Perry Lieber - Workout & Grow Rich: Connecting the Dots Between Health and Wealth

WORKOUT & GROW RICH

WORKOUT & GROW RICH

Connecting the Dots Between HEALTH and WEALTH

PERRY LIEBER

WORKOUT & GROW RICH

Connecting the Dots Between HEALTH and WEALTH

2016 PERRY LIEBER.

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

I met Perry Lieber in 2006 when he was a trainer working with my thirteen-year-old son, who was suffering from femoral retroversion (knowing Id need a simple explanation, my wife told me it was a hip problem affecting his gait). Perrys concern for physical well-being and the effect it has on emotional well-being was evident even then. My son made rapid progress, and today he has no noticeable problems with this condition. Apart from knowing what my son needed to do, I knew that any trainer who had the patience and ability to get this particular son to actually work out a couple of days a week was someone worth knowing. In this respect, I was absolutely right.

Over the next couple of years, Perry increasingly became a part of our familys efforts to stay active and healthy. Soon he was training my very athletic wife. Over time, he began training her far-less athletic husband.

Ive been doing some form of working out since I was about thirty. At that time, something changed (my metabolism). I could no longer eat everything in sight without gaining weight, and I was increasingly less energetic. A friend introduced me to the then very alien concept of jogging. I was stunned by the difference in my physical and mental well-being after I took up the sport.

However, by the time I was sixty, after years of jogging to keep my energy levels up and my weight down while otherwise sitting in meetings and at my desk, my back was telling me it was time to adjust my routine. I had back surgery and believed my jogging days were over. This was a problem as jogging was really the only workout I enjoyed that kept my weight and heart rate down while both energizing and calming me. I truly did my best thinking while jogging.

Although himself a fit young man who competed at the Ironman level, Perry understood that my needs were somewhat differentmore at the tinman level. Immediately, he started me on the path to better balanced approaches to exercise and general health. He convinced me (no easy task) to try what he suggested and taught me stretching and core exercises that I do religiously every morning to this day. Im still jogging and working out at age sixty-five. He deserves a lot of the credit (I have to do the exercises myself, but Ill give him the rest of the credit).

A couple of months ago, Perry asked me to review a draft of his book, Work Out and Grow Rich. As I read, it immediately became obvious why he had been asking me all those questions about how to succeed when training me. At the time I thought he was seeking my sage advice because he wanted to invest in his own gym and become a successful small business owner. Initially, that may even have been the case and, in fact, he did invest in a gym and is now a successful small business owner. But, reading his book, I humbly realized that I wasnt the only person with whom Perry had been having such discussions. Hed been having similar talks with other successful people he trainedcorporate executives, athletes, and innovators. These were not just financially successful people, but people who had managed to succeed and have fulfilling personal lives.

In the course of these discussions, he received insights into what he needed to do to be successful as well as broader perspectives on how a persons physical well-being could be a major contributor to personal and financial success. More specifically, he heard how many (if not all) of the successful people he trained considered physical well-being an essential element of their own personal and financial success.

As just about any successful person will tell you, when you feel better, you think more clearly, you focus more acutely, and you have the energy to stand up to the competition. I am personally committed to this notion. While I run a restaurant company, our three corporate offices have no cafeterias. If people want a restaurant lunch, they should at least take a walk. However, each office does have a fully equipped gym and a trainer available to all employees. We also have other programs that encourage good health. I encourage all of our executive team to work out (which does not include golf). I believe our employees are more productive and better off in their personal lives because of it.

As Perrys book lays out in easy reading detail, if you want to succeed in life, if you want to maintain success and live long enough to enjoy it, work out. Working out wont guarantee you success, but its hard to imagine most people achieving or sustaining their success without it. While I have long held this belief personally, I found the interviews and insights in Perrys book enlightening, confirming, and, quite honestly, fascinating. The workout routines are, of course, Perrys specialty and well worth the effort.

While there are any number of books out there on how to succeed in life, Perrys is the first one Ive seen that uses the personal experiences of real people who have employed a well-balanced workout routine to improve their lives and move them along the road to success. Perrys entrepreneurial instincts, his focus on physical training, and the time hes spent talking to and working out with individuals who have achieved this balance, make his book not only a truly beneficial addition to the writings on success and personal happiness, but also a very readable and compelling one.