Harvey Fitness Challenge

In my experience people fail to meet their health and physical fitness goals for a few simple reasons:

1. They have been provided bad information.
2. They have false expectations.
   
3. They employed flawed technologies.
   
4. They have an absence of belief that change is possible.
   
5. They are unwillingness to follow though.

When flawed technology is employed failure is inevitable. Unless you come to recognize that a particular approach is without hope of delivering results, you may try repeatedly and each unsuccessful attempt further shuts down belief. With absence of belief that a change is possible, the willingness to initiate another attempt is virtually impossible.

This is how the human mind is wired to work. Our beliefs dictate our actions, and flawed beliefs, driven by advertising, marketing, and aggressive deception by way of individuals making money at the expense of people, are enough to almost entirely shut down an entire population. And quite honestly companies bank on your failure to keep you coming back.

Most people attempt to change with flawed approaches, with ineffective technologies. Examples would be fat loss supplements, trim down devices, extreme diets, or quick fix offerings. At best these are tricks that in the short term lead you to believe it’s working, when in reality the attempt may very well be moving you further from your goal.

Failure may also be the result of false expectations, which of course ties right into beliefs and the technology employed. If you believe a product or program is going to help you lose 20 pounds in 7 days and further believe that the weight loss will be healthful and permanent, failure is a certainty.

As soon as results fail to match expectation, the perception of failure limits the promise of follow-through. When you accept that the change is gradual, that it will reveal itself by facilitating subtle changes in energy, clothes fitting differently, the body beginning to feel different to the touch, and others complimenting you or suggesting you look good, you’ll shift your expectation to one of “progress.” As long as you’re moving in the right direction, progress stacked upon progress leads to dramatic change over time.

So, in short, people fail as a result of any number of these issues. All of which can be avoided.

The truth is Quick Weight Loss is the result of water reduction followed by lean muscle loss.
Although we have been programmed to look at the scale as the measuring tools for our success, it is misleading. The scale only takes into account Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation which is the gravitational attraction between bodies with mass. Applied here it is gravitational attraction between our bodies and earth. It does not distinguish between muscle, fluids, bones, internal organs, and fat. (Enough of the technical talk!!)

The more I began working with clientele outside of athletics the more I realized the amount of misinformation.

In this spirit the 12 Week Fitness Challenges were created.

The Get Fit Bootcamps and the online 12 Week Get Fitness Challenges are designed to:

1. Lead you down the road to success
   
2. You will learn the critical steps to success.
   
3. Educate you on Metabolism, Fitness, and Nutritional realities.
4. Learn Weight Management strategies and the best weight management approaches
   
5. Aerobic and Strength training concepts.
   
6. Identifying fade diets and useless training gimmicks.

You’ll find that programs out there offering meals, points and the likes are not needed. And honestly they are designed to create a dependence.

My 12 Week Fitness Challenges are intended to help our population understand how the human body operates, and to facilitate widespread improvement one person at a time.

As long as you are committed, hold yourself accountable, and follow through. You can not fail!
This is not a lose 20 pounds in 7 days program. Long lasting achievement is the result of applying solid approaches over time with consistency. 

Tom Harvey B.S. MPT
www.HarveyFitnessChallenge.com
www.TomHarveyTraining.com