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Intention

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INTENTION is the word of the day.

Last week, I mentioned how the habit of “drifting” can shift our focus away from our goals and cause us to not reach our true potential or fulfill our purpose.

It’s from a book by Napoleon Hill called Outwitting the Devil.

Now there’s also a section in there about the “non-drifter.”

“He is always engaged in doing something definite, through some well-organized plan which is definite.

He has a major goal in life toward which he is always working, and many minor goals, all of which lead towards his central scheme…

He gives you direct answers and never falls back on evasions…

He will be found up front whether he is playing a game or fighting a war…

He never blames others for his mistakes no matter if they deserve the blame…

He makes his presence felt wherever he happens to be…

He is an inspiration to all who come into contact with his mind…

He has a mind of his own and uses it for all purposes.”

Every day you have a choice be someone you are proud of.

Be a “non-drifter” today… and tomorrow…and the day after that….

I hope this passage inspires YOU to do something great, and to think and act with intention today 🙂

Arin

Confidence, Motivation and Accountability

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Hi Steven,

There are three words I hear over and over when someone is interested in our program.

Confidence, Motivation and Accountability.

We all desire to feel good in our own skin and perform well in all things we do. But a lot of times a piece feels missing. We know we could feel better, and it comes back to feeling confident.

Whether this is a mental feeling or physical feeling.

We understand those first workouts coming back from lockdown are not going to feel amazing.

Strength will be down; stress has affected everything. We understand first hand what confidence can do to impact how you feel day in and day out.

But confidence builds, it’s a slow process, but each day you get up and tackle that workout, or eat well you win.

The other piece is how do you get the motivation?

All routines have been thrown off a long time ago and its time to establish new. Have you ever said you will start Monday and your done by Monday night?

Motivation is a tough one and we understand not feeling like doing a workout, or eating this vs that. This is where having a coach appropriately push you and help you realize the wins. No matter how small they are.

We have to celebrate the small insignificant wins, because they build to the larger goal.

Lastly Accountability, we all need coaches/mentors in our life who want to see you succeed. Tony and I have always believed in personally having this and we would not be where we are today without the guidance and sometimes not so gentle push from a coach.

Left to our own vices we can always say I’ll do that tomorrow or I’ll start on Monday, then who’s there to say did you do that?

This is why having a coach is so important and it a huge piece of our program. Sure, workouts are awesome, but you need someone invested in wanting to see you succeed.

Again, we understand its not easy to reach out for help, but if you want to build Confidence, need Motivation and Accountability we are open and ready to serve.

Have a great day today,

Arin

Do You Need a Nutrition Overhaul?

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I wanted to bring a bit of a lighter message today, not to discount by any means what’s still going on in our world.

It’s no secret we all have had some time on our hands here lately and according to my Facebook feed there are some great cooks out there in Quarantine!

Trust me when I tell you I get it. Nutrition has been a struggle bus, I get back on track, slide right off…back on track…eww look at that…

I have reached for foods I would normally never been tempted by. It has been more of a feel good, or indulgence or whatever type of feeling.

Then we see the other side, pants get tighter or we just avoid those pants all together.

We say, “I’ll get back on track tomorrow.”

Then tomorrow never comes.

Listen, I hope you are smirking, most of us are in the same boat.

Let me ask you this, is it time to overhaul your nutrition?

I am giving you a couple weeks to get your you know what together and then let’s get back on track.

For most of us this is going to be a behavioral change.

We know what to eat.

We just need to do it.

And it doesn’t hurt to have some ACCOUNTABILITY and a PLAN.

We are putting together a program to help you get back in the swing of things, focus in on good nutrition, get back on track with workouts or up the intensity, increase energy and overall motivation.

This time in all of our lives has been hard.

We need to accept it, honor it and move in the direction we desire.

Who’s up the for a structured Program to get back on track or establish the NEW track post this quarantine? (If you are already a member, we got you, if you want to participate!)

Let me know if you are interested by shooting a message back.

Take care and continue to be safe,

Arin

Do I really need to address my nutrition?

