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    Pick your poison, Vacation, Family, Stress, School, Holiday, Sickness.

    Seems to be one of these things that has so many people giving up on their hopes and dreams of having the body they want.

    They do it for a while, but then get sucked back into what they have always done, Their Standard Issue.

    Sound Familiar?

    What if we could change what is… “Standard Issue” for you? Hmm…

    Well you can, best step.

    Time machine, go back to when your parent’s were raising you and hypnotize them into having health and fitness be a normal thing in your house hold. (Skip this step if that’s the case).

    For most people though, parent’s exercising, planning meals, preparing meals on purpose are completely foreign to their kids.

    So when they become adults and want to change, just liek their parents have talked about for years, you are already late. It doesn’t mean it’s harder.. it just that you are white belt, when you could have been a black belt.

    Luckily, the second best time is today, and what better time than now to insure that you (and your kids) have an example of what health and fitness looks like, and to be familiar with it so much so, that without it… would be weird..

    I don’t think there are many other ways to set up kids for success than that.

    “So Chris… How do change my Standard Issue?”

    These 3 Steps.

    1) Routine is a lie, your process is how you win.

    Winners win. We all know those people who can do just about everything pretty well. It might be, in part, talent, but it’s because they have the winning formula.

    Consistency*time =results

    The most consistent you are, and longer you work, the more often the outcome happens.

    I bowled a near perfect game (280 Not to bragg.. 😉 ) which is Strike, 9 Spare (aka hit the pin) and then had strikes the rest of the game.

    I didn’t do anything spectacular, I just did the same thing… every time…

    THE SAME. Not similar, not close, not just about, not any other synonym that means kinda like.
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    THE
    EXACT
    SAME
    THING

    The more consistent you are, the faster the outcome becomes what you become, or the longer you do it.

    “What if XYZ happens, It’s hard for me to keep it up when XYZ”

    2) Your solutions answer similar questions.

    If your health and fitness goals are dependent upon ideal circumstance you are screwed. Life is going to kick you in the face right when you want to lose weight. I can’t tell you how many times I have it, in fact, someone joined my program last week from California, and they might have the evacuate their house from fires.

    Now what?

    Most people, based on evidence and not judgement, simply push it out.

    Or after a vacation, holiday, birthday, groundhog day, solar eclipse, new season of their favorite show…..

    What does that tell your subconscious brain?

    My Standard issue is when things become slightly outside of ideal I find something to blame for not sticking to my health and fitness.

    Again, not being a D bag.. but is it not the case? Why else would people come up with that solution over.. and over.. and over again to different stimulus?

    The brain creates a shortcut, subconciously, and then is reinforced with following the thought by staying consistent (we love consistency)

    But… it doesn’t get us what we want. Boo.

    To fix it, I call it Missy Elliot your excuse.

    Put my THANG down, Flip it, and reverse it

    I’m on vacation used to mean= eat whatever, deal with it later, “relax” and then come home adding 2-4 lbs of fat that’ll put you a month behind in reaching your goal, not to mention taking 2 weeks to “get back into the swing of things”

    OR…

    I’m on vacation= plan how to eat foods I want to while there, enjoy the amounts to stay consistent with my health goals, and come back already having my plan sorted, having not gained a single pound of fat along the way.

    Sounds like a whole lot of work to that part of your brain saying it’s impossible, but it’s not much harder than looking up a few restaurants you and your family would eat at, looking over the menu, and deciding today, then shifting food around to make it work.

    But if you have no idea how to do that, we teach that in my Trailblazer Fat Loss Program, TAP HERE if you’re interested in learning about it.

    Finding a way vs not seeing a way.

    You would run through a brick wall if it meant saying your family right? Your family needs saving from health and fitness problems that become inevitable when you don’t work on them.

    But don’t get it twisted.. it can be hard, frustrating, emotional, angry… however…..

    3) Your Frustration is a blessing

    Question, if you found out your kid was failing 3 classes necessary classes to graduate during the last semester of senior year, how upset would you be on a scale of 1-10?

    Would you feel the same if a kid who lived 1 mile away from your house?

    OF COURSE NOT!

    Because you care, and have love for your kid. You want them to be successful, and to grow up to be a happy, contributing member of society, to start a business or go to college.

    You couldn’t care less about some random kid failing high school (btw me either so don’t feel bad)

    Those emotions are what promote change and action.

