Podcasts about fitness for freedom

Jonathan Chant founded Fitness For Freedom under the following principles: to care, be honest and treat people the same way he would like to be treated. His goal is to raise the bar for the entire fitness industry by focusing on developing the required habits to live a healthy lifestyle not just exercise. Jonathan Chant Vroom Veer Stories Maggie's Story:  Came in for back pain, lost 80 pounds over 3 years Chasing a six-pack trophy might not be the best fitness goal Small incremental changes in eating habits really work Pain free movement:  we talk yoga, strength, movement and massage therapy Before and After photos are very easy to fake with poses and lighting Big Four Movements:  Big Push, Big Pull, Big Legs, Big Core The good, bad, ugly about hooking up at the gym Can we change the focus of fitness to feeling good first? Jonathan Chant Links Fitness for Freedom Web Site

Today's episode is brought to you by Fortis Forma, a platform that helps you find, engage and retain clients. Right now their focus is on engagement by helping you deliver exercise programs to your clients. You can see the exercises clearly and give feedback on what you are doing and they are able to give you feedback on how they find the workouts. Their system makes it easy to update your clients program as required. Right now they're looking for Kinesiologists to use and test the system as they start to build the finding and retaining clients components of the platform. Visit fortisforma.com and register today for free. --------------------- In this episode, I interview Jonathan Chant, R.Kin - President of Fitness for Freedom and Founder of Fortis Forma. Shortly after graduating from the University of Ottawa he began his company Fitness for Freedom, a mobile Kinesiology company. Jonathan operates under the following principles: to care, be honest and treat people the same way he would like to be treated. His goal is to raise the bar for the entire fitness industry by focusing on developing the required habits to live a healthy lifestyle, not just exercise. In this episode, Jonathan tells us how what calculation he made that pushed him to start Fitness For Freedom, How his R.Kin designation has helped him a long the way and how to find ways to stand out in a crowded space as a new Kin. ------------------------ Show Notes 01' Fortis Forma 03' High school sports and exercise 05' Starting Fitness for Freedom 06' Low wage: Take 25 years to have the downpayment for a house 07' Fitness for Freedom Story 08' Defining his audience 10' In-Home business model 11' Day and Night Hustle 15' How Freedom for Fitness Kins are different then personal trainers 18' Starting of Fortis Forma 21' Overall Experience as a Kinesiologist 23' How the R.Kin Designation helped 25' Future of Kinesiologists as specialist in different areas 26' Using R.Kin as a testing ground for areas 29' DO your best to stand out 33' Not waiting for top down approach 37' Advice for new Kinesiologists 40' We need more innovative thinkers in the Kinesiology profession. ----------------------- Links Jonathan's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathan-chant-80698b6/ Fitness for Freedom Website: https://fitnessforfreedom.com/ Fortis Forma Website: https://fortisforma.com/ Spencer's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/spennyraposo/ Making Kinnections Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MakingKinnectionsPodcast/ Making Kinnections LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/making-kinnections/ Making Kinnections Anchor: https://anchor.fm/makingkinnections Making Kinnections Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makingkinnectionspodcast/ Making Kinnections Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFW8YJjfHdjdPimyvhjKmkQ Episode Sponsor Continuing Education for Kinesiologists Kinformation: https://kinformation.teachable.com/

It’s a new year and for me this is a time of reflection, thoughtfulness and trying to figure out if I’m living the way I want to live and accomplishing the goals that I want to accomplish. Not only in my own personal health and fitness, but also in the health of my relationships with my family and close friends and also in the strength and direction of Fitness For Freedom.   I think a lot of people take the time to do this, I mean I hope that many people take the time to do this, since you’re listening to this right now I can only assume that you’re at least interested in being a healthier and more fit person. To be clear I’m not talking about New Year’s resolutions or some kind of a SMART goal...   Get Our Fitness For Beginners Course For Free! Join of Fitness Application for Free Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Follow us On Instagram - fitness_for_freeedom_1 Like Us on Facebook

