All posts by: ChadMorris

Most of us are under the misconception that fit people work hard and spend most of their lives deprived in order to achieve their amazing bodies.

Nothing could be farther from the truth.

I’ll let you in on a little secret … It’s not hard to get and stay fit. It’s not about hard work and deprivation.

It’s all about boundaries.

Let me explain…

When you were a child your parents set boundaries around you. They were the authority on what was or wasn’t acceptable behavior. You had to complete your chores before dinner. You had to finish your homework before going out to play. You had to eat all your vegetables before dessert.

If you failed to comply with these boundaries then you knew that there would be consequences.

As an adult you, and only you, are the authority on what is or isn’t acceptable behavior. You are in the position to set boundaries around yourself. These boundaries serve as a framework of order around you – a rock of support in an otherwise chaotic world.

With self-imposed boundaries you can assure your success in anything…specifically with weight loss.

Your fitness boundaries have to be self-imposed—no one is going to do it for you. Don’t look at this as a bad thing! Self-imposed boundaries are self-empowering.

Let’s face it, you’ve been living life without fitness boundaries.

* You eat whatever you want, whenever you want it.
* You use any excuse to avoid exercise.
* You indulge whenever it feels good.

Your Fitness Boundaries

It’s time to introduce boundaries back into your life. These boundaries are the key to unleashing your ideal fit and healthy body.

1. Fitness Boundary One: What you eat

If you were to be perfectly honest with me, you could list off the foods that are unhealthy and fattening. So why are you still eating them? You know that refined, fried, processed and sugary foods are not good for you.

Place boundaries around what you will allow yourself to eat. Acceptable food items include vegetables, fruits, and lean meats.

2. Fitness Boundary Two: How you exercise

I know that you’re not an Olympic athlete, but that doesn’t mean that you can simply pass on exercise.

By now you are well aware of the host of benefits that exercise provides. With regular exercise you’ll look great, feel amazing and have more energy than ever.

Place boundaries around how often you must exercise. Choose exercise that is challenging – don’t be afraid to put in the effort to learn activities that improve your strength and endurance.

3. Fitness Boundary Three: When you indulge

Let’s face it, we live in a world where indulging has become the norm, rather than the exception.

When you live life without fitness boundaries, everyday is an opportunity to indulge. These indulgences all add up quickly, causing your clothes to become tight and your energy levels to drop.

Different people can get away with different degrees of indulgence.

By knowing your body, and what results you want, you can commit to boundaries that make sense around when you can indulge. And you’ll probably find that by limiting your indulgences you’ll end up enjoying them even more.

Putting It In Action

Sit down and take a long, hard look at your lifestyle. Are you eating as healthy as you could be? Are you consistently exercising at least once each week (yes, that will accomplish a lot if it is consistent and high-quality exercise)? Are you indulging too often? Answer the following questions:

1. What 3 food items can I eliminate from my regular, daily diet, and move to my occasional exception category? (These should be nutritionally void items like high-calories beverages, high-sugar packaged snacks, high-carbohydrate density foods, and candy or desserts.)
2. When can I schedule exercise into my week? (Pick 1-2 days, and select a specific time frame. Example: I’m going to exercise on Mondays and Fridays from 6:00-6:30am, NO MATTER WHAT.)
3. When will I allow myself to indulge? Don’t go overboard here, especially if you need to lose weight. Enjoy a treat a couple times each month, and do so guilt-free knowing that you’ve maintained healthy food boundaries the rest of the time.

Remember that self-imposed boundaries are self-empowering.

Fitness boundaries put your fitness results on autopilot. If you know what constitutes an acceptable meal, then choosing what to eat just got a whole lot easier. If you’re committed to exercising at specific times, soon it becomes second nature.

Need help setting up your fitness boundaries? I am here to help for personal training in Los Angeles – call or email me now!

Confidence Booster

Have you ever wished that you had more confidence? People who set fitness boundaries report experiencing a boost of confidence.

Think about it: when you set a higher standard for yourself confidence grows naturally.

As you lose weight and feel better than ever your confidence will skyrocket.