    Similar to the bumpers that pop up in the lane for kids, the feelings you don’t enjoy feeling, are signals to adjust.

    They are NOT BAD like society at large would have you believe.

    If you are feeling frustrated, that is because you care about the result, and want to be successful.

    So when those type of feelings start to come about, there are a lot of things to take a look at on how to make best use of this feeling, but the first step always has to be this.

    Being thankful that you care.

    The next step is…

    Are you unsure of what to do next?

    Are you confused?

    Are you hyperfocusing on things that might not matter?

    Are you adding too much pressure onto yourself to be perfect?

    I could go on and on, but the point is, frustration is a good feeling, because it means we care, and are heading into learning something new about ourselves, or about what we are trying to accomplish.

    Get used to it, because it’s not going away when you are at the top, embrace that feeling.. or…

    Keep living the same 6 months over and over again, waiting for change to happen out of thin air because you think about it, and become disappointed when no one has come to save you.

    You got this! I believe in you

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    And if you’re someone like them who can’t seem to drop the weight, are stuck in the “I know what do to, I just don’t do it” loop, or lack motiviation to get started…

    This is the 5 minute fix.

    If you’re actively wanting to try to lose the weight but it’s not coming off, it’s either you don’t care that it isn’t, or you care too much..

    You have SO many things you need to do in order to see the scale move, that it would take SO MUCH of your time, that you would have to give up your mental health, spending time with kids etc to make it happen that you HAVE to let the weight lose go by the wayside (aka don’t care)

    Meaning.

    You have SO many things you need to do in order to see the scale move, that it would take SO MUCH of your time, that you would have to give up your mental health, spending time with kids etc to make it happen that you HAVE to let the weight lose go by the wayside (aka don’t care)

    OR

    You give up all of the mental health, all of the extra time, and have SO MUCH pressure on yourself to be perfect for this outcome, that when there is an eventual hiccup… the whole thing crumbles under the pressure.

    Problem because neither of these get you to where you want to go.

    Step 1: Zoom Out.

    Let’s say you’re like my average client who has 50 lbs to lose.

    and you have 1 year to lose it.

    That’s less than 1 lb per week.

    (And you might even get mad at losing just a pound per week)

    So push the goal out in front of you, less than 1lb per week is incredibly reasonable

    *Hint do this*

    Step 2: Write down all the things you “have” to do.

    Go to bed by 10, Eat no carbs, never go out with friends, exercise 6 days a week for 2 hours a time, Buy spandex shorts and hike them up so high they become a second layer of skin, etc.

    Step 3: How do you know each of these is true?

    *GASP* Cross off the ones you DO NOT know are true. (Not a belief like eating carrots are bad, a fact. And not a my truth fact, like a fact fact.)

    Step 4: Do what’s left.

    Step 5: Get results.

    If you are unsure of which things to do, or if your list goes completely blank, I have a video RIGHT HERE you can watch that covers the process I use to help my clients lose the weight and keep it off long term.

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  • Are you somebody who is trying to increase your metabolism after 40 years old, or does it feels like your metabolism is Slow… Like Slow Slow.

    Once you hit over 40, it’s like, man, it might as well be a snail that you got running inside your body as far as your metabolism goes.

    Don’t worry.

    I’ve got three ways that you can implement today that’s going to help you not only increase your metabolism, but do all sorts of other really cool things in your body.

    At the Trailblazer Fitness Academy, I teach people how to lose weight and keep it off long term. And one of the things that we focus on, often right in the beginning, is increasing your metabolism, especially if you are over 40.
    BUT before we get into it, I want to share with you a little bit about what metabolism is so that we can dive into that and a little bit of sciencey stuff along with some actual steps and a goody at the end.

    Metabolism is all of the metabolic processes in your body that require energy.

    That energy comes in the form of calories,so by increasing the amount of metabolic processes (like i’m going to explain below) we increase your metabolism. Make sense?

    I’ve got three ways that you can implement doing that today, along with science and nerdy stuff about why they work.By doing all three of these steps, implemented at once, you get..

    a typhoon, a tsunami, a massive explosion, volcano eruption of metabolism that you’ll start noticing differences even today.

    So with that being said meet Kris.

    Kris asked How to Increase Your Metabolism After 40 Because She Couldn't Lose Weight
    Kris Before

    Kris is one of my clients, and was somebody who self-proclaimed that it was impossible for her to lose weight. being a lady’s late 50s, she has tried everything to lose weight and nothing seemed to get the weight off.

