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Looking To Improve Confidence? Louis Improved Strength, Stamina, and Confidence with Innovative Results – Improving His Quality of Life

June 2, 2016 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Louis has consistently been coming to Innovative Results, and it has paid off with more rewards than he expected.

Louis started fitness training to be healthier for his family 2 years ago, and once he created the habit of working out at The Orange County Fitness Playground three or more times per week, he has noticed more than just health improvements .

He even scored a promotion with increased confidence!

Check out his story as you read the interview between me and him below.

When did you start fitness training at Innovative Results?

Started about 2 years ago in 2014

Why did you start fitness training with Innovative Results?

I started because I was so out of shape and unhealthy.

What have you improved since you started fitness training with Innovative Results?

I have improved my strength and stamina
More importantly I improved my personal confidence.

What kept you coming back to the Innovative Results fitness gym?

Everyone is treated like family.
The staff knows everyone’s name.
Great environment.

How has Innovative Results improved the other areas of your life (i.e. work, relationships, finances, education)?

Getting healthier improves everything.
My son now comes to Innovative Results and it has made him stronger, which reinforces the family ties.

What advice do you have for someone who is just getting started with Innovative Results?

Get through that first week.
Yes you may be a little sore, but after that you will see results.

How has your life changed since you started training at Innovative Results?

Life changes constantly.
I now have a new job and have not been able to go to Innovative Results for a month.
But walking in last week was like I never left.
It becomes a lifestyle choice.

Who would you want to experience what you get to experience at Innovative Results?

Everyone should try it.

Why do you stay committed to your improvement in and out of the gym?

Only to stay healthy for my family.

Thank you so much for taking the time to answer these questions, Louis!

Thank you IR.

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Working Out Changed My Life – Thank You Innovative Results fitness gym!

May 17, 2016 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Innovative Results changed my mind about “working out.”

I used to be intimidated at the gym and would only run and do a few machines that I knew I could do without looking silly.

I must admit that I was very intimidated to walk into the gym that didn’t look like a gym at all.

I couldn’t figure out how I was going to get in shape in a place where playground equipment is.

Innovative Results changed my perspective on working out.

And working out changed my life.

After only one month of training at IR, I lost and average of 1 inch in my measurements.

I feel good again.

I feel happy again.

I started to take my kids out and be active.

I continue to come to IR because the trainers make me feel great and push me to be the best I can be for that hour and beyond.

Aaron takes time to talk with me about my weight loss goals and struggles.

He helps keep me on a path of my weight loss and fitness goals.

Every coach at Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground – is extremely positive, encouraging, and helpful.

This place rocks!!

They deliver way beyond the normal fitness gym, bootcamp, local personal trainer, and fitness coach.

-Innovative Results Family Member for life!

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How to Keep Your Resolutions and Fitness Goals – Four Simple Tips To Stay With Your Fitness Training Program

February 10, 2016 by IR Staff 2 Comments

I see it happen every year, and so do you.

So many people get fired up and start their goals to conquer the World with their resolutions and fitness goals.

A lot of those fired up people have fallen off, and by the middle of February, every gym is back to normal, until many of those people realize they have to wear a swimsuit on their tropical vacation this summer (and by that time it is usually too late).

Is it that each person that quits doesn’t lose 43 pounds in two weeks, so they decide it isn’t worth the time, money, nutrition tracking and fitness training anymore?

Is it that they started so intensely that they felt like they were wearing a body cast of lactic acid and soreness, and thought, “well that is horrible…this fitness training thing is not for me?”

Maybe it is that they were overwhelmed with their trainer’s broccoli, chicken, and cardio diet, followed by a lemon, ginger, asparagus, honey, and oatmeal enema, and then, here, take these 400 supplements…oh, and we haven’t even got into your power lifting program…

Whatever it is that coerced or is deceiving you or your friends into quitting, there is an easier way to keep your resolutions and fitness goals.

Feeling better, looking better, and moving better doesn’t have to destroy you, nor does it have to be complicated, nor does it have to cost you an arm and a leg.

Here is a simple four item list that you will be able to keep…for the rest of your life:

Less is More
Build Habits
Restarting is Okay
Do something, even if it is little, and do it now!

