If you really want to get in shape, you need to read this!!!

It has been a while since my last post. I have recently started my Spartan Ballistic Boot Camps and manning my Customized Online Fitness Training Clients. So busy times!!!

I am writing this post because several of my clients asked me how I have a 100% track record when it comes to training people. I have never had a client not reach or surpass their fitness goals. I sat down and gave it some thought and what I realized I did with my clients, I wanted to share with you.

The next couple of posts are worth thousands of dollars so don’t throw money away, listen carefully.

Let me get right to the point. If you are reading this, you are looking for help, and I will give you the information you need to reach your fitness goals.

First thing you need to do is clear your mind of all uncertainty and fear. You need to establish right now that you will be successful in achieving your fitness goals.

The reason this is important is “Where you mind goes, your body follows”. So if your mind is set for failure, your body will fulfill that goal. If your mind is set for success, your body will do what it needs to do to get there.

Second, you need to establish clear detailed fitness goals. You can’t hit your target if you don’t know what it is. So sit down with a piece of paper and write out your goals. If you are not sure seek out help from someone you trust. By the way, asking for help does not make you weak or stupid, it means your smart and want to succeed.

It is very important that you write them down once you decide what they are. Studies show that when you write something down your brain processes it differently then just speaking it or thinking it. It is like signing a contract with yourself, a very powerful tool.

You might be asking right about now, if this is about helping me get in shape, then why is he rambling on about writing something on paper? Where are the exercises and the eating tips?

Just hold your horses!!! This is sooooooo important!!! If your mind is not completely sold on you achieving your goals or know what your goals are, when your body fills the pressure, the soreness and the fatigue, it will be able to convince your mind to quit. Read that again before you go on.

So, at the bottom of your goal sheet (that you should review everyday), in big bold letters, write “I will not quit until I reach my fitness goals”. A little fokey, but truly effective.

If you won’t do that, here is the annual scenario. People pig out during the holidays. Then on New Year day, they vow to get into shape. They get up turn on their Rocky music and blastoff. After a few weeks when they have not dropped that 20 or 40 lbs and don’t have six pack abs, they say “The hell with this its not working. I have more important stuff to do anyway”. Sulking off with their head hung down and being unhappy with the way they look and feel, until their ready to go for it again next year.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over the same way and expecting different results. We have all been there, whether the vow is to quit smoking, drinking or any of the thousands of different types of vows made, we have all broken one or two. The reason is we don’t come with a plan to succeed. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail, it is that simple. It starts and finishes with your mindset, period.

Tomorrow, I will give you a couple of techniques that will keep you on track to completing your fitness goals. So don’t wait, start now!!! Get your mind right and write down your fitness goals. If you need help with your goals email me at coachtu@gmail.com or add me as a friend on facebook, Anthony Ussery and I will help you.

Until then stay safe and be blessed!!!!!

The Human Thought Process is Amazing

I have been a personal Trainer for years, 20 to be exact. I started doing online training over a year ago, after starting this blog. The reason I started this blog is because some of my clients felt I should share my knowledge with more people.

I am a great trainer, I have trained top athletes, top business executives, actors and actresses. I have a money back guarantee policy, if your not satisfied with your results, I will give you your money back. I have yet to have to give anyone a refund.

I said this not to brag but to setup what I am about to tell you. When I started the free customized online fitness program I got hundreds of responses. So I go to set them up, with their program, not just a workout a program. I setup your workout, your nutrition, and I monitor you on a daily basis. I handle you like your a paying client, because my reputation is on the line. Remember all this for free.

Do you know how many people signed up and stuck with it, 10. They are still my clients and all have gotten in top shape. Most of the people thought because I was doing it for free that I did not know what I was talking about or I was not giving them a good program. Go figure, I can get clients to pay me large sums of money, but could not give the information away for free.

