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From time to time I am contacted by someone who says they have an interesting and thought provoking guest who would be perfect for Unstoppable Mindset. Since I am of the opinion that everyone has a story within themselves worth telling I always work to learn more about the guest. Such was the case when I was contacted about our guest this time, Dre Baldwin. Dre and I had an initial conversation and I invited him to appear as a guest. I must say that he more than exceeded my expectations.   Dre grew up in Philadelphia. He wanted to do something with sports and tried out various options until he discovered Basketball in high school. While he wasn't considered overly exceptional and only played one year in high school he realized that Basketball was the sport for him.   Dre went to Penn State and played all four of his college years. Again, while he played consistently and reasonably well, he was not noticed and after college he was not signed to a professional team. He worked at a couple of jobs for a time and then decided to try to get noticed for basketball by going to a camp where he could be seen by scouts and where he could prove he had the talent to make basketball a profession. As he will tell us, eventually he did get a contract to play professionally. Other things happened along the way as you will hear. Dre discovered Youtube and the internet and began posting basketball tips which became popular.   While playing basketball professionally he also started blogging, posting videos and eventually he began selling video basketball lessons online. His internet business grew and by 2015 after playing basketball he decided to leave the sport and open his own business called, Work On Your Game Inc.   His business has given him the time to author 35 books, deliver 4 TDX talks, create thousands of videos and coach others. Dre and I talk about such concepts as discipline, mindset and the value of consistency. Our conversation will provide many useful insights and ideas you and all of us can use.       About the Guest:   As CEO and Founder of Work On Your Game Inc., Dre Baldwin has given 4 TEDxTalks on Discipline, Confidence, Mental Toughness & Personal Initiative and has authored 35 books. He has appeared in national campaigns with Nike, Finish Line, Wendy's, Gatorade, Buick, Wilson Sports, STASH Investments and DIME magazine.    Dre has published over 8,000 videos to 142,000+ subscribers, his content being consumed over 103 million times.    Dre's daily Work On Your Game MasterClass has amassed over 2,900 episodes and more than 7.3 million downloads.    In just 5 years, Dre went from the end of his high school team's bench to a 9-year professional basketball career. He played in 8 countries including Lithuania, Germany, Montenegro, Slovakia and Germany.    Dre invented his Work On Your Game framework as a "roadmap in reverse" to help professionals with High Performance, Consistency and Results.    A Philadelphia native, Dre lives in Miami.   Ways to connect with Dre:   http://Instagram.com/DreBaldwin http://YouTube.com/Dreupt https://www.facebook.com/WorkOnYourGameUniversity http://LinkedIn.com/in/DreAllDay http://X.com/DreAllDay http://TikTok.com/WorkOnYourGame       About the Host:   Michael Hingson is a New York Times best-selling author, international lecturer, and Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe. Michael, blind since birth, survived the 9/11 attacks with the help of his guide dog Roselle. This story is the subject of his best-selling book, Thunder Dog.   Michael gives over 100 presentations around the world each year speaking to influential groups such as Exxon Mobile, AT&T, Federal Express, Scripps College, Rutgers University, Children's Hospital, and the American Red Cross just to name a few. He is Ambassador for the National Braille Literacy Campaign for the National Federation of the Blind and also serves as Ambassador for the American Humane Association's 2012 Hero Dog Awards.   https://michaelhingson.com https://www.facebook.com/michael.hingson.author.speaker/ https://twitter.com/mhingson https://www.youtube.com/user/mhingson https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelhingson/   accessiBe Links https://accessibe.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/accessiBe https://www.linkedin.com/company/accessibe/mycompany/   https://www.facebook.com/accessibe/       Thanks for listening!   Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! 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The podcast where inclusion, diversity and the unexpected meet. Hi, I'm Michael Hingson, Chief Vision Officer for accessiBe and the author of the number one New York Times bestselling book, Thunder dog, the story of a blind man, his guide dog and the triumph of trust. Thanks for joining me on my podcast as we explore our own blinding fears of inclusion unacceptance and our resistance to change. We will discover the idea that no matter the situation, or the people we encounter, our own fears, and prejudices often are our strongest barriers to moving forward. The unstoppable mindset podcast is sponsored by accessiBe, that's a c c e s s i capital B e. Visit www.accessibe.com to learn how you can make your website accessible for persons with disabilities. And to help make the internet fully inclusive by the year 2025. Glad you dropped by we're happy to meet you and to have you here with us.   Michael Hingson ** 01:21 Hi again. Welcome to another edition of unstoppable mindset. Our goal in unstoppable mindset is to show you that, in fact, you are most likely more unstoppable than you think you are, at least that's the goal. Is to try to get people to believe that it's been fun talking to a lot of people about that, talking to people about the fact that they show that they're more unstoppable than they thought they were. And a lot of people tend to to stay that right out. Our guest today is a first for me. I've not ever talked to a professional basketball player live on unstoppable mindset. And our guest Dre Baldwin was a professional basketball player for a number of years, and I'm sure we're going to get into that, along with so many other things to talk about what he does today, because he's not doing basketball as such today. He's got a company called work on your game, Inc, and I'm sure that that relates back to basketball in some way. So we'll get to it. But anyway, Dre, I want to welcome you to unstoppable mindset, and thank you for taking the time to be here.   Dre Baldwin ** 02:28 Oh, thank you, Michael. And you can call me Dre, yes. Dre, yeah. So okay, I I appreciate, I appreciate you having me on. I'm looking forward to this conversation. Well, we're   Michael Hingson ** 02:38 glad that you're here and all that. Why don't we start by you maybe telling us about the early Dre growing up and some of those kinds of things.   Dre Baldwin ** 02:46 Sure, come from the city of Philadelphia, PA and now live in South Florida, but always played sports growing up, dabbled in a little bit of everything that was available. So went to my mom, put me in a little tennis camp once for a week or two, played a little football, touch football in the driveways. Played baseball for a couple years on an organized level, but didn't really find my find my groove in any sports. I got around to basketball, which is around age 14, which is pretty late to start playing a sport, if you're trying to go somewhere in it. That was my situation. No barely played in high school. Only played one year, and then it led to, I'm sure we'll get into what happened after that. But for the most part, as a youth, I was really into athletics and just figuring out what I could do athletically. So no, of course, you know, in the the street, you grow up on foot races, two hand, touch football, etc, things like that. But I figured that my meaning was going to be somewhere towards using my body in some way. I didn't know how, but that's what I figured I would do.   Michael Hingson ** 03:47 I would presume that along all the time you were in Philadelphia, you never did encounter Rocky Balboa running up the steps of Liberty Hall, or any of those things.   Dre Baldwin ** 03:57 Oh, that's, that's the art museum, the Philadelphia Art Museum. Oh, the art museum. Yeah, Rocky, running up the steps. I never did that. The only reason, no, go ahead, I was saying, the only reason I never did it is because where I grew up is kind of far from the art museum. Is big city, but had I moved near the art museum, then, yeah, I would have ran up steps as exercise. I just, I just, it just wasn't in proximity to me. So that's the only reason I didn't do   Michael Hingson ** 04:21 it, well, that's okay. Well, so what did you do after high school? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 04:25 I wanted to go to college. I knew I was going to go to college period, even if it weren't for sports. I figured college was Well, first of all, I didn't know what I want to do with my life. Yet at age 18, and the small Inkling I had that I could be a professional athlete at this point, I got that idea around age 16. I wasn't not like I was good enough to be LeBron James or Kobe Bryant, who were no so good. They skipped college and went straight to playing at the program. I wasn't that good. So if I was going to play pro, I needed four more years of seasoning, which meant I needed to go to college. So just on that level alone, I knew I wanted to go. So, but because of my unimpressive high school career, if you want to call it a career, no one was recruiting me to come play in college. So whatever college I went to would not be on the basis of sports, it just be on the basis of I'm here, and let's see if I can get on the basketball team as an unknown, unverified person. So that's what I did. I walked on at a college that happened to be a division three college. Was the third tier of college sports. Most of your pro players are sourced from the Division One level. And I did go there, and I was able to get on the basketball team. Played four years of college basketball at the Division Three level, yet, and still Michael at that level, nobody at the pro level is really looking for pros from the Division Three level. Because, again, who cares about division three players? They can pull from the Division One ranks Division Three guys. So that was my situation. Graduated from college having played, but still, at that point, nobody was looking for me to come play at the   Michael Hingson ** 05:57 pro level. What did you get your degree in? I have a degree from   Dre Baldwin ** 06:01 Penn State University in business with a focus in management and marketing.   Michael Hingson ** 06:05 That explains where you went later, but and kind of how you ended up, yeah, sort of, and Penn State so you were a Nittany Lion, huh?   Dre Baldwin ** 06:17 Technically, yeah, we never talk about, we never say that. But yes,   Michael Hingson ** 06:21 well, yeah, whatever, yeah, Penn State, yeah, well, that's, I didn't know that they were division three in basketball. They certainly aren't in football. But okay, and they have more   Dre Baldwin ** 06:33 than one no, they have more than one campus. So, well, that's true, yeah. So I went to my degree, so just so people understand when Penn State has 23 campuses. So I started at Penn State Abington, which is a division three sports school, and I transferred to Penn State Altoona, which is also a division three sports school. At the time, Abington was not full fledged d3 it is now Altoona was so Altoona was the second highest level inside the entire Penn State system, which was a four years of sports school at the time. At the time, there were only two schools in the whole system where you could play four years. It was the main campus with the football team, and it was out tuning. Nowadays, there are several others who you can play four years of sports. But back then, for many other campuses, you can only play two years. And the other piece is, when you graduate from Penn State, any campus your degree is still Penn State, regardless of which campus you graduated from, I graduated from Altoona, so my degree still just says, it just says Penn State. It doesn't say which campus,   Michael Hingson ** 07:32 right? And, and in a sense, does it really matter? Not   Dre Baldwin ** 07:35 really maybe, to the people who go to the main campus, because they say, Oh, you all went to the other ones. So they try to, in a joking way, kind of discredit it. But I only went to Altoona for basketball. I was accepted into the main campus straight out of high school,   Michael Hingson ** 07:48 right? Well, so whatever. But at least you got a degree from Penn State, and you can't argue with that. Yes, you're right about that. I went to University of California, Irvine, UC Irvine, and when I enrolled my first year, my freshman year was the first year they had a graduating class. It was a new campus for UC system. So 1968 they had their first well 69 they had their first graduating class. And that was the year I was a freshman. And it was a only had like about 2500 2700 students that first year. I was back there in June of this year, they have 31,000 undergraduates. Now it's changed a little bit.   Dre Baldwin ** 08:34 Yeah, so you were part of the first class, where they had all four classes on campus at the same time. Then,   Michael Hingson ** 08:40 right, and they also had graduate school. They had started doing work. It was a well known, even back then, a biology school. In fact, if you wanted to major in biology in the first year I enrolled, I went into physics, so I didn't get to be a victim of this. But they had 1600 students enroll in biology, and the way they weeded them out was they insisted that before you could really take major biology courses, you had to take at least a year of organic chemistry. And so by the time students got to the end of their sophomore year that 1600 students got whittled down to 200 so they use organic chemistry to get get people out of it.   Dre Baldwin ** 09:29 Oh, well, that would have worked on me. Yeah. Well, yeah,   Michael Hingson ** 09:33 yeah, I had no interest in doing that either. So, you know, I dodged a bullet, but, but it was fun. So you went to college, you got a degree in in business and so on. And then what did you   Dre Baldwin ** 09:48 do? Well, then I wanted to play professional basketball. So this is 2004 give everybody a timeline. And initially I didn't have any. Nobody was calling me. Nobody was checking for me, nothing. I tried a few things when. To a couple of tryouts for local, what they call semi professional teams that were based in the United States on smaller towns. Nothing really came of that. So the first work thing I did after college was get a job at Foot Locker as an assistant manager. So I was selling sneakers with the referee shirt and all and everything. So that was my first job out of college. I did that for about six months, and then after that, I went and got a job at ballet Total Fitness was a fitness gym that's now out of business, but not because of me. I made a lot of sales for ballet total fitness, and that's a relief. It   Michael Hingson ** 10:34 wasn't you, what'd you say? I say that's a relief. It wasn't you, yes,   Dre Baldwin ** 10:38 it wasn't me. If it was for me, they'd still be in business that was making a lot of sales, or maybe not, because people didn't like their contracts, but so maybe I contributed to the problem one way or another. So I then, in the summer of 2005 so this is a year removed from graduation, I went to this event called an exposure camp. And then, Michael, you familiar with those? Heard of them?   Michael Hingson ** 10:57 I've heard of it. I don't know anything about it. I can imagine. Okay, I suppose   Dre Baldwin ** 11:00 you can't. Similar to a job fair or a casting call in sports world. So it's where a bunch of people who want a job or want a better job, they go to this place that announces, hey, the people who can give you a job are all going to be here. And they all converge in one place. And as opposed to a job fair, where you just show up and shake hands and hand out your resume at an exposure camp. You bring your sneakers and you actually play whatever the sport is, and you try to impress the decision makers in the audience, who are there to look for people like you. They're there to scout and find talent people like you. So I went to one of these events. It was in Orlando, Florida. At the time. I still live in Philadelphia, so me and a couple college teammates who had similar ambitions to me. We rented a car in Philadelphia and drove to Orlando. It's about a 1517, hour drive, depending on traffic, and we showed up there 9am Saturday morning, hopped out the car, and that's the exact time that the exposure camp began. So I tell people, I could get away with that at age 23 Michael couldn't do it now, but then I could do it. How about the car and just start playing a two day event, and I played pretty well at that event. From there, I got two key things that I needed. One was a scouting report of a scout, a professional level Scout, who just wrote up some positive things about me that basically affirmed, like, Hey, this guy does have the ability to play at the pro level. Another thing I got was footage from those games, because you need in the sports world, you need proof of yourself playing. You can't just say you can play. You got to prove it, and the game film is your proof. So that game film was important to me, because even though I had played in college at college, I was only playing against Division Three level talent. At this exposure camp, I was playing against professional level talent. So this footage mattered a whole lot more. So with that footage, I had to be back in Philadelphia. I was still working in ballet, Total Fitness at the time. I negotiated, I had negotiated with my boss to get the weekend off just to go to this camp. Had to be back at work on Monday morning. So the camp was Saturday and Sunday, and had to be back at work on Monday so we when that camp ended on Sunday afternoon, we hopped right back in the car and drove right back home. So and I didn't sleep that Sunday night or that previous Friday night. And from there, what I started doing was cold calling basketball agents. So the way that agents work in the sports world is pretty similar to the literary or entertainment world, where the agent is basically the go between, between the person who has some ability, or at least they think they do, and the people who like to hire people with ability. And usually agents call you if you show potential, because they believe they can help well, they believe you have the potential to make money. And we know all know what agents do. They're the middleman. So if they help you make money, then they make money. Right? Of course, they want to find people who are going to make money. But no agent had ever been calling me, Michael, because it didn't look like I was going to make any money. But after I went to this exposure camp. Now I had some proof that maybe, maybe I might make some money. So at the same time, no agent knew who I was, so I started calling them. I started calling basketball agents myself, and I was selling myself to them and saying, Hey, I have this scouting report. This is some proof. I have this game footage. Here's some more proof. I called about 60 basketball agents. This is straight up cold calling. And after calling those 60 agents, I was well, through calling those 60, I was able to get in touch with 20 of those 20. I sent the footage to all 20, and one of those 20 was interested in representing me, and he's the one who signed me to become my agent. Now, when you get signed to an agent, doesn't mean you get any money, it just means somebody's working to help you make some money. And then he went and found me my first contract, which was in the late summer of 2005 August, 2005 playing in countless Lithuania. So that's how I started my professional basketball career.   Michael Hingson ** 14:33 So you weren't playing in the US, and it was a long commute to go to Lithuania. So, so how long did you play there? Then? What happened? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 14:42 each year, for almost 10 years, playing ball, every year I was in a different place. So I never played in the same place more than one season. So I was in that year, I was in Lithuania. I came back to the USA later, later in that in the middle of that season, and I played for a Troy. Traveling team in the USA. It wasn't the team that any of you would know from TV, but play for a traveling team in the USA. Then from there was Mexico from there. After that, you had Montenegro, you had and this is as years are going on. So I don't know when you go through every single one, but I'm just fast forwarding here. Yeah, Mexico is Montenegro. There was Germany, there was Croatia, there was Slovakia. There was a couple other places. I'm not thinking of right off the top of my head, but this was between 2005 and 2015 these are all the different places that I played. Sometimes there were gaps in my schedule. I'm sure we'll talk about that. And there were other things I was doing besides just playing basketball, because the life of a professional athlete, for those who don't know, is a long day of work for us, might be four hours of committed time at work, that's all told. So we have a whole lot of time on our hands. So athletes tend to do other things besides play sports, because we have the time and space to do so,   Michael Hingson ** 15:55 right? And so how did you fill your time? Because you couldn't practice all the time,   Dre Baldwin ** 16:00 right? Yes, physically, there's only so much practice you can do. So I am an internet geek, a closet internet geek. So what I was doing, even back to when I was a child, I was always into computers. So I'm sure you remember given the frame that you gave me here, but I remember the days of the one computer in the whole school, we had a room called the computer we had. It'd be one room with maybe a couple computers. When I was in high school, there was one room with enough computers for everybody. But when I was in second grade, there was one room with one computer, and there was this the green screen, and we would play Oregon Trail and games like that in the computer with a little floppy disk. So that's as far back as I go. So I was always into computers, even back then. And then by the time I graduated college in 2004 now, we were starting to get what I guess people call web 2.0 so this was the Internet where you could kind of create your own stuff, even if you didn't know anything about the back end of the internet, like coding and HTML, etc. So that was about my era when I got out of college, and when I saw that during college, I said to myself, this internet thing, I'm going to do something on the internet. I didn't know what, but I knew I was going to do something. This is before we had we didn't quite have social media yet. We had some software or platforms where you could kind of make profiles and talk to people, but it was nothing like what we have now. So anyway, to answer your question, finally, in 2005 I took the footage from that exposure camp that I went to and at this good footage that I had this. It was not a link that I got this footage on. This is not a download. This was this thing called a VHS tape. Mike, you remember those? Oh, yeah, yeah. So the VHS tape was the format for my footage. It   Michael Hingson ** 17:42 was VHS and VHS, and not beta max, huh? And not   Dre Baldwin ** 17:47 that old, not that old. Remember VHS? Only the VHS the farthest back that I go. So with the VHS tape, I knew that no you can lose this. You can leave it in the sun. You can get it dropping in mortar. You destroy your footage. I needed this footage to last forever, so I took it to an audio visual store, and they transferred it onto a data CD, and that CD I uploaded to, I took the footage off that CD and uploaded to this new website called youtube.com and this website claimed that you could publish as much footage as you want for free. Now, yeah, and I said clean, because 2005 nobody knows is this YouTube thing going to stick around? So I put my footage up there and didn't think anything of it, because, I mean, who cares about putting videos on YouTube in 2005 and maybe six months later, I went just to check on the website make sure it still existed, and there were people who were leaving comments on my video. I didn't know. These people. Didn't know who they were or why they were looking for me. Turns out, they were not looking for me. They were just looking for a basketball period, and I happened to be providing it through my footage. And they were asking questions like, Where do you play? What schools you go to, how often do you practice? They just want to know more about this random person who is showing them this guy looks like he can play basketball. So who is he, and they were hoping maybe that I might give them more of what they were seeing on that footage. And that's it wasn't immediate, Michael, but over the next maybe year or two, the light bulb went off in my head that, hey, these players are just looking for help with basketball, right? And I can provide it, because I do actually practice every day. I can actually play. I'm at the pro level now, and at this point, by about 2007 I had this cheap little digital camera, $100 digital camera, because it's before we had cameras on our phones. So now I could just bring this camera with me to the gym every day, because I go every day anyway. Only difference is now I'm going to film myself working out, and I can take little pieces from what I do, and I can put it on his YouTube site, and if it can help some kids out and maybe stroke my ego a little bit, because they're happy to show them how to play basketball, and why not? So that that was the seed of what led to me building my name on the internet well,   Michael Hingson ** 19:53 and that makes sense for me when I started at UC Irvine back in 19. 68 that was the first time I really encountered any kind of a computer. And what we had were, well, we had in a building, mainframes and terminals around the campus, but we certainly didn't have individual machines. A little bit later on, I started to encounter, for a variety of reasons, more mini and micro computers, like the digital equipment, PDP, 8e, and Data General, no, but to later on, but mostly it was all terminals connected to a big computer. Actually, there were two big computers and and that was, that was what we did. Now for me, of course, it was more of a challenge because all of it was very visual, right? And back then, we didn't have software to make computers talk or anything like that. So there were other adaptions that adaptations that I had to do, but I know exactly what you're talking about. And then I appreciate all the the the challenges and things that you ran into. But obviously it worked for you. And by putting that stuff up on YouTube, I knew you were going to what you were going to say, and how that actually started to open the door. You're right, yeah, which is cool. Well, you So you started helping people by putting up shots and so on. So what happened from that? I assume that more and more people wanted to know more and more about you and what you did and and started asking more questions   Dre Baldwin ** 21:28 between 2005 when I first put the first footage up in 2009 I was putting video out sporadically. So every now and then Michael, I put a new video up on YouTube. I would record my workouts, but I didn't always put something up. So one thing about basketball, as in almost any profession, is that you're doing a lot of the same stuff over and over again. So it's not like I keep putting up the same video me doing the same drills. So I was just put stuff out randomly whenever I got around to it. On top of the fact this is compounded by the fact that there was nothing personal to gain from having people on YouTube watching your video again, you can get a little bit of an ego boost. But other than that, there was nothing tangible to get out of it, so I didn't really care. And mind you, at the same time, I'm playing basketball, my main thing is actually playing basketball, not YouTube. So in 2009 what happened is, Michael, I found myself unemployed, so I was in between jobs, waiting for the phone to ring, and the phone was not yet ringing. I wasn't sure if or when it was going to ring. Good news is going back in the story a little bit. And I got introduced to what I found out to be network marketing when I was in college, and I just wanted to a bulletin board posting about making some money, extra money in the summertime. Turns out some guy was doing network marketing, and I had gone to a few of the meetings. Didn't stay in the in the industry or build a business, but I go into a few of the meetings where a couple breakthrough things happened in my mind. Number one is that the speaker on the stage was talking about business in ways that my college experience had not taught, never even touched on. So that was one that was eye opening. Number two is that the speaker said, if you're going to build your business, you must also build yourself at the same time, because your business cannot business cannot grow any more than you grow. And that made perfect sense to me, and that introduced and then he went on to introduce the concept of personal development, or reinforce it to the people who had heard the message before. That was a phrase I'd never heard of before. I'd always been into reading and human psychology, but I didn't know there was a term called personal development. And number three, he mentioned a couple of the books that he was suggesting that everyone read, and he name dropped some some authors like Napoleon Hill and Zig Ziglar and Brian Tracy and Jim Rohn and Errol Nightingale. And I'd never heard of these people, but I kept them in mind, even though he sold us outside of this hotel room, there's people selling books with these same authors. Just bought a book. Well, I was a broke college student. I could not afford the book, so I didn't buy the book, so I didn't buy the books, Michael, but I went on eBay when I got back to college, and I bought some pi rated copies of some of these books. And there were two of them that made a big impact on me that led to what happened in the future. One was thinking, Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, rich, right? Which showed me that there's a way that you could intentionally and consciously alter your thought patterns that lead to an alteration in your actions. And the other was Rich Dad, Poor Dad, by Robert Kiyosaki. And when reading that book, I realized, okay, there's another way that you can earn revenue and make money in life, aside from what my school teachers, college professors and parents were demonstrating to me. And this is what really set me on the path toward entrepreneur. Entrepreneurship. These, these, this little story I'm telling you here. And this all happened in the middle of my college years, right? So 2009 I just finished reading. I've always been reading. So I just finished reading another book, which was almost like the the New Age version of Rich Dad, Poor Dad. And it was made for people who knew how to use computers, and it was called The Four Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss. And Tim was talking about similar it was a similar direction as Mr. Kiyosaki. Difference is Tim Ferriss was telling you how to do all of these things through the internet. He was the first person, for example, that ever heard say you can hire someone to work for you who doesn't even you know. Even physically met. They can live in India or the Philippines, where they cost the living is a lot lower than the United States, which means you can pay them less than you need to pay an American, and they can still do the same job as long as it's on the internet. I never