1 – Less is More

It isn’t sexy, and it seems counter-intuitive, until you have talked to my longest-attending clients with the most significant fitness, body, and mind transformations.

Start with a daily walk for 5 or 10 minutes, and think about how you can fit this small time and effort pleasantry into your life for the next week.

As the weeks progress, so can you.

If you slowly added 30 minutes of daily walking the results for your fitness goals, improved health and improved mental-wellness are tremendous.

The same goes for nutrition.

Imagine replacing one unhealthy food item with an healthy food item, and you knew you could enjoy this change for the rest of your life.

Now, perform that once per month, for the next year, and you have totally changed the way you eat in two years, and the best part, is that you will be able to sustain this for the rest of your life…no more yo-yo dieting.

2 – Build Habits

So much of the success that I see, is because the person built the habit of just showing up to Innovative Results fitness gym every day…no matter what.

At first, habit building is slightly challenging, but no where near as challenging as the person trying to lose 43 pounds in two months, while trying to finish a marathon before they turn 40, which is happening in three weeks…

The habit-builder sees tremendous change, not because they have a better fitness goal, or more motivation, or more energy.

It is because they are more consistent.

Habits are how we live our daily lives, whereas goals that are large, are seen as an end to something in our life.

Often goals are not achieved, or if someone achieves the goal, they stop doing the thing they need for their improved health, improved fitness, and improved mental-wellness.

You can tell me what happens next, after they stop…Back to the old way of living, that made them choose the fitness goal in the first place.

3 – Restarting is Okay

If you are feeling rotten about quitting or giving up, you don’t have to…it sounds too simple and too easy, but just start again.

If you exercise and improve your nutrition for a month, and then fall-off, and then start a month later, and then do it again, and again, and again…you have exercised 5 months more per year than the person that quit after the first month, and never started again.

If it sounds too simple and too easy, it is because it IS too simple and too easy.

Start again.

Today is the beginning of the rest of your life, and what happened yesterday does not have to define you today.

4 – Do something, even if it is little, and do it now!

Seriously, motion creates emotion, and if you don’t believe me, you haven’t stood up, moved around, smiled, and laughed yet.

Try it with me.

Stand up.

March in place.

Slap your right hand on your left thigh, and your left hand on your right thigh, while you march.

Smile as big as you can, and laugh out loud.

Even if you are interrupting the corporate meeting that you are supposed to be paying attention to right now.

Do it now, and let this tiny bit of effort show you the great rewards that come from a changed life.

Looking to keep your resolution and achieving you fitness goals for Improved Quality of Life, look no further than the four simple and easy to apply action items here:

Less is More
Build Habits
Restarting is Okay
Do something, even if it is little, and do it now!

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The Importance of Partnerships – Survival Stories and Your Fitness Training at The Orange County Fitness Playground

December 29, 2015 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Partnership, friends, and social support is just as powerful as a warm home when we venture forward into any challenge that transforms us. This is true in the challenges of survival situations, as well as when you’re challenged in your fitness training at Innovative Results fitness gym – The Orange County Fitness Playground.

I will prove the importance of partnerships by telling you the story of how I survived 24 hours in a snow-dwelling, with the most important thing I possessed–my moto-buddy (short for motivational buddy).

The Marine Corps orders every Marine to have a “battle buddy,” which is a safety precaution for survival, getting lost, and making better choices.

My battle buddy, soon became my moto-buddy, when our adventure in Bridgeport’s Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC), turned into a death-dealing survival challenge in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, during the depth of winter.

Imagine spending all day hiking up and down steep mountains in a driving blizzard conditions, getting a quick bite to eat, and then not being able to warm yourself by a heater or fireplace in a cozy home.

This is what my friend Josh and I were dealing with, during Scout Skiers course in the famous (or infamous) MWTC, depending on which Marine you ask.

Difficult training became seemingly impossible, when the instructors told us we must stay in a snow-dwelling that we build for 24 hours, which includes the time you are building your new home. This was a pass/fail event, and I am against quitting, so I decided I would not succumb to the seductive hike out to the instructors warm, stove-filled tent (I just hope hypothermia didn’t make my promise of passing a failure).

I remember my moto-buddy, Josh, telling me to keep moving, and stay in it, while we were shaping our shoddy, camo-tarp covered snow hole.

