Well, well, well..... Look who's back by (blogging) popular demand. It's your favorite trainer.
A lots changed since I've blogged last.
A lot of my clients have asked why I stopped and I didn't have a good reason, I suppose.
I didn't see the value in sharing my thoughts so .... There it went.
But.... I'm back now, so let's move forward. Since my last blog, we have grown quite a bit.
The gym is bigger, offers more services and even has a new name. We are now Pound 4 Pound Fitness and Nutrition. (www.pound4poundfitness.co) that's right, .co, NOT .com.
Enough business, let's get into what I want to get into, becoming resolute!!
The only time you hear the word resolute is when it's used in its most popular form... Resolution... As in New Years.. As in every damn year.
Isn't it an oxymoron to make the same New Years resolution every year? If you become resolute, you should not have to go back and start over again, there should be progress, right? So at that point it's no longer a resolution... It's perseverance .
The biggest... I mean theee biggest challenge for people is becoming resolute. Not only in their fitness desires, but in life in general. People can't make up their damned minds to do something and see it through till it's completion.
As it pertains to attaining a healthy lifestyle, this issue is crippling...absolutely crippling to anyone's aspirations of success. Getting someone into the gym initially is easy. Getting someone to eat chicken and brown rice once is easy, but asking them to become resolute to the point where they take life changing steps is the issue. Seriously.
Let me dig deeper. Folks want what they aren't willing to work for. Everyone comes to me wanting to lose their gut or tone their butt. Hell, you didn't get that gut over night and yo butt didn't fall to the floor overnight. Your lifestyle created those issues. And the only thing that can override that is a new lifestyle. Plain and simple.
In order to achieve a healthy target, you have to become resolute that THIS IS MY NEW LIFESTYLE. Not, this is what I'm doing this week.
You can't have a lifestyle change that only exists Monday - Thursday, then you become a weekend warrior and let loose. No, that won't cut it.
And let me say this... Don't be looking at me saying " but ramont I can't eat like that every day... I need my food".
Quit whining. That damn food got you here.
I'm not asking you to make wholesale changes on day one, just decide!
DECIDE that you are moving forward.
After that, the changes that need to occur will be much easier. You can't make changes if you have not accepted that you need to change. Once you have decided..then you can begin to examine where you can create small, sustainable lifestyle changes.
Little things like adding morning cardio. That small decision is a lifestyle change. Even if you do nothing else and successfully do that... You have made a lifestyle CHANGE.
that change will bring about another change, as you have mastered one resolution already. No longer is it a " will do", it's embedded into who you have become.
Next, cut back on sugar. Make a decision to change your snacks or only eat sweets on occasion. And yes, you can live without them. Trust me.
Now you have made two lifestyle changes that impact your goal.
They can be done one at a time or if you are strong enough, simultaneously. But they must be made.
We are deciding to live unhealthy lives. We have become resolute to get onto medication. Our lifestyles lead us to unnecessary medical complications. And you look at me sideways when I ask you to eat plain oatmeal??
You bout to make me cuss!!
Becoming resolute is the very first thing you must do in order to find success.
Do not go to the gym if you are not resolute. Do not pay for a trainer if you are not resolute.
We cannot give you resolution, only direction and motivation.
You have to want it first. You have to have to have it. Yes, I know what I just said... You have to HAVE to have it.
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