heard anyone explain it, and then he explained exactly how to do it. And he talked about, know, how you need to structure, how you talk to them and deconstruct things. And my mind, my mind works in that way. So it was perfect for me. So all that is said to say 2009 Michael, that flashed forward in the story when my when I'm unemployed and trying to figure out what to do, I asked myself a really important question, which was, how do I combine these three things? One is my ability to play basketball. Number two is me being an internet geek, and number three is my desire to earn revenue in a way that I control. And what I just explained, the backstory tells you why all three of these matter, right? So that's how I started to build what we now call a personal brand. At the time, that was a new phrase. So when I what I started doing was, first of all putting videos on YouTube every single day. Because another thing that happened about that? Yeah, so another thing that happened at that time Michael was YouTube got purchased by Google and Google, and people don't remember this, maybe, but YouTube was not monetized up to that point. So YouTube was losing a lot of money. It was very popular, but they were losing money because they were spending all this money on the the space to hold all these these videos, but they weren't making any money. So by monetizing the site, ie that means putting advertisements on the videos. There was a time those of you listening that you could watch YouTube all day with no ads, but they started putting ads on the videos, and this allowed them to make money, and it also allowed them to share in the profits. So people like myself, the more videos we put out, and the more I got viewed, the more money we made. So I started making videos every day. Other thing was, I had always been blogging. I've always been a big reader, always a big writer. So I started writing more often, just about my experiences playing overseas. And also I started writing about my background in basketball, and also about how to play overseas, because there's a a niche market, but a hungry market of basketball players who believe they could play overseas the same way that I've once believed it. The thing is, is, unlike being a doctor or a lawyer, there's no, like, quote, unquote, official documentation on how to do it. So I started writing and explaining that, because I have the ability not only to have done certain things, but also I'm pretty good at explaining them. So I started doing that. That was the writing piece. And as I continue to do this, people started to know my name on the internet. So then I started to become kind of a, what we now call an influencer, specifically for basketball players, because of what I was doing online. So this all happened during that about 2009 to 2000 maybe 11 period, and the two other pieces I'll add to this cap, this long answer to a short question, which is also Tim Ferriss introduced this concept of you can sell your own products on the internet. And he gave a little experiment on how to test out the market viability. I did it. I started selling my own products. My first two products, Michael, were $4.99 each. That was the price. One was for dribbling the basketball. Ones for shooting the basketball, and they started selling immediately, as soon as I put them out. And the reason was because I had a hungry audience who was already following me, and I had already built a relationship with them, not because I was any type of marketing expert, but I kind of was. But by accident, I didn't, I didn't think of it as marketing. I just thought of it as I had something they want. And the last thing is, self publishing became a thing. So I told you I told you I was a big reader, big writer, so now I can write my own books, and I didn't have to go through a publisher to do it, because I always had the idea writing a book, but I didn't know anything about going through the traditional publishing process, which eventually I have done. But at the time, I wasn't thinking about doing that. But now I can write a book, and I can put it out tomorrow if I want to. So that's what I started doing. So all of this happened between 2009 and 2000 1101. More piece. I'm sorry. Lot of things happen in this period. One more piece was that the players who were following me online, basketball players, 99% of my audience, they started finding out about my background, because every now and then I would reply in the comments telling them, oh, well, I only played one year of high school, or I walked on to play in college, or I played overseas because I went to this exposure camp, or I would make a video just talking, just explaining these things, because I got asked the same question so often. And when players found out about this background of mine, they started asking questions about mindset. They started asking me things like, what kept you disciplined? What keeps you disciplined to keep working out because you put these videos out every day, or, where do you get the confidence to show up and perform at an exposure camp when you only have two days basically to make or break your career? Or why'd you keep trying when you were getting cut from your high school team over and over again, because they would say, hey, Dre I got cut from my team, but I feel like quitting. So why'd you keep trying? What is it that kept you going? Or they would ask something about, how do you get started now? How do you get started playing overseas? How do you get started getting known on the internet? Because now, internet? Because now this is when we start to have the seeds, Michael, of this generation of kids who, instead of growing up wanting to be a police officer or a firefighter, now they want to be YouTubers, because this is what they're seeing. And I was, I guess I was that to them. So they just want to know, how do you get started with all these things that you seem to be doing? Troy, so you. Now that's the end of my long answer to your short question. All of these things happen around a three year span, and that's kind of what sent me in the next direction I ended up going.   Michael Hingson ** 30:08 So I'm curious. One thing you said earlier was that one of the things that you discovered by going to the meeting of the network marketing guy was that he was telling you things that were significantly different than what you learned in business courses in college. What kinds of things were different?   Dre Baldwin ** 30:31 Well, so much so number one, the guy, well, the first, first thing is, I'm sure you've been to a network marketing meeting before. I everybody, I think my age or older has been someone so in these meetings, the first thing that they do, I would say, about 70% of the presentation is just helping you understand a different way of thinking about earning money and just money period. And the other 20 to 30% of the presentation is about the actual product or service that you would actually be selling if you were to take advantage of the join the business opportunity, as they call it. So the first thing is, they help people understand that to make more money, most people just go looking for ways to do more work, put in more time, put in more hours, when they explain instead, you should look for ways to have a network, or for ways to have assets that will do work for you, so you're making money, even if you're not doing the work. And then you language it in a way that makes it simple for the everyday person to understand, not the way that I just said it, but they make it really simple to understand. That's the first   Michael Hingson ** 31:32 thing. But the reality is that while people may or may not realize it, anybody who tends to be very successful in business has probably essentially done the same thing, whether they acknowledge it or not. So I mean, I appreciate what you're saying anyway. Go ahead, yeah.   Dre Baldwin ** 31:47 So that's the first thing. Is they help you understand that to make more money is not give more time to your job, whatever, because most people there have a job may introduce the business for the first time like myself, and many of them no older than me. So that's the first thing. The second thing is them helping you understand that, hey, it's possible to have other people working for you, which everyone logically understands, but most of us have this block in our minds that to get people working for me. Well, first of all, I had to have my own company. Secondly, I got to make a lot of money. And third, I got to go find the people. Fourth, I got to teach them what to do. And fifth, I got to watch them. And network marketing kind of handles all those problems at the same time. Because if you join the business and you get other people to join with you, the system teaches them all that stuff. You don't have to spend any money to get them on your team. You don't actually even be having you don't have to be making that much money yourself to get someone else on your team. And every time they make money, you make money, right? So it kind of solves all those problems of getting people on your team to where their efforts put money in your pocket without you having to do all the work. So that was the second breakthrough that happened in that meeting, and the third breakthrough to me, Michael, because I've always been a person who I consider myself a critical thinker, and I try to be as logical and as objective as I can be. As I already told you, I have a business degree from Penn State University, so I'm thinking to myself, why haven't any of my college professors ever mentioned anything is being told to us in this meeting? I just didn't understand it. Why are they not talking about this? Because it sounds like it makes perfect sense. So if it's wrong, maybe they can explain why it's wrong. But if it's right, why are they not talking about it? So these are the three biggest things that stuck in my head after I went to that meeting.   Michael Hingson ** 33:26 How did you or what did you discover? Was the answer to that last one, why they don't talk about it?   Dre Baldwin ** 33:33 We have a whole conversation on that so I understand the answer is that the system that we have in the United States, especially educational system is designed to produce employees. It's designed to produce people. We're going to go work for somebody else and work out your no salvation for someone else. Because if you are, this is just my my opinion here. If you are independently making your own money, then you are less controlled, and you are, it's harder to keep you under the thumb of anything or anyone else, and you can do or say, you have much more freedom. Let's just put it that way, when you have your own business and you're making your own money, as opposed to when you work somewhere and they set the rules upon you. So I believe the educational system not I believe, I know the educational system was initially created the way that it is to train people to be ready to be ready to go work in factories during the Industrial Revolution. Now we're not in that space anymore. Now it's more mental work than it is physical labor. But the system is the framework of the system still exists the exact same way teaching   Michael Hingson ** 34:33 entrepreneurialism, if you will, is still something that is not nearly as common as it as it really probably should be correct. Yeah. So that happens. Well, so how long did you continue to play basketball?   Dre Baldwin ** 34:48 I played basketball to 2015 so by this 2009 to 2011 period. Now I basically had two, if you want to call them jobs, neither one of them was well, basketball is technically a job. If you're a contractor, but I basically had two jobs playing basketball, and I have this internet thing going on that we now call personal brand, or you can call it a business, but I wasn't calling it either of those back then. I was just a guy who was known on YouTube, and I sell products, and I got books, and there was no word for it. So in this time period that last four or five years that I was playing basketball, of course, I'm traveling back and forth and playing, but as I told you, our long days of work are four hours, so I have plenty of time on my hands. So I'm blogging, I'm making videos, I'm updating my website. I'm making more programs, because when those first two four hour and 99 cent programs started selling, I said, Well, I know I got more about basketball than just two things. Let me just make programs for everything that I know. So I just made programs for every single aspect of the game that I understood, and I just kept putting them out. And I just was selling those programs to the point that I was making money online. And I got to the point probably about 2010 that I remember telling a friend that whatever this is that we're going to call this, that I'm doing on the internet is going to be bigger for me than basketball. I can see that very clearly, Michael, it's just for the simple fact that athletes have a very short shelf life. You can only play a professional sport for so long, no matter how good you are, because the body can't keep doing that at that level forever. But what I had created when I started selling products was what we call intellectual property. And you can create intellectual property forever, as long as your brain works and you can either write or you can talk or some way of communicating, you can sell intellectual property your entire life. You cannot sell physical property, at least not through your physical body, forever, not in the sports realm. So I knew my time was going to end in basketball, and my time using my brain to communicate something and sell it, hopefully that would never expire. To this point, I'm it's still true, so that's how I knew what I was going to be doing next. So   Michael Hingson ** 36:46 you played basketball, but eventually, I gather that what you're really saying is you made the decision that you were going to go into to doing the marketing, to strengthening your brand and creating new intellectual property, and you were going to do that full time?   Dre Baldwin ** 37:03 Yes, absolutely. So I was doing it from, again, my 2010 and 2015 I guess you could call it part time, right? And, but again, you had the off season, and I had a lot more time doing that than I had on the basketball court, right? And it was just building the business. Because remember the network marketing experience, reading Robert Kiyosaki, reading Tim Ferriss. I knew I wanted to go into the business world, because after sports, you start to do something. I mean, it's not like you just sit around do nothing for the rest of your life. You're 30 something years old. I was 33 when I stopped playing, so I knew there was something else that I was going to be doing, and I knew I didn't want to go the traditional route. So I knew that from watching my parents, I knew that from listening to my college professors, and I knew that from looking at my college classmates, I said, I'm not like these people. I need a different option. What else am I going to do? So I already knew that route was my route.   Michael Hingson ** 37:51 When did you come up with the the title and the concept work on your game?   Dre Baldwin ** 37:57 That same time period about 2009 so this was early in the days when I first started publishing on YouTube a little bit more consistently. And my audience is steadily growing, of athletes at this point. And athletes were starting to just ask me a lot of questions about, help can you help me with this? Help me with that? And one day, I was in a 24 hour fitness gym here in Miami, as a matter of fact, excuse me, and I just had my camera with me. My little $100 camera still had it, and I was finishing a workout on my own at about four o'clock in the morning, because I was couldn't sleep, so I just went to the gym, and I was stretching after my workout. And I remember recording this video. It's about two minutes long, and it's still on YouTube to this day. And what I said in the video was that a lot of you players, the reason that you all are having trouble getting better or making a team or you play, but nobody wants to give you the ball is because you all are spending way too much time watching me on youtube or playing Xbox than you are actually doing what I'm doing, which is being in the gym and literally working on your game. So I said in a little bit more colorful language than that, but when I put that out there, Michael, people really loved the phrase. They loved the phrase work on your game because they hadn't heard it used so forcefully in such a way. And it took about a year and a half of people repeating it back to me, seeing me in a mall, seeing me on internet, and saying it when I realized, you know what, I could just name. I can put a name on this and call it work on your game. Because the good thing about it is, because I already had this business mindset. Even though a lot of these players only knew me for basketball, I was thinking bigger than just basketball. And the phrase, the great thing about the phrase is that it doesn't limit you to sports. So that's where I first said it,   Michael Hingson ** 39:32 right, which makes perfect sense, you know? And and one of the things that I'm reacting to is when you said earlier that people kept asking you, well, why did you continue? Why did you keep working and trying to get on basketball, even though you didn't get very far in high school and you did some in college, but you never got to be pro, and then you eventually went to the resilience camp and so on. But ultimately, a lot of it comes down to discipline. Uh, and you, you chose to be disciplined about what you did, which I think is really a very important thing. So the question I would ask is, why is discipline such a very important part of success?   Dre Baldwin ** 40:16 I believe it's the biggest differentiator between, if you have people who have potential or resources. Biggest differentiator between who actually makes it and who doesn't is who has discipline. Because if everyone in the room has potential and everyone has access to resources, information, knowledge, talent, etc, the person who's the most disciplined is the one who's going to get the most out of the opportunities that are in front of them. And I believe so few people have discipline that it becomes the opportunity. Because I tell people, Michael, the opportunity is always in the opposites. So you just look around at what most people in any space are doing. If you could just be the opposite of that, that's where the opportunity is. You just have to ask yourself, all right, looking at how everybody else is and what everybody else is doing or thinking or saying, if I looked at the opposite of that, where's the opportunity? Because the opportunity somewhere over there. So if you just wrote, you'll find it so discipline, easy differentiator, because most people are not disciplined,   Michael Hingson ** 41:10 no and and even the people who are, they're generally looking for that difference that they can take advantage of, which makes perfect sense. How about discipline and how it actually helps in building confidence?   Dre Baldwin ** 41:28 Great question. Well, discipline produces confidence, and most people don't go looking for discipline, even though everyone understands that they need it. If you ask, if you stop the 100 people on the street and say, Do you need more discipline, everybody will laugh and say yes. And they can point to several areas in life in which they need it, but most people don't have it, even though everyone claims that they need it, because this is one of those things. But if you ask 100 people, would you like to be more confident, and in what area, most people would also say yes. The challenge is, most people don't know how to go about getting confidence. They don't know how to get this one either. But confidence, since you want it, confidence comes from discipline. So the more disciplined you are, the more confident you'll become, because discipline is basically about doing the work consistently, and confidence is your belief and your ability to do a thing. So the more you do your homework, so to speak, the more prepared you are for the test. If people can follow that metaphor, and that's what confidence is really about. And a lot of people tend to think confidence comes from faking it until you make it, or pretending that you're something that you're not. The problem with that is eventually you had to stop faking and then you have to go back to being who you were before. So you don't want to be on this roller coaster of up and down. Instead, you want to become it. And the way you become anything is by embodying it, by doing the things that that person that's you, the future version of you would already do. All you have to do is figure out what's the process, what are the disciplines of that type of person that already exists? You can model after that, follow the structure that's already been put in place by someone who's already done it, or already has become it. You follow it, and you can get the same result. So that's where confidence actually comes from, and it's based on following the disciplines, and you follow disciplines when you simply have a structure to plug yourself into.   Michael Hingson ** 43:06 I am also a firm believer in the fact that if you try to fake it, people are going to see through it. People are generally smarter than people who fake it. Give them credit for being and the fact of the matter is, you can fake it all you want, but they're going to see through it. And the reality is, if you're authentic, no matter what you do, you're going to go a whole heck of a lot further Anyway, yes. So the other thing is that, when you're dealing with discipline and so on, another sort of phrase that comes to mind is the whole idea of mental toughness and and you've gotta be able to become tough enough to be able to cope with whatever you know you're going to be able to do, and you've gotta have the conviction to make it happen. That means you gotta be pretty tough internally,   Dre Baldwin ** 43:54 yes, and that's another differentiating factor. All of these are differentiators, but mental toughness is about understanding that no matter how prepared you are, no matter how disciplined, how confident at some point along the way, many points along the way, things are not going to go the way that you expecting them to go. Something's going to go left, that you expect them to go right, a person's going to let you down. Just something randomly pops up that throws a wrench in your plans. And what people should understand is that everyone has these kind of things happen to them. Everyone has stuff happen in their lives. There's no one who is immune to this. The difference between the people who get to tell their story and everyone else, because everyone has a story, but not everyone has the luxury of getting their story heard, is that the people who get to tell their story are those who persevered through the stuff and came out on the other side to where they can tell their story. They created some success despite the stuff that they went through, and now, because you created the success, now you have this credibility, and you're on this sort of pedestal that makes people want to hear what you have to say and hear about your story. But it's not that the people who are in the audience don't have a story. Is simply that until you create a certain level of success, people don't care to hear your story. They only want to hear the story when you become a success. But you can't just be a success with no story. Instead of person who hasn't gone through stuff but they became quote unquote successful, nobody wants to hear that either. So you have to go through the process of going through the stuff, going through the challenges, the times where it looks like you're going to lose and you figure out a way to make it work. Then, once you're a success, now you get to tell your story. So that's what mental toughness is about.   Michael Hingson ** 45:27 I wrote a book, and started it around the time the pandemic started began, and the idea behind the book was to teach people to learn that they can control fear and that fear doesn't need to overwhelm them and blind them and make them incapable of making decisions. And if they truly learn about fear and how to use it, they can use it in a very positive way to further them. And of course, that's for me. The example is what I learned in order that, as it turns out, I survived being in the World Trade Center on September 11 and escaping with a guide dog. And it's and it's all about really learning those skills, learning to be tough, learning to persevere, and at the same time, being, I think, resilient, and being able to go sometimes with the flow. You talked about the fact that, in reality, many times things will happen that you don't expect, and it can can take you down. But the other part about it is, if you analyze the things that are happening to you, especially when there's something that you don't expect happening, and it occurs, what are you going to do about it? What do you learn from that? And that's, I think the thing that most people never really discover is that they can go back and from all the challenges they face. They're not failures, and they can learn from that, and they just don't do that.   Dre Baldwin ** 46:50 I agree with that completely. Is that, well, one reasons people don't tend to not look back often enough at the things that they've gone through, and also people are just not very people tend to not want to be too much of a critical thinker about themselves. Now, people will be critics of themselves or criticize themselves, but being a critical thinker doesn't necessarily mean beating yourself down. It just means looking at the situation and asking yourself, uh, given the same circumstances, if i What did I overlook at the beginning? What did I not notice that I sort of noticed, and of course, looking at what we know now after going through the situation, maybe what what I have done differently. But a lot of people don't take the time to really think critically about their own lives and their own situations. Therefore, they miss the opportunities in kind of debriefing, so to speak, as you describe it. And   Michael Hingson ** 47:35 the other part about that is they don't develop, if you will, the mind muscle to be able to analyze and be introspective and learn from the challenges that happened, or even when they do something well, could I do it better? We don't. We don't tend to do that. And I think that so many people become so critical of themselves, it's a very negative thing. And I used to say it, I'm my own worst critic, because I like to listen to speeches that I give and learn from them. But over the past year, year and a half, what I really discovered is wrong thing to say. It's not I'm my own worst critic. I'm my own best teacher, which is absolutely true. I am the only one that can really teach me. And my own best teacher puts everything in a much more positive light. That's right, and which is cool. And you know, you, you, you certainly demonstrated a lot of personal initiative. You You stuck to it. You were mentally tough, and so on. And you build a business, and now that business, I gather, is pretty successful. You've written, what, 35 books, you've created lots of videos, and you continue to do things. What do you think the most important thing is that people get from you today and that they've gotten from you?   Dre Baldwin ** 48:51 Great question. Well, I'll tell you the answer that I've gotten from people who work with us because I asked that question, I asked them, or I framed it by saying, I know, and you know, Mister client, that I'm not the only person in the world who does what I do, not the only person offering what I offer or talking about what I talk about. So what is it about my material? If you see an I sent an email, you see I just put out a video, or you're getting in a conversation with me, what is it about my approach that makes it different from anyone else who might be offering something similar in the marketplace, and the common answer that I get every time is, it's your style of delivery. So it's Dre you're no nonsense. You're no fluff. You get straight to the point. You're honest, you're objective, you keep it real. You do a good job of explaining different angles of things, while at the same time letting people know your opinion. So I just people tell me they just appreciate my style of communication. But nobody ever says, Dre you're the best in the world when it comes to talking about discipline or confidence or writing books or entrepreneurship or nobody ever says that even though I may be the best in the world, nobody says I'm the best in the world. They all say, we like the way that you get your point across. That's what they appreciate the most.   Michael Hingson ** 50:01 Well, and I, I would buy into that anyway, because I think that authenticity and telling the truth in a way that that people can accept it is so important and and so often we don't see that. So I can appreciate them saying that to you.   Dre Baldwin ** 50:18 Well, thank you.   Michael Hingson ** 50:20 Me why? Yeah, go ahead. No,   Dre Baldwin ** 50:22 I agree.   Michael Hingson ** 50:24 Well, there you go. We'll see, see. Okay, we both bought into that one. Why is discipline more important than motivation? I mean, everybody talks about motivation. There are a lot of motivational speakers out there. I know that a lot of times I'm providing motivational or inspirational talks, but and I suspect that the answer you're going to give will explain the but, but, why is it that motivation isn't nearly as as crucial as discipline? Well,   Dre Baldwin ** 50:51 just like you, Michael, I will give out motivational messages as well, so to speak. And if someone is booking me to speak and they say, need a motivational speaker, I'll take it right? They want me on the stage, so I'm good with that. The thing is, motivation and discipline are not diametrically opposed, and sometimes when we talk about these things, people tend to get the idea that they are like enemies. They're not enemies. They work together. The thing is, motivation comes and goes. We don't know when motivation is going to show up. Sometimes we're motivated, sometimes we're not, discipline always shows up. So even in the times when we are not motivated, if you're disciplined, you're still going to go to the gym, you're still going to write the next 500 words in your book, you're still going to record your show, you're still going to do the paperwork you're supposed to do. You'll still check your email inbox, whatever it is that you're supposed to do for the discipline. So motivation, if and when I have it, great, but if I don't have it, no one would know the days that I'm not motivated, because I'm still going to do the same work. So motivation is a good thing because, again, it'll get people fired up. It'll get you moving. It can light a fire under someone and get them to do something that they otherwise would not have done. The problem is motivation is much more temporary than the long term effects of discipline. So when people are going around looking for motivation, especially at the professional level, you're setting yourself up for a problem. Because at the professional level, you're getting paid to do something as your main occupation, which means you have to deliver consistently. The problem is motivation is not always there. So what will you do when you're not motivated? This is where discipline picks up. So what I advise people, and I give them a whole structure for this, is you need to take their short term motivations and convert them into long term disciplines, because that's the one that you can   Michael Hingson ** 52:31 count on. I would also submit that those long term disciplines will greatly enhance the amount of time you're motivated as well. Good point, because the the reality is that the discipline

