Often times following one of my strongman performances, when people find out I have a personal training studio they make the mistake in assuming that the clientele I typically work with are up and coming strongmen.

My demo vid so you know what I’m talking about.

This is not the case.  It used to be that when people wanted me to teach them some of the classic feats of strength, I’d tell them “Do a Turkish get up with 100lbs, then come back to me and I will teach you.”  Now I just send them to my coach Hairculese Chris Rider, because quite simply in my opinion he’s way better at teaching it than I am.  And by the way, he’s coming to my studio on September 9th to run the Break Through Strength workshop.

The kind of people I work with aren’t normally up and coming strongmen, bodybuilders, or professional athletes.  They are usually recreational exercisers that simply want to look, feel and perform better in life.  There is a difference between “fitness” and “health” but that’s another topic for another day.

When I sit people down for the goal assessment interview, I dig into their goals to try to figure out what it is that they want to achieve.  It’s quite simple really.

1. Find out what they want to achieve.
2. Figure out where they are, compared to where they would like to be.
3. Based on the first 2, determine the actions necessary to bring them from where they are to where they want to be.

And when we’ve determined which actions are necessary to achieve said goals, then you simply do the things. And that’s the hard part really.

Let’s take for example someone who wants to lose 50lbs. It’s quite simple really, the super secret yet effective combo diet and exercise has produced more success stories for weight loss than any other way of doing it.

Here’s how; train with an intense yet safe program consistently over time and follow a diet that works.  I personally do intermittent fasting but for most people, I recommend the slow carb diet popularized in the book the 4hour Body by Tim Ferriss for most people (google it).

If you follow those actions consistently, you’ll lose weight.  If you aren’t losing weight, or any other goal for that matter, then it’s time to look at the actions you’ve taken.

Were you training hard enough, often enough?

Did you follow your diet to the T (as in, all the rules all the time)?

Fat loss requires a full-time commitment which is a pain in the ass. I know, it’s a big commitment to do all the actions that it takes to achieve your goals which is why I ask people to rate how committed they are.  On a scale from 1-10 if I get anything less than an 8, then it’s simply not enough and I send them away.

However, if someone simply wants to be all around healthy and strong, strength training and eating generally healthy foods can work wonders.  This is a goal too, although not a very specific one and the program needed to achieve it is not nearly as harsh in its execution.

This is where most people are.  Most of the ones I work with are along these lines.  They simply want to know how to train safely so they can move through life stronger, a bit leaner and healthier without having to live inside of a gym off of nothing but boiled chicken, steamed broccoli and protein shakes.

What are your goals?  Do you need help with them?

If so, give my trial membership a go by texting me at 973 476 5328.  Just tell me who you are and what you’d like to achieve and I’ll see what I can do to help.

Eric Moss is a world record holding professional strongman, author, speaker and personal trainer. In the tradition of the strongmen during the turn of the century, he performs feats of strength such as bending steel and breaking chains as part of a show and speaks on goal achievement for corporations, nonprofits, government as well as for schools and universities. His exclusive personal training studio is in Boonton Township New Jersey with Lewandowski Chiropractic and is close to Mountain Lakes, Denville, and Parsippany New Jersey.