As some of you know I played hockey while I was growing up and continued to play men’s league or beer league hockey until a few years ago when I had to give it up, because the games are too late and I’ve been devoting most of my time to growing Fitness For Freedom and my family. Playing late night hockey was starting to wear me down and burn me out. So I hadn’t played for a few years when I recently got the call to fill in, ‘Hey, Jonny we have an 8:30 game this Thursday, you think you could make it?’ to which I responded, ‘Gordo, that is the only day and time that is even possible, so I’ll do it.’ It was only a couple days away which didn’t give me much time to train, if you’ve ever played hockey after an extended absence you know that it doesn’t matter how many leg exercises you do, hockey makes your legs a different kind of sore no matter what and my Friday morning squash game was already feeling it. So on the Wednesday night instead of doing a race pace run on a flat surface like I usually do, I ran to the quarry by my house and did interval wind sprints up and down the hill, 10 times at which point I almost vomited and decided to call it a night. The next day when I hit the ice I felt like a million bucks, I could skate well and my legs were only mildly sore at the end of the game, which for me is unheard of after such a long time off, and I attribute it to the hills I ran the day before and it also got me thinking. Hardly anyone does hill training which is unfortunate because there are so many benefits than just not being sore after your hockey game the next day, so day we have the Top 3 reasons everybody she incorporate hills into their training program no matter what. ----- Fitness For Freedom Online Personal Training Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel Follow us On Instagram - fitness_for_freeedom_1 Like Us on Facebook

In today’s episode of The Plant Trainers Podcast we talk to Jonathan Chant a registered kinesiologist and owner of Fitness For Freedom. His company specializes in making exercise convenient by going to people’s homes to coach and teach them how to exercise and live in a healthier way. In the last 10 years of being a coach he has realized that most people know enough about fitness, but nothing about changing habits in a sustainable way. So his company specializes in working with people to not only to deliver great fitness programming but also nudge them to make healthier choices the other 166 hours of the week.   Jonathan’s method for making change is quite simple, but has a strong impact. We take some time to talk about changing habits and then we launch into Jonathan’s successes and struggles with becoming 100% plant-based. Jonathan is experiencing the same pushback from his wife as we see with many of our clients and their spouses. Find out the tips we leave him with by the end of the show.   In this episode we discuss: Making an impact Jonathan’s special behaviour changing method Ideas for changing habits Managing the daily calendar Prioritizing Jonathan’s challenges with transitioning to a plant-based lifestyle Tips for transitioning to a plant-based diet Partner buy-in for a lifestyle change Managing family get-togethers   Links to things we mentioned: Jonathan on , ,   Fitness for Freedom   by Kim Barnouin and Rory Freedman  – Ottawa  – Ottawa               Don’t forget to contact us at  with your question for our “Hey Plant Trainers” segment!     Do you want to create lifelong healthy eating habits for you or your family? Are you looking to help prevent heart disease, cancer and chronic diseases? Are you looking for guidance with your plant-based nutrition? We can help. If you are serious about getting results, you may be eligible for a FREE 30-minute Skype or phone consultation, where we can help you with your goals NOW. Easily book your session .    Subscribe to Adam’s Journey by clicking .   We hope you enjoyed this podcast! Please take a moment and  – we would be grateful! This will help get our podcast out to others who may enjoy it. We promise to read your reviews and consider your feedback. This show is for you. Please subscribe to The Plant Trainers Podcast on ,  or  so you will know when we release a new episode. Now also available to ! Help us by spreading the news about our totally awesome Podcast!   Click for a list of our services

In this episode, Eian interviews Jonathan Chant from Fitness For Freedom. They talk about where to start when you want to get healthy, as well as different types of goals. Also, on the program, how to stay motivated. Enjoy https://fitnessforfreedom.com/

Our question is in today from Debbie who asks: What does Fitness For Freedom mean? This is a great question and one we used to get all the time when we first started out, today we’re going to dig a little deeper and tell you not only what it means, but what we stand for.   Fitness For Freedom

If you’re new to the show it might not be a good place to start, most of our other shows are a lot more tactical and about fitness and nutrition, but I feel like this is an episode that needs to be done and it could be one of the most important shows we’ve done so far.    Fitness For Freedom

Last week we had the pleasure of doing the ‘Senior Celebration Show’ here in Ottawa, where we had a booth set up and I had the opportunity to meet many older people. It was really interesting to hear their stories, about how they exercise, what kind of injuries and medical conditions they had and like always there were a few ‘crotchety’s’ that didn’t exercise at all and  they were not shy telling me all about it. I don’t want you to become old and crotchety.   Fitness For Freedom

Last week’s Q & A Thursday’s episode we talked a lot about how I personally eat and we got a lot of questions about my list of foods and why some foods were on my unlimited list when they may be viewed as ‘less healthy’ by many people and why some foods were in my moderate or never eat list when they may be viewed as healthy by lot’s of people. We’re going to explain this a little bit today and hopefully it will help you make decisions about your own lists and choices.     Fitness For Freedom

We are 131 Episodes deep and over 100,000 downloads strong, which I need to thank you all for listening, learning and supporting us, making us your chosen resource for your fitness and health information. Posting all these episodes has given me the opportunity to see some really interesting patterns that have emerged with respect to what you the listener and active audience member are most interested in, ironically the episodes that have the most downloads are the one’s about when you can and/or should stop exercising, which I find really interesting since this is a show about fitting exercise into you’re daily life. Today we’re not talking about stopping exercise, because exercise is so important you should always do it at some level. We’re covering our second most downloaded topic, losing weight. Even if you are a ‘healthy’ bodyweight, you still probably wish you had a little more definition in the backs of your arms or to have a slightly firmer and more shapely behind or hey wouldn’t it be nice to see even a slight outline of your abs which are definitely there, just slightly hidden.  If these are things you want, you really you need to start with exercise first not how you’re eating, even though changing how you eat plays a far greater role in losing weight, that’s what we’re covering today!   Fitness For Freedom

It’s Q&A Thursday’s and our question is in from Triple Threat Kay who asks: Jonathan, what kind of food do you eat? This is an interesting question because I'm alway’s evaluating how I eat, how I can eat better, and why I eat the way I do, it if that makes any sense at all. This is very personal to me, but hopefully you can find some strategies and tactics that will work for you as well.    Fitness For Freedom

A few years ago I started working with a client that was a little bit over-weight, maybe 20 pounds.  Most people would not consider her over-weight at all because although she was 20 lbs. overweight, she still weighed less than the average 50 year old. Over the course of our few years together she lost about 5 pounds and more importantly she started exercising 3 or 4 times a week on her own...   Fitness For Freedom

Today’s an important episode about your shifting landscape and how exercise will change as you age, sometimes this means you used to be a competitive athlete and now you’re just trying to be healthier, it could mean that at some point you followed a bodybuilding style program, but now you have kids, a career and not nearly as much time or it could mean you’re getting older and you officially no longer care about having a ‘6 pack’ and just want to be strong and mobile enough that you can outdrive your friends on the golf course. As you get older and your abilities and goals change you’re exercise program needs to change as well and we’re going to get introspective about your exercise program so you can ask yourself the right questions to make sure you’re doing the right types of exercise routines.   Fitness For Freedom

This episode was inspired by a client that said these exact words to me ‘I really don’t feel like exercising today, can we sit, visit and drink coffee instead?’ to which I responded ‘Sure, but let’s sneak in a quick workout first’ so she begrudgingly did her exercise program, but by the end to her surprise said she felt great. We can’t show up at all of your houses, so we’re going to talk about what you can do when there’s no one to nudge you along but yourself.    Fitness For Freedom

Today’s show is about the good, the bad and the ugly of fitness challenges. Fitness challenges are all the rage, usually they take some form of single exercise or circuit of exercises and you do them over a pre-determined course of time documenting your improvement and sharing it with the world. The most common example I can think of is the plank challenge that circulated a few years ago where you would plank everyday for a month and try to go from 30 seconds to 3 minutes over the course of that time. There are many things to consider when deciding whether or not you should do a fitness challenge and today we’re going to cover all of those things.   Fitness For Freedom

Today is a must read episode and we’re covering one of my favourite fitness books of all time, Intervention by Dan John. He takes a simple and straight forward approach to health and fitness. If we all took a page out of this book we would all be a lot healthier for it. Get out your thinking cap, because we’re going to reshape how you think about health and fitness. Fitness For Freedom

Today’s question is in from Debbie: How can I make exercise fun? This might be our most passionate episode yet.   Fitness For Freedom

There's this type of martial arts training called Iron Vest Training. Iron Vest Training is this training where you get beaten with a small stick or piece of wicker until your body starts to become bruised and bloodied. Then you let your body heal and once you’re healed you get beaten with a slightly larger stick until you become bruised and bloody. Then you let your body heal again and you go back and you get beaten with an even bigger stick until your bruised and bloody. You keep doing this over and over again until your body starts to adapt and eventually the smaller sticks no longer leave you bruised and bloodied, but you continue to get hit with bigger and bigger sticks. Over time you build up such a big tolerance that even the big sticks no longer leave bruises or make you bloodied and it is at this point you obtain iron vest status where your body can actually withstand huge amounts of pressure and force without becoming injured and hardly feeling pain. The purpose of exercise is to do the exact same thing to your body, to break it down a little bit and let it heal back up and then break it down little bit more and then let it heal back up and then eventually your body becomes a machine that is incredibly difficult to break down, where you can now do workouts that used to make you vomit, without much effort at all,  this is an episode about the exact opposite of that.    Fitness For Freedom