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Episode Notes As important as it is to make the most of the holiday season, it's equally important to take care of ourselves...and this week's special guest is here to assist us in doing so!! He is Mr. Kim Terry, who owned Terry's Total Fitness in Henderson for a number of years, and still performs personal training out of his home. Terry also enjoyed tremendous success in basketball and track and field as a youngster, which earned him a spot in the Henderson County High School Athletic Hall of Fame. Come along as he reflects on his days in the field of competition, and his impressive health and wellness background. He also speaks of his "Promoting A Healthy Henderson" Facebook page, and gives us some tips/tricks to maintain at least reasonable health through Thanksgiving and Christmas. Time to step it up! And, be sure to like/follow Kim's aforementioned Facebook page by simply clicking here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1552561985182505/. Find out more at https://blabbin-in-the-bluegrassblabbi.pinecast.co

Steve Pike, founder of Next Wave Community, veteran church planter, author: Next Wave-Discovering the 21st Century Church, Total Fitness for Your Church, co-author-Leading Church Multiplication, and The Reimagined Church.Catalyst for Next Wave Virtual Community, an online community of church leaders committed to success in the 21st Century, President and Founder of Urban Islands Project, a national organization dedicated to increasing the presence of the Church America's urbanized communities.Winning Business Radio is broadcast live Mondays at 4PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio (www.w4cy.com) part of Talk 4 Radio (www.talk4radio.com) on the Talk 4 Media Network (www.talk4media.com). Winning Business Radio is viewed on Talk 4 TV (www.talk4tv.com).Winning Business Radio Podcast is also available on Talk 4 Media (www.talk4media.com), Talk 4 Podcasting (www.talk4podcasting.com), iHeartRadio, Amazon Music, Pandora, Spotify, Audible, and over 100 other podcast outlets.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/winning-business-radio--3075598/support.

