Here are some of the most common pitfalls of short-term diets and short-term fitness challenges.

Why this must be seen as a jump start tied to a longer training cycle.

I share a number of tips on how to full-proof your training and set you up for success for the year.

Sit back relax and enjoy the show,

Bryan Wisdom

I remember the first time I did a Fitness Challenge. The year was 1997 and I was a broken athlete. I was in the middle of Red Shirting my Freshman year of college. 

My knees were injured and I hadn’t training with weights for about 3 months. 

I had lost about 10 pounds of muscle and I was pretty depressed.

Along came the first Fitness Challenge of its kind called…

Body for Life by Bill Phillips. The challenge was simple… enter into a 12 week challenge, lift weights, eat healthy, do cardio and measure your weight and take pictures before and after.

I did the challenge… gained 12 pounds of muscle and saw a great transformation.

Where I got this right… was I continued to train after the challenge ended.

Training in phases, creating program design, measuring your results along the way ensure for longer-term wins.

This is why I don't like short term challenges if they are not connected to longer term programming.

Finally, this is why myself and my team of trainers work on our clients biomechanics first, improve movement and balance of the body, and train our clients in a progressive way. Building from the ground up.

Laying that good foundation. Then continuing to move forward toward your goals.

Bryan “Body for Life” Wisdom

P.S. If you would like more information call

(704) 658-1522 option 2 Ask for Bryan.

Arnold’s Secret to his Success-The Value of Doing Fitness Challenges-

Arnold Schwarzenegger prepared for his movie career in short spurts of time.

He was known for getting 6 weeks, 8 weeks , and sometimes 6 months to get ready for a role.

He enjoyed the preparation because it reminded him of his massive success in Professional Body Building.

Arnold was Mr. Olympia 7 times. Mr. Olympia is the Super Bowl of body building.

He prepared for his competitions in phases throughout the year. During these blocks of training there was time to really get focused for his event like the 100 days before the competition. 

There were phases where he rested more, went off the rails with his nutrition, and phases where he pushed and lifted heavy.

He trained throughout the year but pushed hard at different times.

The lesson works for us now.

One of the biggest pitfalls for people who do short challenges, and or short nutrition challenges is embracing the short-term challenge yet forgetting everything we learn during the process.

Here are 3 tips to your success when participating in a Challenge…

-Continue behaviors when the challenge ends…if specific behaviors caused great results… don’t through the baby out with the bath water.

-Continue to show up… that means continue to workout at a consistent clip per week. Stop starting and stopping.

-Use the challenge as a Launching pad-as you see improvements set new targets. This is big. As you see positive results set new targets that will continue you down the road.

Keep moving forward

Back to Arnold… he trained 10 years to win Mr. Olympia. He was constantly training in phases throughout the year.

Times where you are focused, times where you are not as focused. Use these phases to your advantage.

If you are training for the year then there will be a time to cheat a little with food, and there will be a time to be really focused. Program design and planning for the longer term makes these short spurts of training a huge success.

-Bryan Wisdom

Healthy Exercise as We Age

How to match you exercise to your age. Are your workouts making you healthier or hurting you.

-Bryan Wisdom

Tiger's latest car crash could mean serious challenges for his quality of life.

Let's take a look at his current situation and past injuries... how will this play into his chances for playing golf competitively again?

-Bryan

You see the company I worked for during 1999-2003 trained Jack Nicholas. Jack Nicholas won 18 majors and was considered the greatest golfer of all time.

Tiger was playing a golf round with Jack Nicholas during that time. 

Jack would do a corrective exercise hip stretch we gave me to open up his hips. 

Jack found such relief from the stretch that he was doing it before every drive of every whole.

Tiger looked at Jack… and said, “What are you doing?”

The young Tiger didn’t see the point of stretching before each hole and he wasn’t interested.

We never did work with Tiger.

Tiger would go on to be the second greatest golfer of all time with 15 majors and an amazing career.

Tiger’s competitive mindset, drive and will to win matched only maybe Michael Jordan.

Tiger did start dealing with injuries in 2002.

Specifically his left knee. He would scope his knee many times over, repair his torn ACL, and struggle with pain from 2002 to 2009. He also completely changed his swing.

From 2010 to 2021 his back became his Achilles heel. His back became such a problem that he would have many back surgeries, disc removal surgeries and finally a fusion.

In some alternative world I wish I could have pulled him aside in 2000 and shown him his future of injuries. His limiting factor to break Jack’s records was his health.

Maybe in this alternative world he would have doubled down on his corrective exercise and biomechanics. Maybe he would have passed on his Navy SEAL training in 2006, and 2007.

                    (Yes, I said that correctly… he trained with our US Navy SEALS)

In this universe Tiger would still be able to play golf now.

