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By: Octaviano Luis Longoria, Human Movement Specialist  For: You! Living for a better you is expanding! What started out as an idea has become our lives. We are here to help you achieve greatness! We are here to help you push yourself beyond what you thought was possible to achieve what once seemed impossible! When we say that the website is for you we are telling you that all this information, research, and time spent on these articles or training people are for your benefit! These are outlets that are here to help improve your quality of life, movement, and happiness! Take advantage of what you have at hand! Change starts today! Today we begin moving forward towards a better tomorrow but the choice is yours! "A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools!" I challenge you to join us on our journey as we continuously strive for excellence! "Excellence is not a destination; it is a continuous journey that never ends." Thank you for reading I appreciate all critiscisms, comments, and suggestions! :-) If you would like to contact me go to the page "If you have questions we have answers!" page for our numbers or you can e-mail us at livingforabetteryou@live.com . "To insure good health: Eat lightly, breathe deeply, live moderately, cultivate cheerfulness, and maintain an interest in life." William Londen
Consistently being on track is probably the hardest and most rewarding part about establishing healthy habits but lets face it sometimes we just want to splurge. When these urges come up its when you really truly test your self control and your will to strive for a better you. That is why we find certain things in our enviroment or put things in our enviroment to stay on track.
Everybody has their own way of doing it. It can be writing your goals down and keeping a food log which is always an excelent choice or just using motivational quotes. I personally like to comibe the both by writing my quote of the day on the top of the page of my food log. I believe that this has helped me get through certain splurges on more than just one occassion. Find something that helps you stay motivated and on track because after all why would you knowingly sabotage yourself. If you keep notes of what has happened you can see for yourself were you went wrong.
As we walk through life we are saturated with change, which I believe is the only constant. Mixing it up or changing things up from time to time doesn't have to be a bad thing if you change or move forward to a positive means. Change can be scary thought because it is the unkown and we tend to reject that which we don't understand.
In my past I have gone through multiple stages to be where I am today but once again I am mixing things up and going out of my comfort zone into a unkown world; Bodybuilding. I will begin to update a lot more often on the page and hold my self accountable to you as I train for this competition in November. I will begin writing down my nutrition, training, explaining the different styles of training and dieting depending on the stage of my transformation.
That is my challenge and my journey tell me about yours and ask any questions in which I could help. I started two years ago with a vision of me entering a bodybuilding competition and what started as an vision is know becoming reality. Get out there and do something different! Mix it Up!!!
By: Octaviano Luis Longoria, Certified Personal Trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist
1. Everything begins as an idea. Define your goals clearly! Get them on paper and make sure you ask yourself is this what I really want.
2. Believe you can achieve. If others have done it why can't you? Add VALUE to what you do. Outline the benifits that will come from going through with whatever you want to do. For example deciding to lose weight will benifit you by: straying away from degenerative diseases, improve my immune system, mobility, quality of life, etc.
3. Create a plan and set a date to achieve these goals. It doesn't matter if you don't do it on the appointed date but this way you can keep yourself accountable. Be positive but also realistic! You aren't going to lose thirty pounds in a month and if you know people that have they did it the unhealthy way and it has been proven that losing that much weight in a short amount of time has more drawbacks that positive connotations!
4. Plan to fail. Nothing ever goes as planned so plan to fail by setting cheat days in which you can indulge in something every other week. Plan to fail also embodies giving negativity only half an hour in your day so choose a time to be negative and get it all out! As soon as that half an hour ends though that is it you keep on moving forward.
5. Execute! You have defined your goals, created a plan, and know you can do it. Now you must put your plan to action and remmember that success is in the process not the final product and as long as you try you succeed! If you don't ever try you have failed and if you fall off the horse just get back on because what is truly important is how you get back on not how you fall off.
By: Octaviano Luis Longoria, Certified Personal Trainer, and Corrective Exercise Specialist
Everything in life has a process, structure, or recipe to get a certain outcome time after time. We all have a process from building a buisness, a building, or simply mimicking a dish. We can mimick a building, buisness, or a dish by following that process step by step. Why would success be any different?
It wouldn't any different! It would be as if you had gotten a hold of your neighbors plans and decided to build your house with the same layout. You would have the same structure but you might have different paint or the inside would be completly different. Success is no different than building that house we need to analyze succesful people in life and you can see that they have many things that correlate between them. They had a clear idea of what they wanted to do, they set down a timeframe, and went for it!
The biggest step is actually getting down and identifying exactly what you want. People go through life not knowing what they want. I challenge you to start off with the small things like and set a weight goal or an amount of push ups you would like to reach it doesn't matter really what it is as long as it has you moving and challenging yourself to become a better you! Create your own recipe for success or you can follow mine on the next article: My Recipe for Success. We are living in the moment of change! Take this moment and realize that you are the driver in your life and decide which way you are headed.
By: Octaviano Luis Longoria, Certified Personal Trainer, Corrective Exercise Specialist
Today's society is geared towards making our lives comfortable. We have created an art of doing the bare minimum by being the most high tech couch potato we can be. Everything is about instant feedback, whether it is technology or medicine. We are use to getting something fixed at a touch of a button or simply by taking an aspirin. Doing the bare minimum, self-satisfied, or being complacent has withdrawn the drive from people's need to give it a 100%.
People are happy doing nothing, letting other people work and bust their butts to enable these people to think it is okay. They lack discipline, reason, or just a point to get out there and do something to progress their current state of being. In thinking life pointless we make it pointless because reality is merely but an interpretation of our perception.
Then there are people who say they are afraid to do something because they will crash and burn. Haven't you already failed if you didn't try and do u really want to be looking down the road asking yourself the worst question a person could ever ask, what if?
In reality there isn't an art to doing the bare minimum because there isn't an art to not wanting to do more, you just don't do it. That is the difference between truly succesful people and those who coast by life. The succesful people realize that success isn't in the final product rather in the process of things or also known as life. I challenge you to challenge yourself everyday to do something more it doesn't have to be something big. It can be as simple as picking up your clothes but if that is a challenge for u then so be it begin small and see where it leads you.
"If it ain't broke don't fix it is the slogan of the complacent, the arrogant, or the scared. It's an excuse for inaction or a call to non-arms." -Colin Powell
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