Faithful Fitness With Coach Alex VanHouten

Let’s create sustainable changes that will stick with you so that next year, 2021, you’re getting to grow further instead of spinning your wheels or backsliding.

In this episode, we’ll cover the differences between short term and long term body composition change. Are you losing fat to “show well” in the next couple of weeks?

Or are you trying to decrease body fat in a way that will keep it off for good?

An important thing to decide because you may be wanting both in 2020 — but the methods we use to achieve both are DIFFERENT.

In Part 4 we’ll dive into epigenetics and why unlocking your hidden genetic potential is worth aiming for in your pursuit of a better version of you in 2020!

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The gyms are about to get very crowded all over the world…because of the new year!

What’s sad is that most of the newcomers will stop coming by the end of February.

Why is that?

The health and fitness world is filled with 4 week FADS ; 8 week programs ; and the short term research to back up these spurts of well-meaning exercise and nutrition change.

But around here, we know that nothing worth changing about you is short-term.

In fact, that’s not how biology works, anyway.

Anything short-term is a waste of time in the big scheme of things.

Let’s take a different view of exercise, nutrition and lifestyle change in 2020.

Let’s create sustainable changes that will stick with you so that next year, 2021, you’re getting to grow further instead of spinning your wheels or backsliding.

In this episode, we’ll cover how to make the phases of training work WITH you in different seasons of your life.

And in Part 3 we’ll dive into long term vs. short term body composition change and strategies that bring those about!

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The gyms are about to get very crowded all over the world…because of the new year!

What’s sad is that most of the newcomers will stop coming by the end of February.

Why is that?

The health and fitness world is filled with 4 week FADS ; 8 week programs ; and the short term research to back up these spurts of well-meaning exercise and nutrition change.

But around here, we know that nothing worth changing about you is short-term.

In fact, that’s not how biology works, anyway.

Anything short-term is a waste of time in the big scheme of things.

Let’s take a different view of exercise, nutrition and lifestyle change in 2020.

Let’s create sustainable changes that will stick with you so that next year, 2021, you’re getting to grow further instead of spinning your wheels or backsliding.

In this episode, we’ll cover how to set an inspiring, long-term goal this year and what to expect when you pursue that goal!

And in Part 2 we’ll lay out the program phases over the year to help you get there!

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Do you see yourself as the CEO of your own health and fitness?

Well, like it or not, YOU ARE.

In this talk with Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum Coach Alex gets a chance to pick the brain of over 50 years of psychological and functional medicine experience with regard to a positive relationship with food -- the tenants of positive psychology -- and the future of the healthcare industry in HEALTH COACHING.

About our Guest -
Dr. Sandra Scheinbaum is passionate about transforming healthcare by training health coaches to help people become CEOs of their own health. She spent nearly five decades making healthcare and education more holistic and innovative. With a Ph.D. in clinical psychology, Sandi specialized in positive psychology, cognitive behavioral therapy, and mind-body medicine, and served as a teacher and the director of a clinic for Attention Deficit Disorders (ADD). She is a pioneer in her fields, having implemented programs such as the use of neurofeedback with patients and becoming the first-ever psychologist to earn certification through The Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM).
Dr. Scheinbaum founded the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy in collaboration with The Institute for Functional Medicine. A clinical psychologist for over 35 years, she is an expert in positive psychology and mind-body medicine.

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Positive Psychology Signature Strengths Test:
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The Gain Train meets The Love Boat in this episode!

In honor of No Shave November (Prostate Cancer awareness month!) jump into the conversation that Men want to (need to) hear but don't ask.

About Our Guest: Dr. Judson Brandeis
Dr. Judson Brandeis is a Board-Certified Urologist with expertise in Sexual Medicine for Men. He is the Director of Clinical Excellence for GAINSWave and created their online Male Sexual Medicine Curriculum. Dr. Brandeis is also the Lead Instructor for the in-person Male Sexual Medicine course which includes GAINSWave Shockwave Therapy and PRP injections. BrandeisMD, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, specializes in GAINSWave for ED and Peyronie’s Disease, Penile Augmentation and other medical and surgical procedures that improve sexual function.
Dr. Brandeis has appeared on The Doctors show as well as Podcasts/Webcasts including Ben Greenfield, Michael Ruscio, Susan Bratton, Emily Morse and Dr. Drew. He has presented his original research on GAINSWave Shockwave Therapy combined with AFFIRM Nitric Oxide Booster at the Sexual Medicine Society of North America meeting in 2018 and 2019. He recently released a second supplement called PreLONG for Premature Ejaculation.
Dr. Brandeis completed his Surgical and Urology Residency at UCLA. He is an innovator and pioneered the use of the DaVinci Surgical Robot, Greenlight Laser for Prostate Surgery and MRIs to diagnose prostate cancer. As a General Urologist, SF Magazine (Castle-Conolly) voted him a Top Urologist in the SF Bay Area 2012 and from 2014-2019. He has been Chief of Urology at John Muir Hospital and Hill Physicians for the past eight years. Recently he transitioned from his general urology practice to focus entirely on Sexual Medicine for Men. He has an upscale practice in San Ramon, CA.
Dr. Brandeis has created the SWEET (Shock Wave Erectile Enhancement Trial) Study coordinating over 40 physicians around North America who provide data for him on patients undergoing Shock Wave Therapy. In addition, he is working on the SWAP Study (Shock Wave and Peyronie’s) utilizing his special Peyronie’s disease protocol. Most recently he has IRB approval for P-Long, a non-invasive penile elongation study.

