FOREWORD
Before we start getting in to the nitty gritty of The Good Stuff, I want to make you a promise that obtaining a healthy weight or physique is not as complicated as you might believe. I want to make you a promise that EVERYTHING that you need to create a shift towards a healthier body and a higher quality of life will be provided directly to you within the confines of this document. Its probably in your best interest that you can listen to me. I spent the past DECADE of my life in the gym! From the time I was able to get in the gym, I was there training, learning, watching, and doing (thats why we say weve been getting A1 from Day 1). It means from the first day we make the commitment to ourselves, we are making the commitment to change. We are making the commitment to exorcising the old devious habits that have made us feel this way in the first place. We are making a commitment to ourselves to expel the negative stigmas and mental road blocks that will hinder us from be the healthiest we can be! The moment we accept that this routine is what the rest of our lives will look like, honestly, as a former personal trainer, is a truly incredible and inspirational moment!
Ive learned to recognize it and I can honestly tell you how incredibly rewarding it is to know that the rest of your amazing life will be spent feeling how you, as a human, are meant to feel. Your digestive health will elevate to new levels and your digestive biome will allow your body to fully digest and absorb the proper nutrients. Once you begin to feel your body recover from your previous habits, you will begin to also realize how magical it is to feel your body functioning at a new capacity. It is truly life changing! Finally, you will feel like you belong to your body and that your body belongs to you. The most incredible part of the process is that once you get yourself totally immersed within this new lifestyle, you will feel like you are 10 years younger! You will have a superior level of discipline than you had thought possible before! Your metabolism will increase because it is finally receiving the proper nutrients it needs and in the proper portions as well!
As a person who has been a personal trainer for years, I have had countless clients and many of them have become successful in making the monumental shift from being totally unhealthy, lethargic, and undisciplined, and turned their momentum in to a positive direction and made the change and chose to live their lives incredibly and NOT in discomfort, disappointment, and regret. I promise you, personally, that within the confines of these pages, is the answer of how do I make my life better and how do I prioritize my health in a way that will allow for me to live the rest of your days as if you never have before! The content of this book is not only scientifically proven by a bunch of cool doctors who care about keeping us all super healthy, but is used by personal trainers all around the country at nearly every gym and concepts that are used by every good personal trainer!
You might be asking, though, What makes a good personal trainer? How do I recognize good characteristics in a coach that he wont be leading me astray? I would tell you those are some damn good questions and some fair ones as well! So I will throughout this book, provide you with, not only characteristics of coaches that I admire, but, more usefully, the traits I have been told that have also made me an excellent trainer. That way, by the end of this book, should you choose to seek a fitness professionals help , you should have a very clear idea of what you will be getting yourself in to and you know that you will be in good hands! Which I have to say I recommend; I have since left the personal training industry so I really have nothing to gain from writing this book or selling you a course or setting you up with a personal trainer. I do, though, remember the pure joy and sheer euphoria of reaching a breakthrough with a client and that is what I want to create for all the readers of this book. I want to create the kind of breakthrough with all of you. The healthier we all are, the more energy we will have to make our lives, our families, and our world, a much better place.
But why trust me? What value do I bring to you that would make you believe me? Well, Ive been in a gym for as long as I can remember. Growing up an athlete, I spent a lot of my free time with other trainers and coaches that would run my team and me through routines and circuits that would keep our team in tip top shape! However, once I graduated from high school with no real plan but a refreshing vigor for fitness, I became certified and hired as a personal trainer!
It was from then that I decided that if I am going to do this for the rest of my life, I might as well do it 1000% and I would invest an immeasurable amount of time to mastering my craft. I read every book I could get my hands on. I watched every video on physical science and exercise that I could. I would learn as much as I possibly could about exercising and programming to allow my clients to get an incredible experience from me. In doing so, I broke my gyms sales record for new trainers! Not many people can say theyve had a 100% sales record! Ill grant you, it was a short lived achievement but one that I love to discuss. The reason I love it so much is because, at the time, I wasnt any sort of fitness genie or any kind of health guru (at the time LOL); but what made me such a good trainer (Hint) is that my excitement and passion for fitness translated and transcended my knowledge. They could tell that I didnt choose to be a personal trainer because of the loads of money they make (which isnt that) but I chose that role because I carry with me, every single day I rise up out of bed, a genuine concern for peoples health!
Plus, if I could measure how much time I had spent studying, researching, looking, reading, and watching, I would tell you. But generally speaking, once I fully committed to the mastery of body manipulation, I spent every bit of two years working 6 days a week and spending anywhere from 12-14 hours each, constantly proving to myself and everyone else that I am a trainer that is not to be messed with. I knew Id be the bestand I was! I was the top trainer of my gym within 6 months and remained there for the rest of my time spent as a personal trainer. So if we do some math, adds up to almost 90 hours a week and equates to almost 10,000 hours of training, reading, studying, testing, and training (again) and very carefully honed my craft to a science that allows me to write an exercise program for anyone on the planet without even meeting them (but we must know our limitations that can hinder our abilities to execute certain movements and can hurt us EVEN FURTHER; which we wont doJ). So, in summation, yes, I take this shit seriously and I expect you do to the same and if done so, will alter the trajectory of what the rest of your life will look like.
That leads me straight in to my final point before we get in to the meat and potatoes of this thing! I want to lead a little visualization exercise for us to carry out before we get in to this; imagine your life exactly how it is now (I know, pretty tough, right?) Imagine the number of times you eat fast food, or any food that we both know isnt creating any healthy habits. Imagine what you are doing when you decide against going to the gym. Maybe its watching Netflix and Hulu. Maybe its eating junk food. Now, imagine how frequently we allow those habits to manifest. Do we see them happening once a week? Twice? Four? Seven?! Some of us allow these habits to get the better of us all seven days in a week! We must be honest with ourselves; it is the only possible way for us to find and fix the dysfunction and properly address it. Now, I want you to picture your life going unchanged. I want you to imagine yourself sitting in the same chair, eating the same junky foods, living the same life. We are going to, realistically, try and make as accurate of an assumption as we can, looking forward in to your life. I invite you to look deep and look long. Try as hard as you can, because it is all too real at this current moment in time. Do you enjoy what you see? Are you proud of yourself? Are you happy with how your kids view you (which is going to dictate their lives as well)?