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The short answer is yes.

Now this depends on your goals, but for most people they are looking to lose body fat. Yes you will burn calories working out, but until someone wears a heart rate monitor they have no clue how hard it is to burn a 400-500.

Or we grossly underestimate how many calories we consume until we food journal the correct portion.

If the goal is to lose body fat we do have to create a caloric deficit and to lose 1 pound of fat you must have a deficit of 3500 calories in a weeks time frame.

Nutrition is hands down the hardest part to dial in.

Most of us have no problem doing that killer workout.

We mostly struggle consistently fueling our body to see the desired result.

Or one-two days we are on point, but we completely go overboard the next day. Myself included, we completely miss how many calories we actually consume during a meal.

So what can you do?

Use your hands:

Women

Protein = size of your palm

Carb = size of your cupped palm

Veggie = size of your fist

Fat = Thumb

Most men you get to double all these portions.

Or another strategy that works well is logging all your food in My Fitness Pal or something similar.

But the other side of that is we need to better understand your metabolic process. How many calories are you burning based on your daily activity.

As you can see nutrition does matter, but its complicated. 😉

This is where we come in and we can help you navigate what you personally need to do. This is not a one size fits all plan. What works for one person does not work for the other.

Listen, there is so much garbage from “experts” in our field. If it sounds too good to be true it is.

So, if you need help, we are an email/call away.

Arin

TFW's Blog is Back, with Your Nutrition Secrets!

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Nice Try It’s been a while…

But, we are back.  TFW took a break from sending you regular content to help educate, motivate and inspire you, but we are excited to be BACK!

Look for an email or Facebook post weekly highlighting our weekly blog!  Also let us know what topics interest you or what questions you need answered.

One of our core values at Transformation Fitness and Wellness is to Educate.  We are the only training facility in Indianapolis that requires all our Fitness Professionals to have minimum an Exercise Science Degree and the certifications that we have required that 4 year degree.

It’s tough in our industry because we have zero standards and anyone can publish anything about health, wellness, and nutrition.

For the everyday person wanting to have more energy, lose weight and live a health life, you get bombarded with way to many ideas, thoughts…when honestly you just want something that will work and is safe.

We can help with that.

What I love most is when people shoot us messages or clients ask us about different things they have seen or heard.  Most of the time they just want to know is this legit, should I try it?

If you are still with me and I hope you are today I want to discuss: NUTRITION!!!

This is where I see most people struggle and this is where you get the most mixed reviews on what to do.

I get asked all the time about Juicing, Cleansing, Low Carb, Paleo, Whole 30, GMO, Low Fat, Glycemic Index, I could go on.

I could also discuss each item listed above and provide our professional opinion and research with pros and cons for each.

First I want to share with you one of the best statements I still remember to this day from my nutrition professor:

“If you can’t do the DIET for the rest of your life, don’t do it at all.”

We can use it in every nutrition question. For example, “Hey Arin, should I do this juice cleanse thingy?”  (Randomly picking on juicing!)

Ask yourself:

Can you do that for the rest of your life?

If the Answer is No…then steer clear.

“But what if it just helps jump start me?”

What into a flesh eating, lean tissue losing, get out of my way before I eat your arm frenzy?!  (Sorry not a fan of juice cleanses because you wind up feeling ok for the first day or two, you only consume sugar, then your body resorts to eating your lean tissue, don’t even try to work out like this.)

We have always been huge advocates to reducing portion sizes, tracking calories and drinking more water.

It sounds too simple, right?

So why is it that we over complicate this process.

Personally I think sometimes it seems too easy.  We all know we need to reduce portions, get less processed food and drink more water.

Why do we still end up consuming things we know we should not?

Gratification, justification, and ultimately mindset.

Nutrition gets much deeper.  We all know reasonably what to eat, but it comes back to is our mindset, our emotions, our triggers.

Just stay positive…right?!

I wish it were that easy.

Digging through what’s going on inside is much harder than just eating “healthy”.

I am not giving a reason to not eat well.

It’s finding out what is burning inside of us that causes the actions we know we should not do but our emotions take over anyways.