If you’ve ever wished that you were more motivated to experience life at your full potential then this is for you.

Most of us set goals and work hard only to find our motivation fizzle out after a couple of weeks.

But there are little tricks that will help you harness the power of your mind and propel you toward achieving your goal.

The Two Motivators
When you boil it down, you’re motivated by two simple things:

1. To avoid pain (fear of failure)
2. To gain pleasure (promise of reward)

To figure out which motivates you more, think of the last time you accomplished a task and then ask yourself the following: while doing the task were you thinking about what would happen if you failed to finish, or were you thinking about what you would gain when you finished?

Take note as to which motivator works for you – fear of failure, or promise of reward.

Set Your Goal: The first step towards unstoppable motivation is to determine your goal. You know you’re unsatisfied with your body, but what exactly do you want to change? Why is it important to you?

Perhaps you can relate to one of the following goals:

* You need to lose weight for your health. Your doctor scared you straight or maybe you’ve had a recent health problem that landed you in the hospital. Your goal is to move away from the pain of sickness.

* You want to look and feel incredible. You’ve always wanted to feel vibrant and attractive. The idea of having more energy really excites you. Your goal is to move toward the pleasure and reward of a fit body.

* You’re worried about your kids. They don’t eat enough vegetables, they drink more soda pop than water and they play video games constantly. You have decided to model a healthier lifestyle and to encourage your kids to participate. Your goal is to move away from the risks of a sedentary lifestyle and to propel your kids toward a healthy future.

Train Your Mind for Weight Loss: With your clear and important goal in mind, let’s take a few minutes to train your mind to achieve it. You know that weight loss comes as a result of eating right and regular challenging exercise, so let’s use your mind to conquer both.

Eating Right: Use this exercise to distance yourself from the self-sabotaging foods you really wish you didn’t eat, and to naturally begin selecting healthy foods.

Take a moment to review your current eating habits. Identify the foods that you should stop eating (hint: sweets, anything fried, refined carbohydrates, sugary drinks). Identify the worst food that you eat regularly but know you shouldn’t.

Now imagine the healthy foods that you should eat (hint: vegetables, fruits, lean protein). Identify the healthiest food that you know you should eat regularly.

Now with the image of these two foods in mind, find a quiet place and do the following exercise (seriously this stuff works):

* Draw up the image of your unhealthy food item. This image will likely be quite vivid, with smell, taste and bright color. In your mind, fade this picture to black and white and distance the image until it is dull, fuzzy and remote.
* Draw up the image of your healthy food item. This image will likely be fuzzy and faded. In your mind, bring this picture to life with smell, taste, sound and bright color.

Regular Exercise: This technique can be applied in a way that encourages you to crave exercise rather than avoid it.

Take a moment to imagine how you feel after a great workout (notice the emphasis on the word after). Remember the physical satisfaction as well as the sweet feeling of accomplishment.

Now bring to your mind the aspects of exercise that you dislike. What is your biggest reason for avoiding exercise? Are you too tired? Do you not have enough time? Is physical exertion too much of a hassle? Pinpoint your greatest complaint about exercise.

Now with the image of these two aspects of exercise in mind, find a quiet place and do the following exercise:

* Draw up the image of your exercise complaint. The image is likely to be clear and accompanied by the sounds, smells and sensations. In your mind, fade this picture to black and white and distance the image until it is dull, fuzzy and remote.
* Draw up the image of the wonderful feeling you have after accomplishing a great workout. Magnify this image in your mind. Fixate on how you feel physically, mentally and emotionally. View the experience in bright colors and add a sound track of inspirational music.

Why It Works

If this was your first experience with training your mind it may have felt a little odd. Many of the world’s top achievers regularly use visualization techniques like these to accomplish astounding goals.

The techniques above work because they train your mind to bring your behavior in line with your values. Think about it, you value health, you desire to be fit and attractive and you want to instill healthy habits in your kids.

These techniques encourage you to avoid self-sabotage and to make choices that line up with what you truly value.