In today's episode of the Total Fitness Bodybuilding Podcast we're going to do a deep dive into "The Ultimate Well Rounded Fitness Routine" for developing well rounded strength, health, and stamina. Most exercise programs these days have a singularity of focus and are one dimensional. Often neglecting key aspects of developing Total Fitness. But if you want to live life to the fullest and be able to do the things you want without having your body holding you back. You need a comprehensive workout routine that combines the best of strength training, cardiovascular exercise, and flexibility for a well-rounded Total Fitness experience. In this podcast, we will discuss how to:

If your diet and exercise program has a START and an END date - the results are only going to be temporary. You need to look at the process of losing fat and building muscle as a lifestyle change. There is no finish line, no end date, it's simply an on going process of small daily improvement for the rest of your life! This is why suffering it out on a short term fat loss diet plan never works over the long term. If you don't create the sustainable habits and lifestyle changes that are required to maintain a lean muscular body - you'll always regain the weight back again as soon as you stop that nose to the grindstone approach. The good news is if you do the right things - the process of building a lean muscular body doesn't have to be stressful, or painful, and it can actually be more enjoyable than the way you're living right now. If you don't want to be fat anymore, and are ready to make a permanent change, then make sure to listen to this podcast to the very end.

In so many of our chats with industry leaders on the podcast, Lawrence has referenced the great work Total Fitness are doing regarding their PT product, specifically in regard to attraction, recruitment, training and retention. Our next guest is the person responsible for this great work, Richard Wilson. We were really excited to have him as a guest after he was recommended by the brilliant previous guest Andrea Cook, and he did not disappoint! If you need solutions to a PT problem in your club, want to grow and develop your PT career or hear about a great professional's journey all the way up to Head of Personal Training for a major fitness operator we have got you! This is the chat for you. You can find out more about Lawrence and the Love Recruitment team via the links below. https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceeverest/ You can also follow Love Recruitment for more content, help, jobs and fitness recruitment expertise. https://www.instagram.com/loverecruitment https://www.linkedin.com/company/love-recruitment-ltd You can follow our page on Instagram via https://instagram.com/loveyourcareerpodcast If any of the tips around interviews were of interest, you can find out more candidate help with our candidate guide, which point you in the direction blogs, tips and guidance from Lawrence and the team https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/candidate-guide Sponsored by Share The Love https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/sharethelove

Stewart Gandolf is the CEO of Healthcare Success, a full-service brand performance marketing agency focused on healthcare and recognized as a thought leader in the industry. Over the past 20 years, he has marketed and consulted for over a thousand healthcare clients ranging from practices and hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporations.  Stewart began his career with leading advertising agencies including J. Walter Thompson, where he marketed Fortune 500 clients such as Wells Fargo and Bally's Total Fitness. He is a renowned speaker who has shared his expertise at over 200 venues across the United States. Additionally, he has written for numerous industry-leading publications as an author and expert resource, including the Healthcare Success Insight blog. In this episode… Marketing is the backbone of every business. Doing it right helps increase brand awareness, attract new customers, and build a loyal patient base. As for entrepreneurs in the healthcare space, how can they successfully grow their brands through marketing? Healthcare marketing professional Stewart Gandolf recommends outsourcing your marketing efforts to a healthcare marketing agency. Growing a healthcare brand is no easy feat — it can be overwhelming for business owners to manage multiple tasks such as patient care, financial management, human resources, and marketing. As a result, many healthcare businesses struggle to offer quality services to their clients and attract new customers. However, partnering with an agency specializing in healthcare marketing and medical advertising can free up your time to focus on offering quality patient care. On this episode of the Inspired Insider Podcast, Dr. Jeremy Weisz sits down with Stewart Gandolf, CEO of Healthcare Success, to discuss healthcare marketing. Stewart explains how he got into the healthcare marketing space, the growth of Healthcare Success, inbound and outbound marketing strategies for healthcare businesses, and the evolution of Healthcare Success' services.

