One of our favorite parts of our jobs as fitness trainers is seeing and hearing your success stories. Next month will mark two years of conducting metabolic training and some of you have been with us for the entire two years! During that time we have seen many small steps forward that have lead to huge gains in your health and fitness. We start to see changes in you in as little as two weeks and when you are consistent with your training you begin to build a foundation that transforms your body and your overall health from the inside out.
We are going to diverge a little bit from our typical informational blog posting this week and share some of the things our participants have shared with us. We hope that they encourage and inspire you too.
One of our participants has a history of diabetes in his family. He just recently went to his doctor for his annual check-up and blood work. His health report from this year compared to last year is incredible. We know we all (including ourselves) like to see the external changes and benefits that exercise can give us, but we truly believe that the changes on the inside are most important. This individual's risk for developing diabetes decreased significantly in the past year. In addition his HDL cholesterol reading of 43 from last year put him in the range of a barely acceptable HDL level. This year his HDL had increased to 62. HDL levels of 60 or greater are associated with a reduced risk of cardiovascular disease. How do you raise your HDL levels? The primary way is through exercise. And as an added bonus, "outside" benefits this Warrior experienced over last year include a 10 pound weight loss and some amazing muscle definition.
Our next success story is a mental case... but we mean that in the best possible way. If you have been with us for even a short period of time you have heard us blog about, and talk about, the power of the mind. Our bodies have the ability to do so much more than our brains initially believe they can. If we train our brains to stay strong and push our bodies we can achieve more than we ever imagined possible.
One of our participants is doing some additional training to develop more muscle definition. In a recent workout she was attempting to do a seated military press with more weight than she had previously done. She was using a barbell with weight plates on each end. Weight plates typically go in increments of 5, 10, 25, 35, and 45 pounds. She loaded the bar and couldn't move it. She decided it was mental. So she took off the large weight plate which can "look" really heavy and replaced it with smaller plates of an equal amount of weight. The result? Success! This is a great example of the power that our mind has to determine whether we fail or succeed. By training our brains to push and become stronger, we enable our bodies to achieve more than we thought possible.
Each of you has your own success story, whether it is reduced risk of diseases that run in your family, an improved golf game, better sleep and more energy, better body composition with more lean muscle, reduced blood pressure, more flexibility to do the gardening you enjoy, etc. We can list dozens more benefits and individual success stories. Your efforts and your accomplishments are motivating to us as your trainers and they are motivating to your fellow Warriors so please continue to share them.
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