    BUT, after implementing these three steps in less than a year, she went from that to losing 30 pounds of fat in the process, along with a bunch of other really cool health things that we’re going to dive into. And so I pinky promise you follow these steps.

    You’re going to see some massive improvements not only in your metabolism but your body composition, which is ideally what we’re looking for, to typically when somebody feels like they have a slow metabolism, they likely aren’t at the weight they want to be at, too.

    Kris After Losing 30lbs of Fat Once We Fixed Her Metabolism

    #1- Exercise.

    But it’s not just exercise that we want. We want weight lifting. We want you to lift weights. We want you to shred muscle. We want you to stimulate this brain of yours to focus and lift some heavy crap. Why is that? Well, muscles, when you build them, burn three times the calories of fat. That’s nice. Especially if we want to boost our metabolism again. The goal of an increased metabolism is to burn more calories, right?
    To require your body to have more metabolic processes happen. And if you have more muscle, your body is forced to do that. So you can lift, so you can burn more calories, which also means you can eat more and not gain any weight either!

    It releases endorphins that keep you going from going into adrenal fatigue, which is kind of important for number three that we’re going to talk about in a bit.


    Lastly, it increases what’s called Excess Post Oxygen Consumption.

    This is a big old fancy schmancy word that basically means you have an extended period after you are done where you will be burning more calories.

    You can burn up to 800 Calories more per day. By having an extended EPOC. (especially if you follow these workouts)

    Not bad. Not bad at all.

    Now the next one.

    #2 is more activity. Doing more stuff.

    Notice if you watch any of my videos. Am I seated when I do that? No.

    The majority of the day I’m standing. My chair holds my backpack.

    Not because I’m cool, but because if I walk more, if a more active by cleaning, standing, doing chores, vacuuming, playing with my kids, stepping, going up and down stairs, going to the bathroom, drinking water, getting like drinking, have a smaller water vessel that I fill up consistently because I have to walk around and do that

    Doing these sorts of things burns a boatload of calories, which is metabolic processes.

    10,000 steps per day can burn up to 500 Calories.

    An increase in activity also has a 60% reduction of symptoms of depression!

    When you depressed what happens? we tend to eat crappy food. What happens when we eat crappy food? That’s a positive feedback loop. When we eat crappy food, we feel bad. But we feel bad because we’re eating crappy food.

    Not to mention it reduces joint pain and soreness.

    By sitting around for a long time, your your body gets stiff and tight by moving around, by being more active. You’re able to have less joint soreness pain. Your joints are lubricated more, so you’re able to do more activity and not be in pain.

    Now, that doesn’t mean you should hit 10,000 steps today, especially if you’ve been very sedentary. If you have no way of tracking your steps or you don’t currently, it’s probably a good idea to get something that can help you track your steps.

    Here’s a link to a solid step counter from Amazon with great reviews

    Let’s just say 2000 for the day. No big deal. If you go to 2000 to 4000, that’s a two times increase. But it’s really like an extra ten minutes of walking, maybe 15 minutes of walking per day.

    And that’s not just you walking around. That’s like, what can I do to increase my steps? Finding ways in your lifestyle to add more activity is going to help you a ton.

    If your kids are at dance and you typically sit down in your car or something while they’re at dance..

    Can you walk around?

    Can you just stand?

    Can you just be a little bit more active instead of sitting in your car on your phone at pick up?

    Can you park your car, go for a walk and then get your kid from pick up?

    These little things make a massive, massive difference. I’m telling you, it’s a huge difference. I’ve had three people lose 100 lbs with me in less than 12 months that are all women, that needed to increase their metabolism, that were all over the age of 40, and all have thyroid problems.

    The third one is eating more protein.

    You’re going to see how this ties into the first thing in just a second.

    You can lose up to 4 pounds MORE per year by eating 30% more protein than somebody who doesn’t eat enough.

    But not only that.

    As helps you feel fuller when you’re trying to lose weight, because you don’t feel as hungry. Those little craving demons stop shouting at you to cheat on your diet.

    It helps aid in repairing and building a muscle from weightlifting.

    So you see, if you don’t eat enough protein, you cannot build muscle.

    If you cannot build muscle, you’re not getting the three times calorie burn that you would before. If you’re not exercising a lot, you’re going to have not the good endorphins.

