After reading all of your recent emails lately and reading your surveys, I have put together a 7 Day Coaching Program called Master Your Motivation designed to help you stick to any diet and exercise program.
It’s for anyone that’s having trouble getting started on a program, for those who start for a few weeks and lose enthusiasm and even those who have reached some goals but then let themselves slide to where they were in the past.
Before I launch the 7 day coaching program, I want you to watch a video where I introduce you to a woman named Jane who has struggled with her weight for the last 30 years, going through cycles of losing weight and gaining it back.
If you can relate to anything Jane has gone through, then I think you’ll enjoy and get a lot out of the Master Your Motivation program.
I was in Los Angeles, California this weekend for a business conference and I’m actually still here for a few more hours until I get back to Dallas tonight.
I learned something very important.
I need to be listening to you more.
Talking to you more.
Finding out what you need.
And asking you how I can help you.
So I want to start out by doing this…
I want to start out by asking you this question.
What’s bothering you?
In terms of your fitness or your weight or health what is really frustrating you?
What do you need help with?
But I want you to do a little bit more with this.
I want to challenge you and have you dig a little deeper into your emotions.
So for example instead of just telling me I can’t seem to lose these last 20 pounds, I want you to tell me why that bothers you.
How does it make you feel?
Maybe you felt embarrassed because you just went to the beach with your friends and
you were ashamed to take your shirt off or walk around in your bikini.
Perhaps someone made a comment that it looks like you’ve put on a few pounds and that’s
bothering you.
Or maybe there is something about your health that is affecting your relationship with your
spouse and this is making you sad and unloved.
So I really want to you dig a little deep on this one and tell me what’s bothering you
and the emotions you are feeling.
You can also ask me any questions you need help with and I will do my best to help you as
much as I can.
Just leave your comments here…
I appreciate it and I can’t wait to help you more. : )
Did you ever think you’d see someone workout in the parking lot of McDonald’s?
Well leave it to me to do just that. : )
This was a fun video I put together a couple of years ago.
Some of you have seen it and some of you haven’t.
Sorry for the darkness of the video.
I hope my videos are much better now.
This was just my way of showing you that you can workout anywhere…even in the parking lot of McDonalds.
Hey who says you have to go to McDonalds to eat and gain weight?
Why don’t you go there and get in a workout.
Here’s what I did…
10 modified pull ups
10 push ups
10 curb jumps
as many rounds as you can in 5 minutes.
Enjoy! And please leave your comments about this crazy video. What did you think of it? Do you have any other crazy places you want me to shoot a workout video?
Almost every Saturday morning at 9:00 here in Dallas, I run a free workout for the community. It’s an outdoor workout, and we always have a fun time and get in a great workout. Below is a picture of the group that came out for the workout this past Saturday.
You can easily find a free workout in your community. There is an online resource called Meetup, where you can search for fitness groups and workouts in your local area.
Whether you are looking for a walking group, or a bootcamp style workout, chances are that you can find one in your area on Meetup.
Not all of the Meetup groups are free, but a lot of them are. My Saturday morning workout group is called the Playground Fitness Club and I have chosen to make these workouts free as a way for me to give back to the community.
If you are looking for a walking group in your area and can’t find one, you can start one yourself. Once you create your group, other people on Meetup who search for fitness groups in your area will see yours and become a member of your group.
Soon enough you’ll have a whole big group of people in your community coming together for a fun workout.
Starting or joining a workout group in your community is one of the best things you can do to help get rid of obesity in this world once and for all.
Check out my good friend Scott Tousignant’s Obliterate Obesity Report that gives you other ways that you can help put an end to this terrible epidemic. You can download it on his new blog called Obliterate Obesity. Enter in your name and email address at the upper right hand corner of his blog, and the report will be emailed to you.
Do you have any other ideas on how we can get rid of obesity? What else can you or I do in our communities? Please share your comments below.
You may not know it, but besides doing teleseminars and videos, and posting on this blog, I also run a womens fitness bootcamp in Dallas, Texas. We always have a great group of women come out and get in a fun, intense workout. I have a blast teaching the class. The name of the bootcamp is called Her Strength.
Womens fitness is an important topic and more specifically I wanted to talk a little bit about strength training for women. I know there are still a lot of women that walk as their only means of exercise. While this is great that you are out there and moving, it’s not the best way to burn body fat and lose weight. One of the best things a woman (or a man) can do is to add strength training to your workouts. Strength training will help you build nice, sexy lean muscle, and boost your metabolism allowing you to burn fat calories all day long. You will feel strong, look great and be more confident. And you will decrease your risk of a number of ailments and diseases, osteoporosis being one of them.
So don’t forget, if you are not already doing so, you should be doing some sort of strength training as part of your workouts.
Check out some highlights of our womens fitness bootcamp in the video below. Some of the circuits we do in camp come from The Four Minute Workout DVDs. Hopefully the video will inspire you to get off your butt and just do it! : )
Oh and if you are in the Dallas area, check out our Her Strength Fitness Camp. These are a great group women and I am proud of the commitment that each one of them has shown in class.
The Bodyweight 500 is a great workout that I first learned from Craig Ballantyne, creator of the Turbulence Training System. You’re basically going to take 10 bodyweight exercises and do 50 reps of each one as fast as you can. This will total 500 reps. Get your stopwatch out and time yourself because it will be fun to see if you can beat your score the next time out.
There are some great things about this workout. You can do it anywhere - so you don’t need to belong to a gym. As you can see from my video, I did it outside. It works your entire upper and lower body and heart rate. You are also working your abs really hard. And this is a quick workout - it doesn’t take forever to do.
Craig Ballantyne has come out with the original Bodyweight 500 as part of his Turbulence Training program. I put a variation of it in the video which I hope you will watch.
Here are the exercises I did (50 reps of each as fast as you can).
Squats
Push Ups
Tuck Jumps
Spiderman Climb (25 each leg)
Modified Pull Ups (or Body Rows)
Step Jumps (or 25 one legged step ups each leg)
T-Stabilization (25 each side)
Walking Lunges (25 each leg)
Close Grip Push Ups
Squat Jumps
Now if you are new to exercise, you might want to modify this to the Bodyweight 250 and do 25 reps of each exercise. Also, 50 modified pull ups are pretty challenging, so you might want to split them up and do 25 in the middle of the circuit as shown and then finish the circuit with 25 more.
One last thing, the final day to enter Craig Ballantyne’s Turbulence Training Transformation contest is Monday, January 21, 2008. The contest is open only to those who have purchased Turbulence Training, and post their before/after photos on the Turbulence Training Member’s site.
Don’t worry, when you buy Turbulence Training and enter the contest, you get a free 3 month membership so you can record your transformation.
There are 3 big prizes for the winners.
Grand Prize - $2000 & a 3-year Platinum TT Membership
Second Place - $1000 & a 2-year Platinum TT Membership
Third Place - $500 & a 1-Year Platinum TT Membership
So go ahead and take a peek at Turbulence Training and enter yourself in the contest.
And try the Bodyweight 500 workout below. Feel free to post your comments on how you did in the workout.
By the way, the pull-up straps in the video are a piece of equipment called The Jungle Gym and they can be purchased online from Lifeline USA.
