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What does all this mean to you?

What’s the difference between Lifestyle Training, Lifestyle Coaching, Lifestyle Fitness Coaching and traditional weight loss programs, diet programs and fitness training? 

I’ve been in and around the health and fitness industry, for over 20 years and I can tell you this… there’s a big difference. Moreover, that difference represents a fundamental mindset shift for both an industry and countless millions of people.

Finally, the subject of lifestyle is center stage. It’s no longer just about losing weight, it’s about what’s going to help you get truly well, healthy and able, to perform at the level you want and need to succeed. It’s about quality of life. It’s also, about what you want to accomplish in your life and business without having to sacrifice your health and fitness in the process.

Expansive to say the least, the reason why is simple. Like an amateur or professional athlete where health and fitness is a big part of their ability to perform well in their competitive sport which is a central part of their life and business, being well, staying healthy (energetic and fit) and being able to perform at a high level is the same for you. You may not be a competitive athlete, or even a fitness enthusiast, but still it’s all about what you’re up to in life and your quality of life. It’s the same for you as it is for athletes. We all need to take care of ourselves at high levels if we’re going to thrive today.

Health and fitness is not the goal! Neither is weight loss which is neither normal nor natural, but the effect of a lifestyle gone awry, off-course and downhill.

Today, we are realizing that we need lifestyle training, lifestyle fitness training and lifestyle coaching to help us live better at every age. If we don’t, the pace of modern day society and all the confusing, overwhelming, and exhausting influences we face, can easily wear us down. It’s about setting your lifestyle up for success, so you can thrive despite the relentless demand on your time and energy.

When you have wellness, which requires that you address your life situation, along with all of the core essential elements of taking care of your body, now we’re talking "solution". When you have the right perspective on taking care of yourself and it’s no longer "about" weight loss and lowering cholesterol and reducing the risk for disease, it becomes "about" your health AND success. When it’s about your health AND success, you’ll find you’ll want to to improve your lifestyle to look, feel and perform better and succeed at a much higher level.

Now that’s exciting. That’s Performance Lifestyle. 

Weight loss, while important for many people for a variety of reasons, is not exciting. I mean, do you wake up excited to lose weight? Do you wake up excited to exercise to lose weight? Probably no on both accounts. The reason why is simple, this is not what it’s about!! The diet, weight and fitness industries have turned it into this, but this is not what it’s about.

I doesn’t matter how overweight you are right now… weight loss is not your goal. It’s not even a real goal it’s an objective you have in your life so that you can accomplish something else, and it’s not going to happen healthfully and successfully or dissipate as something you even have to focus your attention on in your life until you get lifestyle training and coaching to deal with the real causes of your problem.

We all need lifestyle training and coaching today because we’re no longer living with natural influences in our lives. We’re required to thrive today in modern day environment that that is overwhelming and exhausting and promotes the overweight condition predictably.  The shift to lifestyle Fitness Training and Lifestyle Coaching is essential because it helps you avoid the causes and deal with the real situation not merely the symptoms and enjoy your life.

$60 billion dollars spend on diet and exercise programs is only making a small dent in the problem. Check out www.PerformanceLifestyle.com/obesitytrends. Statistics don’t like. This shift is long over due. It’s time for a real solution. It’s why I created Performance Lifestyle Solutions. To finally deal with the real situation of our modern day lives. It’s no longer about body transformation on it’s own. Body transformation is the result of a succesful lifestyle.

What you may not know though is that few traditional fitness trainers truly understand lifestyle, how to train and coach around it. There’s allot of old methodology today, wrapped up in new terminology. In other words, the same ole’ eat less and exercise more diet and workout routines are passing off as lifestyle coaching and this is far from lifestyle coaching.

Lifestyle is about how you live (work etc). At the core it’s about how you manage, spend and recuperate your energy, the quality of the food you eat and your activity levels to look, feel and perform better and achieve your goals in life and business. If you want to focus on the real deal, keep reading the blog at www.PerformanceLifestyle.com.

It will change your life and body forever.  

_____Original Message_____
From: Bethany
Date: 2007-05-21 13:26:25
Subject:

Hi, John Allen,

I have been following ETL for a while, am 25 yo, female, sedentary lifestyle, 5′ 1 1/2", 13-15% body fat (per scales at night) and 95 -98 lbs.  I have a rather busy lifestyle with a full time job and daily commute of 1.5 hours as well as studying and taking the CPA exam.  My goals are toning and strength.

I have tried various exercise programs and have not found one yet that has fitted me perfectly.  I have just visited your site and really like the articles I have seen and the fact that you are an ETLer (that’s someone who has read and likes the guidelines of teh book "Eat to Live" by Joel Fuhrman M.D) Do you have any articles or books in which you recommend specific exercises?  One of these days I plan to have the money saved for your program.

