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“The way is through.”

The way to the life you want is always through your fears and the obstacles life puts in front of you to help you. I’ve got a video below that talks about this and how a holistic health and fitness program is a vehicle to not only challenge your body to get better but also for you to get better.

But I want to talk of a past member that epitomizes this to the highest degree. 

Maria Vigil.

Unfortunately, she recently passed from complications of Scleroderma. And for those of you who don’t know, it is not pleasant. But as unpleasant and prevalent as it was in her life, she showed up and kept working on herself. And she did it with a smile and always ended our classes with an exuberant and authentic…

“Woo Hoo!”

I know people come to me for assistance, but the impact some of these people have on me is profound.

Let’s all find a way to “Woo Hoo,” difficult situations in our life.

Thanks for being you, Maria.

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Setbacks in life are challenging.

You try but sometimes fail to accomplish tasks or to gain what you desire.

You do everything you can, plan and practice and keep a good attitude and do all the right things… and yet… it doesn’t always work out.

When that happens, you need the superpower of mental resilience – the ability to bounce back after these setbacks and keep moving forward. It’s how you cope with adversity, stress, and difficult situations, while maintaining a positive outlook and a strong sense of well-being. Think of it as your mental armor that shields you from getting knocked down too hard and enables you to rise back up even stronger.💪🏽

Here are some characteristics of people with mental resilience – because it’s more than just being “strong” all the time!

👉🏽 𝘗𝘰𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘴𝘦𝘵: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘧𝘰𝘤𝘶𝘴 𝘰𝘯 𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘥𝘸𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘯 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘴.

👉🏽 𝘈𝘥𝘢𝘱𝘵𝘢𝘣𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘵𝘺: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘯 𝘢𝘥𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘦𝘥 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘯𝘦𝘸 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘰 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘴.

👉🏽 𝘌𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘈𝘸𝘢𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴: 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘵 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦 𝘢𝘤𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘭𝘦𝘥𝘨𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘦𝘮𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.

👉🏽 𝘚𝘦𝘭𝘧-𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦: 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮𝘴𝘦𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘪𝘳 𝘴𝘬𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘯𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘨𝘢𝘵𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘵 𝘴𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴.

When things don’t go as you hoped, remember to:

✅Pʀᴀᴄᴛɪᴄᴇ Sᴇʟꜰ-Cᴏᴍᴘᴀssɪᴏɴ: Bᴇ ᴋɪɴᴅ ᴛᴏ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ ᴅᴜʀɪɴɢ ᴄʜᴀʟʟᴇɴɢɪɴɢ ᴛɪᴍᴇs. Aᴠᴏɪᴅ sᴇʟꜰ-ᴄʀɪᴛɪᴄɪsᴍ ᴀɴᴅ ɴᴇɢᴀᴛɪᴠᴇ sᴇʟꜰ-ᴛᴀʟᴋ. Tʀᴇᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ ᴀs ʏᴏᴜ ᴡᴏᴜʟᴅ ᴀ ᴅᴇᴀʀ ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅ ɢᴏɪɴɢ ᴛʜʀᴏᴜɢʜ ᴀ ᴛᴏᴜɢʜ sɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴ.

✅Fᴏᴄᴜs ᴏɴ Wʜᴀᴛ Yᴏᴜ Cᴀɴ Cᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ: Sʜɪꜰᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴀᴛᴛᴇɴᴛɪᴏɴ ᴀɴᴅ ᴇɴᴇʀɢʏ ᴛᴏᴡᴀʀᴅ ᴛʜᴇ ᴀsᴘᴇᴄᴛs ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ sɪᴛᴜᴀᴛɪᴏɴ ᴛʜᴀᴛ ʏᴏᴜ ᴄᴀɴ ᴄᴏɴᴛʀᴏʟ. Iᴛ ʜᴇʟᴘs ᴛᴏ ʙʀᴇᴀᴋ ᴛʜᴇ ᴘʀᴏʙʟᴇᴍ ɪɴᴛᴏ sᴍᴀʟʟᴇʀ, ᴍᴀɴᴀɢᴇᴀʙʟᴇ ᴘᴀʀᴛs ᴀɴᴅ ᴛᴀᴄᴋʟᴇ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴏɴᴇ sᴛᴇᴘ ᴀᴛ ᴀ ᴛɪᴍᴇ.

✅ Lᴇᴀʀɴ ꜰʀᴏᴍ Sᴇᴛʙᴀᴄᴋs: Iɴsᴛᴇᴀᴅ ᴏꜰ ᴠɪᴇᴡɪɴɢ sᴇᴛʙᴀᴄᴋs ᴀs ꜰᴀɪʟᴜʀᴇs, sᴇᴇ ᴛʜᴇᴍ ᴀs ʟᴇᴀʀɴɪɴɢ ᴏᴘᴘᴏʀᴛᴜɴɪᴛɪᴇs. Rᴇꜰʟᴇᴄᴛ ᴏɴ ᴡʜᴀᴛ ʜᴀᴘᴘᴇɴᴇᴅ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴅᴇɴᴛɪꜰʏ ʟᴇssᴏɴs ᴛʜᴀᴛ ᴄᴀɴ ʜᴇʟᴘ ʏᴏᴜ ɢʀᴏᴡ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴍᴘʀᴏᴠᴇ.

✅ Sᴇᴇᴋ Sᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ: Lᴇᴀɴ ᴏɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ sᴜᴘᴘᴏʀᴛ ɴᴇᴛᴡᴏʀᴋ – ꜰʀɪᴇɴᴅs, ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ, ᴏʀ ᴀ ᴘʀᴏꜰᴇssɪᴏɴᴀʟ ᴄᴏᴜɴsᴇʟᴏʀ. Tᴀʟᴋɪɴɢ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴇᴇʟɪɴɢs ᴀɴᴅ ᴇxᴘᴇʀɪᴇɴᴄᴇs ᴄᴀɴ ᴘʀᴏᴠɪᴅᴇ ᴘᴇʀsᴘᴇᴄᴛɪᴠᴇ ᴀɴᴅ ᴄᴏᴍꜰᴏʀᴛ.

✅ Sᴇᴛ Rᴇᴀʟɪsᴛɪᴄ Gᴏᴀʟs: Aꜰᴛᴇʀ ᴀ sᴇᴛʙᴀᴄᴋ, sᴇᴛ sᴍᴀʟʟ, ᴀᴄʜɪᴇᴠᴀʙʟᴇ ɢᴏᴀʟs ᴛᴏ ʀᴇɢᴀɪɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏᴍᴇɴᴛᴜᴍ. Cᴇʟᴇʙʀᴀᴛᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴘʀᴏɢʀᴇss, ɴᴏ ᴍᴀᴛᴛᴇʀ ʜᴏᴡ sᴍᴀʟʟ ɪᴛ ᴍᴀʏ sᴇᴇᴍ.

Nurture your mental resilience and it will grow stronger over time, which is great moving forward because life will always bring some disappointments our way.

Remember you’ve got what it takes to make it through any setback. And we are here to help, always.

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Functional fitness is a buzzword now in the health and fitness industry. Like most things though, in the health and fitness industry, they took a really good concept and they convoluted it and combined it with a bunch of unscientific and really dangerous activities. Functional fitness means you want to function at your best, but the activities they show you on the majority of these videos are stuff, and I’m seasoned, probably wouldn’t do one because it makes no sense. Two, because you’re that far away from just totally destroying your body. So stay tuned because I wanna talk about functional fitness, what that really means for you and your body, and how to do it properly. Greetings, I’m a Kim eo. I’m the owner of So Core Fitness, where we have a personalized online program. We also have in-house therapy and in-house training, both individual and in classes. And if you’re interested in working with me, then stay tuned toward the end of this video and checking description for opportunities to, uh, work with us.

So I’ve been in this field for almost 30 years and I’ve been in a, a so therapist and so trainer, which are degrees four and three year degrees underneath the osteopathic model. For the past almost 17, 18 years, there’s been some really great advancements in the health and fitness field, but unfortunately there’s been a lot more crazy making really stupid, unfulfilled stuff that’s come out. And it’s dangerous for you is use a layman, go out and wanna find information on things, and people are giving you at best partial information that doesn’t work at most dangerous information that doesn’t work for you. So I wanted to put out really good information on the best way to treat your body, which is a holistic method. So if you wanna hear more about holistic method, if you like what I’m saying, then go to that button down below, subscribe, click that bell to be notified, where I’ll put out videos about once a week. Functional of or having a special activity, purpose or task relating to the way in which something works or operates to be practical, practical and useful rather than attractive.

That’s gonna come back in a little bit that’s functional. And so functional fitness is you wanna function in your life. You want what you do in your life to be with the most ease, to be fluid, to be strong, to be mobile, you wanna just go through your life and feel good. And so people have taken this concept of functional fitness and they started with a good idea. Okay, well how could be people be functional? And when they first started, they started, okay, and we’ll talk about that in a little bit, but now it’s transpired into circus tricks. Holding a kettlebell, kneeling on a ball where you have a cable to the side, kissing your wife. That’s not an exaggeration. Or taking a, uh, a a bar, one hand snatch where you’re on one leg and you twirl around and rub your tummy. That’s a little exaggeration, but it’s not far from the truth.

That’s what you see in functional fitness. And for people looking for functional fitness who wanna function in their life, that is by far the worst thing you can do. It is dangerous, flat out dangerous if you wanna function in your life and you have to do things that make your life better. There are three basic functional training categories. Life, sport work. We’re gonna start with sport and work first. So if I want to be a really good runner, the functional training I need to do, because that’s gonna allow me to function better as a runner would be sports specific training. So in my training, I’m gonna go to a track or go outside and practice the different distances I need to do for running and the studio. I’m gonna work in the main muscles I need for running my quads, my hamsters, my caves, and I’m gonna train them in whatever range of motion I need relative to sprinter or long distance to become more functional, to become better at my running. At my work, I’m gonna try to become better at my work.

So let’s take, uh, construction people, right? If I wanna be a better painter and they come into my studio, okay, I’m gonna learn to train them how to be better in this movement. I’m not gonna train the whole body. I’m gonna do some complimentary exercises, but I’m mainly gonna work with the different ridge and motion with the elbow, the wrist, the shoulder, uh, all the spine, all that stuff, the neck to become a better painter. That’s functional, that’s functional for them because they wanna function better in their sport and life. The ironic thing though, with sport and life functional fitness training or sport specific training, you can say is it actually, it’s detrimental to the, to your life. So you become less functional in your life, the more sport and work training you do, because like I mentioned a second ago, when you do those, uh, workouts for sport and work, you’re detracting from other things you could be doing for your life to become more functional, but you don’t care.

Or in this case you don’t care because your goal is to win, to become a better job. That’s functioning for me, that that works for me. So for them, that’s functioning. They don’t care about the life part. For those of you who wanna be functioning in life, there’s two basic aspects that you wanna work with. The first will go basic. If I wanna be functional in my life, I need to be able to perform the seven primal movements properly. Those primal movements are walking, running, gait, squatting, bending, pushing or pulling, lunging or twisting. If I can become good at those movements, then I am going to function really well in my life. Because when you’re out of the studio, out of the gym in life, you do those same, those seven movements by themselves or or together all day long. You sit down in the toilet, you, you lunge to, to grab something, you bend to pick something over, you push something away, you grab something and pull it down.

All these are functional. So if you wanna be functional life, you need to get to the point where you can work on those. But that’s not where you start to be functional means my body knows how to process information and send it out into my body properly. That means I need to work my PIT muscles repair and imagine, think muscles. These are my deep muscles, namely transversospinalis. But my deep hips, my deep shoulders, all the muscles deep to your body because the signal from my brain to your body goes to the deep muscles first. Then I also need to train my DAM muscles. <laugh>, I mean do active move muscles, right? These are more the external muscles that everybody knows, biceps, triceps, quads, all that stuff. But for me to function with these, do active, move, move muscles, I need to have good information.

