The Main Reason Why People Fail or Succeed! Just Flip The Switch!

I love analogies! So I’m going to use a lot here today. I want to talk to you today being just another regular person, not a trainer.

There are many reasons people fail and succeed in the health aspect of their own body. There is one major reason that I have figured out, and it doesn’t stop in the health aspect of life. It actually carries on through everything a person does in life.

It is honestly the most vital part of your entire life as we know it. It is the one thing that makes us who we are, how we shape our life, what determines our entire future.

I’ve given you, from a trainers aspect, all the tips and best ways to achieve success. This, however, is something totally different. This digs down much, much deeper than any tip I could ever present you.

When reading this I want you to be in a quiet place. A place where there are no distractions. The reason why is because I want you to think for yourself, not as the person you present yourself to others as, but as the person you really know yourself to be or want to be.

Again, I don’t want you to think of me as a trainer while reading this. Right now I’m just a guy that is trying to build a relationship with you to help you achieve success with what I have learned. I had to learn all this myself, and to be really honest with you, I had to grow up, put my big boy pants on, forget my fitness pro ego and take it for what it really is… The Truth!

Okay, so let’s pretend you are on a plane about to take a giant leap. By the way I totally have to give credit to Jenny Donnelly, an independent distributor of AdvoCare, just like me, for giving me this analogy. So back to your giant leap…If you have ever been sky diving before, you know exactly what I mean. As you walk up to the edge of the plane for your very first parachuting experience ever, most people are going to hold on pretty darn tight to that bar and dangle one leg of the edge for a while before they jump, all the while trying to get enough courage to make the leap. This is also very true for many others when bungee jumping. You know I’m right. So, why is it that it takes us so long to get up the nerve to jump? Why do we take so much time to just contemplate everything? Why don’t we just jump? Do we actually like to spend that time not going? No, that’s the worst part of it. Yet that’s the time most people spend doing.

What about when you are driving, and you come to a stop light. Do you enjoy sitting at those red lights, or do you really want to be the fastest driver in the world and floor it the entire drive everywhere you go? Are you really the kind of person that says I can’t wait until I hit the next red light so I have to stop. No, nobody thinks that way. We all want to get things over with as fast as possible, excepts when it comes to things that put us in uncomfortable situations, like things that help us lose weight, such as exercise.

So let’s say you are in your home and the power goes out. What do you need to do in order to get the power back on? Go to the circuit box, right? Now what happens when you get to the box? You flip a switch, correct? It takes all of a split second to change everything. In that split second, the dark turns to light, and you are now in a comfortable place once again. You are now in a place where you know you need to be. You are now in a place where you know what happens around you, and where everything is.

So my point is… why does it take people sooooo looooong to make the decision to transform their life? Why does it take so long for people to make the simple decision to change their life?

When people want to wait and think about things, those things very rarely happen. I get people that tell me in an initial consultation here at the studio that they want to think about it. No! You already told me you wanted to lose weight, that you were totally unhappy with the way you feel, look and perform, so why do you want to think about it? Just flip the switch!

The reason why… is because they haven’t made the simple decision to do something about it.
People can “want” all day long, everyday. But wanting gets you nowhere fast. Deciding get you places! So when you decide to lose weight, guess what you’ve already started the process. Wanting to lose weight, just prolongs the inevitable… failure.

So the one major reason why people either fail or succeed in everything that life brings us is all due to if we make the decision to move forward, or are we still wanting to?

Did we DECIDE to do something about it? That’s it. That is the one major thing that dictates our future. You make your own path in life, no one else. Your life is based on your “decisions” or “wants”.

Make your own destiny by deciding what you do with your life! And deciding happens as fast as flipping a switch! No longer.

BElieve! BEgin! BEcome!

Chad Cannon is the owner of Shaping Concepts Fitness Training Center is Bluffton, SC. Come try Shaping Concepts with a 21 Day Trial!

Will You Gain Weight By Eating At Night?

"Eating at night makes me gain weight". Here’s a comment I hear almost daily. Is this true? Will eating late make you gain weight? No it won’t…kind of.

Honestly it depends. Eating before bedtime is actually NOT a bad thing. By eating late the body’s metabolism will be running faster, thus burning more calories. If you eat small portions every three hours, from the moment you wake until the moment you go to sleep, the metabolism stays at a higher rate. This is what we want to maintain a lower, healthy body weight, AND to lose weight.

