My dad lived his life and enjoyed it.  He took trips, and engaged in his passion for hiking and the wilderness – but he was always putting off his big trips “Till I retire”  and working like mad to make sure he had enough money to do all these exciting things “When I retire”.  Then in 2000, just a few years from retirement,  he was diagnosed with Lung Cancer and given 3 months or so to live.  He was super stubborn and underwent surgery and chemo and fought cancer long enough to do a few of the trips he wanted to – but not in the way he imagined.

Watching this happen to my dad changed my life forever.  You could die or get injured at any moment with no notice no matter how safe and healthy you are – make sure your life counted.  I’ve never heard of anyone saying “I wish I didn’t go on so many trips,” or “I wish I didn’t spend so much time with my family,” or “I really regret not working more hours every week” on their deathbed.

Focus on what you love to do – and what you want out of life.  Ask yourself why it is that you want more money, or a better job, or that fancy car?  is that thing the end, or just a means to the end you envision for yourself?  I know a lot of people want more money, so they work extra hours, and miss out on time with their family – but if you ask them why they want more money they’ll say so they can be financially independent and spend more time with their family…

It’s not that working hard and making sacrifices and decisions isn’t important – I’m just saying make sure you understand why you’re making those decisions and that if you died tomorrow you wouldn’t regret them.

Supporting other fitness professionals is an amazingly rewarding task and I absolutely love helping coaches and trainers exceed their business goals. I would love to help you develop your warehouse gym from a hobby into a thriving fitness business, through innovative marketing, branding, website, and software solutions as well as one on one and group CrossFit Affiliate business coaching. I’ve been a CrossFit affiliate for a long time – you can benefit from my experience and avoid my mistakes and achieve your business and lifestyle goals.

Some people don’t want to spend years in the trenches working their butts off for almost no money as they learn the tricks and tips that make the difference between an average warehouse gym and an abundantly successful one.  They want a little more guidance and coaching as they strive to make their affiliate as successful as possible in a short period of time. They want to learn from others mistakes rather than recreating them.

If that sounds like you – send me an email (adam@adammorden.com) and we can arrange a free strategy call to discuss your business and how I can help you become even more successful!  No pressure, no pitching – just a chance for the 2 of us to talk about your business and help you get to the next level.

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But really, when it comes right down to it – how much is your health worth?  and how much do you spend every week on unhealthy “nutrition” (Drinking and partying, eating junk food, etc)  And if you really want to cut down your costs, go vegetarian -  a whole foods based, completely balanced, organic vegetarian or vegan diet costs a fraction of a healthy meat eating diet.  Another way to save costs for quality food is buying direct from a farm or joining a CSA (Community Shared Agriculture).  Why? Statistics from the Canadian Federation of Agriculture show retail prices have skyrocketed in the county in the past decade, but the prices farmers charge have remained relatively the same.

Key points to track are:

Under each of those headings include as much information as possible, for example under “Meal” include all ingredients, how it was prepared, amounts of ingredients if known, what you drank with the meal, etc.  For the “Feeling before”, and “Feeling after” headings I want to know both if you are hungry, or full, bloated or lean, happy or sad, and any other feelings you are experiencing before or after eating respectively.  “Energy level” would be a 1 – 10 scale with 1 being you are unable to rouse yourself and only want to lay in bed, and 10 being so full of energy you could run several marathons back to back and just don’t want to stop moving.  “Sleep” refers to both the quality of your sleep the previous evening, as well as the quantity.  I would also like to know if your sleep was interrupted, or if you had an easy or difficult time going to sleep.

In addition to the above information (which is a lot I know), I would also like to know about any current or past health concerns as these can be effected by or affect your nutrition.

Tracking serves two main purposes.  First, the simple act of being cognizant of what we are eating often has a positive effect on what we eat.  Second, when a person tracks all these variables, patterns tend to emerge, and these patterns will help you tailor your nutritional strategies to find what is optimal for you.  As much as I would like it to be the case, Nutrition is not a one size fits all prescription.  There are so many individual variations that in order to be optimally effective nutritional programs should be customized.

Juicing is a great way to extract the majority of vitamins, minerals, and raw enzymes from produce and making them extremely digestible.  This however poses a problem.  Because juicing removes the majority of fiber and increases the speed at which the nutrients from the food reach your blood stream,  Juicing produce tends (not in all but in many cases) to dramatically increase the insulin spiking activity of the produce that is being juiced, and one of the major issues I’ve see with the the hundreds of vegetarian and vegan athletes I have had the opportunity to work with is a lack of insulin stability (they tend to have high then low insulin responses all day fluctuating extremely quickly, which is far from optimal for both performance and health).

Bending on the other hand does not result in as extreme a change in the insulin producing ability of produce.

I have found far more success, both personally and professionally as a strength and conditioning coach, from eating my food as opposed to drinking it.

If this sounds like you or someone you know I have 2 really simple pieces of advice: First, DO NOT drop out – it’s a huge hassle and will cause you all kinds of headaches later on.  Instead, go write your GED test.  If you think high school is too easy and you could be doing and learning better things – go write the test.  If you pass you’re done, if you fail you need to stay in school and learn the basics because even if you think you know them – you obviously don’t.  Second, keep learning.  if you get your GED early apply for university or another form of continuing education.  While I hated high school I really enjoyed university – the ability to select your own path of study, and really delve into specific subjects makes it far more interesting.

I can’t stress it enough that lifelong learning is the only true path to success – the second you stop improving yourself, you build a wall in front of you that will prevent you from achieving what you are capable of.  Learning doesn’t have to mean school, it can if that’s how you like to learn, it also includes on the job training, reading books (I try to read at least 1 a week), taking courses, even trial and error.  You can’t fail if you never quit and you take any setback as an opportunity to learn from your mistakes and improve for next time.