If your Social Media feed looks anything like mine, you’re probably starting to see posts for “6-Week Mega Melt Miracle,” or “8 Week Total Transformation,” or some other promise of quick results.
This isn’t anything new. You may remember the Slim Fast commercials with Tommy Lasorda. “Give us a week, we’ll take off the weight.”
The only problem with that is Tommy had way more than a week’s worth of extra weight hanging around.
And that’s the same problem with all of these other quick turnaround promises. Most of the time, you’ve got more than 8 weeks’ worth of extra weight.
We don’t become heavy overnight. We’re not going to get lean overnight either.
We’re always in a rush to get there because we now live in the Amazon Age of Instant Gratification. It’s not the 1980’s anymore. We want results now!
But sometimes, there simply aren’t any shortcuts.
If you were constructing a house, you wouldn’t start with the roof. You’d need to lay the foundation, and build up from there.
We aren’t dealing with homes here, though. Instead, we have an already-built body, and now we want to remove an excess of fat, while building up lean mass.
But how often do we ever look at it from this perspective? What do we say most of the time instead?
“Wow, I need to lose some weight!”
Weight. Right off the bat, we’re starting by addressing the wrong problem. Well, heck, if I were to amputate a leg, that’s good for at least 50 pounds right there, yeah?
Ah, so maybe we don’t just want to lose weight. In fact, maybe we don’t want to lose anything at all!
When we lose something, the implication is that it’s something that we would like to find again one day. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want to find my missing fat pounds again at some future date.
So, if we don’t actually want to lose weight, what do we want to do? We want to release our fat pounds.
Yes! Release them; let them go! [Cue Elsa singing] We don’t want those fat pounds hanging around, and we certainly don’t want them back again!
Great! Now how do we do that?
We’re going to need a plan. The good news is that the plan is pretty simple: Eat healthy food and exercise.
Wait… Isn’t that exactly what the 8-Week Transformation is going to do? No, probably not.
First off, are they focused on food at all? Or are they just throwing a bunch of cardio at you?
Don’t get me wrong, we do need some form of cardio in our lives if we want to consider ourselves healthy. But if that’s all you’re doing, your efforts will be futile.
A focus on Resistance training is crucial. Resistance training builds muscle tissue, which is metabolically active. That means your muscle mass is always actively burning calories, even while you’re at rest (even while sleeping!)
Resistance Training also changes the internal biology of your cells themselves, adding more mitochondria and nuclei, giving you more available energy.
Is the program focused on mindset with a long-term approach to health? Or is it just a promise of a “quick fix?”
As we’ve discussed already, those quick fixes don’t last.
Are the people who are running the program interested in your ongoing health? Or are they only looking to make some fast cash off of you?
The program you choose should offer accountability and support. I’ve tried some “do it yourself at home” programs in the past. If you’re going to invest in a program, you want experts working with you. You shouldn’t have to go it alone.
Those experts are there to help keep you safe. If you take a person who’s been sitting on the couch for years and isn’t used to exercising outside of basic yardwork, and suddenly expect them to perform the workout routine of an Olympic wrestler 3 days a week for 8 weeks, how long do you think it will take before they become injured?
Experts take these things into account and plan a program that will ramp up the intensity. They will also ensure that the program is balanced, so you’re never overloading any particular areas of the body.
The “weight loss” industry is rife with people looking to profit from your misery; and those people are all too happy to take your money yet keep you miserable so you’ll keep paying them.
Should all of these “get back into health” 6-8 week programs be avoided? Of course not, but you’ll want to take a look at the program’s specifics.
If all of the advertising is promising you that you’re going to have a miraculous experience in transforming from being an out-of-shape, out-of-practice, eating machine, to a perfectly sculpted demi-god who is the envy of all their peers in only 8 weeks; avoid this program at all costs.
Those are all bright red flags indicating that the creators of the program are trying to manipulate you into joining it by promising you results in “just 8 weeks.” It’s very likely that they are only interested in taking your money and couldn’t care less about your success.
OK, so what does a good program look like then?
You want a program that’s going to define “healthy” for you. What does “healthy” even look like? What foods are healthy foods, and what aren’t? How do you make eating healthy foods palatable? What are healthy activities? What does “being healthy” even mean?
Are you going to become completely, totally healthy in 8 weeks? Probably not. And the program you join should be clear on that.
Your program should help to get you started, and it should be very much aware that the end of the 8 week program, isn’t the end for you. It’s just the beginning.
A good program will give you knowledge and training, and will inspire you to make permanent changes to your life that result in truly life-changing, long-term health.
It will give you the tools and the instructions you need to finally become that healthy individual you’ve been wanting to become for decades now. Not in 8 weeks, but slowly, over the course of many months, change will continue to come from deep inside of you as a result of having done this program.
That is what a good program looks like. Not an 8 week promise to fix all of your problems; but rather an 8 week, expert-designed and led, program to get you going, get you motivated, keep you safe, and get you to stick with it.
Because that’s really the critical piece: Consistency. You want to arm yourself with everything you need to be successful, and then start doing it. Consistently. Not merely for 8 weeks, but in perpetuity.
And that’s what a good program will give you: Things you can start doing now, and keep doing to keep building your health beyond a short 8 weeks.
And that’s exactly what you’ll get with the 8 week fitness Reboot program we’re partnering with Cultivus Fitness to deliver.
You’ll get all the nutrition information you need, access to me as a your Health Coach, instructor-led Yoga sessions and instructor-led workouts.
Reboot your:
👉Thinking » Develop a positive, can-do mindset
👉Habits » Create sustainable, healthy routines
👉Fitness » Achieve the strong, vibrant body you deserve
We like working with Cultivus because they offer no judgement, just support, which pairs well with our philosophy of working with what you have.
This is the program you’ve been waiting for.
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