So to be functional before I train the seven primal movements before I train my quads and all that stuff, I wanna train my deep muscles. Because if I don’t have good information coming from my brain to my body and my body to my brain through these deep muscles that prepare, imagine thick muscles, I will never, never function properly. But you don’t see that in these, these workouts ’cause it’s hard for people to understand how to train them. It takes time to understand these muscles and to how to solicit them. Because all training is not the same. If I do a squat, it doesn’t mean I cover everything with my legs and my torso. If I do pushups, it doesn’t mean I’m doing everything with my arms. You need to be specific with the different things you do with your body to get a specific result.

Structure dictates function. Andrew Taylor still, I don’t know exactly when he said that, but he lived from the mid 18 hundreds to early 19 hundreds. So within that time, so a long time ago, that’s a very important phrase if we understand, if you try and be functional with functional fitness. But even before that, Leon da Vinci who did the vitruvian man, who my logo is based on centuries ago, knew about good body position, good body mechanics, and functioning well. So this is not, I know it’s a new fad, but this is not a new idea. Way back then they knew that if I work my body, then it functions, it best functions at its best. Excuse me. That’s what osteopathy what I’m involved in. It’s whole idea. If I can work with the structure, everything’s function properly. It’s not just how well I move. Sure, I wanna do seven primal movements, but I want my brain to function, my heart to function, my digestion, my elimination, uh, my hormones.

I want all that to function. And a big part of that is how, how well the structure of your body is built. It’s been called bio integrity recently bio integrity is a, uh, it’s taken from tensegrity, which is um, from BuckMeister Fuller, an architect. So we are tensegrity. But it’s bio, you know, ’cause we’re human and put together. So if I can balance my body, bio tensegrity, I dunno, that’s a word. functions at my, at my best. That’s true function. So what does biotensegrity? So quick in a nutshell, we got a bunch of bones, muscles, joints, visceral organs, all held together by fascia. You can say if we have one fascia that’s split into a thousand diff di, different directions that holds us in place. And it’s that dis distribution of force throughout our body that holds everything in place. A good example is that I’ve been taught, if I cut myself at L 3, my belly button,

Wow,

Sam just cut me <laugh>. I have no bones there to hold me up. I got L 4, L 5. So they’re sitting like that, but they’re not holding my whole body up. They’re not stacked upon each other. I don’t have a column, a real column in my body. I have a true spinal column with curves. So that’s not holding me up. So what’s holding me up? Well, it’s the tension and compression strength, mobility of my structure via fascia. So if I wanna really be functional, I wanna work with my fascia. I wanna work with my fascia, uh, to make sure it’s balanced through things. From my standpoint. Myofascia stretching ELDOA, uh, using therapies like pumping W T L S, all all things that respect the way the body designed bio tensegrity to be functional also means you understand what parts of your body need to be strong.

Again, we’re still talking about functioning life. What parts of your body need to be strong? So your body functions at its best. I’ll give one example. It’s called Pauwels balance. I’ll put the, uh, I’ll see if I can find a link and put in description and I’m sure I just had an edit right there too. So Pauwells balance says that if I’m standing on one leg, that this glute med, my hip muscle needs to be a certain strength to keep myself balanced. So I don’t do funny things like my hip pop out or my hip compacts or, uh, I fall forward. So I need to have a certain amount of strength to make sure that my hip is strong. So if I wanna be functionally strong, I need to train this hip muscle. And it’s three fibers because there’s three separate fibers, 1, 2, 3 separately. So that that hip can function properly so that hip can do its job and allow me to function properly.

That is functional fitness. Did you, did you dive in on a functional fitness training? Did you look up some YouTube videos or some crazy things in a magazine and try ’em. I’d love to know your experience, what you did. Just put ’em in the comments and let me know. So when you go through and train your body after deciding what type of function you wanna want, there’s some aspects that you can work on and you are fitness. You can get stronger, you can increase mobility, you can increase flexibility, you can increase strength. Uh, I say strength already. You can increase, increase, endurance, speed, balance, and a whole bunch of other extra things. But each one of these takes time. Just because I stand on one foot during exercise for a while doesn’t mean that my body’s gonna adapt to it. That session, it takes repeated time, time after time to tell the body what you wanna do.

