lifting weights will not increase your muscle size much, just your muscular density and strength. Forget about your fears of bulking and lift some weights instead of eating less and focusing on aerobic exercise. Adding lean muscle is how women get smaller, not bulky. Dieting and aerobic exercise without strength conditioning causes muscle loss, making it easier to gain fat and exacerbates the affects of aging.
On a very personal and sad note: I have taken my father to physical rehab many times. The rehab facility here is used mostly by older people who have lived an inactive sedentary like life and it finally caught up to them. Combine an inactive life with the passing of time (aging), the inevitable is certain to happen. There is a saying, “Exercise now before you have to” and “For those who think they have not time for exercise will sooner or later have to find time for illness”. All of us know and even associate aging with growing old and frail. For those of us who do not strength train this process literally begins right after puberty. For those of us who diet and exercise without any strength training, we have the added insult of an even weaker metabolism with screaming bones
Self doubt replaced by self confidence
and joints as we age. I do not believe anyone chooses to grow frail and ill. I believe we all would like to live a life we can fully enjoy and one day pass on peacefully in our sleep. Maybe some of us believe we will spend half of life frail like, worsening till death and just accept it because that’s what we see in so many others who grow old. Is it just a lack of knowledge? That is exactly why I am so saddened by good people around me that I see aging, growing frail, and dying in not so pleasant ways. Maybe no one told them about strength training and the enormous benefits to a higher quality of living? Maybe they, like so many others, were fatally miss guided to dieting and aerobic exercise without adequate strength training. According to a source in the American Council on Exercise %80 of deaths in western civilizations is a result of chronic illness largely due to lifestyle choices. This is alarming but also serves as exciting news that if we want too we can live healthier lives and enormously increase the odds of escaping chronic illness forever.
Here are some FACTS about Shaping your body and burning fat the natural way
* MUSCLE BURNS FAT
* Muscle shapes the body
* Muscle is the largest drive behind your metabolism
* Muscle is a MAJOR contributor to the over all higher quality of life and feeling of wellness
* Muscle is a MAJOR factor in enabling you to do more in your day to day functions before feeling Fatigued
* The primary fuels for muscle are FAT and oxygen
The more muscle your body has to support its systems and its frame the more calories from FAT you will burn and the better you will perform your day to day living. failing to use your muscles post puberty will allow your body to weaken progressively and over time you will be able to do less and less without feeling fatigued. If you give your body what it innately wants, strength and good health, you can be handsomely rewarded with a beautiful shapely body, a happier outlook mentally and the ability to enjoy very satisfying meals without it ending up on your gut and butt. We know for a fact that extra muscle requires an ear mark of nutrients just to sustain itself because active muscles are constantly rebuilding themselves. This is WONDERFUL news for us food lovers because this means that if you have a certain amount of muscle supporting your body then you will be able to enjoy more satisfying food without gaining weight. Granted some elements of metabolism are purely genetic but its ultimately the life choices we make that has the largest affect on metabolism. We know this because Muscle Burns fat, there is no way around that fact. There are no loop holes in that beautiful physiological fact whatsoever.
When is the best time to get started? THE BEST TIME TO GET STARTED IS ALWAYS NOW!!! That cannot be emphasized enough. The bodies muscles start to deteriorate right after puberty but even if you are forty, fifty, sixty years old there is enormous amounts of scientific evidence that shows a metabolism, bone density and muscle density can be built back up. At this later stage in the game it may never be what it was when your strength peaked in your younger years but enough SIGNIFICANT gains can be made to significantly improve your over all quality of life and feeling of wellness, even youthfulness. Unless you consciously choose to grow weaker and more ill by the day Don’t put it off another day. The longer you wait the further you will have to go to get from point A to point B. The longer you wait the more difficult it will be to rebuild your metabolism because you will have less and less muscle to work with. If you were to live the rest of your life inactive then the strongest you will always be is right NOW, therefore; get started TODAY while it is still easier than it will be tomorrow. If you have no medical reason why you shouldn’t start today and are still on the fence about putting it off another day after that profound true reasoning not to wait then think about this and you may get to know yourself just a little bit better. Some will read the information, it will resonate, and they will act TODAY. Others will read the same exact information, it may or may not resonate, but for whatever reason they decide to keep putting it off. Ladies and gentlemen there is a very profound reason why some people, not just in fitness but in anything, seem to excel in life and become successful in many areas and some people seem to never excel in anything except in making excuses which only serve to put to death any dreams and goals forever. TODAY is the day to affirm the truth so that you may learn from the past and make some simple changes to change everything for the future and the future belongs to YOU.
The three points I made that are of the most paramount importance:
1. Muscle burns Fat
2. Get started TODAY
3. Thirst for knowledge always
What is the Value of having a great body? The key to my motivation in my own fitness is to encourage YOU. Helping YOU change your life is the key ingredient to my own success and feeling of accomplishment.
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I’m so tired of watching the foolishness of Christians blowing up like a balloon saying “god will take care of everything” all the while doing nothing to meet god half way.
“That’s what faith is” says a lot of Christians.
Faith is not about disengaging from your own life only to let god take care of everything. When you step god steps. Stand still god is probably going to stand still. Faith is only putting your heart and belief into something that cannot be observed or measured. Faith is of the metaphysical world. You can’t see it or measure it but you believe it anyway so it is faith. Do you understand faith now?
High cholesterol is measurable it is not faith. High blood pressure is measurable it is not faith. Diabetes, obesity, the poor behavior that you model is all observable and measurable it is not faith. It’s your profound false belief in faith that develops these observable measurable things going on in your body.
