Johnson - PUSH: 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin Body, and the Life You Deserve!

To Marge and Bill.

Dad, I know that youre reading this to Mom from the throne where you read all your books. Please tell Mom that I am forever grateful that the two of you taught me how to be a devoted parent, caring friend, loving spouse, and the best version of me. I love you so much!

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INTRODUCTION

As my husband and I walked to our car one day after my Turbo Kick class, he asked, Why do you think that some of the people taking your class still have the same 20 pounds to lose that they had when they started 5 years ago, and others have completely transformed themselves and kept the weight off?

Annoyed and feeling a bit responsible, I made it my mission to figure out what separated these two types of students.

After a few months of talking with people and observing them, I realized that the traits of the successful fitness enthusiasts had everything in common with those of the high achievers I had spent years studying in business. Accomplished, goal-mastering individuals live by the laws of success. It wasnt that their mind-set was so different or that they were of a particular genetic composition, displayed a specific intensity, or worked out more often.

What separated those who looked the same after 5 years from those who were able to transform their bodies and maintain their physique were merely their habits .

Health and Success Is a Matter of Habit

The solution has been in front of us all along. Habits are the key to successroutine behaviors so natural you dont need to give them much thought.

Successful people adopt the laws of success by creating lifelong habits that become ingrained and as much a part of who they are as the color of their eyes. They dont have to think about it. Its not torturous. It doesnt control their every conscious thought. It becomes second nature.

This book is about habits: how to break the bad ones and create the successful ones.

Plenty of diet books do an exceptional job of teaching the principles of changing your mind-set, shifting your thinking, and altering the way you process information to help you change your body. Awesome books built on sound research. I love the idea of changing the way you think. But where most of these books fall short is that they miss what I have discovered to be the secret to long-term happiness and sustained weight management: the application of the laws of success.

The ingredients to lasting success in any area are universal, and one of the key ingredients is our consistent action. Those actions become our habits. Those habits change our thinking. Those habits change our body. Those habits define our destiny.

Habits have nothing to do with skill, financial position, education, appearance, or gifts from God. Anyone can learn to create a new habit. The right habits are the only things that separate you from the life you want to live.

Its very likely, however, that the life you currently have is making you fat. Oh sure, I can give you a great diet that, strictly followed, will allow you to drop megapounds, fast. If you want, feel free to skip the important stuff and jump into another diet. If you just love the roller-coaster diet and you think the stress lines across your forehead are quite attractive, well then, be my guest and skip the first 30-Day Push program in this book and go right to Part 2, the bangin body workout. But if you do that, just know itll be like sticking a Band-Aid on a bullet wound; another diet or a 30-day exercise program provides a temporary fix. But I think weve established that youre looking for a solution. Look no further.

Weight Isnt the Problem, Weight Loss Isnt the Solution

There are plenty of health experts out there prescribing lifestyles that might work if we lived in a utopian society where everyone gets 9 hours of sleep, receives massages once a week, and has a chef on staff, no kids, and 2 hours a day to spend in the gym.

Uh, hello! Reality check! Im a crazy-busy devoted mom of two, I run several non-fitness-related businesses, and I enjoy date nights with my husband. I dont have a chef. We do have homework. Theres always some kind of emergency, or dog poop to be picked up, and I have exactly 1 hour a day to exercise.

I live on this planet. Im not going to freak out if on occasion you have a diet soda. Trust me, there are plenty of people who know more about exercise and nutrition than I do. The way that I have been of service to millions of people is by solving their health and fitness problems.

Your diet is a symptom. Your fitness or lack thereof is a symptom. They are not the problem, which is why addressing those areas as the solution provides only temporary relief.

I must admit that for the first 10 years of my career as a fitness professional, I too approached weight loss and fitness for my clients from this same dated perspective. I was stoked that my programs and diets worked for my clients but mystified when 6 months or a year later these folks ended up gaining the weight back or falling off the fitness wagon entirely.

Then it dawned on me. I was teaching them to drive a car without ever checking to see if they knew the rules of the road. Most would reach their destination, but eventually, when I handed over the wheel, they would crash.

Thats why this book isnt a It worked for me, it should work for you, too approach. Thats why Im sharing the culmination of 2 decades worth of interviews, studies, correspondences, follow-ups, medically supervised weight-loss and test groups, observations, and an exhaustive commitment to give you the best of what really works. A solution.

Ive spent the past 20 years studying thousands of people. Listening, interviewing, tracking lasting success, understanding human nature, and unraveling the mystery of why some people diet all their lives and some make a permanent change. What Ive learned is that you dont need another diet. You need a simplified way to organize your life. As a matter of fact, I am going to put your life on a diet so you can stop dieting once and for all.

How do you put your life on a diet? Well, Im going to show youday by day, one pain-free baby step at a time. Im going to teach you how to quickly rebuild your foundation for success and identify where you want to go before we start your journey. I will share with you a formula to quickly discover which goals are right for you. This formula will allow you to set and master health and fitness goals that align perfectly with who you are and the life you want. I will teach you a few basic habits to restore balance, peace, happiness, and manageability to your supersize, chaotic life. Instead of dictating the perfect exercise program (which is kinda like an arranged marriage), Ill help you find your soul-mate workout, reach your fitness goals, blossom into a time management expert, become organized, and develop the tools to simplify difficult decisions.