Living an Inspired Life

Extremely short episode just announcing that we will be back in January.

Today is Stephanie interviews Chris about his fitness strategy, and about how it’s applicable to everyone.

Stephenie talks about her health transformation.

Today’s episode makes almost no sense, but I think you’ll find it will put you in a good mood and it is in our opinion one of the best episodes.

In this episode, Stephanie interviews Chris about his new book “Help! My Diet Sucks.”

What happens when you get in a fitness funk? You don’t want to exercise. Your body needs a break. Today we get real.

Happy Thanksgiving! This episode is about being grateful, realizing that it’s a choice. Being responsible for your own story.

Today we ramble about some general health tips, our strategies for the holidays, no guilt after eating a hamburger…

It’s important to stay consistent in your fitness goals. Consistency is the most important thing about high fitness achievers.

Stephenie and Chris introduce themselves and talk about how they started on the path of health.

During the holiday season, it’s easy to get distracted and over booked. Make sure to take some time for yourself to decompress, meditate, exercise.

In this episode I talk about the best and most optimized way to approach your resistance training workout. Instead of breaking up the body parts, it’s more beneficial to have a very active full body workout, and then follow it with a rest and recovery day.

Today, more brainstorming for the book. Using micro victories to build momentum toward reaching your health and fitness goals.

We got all kinds of great ideas out of our heads and onto the whiteboard today. Stephenie and I (Chris) are working on a nutrition book that tackles the real issue: lack of desire to make a change, and momentum going the wrong direction.

We learn best when we take something new and apply it to something that we already know. Today I had an insight about a skill that I want to develop, being able to initiate a conversation with somebody that I don’t know. And I liken that skill to something that I already do know, so that I can get better at my new skill.

After a night of little sleep, I woke up feeling sluggish and a bit brain dead. After having this revelation, that all changed. This deeper purpose came from somewhere out of me, yet something deep within me. I hope you enjoy this episode.

Welcome! In this episode I read the first draft of the introduction to my new book about nutrition. Give it a quick listen and let me know what you think.

Most fitness goals are structured around how much muscle you want to build or how much body fat you want to lose. Sometimes it might be a cardiovascular goal, like how many calories you want to burn or how much weight you want to lose. But how “safe“ is your fitness goal?

It’s been almost a year since I’ve posted an episode. Wow! Time flies when you’re super busy and going through big transitions. Sold our house, just moved into a new place a few weeks ago. Expecting baby number FOUR in a few months! Super excited for that!

It's so important to have a goal, specifically fitness goal. I believe that having a fitness goal not only helps you get fit, but it also teaches you the mechanics of how to set and achieve a goal. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and a owner of my core balance. We offer personal training in San Jose, California, as well as online programs. For more information, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening.

It's great to push and aspire to do great things, yet sometimes mother nature has other plans. This past weekend I was completely floored with a 24 hour flu bug that had other plans for me. It's great to be back, and my energy is still coming back too. So bear with me during this slower paced episode. I hope you enjoy this episode Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, such as one on one training, semi private fitness training, and online fitness programs, Visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

We all love that chia pet commercial, don't we? I didn't even know that she is seeds were edible until about five years ago, but now that I do and now that I have consumed them they are one of my absolute favorite foods for many reasons. In this episode I talk about how amazing chia seeds are. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our personal training, semi private training, and online programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thank you so much for listening!

How often do we suffer through life, and accept things that we don't want? That's just the way it is we might say. Sometimes we just need to stand up and change it. No big deal, just make the move. In this episode I share a quick story about my realization that I needed to change a very small part of my life. Very very small. But the way we do anything is the way we do everything. So in reality, this was not a small thing, but rather the way that I represent myself in my life. I hope you enjoy the episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on his programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

Right now people are making their New Year's resolutions. It's really easy to start down the road of a new habit, but get tripped up at the last step. In this episode, I talk about the four steps to creating a new habit. Don't be one of the 93% of people who do not achieve their New Year's resolutions. You can do it! I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

What's your goal? What's your vision? Thank you to Positive Vibes for the call in to my show. I really appreciate you sharing your vision for 2018. I hope you enjoy this episode of the Inspired Life Podcast. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

Have you ever desired and easy life? Well, just like going to the gym and lifting feathers, and easy life will not help you grow. We need to embrace challenge in order to take ourselves to the next level. In this episode I go on a bit of a rant, getting very motivated as I did this podcast. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com.