Now that you are ready to accomplish your goals, call or email me today to start your fitness program that will greatly improve your life.

The Rocking Chair Test

Need another boost of motivation?

* Imagine yourself at 90 years old, sitting in a rocking chair and looking back over your life.
* Imagine that you never took action and accomplished the goals that are important to you. Feel the pain of loss and regret.
* Now imagine that you took the steps to accomplish these important goals. Feel the pleasure of success and accomplishment.

Which scenario do you want to experience when you are 90?

Did you ever wonder how accurate the calorie information is that you read in calorie books, websites, and on food labels?

I have, and I’ve never before seen anyone quantify under what conditions, and to what extent, the calories you get from foods will be significantly different from the “tested” amount of calories.

I found this article fascinating, and thought you might, too:

New Scientist Article

-Chad

There’s a good chance that you’ll find yourself in a bathing suit sometime this month.

If you are like most people then that realization will 1) bring a grimace to your face and 2) will motivate you to lose some weight.

While I commend your desire to slim down before baring it all, I’m here to warn you of the 5 myths that most people fall for. Don’t waste your time on these:

Myth #1: Starve the pounds away.

Attempting to lose weight by starving yourself is not only ineffective, it’s also dangerous. It may seem that severe calorie restriction would deliver the quickest weight loss, but your body is complex and by doing so you’ll disrupt your metabolism and slow your results.

Tip: Don’t starve yourself – instead eat healthy small meals throughout the day.

Myth #2: Take diet pills to boost your effort.

The commercials make compelling claims about the power of diet pills, but don’t fall for it.
The ‘magic pill’ has yet to be discovered (it has been discovered – exercise. It’s just not in pill form…).
Diet pills are more likely to damage your health and burn your pocketbook than to slim you down.

Tip: Don’t pop a pill – instead burn fat and stay lean with exercise.

Myth #3: Do extra crunches to flatten your abs.

We all want our midsection to look toned as we stroll down the beach, but excessive crunches aren’t the answer for tight abs.
In order to achieve a lean look you’ll have to focus on burning off the layer of fat that is covering up your abs.

Tip: Don’t obsess about crunches – instead focus on fat burning. Do large, compound exercises with someone else to challenge you and make sure you’re working intensely enough.

Myth #4: Eat packaged diet foods for speedy results.

It is amazing to see the kinds of foods that are packaged as ‘diet’ or ‘weight loss’ aids. More often than not these products are packed with refined sugar and other ingredients that your body doesn’t need.

Tip: Don’t eat packaged diet foods – instead stick with nutritious whole foods.

Myth #5: Avoid all carbohydrates in order to slim down.

Carbohydrates have been given a bad rap, which is unfortunate because you can (and should) eat carbs while losing weight. In fact, you should eat lots of the right vegetables and some fruits. Just not high-glycemic carbs.

Tip: Don’t swear off all carbohydrates – instead stick with wholesome carbs.

Now that you know what not to do in order to look great this summer, it’s time to go over your beach ready game plan. Here’s what you need to know in 3 simple steps:

* Step One: Cut out the junk.

The best way to do this is to start by purging your kitchen. Get rid of sugary, processed and fat-filled foods. Once the junk has been cleared out don’t buy any more of it. Remember that your beach ready abs depend on what you eat – don’t eat junk!

* Step Two: Focus on whole foods.

Replace the junk food in your life with plenty of the following: cooked and raw vegetables, fresh fruits, whole grains, moderate amounts of seeds and nuts, healthy meats and dairy. Clean eating really is that simple.

* Step Three: Come train with us.

This is the most obvious step. You’re ready to get into great shape and We’re in a unique position to make that happen for you. Call or reply to this email to get started on an exercise plan with a personal trainer in Los Angeles that will make you look great on the beach, and all year round. In fact, just fill out the web form at http://www.myogenics.com/#introductory-workout and we will call you back to discuss how we might work together.

It’s Grill Time!

Looking for something delicious to grill that won’t derail your weight loss goals? Look no further than the produce section. Onions, bell peppers, eggplant, asparagus and zucchini are all great options to throw on the grill – and they can all be eaten guilt free.

