What is your relationship with fitness? Is it like marriage or an unstable love affair? Do you love it when it’s easy and convenient or are you committed to it no matter what? I think most people treat fitness like a on again off again boyfriend. When you get down and lonely, you run to your …
When you are struggling, take a time machine forward a day, a week, a month, a year, a decade. Think of what you do NOW and how it will affect your future.I don’t run for me, I run for her – the future me. There was no part of me that wanted to wake up …
The Fitness Poster Have you ever noticed gyms, even home gyms, are often decorated with fitness posters? This is not just because they need art on the wall and it just fits the gym theme. No! The real reason they plaster these posters everywhere is because they help us succeed. Even if we go to a gym …
I apologize in advance for using such an informal edgy title, but “stink” didn’t cut it – and it didn’t rhyme with success. LOL As I was searching for synonyms for “suck”, I discovered where the word came from. Jazz musicians would compliment a horn player by saying “wow, he can really blow!” Since I play trumpet, …
When we see photos of fitness competitors and professional athletes, it can be very motivating for some people – but very discouraging for others. It’s easy to set ourselves apart from the professionals, or from people we think we can’t relate to, and think to ourselves “I could never do that”. But, when I see someone with my …
We all have to eat, but are we living to eat or do we eat to live – and live life well? Meaning, is food Lord over our life or is it just part of life. Sometimes I think we give food way too much power. This morning I was reading the passage “…choose for yourselves …
One of the biggest obstacles I come across most is people not being honest with themselves. Cients often try to convince me of how healthy they eat and how they are doing everything right but they just can’t lose weight. They think they are just an exception to the rule. In all my years in the fitness …
Sometimes we can get SO focused on the goal, we get PARALYZED with being overwhelmed. Whether we are thinking about how much further to go or how impossible the journey seems, it doesn’t change what we could do to today by just doing what we can. Sometimes, our goal isn’t even being thinner, fitter, stronger or faster. …
A lot of people ask me to pray for them and their struggle with their weight. While I know God cares about our health, I just wonder how much time we waste waiting on a miracle, when God is waiting on our obedience. What do I mean? Well, God made us with free will. We have …
Most of the time, our biggest enemy is our own self. Our mind fills us with thoughts of doubt, fear, despair and discouragement. As Joyce Meyer loves to say, “you can’t be pitiful and powerful at the same time.” You simply can’t be a victim and a fighter. The only way you can power through …
