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Meeting the Demands of Everyday Life

Our landscape has changed. Some parts are good and others will be different going forward. I know for us in the health and wellness space cramming 30+ bodies in a small area is not going to be ok for a while.

I also know there are some people who will not feel comfortable going to a gym for a while.

It is all fair and understandable.

What is important is to find a solution that meets you where you are today.

I will say it again, the landscape has changed for health and wellness. Some businesses have chosen to adapt and some have not.

We understand things are going to be different.

We also understand that we are all trying to navigate life and meet the demands of everyday life. Your health has never been more important.

When it comes to your health this isn’t just throwing some weights around at the gym, this is having more energy on a daily basis, this is breathing, truly breathing. Having a clear mind and high performance at your job or being present with your kids.

Managing anxiety and depression.

Listen, we get it more than ever.

Its time to take control over your health and wellness.

We have pivoted at TFW and things won’t go back to the “way we used to”.

That’s ok.

The stakes have never been so high to take care of you and we are here to provide the appropriate solution.

It looks like we will be able to open next week. This is not 100% confirmed, but we are trying to be as prepared as we possibly can. (We can’t wait till Friday to be told – cool you can open.) If the orders change, we will follow, but from what we have heard this is the plan.

Then how we plan to conduct our business is:

In person limiting class size at first. We only allowed 10 to begin with, but we want to err on caution and start at 5 people per class and adjust as needed.

This way everyone can spread out and feel safe.

We will continue our accountability, nutrition coaching and 1 on 1 assessments.

Then we will continue to serve our community online.

We are also creating a new online membership site where members will have access to our library of movements, on demand workouts, 28 Live Group workouts, workshops and ability to schedule 1 on 1 workouts.

We had our floors disinfected and cleaned yesterday by Zerorez. (highly recommend)

We always used a medical grade cleaner and will continue.

Lastly, we are going to ask our clients to take personal responsibility – if you are not feeling well, please do not come to the gym, wash your hands after the workout and/or use hand sanitizer, then wipe down equipment between each use. (As a staff we will be doing this as well.)

I will say it again, the stakes have never been so high to take care of you. Life is demanding a lot from us and we can help you perform at a high level.

Let us know how we can help.

Arin

 

Adapting to Challenges

I hope you are doing well and enjoying some good weather and sunshine here in Indianapolis!

I wanted to talk today about adapting to challenges. This climate we are in has either shown some amazing qualities in each of us or has brought us down. I won’t lie and say I have this all figured out.

We all will go through ups and downs on how we feel and are handling our current situations.

I have watched several business adapt or pivot and we have seen some businesses already shut down.

I can’t predict exactly what our lives will be like post all this and how long it will take for our economy to boost back.

But what I do know is we won’t be scared of “virtual” anything. I believe this has only opened up opportunities.

Adapting and moving our workouts was the only option we saw. It didn’t take us a week, heck it didn’t even take us a day to find a solution. Now I am not patting myself on the back here.

I want to share more of the mindset.

I guess you can say this is the eternal problem solver in me. Or the challenges we have face to get where we are today.

It is not in either one of us to sit on our hands and say why me, instead it is always ok cool, what’s the solution.

No isn’t an option.

When we first started this business 7 odd banks said no to financing our first building. The 8th one said yes.

The building we are in today was the 3rd deal after two years of searching.

Some could say we are hard-headed, which is not untrue. 😉

Determined is my thought process.

I encourage you to look at what you have been through and experienced in life. How has it been helpful to you today? I will have to admit, I have struggled with this.

Adapting right now is our only option. You can sit and stew and worry or you can find a new normal.

Exercise is one of the most important things you can do right now. We have any and every option available to you, minus in person. 😉

-We have our 28 LIVE Virtual workouts. —> CLICK HERE (we opened this up to everyone!)

-We upload a recording of the first workout each day along with a library we are building to our YouTube Channel, access anytime anywhere.

-We have workouts we can email you.

-We can mail the workouts to you.

-We post our workouts on FB and in our Private Group.

We understand this time is hard on all of us. Keep your mind sharp, exercise daily even if it is going for a walk. Listen to music.

Also, we are available. We have been working round the clock to keep all this going and picking up the phone to check on our clients. Give us a call if you need help navigating Zoom. Or what’s this movement, etc.

We are here for you!

Arin

“No matter how small you start, start something that matters.” – Brendon Burchard

Today I want to put some positivity into your morning.

I have read almost everything written by Brendon Burchard, and highly recommend his book: High Performance Habits.

I also wanted to share this quote:

No matter how small you start, start something that matters.

I believe we shy away from goals because we feel they are too big or I can’t possibly achieve that or we get caught up in the how? These feelings and thoughts come creeping in and prevent us from even starting.

Or we feel like I have been trying forever and still can’t obtain X.

I am here to tell you to start small.

It may be as simple and perfecting a lift in the gym. Have you ever broken down a lift, in my opinion it is one of the longest processes to perfection.

Or dialing in nutrition. With all the options, thoughts and “experts” out there where the heck should we start.

I know this isn’t sexy but typically just adding in water can significantly increase how your body is functioning, aiding in better digestion, less bloating and weight loss can occur – but that’s too simple right?