***QUESTION***

Hey, Chad. Let’s start working on reducing time between exercises this week!

Also, a question … You say the faster you exhaust your muscles the better, but isn’t there a minimum effective time? Otherwise why not just try and move more weight than you could possibly move for like 5 or 10 seconds and be done? Is there a lower limit?

Thanks. See you Thursday!

Michael

[This question is in reference to my last post. -Chad]

>>>MY COMMENTS

Great question, Michael.

I can tell that you not only read my last newsletter, but you really thought about it.

Yes, there is a lower limit.

Just 5 or 10 seconds of effort is insufficient to exhaust many of the fibers in a muscle–even if we talking about 100% effort.

The contractile fibers within a muscle fatigue at a certain RATE, and a muscle fiber won’t be fatigued until it has worked at it’s maximum effort for the duration required to fatigue it.

A muscle may not be strong enough to move a weight, but it still won’t be fatigued until it has exerted maximum effort for the duration of time required to become fatigued–movement or no movement.

Also, muscles are composed of many muscle fibers that can fatigue at many different rates.

Research suggests that the OVERALL greatest fatigue of a muscle happens when that muscle is working NO LESSthan 60-90 seconds, and NO MORE than 3 to 4 minutes.

For you, this means that 5-10 seconds might get your muscle to “failure to move” with a really heavy weight, but it will be sub-optimal exercise for the muscles involved, and it won’t get you the results you really want.

At Myogenics Fitness gym in LA I set my weights so that I last between 90 and 180 seconds before I hit “muscle failure.”

(And I set your weights this way, too!)

***QUESTION***

Hi Chad,

Yes, definitely would like to try this approach. I think my biggest challenge will be to stop drinking water in between exercises. How do I go about that? Perhaps we can talk before I start my workout on Monday.

Rita

[This question is in reference to my last post. -Chad]

>>>MY COMMENTS

Hi Rita,

If you need to, you can start by cutting back at first rather than eliminating rest cold-turkey. Plan one mid-workout break where you’ll stop and get water. Do two if you absolutely need it.

Also, anticipate that your mouth is going to feel dry and that will feel strange. Be okay with that.

As long as you go into your workout fully hydrated and your workout is less than 20 minutes start-to-finish, you should be fine with respect to hydration. It’s just that your mouth will feel dry from the water evaporating when you’re breathing a lot.

And after 5-6 workouts without water breaks, you probably won’t even notice dryness in your mouth any more.

We will find out…

***QUESTION***

Hi Chad,

You take my breath away. You challenge me to set up each machine before I start my exercise in the fitness room. I plan to try this Thurs. a.m. to see if I can finish in 1/2 hr. instead of 1 hr.

You do a wonderful job with your newsletter, Chad. Hope you have clients meet the challenge.
Thanks,

Love, Grandma

>>>MY COMMENTS

Thanks, Grandma Ruth! I will pass along to my clients that you told them they’d better rise to the challenge.

They won’t want to be put to shame by a 91 year-old, I’m sure.

If you couldn’t tell, my grandma is an amazing person. And if my grandma can do intense weight training, so can you!

Feel free to email me your questions/comments, and I’ll talk to you
again soon.

Next up, I’m going to answer questions about those vibrating platforms and the “ramping up” process of how to get from your current level to what’s ideal.

Stay tuned.

-Chad

P.P.S. If you like the tips in these posts, and you want a more lean, defined, strong body…but you’d rather have someone else take care of all the details for you, you might like personal training at Myogenics Fitness.

Last newsletter, I promised to share a “secret” technique that I personally use to dramatically increase my workout results.

It’s simple and ALMOST obvious, but virtually no one does it.

Once I tried it and saw the results, I never wanted to go back to the old way of training. Plus, it saves me time, which I love.

Here is my secret technique: eliminate rest between exercises.

While this idea sounds simple, there is a lot to it that is not obvious to most people. It sure wasn’t obvious to me at first.

Right now I’m going to bring you into the exclusive group of people who sees things that the average gym-goer never sees.

