Posts Tagged ‘Results Fitness’

June 13th 2006 Alwyn 2.0 arrived on the scene.

Let me backtrack for those of you who don’t know the whole story…

In early 2006 I was diagnosed for the second time with Stage IV cancer. There is no Stage V.
The first go-around I was treated with high dose chemotherapy. It put me into remission but the disease returned, with a vengeance about a year later.

This time I would undergo a very aggressive treatment protocol that involved a bone marrow/stem cell transplant.
Essentially, I was given enough chemotherapy to destroy almost every cell in my body. At that point, the doctors pulled the chemo and gave me a stem cell transplant.

Pretty much every cell in my body was reborn from scratch. I was rebooted.

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So what does this have to do with fitness or your business?

Well, about two months ago, Rachel, myself and the Results Fitness Programming team (Mike Wunsch and Craig Rasmussen) sat down and decided to completely reboot our program design methodology.

Now, it wasn’t because our methods had cancer! We just hadn’t sat down and really looked at what we’d do if we were to start over from scratch.

Let me break it down — Results Fitness has been open for more than a decade. I first started training people (teaching Taekwon-Do) in 1986. My first fitness client was 89 or so.
Our programs have evolved over time as we learned more.

Our last major revision was in 2006 when I was in the hospital and had some time on my hands.
Since then we’ve always tweaked and modified what we did.

But it was always that – tweaking – it was never a complete “tear it all up and start over”.

Basically we have to revisit our programming and start from scratch every so often because we learn so much.

In the last year I’ve read maybe 15 training books, been to 15-20 conferences, watched a bunch of DVD’s and met a bunch of interesting guys.
Five or six years ago we weren’t using kettlebells, sandbags or the TRX. Of course we’ve added them – but sometimes it’s good to go back to basics and just start from square one

Add my staff to that learning curve.

Our team go to multiple seminars. They each read a book a week and watch at least one DVD a week each.
We bring in experts to train our team regularly.

Multiply that learning curve by over 250 clients as our “in the trenches” results filter.
And then multiply by three to four years since our last “programming reboot” and it gets pretty exciting!

I’m actually amazed and excited at how many changes we made. We already get better results than any of our competition.
This will take our clients to a different level entirely.
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So how can you take this idea and run with it?

1) Ask yourself if you could go back and start over – would you be doing different things now. If so ….
2) Just don’t be scared to start over now. If it’s education, your career, your life, your fitness program – don’t be afraid to continually grow so much and so quickly that you need to stop and rethink everything you’re doing.
3) Every so often sit down and start over again. Don’t stop tweaking and growing – but don’t let your current methods leave you in a box.

Starting from scratch might just allow you complete liberation to take everything in your life to a new level.
Reboot occasionally :)

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AC
PS – keep an eye out for our new programming principles seminar where we’ll explain the evolution of our methodology.

One week gone already in 2011….

This was a busy week for me at Results Fitness. Not only is our gym busy, I’m finalizing my talk for next week’s Perform Better seminar in Los Angeles, and we had four days of masterminding with our Results Fitness Business Coaching group.

Nevertheless, one of my goals for January was to get twenty training sessions done. At the end of week one, I’m on track.

Here’s what I did this morning:

Dynamic Warm Up

Core:
Plank
Side Plank

Resistance Training:

Dumbbell Split Squat paired with Inverted Row (3 sets of each)
Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift paired with Push ups (3 sets of each)

Metabolic Training:
15 mins interval training

Total workout time was just under 50 mins and according to my HR monitor, I averaged 134bpm, peaking at 163bpm and burned approx 550 calories.

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AC
PS – This workout was adapted from phase one of the New Rules of Lifting for Abs

What’s your educational half life?

I read once that the average doctor are so busy that the “half-life” of their education is around ten years. In other words – ten years after graduation, they only remember half of the information they knew at graduation – and are essentially only half as “qualified”.Now, part of that is just forgetting or not reviewing material, part of that is not knowing it in the first place, and part of that is that the field changes constantly and if they are very busy – the just can’t keep current.

We’re in the same position. Our field moves fast and is constantly evolving. The business practices in today’s economy have changed dramatically. Fitness programming itself has changed. We need to stay current.

But most of us are busy – you can come back from a seminar and you put your notes away because you need to get back to work, and suddenly it’s been three months and you haven’t even picked them up again. The “self help” program quickly becomes “shelf help”

As far as re-reading – I think it makes sense to review old books and DVD’s at least once a year. Make notes in them the first time and you can at the very least review your notes.

It’s actually shocking how much stuff that you miss the first time around.
It’s also fair to say that you’re in a different place or level when you re-read material , so some stuff wasn’t applicable the first time you read it, becomes really significant upon re-reading the material.

Beyond that

But the real key is – are you continuously sharpening your own tools and attending seminars and reading books?
Do you have a business coach who helps you with the vision and implementation of your business (this is something a lot of people are lacking)?
Are you involved in a coaching group or mastermind with like-minded individuals?
Are you retaining information and growing – or are you forgetting?

It’s a constant flux – either more material is getting in and you’re growing, or no more material is getting in, and you’re shrinking.

You need to mastermind with those who attract wealth, not those who attract poverty. People who want to get to the next level. (Statistically, your income will become the average of that of the 5 people you hang around the most ).

The definition of “mastermind” from Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill is “an alliance of 2 or more mind that create a friendly environment to gather , classify and organize new information for fast and effective implementation. You can’t do it by yourself.

7 benefits you get from Masterminding:

1. Brainstorming with likeminded thinkers and achievers.
2. Being listened to and helped.
3. Being motivated and challenged.
4. You’re accepted.
5. You’re recognized for your achievements.
6. You have a safe environment to share information.
7. Fresh eyes and objectivity.

It’s a good rule to review material you already have regularly as well as study new material and be involved in a coaching group or mastermind.

This week I am meeting with my own Fitness Business Mastermind group here in Santa Clarita.
2011 is here and it’s time to get to work !

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AC

Guest blog from Rachel Cosgrove

This morning we began our last Results Fitness Biz Mentorship of 2010. This year we have seen over 100 trainers and fitness studio owners from all over the US, Australia, Ireland, Switzerland, Canada, England, Spain, South Africa and Lebanon all attend and learn from us on how to take their fitness businesses to the next level.

And our coaching group (graduates of our mentorship program) continue to grow their businesses and improve their lifestyles month after month through our website, emails, regular teleconferences, coaching calls, one-on-one days and mastermind meetings. If you want to take anything to the next level – you need to seek out mentors, and surround yourself with like-minded individuals, something that I have personally always believed in, practiced and continue to teach.

Yes – you can go it alone – but it’s slower, less effective and to be quite honest – just plain stupid.

It’s like learning martial arts. If I gave you a heavy bag and no instruction — how long would it take you to be an expert fighter or have black belt level skill? Read the rest of this entry »

Guest blog from Rachel Cosgrove

Cleaning out a desk drawer I came across a piece of paper with some goals Alwyn and I had scribbled down back when we first opened our gym. These goals included: Read the rest of this entry »