It takes time, six months, 12 months to really integrate and aspect into your body. So if I wanted to become a long distance runner and I wanna train functionally to become more of an endurance runner, I should expect to train for years to finally become an endurance runner. I don’t go for a 5 K for a couple times a year and expect that I’ve totally increased my endurance. I’ve increased my endurance relative to what I already have, but I haven’t increased it relative to the function I need to become an endurance trainer. So each time you go to a workout, if you’re doing different types of training in one session, strength, mobility, flexibility, all that stuff, you’re actually getting none. You’re getting zero. You know, they talk about the master of all as a master of none. It’s the same thing. You can’t tell your body to do a bunch of things and have it adapt to each one perfectly each time.

Choose one. So when you’re going through, if you wanna be functional, start with first body structure. Is everything in place? Do I have a good plumb line? Do I have a good gravity line? Right? Then work from, do I have good flow through my body? Am I fascial tubes, uh, healthy and hydrated and floating around? Is my visceral working properly? Am I functioning properly in my body? Okay, great, you got that done. Now are, do I have proper muscle solicitation? Do I have enough workers in my body in all the different segments of my muscles to perform functional movements? Okay, now do I have good neuromuscular education to teach those muscles? To do what? To do? Okay, good. Now I can go on to strength. I’ll take about three months to work on strength, then I work on mobility. You can increase different aspects only through time, under tension, time, time doing right, consistency.

Don’t think because you kneel on something and you do a press right here that I’m getting balance and strength and mobility at once. THats BS, you’re performing an act and if you want perform an act like you wanna get good at that, act, great. Have at it. But don’t think that you’re increasing the different functional components of your body. To recap, you, you need to decide what it means to be functional in your life. What are the activities you perform? Mainly if you’re just looking for health and longevity and a good life, then focus on working up to those seven problem movements. But work up to ’em. Make sure you have a good structure first. Your body’s bounced. Take some time to do that. Then work up to, you know, working. Make sure that your, the flow of your body’s good. Work up to that.

Then to solicit the muscles you need, work up to that. Then start to work on the different functional movements. Work up to that a year. Think about a year. This is for life though. Fitness is for life, right? So if you, if you view fitness for life, then a year is nothing, right? And then once you accomplish that functional basic training, the functional foundation, you’ll keep it relative for the rest of your life as long as you stay active and come back to it every once in a while. So give yourself some time, each time to accomplish each one. Decide what you want and give yourself some time. If you want more information on help, how to do this, then I have some resources for you. So first and foremost, if you’d like to learn by doing, by interacting, then I have a free Facebook group.

And so Core Fitness, my business, uh, strength, mobility and flexibility for active people, it’s all about how to take this holistic type training and help it increase your life and different aspects you need in a safe, holistic, sustainable way. If you don’t want to participate, you’re not into Facebook, whatever the case may be, then have a a, a free ebook. It’s how to move better, get outta pain and live the life you want. Again, same idea, a bunch of information and how to holistically adjust your body so that you live your best life and your body can keep up with the life you wanna live. But if you’re ready to go, if you’re ready to start working, if you wanna work with me, then just reach out for free. Consultation free. There’s no obligation. We’ll sit down and we’ll talk first, we’ll talk about where you are, what you want, your challenges, and even if you don’t work with me, I’ll give you valuable information to move yourself forward once we find how you wanna move forward. If that includes working with me, then I’ll offer you a spot in our online program or if you’re in Santa Fe or in-house program. But I hope this is beneficial. Please use one of those resources. All the information’s down in the, um, description and thanks for watching. I appreciate it.

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Do you believe it?

Does it hold you back from getting what you want?

It would be nice if we all told ourselves only positive self-affirmations about how powerful, kind, loving and smart we are.

But too often, it’s the opposite. We tell ourselves the most awful insults – hurtful comments we would never lob at a friend.

We all do it. We all tell ourselves limiting self-beliefs. And they’re all such nonsense.

Whenever you hear one, stop it dead in its tracks. Replace it with something positive and helpful about yourself – the kind of thing you WOULD tell a distraught friend.

