Where Are You?

It's a simple question, but let me be more specific.

Where are you...

• in your fitness,
• in your diet,
• in your personal commitment,
• in your self discipline
• in your LIFE?

Where ever you are, are you where you want to be?

Here's an interesting view of human nature.

There is one's "intention" and then there is one's "action". Everyone has good intentions. For example, nearly everyone I know has started a diet or a fitness
program at one time or another. That part is easy.

You might say to yourself, "I'm going to go to boot camp and finally get fit". That's the having good intentions part. But having good intentions won't get you in great shape. That part takes action.

ACTIONS are very different. Let's say you intend to take a Free Trial Boot Camp class, or come to a Saturday morning boot camp, or join us on a Sunday morning hike, but week after week, you never make it to an event.

So what happened?

On Saturday morning you couldn't get up, or just decided to sleep in. Perhaps you wanted to do something else altogether. Perhaps you live farther away than you realized. What ever your reasons, there is a "disconnect" between what you intended to do and what you actually ended up doing.

There are many of you who have attended boot camp and some of you have traveled from a great distance to do so. I am so very appreciative of your energy and drive and I wish you much success in all of your fitness endeavors. In short, you rock!

Many of our Saturday boot campers have been dedicated and solid athletes too. Always a pleasure to have you join us when ever you can. And many of our daily boot campers are long term dedicated members that are also my friends and "family" at this point.

For those of you who have been intending to come to boot camp, but have not yet taken action I have a small favor to ask of you. Write to me. Yes, please write to me and tell me any or all of the following.

1. Why you have never attended a boot camp.

2. What you expect or need from a fitness program.

3. What can I do to help you?

I have two main objectives. First is to get people into awesome physical shape. Second is to have them become raving fans about our program and tell the world!

But I can't do that unless you show up. So let me hear from you! To our newest members Jessica, Ricardo, Denise, Amy Arup, and Domenick, I want to hear from
you too!

I want to share with you something from my own life's experience. You see at one time I was a mess.

I was 35 pounds "over fat" with bad knees, a bad back, and a bad disposition. In short, I was miserable. You see, life had not turned out as I expected and I blamed

people and circumstances for everything. I was also a complainer. BTW, have you ever complained or blamed someone else for something? Right, silly question.

One day it dawned on me that no one was going to show up, take me by the hand and lead me to a solution. I eventually developed enough pain in my mind and body
that I absolutely had to change. I could no longer go on living this way. I was terrified when I realized that it was up to me and only me if I was going to change my life.

Common sense told me to get some exercise, so the first thing I did was join a gym and begin to work out. It was a slow and painful start, but within a few months
I began to feel better. Boy was it hard. My shoulders felt like they were 90 and my knees were on fire. I injured myself multiple times too. But the one thing that kept
me going was that in spite of the pain, I felt good inside. I had a renewed vitality. There was something chemical going on in my body and my brain and I wanted more of it.

Here it is 12 years later. I am a full time fitness professional with my own business and connecting with people. I'm far away from where I started and life gets better all the time.

You have a story too. Maybe you are where I was, or worse. Maybe you think no one cares. Some one does care and that someone is the most important person in your life. IT"S YOU SILLY! And BTW, the person who looks me in the eye and says, "NO Larry, I really don't care" is either lying to me, themselves, or both.

The next thing you need to do is make a decision, a decision to change once and for all. No more BS. It's time to stop making excuses and start getting BUSY getting

results. Making a decision is HUGE! Don't underestimate the power of it. It's also an "action" :-)

Once you make that decision, send me and email and tell me that you have once and for all decided to stop and get off the merry-go-round. I'll read your email and I'll personally write back to you. I really do care that much.

Then, plan on coming to a Free Trial Boot Camp or a Saturday morning boot camp. Plan on it being challenging. Plan on being sore and feeling uncomfortable at first.
But also, plan on transforming your health and your life.

Think you've got it tough?

Our new trainer Andrea was once 310 pounds. I kid you not. Now she is a force to be reckoned with. She is also training to be a body building competitor! How awesome is that? Talk about doing a 180!

Andrea's journey is one of triumph. She is a strong willed and determined woman who has faced her fears and found the courage and tenacity within herself to
change her life. Her story is nothing short of amazing.

I'm not trying to impress you, I'm trying to impress upon you that Andrea is just like you. I am just like you. If we can overcome our adversities, so can you. And now you will have the benefit of our experience to help you along the way.

A good place to begin.

- Believe in yourself.

- Believe you can do this. (because you can.)

- Believe that we have a system that works, (because we've proven it over
and over again)

- Begin and follow through.

If you want our help, we're here for you. As we move into 2010 our members will be comprised of individuals who want health, a dynamic life, and an awesome body.

So now where are you?

Press on!

Can You Do 100 Push Ups?

My good friend and fellow fitness expert Scott Colby (www.theabsexpert.com) posted a personal challenge last October where he was going to strive to achieve the following by Thanksgiving.

- sub six minute mile
- bear crawl the length of a foot ball field
- 20 pull ups
- 100 push ups

I was pretty impressed by these goals and even more so that Scott put himself on YouTube to make it or break it. Scott's challenge inspired me and I got to thinking. What can I do?

We'll I've always been pretty good at doing push ups, but I've never considered doing 100! How many people do you know that can do 100 push ups? Okay, now how many of them are over 50 years of age? I thought so.

Well, I'm closer to 51 now, so I want to use that to motivate and inspire you to join me. I certainly have no excuses. Do you? If you do I've got a six week program that I found on the web that will help you get to 100 push ups. I can imagine without seeing your faces that some of you don't believe me. That's cool. Go to this site.

http://hundredpushups.com/index.html

I don't know who the author is, and there's nothing to buy. There's just this great program for you to use. It's broken down into simple steps and it doesn't matter if you can do two push ups right now or 50, there's an easy to follow scale that will show you what to do and where to start.

Think about how amazing it would be to be able to say that at one time in your life you could do 100 push ups. As an incentive they've got a web page where you can add your name and the date of your accomplishment. There's also a "badge" that you can proudly display on your website or blog. To help you train, there's also an online site to log your workouts. I think this is fantastic and is a great way to stay motivated.

My goal to do 100 push ups is New Years. It's a little over two weeks from now. If you start this week and you are at beginner level 1, you might be able to make 100 push ups by Valentines Day. And what better way to say I Love You! Okay, that's "pushing" it a bit too far. Still, Valentines Day will come and go. It's a real date with a real beginning and come February 15th it's over. I like to set goals with real deadlines like that. Goals with teeth!

I hope you'll join me in my quest. If not, I hope you'll support me. Please comment at the bottom of this post. I'd love to hear from you. I'll put up my next "progress" video in a week, and we'll go from there.

Yours in health and excellence,
Larry