Keeping Up with the Kids!

Doc’s Coach Check-in May 2011

Keeping up with the kids!

You just got your DVD’s.  This time you really mean it!  

You are ready for a commitment, you got rid of the junk food in the house, and could barely sleep the night before you started your new program.  



But man, it was tough keeping up.  You did your best, and paid the price the next day!!  

“I never knew sitting down could cause so much pain.”  And “stairs - just became a torture chamber!”  Sound familiar?

All that is OK (as long as you didn’t hurt yourself), but there is another way!

Shawn T tells us to Dig Deeper.  Tony Horton asks you to Bring It!  But when you are just starting out, that may be asking a lot.  

Keeping up with the cast of Power 90, P90X, Turbo-fire, or Insanity is TOUGH!  Don’t expect to do it right away.  

It will come with time.  You’ll get better, faster, and stronger every week.  But don’t be afraid to MODIFY your moves or hit pause if you need to.  

The most important thing you can do to get incredible results is be consistent with your movement and your eating.  Intensity is important, too.  But when you are starting out, an intense workout may mean marching in place.  You need to be okay with that and just keep doing what you can.  They say 80% of life is showing up.  In fitness it is more like 95%!  

Whether you are looking for better health, for weight loss, or to get ripped, it never happens over night.  

Enjoy the process, modify if you need to and stick with it!  

Do these simple things and you’ll be keeping up with “the kids” before you know it.

Keep pushing play,


Dr. Kevin

How to Step Away from the Donuts!

"Just back away from the donuts, sir, and no one will get hurt."

Even a Beachbody Coach will get tempted from time to time.

As you know, I just started another round of P90X this week. I'm happy to report that I passed my first big test of this round.

Yesterday, was Wednesday. In our operating room, Wednesday means Maris day. Maris, a volunteer who works every Wednesday on second shift, LOVES to bake. She's pretty darn good at it, too. Maris bakes enough goodies to give a sugar high to a medium sized army. She brings plates, tins, and pans full of every home-made goody you could imagine to a little room just off the recovery room every Wednesday evening.

Picture that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean where the Pirates are in a cave filled with all the Treasure of Davy Jones, except instead of gold and jewels, the cave is filled with brownies and chocolate macadamia nut cookies!

Yesterday, after working for 13 hours, I dropped a patient off in the recovery room only to see Maris's smiling face. That could only mean one thing- the cave was stocked!

I thought about it for a few seconds, then decided to check it out.

All I could think of was not how good it would taste, but how good it would feel to keep on walking. So I did. And let me tell you, it felt great!

There are two reasons I was easily able to resist the temptation of the goody cave.

Number one- I had prepared ahead for a long day and packed enough clean food so that I could eat several small meals throughout the day and not get overly hungry.

Number two- I had "Stacked my Why's." You may have heard me talk about the importance of your "WHY" in getting you to change your behavior to achieve your goals. Stacking whys is simply finding multiple reasons to adopt the behavior you want and fight off the behavior you want to avoid. My usual whys include wanting to be healthy, live long, be able to chase around small children in the next few years, and to be a good example as a coach. In addition, a new why is to get in great shape and look good for my wedding in 3 months.

All I had to do was think about my whys, and my course of action became clear. Walking away was the only choice.

As Tony Horton asks, "Which will it be for you today? The pleasure of discipline or the pain of regret?"

Slowly, carefully, step away from the donuts!

Your Competitive Advantage

"See reality as it is, not as it was or as you wish it were. Change before you have to. Control your own destiny or someone else will. If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete."

--Jack Welch, former president and CEO, General Electric


Mr Welch was speaking about business, but I was struck by how much it relates to healthy living just as well.

See reality as it is.
That can mean a whole lot of things.
-Maybe you aren't 18 and more and you need to be a little careful with your workouts so you don't hurt yourself.
- Maybe it means you need to realize that obesity is a disease. It is not simply cosmetic. Being significantly overweight affects every aspect of your health and takes years off your life. Being around for the long haul starts with healthy habits today!

Change before you have to/ control your destiny.
- Don't wait until you have a heart attack to start exercising.
- Don't wait until your kidneys fail and you need dialysis before you take diabetes seriously

Waiting to hit rock bottom will can give you strong motivation for sure, but then you have a much deeper, darker hole to dig yourself out of.

Changing before you have to is difficult because you need to motivate yourself. It takes discipline. But it is much get to the peak of a mountain when you start your climb from the middle.

( I know I'm mixing metaphors, but this is my blog, I can do what I want! ;-) )

Not only that, but waiting to long may make it physically impossible to change. Waiting so long that you have blockages in your leg arteries can give you pain every time you walk to the mailbox. Imagine how tough it is to exercise when you are disabled like that.

Don't wait, control your destiny!

If you don't have a competitive advantage, don't compete.
This is where Beachbody comes in. With Beachbody, everything is laid out for you: when to exercise, what to do, even what and when to eat. Millions of pounds have been lost with proven programs like Project YOU Type 2, Turbo Jam, and P90X. The all-new Shakeology meal replacement has been shown help lower cholesterol, heart disease risk, and weight in just 12 weeks. And finally, the support you get from the Team Beachbody Club and Message Boards are second to none.

Beachbody's fitness programs, supplements, and community are YOUR competive advantage!

Play to win! You can do it! We can help!

If you have any questions about how to get the most of the community support or any other aspect of the Beachbody system, just drop me an email.

To your success,

-Doc