Early in my quest for legitimate fitness, I traveled the main road quite a bit. Most who have ever set foot on the path to find fitness have by default also traveled the main road. After all, it’s the easiest one to find. It’s full of clichés and misinformation. In fact I’ve come to learn that the easier the information is to access (magazines, infomercials, random YouTubers and popular fitness personalities on TV), the less likely it is that the information is very useful if it’s even true. Before you’ve taken many steps along the main road, you will have been convinced that any good fitness routine will include days of resistance training such as “back and bis”, “chest and tris”, “leg days” and so-on. Then of course, there’s much ado about burning fat, toning up, cardio and getting into shape while performing “one easy move” for 20 minutes at a whack for three times a week. If you will just stay tuned in to this rhetoric long enough, you too will be talking the talk and walking the walk, but are you really saying anything or actually getting anywhere? Unfortunately, the answer most often is “not really”.
After several years of the main road, I started to explore the fringes of the fitness industry. I learned the promises advertised along the main road didn’t quite lead to where they claimed. This would cause me to seek fitness in more obscure places and in more unique ways. This resulted in many more years of experimentation. “The Road Less Traveled” it seemed made all the difference for Robert Frost, so it seemed intuitive that it must also be the path to find what I was looking for: an effective, sustainable, and transformative training program. Unfortunately, back then, like most people now, I didn’t have enough knowledge to even recognize a good fitness program when I found it. The main road just didn’t impart this kind of knowledge, and this made me easy prey for everyone and anyone out there pedaling junk programs just to make a buck. I lost some money, but a whole lot more time following after bad advice. As you probably know, losing your money is bad, but losing your time is worse. Lost time can never be made up. When it’s gone, it’s gone.
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In my experimentation with various fitness programs, I would find that sustainability was usually the hardest criteria to meet. If the program yielded results, could I endure the rigor, the boredom and/or the volume in order to continue it long term? The side roads would lead me toward extremes of varying degrees. At times I was so open to novel approaches to fitness that I would try about anything that promised results. I was a bit untethered at times, but one thing I can say to my credit: I was willing to experiment and try new things for myself. I was my own fitness Frankenstein if you will. A homemade amalgamation of 20 years’ worth of fitness trends, “bro science”, marketing gimmicks, and misinformation.. I’ve also learned that almost every program will appear to be effective at first. Especially for a person who is relatively unfit – but that is a blog post for another time.
It would still be many years of side roads and back roads on my fitness journey to find what I sought after. In retrospect, if I knew then how long it would take and what I would go through on my journey, I may have not wanted to continue. But today, I can say I am glad I pressed onward. The journey itself is its own reward. The answers I looked for would in some part come simply from getting older. I would need to get to an age where I began to run out of energy and time to reach my goals. I would come to recognize the need for efficiency in the process of getting in shape for both me and my growing number of older clients. Along with ageing up in the pursuit of fitness, I would also come to benefit simply by having been around long enough to recognize how so many things in the fitness world just come full circle. Wait long enough, and what was cool once will be cool again. With a trained eye, though, you can begin to see through the fog and find a clear picture of how to obtain a meaningful improvement to your fitness.
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As I gained a clearer and clearer vision of the truth in this pursuit, I realized that what I was doing was starting a revolution. Albeit a quiet revolution. A revolution that grows slowly, but an important revolution nonetheless. Each client I trained would come a new convert to the revolution as they were disabused of so many wrong notions they too had learned about fitness. And I do believe this is a very important revolution. After all, how important is it to positively impact the quality of another person’s life? I think it’s pretty important. So much so that I have made it my life’s work. It is my assessment that if my journey only resulted in an improvement to my own fitness, it would have been worth little, but if I can use my experience to help others, it will be worth exponentially more. So I bring to you the offer of joining the revolution to assist you on your search for effective, sustainable, and transformative fitness. It is my contention that this level of improvement to a person’s fitness is so positively life altering, it is worth the trouble it has cost me and worth your time to pursue having it.