Work Hard and Expect Success

Success with your body and in every area of your life is all about stepping outside of your comfort zone and that means embracing pain.

To reach high levels of physical and personal success you must approach your training, and your entire life, as an endeavor in constant growth. The ultimate truth is, you are either moving forward or moving backward; growing or dying. There's no such thing as comfortably maintaining.

To grow, you must step above past achievements; beyond your perceived boundaries and limits. That means stepping out of the known, into the unknown; out of the familiar and into the unfamiliar; out of the comfortable into the uncomfortable. You must get out of your comfort zone.

Most people are scared of the new, unknown and unfamiliar.
They prefer to stay in that womb of comfort. When the going gets tough; when the effort gets painful, when the work gets hard, they always pull back into safety.

But the extraordinary people do the opposite. They know they have to get out of the comfort zone, and into new territory or they'll stagnate and die.

Here's a little quote that you should post on your bulletin board, your computer desktop or somewhere you will always see it:

"Do what you always did, get what you always got."

You can't grow or change by doing what you've already done. You've got to train just to prevent yourself from going backwards. Maintenance doesn't occur when you do nothing, maintenance is working to fight entropy (the tendency for things to naturally deteriorate).

Still, most people won't leave their comfort zones.
They won't do it in business, they won't do it in their personal lives. They won't do it in their sport. They won't do it for personal health and fitness.

The old saying, "no pain no gain" gets knocked all the time as if it were bad advice. The fact of life is that you don't grow unless you are constantly stepping outside the comfort zone, and outside the comfort zone is discomfort and pain.

I find that it's mostly the non-achievers who make out "no pain, no gain" to be a bad thing. But the winners get it. The champions understand stepping outside the comfort zone in a healthy context, so they embrace it.

The elite athletes and high achievers really have to push themselves; they're going to push their boundaries and test their limits. But if you're not an elite athlete or seasoned bodybuilder, and you take the advice, "no pain, no gain"
too literally, you're going to end up getting injured.

You've got to break comfort zones. And if your body is not changing, then I don't care how hard you think you're working, whatever you're doing right now is inside your comfort zone.

Embrace the "good pain" of growth like the champions do. Soon it subsides, you enjoy the benefits of the change and the pain is forgotten. You've reached a new, higher plateau of achievement. Enjoy the view for a short while. But be on guard because it's not long before that higher level become s your new comfort zone and then its time to press on again.

STAR CLIENT of the Month is...

RYAN MOORE

Ryan joined our ranks only a few months ago and he has already lost over 30 inches, 25 pounds of fat all the while improving his core strength by 50% and upper body strength by over 200%!

Now all of these physical attributes are nice and is what gets most of us motivated to start and through the door but I am here to tell you that they really do mean squat in the grand scheme of things. Ryan is ten times healthier and happier with more energy that he has ever had before and that type of benefit seeps into every other area of your life.

The upward spiral of success starts from within, in your mindset and your vision of yourself. When you change that, you can change anything.
Vitality Fitness is more than just a place to come and get into amazing shape; it is a place that can literally transform your life with the help of our life coaches disguised as personal trainers.

Ryan has since used the networking capabilities that the studio provides and connected with another client to purchase an emerging franchise business. Ryan is now the owner of the Cambridge division of Tutor Doctor. With his new found confidence, he sold his very first consultation and it just happened to be the largest package they offer.

If you take Ryan’s lead and think of getting physically fit as merely the first step in improving your life overall, you give yourself the mental motivation to stick to the plan everyday and achieve the inevitable.

Congratulate Ryan and the many others like him that you will meet at Vitality Fitness Studio.

Antioxidants, Which Ones Do You Need?

As you begin to train more regularly and your intensity rises, so do the free radicals floating around your body. Exercise creates massive influx of free radicals into the blood stream and they need to scavenged by various antioxidants.

There are 7 known types of free radicals. I have listed them below with the supplements known to counter act them best. As you can see from the list below there is only one type of antioxidant that attacks 6 out of the 7 and that is Ginkgo Biloba.

1) Superoxide Anion Radical
Supplements: Vitamin C, Green Tea, Glutathione, Maria Thistle, Ginkgo Biloba

2) Hydrogen Peroxide
Glutathione, Maria Thistle, Ginkgo Biloba

3) Hydroxyl Peroxide
Vitamin C, Methionine, Green Tea, Ginkgo Biloba

4) Singlet Oxygen
Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Beta Carotene, Histidine, Maria Thistle, Selenium & Bilberry (assists Vitamin E), Gingko Biloba

5) Polyunsaturated Fatty Acid Radical
Beta Carotene, Selenium & Bilberry, Vitamin E, Maria Thistle

6) Organic/Fatty Acid Hydroperoxides
Glutathione, Maria Thistle, Ginkgo Biloba

7) Oxidized Protein
Glutathione, Maria Thistle, Ginkgo Biloba, Sulfhydryl Amino Acids