I was on the phone with Tom Terwilliger this morning, a former Mr Olympia contender and someone I used to see in magazines when I was an amateur bodybuilder years ago.

He is now a lifestyle trainer and coach and a leader in the fitness industry.

We were telling stories about our early days as bodybuilders, but more importantly about how we used to live to achieve the outcomes in the sport we were both fanatics about.

Here’s Tom as a professional bodybuilder:

Now you know how we talk about your real goals as those things you achieve in life, business and sport. Well our sport was bodybuilding at the time. Today we have different goals in life and business.

We were talking about was how we used to think and live to achieve the bodies necessary to compete in our sport… bodybuilding. It is a unique exception to how we describe goals in Performance Lifestyle training, because in the case of  bodybuilding, building your body, IS the sport.

By the way, the reason why most people think that building your body is the goal, is because bodybuilding, led by Arnold, was seen at the goal which was really his sport. Today Arnold trains so he can perform, look and feel better as he achieves his goals in life and business. Unless you are competing in contests, developing your body is not the goal; fitness is what enables you to achieve some other goal in life, business and sport.

Anyway, reminiscing about the past we realized more and more how our lifestyle pattern affected the results we achieved and how so few people every really understand "lifestyle" because they are not in the community where a particular lifestyle is being exhibited and reinforced.

Until you are part of a community, you can read til’ kingdom come, and never really understand how to tune your lifestyle towards getting the outcome you want.

I then brought up the story about entering a new world… and I used "knitting" as an example.

If Tom and I wanted to know and understand how knitters think and live, would we read a book on knitting, or simply try to knit? Can you imagine how that would turn out?

Or would we enter the new world of knitting (to us), by going to some knitting events and hanging out in relationship with other knitters?

In that process you learn the principles, practices, strategies, personalities, inside tips etc of how knitters think and live and, you would have a great deal more fun being part of the community.

This would help us build our knitting "identity" which is paramount when it comes to changing your lifestyle… thinking and living differently.

In short order, I can tell you we would discover a great deal about knitting, the rest would be up to the leaning curve and getting grounded in experience.

In that moment, we both got the idea that anyone can fast track their ability to change, by entering a new world and this is what we are suggesting you do, by being a member of the Performance Lifestyle community.

If you want to learn how people in a community really think and live, you want to hang out with them, be part of the community and start building genuine relationships.

I have done this my whole live and it’s why my lifestyle is the way it is. I am at home in the bodybuilding world, endurance world, vegan and vegetarian worlds, business world, technology world, marketing world etc… I have spent time in these worlds and what I learned is now part of my thinking and influences how I live.

Action Tip

If you want to live like a pro, and become a Healthy High Achiever, then be part of the Performance Lifestyle community. It exists worldwide!

Live like a Pro!

John Allen Mollenhauer is the founder Performance Lifestyle Solutions, the better healthier, more successful ways to achieve your goals in life, business and sport. As a former worn down workaholic turned Healthy High Achiever, John Allen (aka “JAM”) will teach you how to Live Like a Pro, optimizing your lifestyle the way athletes do for better results. He is the creator of the Healthy High Achiever - Unleash the Full Potential of Your Lifestyle to Perform, Look and Feel Better!