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The Key to Success in Health and Wellness Industry
January 20th, 2010 by Eldridge
The Key to Success in Health and Wellness
By
Eldridge Abat
The key to success is understanding who you are, and understanding your relationship with yourself. When you realize who you are and come to terms with what you want, you discover where your boundaries are and you know your purpose. You become comfortable in your own skin and are able to move through the world with direction, conviction, grace and commitment. You’ll know what you are suppose to create and what your “break evens” are. You’ll know what you can put up with and what you can do without. You’ll be closer to identifying and achieving your goals every time. When you look within yourself for your emotional truth you navigate through the world in an authentic and genuine way.
“Be yourself because everyone else is taken” (Mike Lipkin)
The secret to success in this industry is to decide what aspect of health and wellness you would like to pursue. Once you have made that decision, study all the information you can find relating to that subject until you become an outstanding authority in that field; an expert well beyond normal expectations. Do your best to “live what you know”. You can only take your clients as far as you have gone in health and wellness. Further, think deeper than anyone else has about problems or challenges that clients have. Use your expertise, life experience, technical skills to help them solve those problems.
In other words prepare yourself for opportunity. But whatever you do don’t sit back and wait for opportunity to present itself. This may never happen. You must constantly be preparing for it. So that you will be ready, so you will recognize it when the time comes. This is what Disraeli meant when he said “the secret to success in life is for a person to be ready for his opportunity when it comes”.
From that point onward, the only limitation you will encounter in achieving your goals are the limitations you set up in your mind.
In this industry the fortunes, wealth, and rewards are yours if you want them. The success is yours if you want to go after it. But you must go after it, it won’t come to you.
In reality, the success, wealth and happiness in this career all have a price. The decision on whether you want to pay that price is yours. Yet there is something deeper to think about here. Don’t we all pay the price anyway, whether we try or not?
If we don’t try we’ll never make it, and therefore we will continue on with an unsatisfying role in an occupation full of doom and gloom and pseudo failures as we perceive them. Isn’t that a stiff price to pay? Who wants that?
If we must pay anyway let’s pay, and “try” and truly call on the potential that is in all of us.
Lame Excuses Why People Who Want a Better Body Don’t Want to Exercise.
January 20th, 2010 by Eldridge
Lame Excuses Why People Who Want a Better Body Don’t Want to Exercise.
By
Eldridge Abat
“I have no time.”
Everyone is given the same number of hours in a day. Prioritizing one’s health should be on top of the list. It all comes down to how much value we put into being fit and how we prioritize our schedule.
“I have to give up all the foods that I love.”
You don’t have to give up all the foods you love. It’s just a matter of enjoying them in moderation. And, not overindulging in foods which will cause an excess in caloric intake.
“I’ll never lose weight because of my genetics.”
No one has ever known for certain how far or how limiting their genetics may be. Not exercising does nothing to prove that your genetics are inadequate for losing body fat.
“Life is too short to be in the gym all the time.”
Again, that “time” issue. 45minutes to 1hour is all it takes in the gym, permitting that someone stays on task. If not, hire a trainer to set you up with a program which will accommodate your schedule. Organization and consistency is key.
“I have to take care of others first.”
If you don’t take care of yourself first, you’d be doing those whom you are responsible to an injustice. Being healthy and fit is your number one asset in order to take care of others.
“If I go on a diet I’ll never be able to eat at restaurants.”
Offcourse you’ll be able to eat at restaurants, its just a matter of making better choices as far as portion control and healthier substitutions.
“If I workout every day then I won’t have any social life.”
The gym is a great place to meet new people who are on the same path as you. With this excuse its again related to time management. People who use this excuse usually find themselves associating with others whom have no real experience in a health club setting.
“It’s impossible for me to start a workout program now because I have a bad (insert excuse here; knee, back, etc.)”
Unless a physician absolutely gives an individual the red flag towards exercise (which is usually 2% of the time) there are so many different ways to get around an injury, disability, or physical obstacle. All you need is the right professional guidance and the will to become fit and healthy.
Keep Your Fitness New Years Resolutions
January 20th, 2010 by Eldridge
It’s the unending cycle of the masses. The classic New Years Resolutionist. The individual with the highest intentions to improve his or her fitness but come February and March it’s as though they’ve awoken from a dream. And soon, those aspirations of losing weight, increase energy and improve overall health becomes a figment of their imagination. I see it all too often with clients who realize that they’ve overindulged during the holiday season and seek to maybe justify their “wrongness” during this time of year with a few weeks of “going through the motions” and not seeing any results and finally falling off the wagon until the next season. Too often I witness clients who figure out they can’t do it on their own and seek my service or from all others who continue attempting weight loss and fitness success on their own and are too stubborn to get proper instruction and motivation that they would rather fail over and over again. Then, all they do when they’ve realized that no weight loss or improvement of overall fitness has occurred is to blame it on everyone and everything else except for themselves.