Andrea cook We are very lucky to welcome Andrea Cook, Head of People for Total Fitness to the podcast this week. Andrea is exceptional. She is excellent at what she does, is delightful, generous with her time and her honesty and authenticity is brilliant. She has worked for some brilliant brands including John Lewis and Emirates too. She has also played an integral role and driven one of the stories of the sector in transforming the employee proposition and narrative in working for Total Fitness. In what is sometimes an overused phrase, they have without doubt become an employer of choice. Andrea talks us through this journey, which we are so lucky for and then also gives her guide, tips and advice for people's careers and how business can improve their recruitment processes. Thanks so much Andrea and in addition to the above, we also loved these areas too…. - How to get spotted for development - being bold, working hard are key areas in this advice - Luck and the importance of leadership within that. - Don't be afraid to try something new. - Journey of Total Fitness - loved this part and so interesting. - Use of behavioural assessments - how these were used prevalently in her previous roles and how much value they have added to Total Fitness. - Embracing the fact that the advertising of their roles isn't for everyone. And that's ok! Not all businesses are right for everyone and that's ok too! - Truth in the narrative is so important and critical for busiensses. - Transparency and being authentic key reasons for their success in recruiting and retaining huge talent. - Talked of the importance of their internal survey. - Books - 9 lies in work. - Fantastic advice for both candidates and businesses alike. Clear, concise and information that we would advise people listen to at least once! We hope you love this episode and if you have any favourite parts or if anything resonates with you we would love to hear from you. Contact is here or via any of the links below. You can find out more about Andrea via her LinkedIn below and Total Fitness here - https://www.totalfitness.co.uk/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-cook-assoc-cipd-a7594a80/ You can find out more about Lawrence and the Love Recruitment team via the links below. https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/lawrenceeverest/ You can also follow Love Recruitment for more content, help, jobs and fitness recruitment expertise. https://www.instagram.com/loverecruitment https://www.linkedin.com/company/love-recruitment-ltd You can follow our page on Instagram via https://instagram.com/loveyourcareerpodcast If any of the tips around interviews were of interest, you can find out more candidate help with our candidate guide, which point you in the direction blogs, tips and guidance from Lawrence and the team https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/candidate-guide Sponsored by Share The Love https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/sharethelove

Back in the early 2000's, a chance encounter bumping into Ricky Dugo at Bally's Total Fitness by a young 18 year old victim is coming up next. In this very emotional part 1 interview with David you will hear one of the most real and raw interviews yet.

On this week's episode of the Escape Your Limits podcast, our guest is Sophie Lawler, one of the most recognized CEO's in the fitness industry whose name is synonymous with the recent success of multisite brand, Total Fitness. Sophie joined Total Fitness as CEO in 2018 after gaining the bulk of her fitness management experience at multisite middle market operator, Fitness First. Having successfully steered Total Fitness through the pandemic, the brand is financially strong, turning a significant profit for the first time since 2015. With a £6.5 million load recently awarded by OakNorth Bank to invest facility improvements, the brand is going from strength to strength. During her time as CEO, Sophie has built the brand on the belief that ‘everyone is better when they're fitter' whilst developing and implementing a leadership culture that flows through all levels of the business. In this episode, Sophie talks about: · Addressing the training needs of women. · The ‘secret' formula on which Total Fitness was originally built. · Steering the company through COVID and driving the business forwards. · Creating a successful business through cultural leadership. · The role of technology. · The impact of social media on gym behaviors.  ====================================================== Subscribe to our channel and turn on your notifications so you never miss a new video when it's published: https://www.youtube.com/user/EscapeFitness Shop gym equipment: https://escapefitness.com/shop View our full catalogue: https://escapefitness.com/support/catalogue  ====================================================== Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Escapefitness Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/escapefitness Twitter: https://www.twitter.com/escapefitness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/escapefitness/  

Hello, sunshine! In today's episode, I want to share with you the six fundamental elements you should incorporate into your life if you want to pursue a life of total fitness.

Peter and Eunji go into the trauma of Bally's Total Fitness and the Korean community and the ultimate trauma of aging. Please like and subscribe! And don't forget to leave a review for us!

About Steve : Steve Pike is the President and Founder of Urban Islands Project, a national organization dedicated to increasing the presence of the Church in North America's urban and underserved communities.Prior to initiating Urban Islands Project, Steve served as the Founding Director of the Church Multiplication Network. CMN serves church multipliers to equip, fund and network new faith communities in America. Since its formation in 2008, CMN has assisted with the starting of over 4000 new congregations in every region of the US.Steve is the co-author with Dr. Tom Nebel of “Leading Church Multiplication,” and the author of “Total Fitness for Your Church” both available from ChurchSmart Resources. His most recent book project “Next Wave-Discovering the 21st Century Church” is set to be released in November 2020.Steve works co-vocationally as a coach/consultant with Church Multiplication Partners, providing support denominational and network level church multiplication leaders.He also serves as a consultant/coach with The Answer Group, a business consulting company.Steve's passion for church multiplication began in 1989 when Steve and his wife, Cherri, pioneered a new church that became the catalyst of a church planting movement in the state of Utah that continues to this day. The Pikes make their home in Denver, Colorado. They are blessed to be the parents of Lindsy and Jeremy and the grandparents of Myles, Koen and Wesley.

In this episode, LaTricia and Phyllis have a conversation with Dwayne Webb and Kristie Thornton of All About Fitness.  They talk about total fitness and what that looks like.  Dwayne and Kristie share with the audience how All About Fitness has impacted them and those they serve.

This week we are joined by industry leader and all round great, Sophie Lawler. Sophie is the CEO of Total Fitness, a great brand within health and fitness and I think it's very fair to say who have been on a journey as a business. Under Sophie's leadership they have gone from strength to strength in regards to their offering, facilities, performance and crucially, their people. Lawrence asks Sophie questions around this and tries to delve into Sophie's work style to understand it more. Lawrence also asks Sophie her perspective and advice on: - interview tips - Importance of a strong EVP which is the offering and vision you use to attract and retail talent in your business - Her favourite books - one being about behaving like a pirate which is definitely exciting! We cover so much more and hope you enjoy it. If you do, please do share with someone else and subscribe. Thanks everyone You can find out more about Lawrence and the Love Recruitment team via the website link below. https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/ You can explore total fitness further too here https://www.totalfitness.co.uk/ You can also follow Love Recruitment for more content, help, jobs and fitness recruitment expertise. https://www.instagram.com/loverecruitment https://www.linkedin.com/company/love-recruitment-ltd If any of the tips around interviews were of interest, you can find out more candidate help with our candidate guide, which point you in the direction blogs, tips and guidance from Lawrence and the team https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/candidate-guide Sponsored by Share The Love https://www.loverecruitmentgroup.com/pages/sharethelove

Are you a fitness or wellness industry business owner wondering what the future holds? Then this week's podcast episode is for you. Jeff Stokes, President of Stride Fitness, shares a look back at how the fitness industry has grown and tips on how to get ready for the upcoming wellness boom. Jeff Stokes has been in the health & fitness space for more than 25 years with his most recent role being the President of STRIDE Fitness, a boutique fitness franchise brand under the parent company Xponential Fitness. After several years kick-starting his career in membership sales & health club management with Bally's Total Fitness in the Washington D.C area, Stokes moved into the consumer research space at BARE Associates International, spearheading their Club Services division as the President and Operating Partner. He continued building his career at Life Time Fitness, leading the luxury Athletic Country Club company to national growth as their Senior Director of West Coast Operations. Jeff also led the Fitness & Lifestyle Group (Australia) as their Senior VP of North America while responsible for launching an international licensing and distribution business in the US. Having been a successful owner, multi-unit operator, consultant, speaker, franchisee and now a franchisor with the largest boutique fitness franchise company in the world has helped Stokes become one of the most sought-after senior executives in the health & fitness space. Be sure to take notes as Jeff pulls back the curtain and shares: Why fitness and wellness industry business owners should always make decisions through MPV - the member point of view Why fitness has become a priority over luxury goods and alcohol How people are spending money in this current wellness economy and how that economy is growing at an even faster rate since the pandemic Why it's not big box gyms vs boutique fitness and why there is enough for everyone Why it's important to be a consumer of your product Why business owners need to go outside your walls and try out your competition - to understand the industry from a members point of view Why coming to your gym or studio needs to be the best hour of your member's day and a rockstar experience Why the more you know about your members, the less likely they are going to cancel Be prepared to get motivated to grow your business with Jeff's insight, tips, and advice - let's get hacking! Follow the Local Business Hacks podcast for more inspiring interviews, hacks, and insider secrets to help grow your business.

The energy crisis is forcing gyms into a perilous position according to the CEO of Total Fitness, Sophie Lawler. The price spike comes at tough time for the industry, which is also under pressure from the lingering effect of pandemic and the growth of online fitness rivals. Speaking to Caroline Hepker and Lizzy Burden on Bloomberg Radio, Sophie said the lack of clarity from the government over the energy crisis is making future decisions difficult.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

I'm talking about my arch nemesis and my ex. Bally's Total Fitness can suck my oil, and sex blinds us- no shit Sherlock. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Hey friend! Welcome back to another Monday #mindsetmakeover episode. Today, I want to talk about why in the world you should be journaling!

Hey friend! We are taught to be God-fearing, but how do you love God and fear Him at the same time? Does that mean we simply follow Him out of fear of being punished; but how can that be love? According to the Cambridge Dictionary, fear is “an unpleasant emotion or thought that you have when you are frightened or worried by something dangerous, painful, or bad that is happening or might happen.” How do you love a person that you fear? It's not possible and most certainly not healthy; you will only do things because you are scared of them, their actions, or the consequences! That was something I struggled with. Once again, that was just because of my own spiritual immaturity. When I gained more knowledge about it and started growing in my walk with God, I finally understood what it actually meant to fear God. Stay tuned, get comfy, and let's dive into the Word for today's #faithfulfriday episode! Cause & Effect Scripture references: ♥ Psalm 112:1 ♥ Proverbs 10:27 ♥ Proverbs 22:4 ♥ Proverbs 9:10 ♥ Psalm 31:19 ♥ Psalm 33:18-19 ♥ Proverbs 19:23 ♥ Psalm 34:7 ♥ Psalm 145:19 ♥ Psalm 128:1-2

Stewart Gandolf, MBA, is the Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Success, one of the nation's leading healthcare and digital marketing agencies. Over the past 20 years, Stewart has marketed and consulted for over 1,000 healthcare clients, ranging from practices and hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporations. A frequent speaker, Stewart has shared his expertise at over 200 venues nationwide. As an author and expert resource, Stewart has also written for many leading industry publications, including the 21,000 subscriber Healthcare Success Insight blog. Stewart also co-authored, “Cash-Pay Healthcare: Start, Grow & Perfect Your Cash-Pay Healthcare Business.” Stewart began his career with leading advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson, where he marketed Fortune 500 clients such as Wells Fargo and Bally's Total Fitness. -- Critical Mass Business Talk Show is Orange County, CA's longest-running business talk show, focused on offering value and insight to middle-market business leaders in the OC and beyond. Hosted by Ric Franzi, business partner at Renaissance Executive Forums Orange County. Learn more about Ric at www.ricfranzi.com. Catch up on past Critical Mass Business Talk Show interviews... YouTube: https://lnkd.in/gHKT2gmF LinkedIn: https://lnkd.in/g2PzRhjQ Podbean: https://lnkd.in/eWpNVRi Apple Podcasts: https://lnkd.in/gRd_863w Spotify: https://lnkd.in/gruexU6m #orangecountyca #mastermind #ceopeergroups #peergroups #peerlearning

Hey friend! Welcome back to another #wednesdaywellness episode. On Monday's #mindsetmakeover episode, I talked about it being time for you to stop denying and second-guessing yourself and God and just start to fulfill your calling, without the fear of failing or getting it wrong on the way. And today, I want to expand on that episode by talking about the 3 biggest dream killers: namely comparison, procrastination, and perfectionism! And give you 4 actionable tips to help you conquer these dream killers.

Hey friend! Welcome back to another Monday #mindsetmakeover episode. Today's I am going to tell you why it is time for you to stop denying and second-guessing yourself and God and start to fulfill your calling, without the fear of failing or getting it wrong on the way.

On Episode 39 of C60 Health Connections, Leading Fitness Expert Robbie Stahl utilizes over 20 years of research and experience to give us his insights into what it takes to achieve (and maintain) optimal fitness in our 40's and beyond. If you met Robbie Stahl when he was 22, he had already created the number 1 strength and muscle gain system in all of Bally's Total Fitness -- a gym chain of 700 trainers and 250,000 members. But now, at age 42, and after 20 years of meticulous research, development, and clinical studies, he has finally developed a breakthrough in the world of exercise.  With a team of physiology and biomechanic professors, he covered over a million, yes a million, test subjects to find the most effective way to heal and bulletproof your body through the power of exercise. In fact, his unique exercise invention has given him a 100% in person success rate for fixing shoulder function for his clients who were told surgery was the only solution. Robbie is also known for developing one of the fittest 80-year-olds in the world, Joel Weldon. On his 80th birthday, Joel water skied 39 miles ... and he personally credits Robbie as his secret weapon for keeping hold of his startling ability to stay so active.  Disclaimer: These statements and products have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. The information on this show, and C60 Purple Power products, are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, mitigate, or prevent disease. Please consult a healthcare professional before starting any new diet or exercise regimen. Individual results may vary.   Thanks for listening! To learn more about C60, please visit: https://shopc60.com/what-is-c60 Use the Coupon Code: THEC60SHOW for 10% off your first order at: https://shopc60.com/what-is-c60 Visit us on social media! Facebook. Instagram. YouTube. Twitter. Pinterest.    Robbie's Website  https://www.thefitnessdoctor.com/   The Full Body Fix: https://bodyfix.thefitnessdoctor.com/   Robbie's Social Media https://www.facebook.com/groups/fullbodyfixchallenge

Are you going through a challenging time right now? Do you feel as if you are in a pit of despair, and no matter which way you look at it, you simply don't see a way out? Before you panic and lose all hope, I need you to listen to today's #faithfulfriday episode, because I want to share a testimony with you of my 79-year-old mother-in-law, who walked out of the hospital ten days after the Doctor told us that there was no way she would survive.