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What is your HELL?

It's the place you don't want to go. It's everything bad and nothing good.

And in the health and fitness world its the reality that COULD manifest - that WILL manifest - for you in the relatively near future if you let your bad nutrition, lifestyle, and exercise habits get the better of you.

My clients who've powerfully changed their lives through great training programs all had one thing in common -- they knew what their HELL looked like and were sufficiently motivated to stay as far from that HELL as possible.

In psychology this is called RISK AVERSION and today we're going to talk about making it work for you to get better results in 2020.

In my 14 years of personal training I've helped thousands of people change their lives. Some changes were small. And some changes were earth-shattering, paradigm-shifting, and fate-transforming. In short - they extended beyond proper push-ups and calorie-burning workouts.

My coaching transforms lives.

Regardless of the result - increased fat loss, optimized health, or improved performance - this structure has been the underlying methodology for the transformations.

Exercise, nutrition, and lifestyle change grounded in physiology, biology, and psychology!

If you're looking for some magical 8 week program to give you 6 pack abs. This isn't it.

But if you're looking for a way to guide your body, your mind, and your intention into a long-term sustainable pattern of betterment and well-being by getting your body to work for you rather than against you, then I'm the guy for you.

I invite you to give Defining Dad Bod's method a shot.

(Ladies welcome! YOU have "Bods" TOO!)

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In case one would mistake my running with a shirt off as vain or arrogant…

The sun on my skin, the wind whipping around my body – the fire of the eyes of God…breath from his nostrils.

In the heat of the summer with sweat dripping on the pavement every step…one foot in front of the other – forward into the heavy, stifling haze – humid and thick.

I bear my cross forward for all to see.

They don’t see the weight on my shoulders, but I know it’s there.

Let them who have ears to hear, hear the message well.

I woke up this morning and accepted my daily bread with grace. I forgave the ills against me and hope to also be forgiven.

The pain is great but my soul is greater.

Let not my will, but yours be done.

And today I choose to carry my cross.

I stoop with worn hands and stiff back…wrap my arms around the beam…and remember what I am fighting for.

A great heave and it is, once again, upon my shoulder – rough, splintery – rubbing callous into my neck and back.

This is my burden – and I choose to bear it well.

I set my sights upon the hill in front of me and move. One foot in front of the other.

The way is narrow and difficult. My lungs burn. My joints ache. My sinew twists, protesting every inch.

I watch the path closely because even small stumbling blocks are tragic setbacks while under this much weight.

Sometimes I hear the silence of the morning dew resting peacefully on God’s green earth.

Sometimes I feel the caress of a breeze easing my salt-soaked brow.

Sometimes I see the faces of loved ones and the jeers of my enemies.

Let them who have eyes to see, let them see.

Not the body I’ve built, but the heavy cross I carry.

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Ehlers Danlos Society Publication:

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Every year on this day and memorial day, I go for a run, rain or shine, in the old pair of camo pants that I was issued 13 years ago in my JROTC class.

They are torn and faded and definitely not acceptable as a BDU anymore.

Many of my family members and friends have served both here and abroad and the action is the most sacred salute I can offer.

With #ehlersdanlos, running is very difficult for me but a skill that I am committed to maintaining as long as possible. To be able to run TOWARD danger and challenges...rather than away from them.

Like our service men and women have done and do - daily.

I am dedicated to doing what I can to make the most of my freedom that I am thankful for...and to stay ready for the fights necessary to make it count every day.

A heartfelt thank you to those who - past and present - that have sacrificed in service to our great nation.

I don't know that there is anything that I can do in honor of what you've given/give to deserve it.

Sanity, lives, and limbs have been lost on behalf of the freedoms that my family and community enjoy --

Here's to making the most of all of it and hope those actions inspire others to do the same.

"Earn this"

With the pain of every long hill ran and heavy weight lifted, the perseverance of every person uplifted, and the conscious choice to become better when it would be very easy to curl up content and comfortable instead...

I am working on it.

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