Thanks in advance!

Bethany

Hi Bethany,

Bethany the only exercise or workout program that’s going to fit you perfectly, all the time, is the one YOU design. Workout porgrams and exercise programs are just "routines" that are created, given a name and sold. They have no magic power other than the power of the principles "in effect" behind the scene and the scope of movement that’s included. That’s where you want to focus.

That said, having some experience with commercial exercise programs is great because there are some pretty well designed routines out there, by some really experience people, and you can learn alot from them whether they fit you perfectly or not. They  help you break ground into new forms of movement. Once you get grounded in experience, you’ll be able to make up routines that incorporate these forms of movement into a Personal Fitness system, perfectly suited to you and your cirumstances.  

Essentially, once you are physically active on a regular basis, the result of a well managed lifestyle, you’ll want to include stability, strength and power training (muscular endurance or "cardio" training). This way you can move powerfully, free of risk of injury with well rounded fitness. Training and conditioning, though not mandatory for a long and healthy life, helps you look, feel and perform extraordinarily.  

Certainly as an ETL’er you have the food component of the Performance Lifestyle Formula really going for you. 

Personal Energy Management is where you need to focus (since you’ve been sedentary) and as you asked, getting good at adapting or creating exercise routines to fit you, your energy level and your readiness (the recovery factor) etc, anytime and all the time, is the skill you want to build.  

You will rarely find a book on exercise that will create a routine that will meet all those criteria. That’s why one of the concepts I teach at PerformanceLifestyle.com is "The Ultimate Trainer". The ultimate trainer is YOU, as you are the only person who really knows what’s best for you at any given time, when it comes to activity and exercise. You know you’re circumstances and you need to know them if you are going to have consistency working for you.

A couple good books, Core Performance, Outside Fitness, Functional Fitness, Body of Power… an of course The Healthy High Achiever - Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle, to Look, Feel and Perform Better (my book due out in another 2.5 months) where you’ll discover the Performance Lifestyle Formula.

You can also learn some at www.FitforPower.com for stability strength and more. There you’ll have links to great resources for creating a personalized fitness system that works for you anytime, anywhere, inluding links to "Workout Pass"… it’s fantastic!

I look forward to your participation in the Performance Lifestyle Training and Group Coaching Course to get the lifestyle formula working for you!

All my best

JAM

My friend Tony Findlay sent me this video this morning from You Tube and I must have played it 9 times. Over and over again I wanted to hear the performance of Paul Potts from Whales on "Britains Got Talent".

Listen to this "car phone salesman" sing Opera. 

I was so inspired, in some significant way, it changed my life.  

Enjoy this video

Ref: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ceI20TrXGA  

oh my, I just viewed another video by Paul Potts and it blew me away again!

It reminded me of the simple little fact that when you do what you love, what you are supposed to do, and you have the energy,  winning performance can be a daily thing in our lives. 

I know that my purpose in this world is to help people free themselves from overwhelm, exhaustion and the overweight condition establishing lifestyles that promotes health AND success focused on goals that really inspire our passion.

I must have spent an hour this morning just watching these video’s. Thanks Paul Potts for inspiring me to live my purpose even more. ;-) 

John Allen 

You know when I promote the Performance Lifestyle; some people think that you have to be an athlete an elite athlete or some other type of high achiever to benefit.

Let me ask you a question.

If you wanted to learn, self defense, who would you want to learn from, a green belt or a black belt? I think the answer is obvious.
Why is that? Because even though you may not intend to be a black belt, the black belt has lots of experience and knows how to teach you right. He or she knows technical application, practical application, and reality!

It’s the same with the Performance Lifestyle. There are those people who are healthy high achievers in sport or in various other occupations they are like the black belts. Like black belts there aren’t that many, but they are the people you want to seek out to learn how to unleash the full potential of your lifestyle to look, feel and perform better and achieve your goals in a healthy way. Who better to learn from than those who are achieving what you want and are healthy, energetic and fit at the same time.

You certainly don’t want to learn about resolving weight issues, from someone who is significantly overweight, or how to manage your energy from a manically exhausted person. You want to learn from those who know the game.

And even though you may have no intention of being at the top of your game, have little existing interest or experience in athletics, and may not even be a fitness enthusiast, mastering your lifestyle from people who are getting the results you want is the way to go.

Of course, if you do want to be at the top of your game and you want to stay healthy at the same time, there is no other solution than the Perforamance Lifestyle Solution.

I learned this over many years. Performance Lifestyle "brought it all together" for me and it will do the same for you.

Can you imagine everything just making sense? Well when it comes to lifestyle, an otherwise fluffy subject for most people, nothing will enable you to understand lifestyle, to get healthy fit and free than learn the Performance Lifestyle Formula.

John Allen Mollenhauer, Founder of PerformanceLifestyle.com for Your Health and Success.