Today’s episode is a short one about the powerful and underrated benefits of walking and how one of my client’s is noticing the impact of not doing it anymore, but she doesn’t realize it. The lead character in this story is Roberta and of course this isn’t her real name.   Fitness For Freedom   Fitness For Freedom Facebook Page

Jonathan Chant works not only on stretching the muscles, but stretching the mind. This episode discusses the unlimited possibilities that come from stomping your limiting beliefs. . . We will discover the stories we make up about why we can’t do certain things and the habits these stories cause us to form. We will then learn how to break these negative habits, and how to instead create consistent, positive, and sustainable ones. This show will be examining what you really want to do, what has been stopping you from doing it, and what you need to do to make this happen; the path to health, wellness, and feeling great is paved! Who is Jonathan Chant? Jonathan is a Registered Kinesiologist and owner of Fitness For Freedom, a company that specializes in making exercise convenient by going to people’s homes to coach and teach them how to exercise and live in a healthier way. In his last 10 years of being a coach he has realized that most people know enough about fitness but nothing about changing their habits in a sustainable way. So his company specializes in working with people to not only to deliver them great fitness programming but also nudge them to make healthier choices the other 166 hours of the week. Show Notes: How Jonathan´s idea about in home personal training got started Look at what it is you want What would you like to change about  how you eat? How you exercise? What are the steps you need to take? Forming habits What´s preventing you from going? Get rid of those preventions It´s easy to exercise without equipment How to be more consistent with forming habits at home Set an exercise alarm Get rid of your excuses Shift your mindset- Little habits add up to big lifestyle changes (both good and bad) Slow and sustainable methods, no fast track to unhealthily losing 20 pounds in 2 weeks Quickly begin to feel better "What is your normal?" Jonathan´s methods creat energy and muscle activation/functionality The stories we make up; why we believe we can´t do certain things Limiting beliefs Thank you so much for your interest in this show of Exploring Mind and Body, if you haven't done so already please take a moment and leave a quick rating and review of the show in iTunes by clicking below. It will keep us delivering valuable content each week and give others an opportunity to find the show as well. Click here to subscribe via iTunes (and or leave a rating)

Everyone wants to be one of the cool kids, a sexy protein that gets all of the attention, an energetic carbohydrate that bounces of the walls and the once shunned kid fat is finally coming into his own, now that he’s better understood. But what about fiber?  Fiber is that nerd at the high school party no one pays attention to, but ends up making millions of dollars after they graduate. So you should listen to him, when fiber grows up you want him on your side, because at the end of the day he’s writing some pretty big cheques.   Fitness For Freedom

On The heels of the injury show I thought it would be a good idea to talk about balance, since one of the biggest reasons people injure themselves is through some form of falling, whether it's slipping on a wet surface, tripping over an uneven walkway or falling off a stool, all of these things can be prevented or at the very least the seriousness of them can be significantly reduced with proper balance and strength training. When most people think of balance they think of standing on 1 foot, which you can do and it will improve your balance, except there's more to it than that, because very rarely are you just standing on 1 foot when you fall.  I mean when was the last time you said to yourself, ‘hmmmm, I’m going to do this activity on one foot because that will make it easier.’ The short answer is never, so standing on one foot can’t be the only way you practice your balance.  Usually you're moving or reaching which puts you in a precarious or awkward position that ultimately leads to a fall. Luckily you can train for that moment. Fitness For Freedom

Injuries suck, they make it hard for you to move, they make it painful to do things you love and they can impair your life like you wouldn't believe. When you're in pain it makes it hard to do anything, let alone exercise. Today we're going to talk about what you can do when you're injured and how you can continue to exercise to avoid becoming injured again. If you've ever had an injury or you're trying to get through an injury right now you need to listen to this episode.   Fitness For Freedom

