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Your Adventure Awaits – Get Outdoors in 2018

December 27, 2017 by Jessica 2 Comments

If you are like the majority of us here at Orange County’s Fitness Playground, you are plotting out your incredible 2018 adventures!

In the never-ending pursuit of an improved quality of life, our Innovative Results Team has been working hard to build a 2018 Active Lifestyle calendar for our clients, community, coaches and staff. This calendar includes new workshops, educational opportunities, outdoor adventures, and charity workouts, just to name a few!

First up in 2018, we have an incredible opportunity for everyone looking to spend a little more time outdoors this year.

On January 6th, 2018, Innovative Results will be hosting not only our first event of the New Year, but our very first event of its kind (at The Fitness Playground).

A 2-Hour Backpacking and Outdoor Travel Workshop, with bonus (aka optional) overnight trip to Joshua Tree!

Hosted by ‘urban-dweller turned outdoor educator and adventurer’ Jeremy Blanco (read more about Jeremy below), and Innovative Results’ very own Aubrie Pohl, this workshop is aimed to educate and empower new ways for its attendees to experience the great outdoors.

What will be covered during the 2-Hour Workshop?

– How to prepare for any outdoor hike or excursion
– How to pack
– Gear, attire and travel recommendations
– Tips for making your next outdoor adventure, your BEST outdoor adventure
– Meditation, breathing and yoga practices
– And much more!

Ready to put your newfound knowledge to the test under the guidance and support of both Jeremy & Aubrie?!

Jeremy and Aubrie have added an *Optional* Overnight Trip for no additional fee.

This is not included in the price of the workshop, and free for you to attend. (You will need to provide your own supplies, including food and water). If you are interested in joining the overnight hike at Joshua Tree, the details of this event will be sent via email and covered at the workshop. *Workshop attendance is required to attend Overnight Trip to Joshua Tree, and departure will be at the conclusion of the 2-hour workshop.

Overnight Trip to Joshua Tree (January 6th)
Food needed for trip to JT
2-3 Hikes at Joshua Tree (Get an opportunity to put to practice what you’ve learned from the workshop)
Geo-Caching at Joshua Tree
Morning Yoga with Aubrie (put into practice what you learned at the workshop)

Event Details:

What: Backpacking & Outdoor Travel Workshop
When: Jan. 6th @ 7am
Where: Innovative Results
Workshop Only: $89
Workshop + Overnight (Jan. 6th): $89

Meet Jeremy Blanco:

I am Jeremy, an urban dweller turned avid outdoor educator and adventurer after an eventful weekend trip to Yosemite Valley. Since then I received a degree in Sociology and Environmental Studies, taught at an outdoor science school, led conservation teams into the back-country, directed a summer camp in Japan, and of course have spent every other moment learning various outdoor skills from mentors, coworkers, and fellow backpackers, now becoming a bit of a multi-tool.

I love dabbling in different mindsets and cultures through outdoor rec trips such as swimming in lakes, trail and snow marathons, barbecuing of course, art, and a specialty in backpacking and traveling by bicycle. These passions and modes of life have led to the jungles of Peru, the windy glaciers of Patagonia, drinking yak milk in the Himalayas feeling like death, calling of a final summit push on a dream backcountry snowboard project in Japan, walking into a blowfish while spearfishing off the coast of Panama, and other stories involving culture, luck, and hardship.

This was directly possible because of a few reasons I’d like to talk to you about at the workshop and pass along some tricks of the trade that are surely going to be impactful for you as they have been for me to this point.

MOVEMENT IS MEDICINE

August 29, 2017 by Jessica 3 Comments

By: Coach Dane Fernandez

WHAT IS MOVEMENT

We have been living in a civilized society for thousands of years, and only up until recently have we seen a decline in of our populations physical abilities. There are few who have excelled at getting their body to its maximum ability and potential, but for the vast majority of the civilized world we have let our immediate environment take over causing physical evolutionary change.

It’s funny to think we live in a society that needs to count their steps in order to meet the suggested physical recommendations for daily exercise. Surrounding environments play a big factor in dictating a routine or habit. When living in a modern environment we feel the need to create things like the “10,000 step a day rule”. We also create modified movement facilities like weight gyms.

