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Optimize Your Health, Fitness & Vitality with Brien Shamp: 7 Awesome Reasons To Be FIT

I spend a lot of time talking about what it's like to be working towards your fat loss goal, with your perfect body somewhere off in the distance.  Today I'm going to switch perspectives and turn the focus onto how it feels to BE at your ideal weight.  In addition to getting you pumped up and motivated to work even more diligently towards your goal, studies have shown that those who spend time visualizing the accomplishment of their goal have a higher success rate in actually getting there.  So if you are still working towards your goal then sit back and let the following 7 Awesome Reasons to be FIT really sink into your mind.  

Visualize the following as being a part of your reality:

Awesome Reason To Be FIT #1: You Always Look Great When you are at your ideal weight clothes look and feel amazing.  Every. Single. Day.  Gone are the days of looking for ways to cover your ‘problem' areas because even those areas look great.  Friends, family members and co-workers tell you how fantastic you look and that you've never looked better.

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Awesome Reason To Be FIT #2: Your Confidence Is High The act of accomplishing any worthwhile goal is enough to seriously boost your confidence, and this is even more apparent when reaching a fitness goal.  When your body goes through a transformation there's no hiding it.  You are tighter, leaner and more attractive.  You stand straighter, walk taller and exude a genuine confidence that can't be missed.

Awesome Reason To Be FIT #3: You Have Lots Of Energy Before you met your fat loss goal, getting off the couch was a challenge...one that you didn't always win.  Once you became fit, new surges of energy course through your veins.  You thrive on motion and activities that used to tire you out now leave you energized.

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Awesome Reason To Be FIT #4: You Are Strong The life of a truly fit person knows no limits! In your free time you hike, bike, walk, pick up new hobbies and play with the kids.  Picking up items that used to feel heavy is now a breeze as your functionality for daily tasks has never been stronger.  Gone are the days when you'd tell yourself, "I can't do that. I'm not strong enough."

Awesome Reason To Be FIT #5: You Have No Health Worries You'll never forget the look on your doctor's face when examining your transformed body.  Gone is the lecture about the many risks of weight-related ailments.  Those days are behind you. Your healthy, strong thriving body is health-worry-free.

Awesome Reason To Be FIT #6: You No Longer Have Weight To Lose How long have you been trying to lose the fat and get down to your ideal weight?  Long time, right? In all that time your fat loss goal has been a giant monkey on your back – always in the back of your mind, always weighing you down.  Guess what?  Poof!  That giant monkey disappeared the day you reached your goal weight an in its place came a sweet, carefree peace of mind.

Awesome Reason To Be FIT #7: You Are Able To Enjoy Life Once you transformed your body, life got decidedly more fun and exciting.  You never knew how much your weight had held you back from excitement and adventure until the day that burden was lifted.  You now enjoy life with carefree abandon – the way you were designed to.  If these 7 Awesome Reasons To Be FIT have lit a fire under you to reach your goal weight once and for all then reach out to me right now.  Call or email and I'll have you sailing toward your FIT body in no time.  But don't wait—to do so would be to risk losing the motivation that you feel right now.  I'm here to help you transform your body with a specialized fitness plan that's designed to quickly get you to FIT. What are you waiting for? Begin your body transformation today!hat Motivates YOU?

The success or failure of your fitness routine heavily depends on the intensity of your motivation.  In order to stick with it, even when it's hard and you're tired, you'll need to fixate your mind on a single motivating thought.  This may be a mental picture of what you will look like in your skinny jeans, the thought of how relieved you'll be when the doctor give you a clean bill of health, or the reaction that your friends and family will give once you reveal the new you.  Discover what motivated you the most then direct your focus there!  Bring this thought to mind whenever you feel like giving up and going back to your unhealthy lifestyle. 

Brien Shamp brings you 22 years of experience as a Body Transformation Expert, Personal Trainer, Nutrition & Lifestyle Coach, Massage Therapist, Strength Coach for College & Pro Athletes and Reiki Practitioner. In 2011 he was nominated one of the top ten trainers in the country. Brien has a degree in Biomechanics from UC Davis and extensive graduate studies in Exercise Physiology from SF State. Brien won first place in the Met-Rx World’s Best Personal Trainer Contest in 1999 and was nominated Best in the Bay by KRON 4 for Weight Loss in 2009. He is an active author in Parenting on the Peninsula, Ms. Fitness Magazine and his FREE Blog with thousands of subscribers at  www.BrienShamp.com



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