I’m going to give you a STEP-BY-STEP blueprint of ten advanced ways that I accomplish eliminating rest between exercises.

Any one of them could generate noticeable improvements in your workout; the combination of all ten could be rocket fuel for your results.

Here is that secret blueprint:

(then, further below, I’ll blow your mind when I quantify exactly how much your results can improve from implementing this simple technique)

1. I plan out my workout in advance: I have written down the exact weights and machine settings in my LA gym that I’ll be using before I start my workout. I also determine the order that I’ll do the exercises. This way there is no time wasted thinking and analyzing between exercises.

2. I set up all the machines in advance. This way, when I am finished with one exercise, I can start immediately on the next exercise without fumbling around to get the machine set up.

3. I do not talk during my workout. Not between exercises and not with anyone. Not even my personal trainer/workout partner. I only say something if it is absolutely necessary, and I save talking and chatting until after I’ve finished my entire workout.

4. When I complete one exercise, I begin the next exercise as quickly as possible … making it seem like a continuation of the previous exercise. I do not hesitate or move slowly between exercises. Recall: I’ve already set up the machines and determined my order in advance.

5. I do not check my text messages, email, etc. between exercises. In fact my phone is on silent and in another room so it cannot distract me at all.

6. I do not drink water between exercises. This might seem strange, but Since my workout is so short, and I’m hydrated going in, I won’t get dehydrated during my workout. My mouth does gets dry from breathing a lot, but I’m fine with that. And I drink some water right after my workout is complete to instantly eliminate the dryness in my mouth.

7. The moment I set down the weight after one exercise and feel my muscles unload, I use that as my cue to begin moving toward the next machine.

8. The moment I am seated and positioned on a new machine, I begin lightly pushing/pulling to feel the muscles I am going to be targeting. From here, I smoothly increase my effort over several seconds until the weight starts moving. I do NOT do the following: rest completely, then psych myself up, then jab at the machine. That is what I observe many people doing, and that is what I also USED to do. That was before I experienced how much more effective the “zero rest” method is.

9. I eliminate overheating in two ways: 1. by keeping the gym temperature between 61 and 64 degrees, and 2. directing a fan at me so a light breeze is carrying away the layer of warm air that surrounds my body. This prevents all the heat that I am generating from getting trapped in my body and forcing me to stop and cool down between exercises. It also prevents excess
sweating and water loss, because I am no longer overheating.

10. In my mind, I approach the whole workout as one big, continuous exercise that begins when I start on the first machine, and does not end until I finish the last machine–it does not stop anywhere in the middle. I don’t look for a sense of completion after each exercise this way–only after the entire
workout is complete.

Now for the mind-blowing part …

It might seem an overstatement to claim that this strategy could make your workout 50% more intense. Claiming 100% improvement probably sounds crazy.

I would have thought so before I experienced the difference.

Now, I’m about to show you how this makes a whole lot of sense…and you’ll be able to impress all of your friends with your superior knowledge of exercise.

If you took the conventional approach, you’d probably try to maximize the intensity of each individual exercise by resting a little between exercises.

That intuitively makes sense, however, we’ll see in a second how this sacrifices the overall intensity of your workout far more than any possible gain you could get on the individual exercises.

My approach, by contrast to the conventional approach, is to maximize the intensity of my entire workout–by having zero rest between exercises.

One result of this is that the weights and times on individual exercises WILL often be lower than what they would be if I was resting between exercises.

At first this might make it appear that I am accomplishing less; but the counterintuitive truth is that this is precisely a sign that I have accomplished MORE.

The fact that I started with the same strength and become capable of doing less during my version of the workout is a sign that I have achieved a greater level of exhaustion in less time.

And this is a critical point: it isn’t just that I’ve become more exhausted, it’s that I’ve done so in LESS time.

When I accomplish a greater level of exhaustion in less total time, that is an increase in intensity.