The point I am wanting to get at is starting small.

It almost never needs to be some huge plan, extensive program or perfect macros.

Sometimes it is showing up 2-3 times/week at the gym.

Its blocking your calendar, not letting anything get in the way of your scheduled time for you.

Or planning what you will eat for a couple days. Not the whole week, a few days.

Start small, build, it won’t be perfect. Allow for buffers and keep showing up day after day. The compound effect is real. We see it day after day.

One thing I encourage you to do is define what success looks like for you personally. Then reverse engineer what it will take to achieve that level of success. Next step is asking yourself, what am I willing to do?

Start small and build. What matters to you?

Habits form after doing something 21-60 times.

We know you can do anything, how can we help?

Arin

Believe in You

Today I want to talk about believing in you.

I know this might seem simple or even a bit silly, but there is so much power in believing in yourself and that you can do anything you set out to do.

We just launched our Transformation Challenge last night and I am always inspired by each person who steps through our doors ready to make change.

It is not easy to walk through our doors and we understand that.

But there is hope in each person and a belief that they can do what they set out to do.

Life always has a funny way of either picking us up or pushing us down.

I also feel it’s how we perceive life too.

These past couple years have been pretty tough on Tony and myself and I don’t share things to say poor us, but more to inspire and say hey these things could have knocked us down, but we are not going to let it.

We have to many things to do in this world than to let life and quite frankly some dumb situations get in our way of helping people.

I have shared several times our journey having our son three years ago. I had a very traumatic birth experience and it rocked me to put it lightly. I also learned that PTSD does not go away and his birthday is a huge trigger that I am learning to work through.

Then I am very happy to share that we have hope with our home. The builder has given a new closing date for buying back our home in the next few weeks. All we can do is have hope and stay positive. (back story is we built a home and moved in end of Nov 2018 only to find out 2 months later we had 243 pages of structural, mechanical, you name it issues.)

This home has tested us personally beyond what I thought I was capable of navigating, but we are getting through it. Who needs to wash clothes in your 7-month-old home right? (the main water supply is kinked reducing the flow and not allowing our washing machine it fill, add it to the list.)

All these things could have crippled us.

I know that someone else is out there going through life and its hard. Everything is relative to your own personal experiences too.

So, at the end of the day when life is coming at you, believe in you. Why not?

What I have learned in my short life is you are stronger than you think, even when you don’t want to be. Also fight for you, cause no one else is going to. Keep the mind strong and you can get through anything. Especially when you don’t think you can go any longer, push one more time.

You can do anything you want in this life, but you gotta have faith! (anyone else singing George Michael’s song now?) 😉

Arin

Having Courage

Just as the universe doesn’t become less complex, life doesn’t tend to get easier. But you get stronger. You learn to show up more, cope better, and be truer and more conscious amid the judgement and hardship.

Obstacles become smaller and the path is your own.

Trust yourself, lean forward. The next level opens after your next courageous step.

I pulled from Brendon Burchard, if you have not read High Performance Habits, I am highly recommend reading.

Courage is something I see in each one of our clients whether they think so or not.

It takes courage to walk through our doors.

It takes courage to do that first workout.

It takes courage to keep showing up each day, week, year.

It takes courage to make changes to your life for the better.

Honoring the struggle is an important part of the journey.

Michelle Obama said, “You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.”

If you take anything away from my message today, have faith in the future.

Just because the sky is cloudy doesn’t mean there is no sun.

Have courage and faith as you walk through your day today and as always, we are here for you.

Let me know if you need help.

Arin

Pain

I wanted to share with you a passage from Tony Robbins book, Awaken the Giant Within:

“Though we’d like to deny it, the fact remains that what drives our behavior is instinctive reaction to pain and pleasure, not intellectual calculation.

Intellectually, we may believe that eating chocolate is bad for us, but we’ll still reach for it.

Why?

Because we’re not driven so much by what we intellectually know, but rather by what we’ve learned to link pain and pleasure to in our nervous systems. It’s our neuro-associations— the associations we’ve established in our nervous systems— that determine what we’ll do.

Although we’d like to believe it’s our intellect that really drives us, in most cases our emotions— the sensations that we link to our thoughts— are what truly drive us.”

In this part of his book he talks about pain vs pleasure in association with why we do the things we do. I found it fascinating and frustrating all at the same time.

Fascinating because we ultimately have control.

Frustrating because we don’t take control.

We stay in bad relationships because we fear the pain of the unknown. We eat things we know we should not or consume too much because we feel pleasure in the moment and fear the feeling of deprivation.

Many times, we can override the emotions but to truly win we have to address the behavior associated. We have to link the sensation of pleasure with a different behavior.

This is not easy.

With practice we can rewrite our thinking.

When it comes to eating better, we have to get past the emotions we have with the behavior. Do not fear the unknown, you know you are winning when you eat something not so good and feel crummy.

You realize the pleasure from the food item is not always worth it.

Tony’s book is fantastic and highly recommend reading if you have not already!

Let me know if you want to talk more about this topic. It’s a difficult process and painful, but always worth it.

We can help, just shoot me a message back,

Arin