Purposeful Fitness

We continue talking about the 9 Pillars of Health with one of the most misunderstood Pillar. We’ve been taught to fear the very thing that gives us life, light, warmth, happiness and health: the Sun.

Out of the many benefits of training, the ones that are most impactful are the ones that influence aspects of your life outside of the gym. In that category, the most important one, in my opinion, is resilience. And resilience is only built in training if you train in a specific way.

One of the common concerns of people who are starting to workout is that they “don’t want to get hurt”. And while that fear is totally understandable, it highlights that they have already started on the path to fragility. Training, thus, becomes the obstacle they must overcome but also the task to must do.

ChatGPT is here and is going to change our lives (for better or for worse, we will see). But one of the common topics brought up around it is how we will no longer need some professions, now that we have almost unlimited access to knowledge. But I don’t think coaches have to worry about this, specially the coaches who build a relationship with their clients.

This single greatest life-changing exercise I have ever done. Creating my perfect day, the day I’d love to re-live over and over again, has shown me the clarity and simplicity I need to make life decisions that align with my perfect life. Most people say “I’ll suffer now so when I retire I can have my perfect life”, to them I say, “don’t wait, live your perfect life now”.

Continuing our Pillars of Health series we now talk about Wisdom. More than just our IQ, Wisdom truly means how we use our brain. What has always been our biggest asset has now become something we can go days without using. Social media, reality tv shows, extremism, all disrupt our ability to critically think. It can also lead to early stages of neurodegenerative diseases. There’s plenty we can do...

Individual Design is the program I sell. It includes exercise, nutrition, lifestyle habits and mindset to, holistically, push you toward your goals and Purpose. Learn about what it is, how it can help you and why it’s the best program you could do!

The second Pillars of Health we are talking about is Relationships. This is one that took me a while to recognize and I had to complete change my mindset about. The environment can and will shape you. Choosing who you spend your time and energy with can be a powerful tool toward health.

Strength training offers many benefits. One pretty important benefit is increased bone density. Unfortunately, it’s something that is hard to quantify and hard to “see the results”, so it’s easy for people to dismiss it. But here’s why it matters and why you should be going after it:

The 9 Pillars of Health are important lifestyle habits that can be your greatest assets or your worst enemy. Today we are talking about your Breath and how it’s something often overlooked since we automatically do it, but when we automate things they tend to be worse quality. Taking control of your breath can not only improve performance but also change how you feel.

We’ve all experienced “newbie gains”. It’s the rapid improvement in performance that happens when we first start lifting weights (or any other physical form that matter). It tends to plateau after a few months of consistent training. But if you understand what it is, you too can benefit from “newbie gains” even if you are not one.

At first glance, this question seems pretty silly. But if you’re using working out to compensate for anything (poor eating habits, lack of sleep, stress management issues, …) maybe you could get two birds with stone if you understand the true Purpose of working out.

Sometimes people feel that spending time and money on things that improve their physical and mental health can be selfish decisions. Coaching, good quality nutrition, recovery methods, good mattress, vacations… all cost money and time. But at the end of the day, they create the opportunity for you to be UNselfish because it allows you to take care of other and not be a burden to those around you.

The 9 Pillars of Health are a set of habits that most of us partake in every single day. But they are rarely taken care of. We focus a lot on how much we eat and how hard we workout. But that is 1-2 hours of each day. The 9 Pillars are happening the other 22 hours. Find out what they are in this episode!

Fitness and Athleticism are sometimes used interchangeably but they definitely don’t mean the same thing. Both are important but what are they? How do you work on each?

Unfortunately (or fortunately?) we all have our biases when it comes to most subjects. Your coaches/mentors are no different. And while every good coach acknowledges their bias and tries their best to be unbiased for their clients, it’s hard to escape this reality. As a coach, how do you remain unbiased? As a client, do you want somebody that reinforces your bias or somebody that confronts it? Lea...

Welcome everybody to my newest endeavor: Purposeful Fitness Channel! PURPOSE- reason or motivation behind an intentional action. PURPOSEFUL FITNESS- Fitness created to directly impact your ability to be successfully PurposefulWe all start working out because we believe the gains we make in the gym will allow us to be better at something else (better looking, more energy, stronger muscles, improve...