No Quick Fixes, Sorry!

Sometimes I wish there was a button that would be placed in front of me that I could press and I would become the best at one thing; the best in the world at something. Usually I pick something cool like guitar player, writer, or basketball player. Unfortunately, there is no magic button, no quick fix to get me there. If I want to be the best guitar player, best writer, or best basketball player I can be then I have to work! The same goes for fitness, nutrition, and living well.

Whenever I see a commercial that talks about getting fit or losing weight by simply taking a pill or using a gimmicky product that doesn't take much work, I scoff. However, I don't really blame the companies for trying to pitch these products because American's are conditioned to want things immediately; they are just working with their audience. We want results in this country. We want to lose weight fast, we want to be the peak of fitness fast, we don't want to do the work. I am here to tell you, just like all the makers of the programs at Team Beachbody, and all the other Team Beachbody coaches, there are no quick fixes. If you want to transform your body and become the peak of fitness and nutrition you need to work. You need to sweat, you need to hit the wall that tells you to go back and you need to f*cking climb over it.

It was so hard for me. It was so scary for me. I am not some perfect spitting image of fitness. I am passionate about it lately, more than ever, but quite frankly I hadn't been this way for most of my life. I am not a better person now than I was, I am just in better physical shape and I feel confident, you can get that too with improved fitness and nutrition.

A lot of very overweight people get bogged down by the fact that they have a lot of work ahead or that they won't do the P90x or Insanity exercises right. To those people I tell them to first look at my transformation, second, look at all the transformations of folks who were extremely overweight on Teambeachbody.com, there are people who were over 300 lbs who did Insanity. They kept showing up, kept pushing play, struggled with the work at first, but they are now in amazing shape. They found the voice in their head that said, "we can do the work," while silencing the one that said, "it's too hard, it's too much work."

You can too, you are no different. No one is going to judge you for fumbling with a move in P90x or Insanity or Turbofire. Fitness and nutrition is hard work. Let go of your ego thats afraid of being put out of your comfort zone, let go of your comforts and you can conquer this with hard work and my help.

Life is much more fun with change, challenge, and the unexpected, embrace it! I am starting to learn this and I always feel more rewarded when I face a new challenge every day. Get ready to do the work, you are not alone!