Hey friend. Welcome back to another episode of Surrender to Conquer - the podcast with me, your host Wilma. In today's #wednesdaywellness episode, I want us to talk about: How Perception and Perspective Can Cloud Your Vision. Are you ready to stand up boldly in who God created you to be, to believe in yourself and your God-given abilities and gifts? Are you desperately craving to live your life without the fear of rejection, failure, anxiety, and guilt of letting others down? Well, then you, my friend, are right where you need to be because it is my purpose to empower, inspire and encourage you. Through Biblical Disciplines and Principles, I will equip you to: → conquer your limiting beliefs to fulfill your purpose and create an extraordinary life, and → kick your self-sabotaging behaviors to the curb so that you can have more

Hey friend. In today's #mindsetmakeover episode, I want us to talk about:

Hey friend, Welcome to today's #Tuesdaythoughts episode. In today's episode, we're going to talk about the most important component of Nurturing A Healthy, Lasting Relationship. ** Are you ready to stand up boldly in who God created you to be, to believe in yourself and your God-given abilities and gifts? Are you desperately craving to live your life without the fear of rejection, failure, anxiety, and guilt of letting others down? Well, then you, my friend, are right where you need to be because it is my purpose to empower, inspire and encourage you. Through Biblical Disciplines and Principles, I will equip you to: conquer your limiting beliefs to fulfill your purpose and create an extraordinary life, and kick your self-sabotaging behaviors to the curb so that you can have more

Hello, and welcome back! In today's Thursday Truth episode, I want us to talk about poverty and riches. I don't think that poverty is a true reflection of God. Why would God want to let his children go hungry? Aren't all good and perfect gifts from Him, but the enemy steals, kills, and destroys. Could it be that Satan is using poverty as a weapon by distorting God's word of "it's better to be poor and it being difficult to go to heaven if we are rich," and we simply keep believing it? Let's dig into the word and find out. Are you ready to stand up boldly in who God created you to be, to believe in yourself and your God-given abilities and gifts? Are you desperately craving to live your life without the fear of rejection, failure, anxiety, and guilt of letting others down? Well, then you, my friend, are right where you need to be because it is my purpose to empower, inspire and encourage you. Through Biblical Disciplines and Principles, I will equip you to: → conquer your limiting beliefs to fulfill your purpose and create an extraordinary life, and → kick your self-sabotaging behaviors to the curb so that you can have more

Hey Friend, Happy Tuesday and welcome back to another episode. In today's #Tuesdaytalk episode, I want to discuss why it is so important for us as Christians to memorize a bible verses a day, on top of studying the Bible. Are you ready to stand up boldly in who God created you to be, to believe in yourself and your God-given abilities and gifts? Are you desperately craving to live your life without the fear of rejection, failure, anxiety, and guilt of letting others down? Well, then you, my friend, are right where you need to be because it is my purpose to empower, inspire and encourage you. Through Biblical Disciplines and Principles, I will equip you to: → conquer your limiting beliefs to fulfill your purpose and create an extraordinary life, and → kick your self-sabotaging behaviors to the curb so that you can have more

Do you sometimes wonder if God can change His mind about your life or situation, when every day and every moment of your life was already laid out and recorded in His book before you were even born? Do you think God is willing to change your situation through prayer? Let's listen to what is written in the word. Thank you for listening to this message. Please remember to subscribe to this channel. I am here to help you transform your life to stand up boldly in who God created you to be, to believe in yourself and your God given abilities and gifts. Through Biblical Principles, I will empower you to conquer your limiting beliefs and self sabotaging behaviors so that you can have more

What Happens If We Love Jesus And Keep His Commandments? In this quick 90 second faith teaching, I share with you six promises that Jesus made to those who love Him and keep His commandments. Thank you for listening to this message. Please remember to subscribe to this channel. I am here to help you transform your life to believe in yourself and your God given abilities and gifts. Through Biblical Principles and habits, I empower you to stand up boldly in who God created you to be to conquer limiting beliefs and self sabotaging behaviors so that you can have more

On Wednesday, 5/11, I was a guest on the City Cast Chicago podcast discussing the 90 year history of Bally's (pinball, slot machines, arcade games, Six Flags, casinos, and Bally's Total Fitness) and how Bally's got their start here in Chicago. Have a listen!https://chicago.citycast.fm/

Mayor Lori Lightfoot has tapped Bally's to be the first and only casino operator in Chicago. The decision still needs full City Council approval. The Bally brand actually started here in Chicago 90 years ago as part of a company called Lion Manufacturing, and they created an early pinball game called Ballyhoo. The company expanded to slot machines, arcade games, and eventually even amusement parks and gyms (remember Bally's Total Fitness?) Host Jacoby Cochran talks to Tommy Henry from the Chicago History Podcast about Bally's start here, and its significant role in gaming.  There's a community town hall at 7 p.m. Thursday at the UIC Isadore and Sadie Dorin Forum. It will also be livestreamed, Follow us on Twitter: @CityCastChicago Sign up for our newsletter: chicago.citycast.fm Call or Text Us: (773) 780-0246 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the growing age of at home workouts, is going back to the gym necessary to reach your goal?   Has your goal changed due to the lack of a gym?   In this episode, we will cover these topics and more!   Follow us on Instagram: https://instagram.com/mattsmith_fitness https://www.instagram.com/walteratyourservice https://www.instagram.com/total.fitness.podcast https://www.instagram.com/inside_fitness

In conversation with wellness coach, Zumba Instructor and Flow coach Jyothika Dwarkanath on what is holistic fitness. We get behind the scenes on her own personal journey. And ask some fundamental questions about what does fitness actually mean, and the downside of over training. YouTube link : https://youtu.be/RZxCRgLEnO8 0:00 Intro and background 3:45 Flashback, what got the fitness journey started 8:19 What is TRX 10:51 Is Zumba a good cross training for endurance 13:14 How is to become a well ness coach 16:01 The love of Hiking 17:03 Nutrition and what is mindful eating 29:37 What is FLOW 33:44 The importance of metaphysical 36:57 How to achieve flow states 44:14 What is FITNESS 48:01 What's next in the journey 52:37 The fun Q&A round

Last week I, announced the start of my 40-day Total Fitness Fast that I am doing and spoke about what it is all about. In this week's episode I give feedback on my experience during the first two weeks of this fast. Thank you for tuning in and listening. Remember to

Join Iorì:wase journalist/personal trainer Marc Lalonde and Total Fitness' Derek Delisle as they talk all things fitness related! 

As we are drawing near to the end of 2021, I decided to do a

W tym odcinku podcastu, wspólnie z Kamilą Nowowiejską rozmawiamy o szeroko rozumianej branży fitness. Kamila Nowowiejska – w branży sportowej od ponad 15 lat. Ukończyła Akademię Leona Koźmińskiego oraz studia podyplomowe marketing sportu na SGH, marketing internetowy oraz coaching profesjonalny na ALK. Uczestniczka wielu szkoleń, kursów, warsztatów z zakresu zarządzania i marketingu oraz szeroko pojętego zdrowego stylu życia. Na co dzień zafascynowana pracą z ludźmi i zmianą ich nawyków żywieniowych oraz treningowych. Prowadzi zajęcia fitness w sieci klubów Total Fitness w Warszawie, zaś zajęcia online w Better Body, Better Mind. Współtwórczyni marki Better Body Studio, a także odpowiedzialna za dobór trenerów i realizację programów treningowych dla aplikacji fitness Fitnoteq. Z sukcesem rozwinęła szkołę fitness Reebok University, wprowadzając m.in. do sprzedaży nowe programy treningowe, warsztaty oraz konwencje. Ekspert branżowy portalu Branża Fitness oraz Zawód Trener – Portal. Na co dzień pracuje z osobami, które chcą zmienić sylwetkę, zadbać o swoją kondycję oraz dobre samopoczucie, ale także pracuje z tancerzami oraz biegaczami w poprawie ich wyników. Z Kamilą rozmawiamy między innymi o: rozwoju branży fitness w Polsce poziomie aktywności fizycznej w różnych krajach roli rodziców, trenerów w kształtowaniu kultury ruchu programach promujących aktywność fizyczną tym co motywuje do ruchu modach i trendach w świecie fitness jej recepcie na ruch Zapraszam do oglądania kolejnych odcinków w których pojawią się specjaliści związani ze światem sportu i medycyny. Będą fizjoterapeuci, lekarze, sportowcy, trenerzy i pasjonaci wielu form ruchu. Podoba Ci się podcast?  Zrób dobry ruch i pomóż mi w rozwoju tego kanału. Podcast możesz wspierać na wiele sposobów – komentować posty, udostępniać treści lub wejść na Patronite i wybrać jedną z opcji https://patronite.pl/TomaszChomiukReceptanaruch/description Podcast możecie znaleźć na wielu platformach do słuchania m. in.:  Spotify  iTunes  Android:

Hey friend Welcome to sweat and yoga's love the skin youre in podcast Where we sweat for a workout and yoga to feel something new. I am your host Suncana Sonnenburg - workout ebook creator, lover of sweat and all the feels, sitcom junkie, hopp earring and leggings as pants enthusias. Aka your realistic health and fitness bestie. Basically I'm here to guide you step by step to your fittest self and ditch the no pain no gain healtha dn fitness manifest we've grown up to believe is the way. We're sorta doing a compilation of questions today since I get some version of this question almost every week If you're a beginner - what should you focus on? We start out with gratitude and the things I am working on atm and then dive into the how of getting fit for life I give you 3 decision I wish fitness beginners made earlier plus 2 bonuses. decision 1: to actually learn to listen to your body - if you want more details on how to do this - let me know here

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Total Fitness gym owner Adam Fedoriuk joins us to debunk myths relating to exercise and overall health. We debunk those pesky myths that keep you out of the gym. Kevin gives up a top 10 in honour of D-day and Brent tells us how the GOP will bully even its own gay members

This week Sarah is joined by Gina Valles, a fitness coach with a degree in exercise science who founded Gina's Total Fitness in Connecticut. In 2018, Gina was diagnosed with Lyme disease, which changed her life and outlook on fitness. Through her Instagram account, which has almost 180,000 followers, Gina shares her journey, workouts, and inspiration.Gina explains that she lived with undiagnosed Lyme disease for a year in 2017 before being diagnosed. She knew nothing about the disease then, but has educated herself and learned how to adjust her exercise routine and manage on a day-to-day basis. Gina was a competitive athlete throughout her life, and when she got sick she had to adjust her workout routines to focus more on lower intensity movement and listening to her body. She emphasizes that it took time, trial and error to find a fitness routine that works for her.Get the show notes and resources.

In our latest podcast, journalist and personal trainer Marc Lalonde discusses fitness during a pandemic with local trainer Derek Delisle of Total Fitness.

Alka Sharma is making waves in the fitness world with her unique style and drive for a healthy lifestyle. Her three passions include dance, kickboxing and helping individuals reach their full potential by nurturing them to be passionate about health and fitness.For more information…www.AlkasTotalFitness.comSource: https://businessinnovatorsradio.com/alka-sharma-founder-ceo-alkas-total-fitness-mark-stephen-pooler

It was 1997. I weighed in that hot summer day at 297lbs. I walked out of Gary's office at Bally's Total Fitness in Winter Park, FL, and my life was forever changed by ONE SIMPLE QUESTION. Perhaps this can change your life, too... As always, I love hearing from you! After listening, drop me a comment below (or send me an email) if something resonated with you, and please share with others if you think it could impact their world, too! Email: Frannie@shinewithfrannie.com Oh, and don't be a stranger! Let's stay connected: Shine with Frannie Website: www.shinewithfrannie.com Shine with Frannie on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and right here on YouTube. And on Linked In, let's connect--Frannie Foltz AND....don't forget to subscribe to receive notifications when new episodes drop! www.shinewithfrannie.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/frannie-foltz/support

As a tighter lockdown looms, Sean Farrington takes a look at what it means for business with the boss of gym group Total Fitness. He also investigates what the Brexit deal means for the service sector.

Stewart Gandolf, MBAStewart Gandolf, is Chief Executive Officer of Healthcare Success, one of the nation’s leading healthcare and digital marketing agencies. Over the past 20 years, Stewart has marketed and consulted for over 1,000 healthcare clients, ranging from practices and hospitals to multi-billion dollar corporations. A frequent speaker, Stewart has shared his expertise at over 200 venues nationwide. As an author and expert resource, Stewart has also written for many leading industry publications, including the 21,000 subscriber Healthcare Success Insight blog. Stewart also co-authored, “Cash-Pay Healthcare: Start, Grow & Perfect Your Cash-Pay Healthcare Business.” Stewart began his career with leading advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson, where he marketed Fortune 500 clients such as Wells Fargo and Bally’s Total Fitness. John Marchica, CEO, Darwin Research GroupJohn Marchica is a veteran health care strategist and CEO of Darwin Research Group, a health care market intelligence firm specializing in health care delivery systems. He’s a two-time health care entrepreneur, and his first company, FaxWatch, was listed twice on the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing American companies. John is the author of The Accountable Organization and has advised senior management on strategy and organizational change for more than a decade. John did his undergraduate work in economics at Knox College, has an MBA and M.A. in public policy from the University of Chicago, and completed his Ph.D. coursework at The Dartmouth Institute. He is a faculty associate in the W.P. Carey School of Business and the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University and is an active member of the American College of Healthcare Executives. About Darwin Research GroupDarwin Research Group Inc. provides advanced market intelligence and in-depth customer insights to health care executives, with a strategic focus on health care delivery systems and the global shift toward value-based care. Darwin’s client list includes forward-thinking biopharmaceutical and medical device companies, as well as health care providers, private equity, and venture capital firms. The company was founded in 2010 as Darwin Advisory Partners, LLC and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Ariz. with a satellite office in Princeton, N.J.

