Stop Procrastinating and try this…
In my personal training studio we have an inside joke where whenever someone thanks me or shows appreciation, it’s immediately responded to with my catch phrase “Thank you for choosing Eric Moss Fitness for all your health and fitness needs” followed immediately by a laugh, or groan with an eye roll.
Kicker is, people actually are thankful for choosing Eric Moss Fitness for all their health and fitness needs….and I am thankful they chose Eric Moss Fitness for all their health and fitness needs after all.
But the best way to thank me, is by continuing to choose Eric Moss Fitness for all their health and fitness needs (you can get an idea of my humor here), or by sending me referrals. Often times they tell me they’re trying to send their spouse, romantic interest, friend etc. to me, even asking “Have they reached out yet?” This can sometimes go for weeks on end.
Usually my reply is, “they’ll reach out when they’re actually ready”. And yeah, this stuff takes commitment and effort so they should be ready…but at the same time, people will spend their whole life getting ready to get ready then as “Pink” from Pink Floyd would say “And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun”
Getting ready to get ready is how my motivational speaking coach Dr. Rob Gilbert describes procrastination.
So then what do you do? Get started before being fully ready. In the book Think and Grow Rich the author Napoleon Hill recommends that when you get an idea, create a plan and get started to work on it immediately, learn from your mistakes and adjust your plans accordingly until you succeed.
Of course a way you can shortcut the process is by taking on a coach that has a plan with a high track record of success. There’s a number of decent personal trainers out there, but if you happen to choose Eric Moss Fitness for all your health and fitness needs, I’ll be thankful.
If you are unsure if you should choose Eric Moss Fitness for all your health and fitness needs, I have a free trial so you can see if you like it first. Just send me a text at 973 476 5328 and introduce yourself. Easy right? And if you do that, I’ll also be thankful you reached out 😆
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.
It’s about more than looking good
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.
Tom M. Personal Training Success Story
Before Tom came to me, he was undergoing a renaissance period in his life. Back in the year 2023 he realized that being introverted, having a desk job as an accountant and a sedentary lifestyle wasn’t going to give him the life he wanted. So he decided to do something about it starting with his physique.
One day he passed by my personal training studio in Boonton and picked up a brochure with some of my info on it and was inspired by the success stories there. He opted to take charge of his nutrition before working with me and to his credit, lost 50lbs completely on his own.
Then around new years, he was cleaning his apartment and found the flyer he picked up and decided 2024 was the year to turn his life around. He reached out to me to schedule the free trial.
At the end of the free trial, when we were sitting down for his goal assessment, knowing he is an accountant and we were heading into tax season, I tried to steer him towards one of the twice a week programs. Tom was adamant he could do 3x per week and would make it happen. Having worked with accountants, I wasn’t so sure he could pull it off and reluctantly signed him up.
But Tom defied my expectations. To his credit he showed up every single session ready to bring his best. And applying his work ethic to my program design despite going through the trials and tribulations accountants do during tax season, he got massive results all across the board.
In the first 12 weeks, he took a weight that was heavier his one rep max bench press and was able to do 90 reps in 10mins, went from 1 chin up to 6 chin ups, his squat 1 rep max he did for 2 sets of 15 sub-maximal reps, his Romanian deadlift he was easily doing sets of 6 with weights heavier than his starting 1 rep max. That is a massive increase in his strength. But that’s not the only thing that completely transformed.
He started dressing more stylish and his physique had improved dramatically and people started complimenting him. With his new found confidence he started going out and doing more social things, some of which were with friends he met training alongside at Eric Moss Fitness.
One of my taglines is strength for life, living and the pursuit of happiness, because we should all have the physical capacity and physique to live life on our own terms. Tom’s story is the perfect example of what I’m talking about.
Now at just a little over a year later, he took a new job which is more fulfilling for him and we switched to a remote format until tax season is over. Currently he’s doing sets of 5 chin ups with 10lbs added and his sub maximal bench press training weight is a whopping 100lbs heavier than his 1 rep max was last year, and he got 27 reps in 5 mins with it. Let the enormity of that sink in for a minute.
When you look at the difference in year to year, often times we get stuck doing the same old thing day after day, year in year out and just accept it. Tom is proof that life can be better and part of that starts with the confidence that comes with improvements to your strength and physique. Nothing improves confidence like doing something tough, and coming out the other side way stronger and way more muscular and that transfers to life. Because life is for living.
If you feel stuck, maybe it might be time to check out my free trial. Just text me at 973 476 5328 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.