Fit for Life: Add These Three R’s to Your Toolbox

Fit for Life: Add These Three R’s to Your Toolbox

In life, a lot of the same rules apply to becoming successful in different situations.

An example I always shine a light on is how running a business compares to executing a healthy lifestyle.

Obtaining the knowledge, understanding the components, creating new habits, executing, and staying consistent are the fundamentals to having success in both business and health.

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I consider myself an expert in outlining the steps it takes to claim your health, however, running a successful business has been a work in progress, and it’s something I still work on daily.

Due to the number of moving parts involved, it takes constant learning, focus, and implementation of new tasks and strategies to keep progress moving forward.

Advertising strategies change, the economy changes, technology changes, and business models change, as we have all experienced these last 14 months! And it happens all the time!!

Quite the contrary with your health and fitness.

The basics will always remain the same: Exercise, Eat clean, Sleep, and Hydrate.

Vegetables and quality protein were good for you 100 years ago and are still good for you today.

The same goes for sleep, exercise, and hydration.

The human body always needed these components, and always will.

Nothing has changed on that level.

What these 2 components have in common, is that you have to incorporate the (3 R) mindset to become successful at either one.

I listened to a presentation a couple of years ago on how to dominate in business with these 3 R’s, so I am going to tell you how to dominate your health and fitness program using this technique.

 

The first one is Resilience and having bounce-back ability.

We all go through tough stretches when everything that can go wrong does.

You are doing great with getting to the gym regularly, packing your meals, and keeping your healthy habits on point, then an injury happens, your schedule changes, or a loved one gets sick and that throws you out of your routine.

Acquiring good exercise and eating habits are tough to install into your lifestyle but can be done with a lot of self-talk and mental focus. However, falling back into bad habits happens quickly, and easily.

Look what happens around the holidays.

You eat badly for a couple of days, and it easily morphs into a few weeks.

Then weeks become months, and before you know it, you are in a place you don’t want be in.

This is where resiliency is needed.

You have to be tough and claw your way back up to where you want to be. It takes tough mental stamina, strong will, and the desire to succeed to become resilient.

You have to fight temptation and develop those good habits again.

The weak will fail, but the resilient will prevail.

In business, the same thing happens.

You get on a roll, then hit a roadblock and move a step backward.

The key is to take more steps forward than you go back and this requires showing up every day and being ready to battle, even during tough and trying times.

 

The second one is that you need to be Resourceful because not everything goes as planned.

This is also one of our core values at Providence Fit Body Boot Camp.

I tell my team that when something unexpected happens, like we run out of paper, the pipe freezes in the bathroom, or a member doesn’t feel well during a workout, we need to think fast, and problem solve ASAP.

Find solutions, don’t dwell on the problem, and do it quickly!

The same goes for you when you are trying to get fit and healthy.

With the nutrition aspect, you won’t always have the ability to carry around all your prepped meals with you.

If you get stuck at work longer than expected, and get hungry, you need to find the best option available to you.

That may be running to a 7/11 and getting a Kind Bar & a bottle of water, a banana & some packaged nuts, or a container of yogurt.

Not ideal, but better than not eating, or eating some fast-food crap, a candy bar, or a bakery item.

When you go to the fridge and you realized that you forgot to hit the market, you need to be resourceful and throw something together.

We usually always have eggs, frozen vegetables, peanut butter or something that can be created to emulate a healthy meal. As long as you have something with protein in it, and are a little resourceful, you’re good to go.

Traveling or can’t make it to the gym?

There are tons of bodyweight movements that will have you sweating up a storm in about 10 minutes, and we run virtual workouts daily.

If you are resourceful, you will get it done, if you are not, that’s another workout missed, and another unnecessary excuse for not getting it done.

 

Oppressively constant: incessant. / Harsh or inflexible is the definition for the final R and that’s Relentless.

Success with anything requires consistency, drive, repetition, and a strong desire for your envisioned outcome.

You can’t eat well sometimes, exercise once in a while, get to bed on time a few days a week, and drink enough water when you feel like it.

This needs to be done all the time and forever.

You need to get in the habit of doing what you NEED to do and not just doing what you LIKE to do.

This holds true for every aspect of your life.

In business, you need to hire & fire people, stay late to GSD, get up early when it's cold and rainy outside, and do these tasks on what seems to be a daily basis, not once in a while.

As far as your health and fitness, you need to eat clean every day and workout 3-5 times a week, or it won’t work out in your favor.

 

There is no flexibility to becoming successful on any level.

Either you are doing, or you are not doing. There is no trying.

I am where I want to be on a health and fitness level, however, with business, I am just getting started.

I had a lot to learn, and still have a long way to go before I consider myself successful.

If I stop now, it will never happen.

I know the more resilient, resourceful, and relentless I become in my pursuit, the more likely I will get closer to my goals.

We are all working towards something in life, and the more we stay focused and keep putting in the reps, the closer we get every day, so when you feel down and out, dig a little deeper, and ask yourself how bad do you want it?

 

Committed to your success,

Matt