America should open up your eyes! The medical industry is a business! There is no health care, there is only sick care. They are setting our children up with vaccinations which will eventually lead to medications. Were than led to believe that gerber and soy formula are better than mother’s milk. After this were exposed to the cereal and grain companies and the “Low Fat” dogma. This is all a well devised plan to keep our families sick and become a life-long customer to the Drug Industry. There is only one incentive for any company to survive and that’s increasing profits not only for themselves but there share holders… What would happen if people actually got healthy? Do “They” really want you healthy? Seriously. Do you realize how many Billions of dollars in lost profits/lost jobs there would be if “they” found a CURE for heart disease? What about Breast Cancer? How much more money do we need for cancer research? It’s called prevention! How about lowering your intake of sugar? Lowering your grain intake? Lowering intake of Processed Foods/Fast foods? What about increasing vegetable intake? Water? Exercise? Stress Management? Better quality sleep? Every one of the things I mentioned will not only lower your risk for Heart Disease and Breast Cancer but all degenerative diseases… How many of the above things does your doctor speak to you about? Why not? Because there isn’t any profit in it? The medical industry is trained by the Pharma Companies to mask symptoms, not to actually take care of the problem. There is no money in curing anything. Ask your doctor how much training he/she had on nutrition? What about Preventative Medicine?

I don’t mean to sound like such a conspiracy theorist but we can’t just go around like sheep following what the government and your friend down the street is telling you. Question everything and don’t take anything for face value!

20 Things that drive me crazy! (in no particular order)

1. Crunches are a waste of time (abs are made in the kitchen!).
2. There is no muscle stimulator you can place on your stomach that gives you a six pack.
3. Milk (comercial)won’t make you skinny or make your bones stronger for that matter…
4. Cereal for breakfast is NOT the breakfast of champions
5. Those Brazilian weight loss pills are going to kill someone.
6. Infomercials are scams but damn that Tony Little guy is a rich man…
7. Aerobics doesn’t work but cardio sure does?
8. If you only have time for cardio or weights always choose WEIGHTS!
9. WHOLE Eggs are excellent for you! The yolk is where the nutrients are found.
10. Sweat and exhaustion doesn’t equate to fat loss (I hate SPINNING!)
11. Soy makes you fat!
12. Get off the elliptical machine! Unless you’ve recently had knee surgery. It’s too darn easy!
13. No ladies, for the 100th time, heavy weights won’t make you bulky.
14. No training program in the world can make up for a crappy diet…
15. Vegetarians
16. People doing the same thing and expecting different results
17. Un-educated personal trainers
18. Marathons! Why would you want to: run in a straight line for 26.2 miles? Eat your own muscle? Supress your immune system? Get Feet, knee, hip and low back pathologie(s)?
19. Aerobics Classes
20. People who eat Carbs without a Protein! How can you eat spaghetti by itself?
*Bonus* 21. People doing the same thing and expecting different results ( for god sakes stop reading about Brittney Spears on the Elliptical maching!!!)

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There’s no pink dumbbells and Bosu balls here! No jumping around dancing and doing endless amounts of crunches in this class… We get work done performing un-orthodox movements(movement being the key word) that tax the whole body. We move in a circuit fashion swinging and hitting sledge hammers on tractor tires, pulling sleds and pushing wheel barrels and instead of the “typical” boring, over done crunches from every imaginable angle and position, we do REAL “CORE” training like pushing a truck down the alley.

Aside from the fact that this type of training is fun, fresh and different it flat right out burns a ton of calories! People have been doing the same old thing for too long. Nothing works forever! How many more crunches and aerobic classes do you have to do to finally get some results? Lets not forget the definition of insanity; To continue to do the same thing and expect different results. I’ve gotten extraordinary results with these type of workouts simply because it’s something completely new that your body has never seen. A great quote puts it all in perspective,” The best training routine you can be on is the one that you’re not on.”

I’m tired of seeing people on treadmills reading magazines! I’m tired of people riding bikes talking on there cell phones. I’m tired of seeing the same people lifting the same pink dumbbells that they were lifting last year! I’m going to tell you a little secret… Would you like to know why there are so many over-weight and unhealthy individuals in our country? Aside from the fact that people live off of box foods, don’t eat breakfast, work too much, don’t sleep enough and obviously don’t move enough. People want results and don’t want to do anything for it! It’s not easy… If it was easy than everyone would look like Jennifer Lopez and Brad Pitt.

