Dominate Your Life Fitness

Hey Dominators. I had a conversation with a friend of mine over the weekend, and we discussed some fitness concerns of his and why he can’t lose weight. During the convo, I found out that he goes out to eat every day for lunch! Here’s an interesting stat. An average lunch costs about 9$, so if you go out out to eat for 5 days a week, you will spend $2340 a year! And not to mention how many more calories there are in your favorite lunch restaurant meals vs packing your own lunch!

So I asked him why he does this and he says, ‘I don’t know. It’s convient and tastes good.’ Fair enough. I can see how taking 5 minutes to get to your car in the lot, waiting 10 minutes on-line at the drive through, spilling sauce on your shirt as you eat at a red light because you’re running out of time, taking another 5 minutes to find a parking spot close to the door, and finally sitting back down at your desk to scarf down that last bite of taco shell so fast that you almost choke to death. Yeah, I see how that’s convient.

As for the taste, anyone can make healthier meat than those taco places do and just season it themselves. My technique is to brown pounds of ground turkey all at once, and make it into chili or tacos or meatballs etc, and tupperware it and have it for the week. Now all I have to do is reheat and eat. Way more convient to walk down the hall to the microwave isn’t it? Plus, YOU control what goes into your meal. Now you have a meal that not only tastes like (if not better) than a bought lunch, but is much better for you! Seems to me like a no brainer.

So let’s all try this technique for one week and see how much better you feel and how much fatter your wallet is. Post questions /comments to comments.
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Good morning Dominators. I hope you all had a safe and happy new year’s. Now let’s get to it today. Today, I am asking you to not eat any grains. Susbstitue any and all pastas, cereals, breads etc. with vegetables.
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Happy New Year’s Dominators!  I hope all of you have a safe and enjoyable New Year’s evening and I hope great things come to all in 2012.

As we all know, a tradition kept on New Year’s is making resolutions, but what you may not know is the most popular one is to lose weight.  Will you be one of the millions who make this resolution?  And if you are, will you also be one of the millions that give up and don’t accomplish this goal? Not if I have anything to do about it!

Let’s take a quick test.

CARBS!

When you hear that word, where does your mind go?  Did you immediately think bread, rice, pasta, or cereals, or did you think broccoli, apples, celery, or cucumbers…because they are carbs too.

WORKING OUT!

How about now?  Did you picture a gym?  Maybe a spin class, aerobic class, treadmill/elliptical, or doing the hip adduction/abduction machine?  Did anyone picture themselves circuit training on a rower then doing jumping pull ups, goblet squatting, and finishing off the round with some burpees?  I hope my Dominators did because that’s usually just their warm up.

When people want to lose weight, they think about two things:  Eating better and exercising. With the former, most think they can just cut ‘carbs’ and be fine, or they pick a vice of theirs and vow to eliminate it completely, but after a while, things change, it becomes too difficult, or they are just not getting the results they are looking for, and they fall ‘off the wagon.’  Same goes for the exercising.  People join their local ‘globo gym’ for that ’1$ down, x amount a month for life’ garbage promo (I’ve seen this so many times, and what they don’t put on those billboards are *EXCLUSIONS APPLY!), and after a month they don’t see any results, or they get hurt and they stop going.  And if you care as much about people’s health and wellness as I do, this makes you throw up in your mouth a little bit.

Fact:  80 % of people who join a gym, stop attending after 1 month of membership and working through the globo gym system, I completely agree with this. I’ve interviewed countless individuals and conducted my own case study by keeping an eye on their attendance and found that stat to actually be higher within my specific focus group.  After polling a few, I found that the most common reason why they stopped going is, ‘they didn’t see any results.’  The problem with this is I can guarantee they would have seen results had they worked with not just me, but any fitness trainer.

I’m going to tell you an industry secret.  Personal trainers are always watching.  I’ve watched people before they even stepped foot into the gym.  Countless mothers lifting their infants from their car seats and bending over so incorrectly I thought they were going to herniate a disk and break a car window from it shooting out of their spine!  I’ve also studied people’s posture and gait from the sign-in desk to the locker room and then I’ve watched them scratch their heads when looking on the gym floor and at certain machines and them just jumping from one to the next without any cognitive idea what the hell they are doing. When I approach these people, in genuine concern for their safety, they are very open and receptive to advice.  The point here is don’t be afraid to reach out and ask for help.  That’s what we are here for.  This is what we’ve studied. I never studied car mechanics, so when my truck makes a funny noise, I don’t bother touching it myself.  I bring it to a professional.  So why not do the same with your body.

If you are really serious about losing weight this year, please work with a fitness trainer.  There are many out there that will do in-home training that you could probably find on the internet (also for less than what a globo gym charges and you don’t even have to leave your house!), but if you still feel the need to join one of those gyms, please work with one there.  I would really hate to see you set such a great goal for yourself and not be able to follow through and give up. Yes, it may seem like an added expense or just simply out of budget, but I’m sure if you cut out all the restaurant night outs and morning double latte’s with foam and a bazillion grams of sugar coffees, you’ll see that the money is there all along and the rewards are definitely worth the investment. Let me tell you, open heart surgery is a lot more expensive than working with a fitness professional that would have prevented that in the first place.  Think about it.

Go. Dominate.