I’m always learning. I love reading books, listening to podcasts, watching youtube videos from people that actually know what they’re doing so on and so forth. One thing I was listening to the other day was an interview with Alywn Cosgrove. Alwyn Cosgrove was one of the OG trainers that was saying that strength training is more important than cardio for the goals of burning fat. (Here’s a link to one of his articles https://www.results-fitness.com/the-hierarchy-of-fat-loss). His philosophy of if he can get more results than the others, he’ll always have business. I’ve adopted that as my own which is why I show off my personal training success stories. And his program design philosophy, which he got from Bruce Lee, I’ve also adopted into my own systematic approach.

Anyway one of the things that struck me was when he had said “You’ve helped them get a new body, now what are they going to do with it?” and that got me pondering.

Summer is approximately 3 months away, which is enough time to get a new body, or more accurately discover the real body you’re supposed to have. And when you have it, you often get the itch to do something with it.

Recently I changed my sidewalk sign to say “Summer is coming, free trials available”. Yes, summer is coming, and though what people may be thinking is I’m promoting looking great in a bathing suit. And yes, I am, but it’s also more than that. Summer could be about lounging on a beach or pool side, but it could also mean playing volleyball with your friends. It could mean more vigorous hikes, or taking up other active hobbies like climbing or recreational sports or doing your first 5k, getting the confidence to go out to parties as a young adult or rolling around with your grand kids as a young adult with several years of experience.

I count someone being able to roll around with their grand kids to be as important or even more important than helping someone win a physique competition. Neal, was able to roll around with his grandkids while they were still young.

When you train effectively you not only look good, you feel good and can do things you wouldn’t normally have been able to do, and that is where your best life is.

I have a tagline that says “Strength for life, living and the pursuit of happiness. We should all have the strength, physical capacity and physique to live life on our own terms free from the shackles of weakness. Because life is for living.”

And I know the journey to get that new body can be a complex and overwhelming one. Fortunately you don’t have to figure it all out by yourself, I have a free trial at my gym in Boonton. Just text me at 973 476 5328 and introduce yourself to get started.

Eric Moss is a personal trainer in Boonton and moonlights as a world-record-holding modern-day professional performing strongman, author, and motivational speaker. In the tradition of the strength performers more common during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a live show and travels across the country doing presentations on goal achievement for conferences, corporations, associations, nonprofits, and government entities as well as for schools and universities. His personal training studio is located on Main Street in Boonton New Jersey and is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, Montville, Kinnelon, Pine Brook, Butler, and Parsippany New Jersey.