Do you remember when the song "Party Like it's 1999" was actually about a date in the future? The 20th century was great, but we also need to remember that the times are rolling forward. The one constant is change. In this episode, I talk about the importance of staying relevant and up on what's new. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on his programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

If you've been struggling for sometime to lose the extra weight, and now that everyone is setting a New Year's resolution you are thinking about it again, this is your episode. In this episode I talk about the very practical, simple, safe solution to simple weight loss. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

93 percent of New Year's resolutions fail! Four out of five resolutions or health and fitness related. In this podcast I talk about how to get into the seven percent. You can succeed. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

92% of New Year's resolutions fail! This is an astounding statistic. In this episode I talk about the necessity of approaching your goals from the standpoint of what you can control, which is your actions. If you focus too much on the end goal, there's less control and less power. I hope you enjoy this episode Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

This podcast is my platform to talk about strategies that I have in order to live and inspired life. But I don't want to give the impression that I always feel inspired. I don't! What's important are the lessons that I learned through those down points, Which is what I like to share here in the podcast. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on the programs of My Core Balance visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thank you so much for listening!

Happiness is not always possible, but we can strive to be content through life's ups and downs. In this episode I talk about how I distinguish between happiness and contentment. I also speak about joy versus contentment. I hope you enjoy this episode Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on his programs, both online and in studio, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

When we are trying to achieve a better life, we absolutely need faith. Not necessarily faith in a specific religion, yet we need the faith in knowing that something better can exist for us. In this episode, I talk about a few ways that I look at Faith and goals and vision. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our on line and in the studio programs, please visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thank you so much for listening!

We've all heard that it's important to be positive. But what does this mean? A better question: how do you do it? We don't wanna be running around all day faking it. So how do we consistently look at the world in a positive way they after day? In this episode, I talk about one important question that I often ask myself: what else could this mean? If somebody pulls in front of you in traffic, and you immediately get upset, when you ask yourself what else could this mean? Then your brain comes up with all kinds of answers that could give this other person the benefit of the doubt. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

The new year is coming up next week! Hopefully we all have our New Year's resolutions in our minds. In this episode I talk about my plans for 2018. Hopefully you can identify with some of my plans, and hopefully it's spurs your imagination to come up with some plans of your own. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

Many of us are pursuing goals because we think they'll make us feel a certain way once we have them, but I think we have that backwards. In today's episode, I talk about how being happy and joyful will actually produce the results that you want. And we can choose at any moment to be happy and joyful regardless of what is happening in our outside world. I hope you enjoy today's episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer, motivational speaker, author, and business owner. For more information visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

If you have a goal you want to achieve, all you need to know is where you are and where you want to get to. Gradually, as you are taking the steps to get to your goal, you will be able to reassess where you are, change direction, and chart a new path. It's vital that you keep reassessing, being realistic and knowing that you can only take one step at a time. I hope you enjoy the episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our online programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

What I found is that most decisions, even really big decisions, don't require that much thinking. Once you decide to do it, just do it. It's hard to know whether or not something is a good idea unless we've actually tried it. The hesitancy to just go for our goals comes from the fear of being embarrassed or seemingly failing. There's no such thing as failure unless we quit. I hope you enjoy the episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening.

