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" Monitor where you get your advice from. Neve take financial advice from a homeless man."

" Monitor where you get your advice from. Neve take financial advice from a homeless man." - FLO I know that quote may sound like common sense when you first read it. So lets take it away from the financial world and put it into fitness or life. Would you take life advice from someone who is a failure?  Would you take fitness advice from someone who has never worked out a day in their life?  I hope you answer NO to both of those questions. Once again these seem like common sense answers,however common sense is not always common. There are many people giving their opinions and advice online. You must monitor who the advice is coming from. I have clients all the time tell me what they read online. They tell me all different kinds of websites that they get info from. The old saying holds true; opinions are like a$$holes, everybody has one.  So where can you get solid and legit information from?  This is a loaded question because things are always changing in health.

A trainers story. (Balancing feeling and thinking)

  A trainers story. Balancing Feeling and Thinking As a fitness industry it appears that many have become way to Heady about their training and are losing touch with the real reason they started training. Passion and purpose. I think the best way to discuss this is to tell the story of what happens to most of us.   One of the main reasons I love working with new trainers is that they still have that spark in their eye about training. They are pursuing a passion and want to help others.   A feeling of wanting to do something bigger with their lives has brought them into the fitness industry.  They are all feeling and No Thinking.  They get certified and get a job at a big box gym. Time to change lives, Right? Nope. They can't sell a package and get no clients. Now its time to learn 'Sales'. Their PT Manager throws numbers in their face and teaches them about quotas. Sell, sell, sell. This is the new motto. Their passion slowly begins to die. Now instead of asking the

Butterfly Effect

Here is an excerpt from The Butterfly Effect by Andy Andrews There are generations yet unborn whose very lives will be shifted and shaped by the moves you make and the actions you take today.  And tomorrow.  And the next day. And the next. Every single thing you do matters. You have been created as one of a kind. On the planet Earth, there has never been one like you ...and there will never be again. Your spirit, your thoughts and feelings, your ability to reason and act all exist in no one else. The rarities that make you special are no mere accident or quirk of fate. You have been created in order that you might make a difference. You have within you the power to change the world. Know that your actions cannot be hoarded, saved for later, or used selectively. By your hand, millions—billions—of lives will be altered, caught up in a chain of events begun by you this day. The very beating of your heart has meaning and purpose. Your actions have value far greater than silve

You must keep chasing dreams.

Love never fails; Character never quits; & with patience & persistence; Dreams do come true. -Pete Maravich I had posted this quote over the summer and felt I needed to explain why it's one of my favorites. First off is the part about love never failing. I am a firm believer in people doing what they love. Learn to lead with your heart. I feel it will never lead you wrong. It may not please others but you must always be true to yourself first. Everything else will fall into place.       Character never quits! It amazes me how many people try to break the character of others. When you are an individual, people try and break your character and make you fall in line with the rest.  You must be true to your character and never quit. It's only a matter of time before others recognize what your made of.      The last part of this quote is so important to me. One thing about dreams is that they take time to come true. Every dream must be tested for authenticity. If you d

Our Dare to You

"History is being read but also being written by those with imagination." -Les Brown Create something new today. Make up a new exercise, a new program, a new way of teaching, etc.. The people who criticize today will be following tomorrow. Anyone can be ordinary, I dare you to be different.

Greatest Compliment in FLO's History

Got the greatest compliment tonight and I decided to share it.  I was at our Girls Soccer Banquet tonight and the coach had some very kind words to say about the Family at FLO Fitness to the entire audience. It was great to know that he really appreciated our work with the team. However, after the banquet was over we spoke for about 5 minutes and he said he was sorry he forgot talk about the teams lack of injuries this season.  So he said this is the first year in his history of coaching that he has never had a SINGlE muscle pull or ligament injury the ENTIRE SEASON. I was like, WHOA! no way. So I looked at our injury reports for the season and there it was, Not a single ACL injury, MCL injury, Hamstring Pull, Quad Strain, Nothing.  I was shocked. This is by far the greatest compliment I have ever got in my life.   Coach has been the first person to let FLO Fitness control their entire lifting and warm up  programs. From off season lifting, preseason weight room session, pregame a