 Only 4 minute workouts and $14,615 - what the heck is it, again? More guru’s, experts, and professionals would be nice – someone who can help ME.
Another supplement line with all organic ingredients would be excellent! (if it were even possible)
How about some new gadgets to buy on late night TV? I hear the booty-plasmatronic machine is a real good deal. Plus it only takes 10 minutes a week to get a chiseled body.
No? Well then certainly we could use some more websites that teach us about fitness, exercise, nutrition, and personal development. More information is always a good thing.
How about an online GROUP just for fitness – that’s a GREAT IDEA!!!
It doesn’t take a genius to prove that the current model for how to live a healthy physically-oriented lifestyle is severely flawed. All of the above solutions have been pounded into the dirt, again and again. We have no shortage of solutions like the ones above, yet we are still facing some of the most daunting crisis’ in history. Heart disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, and obesity rates are climbing faster and faster. Depression is affecting MILLIONS of American’s – that’s a lot of people that are upset about how their life is going. The statistics are frightening and the state of our health is only one of our problems!
Even with all the above quick-fix solutions, and many others, these problems are actually getting worse. Most people are walking wounded, sick regularly, and are on their way to dis-ease for the rest of their lives. A lack of resources isn’t the problem. We’ve got resources coming out of our ears, and we STILL have major health problems that aren’t getting better anytime soon. We have a fundamental problem on our hands!
So, what do we really need in the fitness industry?
That’s a hard question to answer, but I know who to ask. Ask the people who are living a life of vibrant health and abundant vitality already. Ask the people that wake up refreshed and eager to start their day. Ask the people that live and breathe pure physical living. And most importantly, ask the people that know how to help others best.
Continue reading What Does The Fitness Industry Need Most? (Part 1)
So often, we worry about everything going on in our lives. We could drown in all the anxiety we create for ourselves. One of the best things we can do for our health and well being is to realize that life goes on no matter what – and there’s no use stressing ourselves out over the details.
Thought for the day:
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~Lao Tzu
Damien Tougas, of www.AdventureInProgress.com made a great comment in another blogpost the other day…
We all have only 24 hours in a day, and can only devote so much thought and time to any given thing. That is why we are looking for the quick fix, because we don’t have time for anything more than that. We want to do it all, have our cake and eat it too. What we really need to do is simplify our lives. Let go of the things that are not important so that we can have more time, thought, and energy to spend on the things that really are important.
I think that philosophy is perfected in nature. Nature is the paramount example of necessity, and nothing in nature is superfluous. Everything serves a specific purpose in order for life to continue – and it works very well, I might add. Some would say that nature works perfectly.
It makes sense that we would do well to model our own lives after this simple idea of living only out of necessity – only doing what is necessary for survival. Of course, this isn’t merely an issue of survival, it’s an issue of quality of life, too.
Continue reading You Don’t See Birds Wearing Backpacks, Do You?
 In medical school, aspiring doctors learn a lot more about drugs and treating the symptoms of disease, rather than how to prevent disease in the first place. It’s likely that the nutrition and fitness courses they are required to take in medical school don’t offer a comprehensive solution to the prevention of disease.
Nikhil Rao wrote in his article What Your Doc Doesn’t Know About Weightlifting (article here):
medical education is extremely intense, and extremely broad. It has to be. That said, there is a lot it doesn’t cover. We learn the atomic structure of every amino acid (most of us promptly forget all of this after the biochemistry final). We learn the equations for cardiovascular physiology. We learn the branches of every nerve, the origin and attachment for every muscle in the human body.
But we don’t learn the basics of healthy nutrition. We don’t learn about cardiovascular and musculoskeletal adaptations and responses to exercise. We don’t learn about how insulin facilitates the utilization of protein and creatine.
Rao makes a good point in his article that doctors are taught about how to treat the symptoms of disease, usually with drugs and/or surgery, but they are NOT taught about how to prevent it through healthy lifestyle strategies like physical activity and a healthy diet.
Now, wouldn’t it make sense that our culture should place a stronger emphasis on the study, education, and practice surrounding the topic of DISEASE PREVENTION, rather than disease treatment? You would think so, but it’s not the case – and that’s a story much too long for this article to tell. Basically, my opinion is that it all boils down to the love of money, and how that contributes to the medical industry.
Instead, most of our culture’s resources are spent on the research and practice of DISEASE TREATMENT, not prevention. Now, I see a similar theme present in the fitness industry – except it’s not doctors that are to blame, it’s personal trainers.
Continue reading Your Personal Trainer Behaves Like a Doctor – my revelation about the fitness industry
At long last, Erwan Le Corre has set a date for the first official MovNat training seminars in the United States. They will be held in West Virginia at the beautiful Summersville Lake. In case you’re not familiar with Erwan yet, take a look at his MovNat video:
MovNat – Erwan Le Corre – [...]
This past weekend, my wife and I went to a party with a lot of old friends whom we hadn’t seen in awhile. One person greeted me by saying, “Hi John… ah, the healthy one.”
I responded with a smile and said “I sure hope so.” I wouldn’t want to be unhealthy after all.
This short interaction got me thinking about our culture and what we have evolved into. Healthy people are a rarity in our society and tend to stand out in a crowd. This is a really sad truth, but I’m not going to gloat over it for a minute.
 You're a WHAT?!? Ask yourself: Have we come so far from natural health and physicality, that we label people by their physical vibrance or lack thereof? Oh, the shame! Tell me it isn’t so! But that’s EXACTLY what we do. We put people into imaginative boxes when trying to figure them out. We actively label each other in an attempt to feel better about ourselves. I’m shamefully guilty of it, too.
We all have relationships with people whom we consider the workaholic, the unambitious stay-at-home-mom, the gossiper, the over-achiever, the under-achiever, the religious guy, the healthy one.
The truth is, we aren’t those boxes we like to put people in. Ryan Murdoch says it best in his personal manifesto…
I believe that we are not our boxes, and that we’re free to assume whatever form suits us at that moment.
It’s a simple idea, certainly not profound, but it’s the product of utterly revolutionary thinking.
Continue reading Are you "the healthy one," or "the health nut," or how about a "fitness freak?"
One of my ultimate goals is to connect people to physical living in their community – offline. It sounds counter-intuitive to have an online blog that is meant to send people away from the Internet – but that’s EXACTLY what I’m trying to do. If you already know why this is my goal, then you might as well leave, and go start LIVING. If not, keep reading, and you’ll get a hint about what I’m after.
Continue reading Living, NOT blogging – huh, imagine that…
Trends come and go. We have trends in the fitness industry that happen on a massive scale, and others that happen only in smaller subcultures. I’ll let you decide which are which, but let’s be in agreement that both have far-reaching effects in the lives of those that participate.
Here are my predictions for the coming trends in the health and fitness industry…
Continue reading Forecasting the Fitness Industry: My Predictions For The Top 8 Coming Trends in Fitness
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