However, if you eat high sugar, high fatty foods late at night, that’s not what the body needs. Then the answer is yes, you will gain weight. But honestly, that goes for anytime of the day. If you eat high sugar, high fatty foods at 6am, or 12noon, you WILL gain weight. If you eat high sugar, high fatty foods at 3pm, 6pm, or 10pm, you WILL also gain weight. It doesn’t matter what time it is. It just matters what is put into your body.

My wife and I, and our kids almost always eat something within 30 minutes of going to sleep. I honestly cannot remember a time when I didn’t do that. I know many people say to that “well you can afford to do that because you are skinny”. Wrong! We do that to become skinny and to stay skinny. It flat out increases the metabolism. We also eat first thing in the morning, every morning, no matter what.

The foods you want to eat before bedtime are low sugar, low fatty foods. Foods that are high in fiber are great before bed. “But that’s a carb”… I know that’s what you’re saying. No, it’s a GOOD carb, a complex carb. The human body needs complex carbs in order to live. If you eat bad food before bedtime, you WILL no doubt gain weight, so I do not recommend that. However if you eat smart, clean, healthy foods, for the most part every three hours, you’ll be lean and mean in no time.


Chad Cannon is the owner of the Shaping Concepts Fitness Training Center in Bluffton, SC. Make sure to try his 21 Day Trial!

How's Your Fitness Resolution Coming Along?

The problem with New Years Resolutions is that they are wants... "I want to lose weight", or "I want to get healthier", or "I want to feel better".

These are all great, however "wants" don't seem to last very long. In fact many New Years Resolutions fall by the way side after only 10 days, and most are completely gone by January 15th. So let me ask you, how is your New Years Resolution coming along?

In order for a resolution to stick and stay there must be a reason behind it. Instead of "I want to lose weight", try this "My kids need me to lose twenty pounds and be a healthier person so I can be a better mom for them". That has a specific goal and a major reason why to have that goal.

So about this time of year people are dropping off like flies and completely giving up on losing weight, getting fit and becoming healthy again, mostly because there is no reason why. And trust me they are all feeling very guilty for it. Find your reason, and you will always succeed.

Also, find some kind of accountability. Keeping a food journal, track your workouts with a type of computer software and put it on facebook so people know you are doing it. Join a group fitness class, hire a fitness and nutrition coach. These are all types of accountability.

Without some type of accountability, and a good reason why to succeed, failure is immanent.
Stick to your guns. When you think you can't, tell yourself you can and walk away from where you are. Stay away from people that are negative and will only discourage you. You don't need them in your life. Spend most of your time around people you want to be like or have what you want. Learn from them. Be encouraged about where you are going and what you are about to obtain. Don't dwell on the past. Only look ahead at what can be.

You can do it! I have faith in you!


Chad Cannon is the owner of Shaping Concepts Fitness Training Center in Bluffton, SC. Try a 21 Day Trail to see what Shaping Concepts is all about.

Aerobics is NOT the key to Fat Loss - You Can't Run Off the Pounds

If your goal is to drop fat from your body, don't go out and run to do it. Trust me, I just trained for and ran a full marathon, and my body fat is higher than ever. Yes, I lost weight, but gained fat. That's NOT the ideal way or healthy way of looking and feeling good.

There is one way to burn FAT off your body. It's called resistance training with high intense cardio. It takes less time, because you combine the resistance and high heart rate, so more calories (Fat calories) are being burned. In fact the body will burn probably double the calories in the same amount of time with just running.

Watch the video below and try this workout on for size. It's one of my favorates that I use at least once per month. This is an example of an exercise routine that combines resistance training with high intense cardio. No need to do walking or running with this program. Trust me, the cardio is in there.

This is just an example, so you may try this one, maybe modify it, or do something like it. You WILL burn more calories than ever before, and even better you are going to feel so much stronger, stand taller, have more confidence, and even find yourself eating better. Remember it's not all about the weight loss. It's about your health. Look better, feel better, perform better! Live by that!



Try our 21 Day Trial at the Shaping Concepts Fitness Training Center TODAY! Start your New Year off with a BANG!!

Chad Cannon is the owner of Shaping Concepts Fitness Training Center in Bluffton, SC.