One of the most gut wrenching research studies I read was a cause for why some women were obese.

The study showed the years of physical abuse the women endured day after day.  With more adipose (fat) tissue the less pain the woman felt when they were abused.

Let that settle in…

I know this was an extreme example but what I am getting at is our reasons for not consuming what we know we should consume is DEEP.  It takes work looking at why you do the things you do.  When you know you are on a plan.

Another angle I see often is we try to be perfect, every day!

We almost always fail and when we fail we go down…drive through, bag of whatever…we go down.

But if we just strive for BETTER each day, what would happen?

If each day you ate reasonably well, maybe you had a little something or consumed just a few more calories than you should have, but it was better than what you were doing before…guess what happens, you start seeing results.

Are they slower results, yes, but ultimately you are achieving results. Then you make adjustments as you progress.

Being all or nothing is really hard on people.

We sign up for things with the best intentions, then life happens and we get knocked down.

Typically we will revert back to old habits or worse.

My hope is you will take something away from this and if you need more help, please reach out.

The four key objectives are:

1.) Can I do this “diet” for the rest of my life?
2.) Reduce portions, Track Calories (more for awareness now, then we get deeper later), and drink more water
3.) Mindset: what is really going on inside (this one takes work, journaling daily has been helpful)
4.) Be better, not perfect

We help people in Indianapolis and all over the US have more energy, lose weight and live a life they deserve!  Let me know if you need help, Click Here.

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Amazing and Inspiring Stories to Share at Transformation Fitness and Wellness!

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Every day we get the opportunity to transform lives! We never take this lightly! The people we work with are real. They have crazy work and life schedules. Some travel every other week. But they have several things in common.  They want to make sure they take care of themselves, have more energy and in general just feel better.

I have challenged several people in local presentations to think about their personal core values for their life.  Most people put faith first, then family, and so on. I challenged the audience to put their faith first, then their health, then family. (In that order) The audience got a bit uncomfortable and I understand why.

We feel we are being selfish if we don’t take care of our family, loved ones, and spouse before ourselves.

But how can you take care of your family if you are not in good health?

Then I said picture yourself standing outside of a tall burning building and your loved one is at the top of the burning building.   You are outside and they are going to perish unless YOU go up there and save them. Let’s take this one step further. What if you were standing outside, you are overweight, have COPD, Type 2 Diabetes, Heart Issues, Etc. How are you going to make through the burning building to SAVE your loved one?

I know I am painting a grim picture, but I am being sincere. You only get one body and it does take some effort to keep it in good working order. Our lives are not active enough and we have to be intentional about movement and how many calories we consume.

Transformation Fitness and Wellness has helped thousands of Indianapolis People and we can help you get started too. We address Nutrition, Resistance Training, Cardiovascular Training, Flexibility and Assign you an Accountability Coach.  Just listen to a few of these short 1 or 2 minute videos. These people are amazing. They come from all walks of life and we get the opportunity to work with them every day!

Anita has only been with us a few short weeks but her life is being changed forever!  Anita comes in with a big smile and works hard through all her workouts.  She has also changed her nutrition, with the help of her Accountability Coach, and has seen amazing results because of it.  Every time Anita has an assessment we all know it!  There are always loud cheers coming from the assessment room to celebrate her weight loss!  We are so proud of you Anita!

The next inspiration I wanted to share with you is Eric!  He has been in our program a little over 6 months.  Some of the coolest things we get to experience is not only the physical transformation with our clients, but also seeing the confidence build in people!  Eric you come in with a can do attitude and get after it, you have done such an amazing job!

I could share several others and we keep adding more of these videos each week!  If you would like to see more just Click Here and you can see many more!

I hope this has inspired you today and if you would like to be our next Transformation, just Click Here or give us a call at 317-927-9689!  We sit down first in a Free Consultation then if we have a good fit we will get you set up in a comprehensive assessment, set SMART Goals and get you rocking and rolling!  You can do this, we believe in you!  Put yourself first, you will be amazed at how everything around you gets better when you take care of you!