This example will make it clear:

Imagine that you ran a mile in 10 minutes, and then ran that same mile in 5 minutes. Now, “intensity” is difficult to precisely define, but we can probably agree that you might approximate that you worked twice as intensely when you ran the mile in 5 minutes as opposed to 10. In this case, you performed the same amount of work (running a mile) in half the time. Afterwards, you probably felt at least twice as exhausted.

Both the research that I’ve seen and my practical experience in training clients for the last 11 years point toward INTENSITY of work as the hands-down winner on what generates results.

NOT the total amount of work done, and NOT the level of exhaustion reached…but the intensity during the workout.

People who get fatigued from a lower level of intensity (i.e., using activities that take longer to get them fatigued) just don’t get nearly as good of results.

I could get completely exhausted by walking, say, 32 hours non-stop. My intensity throughout this activity would be low, but I’d be so exhausted at the end that I may not be able to remain standing. And I’d probably see no benefit from this at all–likely only detriment.

In contrast, a single two-minute, all-out sprint could also get me to the point where I was too exhausted to stand, but this would be far more intense, because it took a lot less time. And it’s far more likely to yield beneficial results.

Now, running is easy for most people to relate to, but there are several reasons why controlled weight training with ideal equipment is both more effective than running and can have a much lower risk of injury. It is something that nearly anyone, at any level of fitness can start with and be
progressing on–if done properly.

To sum up, If I want more strength, more definition, more stamina, and more results, then I want to accomplish more fatigue faster during my workouts.

More intensity is what triggers my body to respond and get stronger, leaner, and more conditioned more rapidly.

Here is how this applies to a workout in the gym:

Suppose that you normally did 6 exercises in about 30 minutes…

Each of those 6 exercises might last around 2 minutes.

After each exercise, suppose you rested a few seconds on the machine. Then you walked around a little bit, got a sip of water, chatted a little bit. Then you set up the weights on the next machine. Then you got into the machine, rested a little bit and got focused. Finally, you started the
exercise.

That could easily take 4 to 5 minutes of time between the end of one exercise and the beginning of the next.

In this case, your workout would consist of six 2-minute exercises and four 4-minute breaks: a total of 28 minutes. If you did nothing but cut your rest time to 20 seconds between each exercise, your entire workout time would fall to just 14 minutes. That’s HALF the time.

Even if you had to lower the weights you were using a little because you were getting so exhausted in the latter part of your workout, your overall workout intensity would still be MUCH higher than before…perhaps near 100% greater intensity. All from that one simple change of cutting out the
rest between exercises.

If you think you don’t actually rest that long between exercises, I challenge you to have a friend use a stopwatch and time you from the moment you set down the weights on one machine to the moment you begin the next. You might be shocked that each period that seems like 20 seconds is
actually 2+ minutes.

I notice that the difference between resting 45 seconds and 20 seconds is a night-and-day difference in what I feel after the workout, and in the results I get.

I often try to get my time between exercises down to around 10 seconds.

In addition to the awesome strength results, if you want to have amazing conditioning, there isn’t much that compares to a workout done this way.

Now, it’s a real challenge to get the time between exercises down under 20 seconds…and even more so to get it to around 10 seconds.

You’ll need to spend a little time to plan your strategy, and involve your trainer/workout partner in the planning. The pay-off and time saved is well worth the planning effort, though.

Also, I find that it helps to have the machines I’m using right next to each other, so it takes just two or three steps to get from one to the next. (And I designed the layout of my gym for this purpose)

If you took the conventional approach of resting a little between exercises to last a few seconds longer or lift a little bit more weight, you may achieve a *perceived* 5-10% increase on the individual exercise intensity. However, you’ll find that there is no comparison to the increased intensity and results of eliminating rest between exercises…the conventional approach loses
out hands-down.

Here’s a surprising kicker…even while you can increase your *perceived* intensity on an individual exercise, the actual intensity may still be LOWER–even if you just look at the individual exercise.

As long as you are not mentally giving up on an exercise, you are experiencing more intensity on an exercising where you are fatiguing more rapidly.

Exercise intensity is not the same as simple mechanical work performed (i.e., how much a weight is moved). This has confused many a gym-goer and even most trainers.