Warming-up is really important and in Episode 19 we talked about how to do it effectively for your exercise program, but we didn’t talk about sports and recreational activities.  It’s probably more important to warm-up for recreational activities, because they are so multi dimensional, often you go from doing nothing to sprinting, jumping and changing direction quickly in short periods of time.  Which is the best and easiest way to injure yourself, and since I know for a fact no one like’s to get injured, we’re going to go through how to decrease your chances of becoming injured in whatever recreational sport you like to do.   Fitness For Freedom

There are 100’s, if not thousands of ways you can workout and be active, but what makes a great workout, a great workout?  Even the most fit and most active people can find themselves a little unmotivated form time to time, stick around so you can find out what floats your boat when you exercise, so you not only have a great workout but also a workout you will do. Fitness For Freedom

A quick google search will tell you depending on your activity and whether or not you’re trying to build or just maintain muscle you need to eat between .5 g of protein per kg of bodyweight (for regular inactive people) and 2g per kg of body weight, if you’re a body builder or elite athlete that trains all the time.  If you eat a standard North American or Western European diet it is basically impossible for you to be protein deficient, you’re getting enough protein, what we’re going to talk about in this episode is where your sources of protein should come from to make sure you’re eating as healthily as possible.   Fitness For Freedom

Have you ever sat back and taken stock of why you do what you do? Why you get up at the time you do? Why you eat the foods you eat? Why you exercise or don’t exercise the way you do? You’re beliefs come from your experiences, your memories and most importantly your perception of how they happened, basically you form multiple stories that you tell yourself and they inform the decisions you make and how you live your life, today we’re going to go through some examples of stories I personally tell myself and stories we have found that clients sometimes tell themselves and how it informs the decisions they make, if you feel like you’re stuck or in a box you need to break out of this is an episode you need to listen to, even if you feel like you’re healthy enough, you can apply these principles to any aspect of your life.    Fitness For Freedom

Being Fit and healthy has lots of great benefits, you reduce your chance of many diseases, you become more attractive and you burn more calories in less time, which means you can spend less time actually exercising. I know that’s not what you expect to hear, but it’s true and it’s what we’re going to talk about in this episode, so stay tuned so you can become an exercise machine. Fitness For Freedom

Today I’m going to use myself as an example and go through how I’m re-evaluating my fitness and training situation to make it work for me and I really hope you can pull some lessons out and apply them to apply them to your life. This is probably more personal than I usually like to get, but it’s important and I know many of you struggle with the same things.   Fitness For Freedom

Jonathan Chant founded Fitness For Freedom under the following principles: to care, be honest and treat people the same way he would like to be treated. His goal is to raise the bar for the entire fitness industry by focusing on developing the required habits to live a healthy lifestyle not just exercise. Jonathan Chant Vroom Veer Stories Maggie's Story:  Came in for back pain, lost 80 pounds over 3 years Chasing a six-pack trophy might not be the best fitness goal Small incremental changes in eating habits really work Pain free movement:  we talk yoga, strength, movement and massage therapy Before and After photos are very easy to fake with poses and lighting Big Four Movements:  Big Push, Big Pull, Big Legs, Big Core The good, bad, ugly about hooking up at the gym Can we change the focus of fitness to feeling good first? Jonathan Chant Links Fitness for Freedom Web Site    

When it comes to living a fit and healthy life, you cannot rely on willpower.  Willpower is a limited resource; it usually lasts til about 8 in the morning, and then slowly wanes with each decisions you need to make, and each emotionally charged moment in your day.  Decisions such as "should I workout?" or "what should I make for dinner" can take away from your willpower... and if you're making them after a stressful day at work, or when you feel emotionally drained, odds that you'll choose the healthier option are not in your favour. There's a better way: and that's to build habits. By guest is Jonathan Chant.  Jonathan is a Registered Kinesiologist and owns Fitness For Freedom, a company that specializes in making exercise convenient by going to people's homes to coach and teach them how to exercise and live in a healthier way. In his last 10 years of being a coach he has realized that most people know enough about fitness but nothing about changing their habits in a sustainable way. So his company specializes in working with people to not only to deliver them great fitness programming but also nudge them to make healthier choices the other 166 hours of the week. In this episode of the Fit and Vibrant You Podcast, we talk all about building habits.  How to do it, where to start, and how to keep them up. I've also prepared a building habits worksheet for you.  It breaks down the steps from choosing a habit, creating an action plan, and then staying accountable to your plan.  Go to www.tanjashaw.com/34 to download!