Remember that promotion you got…

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So Peloton has gone downhill. As everybody knows or most people know, Peloton is a bike and treadmill company where you can purchase a bike, you can purchase a treadmill, and they have subscription services to some basic workouts that you can do most anywhere.

They got really popular during the pandemic because everybody had to stay at home and they just caught fire. They had the right marketing, the right messaging, everything shut down. Boom, it blew up. Everybody went out and got a bike, but now everybody’s selling their bikes and canceling memberships. Now there’s a lot of business reasons why. I’m not going to go into that. I want to talk about the exercise reason why people are selling their Peloton bikes and getting rid of their memberships.

If this is your first time watching one of my videos and we haven’t met yet, greetings, my name is Ekemba Sooh. I’m the owner of SolCore Fitness. It’s a therapy and fitness company where we offer online services and also in-house services, and I’ve been in this field for I think almost 30 years now, and I’ve been a Soma trainer and Soma therapist, which is under the osteopathic medical discipline for, I don’t know, 17, 18, 19, 20 years, something like that. I don’t remember exactly, but I’ve seen a lot in my time.

And so I had to go through and talk about topics I find interesting relative to health and fitness. I believe in a holistic fitness model. You can even say holistic health and fitness model because that’s how we’re designed, so it’s best that we find out how best to train our bodies in this grand design. So stay tuned for more videos and if you like them, please give me a thumbs up, share them with your friends and subscribe.

I find it’s good to look at the original intention of something as to where it would fit into my life. So I’ve dedicated myself to being in this osteopathic model to be a therapist, to be a trainer because the initial goal way back in the day with Andrew Taylor Still was to balance the body so it functioned its best. The thought process is the body can heal itself, which it can, so if I put it in the most advantageous position, it’ll heal itself. It’ll work in terms of movement and thinking and internal organs. It’ll work its best if the body’s balanced.

So every stretch, exercise, therapy, routine, whatever it is, that’s the goal, right? So I can get behind that goal because that’s what I believe in. Peloton’s goal from John Foley back in around January 2012, his main goal was to not have to drive to the gym and to be able to work out at home. Totally admirable. You don’t need to go to a gym. You can see here in my studio, it’s not fancy, it’s basic. Look, I got basic stuff here. I’m sorry if it’s a little rocky.

It’s about 2,500 square feet and then I got a studio room back there. In my humble opinion, I don’t think you need any more than that. So if you can sit something in your home, in your garage or wherever your living room that’s similar for just you, sure, why not? I mean, in my online program, you don’t even need that. You need enough space that your body can move and not touch anything. Maybe a mat, maybe some lightweights, and you can totally work your body if you know how to train the way its designed.

But his second motivation was that he didn’t like the time driving from home to the gym. He didn’t like driving because his motivation waned from the time, from driving from home to gym. That I have a problem with. I respect the fact that your motivation is waning going from home to gym, but that means that just shows you that motivation is fleeting. A goal is what you need to be motivated to work out, not for some external source to motivate you.

So when he developed Peloton, that’s his main goal. I want to work out at home and I want to be entertained. I want somebody else or that class, whatever to motivate me to keep moving. We all need support, but I think internal motivation, internal motivation, internal goal setting I should say is a much more sustainable way to approach health and fitness than having an instructor do what they do to motivate you to keep going.

So because their motivation was to one, work at home and two to feel motivated still to work at home, that’s how they design their product. So after you buy the bike or the treadmill, they have a membership subscription which you join. It’s like $40 bucks, $30 bucks, I don’t know exactly. I haven’t done this. I’m going to be truthfully honest. I haven’t used Peloton’s classes. I don’t need to. I kind of know what’s already in there. It’s the basic stuff that’ve been doing for decades now, just in the format of Peloton.

But when they designed it said, “Okay, how do we motivate people? Let’s get some really high energy instructors to keep us motivated. Let’s play this awesome music to keep us motivated.” Both totally fine things. You want to listen to good music, go for it. You want to feel that high energy, go for it, but it doesn’t make a whole program. Then they also did things like on a screen you’re running through the beach or through the mountains on the screen as a way to motivate you.