Alka Sharma is founder, CEO of Alka’s Total Fitness . She helps empower women gain inner strength through empowerment, taking control of their health and fitness.   She helps transforms women’s lives, women get to build relationships, getting strong and fit at the same time while they’re having fun.   Alka is an accomplished professional ballroom dancer having competed both locally and internationally. She truly enjoyed the high of dance performance and training which led to another forms of training and her journey into the fitness world began.Check out Alka's Total Fitness here: https://bit.ly/2PwzcaJ If you're serious about becoming a successful, full-time coach, check out https://www.UltimateClientAttraction.com   I’ll break down the step-by-step and show you exactly how to start attracting a consistent flow of 3-5 new clients into your coaching business month after month.     Connect with William Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/william.winterton.7 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-winterton/  

In this episode Dan and Martin are joined by Craig Battersby, a man with 20 years Fitness Industry experience who has worked for some of the biggest and well-known commercial operators including Fitness First, Total Fitness and most recently JD Gyms. Throughout that time working in regional roles, sitting within Think Tanks alongside industry leaders and heading up nationwide product development, listeners of all levels will find useful takeaways throughout.

In Episode 33, I converse with Adam Shuty, the owner of Atomic Total Fitness, a boutique gym in Midtown East, where I've personally trained with Mike Murray. We discuss the transferable skills between chess and fitness, pedagogy for fitness trainers and chess teachers, entrepreneurship and more.

The 5 pillars of total fitness. What are they and how to achieve them. This is a MUST listen for anyone currently active in the gym. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

As owner/manager of Alka’s Total Fitness, I am excited to welcome you to my Boutique Fitness Studio. It’s a bright airy place where you will find a home for all your fitness needs. I love to share the passion!At Alka’s Total Fitness we believe in giving you the opportunity to learn and grow with a variety of fitness classes. Not sure if you are going to love a particular class? Take advantage of our First Step Program, an opportunity to access what has made us absolutely the best place in Thornhill to get in shape! Once you register you can book any one of a variety of classes and plan ahead.“Challenge yourself in the heart of Thornhill with the only location offering you The Total Fitness Experience!”Having made my personal journey to fitness, I want to share my love of health and wellness to the Thornhill community.YOUR WELLBEING IS MY PASSION & PURPOSEMy three passions are dancing, kickboxing and helping women be the best versions of themselves. Having struggled with weight in my earlier years, I desperately wanted to learn how I could turn my life around.My dance training led me into the world of Latin and Ballroom dancing, and eventually to performing in major competitions in Toronto, Montreal and the U.S.Fitness is all about passion, and so I found the strength to evolve to where I am today, equipped to help women in their own parallel journey.In life, you need to find your pleasure, your passion and your purpose. Dance is a form of fitness, which led me to open Alka’s Total Fitness studio. https://parkbench.com/blog/alkas-total-fitness-fitness-nutrition-mill-pond-richmond-hill-alka-sharma

As owner/manager of Alka’s Total Fitness, I am excited to welcome you to my Boutique Fitness Studio. It’s a bright airy place where you will find a home for all your fitness needs. I love to share the passion!At Alka’s Total Fitness we believe in giving you the opportunity to learn and grow with a variety of fitness classes. Not sure if you are going to love a particular class? Take advantage of our First Step Program, an opportunity to access what has made us absolutely the best place in Thornhill to get in shape! Once you register you can book any one of a variety of classes and plan ahead.“Challenge yourself in the heart of Thornhill with the only location offering you The Total Fitness Experience!”Having made my personal journey to fitness, I want to share my love of health and wellness to the Thornhill community.YOUR WELLBEING IS MY PASSION & PURPOSEMy three passions are dancing, kickboxing and helping women be the best versions of themselves. Having struggled with weight in my earlier years, I desperately wanted to learn how I could turn my life around.My dance training led me into the world of Latin and Ballroom dancing, and eventually to performing in major competitions in Toronto, Montreal and the U.S.Fitness is all about passion, and so I found the strength to evolve to where I am today, equipped to help women in their own parallel journey.In life, you need to find your pleasure, your passion and your purpose. Dance is a form of fitness, which led me to open Alka’s Total Fitness studio. https://parkbench.com/blog/alkas-total-fitness-fitness-nutrition-mill-pond-richmond-hill-alka-sharma

In this interview Penny is speaking with Sophie Lawler, CEO of Total Fitness, as Sophie looks back on what she's achieved so far, what has yet to be done and the importance of connecting people, encouraging authentic engagement and nurturing trust to achieve exemplary outcomes. To read The Living Leader's case study with Sophie Lawler please follow the link here; www.thelivingleader.mykajabi.com/total-fitness-case-study Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this issue of Radioactive Spider-Pod… Peter Parker’s freedom and the Kingpin’s empire rest on the scales of Justice! Thrill as Daredevil/Matt Murdoch returns to aid Spider-Man with his highly questionable skills! Marvel as the small screen can barely contain this burgeoning… friendship! Join Peter, Véro, and Kevin as they make a mockery of lèse majesté in… THE MAN WITHOUT FEAR!   Original Air Date: September 28, 1996   radioactivespiderpod.com

Richard Harris, owner of EQ Coaching & Consultancy; Navneet Dhanjal, Sales Leadership Coach at BT; and Sophie Lawler, CEO of Total Fitness, were our guests on a recent special edition of Called to Coach, recorded in front of a live audience at Gallup's offices at The Shard in London, United Kingdom. The three spoke about their Top 5 and how they have seen CliftonStrengths successfully applied in their lives and careers. Jim Collison wrapped up the webcast with some observations about the global growth of the CliftonStrengths movement -- and Gallup's multiple coaching webcasts -- over the past 7 years. Everybody needs a coach. By becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, you can empower others to succeed. We are teaching and training people all over the world to answer this call. You too can become a coach and learn how to use a strengths-based approach to improve employee engagement and performance and transform your workplace culture. To learn more or discover information about becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, visit Gallup Access: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq.Gallup's Called to Coach is a live webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

Richard Harris, owner of EQ Coaching & Consultancy; Navneet Dhanjal, Sales Leadership Coach at BT; and Sophie Lawler, CEO of Total Fitness, were our guests on a recent special edition of Called to Coach, recorded in front of a live audience at Gallup's offices at The Shard in London, United Kingdom. The three spoke about their Top 5 and how they have seen CliftonStrengths successfully applied in their lives and careers. Jim Collison wrapped up the webcast with some observations about the global growth of the CliftonStrengths movement -- and Gallup's multiple coaching webcasts -- over the past 7 years. Everybody needs a coach. By becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, you can empower others to succeed. We are teaching and training people all over the world to answer this call. You too can become a coach and learn how to use a strengths-based approach to improve employee engagement and performance and transform your workplace culture. To learn more or discover information about becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, visit Gallup Access: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq. Gallup's Called to Coach is a live webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

Richard Harris, owner of EQ Coaching & Consultancy; Navneet Dhanjal, Sales Leadership Coach at BT; and Sophie Lawler, CEO of Total Fitness, were our guests on a recent special edition of Called to Coach, recorded in front of a live audience at Gallup's offices at The Shard in London, United Kingdom. The three spoke about their Top 5 and how they have seen CliftonStrengths successfully applied in their lives and careers. Jim Collison wrapped up the webcast with some observations about the global growth of the CliftonStrengths movement -- and Gallup's multiple coaching webcasts -- over the past 7 years. Everybody needs a coach. By becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, you can empower others to succeed. We are teaching and training people all over the world to answer this call. You too can become a coach and learn how to use a strengths-based approach to improve employee engagement and performance and transform your workplace culture. To learn more or discover information about becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, visit Gallup Access: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq.Gallup's Called to Coach is a live webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

Richard Harris, owner of EQ Coaching & Consultancy; Navneet Dhanjal, Sales Leadership Coach at BT; and Sophie Lawler, CEO of Total Fitness, were our guests on a recent special edition of Called to Coach, recorded in front of a live audience at Gallup's offices at The Shard in London, United Kingdom. The three spoke about their Top 5 and how they have seen CliftonStrengths successfully applied in their lives and careers. Jim Collison wrapped up the webcast with some observations about the global growth of the CliftonStrengths movement -- and Gallup's multiple coaching webcasts -- over the past 7 years. Everybody needs a coach. By becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, you can empower others to succeed. We are teaching and training people all over the world to answer this call. You too can become a coach and learn how to use a strengths-based approach to improve employee engagement and performance and transform your workplace culture. To learn more or discover information about becoming a Gallup-Certified Strengths Coach, visit Gallup Access: http://on.gallup.com/1i5OXhq. Gallup's Called to Coach is a live webcast that targets current and prospective coaches to interact with Gallup experts and independent strengths coaches who have found success in strengths-based development.

In this podcast I had the pleasure to have Gina Valles on. If you don't already know her, I highly recommend checking her out. She is the Owner of Gina's Total Fitness. She currently has her own gym where she does group strength and condition training classes out of and also 1 on 1 personal training. She has a incredible passion for fitness and wellness which has lead to her building a following on Instagram of over 100,000. Her energy is contagious and its almost impossible to not want to get better from just being around her. Gina's goal is to impact as many people as she can and to help them live to there true potential not only physically but mentally. We discuss the the challenges she went through, depression, mindset, goal setting and how all of these things have only made her stronger and helped her get to where she is today. You can follow Gina on Instagram at ginavallesfit www.ginastotalfitness.com Also we talk about CBD Oil and the impact it has had on her https://www.cbdpure.com/

Sophie Lawler is at the helm of Total Fitness as CEO, she is one of the youngest CEO’s in the industry. With 20 years’ fitness experience, Sophie has previously transformed Fitness First, overseeing strategic growth, and the development of new products and propositions in the UK and overseas. Sophie applies her passion, unique leadership culture and vast experience to Total Fitness, where the power of people has grown the membership base by 10% this year to date.

Jose Vazquez is entering his 13th season as the Texas Rangers major league strength and conditioning coach. He previously spent four seasons with the New York Mets, serving first as the Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coordinator (2002-2004) and later as the Director of Rehabilitation (2005). Prior to joining the Mets, Jose was the Sports Physical Therapist for The Therapy Center in Knoxville, Tenn. and Methodist Medical Center in Oak Ridge, Tenn. from 1998-2001. He was also a co-founder of TNT Sports Specific Training in Knoxville in 1998. After earning second team All-American honors at the University of Tennessee in 1992, Jose was selected by St. Louis in the 42nd round of the 1992 June draft. He played professionally for three seasons (1992-94) as an outfielder in the Cardinals organization and for the Northern League’s Duluth club. He was selected all-Dade County in baseball and football at Southwest Miami High School in 1988, and was all-state at Central Florida CC in 1989-90. Jose graduated from Tennessee with a BS degree in education in 1994 and received his Masters of Physical Therapy from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, FL. in 1998. He co-authored “Total Fitness for Baseball” with Jay Hoffman (Coaches Choice, 2008) and was a co-author of “Effect of Age on Anthropometric and Performance Measures in Professional Baseball Players” (Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, 2013). Jose is a Certified and Registered (CSCS-R) Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) and was the treasurer for the PBSCCS for eight years (2007-2014). He was recognized by his peers (Professional Baseball Strength and Conditioning Society) with the Nolan Ryan Award as MLB Strength Coach of the Year in 2014. He attended the MLB Scouting Bureau scouting development program in October 2014. Jose and his wife of 24 years, Anne, reside in Mansfield with children Josannah (19), Helena (15) and Kian (7). Jose’s recreational interests include yoga, snowboarding, surfing and lifting weights, and he has also earned a black belt in Brazilian jiu jitsu. Topics covered in this episode: -Player evaluation and testing -Heavy in-season lifting -His best professional baseball story Quotes: -"Strength and conditioning is strength and conditioning - I don't care if it's Major League or Minor League" (13:47) -"You gotta know what you believe in" (17:20) -"This is a people business and you gotta learn how to deal with people" (19:08) If you would like to learn more from Jose, you can check out his articles on the PBSCCS website: http://baseballstrength.org/jose-vazquez-texas-rangers/ http://baseballstrength.org/oblique-injuries-in-mlb-by-gene-coleman-and-jose-vazquez/ http://baseballstrength.org/hip-thrust-and-squat-for-acceleration-and-max-running-speed-by-jose-vazquez/ http://baseballstrength.org/altitude-training-masks-do-they-work-by-gene-coleman-ed-d-rscce-and-jose-vazquez-pt-rssc/ http://baseballstrength.org/lateral-hurdle-step-over-drill-for-change-of-direction-by-gene-coleman-jose-vazquez-and-napoleon-pichardo/ or by following him on social media: Instagram: @rangerstrength Twitter: @RangerStrength

Today’s guest Gina Valles, will encourage and inspire you to fight for your WHY. She is the owner of Gina’s Total Fitness, has a strong social media following and just launched an online program all while fighting Lymes Disease. “Everyday is a battle, everyday I hurt, everyday I get a new symptom, everyday could be my last day but THIS PROGRAM has SAVED MY LIFE. That is why I am so excited to share my program with you to help challenge you to FIND YOUR WHY.” Follower her on instagram at ~ https://instagram.com/ginavallesfit?utm_source=ig_profile_share&igshid=fd5biecr7moq The link below for info about her online training programs ~ https://www.ginavalles.com/ . . Direct Message Jennifer on Instagram at @jmarfit http://www.instagram.com/jmarfit FB Page - Life By JMAR Email me if you would be interested in Life and Wellness coaching at lifebyjmar@gmail.com