As a culture we have learned that in order for us to live in the modern world we need to take part in physical activity to up keep one’s health. Gyms and sports are a means to fun physical activity in hopes of improving oneself in dimensions of speed, agility, quickness, power, and strength.

GOOD MOVEMENT vs. BAD MOVEMENT
Are we creating healthy individuals or are we taking people farther from true healthy movement? With generalized and sport specific training we are developing the bodies abilities, but are we doing it correctly and safely? Doing a gym workout is believed to replace the physical activity that we’d normally take part in if we were still living in pre-modern times. Being in a gym setting is probably not the most ideal way to express excess energy but it works with our modern society and culture.

Sport specific and generalized training are great for personal development, they provide essential skills for mind and body awareness. It takes phenomenal strength and control to perform these types of activities. We can all agree that any type of body training is going to be beneficial compared to remaining stagnant. Education, discipline, and time are a few factors when looking at developing a healthy human body.

HEALTHY MOVEMENT vs. UNHEALTHY MOVEMENT
When training is done correctly it can be extremely beneficial as one takes part in their daily lifestyle. The more your mind and body are trained the better they will respond when called upon. It is important to train ‘’the right way” on a daily basis.
Movement in our daily life comprises of multiple movement patterns. When we get stuck in a repetitive day-to-day routine it’s hard for most of us to practice healthy movements. Our movements become repetitive and unhealthy becoming harmful to one’s health.

Healthy movements can be tough to identify with all the misconceptions out in today’s health industry. Stick to the basics and master them, this is key. Once you’ve owned the basics only then can you start doing all the fun and cool movements and workouts.

Healthy movement starts with where the movement takes place. Moving in all three planes of motion will allow your body to be optimally trained. Movement in the Sagittal (Forward-Back/Up-Down), Frontal (Left-Right), and Transverse (Rotation)planes of motion will put a halt to the day to day routine.
Moving correctly takes time and dedication to the basics. Learning to control you body through it’s proper movement patterns becomes essential for optimal human health.

Control has to be one of the most underlooked components to a healthy body. Proper stabilization and mobilization of your body needs to be addressed before performing SAQ, Power, Strength, and Endurance activities or workouts. Capabilities and abilities improve when mobilization and stabilization are performed on a daily basis.

With mobility and stability improving you will be setting yourself up for successful training protocol and workouts. Addressing strength, power, speed, agility, quickness, endurance, and aerobic capacity will be much easier. Focusing on how to train the correct energy pathway for the given workout will be the main concern instead of correcting bad form and posture.

SMART ACTIVE RECOVERY
Performing movements and workouts will place stresses on your body’s bones, joints, and soft tissues. We’d all like to go day-to-day without any aches and pains and by starting a recovery protocol you will help ensure a healthy body. Succeeding in your workouts are very important for one’s health, but paying attention to how you treat your body after a workout has huge implementations as will.

By doing multiple active recovery techniques your body will start to notice faster adaptations to the stresses placed on it. Placing an emphasis on how your body heals and regenerates itself post exercise is an important part of a great training protocol. Emphasis can be placed on two types of recovery; active and passive recovery.

Usually many different theories arise as to how to do recovery and what methods to use. When dealing with post exercise protocol, one of the first things that should be implemented is an active decompression. This can be considered to be a short jog or locomotion technique to help circulate blood flow in the body, thus improving overall recovery. Other types of active recovery are self myofascial releases along with tissue and joint decompression stretches.

Passive recovery is something that you do without exerting any effort like a hot/cold contrast bath, epsom salt bath, and massage or physical palpation. Passive recovery is commonly mistaken as “my recovery day” which consist of lying on the couch all day doing nothing at all (this is not what we want to do). Using proper passive recovery techniques can provide insights to body awareness and healing. By adding multiple recovery disciplines into your daily workout progression you are supercharging your bodies recovery cycle thus making you a healthier individual.

Add up all the smart movement strategies and start to implement them into your daily regime. If you are still unsure about how to apply there techniques into a fitness program please don’t hesitate to visit a local “smart gym”. Make sure that they go through proper programming and recovery in their day to day progressions.

It’s time to get out there and make your own medicine out of movement.