When we were finished, I was wiped, and extremely unimpressed with what was supposed to keep us warm through the night, and it only got colder when the sun went down.

The first few hours we chatted until our teeth chattered, and then as we periodically fell asleep and awoke, the cold seeped deeply into our brains, our limbs were already numb with cold.

I looked up, and my moto-buddy Josh was miserable. He looked like death-warmed-over, and I knew it was my turn to light a fire in his heart and mind.

I told him, it could be worse…we could be outside in this freezing snow-filled place, at least our dwelling provided a few degrees of warmth, and kept the wind and snow off of our necks.

He talked seriously of quitting or dying, and I affirmed to him that we were a long way from both.

If it wasn’t for us becoming more than just battle buddies, but becoming moto-buddies, we would not have past that extremely challenging adventure, and today we are both transformed because of it.

We have deeper-reaching staying power, enduring mental toughness, and penchant for warm, comfortable houses.

It is the same with any challenge we face–we MUST HAVE A PARTNER!

Partnerships, Friendships, Moto-buddies, and our Social Structure can do more than encourage us while times are good.

When challenges become challenging, our moto-buddies in life pull us out of despair and keep us moving in the right direction, the direction we would choose if we only it wasn’t so challenging or difficult in the present moment.

The importance of partnerships is revealed during the challenges of life.

To this day, my friend Josh and I still call each other, moto-buddies!

It is no different this New Year as you pledge to become a better version of yourself, whether physically, financially, or morally.

The fitness coaches at Innovative Results, The Orange County Fitness Playground, use this same mindset, motivation, and support to help you conquer your fitness goals.

We know it is best if you have a friend to be your partner or moto-buddy, and whether this partner is at our fitness gym or not, our coaches will always step-up to that call, with an encouraging word, motivational story, or inspirational example.

We want you to feel the victory of every workout and fitness training session, so we work hard to bring our very best to you each day!

Innovative Results gym is excited for you to grab a partner and head over to The Orange County Fitness Playground to make your next one, your best one

Come Join us in your next transformation!

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How To Make Healthy Habits To Achieve Fitness Goals with Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground

December 19, 2015 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Every year I see the same thing.

Every body and their mom joins the local fitness gym, or starts attending fitness training for the first time since last January.

They have the best intentions on their focused faces, ready to tirelessly drive themselves to lose those stubborn pounds, ridding themselves of their “big” clothes for good.

They sweat, groan, push, and work themselves into a fervor, depriving themselves of pleasantries, drinks, and carbs, so they can earn that body that deftly evaded them last year.

In their dreams they can see the toned, sculpted muscles. They can feel the sleek, sexy physique. They can smell the sweetness (or should I say sweatiness) of victory. They pick out the outfits in their minds, and sometimes even online. They’re emotionally high on the visions of goals, girls, guys, greatness, or whatever finish-line dream they have conjured up.

And then it happens…like a ninja assassin on a dark night…they disappear.

Gone like snow in summer, and where do they go?

Maybe there is a better question…WHY?

I will tell you, but you probably don’t want to believe me, because believing me, means you may have to do things differently this year (if you have quit your fitness goals and aspirations in the past).

Being in the fitness industry for over 15 years, and helping thousands of people last longer in their fitness goals and health improvements than the January fitness gym crowd, I have come to believe it takes more than a fitness goal or physical and mental
aspiration to make those sleek, sexy, sculpted body’s come to life and stay alive.

There are three layers to your healthy habit change, whether in fitness training or any other area of your life: personal, social, and environmental.

If you don’t have all of these set-up for your transformation, the probability of you leaving your local fitness gym or fitness training after a few weeks, goes up dramatically.

If you are joining Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground, we will help you systematically improve every layer of your fitness goals, mental attitude, and whole body-mind-soul transformation.

To understand how to make healthy habits, we will look at these three interconnected areas of your life: personally, socially, and environmentally.

Personally

We will help you set up habits in fitness training, nutrition tracking, and circadian cycles (sleep, wake, and daily energy cycles. Once you have built these healthy habits, you will find doing your fitness, physical, and mental success happens easily.
We will have periodic measurements to help you see that your habits are helping you improvements in your looks, strength, power, endurance, and attitude.
Each fitness training session is set up to build healthy habits in nutrition, hydration, mobility, strength, power, and endurance.
We will teach you, encourage you, motivate you, inspire you, and coach you while you practice these new fitness, lifestyle, and nutrition habits.

