Wellness requires fitness of mind and body
What is fitness?
Fitness means living up to your genetic potential. Fitness means being prepared for a successful life, in whatever environment you find yourself. Fitness is the essence of wellness and longevity.
We are athletes and team players by nature
Just as fish are designed to swim in schools, birds are designed to fly in flocks, and monkeys are designed to live together in trees, we humans are designed to lift, run, stretch, think, and collaborate in every environment on earth. We are like expensive race cars that must be taken out onto the racetrack regularly and operated according to our design specifications.
Fitness of mind and body are two sides of the same coin.
Mental fitness
You cannot be mentally fit and a physical wreck at the same time.
Physical fitness
You cannot be physically fit and a mental wreck at the same time.
Fitness is a life-long quest
Mental fitness begins with lean
Living in the moment...
That is the essence of mental fitness.
There are many paths to mental fitness.
Mine began with weekly CBT sessions.
I will help you find the path that 's right for you.
Physical fitness also begins with lean
Lean means clean, on the inside.
I will help you to get lean and clean.
After that, I can help you get stronger.
You cannot do both at the same time.
The triad of physical fitness
Strength
Flexibility
Endurance
Maintain or Increase the thickness of muscles, bones, tendons, and the walls of the heart chambers. A strong body builds confidence.
Your strength workout will build or maintain physical fitness in 20 minutes, 1-2 times per week, and will put you on the road to good health.
Endurance
Flexibility
Endurance
Increase the volume of the heart chambers.
High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), every second or third day, will provide the quickest results for aerobic fitness and good health.
Your interval-training workout will last
8-12 minutes, 2-3 times per week.
Flexibility
Flexibility
Flexibility
Flexibility training can be performed as often as you like. Yoga combined with foam rolling provides best results for physical fitness.
A great flexibility workout can take as little as
30 minutes, three times per week.
I am a professional fitness trainer
I studied and trained with the great bodybuilder Mike Mentzer
I follow his Heavy Duty protocol: Intense, brief, and infrequent.
A Certified Personal Trainer with NASM
The prestigious National Academy of Sports Medicine. The leader in fitness education.
A fitness trainer for Balley Total Fitness gym in Culver City, CA from 2008 to 2010.
A fitness enthusiast since 1977
I possess a thorough knowledge of weight training, hatha yoga, aerobic interval training,
a dozen sports-and-athletic-related activities, seven years of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy,
a practicing Taoist, and everything to do with fitness of mind and body.