RAD Roller: Massage. Mobility. Recovery

August 10, 2017 by Jessica 3 Comments

Take your mobility and recovery to the next level!

This September, the RAD Roller Team is traveling to Costa Mesa with their innovative tools used to improve body movement and your overall quality of life.

Discover why RAD stands out from their competitors!

RAD Roller’s VISION & VALUES.

Healthy living is our lifeblood. We know that active people live longer. We also know that they tend to be happier. That’s how we know RAD plays an important role in helping people stay motivated and in-motion day after day after day after…

BODY BENEFITS

Innovative Results is fortunate to have RAD Roller’s Education Team for an entire weekend, hosting both RAD Mobility 1 & 2 Certifications!

Friday September 22, 2017 from 4:00PM – 8:00PM
Saturday September 23, 2017 from 9:00AM – 6:00PM
Sunday September 24, 2017 from 9:00AM – 6:00PM

Ready to hear more?

What will I learn at RAD Mobility I?

What will I learn at RAD Mobility II?

REGISTRATION
Early Bird registration ends: September 1, 2017 (Code: RADCOSTA)
Regular registration ends: September 22, 2017

Get a Sneak Peak of a few RAD Roller mobility How To’s before the certification!

5 Steps To Get Fast Results in the Gym – Do You Go To The Gym or Do You Get Results?

May 27, 2016 by IR Staff 1 Comment

Are you part of the 70% or more that go to the gym, but never change?

These people show up a few days a week, some more, but their bodies aren’t changing.

Why do they keep showing up at the gym?

Are they wasting their time?

I’m sure most of them figure that they are earning points for showing up…points with the doctor, their wife, their husband, status among friends or on social media check-ins

Some probably just show up out of habit or guilt.

Some of these reasons deal with other people…the ‘feeling like I have to go’ motivation, which is very weak in most cases, but most people’s motivation really stems at their own self esteem and ego about looking better.

Tell a woman that she has to put on a bikini in front of 600 people, and she will make the change.

There is major motivation there.

But if someone just feels like they need to lose some weight, and buys a gym membership, there is no connection or deep-seeded reason to create the discipline and consistent effort that is needed to change.

In order to get the fast, jaw dropping results, that we all desire, you are going to have to work…work hard…work consistently and probably have to make some serious lifestyle changes to make it happen.

Instead of just going to the gym, here are 5 steps to get fast results in the gym:

Step 1. Mindset – Write down your Key Fitness Goal. If you are gonna bust your but for six months or a year in the gym, get clear on what your main goal is for that time. What is your desired outcome? How do you want your body to look like, feel like, or perform like? What will change?

*the key when writing your goals the to use the SMART Goal method. It needs to be specific, measurable, ‘As if now’, realistic and time based. For example: Today is December 31st, 2016 and I, Aaron Guyett, have lost 15 pounds. Think about it and write the most important change down.

Step 2. Nutrition is the most misunderstood, and most important factor you will deal with. People are seriously emotional when it comes to eating, and most think of nutrition changes as some torturous and agonizing penalty that forces them to eat salads everyday of their life. Nothing could be further from the truth. When you really learn what is healthy, and how to properly integrate new foods into your lifestyle, you will be surprised how good healthy and whole food really is.

* The simplest way think of healthy eating is this: If GOD made it, eat it…or if it occurs in nature, eat it. If people messed with it, RUN! People have taken naturally occurring, amazing foods, and ruined them. We have ruined food by processing, pasteurizing, refining, adding, preserving, genetically modifying, adding chemicals, packaging, and the list can go on! The best cooks and athletes in the entire world only work with top quality ingredients and we should, too.

Step 3. Movement is the basis for exercise and most people spend their life at a desk, in a car and in front of the television. And we wonder why our backs and knees and ankles hurt. Most people need to get off the couch and go for a walk or get to the gym. When we belong to a gym, we either never go, or are inconsistent, losing intensity and progression when we are there. Innovative Results believes this comes from behaviors, habits, lack of motivation and lack of knowledge. If you are uncertain about starting to workout or how to change up your current plan, ask us for help. That is what we have spent the last 15 years getting right.