Socially

You must have a partner (A coach is good, choosing a partner in the hour you attend is better, and bringing a partner is best-see the importance of partnership.)
You will join one of our high energy hours, at least two times per week – for the best results join us six days per week with unlimited training.
We will encourage you to remove the negative people from your life, giving you the IR Team and IR Family to continuously pour motivation, inspiration, and encouragement into your life.

Environmentally

We will help you become aware of your home habits, work habits, and lifestyle habits (cue, routine, and rewards) to ensure the greatest amount of fitness, mental, and physical growth, development, and success.
We have designed and developed a gym facility that improves your quality of life.
We will make suggestions, and give you information to surround yourself with positive change agents.

Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground has come together for you, creating a personal, social, and environmental transformation program to help you meet your fitness goals and resolutions this year with long term habits.

The Innovative Results Team loves using fitness training to help you bring your New Year’s dreams to life and keep them alive for the rest of the year and your life!

Join Innovative Results fitness gym to finally reach your fitness goals to look better, feel better, and perform better in all areas of your life.

You Can, You Will, You Must achieve your vision of sleek, sexy, and strong this New Year.

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Happy Birthday Marines from Innovative Results fitness gym!

November 10, 2015 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Happy Birthday Marines from Innovative Results fitness gym, The Orange County Fitness Playground!

Enjoy this tribute from Urban Elite Media Group!

Happy Birthday and Semper Fidelis Marines!

Innovative Results team and family, loves our military brothers and sisters, especially you Marines.

Happy Birthday Marines — SSgt Aaron Guyett, at Innovative Results

Aaron Guyett, founder and owner of Innovative Results–The Orange County Fitness Playground, is a Marine, and knows the sacrifice and dedication that each of you have experienced in your life journey to become a Marine and serve this great Nation.

Innovative Results fitness gym is all about discipline, dedication, loyalty, and mental strength, which every Marine knows well.

Because we get a small taste of the arduous task, focused intensity, and patient endurance that comes with training to defend and defending this country, we salute you and your many years of service and devotion.

Thank you so much for putting your life on the line, so we can enjoy the freedoms in these United States of America.

We especially enjoy the ability to go to a from work, home, Innovative Results fitness gym, and our play locations, without persecution and danger.

Thank you Marines.

Your sacrifice is real.

Your service is never forgotten.

Thank God for United States Marines.

Happy Birthday Marines!

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Doctor Amazed By Health Results from Innovative Results Training For A Year

September 4, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Below you will read the story from one of Innovative Results clients, and why his doctor was amazed by his health results.

The Innovative Results fitness gym and personal trainers care deeply about improving people’s quality of life, to include general health measured at annual doctor’s visits.

Read this client’s success story below…

Dear Innovative Results team:

I wanted to send you a hearty thank you for all that you do!

When I first came to Innovative Results fitness gym and personal trainers, my goal was to make it through 4 weeks of the training program without quitting or complaining and to diversify my physical fitness away from years of distance running for fitness.

After 3 weeks at Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground, I was convinced that I could improve my fitness, and all around spirit, so I signed up for 6 months (for fear of being tempted to quit if I was on a month to month program).

Well, that was 2 ½ years ago!

My goals, which are posted at Innovative Results, are to push myself and continually improve my all around fitness and lifestyle.

Never in my wildest dreams did I consider my health readings. Last year, my doctor told me, my cholesterol and blood pressure levels were very high and he was concerned.

After that, I decided to change my workouts from three days to four days per week, to drink more water, watch my diet (nothing scientific) and get more sleep.

At my most recent annual physical a few weeks ago, my doctor was amazed that my blood pressure and cholesterol levels dropped significantly to a very healthy level and exceeded his best case expectations, or predictions for me.

I’m now in the top percentage of health for guys my age (mid 40’s), a result I never thought possible.

In fact, I’m convinced these incredible improvements are a by-product of Innovative Results training program.

Thank you for all your great coaching, encouragement and unique training environment.

Next one best one!

Innovative Results Family Member and Client

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Motivation: The Three Steps to Success – Explained By Innovative Results Fitness Coach

August 3, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

Motivation
By Madison Murphy

Motivation is such an important part of everything we do. Whether it’s getting out of bed in the morning or working out, there’s something inside that motivates you. At Innovative Results we break motivation into three parts: present self, goals, and reason.

Present Self is an honest evaluation of yourself right now which includes
• Body measurements
• Fitness measurements
• Athletic measurements
• Mindset

How are you right now? Be honest but not judgmental. You have already evaluated yourself, at least somewhat, and decided to improve you quality of life by coming to Innovative Results. Motivation starts by evaluating your Present Self.

Goals are an awesome way to get motivated. They give you something to constantly work towards and look forward to. At Innovative Results we make S.M.A.R.T goals:
• Specific
• Measurable
• Attainable
• Realistic
• Time Bound

You set goals after you honestly evaluate yourself presently to keep working hard and stay motivated. If you set goals and determine to reach them, then you accomplish what you are striving for.

Reasons are why you want to accomplish the goals you set. It’s important to have reasons why you want to achieve your goals to be clear that you really want what you say you want. Some of the reasons why people are motivated to train at IR are:
• Improved quality of life
• Increased fitness
• Increased functional strength
• Reduction of weight/body fat

While it may seem that motivation is term that is hard to define, by dividing it into three sub parts, it becomes much clearer. Knowing that: Present Self, Goals and Reasons are all components of motivation gives you tools to accomplish your goals.

Want to read more from Coach Madison?

Check out – Adjusting the Intensity of Your Workouts to Produce Better Results

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Learn How To Achieve Success With These Three Attitude Principles From Innovative Results Fitness Coach Aubrie Pohl

July 5, 2015 by Jessica 1 Comment

By Aubrie Pohl

The elaborate structure of the human mind yields one of the greatest imaginable catalysts to SUCCESS.

Learn How To Achieve Success With These Three Principles of Attitude:

Positive Thinking – A Positive Mental Attitude
Positive Words – What You Say Matters
Positive Action – It is Your Move

An essential step you can take towards achieving your greatest potential is being mindful of your ATTITUDE. A mastermind of your cognition, attitude shapes the way you perceive the world and the way the world perceives you.

It directly impacts our communication, contribution, and performance on a daily basis. Developing a high level of attitude awareness creates the ability to shape your world and mind into any desired result!

A positive attitude is intentional, and if you can think, speak, and act consistently in this way, you will change the way you feel inside and elevate your life to one of happiness, compassion, and opportunity.

THE POWER OF POSITIVE THINKING

Our febrile human minds create an incessant flow of thoughts.

Positive thinking begins within that endless chatter of unspoken thoughts within our brain, called self-talk.

By nature we experience both positive and negative thoughts, so to say we should always think positively is unrealistic. However, embracing the right ATTITUDE can transform a negative notion into a positive one.

Through dominating our internal battle with beneficial thoughts, such as less self-criticism and more self-acceptance, we have the ability to rewire our brain.

The brain strengthens neural connections that are used and weakens ones that aren’t.

Adopting a new habit of positive thinking will slowly shift your brain into a positivity producing engine! This will generate advantageous effects both within your body and in your life.

Negative thinking can wreak havoc in the system by igniting stress responses, as well as narrow your mind to focusing on negative emotions. On the contrary, positive thinking can open your mind to the vast array of opportunities in our world, and will greatly reduce the harmful health effects of stress on the body.

Positive thoughts help build skills and produce an enhanced ability to handle stress in a more constructive way, and encouraging self-talk can convert any obstacle into an opportunity for growth and courage.

By rewiring the brain to create an endless flow of primarily positive thoughts, the forthcoming words and actions will be equally fruitful.

WHAT YOU SAY MATTERS

Words are tools that we have always had access to and have used every day since we started verbally communicating; they allow us to connect with each other and give meaning to our experiences. Consequently, they can have a profound impact upon ourselves and the people around us.

What you say, and how you say it, can be important and even life changing in the view of someone else.

Words have a biochemical effect on the body, and by introducing positive words into our vocabulary, we can change the pattern of our feelings and create joyful experiences!

Essentially, the words we attach to our experience will transform our perception.

We literally have the ability to turn a monotonous task into an exciting activity by simply choosing to use positive words.

Try this! The next time someone asks you, “How are you?”… instead of saying “good”, try “fantastic” or “awesome!” and notice how it affects your attitude.

Through positively orchestrating our speech, we can spark change to guide ourselves to action and improve the quality of our lives.

IT’S YOUR MOVE

Instilling our actions in forward momentum will allow us to continue on a path of self-transformation and success.

Mindfully build good habits, pursue goals, endeavor to live the life you have imagined and you can confidently move in the direction of your highest potential! By taking the right steps in the right direction, positive actions become intentional activities that manifest more motivation, happiness, and improved life conditions.

The inevitable negative moments in life will occur, but with a positive attitude we can accept those moments as opportunities to take positive action and reach a new high.

In fact, a change of behavior can alter how we think and feel.

Our emotions are reinforced by their matching expression, so even our poses and demeanor have the potential to change the chemical make-up of our bodies.

Smile and you will feel happier!

Stand tall with your chest out and you will assert confidence.

With a little polish of our ATTITUDE, we can change our actions and reactions, continually discovering maneuvers we can perform to make our lives more meaningful and satisfying.

UNLEASH YOUR INNER AWESOME

If you want to change your life, construct your decisions and actions, and become what you are truly capable of, start shifting your emotional patterns.

A positive attitude starts from within, and monitoring the internal dialogue will effectively influence your relationship with yourself and your relationships with others.

Focusing your mind on how to be positive will reveal more ways to be so.

As we communicate with this transformational vocabulary, we radiate our positivity to others in hopes of redirecting possible negative words they harbor.

Fill yourself with positive energy, and choose thoughts, words, and actions that leave you feeling good towards yourself and others.

At any moment, you have the power to construct your decisions and actions.

As always, it’s your call.

After Learning These 9 Running Technique Drills – Steve Makes a Mental Gain

December 12, 2014 by ptpt 2 Comments

This video has all 9 Running Technique Drills that helped Steve, Anshika, and countless other Innovative Results fitness clients get faster, more efficient, and more effective running. Keep reading to hear Steve’s awesome story of fitness training at Innovative Results – The Orange County Fitness Playground.

Every time an Innovative Results client and family member share their story and do a review, they are helping us help more people improve their quality of life.

Read about Steve’s running and quality of life improvement here:

I wanted to thank you and share a story about running that I think you’ll enjoy.

As you know, I have been doing triathlons for the last few years and I’m always looking for ways to improve my performance.

Coming to Innovative Results after taking a 12 month break due to injury has been one of the best decisions I’ve made.

I’ve been able safely gain my strength back in order to keep myself injury free going forward.

The fun and self confidence I gain are just extras!

Last week at our regular Innovative Results workout you had us do some running but it seemed odd to me at the time because we only have 20 meters to work with.

I wondered how we were going to run indoors?

With skill and clarity you (Coach Aaron) explained the processes of running as controlled falling.

My favorite part was the demonstration of what a baby looks like when they learn to walk – you’re really good at it with your daughter’s example fresh in your mind!

The visuals and the exercises combined to make for what ended up being a decent workout (as usual).

What I wanted to share was my recent experience on a run.

I never said I was a FAST triathlete and my running pace has been plateaued at a pace averaging between 9:30 and 10:00 per mile.

As I began my run I said to myself, “Fall forward” and tried to apply the techniques we just learned at the IR session.

I was very comfortable while running, more comfortable than usual.

Then I realized I was enjoying running at a pace that was in the 8:30 per mile range!

At various points on the run I was even able to get into the high 7’s pace.

I have not been running much so I know that much change in performance was not due to pounding out miles, rather it was MENTAL.

I couldn’t tell if my actual technique was really different, but my mental state was.

Instead of trying push my body forward stride after stride I leaned forward and consciously tried to use gravity to my advantage.

IT WORKS!

I have a lot more training to do before I’m back in racing form, but I expect some nice gains next year.

In the meantime, I have some other physical endurance goals to accomplish this Spring and with the support I get from Innovative Result and you (Aaron, Aubrie, Mark, Madison, and Mason) as my coach I have every confidence that I’ll achieve those goals and beyond.

Thanks for your passion!
Steve Stary

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