Fitness

Five Steps to Make Your Dreams Come True

To achieve success in fitness, set your goal, keep the end in mind, keep yourself

motivated and don't give up.

To be successful as a fitness instructor I lead by example. My students think I was always fit and strong - a jock in school. In reality, as a child I was shy and sickly - always the last one picked in gym class. Now I'm turning 50 and achieving all the goals I dreamed of when I was young.

How did I do it? I learned to use these five steps. I know they can work for you too:

1. Set Your Goals
2. Keep Your End in Your Mind
3. Stay Motivated
4. Never Give Up
5. Stay Away from Negative People

Set a Goal: Every year I write my vision for the year. These are my personal, business, fitness, financial and spiritual goals. People who write their goals down and review them have a better rate of success. It's like having a road map.

Visualize Your End: Before I promote students to the next rank, I have them close their eyes and visualize themselves reaching the rank of Black Belt. This helps them keep the end in mind.  When I have a student who wants to lose weight I have them close their eyes and visualize how they will look in 3 months. This is seeing the end in mind.

Stay Motivated: Stay abreast of the latest health and fitness news. I have read all of Dr. Sears' books. You can also cut photos from magazines that resemble the body that you are striving for. Put it in your workout journal. Bruce Lee, the King of Kung Fu cut out photos of body parts and pasted them together to make what he saw as the perfect physic. I have photos of Sly Stallone. This motivates me to eat healthy and train harder.   

Be Consistent: Take consistent action and be patient. If you follow this, you will reach your goals. Be consistent with it and never give up. It doesn't matter how many times you have failed in the past if you don't quit you will succeed. The only way to fail is by giving up on your goals. Never stop continuing on your journey to a successful, healthy and fit lifestyle.

Avoid Negative People: We all know people who are always down, depressed, angry and mad at the world. They feel that life is unfair and they are unlucky. Stay away from negative people and build friendships with positive go getters and it will wear off on you. Prove those who said you couldn't do it wrong.

Take these tips and defy the odds.

Believe in yourself and your goals, like mine, will be your reality.

I wrote this article for Dr. Sears Health Confidential Newsletter, Feb 07.

Julio Anta

Win $5000 and Get in the Best Shape of Your Life

If you read my column in this month’s Doral Tribune you read how my student Angel Calvo lost 29 pounds and how he was taken off of diabetes medication. He won the 12 Week Body Challenge that we did with First Place. This inspired us to put the spring Fat Loss challenge together. We are doing this contest in conjunction with Dr. Al Sears Fat Loss Challenge. The winner of our contest in Doral will win 3 months to participate in any of our fitness or martial arts classes, a plaque and their story will be featured in my column in the Doral Tribune and on our web sites. The overall winner of Dr. Sears Fat Loss Challenge which you will be automatically enrolled in will win $5000.

So, you might be wondering why we are starting this contest in February and not in January. By now most people have quit going to the gym or trying to succeed in the fitness goals that they set up in December for their New Years Resolutions or possibly they are losing interest since you are not seeing the results that they expected. Well, don’t despair we have the solution for you. Enter Anta’s Fat Loss Challenge and get in great shape in only 12 weeks. It’s simple and straightforward… a clear-cut win/win situation for every participant. Oh and did I say the best part? It is absolutely FREE to all of our current students (XFT Fitness, Pilates, Haganah, Kung Fu, Brazilian Jiu Jitsu or Tai Chi). So, you can see that you have nothing to loss but un-healthy and un-attractive fat.

All great accomplishments, achievements and inventions started with a dream and manifested in the mind of a great believer. So, I want you to close your eyes, right now and see yourself 12 weeks from today looking and feeling great buying a new wardrobe for spring if you take this challenge. Now picture yourself 12 weeks, 1 year and 5 years from now if continue to eat un-healthy foods, living an un-healthy lifestyle, not exercising and not setting your fitness goals. So, now that you visualized and got the idea let me tell you how to get started.

To start the challenge every contestant will get a free consultation to get them started. We will guide you through this journey nutritionally, physically and emotionally. We will help motivate you not to give up on the challenge and finally succeed. We will help you with a healthy nutrition plan and a fitness program. We will take your photo, weigh you and give you a body composition test. We will also give you advice on nutrition, fat loss and training tips through our E-Newsletter and Dr Sears E-Newsletter. Such as how adding strength, intervals, mini-meals, and protein to your weight loss plan will get you leaner and speed up your metabolism. We will also explain why jogging and aerobics is ruining your health and not the best way to exercise and loss weight.