    If you don’t have the good endorphins and you’re not being active, you see how that you likely are not going to be eating enough protein. You’re going to be eating more carbs and fats because no one is ever binging on chicken breast or binging on kale.

    So we can tie all these three things together today that can lead to a massive influx in calories burned per day.

    It is phenomenal what happens.

    You see now how, Kris, somebody who is a self-proclaimed “can’t lose weight” was missing these three things. And when we added these three things into her routine, into her lifestyle, she was EASILY able to lose 30 pounds. offat relatively quickly,

    So to get you started, what I wanted to do is I’ve made a little workout regimen you can follow.

    It’s 15 Fat Burning Workouts Under 15 Minutes.
    Tap here to get access with no sign up required.

    Hopefully you found this helpful! If you did, please shoot me a message on any of the platforms I’m on or email me at Chris @ bodyfathacks.com

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    Depressed, Tired, Frustrated, and Hopeless would describe Erin’s Reality every day when it came to her body before she started working with me.

    To even consider that she could lose 30 lbs in 90 days was as real as seeing pigs fly, until it became real.

    Relying on energy drinks and Diet Dr. Pepper to get her through school, to just dip back into more caffeine as she greeted her 5 kids at home afterwards.

    Simple 3 Step Process Helped Erin Lose 30 Lbs in 90 Days

    Soccer practice was another battle, being the owner and coach of a kids soccer league had her putting on a friendly happy smile to cover up the depression she truly felt from being heavier than she was today, than when she was pregnant with her last child.

    Her final straw was seeing her friend who was just like her, Dacia, who just like her, had struggled with losing any more than 10 pounds, lose all of her baby weight, and fit into size 2’s (After swearing she could never get below a 6) as well as lose 30 pounds in 90 days.

    It became very evident that this “weight loss wizard” was much less of a wizard, and much more of an expert when I was able to share with her the 3 processes we were going to immediately use to get her to lose at least 30 lbs in 90 days.

    Luckily for me (and her) she really had no other option after trying everything else imaginable to lose the fat. (Keto, lo carb, herbalife, isagenix, bootcamp, crossfit, body pump, body combat, personal training) All I needed was a little bit of faith, and that’s all she had left.

    Fast forward 90 days she lost 30 lbs, and in 5 months she lost over 50.

    Fitting herself back into size 2s and 4s, and becoming a part time chiropractor with how many necks we doing double takes from family and friends who kept asking how she did it

    Watch the Video or Keep Scrolling 🙂

    To help Erin lose 30 lbs in 90 days, I used these 3 different processes.


    1) Had her understand the Heirarchy of Body Transformation


    Essentially what that is, is a way to understand how much “effort currency” should we be putting into each of the 4 ways to sustainably lose fat.

    Like most people, she was putting 20-40% of her effort was being put into that section where only 5-10 should be there.

    So we got her working out less, I know it seems backwards, but only so that we can focus on the other stuff that gets us losing the weight faster

    2) Had her walking around more.

    Working out 3X per week burning 200 calories on average only gets you an average of 85 calories of calorie burn when you spread it throughout the week.

    If you increase it to to 4X it only adds 3 calories.

    On the other hand, when you increase your NEAT (aka your steps) by 1000. It burns an additional 50 calories.

    And when the average American is just walking 2-4000 steps per day, increasing it to 7-9000 can increase it by as much as 350!

    AKA, doing 2.5X longer training session… or read this and walk on a treadmill or around the house.

    Pretty sweet if you ask me

    3) We ATE MORE than her fad diets

    She was consistently eating 9-1100 Calories per day to try to lose the fat, and for about 2 weeks at a time that’d work until she either got too hungry and hated it, or slipped up and just ate all of her calories back that she missed out on.

    So instead, we had her eating around 1300-1600 calories depending on what Phase of the program we were in, so that she wasn’t soo starving she hated life, but that she was actually able to stick with it longer.

    Because you can’t lose 30 lbs in 90 days, if you don’t even make it the 90 days 😉

    To find out how I can help you get the same as results as Erin, and Many others, all you gotta do is Tap here and fill out a quick form so I can get to know you a bit, and we will set up a time to ensure that it’s the right fit.

    I’d love to have you be the next person to lose the coveted 30 lbs in 90 days club!

  • I’m not saying this for the clicks, or the links, or the fame. I’m telling you this because it’s the truth.