Okay, I get that. You want to have different forms of stimulus. Again, all these forms of stimulus are outside of you, they’re not within you. So this is the first problem, and I already alluded to it, is that to be successful, you can’t have external motivation. You can have internal motivation as a goal, and then if that goal encompasses using a bike or treadmill, whatever the case may be, great, but you’re not waiting for somebody to do it for you. You’re seeking out and doing it for yourself.

Working out can give you a lot of different benefits and you can have a lot of different goals in relation to working out. Your body can do a lot of different things, and if the body is improved by training it, exercising it, then you can extrapolate that and say, okay, there’s a lot of different ways to train the body to get a total holistic total body workout.

When you look at Peloton, if you’re looking from just an exercise standpoint, you’re kind of getting mainly one aspect, cardio, different forms of cardio, steady state, more long endurance cardio and some high intensity or they call it HIIT workout, but basically cardio and the workouts aren’t progressive, so it’s just cardio.

Yes, they may throw in some weight, but it stays generally a circuit format, which for the most part is still cardio. Either long form or HIIT, so you’re getting cardio. While there’s ways to train your body for strength, endurance, functional strength, maximal strength, there’s a bunch of different ways, different levels for your heart rate to move up and down, peloton is not addressing very much those, addressing a couple.

So if you’re not getting total body workout intrinsically in your body, you’re going to know. It’s going to come out in you as probably boredom. You’re bored of the workout. I would be completely bored if I did those workouts too. If I did traditional workouts like Peloton or just went to the gym and did what traditional people did back when I did when I first started, I would get bored. I would get bored because it’s not integrated enough. There’s nothing to really work on. It’s just me moving around randomly and okay, like a check mark. It’s like a participation trophy.

If you want to feel good about just participating and just moving, then this is for you. There’s no judgment whatsoever. If your main goal is just to move and this allows you just to move, you don’t care about much other else, okay, go for it. That doesn’t work for me. It doesn’t work for a lot of other people. You have people like myself who want more out of exercise.

They want to use it as a tool to a better life, and you have people who are just getting into working out and dipping their toe in. Well, to throw them into a Peloton thing could be a little too much. In fact, physiologically, it is way too much, and now maybe you scare them off. So you have to understand the different facets that you can do from training and understand that Peloton gives you one-ish, let’s say maybe two, but it’s not a lot.

A third exercise reason why Peloton is going downhill and people aren’t using anymore is because it’s not specific to what you need in your body. Again, kind of like what I just talked about a second ago, you don’t have the depth of knowledge, I’m assuming to understand what your body needs, but you’ll kind of feel it. If your body’s not being challenged, getting different things that it needs, you’re not going to feel as good. You’re also not going to have as much drive to continue to work on what you need to work on.

Just because you’re using the body part doesn’t mean you’re giving the body part what it needs. In fact, by using that body part, you need to give it more what it needs. I’ll explain a little bit more. So in Peloton, I’m sitting down, I’m biking or I’m on a treadmill, walking, running. I’m mainly using my legs. That doesn’t mean I’m training my legs. I’m training myself in biking and treadmill by using my legs.

If I wanted to train my legs, training meaning I’m exercising it or stretching it or giving it therapy to make it better somehow, then you need to do a specific program for whatever you need for your legs, and if I use my legs more by biking and treadmill and Peloton, that means I’m going to need more type of work to work on my legs because when I use something, I degraded a bit.

I use it in one way so I can get overuse injuries or I can get imbalances of the body. So I want to train my legs to not be so overused, to be more balanced and neutral to train the other aspects that don’t get trained because if it’s basically one plane of motion, one type of activity, I want to be more specific.

So when you’re going through your program, you want to make sure like, “Okay, what is it that I need for my body? What is it do I want?” Just saying you want to get fit is not enough. That’s what leads to just doing things like jumping on a bandwagon on Peloton or they got SoulCycle now or the bungee workout. I mean, there’s so many different, they’re call popular, right? Popular workouts you can jump into, but they’re not going to give what you want. They’re just going to entertain you.

