Here’s my latest column at The Soko.

Be on the lookout for Inside Fitness Magazine if you’re in Canada. I have a 20 minute workout in there for ya.

 Just Want To Live A Little?

Human beings have fascinating psychological views and actions, in my opinion.  The food we know is not good for us, we still eat.  The workouts we know would help us get back into shape, we decide to not be consistent with them.

Some people realize that their health is what actually keeps them alive, but they’d rather spend their money on a monster television rather than a gym membership or a personal training service.

Why, though?

The typical answer I seem to get when I point out to someone that a chocolate bar isn’t exactly the best kind of snack in the world is this: “Why can’t I just live a little?”

Can We Break That Train of Thought?

I’m guilty of this at times too.  I mean, I’ve already confessed to you my love for hot dogs in a previous article.

My job as a fitness coach is to solve people’s fitness problems.  This whole ‘living a little’ philosophy is a rampant problem with many people, so I have to try and help them with it.

Just to make it clear right now, I’m not going to be telling you to never eat a bad thing ever again in your life.  That’s just stupid.  It’s okay to have cheat meals; you just need to be smarter and more organized about your choices.

I have here a list of a few possible solutions that may help you make better choices more consistently.

Understanding Your Top Priority

If you don’t have your health, you really don’t have anything.  If you’re sick from being drunk the night before, your health suffers, and it’s really hard to enjoy the next day with all the headaches and potential vomiting.  But in today’s society, that’s apparently the ultimate symbol of living a little.

Of course, that’s an example, and yes, I do drink alcohol on some occasions, but never like that.  I’ve realized my priorities on it.  In college I would drink.  When I tore my hamstring that threatened my baseball career, I actually started to drink fairly heavily.  The only priority I had was having fun and trying to run away from my circumstances.  Obviously that kind of attitude didn’t exactly help my recovery from the injury very much, because my health wasn’t my number one priority.

When I finally realized what my top priority should be, I quit drinking for a while.  And it was easy to do, because I had a new set of rules governing my life.

What’s your top priority?  It could be the difference between you buying that monster television or taking the steps to actually getting the body you want.

Surround Yourself With Your Goals

Put them everywhere.  Put them in your bedroom, in your wallet, in your car, on your mirrors, on the fridge, on the television and on your favourite junk food.  Get a bunch of those yellow post-it notes and write your goals on them.

Put them everywhere – literally.  Make sure your goals are always going to be fresh in your mind.  That will help when those ‘live a little’ decisions come your way.

Just ask yourself, “Will this decision HELP me towards my goals, or push me AWAY from my goals?”

Keep Visiting

Keep visiting sites like The Soko to try and find advice or tips that will work for you.  Maybe my stuff makes more sense to you than others, maybe not.

Organize your day so that you can read at least one article that relates to your fitness goals, so that you can learn along the way too.

This strategy can motivate you to keep working hard on your goals and not let those annoying decoys (the living a little decoys) get in the way of your goals and dreams.

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living a little or dying a little?

When you buy into the living a little philosophy, which I think we all should do sometimes, are you actually living a little or are you dying a little?  I mean, eating tons of sugary food isn’t good for you, and if you do it enough, you might be on your way to a shorter life when you think about it.

But the key thing here is doing it consistently.  Organize your diet or your life to the point that you can enjoy some cheat meals during the week, or if you really want that monster television, make sure you’ve accomplished conquering your top priority first.  Hell, you might not even want the television anymore with your new body and new-found energy.

Have a great one,

Dan Grant

Since my baseball career is back in full swing and being on the
road is now apart of my daily life the emails from me won’t be as
often as they were.

My season is going great so far and going after my dream is making
life super exciting for me.

If you’ve been holding back on any of your dreams, I can’t urge you
enough to go after them. It’s a blast.

But let’s get back to me being ‘away’ for a while. I’m still going
to be sending out emails to you of the latest fitness trends and
my thoughts on them and how to get a great body, but they just won’t
be as often.
 

And since the majority of emails I get is about how to perform time
efficient workouts the timing of this couldn’t be better.
You see, Ryan Lee has created a program called BodyBot.
It’s a program where you can design your own 4 minute workouts.
It’s an amazing program and since it was released last week it’s
gotten incredible reviews. You don’t have to download anything, it’s
all just there ready for you to use. Pretty awesome.
And what’s even better is that his introductory price for the
program is unbelievably low.
 

==> http://tinyurl.com/6lfxtt
I’ve been preaching for a while now about the power of short,
efficient workouts and all my clients have gotten great results by
doing them. They love the fact that they don’t have to spend hours
in the gym - or even go to the gym at all.
I’m also going to do something special for you as well if you
decide to get Ryan’s program. If you order by Wednesday, just email
me the receipt and I’ll give you The Fat Loss Crew interviews for
f.r.e.e.
So because I might not be around on the ‘net as much this summer, I
wanted to make sure you had a program that could give you results
fast and this program was just the thing I needed.
You are in good hands with this program.
 

==> http://tinyurl.com/6lfxtt

Have a great one {!firstname},
Dan Grant
PS - With travelling and playing baseball all summer, time to
workout is very limited and I myself do a bunch of 4 minute
workouts on a regular basis so I can feel fresh even with the grind
of playing pro ball. Ryan’s BodyBot program is away I can just make
up my workout and then go at it.

Just a quick one today.

I’ve been on the road a lot with baseball so that’s why i haven’t posted regularly. I will do my best.

 I was talking with a guy who works at a correction facility for criminals today.

 He said that the people that go there have a choice between jail or their facility.  So obviously I said, “Well I guess you’re pretty busy then since i assume no one would really want jail.”

Surprisingly he said that a lot of people would rather go to jail. 

“Are you serious?”

He said, a lot of people don’t want to come to their facility because they have a mandatory fitness program.

In jail, they can just sit there.

I just don’t understand.

I’m assuming that’s the mentality for a lot of people since the obesity rate continues to climb to stupidly high levels.

 Is there a way to fix that?

I don’t know.

 what do you think?

Dan Grant