*If you do look to hire a personal trainer, fitness coach, and nutrition coach, please take the time to investigate a place and person that has proven results. Every local bodybuilder, gym rat or newbie fitness trainer does not understand the body, much less your body. If you look for advise, make sure the person is qualified and has experience dealing with people like yourself.

Step 4. Recovering from your newly found lifestyle. If you go from sitting behind a desk to working out three to five days per week, you are going to encounter some minor aches and pains. Working hard in the gym may create some soreness, muscle tightness and other aches and pains. There are a variety of recovery tactics that have worked wonders for myself and my clients. You can check them out here: Innovative Results Recovery.

* remember to start slow and listen to your body. Please take the time to learn movements correctly, and consult a physician if any pains last more than a few days or swelling occurs.

Master Coach Aaron with his daughter Hannah.

Step 5. Guidance and Coaching during your new program is essential. Having someone that can teach you, motivate, and encourage you during your fitness program will be a huge factor in your success. It is proven that working out with a partner increases your chances of success significantly! It will help you work harder, spot, correct, and make sure that you are doing things safely and properly.

* Find someone who will hold you accountable, so that you don’t get off track. Accountability and intelligent programming is key for faster results. Find somebody intelligent, that cares about you success, and listen to them to keep you focused.

I truly hope that these five steps helps you and motivates you more than the obstacles or temptations you may have.

When you work hard, and make huge progress, people WILL notice.

They will be motivated, and will look to you as an example.

You will earn an kind of instant respect from people that know you.

It will help you stand out from the crowd, and you will start to carry yourself more confidently.

Who knows, maybe you’ll get that promotion or raise!

Now go out there, kick butt, and make something great happen this week.

If you are looking for results fast, and you don’t mind committing to consistency and work for the long haul, to improve all areas of you life, especially looks, mindset, and performance, fill out the form below.

Start Training At Innovative Results

January 31, 2016 by ptpt 1 Comment

The Innovative Results Team is stoked that you are ready to improve the quality of your life here at Orange County’s Fitness Playground.

Innovative Results does not operate as an “open gym.”

Instead, every time you come in for your fitness training session you will be working with a knowledgeable member of the IR Training Team in a small group setting.

After many years in the fitness industry we’ve determined small groups settings to be the most advantageous for our clients for accountability and motivation.

If you wish to train one-on-one with a Innovative Results Personal Trainer and Fitness Coach you are welcome to contact Innovative Results for pricing and scheduling by filling out the form below. (Prices are between $80 and $120 per hour training session)

Upon starting, you will not only have the entire Innovative Results Training Team at your disposal, but you will also have a trainer that becomes your “go-to”.

This trainer will personally assist you, guide your nutrition, and hold you accountable to your desired fitness goals.

Innovative Results Pricing (Month-to-month Billing)

Two Sessions Per Week – $147
Three Sessions Per Week – $197
Unlimited Training – $299

*6 and 12 Month Prepaid Options are available upon request.*

Want to see the IR Training Schedule – Click Here

What do you get for your session options per week?

Choose between: Active Strength, Active Conditioning, Active Recovery, and Active Performance (must try-out and pass for active performance) Training Sessions.

Or purchase unlimited and come to them all!

READY TO START TRAINING AT INNOVATIVE RESULTS?!

Fill out the form below and one of our motivated team members will call you to schedule your first session!

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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Welcome to Your First 30 Days at Innovative Results

January 1, 2015 by Jessica Leave a Comment

Here are some great tools to get you started:

1. Download the Zen Planner Mobile App, and bookmark – Zen Planner Login for access to online scheduling, and your account information.

2. Record daily food and water intake on the myfitnesspal app. If you have a weight related goal, please make sure you record your starting weight, and take a before picture.

3. Take advantage of IR’s knowledgeable Training Team. Each coach is here and rooting for your success, so please ask questions and discuss your fitness goals with us. And for the times the IR Team cannot be with you during the course of the day…

4. Download your 30 Day done-for-you Meal Plan, Workout Plan & IR3 Manual located at the bottom of this email. These 3 tools will help keep you accountable to your goals whether you are at the gym, at work, or at home!