Now, I know this is a fantasy, but how this relates to people like you and me is our posture and biomechanics matter. When you’re young it’s normal to get away with beating up our bodies.

Time is the great equalizer and starting earlier to balance your body can make a big impact as we age. (Really a big impact at any age)

If you would like help with your biomechanics and our corrective exercises just let us know.

Bryan “Alternative Reality” Wisdom 

Contact me at (704) 658-1522 option 2

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2 Key Factors for Long-Term Health?

I was talking to one of my good friends in the fitness community about the Super Bowl. One story line that I had forgotten about was in this young buck vs old veteran face off- I had forgotten about Patrick Mahomes (young buck age 23) workout training style.

Much has been said about Tom Brady- his diet, flexibility work, lower impact exercise training, but Patrick Mahomes seems to possess flexibility of his spine and arm that seems out of this world.

Back to you and why should you care…

Whether your 63, 43 (Tom Brady), 23 (Patrick Mohomes), one thing is important young or older…

That important factor is Range of Motion of our joints. Why this matters to you is we lose our ROM as we age if we don’t do something about it.

Now, with Patrick at 23 one could say he’s young, it’s God given. Truth be told my fitness buddy had reminded me that Patrick has been training with is trainer since 4th grade!

Not only that, he has been working on flexibility work since then. His background in sport was not focus only on football… it was basketball, baseball, and football. He was training as a kid to be a balanced athlete.

Now back to you… proper Joint Range of Motion is critical as we age because literally society is pulling our bodies out of whack.

Sitting to drive to work, sitting in front of a desk (maybe Zooming to work), craning our necks forward to text, tweet, scroll our feeds on facebook.

All these positions do one thing really well, weaken our posture, shorten our muscles, and tighten our bodies.

The solution is for us to focus on your proper posture and joint Range of Motion with our Wisdom Movement Method corrective exercises.

By getting the body back to its proper postural position and proper length of your muscles leads to a healthy body.

-Bryan Wisdom

Elon Musk’s Audacious Goals

AND

How you can accomplish your fitness goals in 2021

Elon Musk not only has plans to get to Mars. He wants to colonize Mars and then reach other Solar Systems. All these goals which are not possible in his life time but specific goals none the less.

 Here are Important Keys to attaining your fitness goals in 2021...

Goals big or small must be specific.

Elon has put his goal out there for the world to see.

Behaviors must match outcome desired.

Mini Targets need to me measured along the way to help you know if you are getting closer to your goals or not.

Finally, and probably most important is getting people in your corner that believe in you and encourage you to become the person you want to be.

People that believe in you and help encourage you to reach for the stars in your life are essential when striving to attain your goals.

-Bryan Wisdom

Getting Punched in the Face... Are you in Better Shape in January of 2021 than you were in January of 2020? 

I unpack this idea. Now we know firsthand from 2020 how Covid 19 effects businesses, schools, and our lives. 

Are you in better shape now than you were a year ago?

The second question is what is your strategy for 2021? 

With the possibly of closures, lock downs, and more of the pandemic- what will you do about it?

Creating a plan now in Jan/Feb 2021 will give you a road map to a healthier year.

Sticking to it is the SECRET SAUCE!

If you would like help from us at Fitness Together Mooresville you can contact us directly.

We were made for this… we are here to help you.

-Bryan “Focused in 2021” Wisdom

(704) 658-1522 option 2 (ask for Bryan)

www.FTLKN.com (for more information) 

The funny thing about Tom Brady is he’s normal. In fact he’s more than normal… he was below average. (Let me explain)

When professional athletes are drafted they are “ASSESSED” for jumping ability, speed, arm strength, lateral movement and so on.

See picture below… Tom Brady was average or below average in the measurements all teams look for when drafting a quarterback.

When anyone looked at Michael Jordan out of college he was top of the class in every measurable physically and his competitive spirit was matched by his athletic ability.

(Rare, very rare indeed)

Tom was the slowest quarterback to ever be tested for sprint speed… the slowest ever.

What did he have… was focus, mindset, belief in himself, discipline and great leadership qualities. (Not to mention he was teamed up with the best coach of all time in the NFL)

At 43 Tom Brady is going to the Super Bowl again.

What can we learn from Tom Brady? 

For a guy who was “average” who has become the Greatest Quarterback ever and found a way to look, move, and feel better than he did when he was 23 years old is incredible.

He has put in the work, stayed focused on his goals and become something that no one believed possible… except maybe for himself. 

Tom being the most important person who believed in his dream.

Focus, discipline, and belief in our goals are lessons we all can take from Tom.

Bryan “reluctantly became a Tom Brady fan” Wisdom

P.S. Don’t let 2021 be Groundhog’s year for you. If you need motivation, accountability, new goal setting… let us know… we are here to help you transform this year.

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