High Intensity Interval Training or HIIT training is a buzzword in the fitness community, but it’s been around much longer than you may think. The benefits of HIIT are astounding, but the true magic is the efficiency of the workout: it’s a training method that can make you stronger, fitter, faster, and make your heart healthier, in a shorter amount of time. With this popularity of HIIT, there’s also some confusion about the method. How often should you do HIIT? Should you do strength or cardio first? Why does HIIT work so well? Exercise Scientist Dr. Len Kravitz is here to answer all of these questions.  In this episode, you’ll discover: - The history and science of High Intensity Interval Training. Where did it originate and how does it work so well? - How often you should use HIIT in your routine - How to accommodate HIIT workouts for joint considerations  - Can HIIT cause turbulent blood flow? - Dr. Len’s top three tips for a healthy lifestyle  Here’s a little bit about Dr. Len Kravitz: Dr. Len Kravitz has thirty-six years of experience as a researcher, writer, and speaker on exercise science and fitness education. He is the coordinator of the Exercise Science program at the University of New Mexico and an associate professor in its Department of Health, Exercise and Sports Sciences, a position that earned him an Outstanding Teacher of the Year award. Dr. Kravitz has a master’s degree in physical education and a PhD with an emphasis in exercise science and health promotion. He is the author of Anybody’s Guide to Total Fitness, now in its eleventh edition with nearly one hundred thousand copies sold, and Essentials of Eccentric Training, and has published more than three hundred peer-reviewed articles in health and fitness publications. Dr. Kravitz regularly travels as a speaker on physical fitness and has presented at more than one thousand fitness and exercise science conferences around the world. He is the recipient of a wide variety of honors in the fitness industry, including an induction into the National Fitness Hall of Fame. Dr. Kravitz lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Get his new book, HIIT Your Limit, here. Connect with Dr. Len Kravitz. Follow me on Instagram. Show notes: fitnessista.com/podcast *Please leave a rating or review if you enjoyed this episode!

Guest biography:Lincoln is the founder of Total Fitness and specialises in delivering quality training and instruction to aerobic, step, and dance group exercise instructors and personal trainers. He has presented internationally around the world and is the creator of 20 fitness videos. He is the European Master Trainer for Metabolic Effect, which is a hormonal fat loss and lifestyle company. Episode content:In this episode, we discuss how personal trainers and other fitness professionals can benefit from group exercise, including:what has brought the PT and group exercise worlds together in recent years?the factors needed to excel as a group exercise instructorthe importance of class preparationhow group exercise can offer connection and belongingchallenges of delivering an effective group exercise experiencetop instructional skills/tips to succeed as a group exercise instructor If you enjoy this episode, then please rate the show and share it with your friends so they can benefit from this free expert information. Your comments and feedback are always welcome. Please subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or the video on YouTube so you will receive each update immediately upon release.

Enjoy meeting Julie Fostin of Dartmouth Total Fitness!

Fit professional, Ariss Pierce gives awesome advice on how staying spiritually grounded helps her to stay physically grounded! She is a devoted wife, mother and servant and has implemented some awesome strategies which has helped her maintain her health and wellness. Check out www.trainerstotalfitness.com!

Jason Glass is the owner of Total Fitness and an award winning competitive bodybuilder. He'll talk about the sport of bodybuilding and overall fitness. We also have Jeff Ireland from The Leader, and NBA playoff talk.

Ice cream, lemonade, hot dogs...These may be among the most popular and craved for snacks of summer, but they're also some of the unhealthiest. Not to mention, they don't do any favors for your beach body! On today's show, host and fitness expert Diana Tyler and guest Marquette Falbo reveal the seven worst foods of the summer and how you can stay on track without feeling deprived!  Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer and the author of two women's fitness books (Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence & Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness). She and her husband own CrossFit 925 in San Antonio, Texas. You can learn more about her on her blog, http://www.dianafit.com/ and website http://www.fit4faith.com/. Marquette Falbo has been in the fitness industry for nearly a decade. She is a personal trainer, health writer, and group fitness manager at Equinox Fitness in Dallas.

Diana Tyler is owner and coach at CrossFit 925 in San Antonio, as well as the author of two women's fitness books, Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness. She is passionate about helping people acheive both spiritual and physical fitness that equips us for serving and inspiring others rather than glorifying ourselves. You can follow her on Twitter @Dianafit4faith and check out her website, http://fit4faith.com/.  On today's show, Diana will be talking with Jake Thompson, the Chief Encouragement Officer of Compete Everyday (http://www.competeeveryday.com), a company founded on the belief that inside everyone is a desire to compete for what they want in life. Encouragement is one thing, but the will to compete after that initial push is something altogether different. Jake and CED's goal is to fuel your fire, but that's only the beginning. He wants to drive you and help you see it through to the end. 365 days a year, seven days a week, 86,400 seconds per day. However long it takes. Compete Every Day.

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). On today's show, Diana will be interviewing a young man who began his drastic, life-changing weight loss journey one year ago. At 460 pounds, Scott knew his health was in jeopardy. On one day, "the day he lost it" (the weight) mentally, as he says, he made a decision to do major overhaul on his lifestyle. By completely changing his diet and beginning a challenging workout routine, Scott has dropped 130 pounds. Today, he shares his story as well as tips for others who are ready to get fit for good. 

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). On today's show, Diana interviews one of the female CrossFitters she coaches, Merrily Brown. Nearly one year ago at age 49, Merrily tried CrossFit in Diana's garage, fully expecting to hate it just like every other trendy workout program she'd tried... Merrily was shocked to find herself not hating CrossFit at all, and not even simply tolerating it - she loved it!   At fifty years old, she's never been this fit or felt this good. She wants everyone to know that it's never too late to discover your inner athlete!   

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). On today's show, Diana will identify five telltale signs that your workout routine could use a major make-over. Listen in to see if your training style is really worth your while and, if not, how to take crank it up a notch!

Diana Tyler - The Founders of Fortified Nutrition Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). Founders of Fortified Nutrition Michael Hay and Jeff Price have always led active lifestyles, participating in sports such as surfing, triathlons, martial arts, and CrossFit, for years. After decades of experimenting with different diet plans touted by doctors and scientists, Michael and Jeff found Dr Barry Sear's "The Zone" diet, comprised of eating well balanced meals, along with all-natural foods, to be most effective for facilitating their fitness, fueling their everyday lives, and boosting their overall health.  www.fortified-nutrition.com

Host and fitness expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach. She is also the author of two women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). Marquette Falbo joins Diana again to talk about the best springtime fruits and vegetables that are especially beneficial for those who regularly hit the gym. Marquette has been in the fitness industry for nearly a decade. She is a personal trainer, health writer, and group fitness manager at Equinox Fitness in Dallas.

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). On today's show, Diana interviews one of the female CrossFitters she coaches, Merrily Brown. Nearly one year ago at age 49, Merrily tried CrossFit in Diana's garage, fully expecting to hate it just like every other trendy workout program she'd tried... Merrily was shocked to find herself not hating CrossFit at all, and not even simply tolerating it - she loved it!   At fifty years old, she's never been this fit or felt this good. She wants everyone to know that it's never too late to discover your inner athlete!   

Host & fitness professional Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of two women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). She and her husband own a CrossFit box in San Antonio, TX. On today's show, Diana will be chatting with fitness expert Marquette Falbo who is currently the Group Fitness Manager at Equinox Fitness in Dallas. The ladies will debunk the pervasive myth that lifting weights makes women "bulky" and masculine and will discuss why and how weight-lifting is so beneficial for women, especially if weight loss is a primary goal. 

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She is also the author of 2 women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (www.fit4faith.com). Founders of Fortified Nutrition Michael Hay and Jeff Price have always led active lifestyles, participating in sports such as surfing, triathlons, martial arts, and CrossFit, for years. After decades of experimenting with different diet plans touted by doctors and scientists, Michael and Jeff found Dr Barry Sear's "The Zone" diet, comprised of eating well balanced meals, along with all-natural foods, to be most effective for facilitating their fitness, fueling their everyday lives, and boosting their overall health.  www.fortified-nutrition.com

Host & Fitness Expert Diana Tyler is a certified personal trainer through the Cooper Institute in Dallas, Texas, as well as a Level 1 CrossFit and Olympic Lifting coach.  She earned her B.S. in Radio-TV-Film from the University of Texas at Austin in 2009 and is also the author of two women's fitness books: Miss University: A Girl's Guide to Fitness, Beauty, and Confidence  and Fit for Faith: A Christian Woman's Guide to Total Fitness (check out her website www.fit4faith.com to learn more!) & was 31 years-old and weighed nearly 300 pounds when she met John Montague, a CrossFit coach accustomed to working with already-fit individuals. Each of them found themselves faced with a daunting challenge: to Erica win her health –and life—back…for good.   Desperate for a change and willing to do anything to achieve it, Erica committed herself to CrossFit classes with John who eagerly tailored each workout and their various exercises to match her abilities. One year later, after much sweat, tears, even vomit, Erica has droppe

I threatened myself a couple months ago that I would find a gym, but the threat level has gone from red to orange to yellow. Maybe it’s the cold or maybe it’s the routine I’m stuck in now. However in my defense, there aren’t a lot of gyms out there screaming at you to join. A fitness center with big glass windows and frantic members running like hamsters staring at you just doesn’t happen here like it does, say in New York. If I lived near one of those 24-hour New York fitness centers, I’m sure I would’ve caved under the pressure of walking past it everyday, and I would be locked into a contract that I’d later regret, and eventually my regret would be replaced by financial motivation to get my money’s worth, and I would become a hamster.What I do see everyday are the Chinese version of gyms. They’re outside and have a communist flare to them…in that they’re free and open to the public. Chinese gyms are basically playgrounds for adults. To illustrate what a Chinese gym is, here is a set of instructions on how to make one:1) Imagine all the popular fitness equipment you might find in a Bally’s Total Fitness…2) Now remove any motors or easily damaged parts like rubber, electronics, cables, etc. and make sure there are no loose pieces like individual weights. 3) Beef up the equipment with thick, round tube-steel.4) Next, paint the skeleton-like machines with bright yellow and blue paint5) Mount your machines on a paved surface and bolt each one to the ground6) Also, add a concrete ping-pong table or two with a concrete net.7) And also add other fitness-machine-imaginations like large steering wheels mounted to poles. You’re not sure what those do, but you have a feeling they’ll be a huge hit.8) Wait…Before long, the gym will be crawling with people…. but not young, healthy Chinese people or even children, your gym will be a senior citizen hot spot. This is true. On a sunny 30 degree day like today in Beijing, you’ll see dozens of elderly people going hard on what looks like a playground. It’s as if the old people showed up and kicked out the kids. It’s such a strange scene a photograph would do so much, but I haven’t mustered up the gumption to stand before 20-30 senior citizens, moving rhythmically on colorful equipment, staring aimlessly at me, and take a photo. I just watch, and slowly walk past trying to unpack why exactly does the sight seem so wrong. And here are some thoughts. What we know to be ‘gym’, is a very standardized place with certain types of floor coverings, mirrors, machines, weights, towels, people dressed in gym clothes, etc. We take for granted how all the gym-ness signs amount to an overall image of a fitness center. But when you start removing these signs, taking away the building, the soft and futuristic edges of the fixtures and furnishings, removing the young people and their athletic clothing…you start to get close to what a Chinese gym looks like. I think the real deal-breaker is the outerwear. The senior citizens who are the most devoted patrons aren’t too worried about athletic pants or running shoes, they pretty much just show up in their street clothes, which right now consists of heavy overcoats and puffy looking slacks inflated by thick, long-underwear, and black or brown shoes. In their everyday garb they start making the rounds between different exercise contraptions. Some machines do the same as we’re used to seeing in a proper gym, and some make the body do really strange movements like we’re used to seeing in a proper gym, and others are entirely foreign, like the large steering wheel, which I see people grab onto with their back turned to it and sort of roll and sway with it as if their hands are stuck. Sometimes I see guys spin the wheel really fast, back and forth like they’re on a ship dodging an iceberg. Then there are also the self-administered beatings –these seem to be independent of the exercise equipment. There’s a lot of leg slapping and punching and it reads like “Come on you goddamn hip! Work! Work!” Then more punching…. really anywhere you can land a blow to the body, the back, the hip, the quad, the arm, the other arm, the calf, just not the face. The American aesthetic of gyms and exercise is explicitly linked with youth, vitality, and sex, not geriatrics. The American gym is so much more about looking good than being healthy. And why shouldn’t it be, I mean just think about the popular exercise equipment we grew up with. We had Suzanne Somers lying on her side, pumping a thighmaster on late night TV, there was the ab-master awkwardly working your core, and Tony Little taking long strides in spandex on his Gazelle…and while not exactly a role model per se, he did seem to have an agressive agenda… For better or worse, as a young person growing up with tv in America, infomercials somehow became embedded in the collective consciousness. Late nights, boredom, and adolescence I guess. So now imagine this scene…all these old Chinese people 60+ years old, in their street clothes in the middle of winter…and they’re bobbing, swinging, lifting, rotating, pulling, humping, and beating themselves, with calm faces, some even have on big sunglasses and Russian fur hats, and they’re on what looks like children’s playground equipment… and that’s about when the strangeness sets in…