    If you’re someone who struggles with insulin sensitivity, or is struggling, but are among the 67% of people who have no idea that they are, than you need to read this, as it could be the difference between used to struggle, and currently having to inject insulin.

    But before I get into why I’m saying this with as much brashness as you will see, let’s go over some words and definitions so we are all on the same page (Hint if you want to skip all of the reading, you can watch my YouTube video at the bottom of the page)

    What is Insulin, why should you be sensitive to it?

    For simplicities sake, Insulin is a hormone that your body makes, and send into your blood to grab sugar when it is either LOW or there is a WHOLE BUNCH in there.

    The degree in which you LACK sensitivity to sugar is the degree in which you are diabetic. No bueno.

    We want to be as sensitive to diabetic as a baby is to taking away their blankey or favorite doll.

    What happens if you lack Insulin sensitivity for a long time?

    Bad things happen to good people.

    To start, just a bit of tingly in your toes and finger tips, that eventually gets to no feeling, that eventually getting them chopped off.

    If you enjoy your eye sight, you definitely don’t want increase your insulin sensitivity, because it destroys your eye sight as well.

    Stick around there long enough, without medical intervention with either injectable insulin (not to mention the cost of being diabetic aka having LOW insulin sensitivity, costs American’s on average 19,000+ per year ) and you’ll go into a diabetic coma until your very last breath unless a doctor has anything to do with it.

    and if you think being healthy is expensive, this is far more expensive, and makes your life go from full of opportunity to a straight lie of “this is your destiny”

    So who’s lying and why should you listen to me?

    Keep in mind, this is America, and i’m only teaching you stuff, not advising you to do NOTHING, HOWEVER….

    Here is what the biggest heads in the “insulin sensitivity coach” space are trying to tell you,

    Avoid ALL carbohydrates, even making enemies out of the Tomatoes and Carrots, in the name lowering your A1C.


    S#&T. Forgot to tell you what that was.

    Real quick, A1C, in simplist form, is the 90 day average of your blood sugar.

    This, along with a fastest glucose tolerance test, are the 2 tests to determine how diabetic someone is.

    BUT here’s the kicker, Your A1C WILL be lower.. not because you are LESS Diabetic… But because you have had LESS CARBOHYDRATES TO MAKE YOUR BLOOD SUGAR GO UP!

    It’s kind of like getting bit by sharks once a month, and then never again… because you just stopped going into the ocean.

    Are you any less of a silly goose by not going into the ocean? NO.. You have been bit by sharks more than most of people so the result of NOT GETTING BIT BY SHARKS doesn’t determine your full silly goose…ness.

    In other words.

    It’s a pour, yet often used measure, to determine if you are diabetic or not.

    Also take XYZ Carb crusher product that just gives you really bad diahrea when you eat anything.

    With a side of high heart rate and gittery-ness this’ll get people convinced that they are burning fat, and doing something!

    WRONG.

    And after helping 100’s of clients who were pre-diabetic, to not, and having clients who were type 2 diabetic, to no longer showing ANY symptoms of diabetes, and the ONLY thing that changed was following these 3 things.. I might be on to something


    The 3 Things You ACTUALLY can do to Increase Your Insulin Sensitivity

    1. Food.

      So yes, what you eat IS important, but do you need to avoid anything that has a carbohydrate in it? HELL NO!

      Should you avoid eating an entire cake? Yes.

      Monitor your blood sugar, and steer clear of higher glycemic index carbohydrates for a while, that’ll be very helpful as your blood sugar won’t spike so high, so fast.
    2. Drop some LBS.

      Not because I said so, science does. By losing some excess fat, your body is less inflammed, which causes excess disorder in how your body works. You can even follow my 30 LB Body Breakthrough Blueprint, where I show you the exact steps I use to help my clients lose 30 lbs.
    3. The most important, High Intensity Interval Training.

      By forcing your body to go above your Lactate threshold (your bodies limit to intake oxygen to support your bodies movement), which further forces your body to use carbohydrates as energy (which is blood sugar)

      Doing things as simple as 20 seconds of movement, 10 seconds of rest, for 8 rounds (4 TOTAL minutes of work created by Dr. Tabata) of push ups, squats, jumping jacks, and sit ups. Follow these workouts here if you’re wanting to try them out

      You can see an increase in insulin sensitivity of 40% Post Exercise for up to 2 hours after just 1 bout.

      Continuing to do that will further your bodies ability to feel for when it needs to get sugar from the blood, or from your stores to use.