By John Allen Mollenhauer, MTCP, CPT CNT
www.PerformanceLifestyle.com
 

It’s your lifestyle!

The only reason why you have to transform you’re body is because your living on the downward trend. That means you’re living out of balance and poor lifestyle decisions are being made as a result of overwhelm and exhaustion.

When we talk about Performance Lifestyle, where talking about whether your lifestyle is working for you and the achievement of your goals or working against you. If you’re not living in relative balance, and taking care of yourself at a high enough level, you’ll inevitably lack energy; the energy to take care of yourself and achieve your goals in a healthy way. You’re living, overwhelmed by too much going on, too many demands on your energy, too much food, maybe even over training, etc… It all leads to overweight!

The Performance Lifestyle starts with a thriving environment and it ensures you’re driven effectively, charged, fueled, and fit for the challenges in your life and business. That includes the successful management of your energy, your food quality, and activity levels at the core and this is essentially, what athletes pay attention to most.  

Athletes are incentivized to take care of themselves at a high level because they are always preparing for events that require health and performance. The question I have for you is why are you any different?  Aren’t you always preparing for events - personal, professional, social etc?

If you don’t manage your personal energy and you’re eating nutrient poor (as most of the population does), if you are physically inactive and you don’t condition your body to be able to perform, its incredibly easy to see why we downward spiral with limited energy and then resort to body transformation programs to solve our problem. Problem is, they don’t solve it!

Nobody, not even the best of the best can sustain themselves, experience quality of life and be legitimately happy and productive for the long haul, let alone maintain their "look", feel good and perform well in the face of today’s incredibly demanding schedules, if
they are living in chronic overwhelm, and exhausted. This is why coordinating all aspects of your life to support the fast-paced lives we live today and learning the core personal energy management strategies are the foundation of a Performance Lifestyle. The quality of the food you eat and exercise essential parts of the lifestyle formula, but secondary.

If I had a dollar every time someone asked me what the best "energizing foods" were, I’d be many times wealthier than I am right now. When’s the last time you ate a healthy food, unless your blood sugar was low, where all of a sudden you had boundless energy? It doesn’t happen! Depending on the food and your energy level, maybe you got a little boost, but if you were fatigued to start, you’re still fatigued after you eat. Foods don’t’ really energize, they fuel you. Recuperation energizes you!

The above insight alone makes the case for the Performance Lifestyle. If the way you’re living is driving you downhill, energetically, the very aspects of life most directly associated with health and fitness, (eating and exercise) are simply less effective in solving your problem (lack of energy, overweight etc) and this is the trouble with most body transformation or weight loss programs.    

To most people body transformation is something different from having a successful lifestyle with a primary focus on energy management. The way most people are "trained" is to simply eat less and exercise more and take lots of supplements, but the same downward trending lifestyle stays in place. This is why they don’t maintain longer term. They don’t have a healthy performance lifestyle to start.

For example, here’s the stereotypical definition of body transformation people buy into. It is great if you’re a bodybuilder but not so great if you’re a business professional, working parent etc and want to live a healthy high performance lifestyle to achieve your goals and simply look and feel better.     

I Googled "body transformation program" and here’s what comes up #1: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bodytrans.htm. Now I am a former competitive bodybuilder. I was fourth place Mr. New Jersey in my early twenties, a mere 15 years ago, and I owned a hard core bodybuilding gym at one point, before I got into the health club business.

So I know this world of body transformation very well and it’s effects. I lived it full time and I can tell you this is not a healthy successful lifestyle unless you’re obsessed with bodybuilding, fitness, or weight loss and you make that, your way of life. Even still it’s not healthy. Read the link.

Is it any wonder why people get trained in this way of life as the way to lose weight and change their lives for the better? The results of these transformations, sell magazines. Contrast is a powerful marketing principle and it works here too. That’s why most people default to unsustainable body transformation solutions rather than get their lifestyle, healthy and high performing. It’s also the reason why so many people are unsuccessful when it comes to transforming their body. They can’t live like that!

Tactical solutions like those in the bodybuilding link above permeate virtually all weight loss solutions on the market today. They are not lifestyle solutions that promote health and success and the market is full of them. They will keep you stuck.

So you have two options:

1) You can go with the tactical solutions that sell you nutrient poor diets, high in protein, and synthetic supplements or,

2) You can set yourself up in a lifestyle that is healthy and successful. You can move forward in a position of strength, no longer on the downward trend, with your lifestyle "firing on all cylinders". And you can take it to heights you never imagined to look, feel and perform better.

One lasts you months and you just follow it; the other requires some lifestyle training and coaching but lasts you for years.

Which one do you want?

BOTH paths to body transformation require effort, yet at the same time, they are fundamentally different. One comes with a program mentality and the other comes with a lifestyle mindset, which is more inclusive and lasting. And true of the latter, you experience health, success, and freedom.

If you think you’re going to be free eating a low carb, high protein diet that is nutrient poor, taking short-term gain synthetic supplements and exercising your tail off at high levels of intensity year in and year out, you’re going to "hit the wall" and "fall off the wagon". It is just one more thing you have to worry about as you head back to a downward trending lifestyle.  

Do you want that?

I didn’t think so.

If you want to take your energy, health and fitness to new heights, you can get involved in a fitness challenge (which I support 100%), but first get your lifestyle working for you, and you’ll be ready to fully engage. You never have to "worry" about sticking to a diet or exercise program again when Your lifestyle is working for you all year round.

The Performance Lifestyle is the way to transform your body, because it is all about your lifestyle, getting off the downward trend and fast tracking your health and success by living better. Healthy High Achievers worldwide have Performance Lifestyle’s. We’ll show you how to implement the lifestyle formula and help you unleash your full potential. 

See Part III to Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle