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Still in Great Hands: Innovative Results Keeps Moving Forward with New Owner

April 10, 2017 by Jessica 7 Comments

When was the last time you heard laughter and squeals of delight at the gym? And not from the mouths of babes at the daycare section? At Costa Mesa’s Innovative Results The Fitness Playground, fun is always to be expected from a workout session. Having a sense of play is built in to training sessions. Whether it’s simulating knife fights with DIY foam weapons, dribbling soccer balls inside a magic square, or bouldering on the newly erected rock climbing wall, no workout is ever a bore.

What makes these exciting exercises even more enjoyable is the people who are doing them with you. With a close-knit, team-like atmosphere during group training sessions, clients are improving their health and enjoying it in the process. The Innovative Results’ coaching team consistently improves upon their health and fitness philosophy of Mindset, Movement, and Recovery through various educational workshops to deliver the most current, functional, and safe techniques in fitness and wellness, and the best and most useful information in nutrition. Innovative Results intends to continue its growing legacy with a new owner who himself has been a long-time client: Harrel Carman. Under his leadership, Carman wants more of everything that makes Innovative Results the beloved household name in Orange County fitness.

Harrel Carman: Dedicated to More

Innovative Results’ new owner, Harrel Carman, is much like Los Angeles’ Angels of Anaheim Coach, Mike Scioscia. Scioscia had a successful career as a catcher for the Dodgers. He parlayed his experience and expertise into coaching the Angels. Much like Scioscia, Carman’s path towards being Innovative Results’ new owner has been paved with dedication to sports and athleticism, and building and improving relationships.

Carman has long been passionate about physical fitness. He has competed in Baseball, Football, Basketball, Tennis, and Track & Field. He still plays Basketball most Saturday mornings and has been playing in Flag Football tournaments with the same team for over 15 years. Carman also regularly competes in Kettlebell Sport events and has won many medals lifting the 32kg kettlebell in the Men’s 85kg bodyweight division. Such an admirable commitment to physical health is actually grounded in a promise to others. Carman says, “Since I was young, maybe around 5 or 6 years old, I decided to begin working for my ‘future family.’ My dedication to my own health and fitness is my dedication to the family I have now, as well as when my family begins to grow (no kids yet, but eventually). I want to enjoy my kids, be able to play with them. Be able to roll around on the ground and play with my grandkids even. I want to be an example, through my own dedications, to my family, friends, and community.”

His active lifestyle is further complemented by a background in personal training, one that Carman has continued to expand over the last ten years. He has completed certifications in NASM, Functional Range Conditioning, Onnit Battle Ropes and Steel Clubs, Orange Kettlebell Club, SCUBA, and CPR. Carman’s favorite aspect of personal training was “how I got to interact with other people. Helping them learn more about themselves and the strength they have inside them.”

20170316_142436 — Innovative Results Owner Harrel Carman & wife, Julianne.

This knack for building people up has been a key component in Carman’s success in business. He has managed and run several businesses ranging from a financial company, to construction, to the Kumon tutoring center that he owns with his wife, Julianne. “I’ve found team-building to be the most important aspect of having a successful business,” asserts Carman. “Describing the ‘perfect’ team isn’t possible for me, since every business’ needs are different. However, the team currently at Innovative Results was a big factor in my decision to purchase the business. Without this incredible team, I don’t think I’d have been interested. I’m so excited to become a part of this awesome team and to bring even more energy and enthusiasm to continue Innovative Results’ vision moving forward.”

Continuing to Transform: A Better Quality of Life for Everyone

In the ten years that Harrel Carman has been a client of Innovative Results, he has seen the positive influence that Orange County’s Fitness Playground has had on its members and the surrounding community. He says, “I love the passion that’s brought every day and the dedication that Innovative Results coaches show to our clients!”. Innovative Results’ mission is: “Improve quality of life through diligent change and growth, dedication to the basics, and service to our community.” Former owner Aaron Guyett built a solid coaching team that is enthusiastic and genuine about making an impact on each and every person that walks through Innovative Results’ doors. Numerous client reviews on social media attest to incredible transformations in physical, emotional, and mental well-being. Each Innovative Results trainer truly embodies the coveted title emblazoned on the back of their black and gray shirts: coach. Aubrie Pohl and Dane Fernandez are two coaches who are there for clients at any point in their journey towards wellness, whether it be providing a modification or giving encouragement during a workout, or answering nutrition questions outside of the gym.

Carman is eager for what lies ahead. “My current vision for Innovative Results is to keep it moving in the same direction it has been over the years. I don’t have any visions of making drastic changes.” Carman elaborates: “It’s why I’m so excited for this opportunity. The current culture is so freaking fun, why change it? The only thing I really want to do, is take everything that Innovative Results is and make it more. More opportunities for our coaches to learn/grow, more tools for our clients to reach their goals, more more more! I hope through our commitment to bettering the lives of our clients, we can reach more and more of those in our community to do the same.”

Article Author: Margaret Fajardo

Setting up a Mindset For Success – By Innovative Results Coach, Dane Fernandez

April 3, 2017 by Dane 2 Comments

Setting up a Mindset For Success

By: Innovative Results Coach, Dane Fernandez

Do you remember getting ready for your first day of work at a new job, or your first day at a new school or new gym?

Can you recall the feeling you felt the night before the big day?

How did you feel?

Did you feel excited, motivated, and ready?

What kind of mindset did you possess at the time?

Was it a mindset that was willing to accomplish and achieve goals?

Were you able to feel the passion to succeed?

If you answered “yes” to any of the preceding questions you may have felt motivation and maybe even possessed motivation for a period of time.

Motivation is a powerful force which is distinctive to each and every individual. Motivation is also experienced and expressed differently from individual to individual, that’s the beauty of it.

If you ever felt motivation can you recall how long it lasted?

How did your mindset affect your motivational will to succeed?

Were you able to keep your mindset strong day in and day out?

Or, was your mindset lacking positive reinforcement?

It turns out that maintenance of your Mindset is the key component towards achieving your goals.

By keeping a consistent positive Mindset, you’ll be sure to achieve and keep achieving your present and future goals.

This article will be able to help you if you are someone who is searching for ideas to help maintain a positive mindset in order to keep you motivated in the gym, or someone who is always looking for ways of improving your daily habits.

Mindset can be broken down into three components. These three components are split up into Attitude, Motivation, and Support. I will talk about these three components of Mindset individually, and then talk about how they are interconnected with each other before finally relating them all back to Mindset. In order for one to accomplish a long term goal, they will need to execute a well thought out plan. By focusing on building a strong Mindset, you will be able to strategically plan out your goals. The first component that addresses one’s Mindset is Attitude.

Attitude is everything and starts within yourself. Finding the right attitude is easy, keeping the right attitude is where the work gets hard. If your attitude is lacking then chances are other aspects of your life are lacking as well. Your attitude sets up your behavior in any given task. When you are able to apply a positive attitude towards everything you do, success will be inevitable. Attitude has the ability to set up other attributes or components to a positive Mindset.

In order to establish a great attitude self reflection is necessary. At the beginning and ending of each day, it’s important to take 2-5 minutes in order to do some self-reflection. This time can be used constructively to plan out your upcoming day’s tasks and goals. This time can also be used to reflect and look back on your completed day’s work in order to gauge your successes and failures. By doing five minutes of self reflection you are able to establish a means of personal accountability.

After you complete your reflection you will have a better idea of what works for you and what doesn’t. You will be better situated to put your action into motion for the following days, weeks, and months to come. This type of self reflection will help you to create and establish a positive feedback loop to success. Once this positive feedback loop is created you will need help keeping it functioning. This is where the next component to Mindset comes into play; Motivation.

Motivation is more than a cool video or meme. It’s a feeling, it’s a desire, it’s a want. When dealing with motivation it’s important to look at the different types of motivation and how they set up consistent behavior which creates positive habits.

In general there are two types of motivation, intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. Intrinsic motivation deals with behavior driven by internal rewards. Extrinsic motivation tends to deal with performing a behavior or engaging in an activity that will earn a reward or to avoid punishment.

Usually, extrinsic motivation will be hard to sustain due to the reward system. With extrinsic motivation you are looking for a means to an end. Somewhere down the line you’ll get burnt out and tired of this motivational feed. In order to be successful you must find a good intrinsic motivator. By establishing an internal reward system you are able to build up your confidence and ability to complete tasks. By conducting a slow and steady approach, your motivation will be better situated to last in the long run.

This all goes back to the kind of attitude you are able to construct. Without the right attitude you’ll have a hard time finding the right kind of motivation to seek out. With your attitude set and your motivation found, you are ready to get started at achieving your goals. After the initial burst of energy burns off, you will need to dig deep in order to keep things rolling. For this you will need to establish and develop a great support system. This leads us to the last component of Mindset; Support.

Support or Support System(s) is the last peace to the Mindset puzzle. Support is a necessary component for a foundation to hold strong. It’s difficult to build a strong Mindset if the Support System is lacking to hold everything together. A Support System can be held together by looking a one’s environment, friends, and family. By having a great environment with positive contributing friends and family, you are surrounding yourself for success. You will need someone to lean on when the going gets tough. Surrounding yourself with the right friends and family can make all the difference in the world. Your friends and family are some of the most influential people in your life and they can be a great positive Support System. You have to be able to turn to your family and friends when you feel or experience self doubt. It is their support that will make all the difference in your succession of your goals. If you are able to surround yourself with positive people that keep you motivated and are able to keep you on track, you will have set up another means of accountability for your actions.

A Support System is not complete until you have found a coach that is willing to help you along the way. Look for a fitness coach that will discuss goals and ideas with you. By finding a fitness coach, you will be able to connect to your goals on a deeper level making it more meaningful and concrete. Your coach can help you fine tune your fitness goals and make them more realistic for your desired time-frame. With the right tools and intentions, you can administer the ultimate plan for success.

Only when you are able to implement all three of these components of Mindset into your daily life, you’ll be able to start making positive progress towards your lifestyle goals. Once you are able to believe in your plan of action, your Attitude, Motivation, and Support will be the pillars upholding your Mindset.

Now it’s time to go out and set up your Mindset for success.

Victory and the Versaclimber is an Innovative Results Daily Habit – Read The Story of E.O. and Sidney Here

August 22, 2016 by IR Staff 3 Comments

Victory and The VersaClimber: Part of an Innovative Results Daily Habit

By: Margaret Fajardo

Eric Olson, weight loss, healthy weight loss — E.O. With a Sea Monster

It has become a time-honored ritual for two. Having just finished Innovative Results’ signature fitness training session, Sidney Sudberg and Eric Olson get on the VersaClimber and bust out a series of sprints. For many fitness session attendees at Innovative Results, the VersaClimber is a personal Everest. Its unique vertical climbing motion works the entire body, not to mention spiking the heart rate within milliseconds. Despite its efficiency, getting on the VersaClimber for 10-, 20-, and 30-second bursts, or even a full minute is no easy task.

Sudberg is a chiropractor of almost 70 years. Among his many physical credits is being an avid practitioner of yoga. Before every Innovative Results session, Sudberg stretches out and works on a variety of yoga poses. Olson is an entrepreneur in his late 40s. An experienced motocross rider, Olson has successfully gone from slow and overweight to defined and explosive in the last year and has continually advanced in his sport.

Sudberg and Olson show up to the 6am session, always ready for whatever the coaches have planned. Whether the workout focuses on upper body, lower body, or total body, Sudberg and Olson push themselves to the max. Getting on the VersaClimber then becomes an even sweatier yet sweeter victory to their morning routine.

Why Innovative Results Incorporates the VersaClimber

“It’s not a machine. It’s a tool, “ said Aaron Guyett, Innovative Results Founder and Master Coach. Guyett makes it a point to emphasize this distinction when referring to the VersaClimber. While electric fans are the only machines to speak of at Guyett’s gym – there are no static weight machines, treadmills, or TVs – his space certainly isn’t lacking in quality tools and equipment. Guyett’s coaching expertise maximizes each and every training tool available to him and his coaching staff, and the VersaClimber is no exception.

As Guyett elaborates: “We made the VersaClimber a big part of our programming because it integrates contralateral movements. It works your right and left brain together, which makes your brain function at a higher level, and reduces your stress at the same time.”

This brain-body connection produces multiple benefits. As Guyett explains, “Through its contralateral pattern, the VersaClimber has allowed current clients to overcome mental stresses and find deeper strength and deeper stores of energy by building aerobic capacity, and pushing them to new levels of understanding of how well their body and mind can perform.”

While most of us don’t climb vertically very often, the VersaClimber can still be an effective tool for overall fitness. Guyett talks about how the VersaClimber has “helped improve people’s coordination and performance in other active pursuits such as running, walking, sprinting, swimming, cycling. On top of the added benefits of increasing lean body mass, reduced body fat, and higher aerobic capacity, the reduced stress levels and efficient brain function, will improve people’s quality of life at home and at work.”

Get In, Get On, and Go All The Way

It looks like one of them will beat the other. But in fact, all are victorious, because Sudberg and Olson aren’t competing against each other. They’re each trying to beat their own previous records. As Olson said, “[The VersaClimber is] Something that gives you a number. When you’re doing it, you have the feedback of where you’re hitting, what the number is, how many feet per minute, what your time’s gonna be. It’s kinda like a true measurement.” His numbers have greatly increased. He now can climb 300 feet in one minute, completely obliterating his first time result of 202 feet in the same time. As Olson recalled, “First time we did a minute test, I hit 202, I was gassed and tired, I mean beat. I’ve gotten over 300 now and walk away from it. That’s the mark.” As a motocross rider, Olson has seen the added benefits of his cardio climb. He said, “Now, I can stay on my bike longer, have a lower heart rate while I’m riding.”

In the last year and a half at Innovative Results, Sudberg has experienced various kinds of progress. Among the greatest rewards are gaining more courage and conquering challenges. As Sudberg said, “What I didn’t expect was to experience the great sense of accomplishment and physical strength after doing the daily exercise routine and that with the greater resistance, came the keen sense that all challenges in life are the same.” This mindset helps him power through the added challenge of the Versaclimber. As Sudberg recalls, “At first, this was near impossible for me to keep up with, but with the consistent commitment of E.O. and my own personal commitment to overcoming my physical and mental resistance, I prevailed and now look forward to these ‘extra credit’ workouts, physically as well as mentally.”

Sudberg and Olson aren’t the only ones who go the extra mile. With the support and expertise of every Innovative Results coach, every client can successfully reach his or her own personal summit. Much like each VersaClimber step, every effort brings you closer and closer to your best.

For more information about the VersaClimber go to: http://versaclimber.com/

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Lose Body Fat and Get Stronger is Why This Busy, Working Mom Comes To Innovative Results

June 3, 2016 by IR Staff Leave a Comment

Coco is an incredibly busy woman.

If there is such a thing as Super Woman, she is that person!

She is a single mother with two kids, and a very successful business woman in Orange County, California. English is her second language, and I am pretty sure she speaks more than just English and Chinese.

The Innovative Results fitness coaches are constantly amazed at her hard work, consistency, and commitment to her weekly workouts (two to four times per week).

We were so impressed with her physical and mental improvements that we interviewed her to understand more clearly how she is able to do it all.

Check out her interview below.

When did you start training at Innovative Results?

I started training around May 2013.

Why did you start training with Innovative Results?

My son started training at Innovative Results first.

After I watched him for couple months.

I was really impressed with everything he was doing with personal trainer, so I decided to give it a try.

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

I’m much stronger

I have gained lean muscles, and learned how to work out properly, without injuring my lower back.

What kept you coming back to Innovative Results?

It worked!

The Innovative Results coaches are professional trainers that will design different exercise and fitness routines every week for your benefit.

The personal trainers make sure you get full body workout.

Every week is different.

The training program is not boring like traditional gym.

I learned so much at Innovative Results.

I always feel energized and happy after the workouts.

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

The coaches at Innovative Results teach me how to live a healthy lifestyle, both in and out of the gym.

The coaches emphasize positive energy.

They teach you to be the best of yourself, and never give up.

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

Just keep going, don’t quit.

If I can do it at age of 44, you can do it too.

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

I’m healthier and stronger.

I lost body fat and gained lean muscle.

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

I will bring my daughter to the Innovative Results gym this summer.

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

I want to stay in shape, and live an active, healthy life.

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Improved Quality of Life Means Immediate Results at Innovative Results

May 28, 2014 by ptpt 3 Comments

By Aaron Guyett

Immediate Results!

That’s right! We claim immediate results! Not the type that is pledged from plastic surgeons, lipo-suction docs, pharmacists, and eight-minute abs (or is it six-minute abs now?). The immediate results that Innovative Results is touting come from the deep desire to make a lasting change. The person that comes to us for that change, shows up, does the work, and accepts the coaching to improve, even when there is a little bit of intimidation or downright fear. Below are just a few changes each client should begin to notice as they get serious about the change they are pursuing with Innovative Results (IR). The two main areas clients see immediate results when they train at IR are improved performance and elevated understanding of fitness.

Improved Performance

Performance becomes immediate when one becomes aware that there is a need for improvement. While this sounds largely philosophical, think about it for a minute. If a person has been sedentary for years, or even if someone has been active for years, but did not know that breath was an essential part of movement performance—there would be an immediate return on investment at Innovative Results. Proper breathing sequence is just the beginning of improved performance one immediately receives when they train at Innovative Results. The two biggest areas improvements in performance are: Increased Energy and Increased Body Awareness.

Increased Energy

Just starting a consistent, methodical, and purposeful exercise routine will do incredible justice for your circadian cycles (wake, sleep, and energy rhythms). When the norm of hitting snooze is replaced by the wakeful intention of getting stronger, leaner, looking better, or feeling better, your energy levels are already transitioning toward improvement. Even if you have only been working out at Innovative Results for a very short time, you may have noticed improvement in your focus, energy, and production at work or with your family. This is important stuff in our lives!!

Increased Body Awareness

I always think of the seen in Anchorman where the character Ron Burgandy talks about his ubulus attached to his upper dorsimas, but he really has no clue what he is talking about. This scene is hilarious, and can often be a sad reality in the world of armchair quarterbacks and Internet geniuses. There is little more satisfying to me than when someone looks at me with delight, because they were able to “feel” their abs engage in a push-up, squat, hip-hinge, or inverted row. Incredible body awareness can be found in one session, and change the way a person’s body moves for the rest of their life. This is quality improvement, and transformation worth thousands of dollars in surgery, therapy, or other care related to the lack of body awareness that most of us experience daily.

Elevated Understanding of Fitness

Training at Innovative Results will help people engage fitness from the understanding that emotions, psychology, and action inspire us to achieve our goals, but it is the science, methodology, and consistency that actually bring us to the point of success. I often explain to people that I LOVE the FACT that getting a person from point A to point B is plainly science, but helping them embrace the science is largely emotional. If a person does not have a deep, emotional why, driving them toward their fitness goal(s), it will probably be hard for that person to accept the pain and persistence that comes with embracing the science of physiological and psychological change. The cool part of this problem is that humans are creatures of habits. Once we accept and engage with the mindset, movement, and recovery necessary for change, it becomes easier and easier to make it a part of our lifestyle habits.

Mindset Knowledge and Coaching

Every coach at Innovative Results knows the intricacies of mindset when it comes to improving the quality of life by moving better, feeling better, or looking better (in other words leaning, toning, strengthening, healing, and happiness). Innovative Results coaches teach that a positive attitude isn’t absolutely imperative to the process, but it sure does make the process more enjoyable and easier to handle. The coaches themselves interject positivity in their own process of diligent change and growth, to create a platform of positivity in which to stand the client and community firmly on. Motivation as understood by the Innovative Results coach is an indelible part of the client’s improvement, transformation, change, and/or empowerment. Without knowledge of where each person is and where they want to go, with a deep emotional why to get there, the coach and client usually flounder in a sea of uncertainty and no shows (not to mention spotty or zero results). Lastly, the support that is found in each session, with the IR Team, with the IR Family, through the IR facility, and with all of the friends and family of the community, is how Innovative Results continues to improve and grow. The Innovative Results team member and family member expresses a desire to promote the important mindset qualities found in its program to the entire community, because, let’s face it, we are losing the war on obesity and quality of life, and we all want at least our community to win, if not our whole nation. Not to mention the program’s other immediate benefits of movement and recovery knowledge, and coaching.

Movement Knowledge and Coaching

With certificates, degrees, licenses, and an accumulated 60 years worth of knowledge in human movement the Innovative Results trainers coach this particular skill with passion and intelligence that surpasses most gyms that tout one certificate or a few years experience. Innovative Results takes its knowledge and coaching of movement so seriously that it spends several hours critiquing each progression and each exercise to ensure it holds the highest return for physiological improvement while remaining extremely low on the risk for injury, and trying to uphold fun found in a fitness playground. IR trainers use planes of movement, energy systems, and progressive adaptation when they build each workout for the client, being sure to have several degrees of modification and acceleration to meet each level of client. Besides the coaches bringing energy, focus, and intelligent feedback to each client, the strong veteran clients naturally motivate and help support the new clients that hold huge opportunities for improving, all while working hard, focusing well, and building results together.

Recovery Knowledge and Coaching

People get hurt, period. This is a fact every person on the planet must live with, however, it does not have to chain people to the couch, computer, car, and cell phone, and keep humanity from enjoying life. Actually, if a person gains knowledge and coaching in movement, and couples it with recovery knowledge and coaching, they severely reduce the chance for injury, while greatly improving the opportunity to look better, feel better, and move better. This is a skill no one should ignore or shrug off. Each IR coach is geared with vast knowledge in rest, fuel, and techniques to heal old nagging problems and create improvements in performance and aesthetics (how we look in the mirror or in clothes). These recovery points include: sleep, stress-management, focus, hydration, nutrition, SMR, activation, and more.

The next time you find yourself at Innovative Results to experience the best gym and trainers in Orange County, which most likely puts them among the best in the World. Pick their brain, and USE them to help improve your quality of life, as you venture toward your goals.

And thank you for continuing to share your story of success, even these immediate improvements that you have experienced. Your story is the reason why we exist, and it is the only way we can put up a fight in this gnarly battle against obesity, low quality of life, and disease that is so prevalent throughout Orange County and our nation today.

Are YOU ready to get RESULTS & Improve YOUR Quality of Life?

Setting up a Mindset For Success – By Innovative Results Coach, Dane Fernandez

Victory and the Versaclimber is an Innovative Results Daily Habit – Read The Story of E.O. and Sidney Here

Lose Body Fat and Get Stronger is Why This Busy, Working Mom Comes To Innovative Results

Improved Quality of Life Means Immediate Results at Innovative Results

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