Down 45lb, Jeremy Combats Doubt & Is Ready for Any Challenge

October 3, 2014 by ptpt Leave a Comment

“We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.” – Charles R. Swindoll

Jeremy came to Innovative Results back in the Summer of 2013. His consistency, dedication has brought him incredible results, and the IR Family is so thankful and proud to have him here at the IR Facility!

I started training at Innovative Fitness in July of 2013, weighing in at 305 lbs. I started off slowly, coming in two or three times a week, building up my endurance. One of the movements that gave me the most trouble was crawling. (If you have spent anytime training here, then there is no doubt that you have had pleasure of reliving your childhood too. And by childhood I mean trying to remember how it was so easy to crawl around on the floor for extended periods of time.) As I started to lose weight, I began to notice that exercising was getting easier, but my difficulty with crawling continued.

For my one year anniversary, I weighed in at 260lbs, dropping 45 pounds, three inches from my waist and increased my stamina enough to work out five times a week. Even with all of this improvement, I was still struggling with the crawls. Around this same time, I was given the opportunity to interview for a dream job that I had been preparing for over the last several years. The interview process took several weeks to complete, during which I was talking with Corey, Mark and some training buddies about the opportunity. One of the IR challenges at that time was the 10 minute crawl. I remember thinking that it must be some kind of joke, and who in the heck would want to take that on. But one day the following week, I made a bet with Corey, that if I were to get the job I would take the challenge. One of my buddies said he would too and Corey, being the crazy man that he is, said he would crawl for 30 min! As luck or fate would have it, I landed the position but now I had to pay up. I took me about a month before I had the courage to take it on. I had my doubts about being able to complete the 10 minutes, but I gave my word and finally came in one Saturday morning to pay up.

I remember thinking there is no way I can do this. Corey’s famous last words before we started were, “It’s all in your head, man, just keep moving and you will be fine.” As we began, I thought about that for a couple of seconds and decided to buy in. I would be a liar if I said that it was easy or that I was able to crawl the whole ten minutes without my knees touching, but I did get in a good 2 minutes of correct position crawling (which is huge for me) and never stopped moving or took a break. Once the ten minutes was up I stopped and watched Corey and Rob continue to crawl. That’s when the challenge part 2 was issued.

Rob and Corey both encouraged me to join them continue to crawl. So, I did. I lasted another six minutes before total exhaustion and having raw knees from the green turf. A few days later I was thinking about the entire process and a new understanding of Corey’s statement hit me like a ton of bricks. Taking on challenges is 100% mental. People tend to be risk averse and generally don’t like risk because they think they can’t complete the task. This type of thinking defeats the whole purpose of taking on a challenge in the first place. By definition, a challenge is something that is supposed to be difficult to complete. If there is no difficultly or doubt then there is no challenge. By combating this doubt and attempting any challenge, one builds self-confidence and willingness to take on even more difficult tasks. Much like a downward spiral that people often experience in life, one can also experience an upward progression. The difference is, we are 100% in control of the upward and can start it at any time.

I don’t think Corey, has a degree in philosophy or is a motivational speaker but he definitely inspired me think a little bit differently about things lately. Crawling is still a physical challenge but I am getting better and now know that I do have the physical capacity for that kind of challenge. Who knows maybe on my 2 year anniversary, I’ll do the Corey special and go for 30 minutes too.

Lu’s Getting Back to the Work She LOVES with Confidence

September 12, 2014 by ptpt 1 Comment

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference. – Tom Brokaw

What would you change, do or give to improve the quality of someone’s life? What about your own life?

The IR Family recently received this incredible story from one of our very own members. Truly remarkable!

I just wanted to tell you how grateful I am that you had responded so quickly as I was in such dire need of help, more than I understood and more than I had realized.

It is amazing to me that just a little push in the right direction in the way of exercise could change so much in a person’s life.

Our paths had only crossed briefly at the gym so there is no way that you could know the difference that IR has made in my life. You could not have known the person that I was before PTSD, then postpartum depression. Those experiences had taken an athletic and energetic sun-loving soccer freak and confined me to a life quiet chaos. I gave up a life of shooting for NatGeo in rough terrain and dangerous locales and had been content sitting behind a desk to schedule/fuss over production budget/package media kits and watching other people take the helm and process all the amazing images and footage they compiled because I no longer had the physical ability, stamina, and desire to do what I once loved doing. I leave this month on my first assignment in 3 years and because of IR, I do it with a smirk.