This article will provide you with strategic insights on how to keep your promise to your own health and finally end the mental habit of becoming a New Years Resolutionist.
The first strategy is to figure out the reasons why you went to the gym. Was it weight loss, the social aspect, to look good for swimsuit season, or most importantly is it to improve and maintain heath and wellness. Write these reasons down and understand the value to why you were motivated to take action. Pay attention to how you organized your daily fitness routine if you had one. If not build one and seek guidance from a fitness professional. Next, Figure out what kept you away from the gym. Was it personal hurdles in life that turned a 1 week hiatus into a 6 month hiatus? Was it that your regular program wasn’t getting you results, was your daily life getting in the way, or the lack of knowing what to do at the gym, or could it simply be you just hate exercise? Knowing what factors deterred you from the gym will give more of a clearer insight of how to get around these hurdles so that you don’t fall into starting the same way you’ve always started and falling off the wagon in the same fashion. Again, write these factors down on paper and ask yourself what could I do to overcome these obstacles?
The first and the most important aspect of a fitness program is nutrition. In order to get the serious results you want, you first need to provide your body nutrients that will help support the energy systems used in order to exercise effectively. If this sounds foreign to you hire a nutrition coach to help with a plan to fast track towards your goals. Whatever the plan may be make sure that it fits with your current lifestyle so that it won’t be too much of a hassle in your daily living. I cannot stress this enough, proper nutrition determines how fast and effective you will reach your health and fitness goals.
Next, is to find your routine again. Use a calendar or any scheduling system to block out time for exercise. Schedule it into your Blackberry or have it as an alarm on your watch. The first step is to fit exercise into your schedule, and to be committed to it. Secondly, don’t start where you left off. Return to about 50% intensity of your regular routine and on a weekly basis add 10%. The body needs time to get accustomed to exercise stress.
Actual time spent in the gym should be efficient and organized. If you’re a re-starter hit all major muscle groups with compound movements. Start with exercising large upper body muscle groups and then lower body muscle groups. The main goal is to make time in the gym as efficient as possible in order to burn as much calories during your time exercising and afterwards.
Finally, the major ingredient in any health and fitness regime is MOTIVATION. As cliché this sounds, a strong motivator will get you through those days where exercising is the last thing you want to do. What is your primary reason you choose to exercise? Are the goals you have for your own personal growth? Are they for others? In any case, the results won’t start until you do.
Calgary’s best Personal Trianer – 7 High Energy Foods
November 24th, 2009 by Eldridge
As one of Calgary’s best Personal Fitness Trainer, I know how relevant it is to eat right to get incredible results with your body. Whether you wish to lose fat, tighten muscle, or increase your athletic performance, you need to eat right.
Eating is 80% of the battle with most people. This is the area where most people just mess it up, including my Calgary Personal Training clients. But, after I teach them, they soon distinguish the benefits of eating properly.
If you lift weights, then you know that you need to eat enough healthy and bulk-building foods to put on pure, ripped muscle. Well, here are some great foods that will help you put on that hard to gain, sexy muscle, that will have everyone checking you out.
1. Eggs – Eggs are a amazing source of pure protein, with a high biological value. Egg whites are pure protein, without the fat.
2. Salmon – Salmon is awesome fish, not only for its high protein content, but also for its unsaturated fat. This is an great source for fish oil and bulk-building protein.
3. Whole-Wheat Bread – Your body must have a fair amount of healthy complex carbohydrates in order for it to grow and have energy. Whole-wheat bread will do just that for you.
4. Almonds – Almonds are a incredible source of unsaturated fats that your body requires.
5. Lean Ground Beef – Red meat is great source of creatine and high quality protein, guaranteed to put large amounts of muscle on your physique.
I make all my Calgary Personal Training clients eat meat if they want to gain serious muscle and strength. Meat will do that for you.
6. Cottage Cheese – Cottage cheese is a phenomenal source of calcium and protein. The calcium is awesome for fat-burning.
7. Spinach – Spinach is a great power food. Remember Popeye? Spinach is a healthy source of iron, calcium, and vitamins A, C, E, and K. Spinach also carries powerful antioxidants. Don’t forget to eat your spinach.
There are your top 7 power boosting foods that will get you amazing results with both weight loss and muscle toning. Not only that, but you will also benefit health wise. You will see your health and fitness levels improve dramatically.
Nutrition is 80% of the battle, that most people don’t realize. This is the area where most people mess up. People are simply not getting the results they want with their bodies mainly due to their lack of nutrition.
Canadians like our American counterparts are simply eating too many processed foods that are full of chemicals and sugars that spike your insulin levels and also damage your endocrine system. In addition to the unhealthy choices we’re making, our portion control has ‘Left the Building’.
There you have it, 7 great, super foods that will have you looking outstanding and getting stronger. Remember, all these powerful tips have been proven successfully with my Calgary Personal Trainer clients. And you will be successful too!