Fitness is the perfect connection of your body, mind, and spirit.

You need to listen to your body.

You are good enough to do it, we all can do it.

If other people have done it, they're not better than us, they struggle with the same mind, and with the same ego.

The point is to be the best version of yourself, in anything that you do.

Your brain does not come with an instruction manual.

So you have to set the direction of where you want it to go.

On today’s episode of My Fitness Ride, I talk with Natali Krizan about what a great fitness mindset really is.

Natali is a fitness trainer, nutritional trainer, and mindset trainer as well. She focuses on helping ladies build their best life through physical conditioning and, more importantly, she focuses on their mental well-being. She takes the time to meet the person and work on their limiting beliefs, patterns that keep them stuck, and she's been quite successful about it. Now, she's launching her own project of online coaching.

She says that she really feels alive when she’s helping others and for her, to give is to live.

We came up with 7 tools that you can build and incorporate into your life, to have a great fitness mindset, so listen to this episode, to learn how to enjoy life more.

Questions I ask:

•As a physical trainer, what is your specialty? (05:25)

•Why fitness is such a passion for you? (07:25)

•What triggered you to dedicate your life to fitness? (12:35)

•How would you say that your mindset helped you deal with Crohn’s disease? (15:40)

•What do you want to share with the world? (57:15)

In this episode, you will learn:

•Why Natali’s main medicine for Crohn’s disease was food. (13:40)

•Everything you need to know about intermittent fasting. (22:40)

•What a fitness mindset is. (33:10)

•How negative thinking can affect your life. (47:25)

•The 7 steps for a fitness mindset. (56:40)

Connect with Natali Krizan:

•Facebook

•Email: [email protected]

The choices that we make every day determine where our life goes.

Thinking positive and taking action, combined, that’s what makes you succeed.

Visualizing what you want and really feeling it, it's just what drives you.

The first part is reaching the threshold or finding the leverage to make the change a must.

When you start doing things differently and when you start getting out of your comfort zone, it gets uncomfortable.

But getting comfortable with being uncomfortable is a game changer.

People are mostly not aware of the power that's in them, the power that's in decision.

But all of us have the power in ourselves to choose what we want.

In the end, it's all up to us.

On today’s episode of My Fitness Ride, I talk with Dr. Iren Ortiz, a good friend of mine, about what drives people to make choices and start changing their lives for the better.

Dr. Iren Ortiz is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician, Board Certified Obesity Medicine Physician and the founder and creator of Care4usMD, which is an online platform that provides medical treatment to patients in Florida and Puerto Rico. She created this platform and now attends to a large population of patients struggling with health issues, mostly overweight, and surprisingly, the underweight population as well.

Iren shares with us how she trained her brain to do something different to help her patients.

She learned how to read her patients and look deeper into what are their reasons for wanting to change.

Some questions I ask:

·       What are the statistics of obesity? (07:00)

·       What are the environmental triggers, or factors, that cause obesity? (09:10)

·       Have you heard of using your blood type for dieting and for what foods you eat? (33:00)

·       Why do we lose weight and gain it back? (35:10)

·       Can you tell us about your company? (40:45)

In this episode, you'll learn:

·  The questions Dr. Ortiz asks her patients, before jumping into a weight-loss program (14:50)

·  The reasons why it’s harder for women to lose weight (17:35)

·  Methods that can help you replace wrong rewards with something that empowers you (23:15)

·   How hunger hormones work (36:55)

·   Why intermittent fasting can be efficient (48:00)

Connect with Dr. Iren Ortiz

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 904-274-4988

Facebook: care4usmd / Dra Iren Ortiz

Instagram: care4usmd

Twitter: care4usmd

NLP is using the language of the mind, to consistently see specific and desired outcomes.

The conscious mind is the goal-setter and the unconscious mind is the goal-getter.

The strongest force inside a person is to be compatible with who they believe they are.

When you start to love yourself, then you really start to gain control.

If you ask the wrong questions, you'll get the wrong answers.

People are either motivated to do something or motivated not to do something.

Our ego only knows two things: pain and pleasure.

Todd Gross Jr. is a Certified NLP Practitioner and Personal Results Specialist. He is the founder of Breaking Glass Ceilings, his own practice of Coaching and Neuro-linguistic Programming Services in the San Diego area. He is also a member of the US Navy for 15 years now. This gentleman is amazing with the knowledge he shares with us! 

