Les Brown is one of the world's best motivational speakers. He helps people beleive it is possible.
I hate heights. I hate climbing ladders. I hate looking down off of high condo buildings. I hate the rides at the theme parks.
I started listening to Les Brown years ago and he pumped me up so much that I jumped alone out of a plane at 3000 feet ! Wow, I actually blacked out from the adrenaline and woke up when the chute opened .. luckily the pull cord was tied to the plane and the instructor cut it loose. It was the most thrilling and envigorating feeling in my life.
I hated those things I mentioned above... now I welcome them !!! Greatest feeling in my life ! I applied Les Brown's principles to my life and it is possible. So, beleive in yourself and checkout Les Brown's video
What do I want from you?
1. Think of a fear that you want to overcome. Can be in business or your personal life or really any aspect.
2. Put it below as a comment. By doing yourself, you are making a commitment to yourself as you have announced it to over 100k people 
3. Instead of thinking about how you can overcome your fear, just do it. Seriously. Don’t think about it too much, but must do it.
(Disclaimer: nothing illegal or dangerous please :O )
4. Come and make another comment about how you overcame it and what that meant to you.
5. When you next come up against a fear or approach a situation outside of a comfort zone, think about how you felt just before you attempted and then how not an issue it was to actually overcome.
Have a great weekend and please be in touch.
Every human that has ever existed has been an individual. Different aesthetics, different biochemistry and different biomechanics. This means each person needs a different regime in order to feed, exercise and correct their body and mind as efficiently as possible. With the number of combinations being infinite, you can see how much fun exercise coaches and healers can have attempting to unlock each client's unique code.
Despite the vast number of differences seen amongst people there remain some commonalities that will ultimately dictate whether a client succeeds or falls short of their goals, let's take a look.
Knowledge - Ever find yourself observing someone's form at the gym and catch yourself thinking, "Man, that cannot be good for his back" and "I bet his shoulders will hurt when he gets older". Well, you're right, it is only a matter of time before your subject gets injured. Your first piece of advice to him/her should not be how to correct the exercise but to go home and pick up a book or read an article on how to do things right, because they are either misinformed or uneducated. This applies to any aspect of health and wellness. Having a base of knowledge means calculated success.
Dedication - This doesn't just mean working hard when you exercise, it means looking for ways to improve a little each day. Assess your nutritional quality, posture, sleep patterns, injuries, personality traits and quality of life and physically write them on paper in order of importance. Re-assess them frequently and strive to improve the ever-changing top priority. This ensures that your habits will continuously become better and more efficient.
Love - Love contributes greatly to most decisions in life. I'm not talking about the sappy, hallmark kind of love. I'm talking about the love you have for yourself, your family, your values..etc. Usually, if you make the decision to begin training it means you want to reverse or change something that has happened to your body. You do this because you love your body. You most likely got this way overindulging in a certain luxury. You loved that luxury too much. If you want to make the journey easier and more enjoyable, learn to love exercise and clean nutrition. Eat for function rather than flavor and appreciate what healthy living does for you every day.
Excel at the 3 components and you will see positive changes in yourself.
A fitness professional's attention to detail can be their best asset or their achilles heel. The efficiency with which our clients perform movements is totally reliant on the cues and corrections we implement. It is our duty to identify any improper patterns and compensations being performed.
A commonly seen problem in just about any fitness facility is poor glute activation. For those unaware of what activation is; it is a muscle's potential for recruitment and activity. In other words, can you contract a given muscle and if so how efficiently? From the biomechanics standpoint, glute inactivity is a large contributor to low back pain, postural misalignment and poor performance during exercise just to name a few. From the aesthetics standpoint, you cannot change a muscle if you do not stimulate the fibers that makeup its composition. So if you're one of the many sufferers of pancake butt and you're wondering why your glutes haven't firmed up after trying every type of squat and/or lunge in the book, there is your answer.
You simply have to learn to use your glutes.
You see, your brain controls all muscular function. It sends a signal via the spinal cord to one or many muscles based on the given task and tells them to lengthen or shorten. This is referred to as a contraction. When a muscle is inactive, the pathway from the brain to that muscle(s) is either non-existent or cloudy and the signal is not received as easily. In order to restore the connection, there needs to be a forced mental effort on behalf of the exerciser to think and feel that muscle working in isolation. Once the isolated function is regained, you can then reintegrate it into a more compound movement.
Now I'm sure you're all waiting in anticipation for the solution to this problem, so here it is. Activation issues can be solved by performing some simple pre-exercise movements to increase blood flow and neural response. Here is a simple one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARvJ-o0enoM
Cues: 1- Lying on your back with your heels close to your butt, toes off the ground.
2- Hands gently resting on glutes (to ensure the amount of activity occurring).
3- Focus on squeezing you butt as you push your heels into the ground and raise your hips up toward the ceiling. Hold for 1-5 seconds with a controlled return.
Repeat this movement for 1-2 sets of 6-10 repetitions. It takes less than a minute and makes a world of difference.
No Butts about it!!