There are several major, VERY popular workout movements today that are based around trying to get people to do ever more mechanical work.

This is misguided and wrong, wrong, wrong.

Such people may be getting results to the degree that they are working intensely, but they are missing out on a lot more results.

At the same time, they are missing out on a lot of efficiency in their training that could give them hours, days, and months of their life back.

And they are needlessly putting their bodies through a lot more stress and trauma than is needed to get results–and this could be increasing the risk of injury and actually accelerating the aging process.

When you exercise, a muscle that gets more exhausted in less time has worked MORE intensely, regardless of how much mechanical work (i.e., amount of movement) it has performed.

This means that if you can figure out how to exhaust a muscle to a greater degree in less time with less weight, this INCREASES the intensity. This increased intensity exercises that muscle more than if you’d exhausted that same muscle using more weight and more time.

This is exactly what cutting out rest time allows you to do,

What most people perceive as a loss of intensity when cutting out rest is actually is actually an INCREASE in intensity–and a great benefit you do not want to miss out on.

Oh, and one more thing…you may have noticed that this not only improves your intensity and results up to 100%, but it also cuts your workout time by up to 50%.

Or MORE…

As your intensity and strength rise, you’ll eventually have to cut out entire exercises as the intensity and effect of just a few exercises goes through the roof.

Advanced subjects may not be able to tolerate more than 3 exercises…and less than 8 minutes of working out, start-to-finish, once a week.

At that level, this is more than enough to get very impressive and rapid strength and cardiovascular results.

I personally usually do just 3 exercises once a week; and I finish my workout in less than 8 minutes.

When I remove the rest between exercises, the cardiovascular effect is amazing … it’s not uncommon for me to be still out of breath and have my heart rate elevated 20 minutes after I finish this workout.

Nearly anyone can get close to that level…it’s just a matter of identifying where you are now and progressively improving a little bit each workout.

Because this has such a huge impact on the intensity, if you’re not used to it, give yourself several workouts to work up to it a little at a time…don’t expect to be able to instantly implement everything I do above.

Now, if you want me to give a more detailed outline of how to go through this “ramping up” process, email me back and let me know–and I’ll be happy to do it in another newsletter.

I know this post is getting long, and I need to end it, even though I have a lot more I could say about this, including…

-details of how to “ramp up” from out-of-shape to intense workout master–it’s not an overnight process

-psychological hurdles everyone encounters as the workout gets more intense, and how to easily overcome them

-how to identify and eliminate bad workout habits that are holding you back

-research studies that show dramatically more results in shockingly less timewhen exercise intensity is increased

-how the rest you’re getting DURING each exercise might be compromising results even more than the rest between exercises. Eliminating the several sources of hidden rest during exercises is actually where we begin with people we train one-on-one

But for now, I’ll wait to hear from you what you would like me to talk about. So email me and let me know.

And if you want to have someone guide you through this process and take care of all the details for you–while holding your hand and making sure you are getting the maximum benefit every step of the way, that is exactly what we do at my private gym in Los Angeles.

We’re not free, and we’re not for everyone. But if you’re serious about doing something and hiring someone to make sure you do everything you can to be getting the best results in the least amount of your time, then here’s my deal to you:

Try an introductory workout with us, and, if you don’t love it, I’ll personally refund your money.

I can’t offer you a better deal than that, and I can’t offer this deal forever.

You can see the details of this guarantee offer at the upper right of this blog.

(If the guarantee offer is gone when you click the link, that means time has run out and I’ve taken it down.)

At the same link, you’ll see details of the workout and a special interest form that will send your info straight to us so we can call you back immediately…today, and figure out if we’re a good match for working with each other.

If you’ve decided that it’s time to get the ball rolling on getting into better shape, and you’d like us to manage all of the details for you so you just have to show up, then I look forward to hearing from you today.

To health and life,

Chad

Chad Morris
Myogenics Fitness

P.S. Please comment below with any questions and feedback…or anything else you want to know, and want me to discuss in a future newsletter. While I cannot always personally respond, I read every comment, and I will try to reply in an upcoming newsletter.

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