Thank you for guys for changing my life. I look forward so much to seeing those sweaty, grunting, laughing faces every week.

Thank you for giving me back my quality of life. Thank you for, most definitely, saving my life.

– Lu, IR Family since May 2014

Shane Hits the Trails After Dropping 60lbs, and 4 Prescription Meds

January 10, 2014 by ptpt 1 Comment

Since joining Innovative Results in October 2010, Shane Galitski has been etching his name on the wall for multiple IR physical challenges including 300ft in 1 minute on the VersaClimber & 20 minutes of battling ropes, and has been a part of two teams to place in monthly challenges hosted at the gym.

Thank you for sharing your incredible journey Shane!

For me to convey my thanks to Eddie Thomson and all at Innovative Results here is my story…

It was late 2008, and I was approaching age 40 (August 2010), this inevitable event changed my life… not for fear of getting older, but for a realization

I was not living my life the way I wanted to. I knew enough that I could not just do a 180 to make a lasting change in my life and lifestyle; I would have to take baby steps. My first goal was to wean myself (with my physician’s approval) off the multitude of prescription drugs I was taking; two for high blood pressure and hypertension and two for cholesterol and triglycerides.

So, my journey began with baby steps – I just started to walk around my housing track where I lived after I got home from work, one day – one step at a time. I walked for about three miles at a time, before I thought to myself “let’s see if I can run from this light pole to that light pole”. Well after 9 months of progress on my own with basic cardio, running and healthier eating – at my annual physical in Sept/Oct 2009 – I was able to get off 3 of the four prescription medications. Oh yeah, a side effect of this initial process – losing 30 pounds!

Now as we came to the holidays of 2009, a regular time to feast and over indulge… but not I, well (not as much as in the past) at least had the support and encouragement from family and friends to keep me going with my life change. It was this time I was given a gift that would truly kick me into my next progression… the gift: four sessions with a personal trainer, Mr. Eddie Thomson. I began training with him at the start of 2010 and at this time, he was training a local smaller gym in Newport Beach, but his aptitude and understanding kept me wanting to do more and to work hard. Consistently training with Eddie, running more and more on my own, I began to challenge myself by entering and competing in different running events. I also was able to achieve one of my goals to get off the last prescription drug prior to my birthday in August of 2010.

It was sometime in September 2010, when Eddie made a decision that would bring on the next evolution… He moved his training, coaching and continued growth in fitness knowledge to Innovative Results. I followed him and without a doubt it was the most astute choice on my journey so far.

Innovative Results: Strength and Condition – came to be in an era of Crossfit gyms sprouting around every industrial park and warehouse across the country. They (the owners and core coaches) have something different than just a fad of WODs at a crossfit gym. At Innovative Results more emphasis on Mindset, Movement and Recovery for the everyday person. Their knowledge of this IR3 system and focus on each person that walks through the door is appreciated by all, if not most who train here. So true are these benefits ascertained for those professionals that train hard for their next fight in the ring, they are the same for that person sitting in the cubicle all day and getting through it without injury or pain.

There is so much more than just the muscle strength gained at IR, you are challenged more mentally at accomplishing things you never thought you could do; you are accountable for yourself, but the team (coaches and other training mates) encourages and inspires you to accomplish goals big or small and they help you get there.

So, now after the three plus years of training at Innovative Results and my overall lifestyle change, losing and keeping 60 pounds off, gaining muscle, feeling fit and healthy, I’ve ran countless events from 5k’s to ½ Marathons to 200 mile relays, I’d say my increased strength, endurance, speed and agility attests to the work I put in at Innovative Results.

More recently I’ve fallen in love with trail & hill running there’s something about the air, the paths through the brush and the views from the top. I know from my experience with Innovative Results that this too will be an adventure worth tackling.

As in life, although I’m not always sure where the path will take me – I find Innovative Results to be a daily challenge worth taking on, as it sets me up to succeed in all I have to accomplish still ahead.

You can also read more from Shane on his Team Transformation Challenge Here