In this episode you'll learn:

How NLP helped Todd. (12:25)

Why obesity affects women more than men. (25:50)

How NLP can restructure your inner dialogue. (26:50)

Why should you be careful when choosing your NLP coach. (44:20)

What is Breaking Glass Ceilings. (45:30)

Connect with Todd Gross Jr. :

Facebook Personal Page

Facebook Breaking Glass Ceiling

Your story could be the key that unlocks someone else's prison.

The energy that we put out, is the energy that we draw into our lives.

Oftentimes it's the subconscious stuck energy that keeps us playing small.

The only way that you can develop and exert your power is by recognizing and knowing that everything that happens in your life is your responsibility.

When we start to take responsibility for our own stuff, it empowers us to move through it much faster.

The process is painful, but suffering is optional because you can control your inner dialogue and your inner self.

Katie is a Certified Professional Core Energy Coach. She focuses on the energy that we, as people, put out into the world, which is basically what we attract. She works with her clients and her team to break down all these energy blocks that keep you from living a life that you don't need a vacation from. Katie is also a freshly-minted herbal specialist, mindset master, and health food junkie, meaning that she loves creating healthy, clean meals, out of what seems to be not-so-healthy recipes.

In this episode you'll learn:

Why journalling is a powerful tool (09:20)

Katie's thoughts on self-love (14:20)

The difference between TRUE and TRUTH (18:00)

What is the meaning of GAILS (19:30)

The importance of catabolic and anabolic energies (30:00)

Which was the biggest eye-opening for Katie, through her journey (31:50)

Connect with Katie Carlson:

Website - katiecarlsoncoaching.com

The word fitness is usually associated to exercise, working out. In reality, the definition of fitness is the state of being fit, and the definition of fit is someone who is sound physically and mentally.

Obesity is not a vice, but it's largely secondary to a vice, which is food.

You cannot ever get better at something if you don't first become aware that there's something to get better at.

Becoming aware of what you're lacking takes time, takes guts, you have to face yourself in the mirror, and say, "Hey, you could be doing this a little better!"

Anytime you have a new beginning, anywhere, it's a time period that you never forget. It's stressful, but you have to always embrace it because it's beautiful.

86% of our thoughts that we tell ourselves are negative, and the problem is we're not even aware of it.

We have everything we need within us.

In this episode, you will learn:

·       Why mindset is the key (05:00)

·       How awareness can be curative (23:20)

·       Which is the right kind of love (24:35)

·       What is self-love (25:10)

·       How can you program your mind (26:00)

Hi, I'm Dr. Rafael Rolon and I'm the host of My Fitness Ride. Thank you for tuning in! I'm just coming in today, real quick, to tell you a little bit about what this project is all about. It started about two years ago when I started my journey in Personal Development. Ironically, at that point, I had lost a lot of weight. I had been successful about it, I had lost about 80 pounds, but I was not prepared mentally, from a mindset standpoint, to be successful. Obviously, I gained it all back and got to this point where I have it all back, but now I realize that I can share the process all over again and help people along the way and also share the mindset tools that I've acquired. 

I almost did not do this. One of my questions here is, "Why am I doing this?" Well, like I said, I know the struggle of being overweight and the process of going through it and failing, trying again - failing, trying again - being successful. I always wanted to share with people and help, but I never thought I could because I hadn’t lost weight and been successful at it. But then, I took part, to be honest, in the Facebook Life Challenge. I had already plans for this and I had this one time, where I kind of broke through, and just went all out and shared my story. I realized that it touched a lot of people and helped a lot of people that I noticed they were suffering quite deeply from the circumstances of being overweight or dealing with health issues. I'm very fortunate enough today, that although I'm overweight I'm very happy, I'm not suffering at all. But I know my body needs to get into that shape, to be healthy. I'm a doctor, after all, I do know these things.

My goal, in all of this, is that I can bring guests on and share my experience in a way that it can help somebody out there, that's probably going through the same thing, learn some kind of mindset tool or gain a new perspective or awareness that can help them achieve a better health - a better healthy mindset. That's my goal. In the next few weeks I'll be coming up with some friends on the podcast, with some guests: Katie Carlson, who’s a life coach, good friend; Todd Gross, who’s an NLP practitioner, fascinating topic, he'll be here with us; and then, Tina Jesso, who's a fashion lifestyle expert, she has interesting topics that we're going to be talking about. And those are some of the people that will be joining me.

If you wonder what this has to do with fitness, I can tell you it has all to do with fitness. Fitness isn't an only physical fitness of being able to carry out certain kind of exercise, but also mental fitness. In order to be fit for life, and be able to carry out and execute in life, you have to have physical fitness and mental fitness. One cannot go without the other so I hope that this is of benefit to some of you who are watching, and I hope that you will join me!