I’ve even heard it called “exertainment”. I not for that at all, but if that’s what you want, go for it. But if you’re looking for a full routine, you need to go through your body and go, “Okay, this is why I need to go move better.” That’s what’s going to motivate you, seeing results, working on something, getting better, incorporating into your body. The goal is not just to move and to do different things for your body. The goal in life is to decrease you as a human being. It means going through challenges, realizing you’re more than what you are, which means putting yourself into a program that challenges yourself to become more than who you are.

Did you jump onto the Peloton craze? So when everything’s shut down, did you go out and buy a Peloton bike and were all in, but now you want to sell it and stop your membership? I’d love to know why. Just put it in the comments.

Through the eyes of an exercise program. Let’s go do a quick recap on why Peloton is now being, now it’s going downhill. Why people are selling their bikes and getting rid of their membership. First is the motivation component. People are relying on external motivation from the music, from their classes to motivate them to keep working. That only lasts so long. Eventually your motivation needs to come from goals. Your goals need to come from what is it you want in your life and then what you want in your life comes out in what type of exercises, health activities you do in your life, not by somebody else yelling at you or playing some music that you like to keep you going.

The second is that basically Peloton is a bike and treadmill with a little bit of working out. That’s been around for a long time. A bike and treadmill will give you what a bike and treadmill will basically give you, which is basically endurance. That’s not a whole program. There’s a lot of things you can get through exercise. It’s one will be nice, say maybe two aspects, so people are going to realize that and start to get bored in their workouts because it’s the same thing over and over again, but again goes back to goal setting because they don’t have a goal.

The third is it’s not specific to you. We’re all individual people. Yes, we have the same basic framework, but how our body responds and what it needs for exercise is different for each person. That requires you to want to have goals and do a deep dive into what is it my body needs? Why do you want to be strong? Why do you want to have endurance? Why do you want to balance your body? Why do you want to correct injuries? Why do you want to prevent? Why, why, why, why, why, why? Keep asking why, and then start to dive in deeper as to what you need.

The surface layer of things you see with exercise is just that surface layer. It’s just there to, sorry to say it, but basically make money. If they can get you in, if they can get you pain, if they can keep you “exertained”, they’re going to keep spending money with them, but that for you, that’s not good. This is why we have such a high rate of injuries and people with back pain because they’re only doing these things to get these superficial aspects of working out and not diving deeper. Look, if you want a bike, go bike, but Peloton average, it’s $2,000 plus you have to do the membership. That’s an S load of money. I would never pay that.

The bike you saw me at the beginning was an Airdyne. That’s about a thousand dollars and it doesn’t have all those fancy gadgets. I have a basic thing I put my music on and I go. In the example of my studio, you saw I had an elliptical trainer. I have some weights, but I go outside. I run, walk, hike, I bike outside. You don’t need a screen to show you what it’s like to bike outside. Buy a bike and go outside.

You can buy a bike for let’s say $1,500 bucks. You can get those low stands you can put in your house to put your bike on, and now with two purchases, you have an indoor and outdoor bike for much less. Your motivation is going to be because you want to do it for cardio and you want to use that. You can buy very minimal equipment to keep yourself going. In fact, you don’t need equipment like I said before, but it’s going to come down to your goals and what you want.

After hearing this if you’re kind of getting a paying deep inside, something’s resonated with you and you like the information I’ve talked about, till you want to find out more than I’ve got a great resource for you. It’s an interactive resource to have a free Facebook group. It’s SolCore Fitness – Strength, Mobility and Flexibility for Active People.

The idea here is that you’re active already and you’re tired of just doing random acts of movement, like jumping on Peloton or whatever craze is happening. You know that exercise can do more for you and you want more from yourself. Well, in this group, we interact, we talk about stuff like that, so I choose topics and I do mini trainings. Quick little one to two minute videos that you can watch and comment on.

I interact with members when they asks questions. We do masterclasses where I take topics and really delve into it and interact with you as I give a presentation. And then we also do challenges, which is for three to five days. We pick a topic, we talk about the topic, I give you the reason why, and then we actually go through and show you stretches, exercises, and routines relative to that topic. This will start to give you a really good idea of how to holistically train your body, which is the way the body wants to be trained, and then you can start to feel the improvements your body’s making.

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