The secret is INTENSITY. We have to work harder, not longer. If longer worked than you wouldn’t see fat marathon runners, but there are. If easy worked than riding on that bike while talking to your girlfriend would work but it doesn’t. Has that abs class worked for you yet? Look, what I’m getting at here is that simple and easy are not the same. Easy implies no effort. Simple means not complicated. Achieving total health and lower body fat levels is simple, but it’s far from easy.

Here’s a Couple of Things I know for sure…

Crunches are a waste of time(abs are made in the kitchen!). There is no muscle stimulator you can place on your abs that gives you a six pack. Milk won’t make you skinny. Cheerios is not a good breakfast and lastly I’m sure that those Brazilian weight loss pills are eventually going to kill someone. On the bright side there a couple of things that are proven to work for long-term fat loss: HARD WORK, EAT, SLEEP and REPEAT!

written by: Matt Pack
Impack Total Fitness

First of all I am by no means trying to change you. I am honestly not trying to help you at all and want you to stay exactly as you are. In fact I would rather you don’t even read anymore after this sentence. Put in the trash can! You are my competition and I think I forgot that when I decided to write this. So that being said, if you think I’m an asshole or I’m full of shit after reading this it’s fine with me. You know I hope you do, and everything I’ve said goes in one ear and out the other. That’s just more money for me! So if you’re happy where your at than disregard everything in this email but if your broke and don’t know why than I suggest you listen up, I didn’t mean that.

Look there is allot of things I don’t believe in like: Cow’s milk( low fat, 2%) it’s all nasty, high rep abdominal training, too much aerobics, spinning, low fat diets and The Loch Ness but something I do passionately believe in is continuing education. I use continuing education not only to learn new, faster, efficient and effective ways to get results but more often to find out what I’m doing may be a waste of time or even worse flat out WRONG.

I do come down hard on trainers in the industry who are either too lazy or too egotistical to pursue higher knowledge daily as a means of becoming the best professional they can be. I’m not saying that you have to start throwing kettlebells around or push trucks around the block. I’m saying that exercise science is just that, a science. You can’t get around that. The Science changes all the time and you have to stay up on that! I also don’t believe you can get the “science” off the magazine shelf or even your certification study guides. You have to search for it either on the internet, certs, workshops, seminars, school or finding a credible mentor in the industry who you relate to who gets RESULTS. I loved a quote by Charles Poliquin that said, ” don’t be surprised if you hear or read something I’ve said in the past that I don’t do or believe in anymore, I either did away with it because it didn’t work anymore or I found a better way of doing it.”

I’m sorry but I am constantly looking for a better faster way to get my clients results. The faster they get them the better I look. Hey and guess what? What worked for Jane may not work for Sally and the same goes for Tom and Jerry. Increasing your knowledge will increase the size of your “toolbox”. This will give you anything you need to deal with any client(geriatric, athlete, pre/post natal, adolescents or weekend warrior)you encounter. Knowledge makes you more marketable. Marketability makes you more money. In this industry if you’re not staying up on Nutrition, Strength and conditioning, Pre-hab/Re-hab, Stress management and Recovery methods you’re missing the boat and probably won’t last. To have a grasp of these things are imperative not only to the health of are clients but the results of them as well.

Come on people! It’s embarrassing! This profession is a joke! Anybody can do what we do. Go online and get that Certification. You don’t need a degree. There’s no regulation on the industry all you need is that weekend cert or be a bodybuilder to be considered an authority. I for one am embarrassed to call myself a personal trainer and as a matter of fact feel belittled and disgraced when put in the same sentence. Call me whatever you man but don’t call me a personal trainer.

I guess what I’m saying is if this is you’re profession and livelihood and you want to be successful in this industry and you want to help people at the same time you have to increase your knowledge. Get your CEC’s, read a book a month, travel to an internship once a year, attend a seminar. I’ve read that if you read an hour a day on a specific subject for 3 years you can be considered an expert in your field. So what do want to be? An expert or just another personal trainer with that weekend certification?