God doesn’t make fake food. God gave us whole all natural ORGANIC foods so that we can take care and HONOR our temple that our soul occupies in our current experience. Man invented fake food; the junk food that most of you put in your mouths regularly. God did not give us artificial sweeteners and trans fats. Do you think god made artificial sweeteners, preservatives, and trans fats? Man did all of that. Do you think god wants you to put that garbage in your body? Of course not. That’s why those of you who consume it regularly have all those health problems.
Your body is your temple. Take care of your temple. Honor your temple and your god by putting good things into your mind, BODY, and spirit. You need to actively grow and nurture all 3 every day. Mind, BODY, as well as spirit. Otherwise your faith is dead meaningless faith.
Our kids are dying now at least partly because of the behaviors Christians are modeling. Modeling obesity, diabetes, clogged arteries and sludge churning blood vessels is not godly. If Jesus were around today he’d get all of his food in the all natural ORGANIC whole food section of the grocery store or he’d grow and harvest his own food with no chemicals or un natural fertilizers. Jesus would not be putting the kind of garbage most Christians seem to be consuming into his mouth. Can you see Jesus eating the kind of food you eat? I didn’t think so. Jesus was the greatest leader that ever lived I believe. And he modeled the behavior he wished for you to model as well. So why aren’t you modeling it? Why are you trashing and disgracing the temple in which your soul occupies in your current experience with the garbage you put into your mouth? Will you finally at last cut it out and really start honoring your god with your mind, BODY, and soul?
God gave you a potential. We all have a potential and it’s always bigger than we realize. The day you decide you’ve experienced enough, you’re old enough, you’re mature enough, you’re at a place in your life where you’ve decided you’ve grown as close toward your potential as you need to and you’re just going to let your mind, your body, or your spirit stop growing then you are CHEATING, dishonoring, and disgracing the god of your choosing. The very day you decide to stop taking care of your health is the day you begin cheating god; whom was gracious to give you your potential in the first place.
God didn’t arbitrarily give you potential. Gods plan is for you to live up to your potential. There is a very real and divine purpose behind your potential. I don’t know what that purpose is but it probably revolves around helping people even if it’s just in the form of giving someone hope in the midst of their own struggles. How could you cheat those people you were suppose to give hope to and let your body, or your mind, or your spirit just rot away? Are you really that self-absorbed in your own ego? You inspire and give hope to no one when you do that. That is not what god has planned for you. That’s YOUR DECISION you made on your own without god.
Will you finally step with god and give your faith meaning? Will you pull your faith out from the status of “dead faith” and actually do something positive every day to feed your mind, BODY, and spirit? Will you finally do these things and actively begin being part of gods plans for all of us? Will you finally once and for all and for the love of people around you desperate for hope quit being so self absorbed that you can’t be bothered to take care of your health and begin scoring some victories everyone can see over your own challenges?
God says to trust in Jesus for all things are possible through him. God also says you step closer to me and I step closer to you. You stand still and I stand still.
“Faith without action serves no real purpose.” – Jim Rohn
From my own observation most religious people seem to have a huge mental gap between faith and action. They talk faith but give their faith some weak little meaning with some weak little actions creating weak little results in their lives. And it’s not just religious people it’s far to many non religious people to.
I’m a non denominational Christian with a very personal direct relationship with god and I do not go to church. Here is what I believe:
God gave us autonomous minds so we can have faith, philosophy, and ACT! You will NOT increase your health, your income, or your spiritual wellness unless YOU ACT.
You are exactly where you are suppose to be at in your life by the decisions you’ve made and actions you’ve taken. You’re health, income, and spiritual problems will not be solved by faith alone. You must ACT!
Religious people take up the bulk of the obesity epidemic in America. The most common philosophy I hear from religious people who are not doing well is, “god will take care of me”. I’ve got news for you. If all you have is faith and you aren’t taking those actionable steps to give your faith any meaning then god is standing still for you giving you enormous opportunity to take those actionable steps and change your life. Take one step closer toward god and god takes one step toward you. Take one step closer toward wealth and wealth takes one step toward you. Take one step closer toward health and health takes one step closer toward you. You get the idea it’s very simple stuff!
Point of truth.
If your faith isn’t given any meaning with good actions then your faith is just silly and it’s folly. Your commitments are only as strong as your actions and your faith without any works is just dead faith.
I’m personally not going to dishonor my god, the earth, the universe, myself, or nature with a folly faith and belief because I understand the consequences of inaction and I understand those consequences are inescapable. I hope you understand this to.
The challenges in your life are not there to keep you from where you want to be. They are not meant to invoke the foolish belief that I see all too often in the religious community of, “faith alone is enough I don’t need to act.” God gives us challenges to give us OPPORTUNITIES to seek the knowledge to get the things that we want. This is what I personally believe. My belief affects my daily ACTIONS. And my daily actions driven by my faith allows me to literally shape the life of my dreams and to pay it forward for other people.
And get this… It doesn’t matter if you are religious or not. If you believe in god or not. These are natural laws of the earth that exist for you to harness and shape your life how ever you want. Most of us don’t even seem to scrape the surface of our own personal potential because of our weak little belief systems. We die with more than 90% of our potential completely untapped! Even after all I’ve accomplished I know that my potential is so much greater than my accomplishments. My goal in life is to see how close I can come to tapping my full potential while I’m here on this planet earth. I hope you have that goal as well. And I hope you realize the only way to move closer to your own human potential is with ACTION fueled by Strong unshakable faith.
Bridge the gap between faith and action. Honor the god of your choosing and see what happens in your life over time. It’s exciting!!!
Knowing what to do is the first step. If you don’t know what to do you need to learn. There is nothing more frustrating than getting busy without any direction or results. You must be confident in knowing that the means of getting from the body you have now to the body you want is going to work. That alone is motivating but it may not be enough. Sometimes there is a gap between knowing what to do and then doing it.