Do you have anything in your life that is an NMW? The stands for no matter what. Have you set a goal and put an NMW stamp on it? That means that no matter what happens that is still your goal. You don't ever change that goal, although you might change your direction to get there and your strategy. It's vital that we have this no matter what mentality if we want to achieve our goals. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of my core balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

Got a question today from Tony about my story. Probably a lot like your story… Doing the best I can with what I have. Getting better every day, most of the time. I hope you enjoy the episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of my core balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

We don't need to be perfect to live the life of our dreams. We just need to be improving every day. When we make it our mission to improve, then we don't get so bogged down with perfectionism. In this episode, I dive into improvement, and what that means for us as individuals who are trying to get to the next level. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal fitness trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

I love getting call ins from people. Here are a few recent calls to the show, and my responses to them. I hope you enjoy the podcast. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

Recording the segment almost brought me to tears, as I recalled the effort and struggle over the last 12 years of building up a business. In 2008, I closed the doors of my first business Functional Strength Training. I went through three years where I was training one client in his living room. Then, 2011 I started up my current business, My Core Balance. Now I'm far from my end goal, but getting this far took faith and perseverance: tenacity. When you are endeavoring to achieve any goal, you will most likely want to quit multiple times. That is normal. Keep going anyway. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thank you for listening!

Ever get to a place in your life where you're forced to make a big decision? Have you ever been so indecisive about you just did nothing? In this episode, I talk about the value of just making a decision. Sometimes we're not sure where a path will lead, and the only way to find out is to actually take that path. Then, if it turns out to be the wrong path you can always readjust. Ultimately, we can only act in the present time. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and business owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com.

We've all heard the saying slow and steady wins the race. The tortoise beats the hare. But is there a time to go fast? Of course there is. In this episode, I talk about when you want to act quickly, and when you want to really take your time and go slowly. I hope you enjoy this episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and business owner. He started My Core Balance in 2011, which is a personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

In this highly interconnected world of social media, how do you differentiate between who your client is and who a prospect is? Of course there are stages such as prospect and client, but I have found that it helps to think of everybody as a client. When you think of everyone as a client, you have no issues with helping everyone. You give generously, and people feel your sincerity and warmth, even if they are your client that is consuming your free products. For business success, I strongly recommend treating everybody as if they were a paying customer. Because someday they might be, might as well get used to treating them that way now, and they will also get used to being treated that way by you which will make the transition to becoming a paying customer easier. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and business owner. He owns My Core Balance personal training and fitness studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks f

Black-white. Up-down. In-out. Life is full of seeming opposites. At first, these opposites may seem incompatible, but they are not. In this episode, I talk about how we can actually enhance our lives by being able to live in that contradiction and be OK with it. I hope you enjoy this episode, as I do believe that it is very important in calming the ups and downs of this life. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of my core balance, a fitness studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

If you are a goal setter, go-getter then often times you might want your goals right now. In this episode, I talk about the value of taking just a single step today. It's all about the little things. I hope you enjoyed today's episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs, visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening!

In this episode I talk about the value of seeing the big picture… The really big picture. Sometimes in the hustle and bustle of life we get so bogged down with details that we forget how great this life is. Thank you so much for listening, and if you have a comment or question feel free to email me Chris at my core balance.com. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of my core balance fitness in San Jose, California. For more information visit our website at www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening.

You've probably heard the quote that "there is no way to happiness, happiness is the way." In this episode, I talk about the nature of happiness and how to achieve it. Also, what happiness is not.… You don't need money in your bank account to be happy, it comes from inside. I hope you enjoy this episode, and if you have any questions or comments I would love to hear from you. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training studio in San Jose, California. For more information on our programs visit www.mycorebalance.com. Thanks for listening.

Remember before smart phones when occasionally he would have to stop at the gas station and ask for directions? Sometimes it might feel like our goals are very hard to reach, or we don't know how to get there. At these times, we need to stop and ask for directions from somebody who has achieved those goals before. Thanks for listening to the episode. Chris Janke-Bueno is a personal trainer and owner of My Core Balance personal training in San Jose, California. For more information visit www.mycorebalance.com.