Organize your training, improve your life
I like to listen to a lot of personal development stuff. It’s actually one of the things that in addition to becoming a personal trainer also led me to become a motivational speaker. It helps cut through the negativity that is all around us, and because people come to me to help improve their lives through getting in shape, I also like to help guide other aspects of their life so that everything improves, not just the way they look in before and after pics.
As I was setting my workout up, I was listening to a personal development podcast called “The Mindset Mentor”. I’ve pasted the episode below.
As I was listening to the episode, I was struck by a small handful of the nuggets and how it applies to training. The first one was about habit stacking. Basically if there is a habit you wish to have, pair it with something you are already doing. As an example, one of the ways I stay consistent with promoting my motivational modern day strength performer business is I pair it up with my workouts. Basically, I set up the equipment for my workout and update the programming so I know how much time my workout will take. Then once its all set up, I simply go across the street to the library and send out prospecting emails. Then I workout before my clients come in. It keeps me consistent, and because I don’t have the typical distractions, I minimizes decision fatigue which brings me to the next one.
The next one was about simplifying your life to minimize decision fatigue. Basically, you only have so much decision making ability in a day, and every decision you make taps it just a little bit. There is freedom in structure. A lot of people’s workouts (and even some personal trainers that don’t really know what they’re doing) are just made up as they go along. That’s actually harder to do from a decision fatigue standpoint. For me, I simply update the plan, and follow the plan. The hard part of the decision making process was at the beginning. And for my personal training clients its even easier. They just have to show up and do what their coach says. They’re pretty much all professionals in their given field and can probably figure out how to train, but there is value to “because coach said so.” It takes those decisions of their plate so they can focus on what they need to focus on. The main decision they made was choosing Eric Moss Fitness for all their health and fitness needs for which I’m thankful.
If you want to get in phenomenal shape fast, and want to minimize the decision making fatigue, then one choice you have is to take my free trial so you can decide if you think its for you. Then assuming you choose to continue, I’ll program your workouts and guide you so you never feel lost and you are on the effective road towards your goals. I take care of the complicated part for you. All you have to do is 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.
You are not meant to crawl
One week ago was first Friday and Boonton Main Street did a nice job organizing and promoting a community building event where participating business’ would offer a trinket that I guess in some way would represent what they do. I ended up running out of the trinkets (I bought all the ones that were in the store) and gave out some nails that I had bent in training.
But nails that I bent in my hands don’t truly represent what I do.
The trinket that I gave out was a butterfly. Might seem strange that a no frills personal training gym conveniently located on Main Street in Boonton run by a world record holding modern day strength performer would have a butterfly as a representation of what I do.
But butterfly’s have long been a symbol of transformation. That’s what I do. I transform people from their current state to what they are supposed to be. A stronger, leaner, fitter, more agile, more confident person.
A caterpillar may only be able to move slowly up a tree branch wondering what it could do. That’s its current state, but that’s not what it’s supposed to be, at least not forever. Its supposed to be a beautiful butterfly. Its purpose is to spread its wings and fly.
We aren’t supposed to witness life from the sidelines wishing we could be more. We’re supposed to live life on our own terms, free from the shackles of not being physically capable. We are meant to fly.
If you want to find out what you’re capable of, if you want to be stronger, leaner, fitter, more agile and more confident. If you want to be the one you’re supposed to be, but don’t know how, I have a free trial so you can see if it’s for you. Just text me at 973 476 5328 and introduce yourself to get started. Easy right?
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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.
Do you want “F’ it” strength? Avoid these common errors
About a week or so ago, one of my personal training clients came in and told me she has a story of real world application of strength training. In the story she needed to get a safety deposit box, and there was no one there to help her lift it. After looking around for a couple minutes she says “F’ it” then proceeded to pick up this awkwardly heavy object and put it in her car, all by herself.
It’s actually a perfect indication of something I talk about…actually a bunch of different things which is why I struggled to name this article. One, strength is freedom of choice. She chose Eric Moss Fitness for all her health and fitness needs for which I’m thankful, which meant she was also given he choice of either waiting for help, or the freedom to say “F’ it” and just do it herself. Either way it was her choice.
Now one thing with my training methods, is I purposefully avoid using weight belts despite people saying you need it because you can lift more weight safely. Yeah, you can…but just because you can doesn’t mean you should. In my opinion if you need a weight belt, in order to lift something safely…you quite simply aren’t ready to lift it… yet. Lift weights you can safely handle without issue, and gently configure the programmatic variables of sets, repetitions and load ie weight on the bar until you can safely lift things you couldn’t safely lift before. That and she didn’t have a weight belt when it came time to lift this awkwardly heavy object. Most of us don’t carry that with us on the regular.
Now she knew she could do it. Even though it’s awkward it was significantly less than what she lifts in my personal training studio which is conveniently located on Main Street in Boonton (as you can probably tell, I have a lot of inside jokes). This woman who started with me in her 60’s is sub maximally Romanian deadlifting over 200lbs, hip thrusting over 400lbs, she’s done chin ups and a whole bunch of other brag worthy stuff. And as much as I’ve helped her with her physical strength she came into it with a lot of mental strength. Getting stronger in any way, will make you stronger in every way.
And beyond being able to lift awkward things in regular life, about a week or two before she had texted a bunch of us that she was able to do some highly vigorous hike that she had almost talked herself out of, because the reviews were a bunch of likely non active regular people were saying how hard it is. But she had the freedom to do it, and she did it without issue and was happy she did because the view was beautiful. She was able to experience something that not everyone would have the freedom to experience because they didn’t have the physical capacity to do so.
You have a choice. You can either choose to continue living the way you’ve been living and gradually lose the things you enjoy doing. If you want the freedom to be “F’it fit”, the freedom to do things you couldn’t do before then choose to take my free trial. 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.