I even had a few people tell me if I was charging something, they would have taken it more serious. Incredible!!! So I started charging, not a lot of money, what I consider fair for a month of personal online training, $60 a month (around $2 dollars a day). Now people are wanting to sign up, I guess because they see a value in it. I have still had a few people tell me it must not be good because its so inexpensive. You can’t please everybody.

The human thought process is so amazing. Here you have the same knowledge (take me completely out of the equation) that people have used and it works, I could not give it away, but people are willing to buy it. So I guess the old perception is true, “you get what you pay for”.

So I have knowledge for sale, with a money back guarantee!!! If you need training go to my website at http://www.buyingworld.net/The%20Fitness%20Game.html and sign up today. I will get you in the best shape of your life, but you have to pay for it.

Until next time stay safe and healthy.

Carrying Around Fat Is More Work Than Getting Rid Of It

If you are one of those people walking around out of shape you need to know just how much work you are doing just being you. Did you know that a pound of fat is equal to 4 sticks of butter?  So if your carrying an extra 10 lbs of fat you are carrying 40 sticks and if your carrying  25 pounds of fat  you are carrying 100 sticks of butter on your body.

So imagine you have a weight vest on, or better yet a weight suit made of jello, that attaches at the face and goes down to the ankles. Your carrying this body suit around 24/7 , no matter what you do, even when your sleeping. No wonder you tired, carrying all that unstable weight. Your joints and ligaments have constant pressure and no help from your muscles which are getting weaker if anything from non challenging usage.

Fatigue (especially after exertion), shortness of breath, decreased energy, palpitations, irregular heart beat, edema (especially swelling of the feet and legs), sleep apnea (Pickwickian syndrome) and respiratory obstruction (for obesity to cause sleep apnea and respiratory obstruction it must be severe), these are some of the things you have to deal with when you are out of shape.

Hypertension, coronary heart disease, predisposition to diabetes, hyperlipidemia (increased cholesterol level), metabolic abnormalities, increased risk for gallbladder disease, gout, some types of cancer, and development of osteoarthritis of the weight-bearing joints are some of the health challenges you could face being out of shape.

So tell me this, how is it easier to walk around out of shape 24/7, when it only takes anywhere from 6 to 8 hours a week to get into great shape and maintain it.

Yes it is going to take some work to get there, but no more fat suit. Visualize yourself in top shape, how much different would your life be. At first this was a very long post. I wanted to give you more data, to convince you that this was an important subject and that you need to act on it now. Then it hit me, if you can’t or won’t understand, in the few short sentences above, then your not ready to here the truth or do something about.

But remember this, you are still putting out more work carrying the Fat than it takes to get rid of it. So if your ready to get started losing your fat suit, go to my website at http://www.buyingworld.net/The%20Fitness%20Game.html and sign up for the Customized Online Training , I guarantee you results. Or go find a good Fitness program, and get started today.

But if you choose to not do anything about it then stop complaining, your where your choosing to be!!! Remember what I wrote before, you are either winning The Fitness Game or you are losing it there is no in between.

Until next time stay health and full of joy.

The Fitness Game is now in Business!!!

It is official, I have started The Fitness Game as a business. I have had so many request for me to start fitness camps, and others have asked for my help online. I decided it was time, so I am cutting back on my one on one training and have started Spartan Ballistic Training Camps and Customized Online Fitness Training.

For a while I was doing the online training for free, but a lot of people were not taking it serious because it was free. I even had some people tell me that I must not know what I am doing because I was not charging. Go figure. (By the way I have online clients all over the world getting in shape, I know what I am doing).

I still do not want to charge people a lot of money, because times are tough. So I came up with a figure that I think is fair. For $2 a day I will train you online (I charge double that for one private session, but don’t tell anybody.)

I am also doing something unique, a money back guarantee for both the fitness camps and the online service. If the client is not happy I don’t want their money. My motto is “If your not satisfied, I’m not satisfied”.

So check out my new website at http://www.buyingworld.net/The%20Fitness%20Game.html.

If you need the help, lets get you started today. Also I have started a weekly newsletter that will be filled with all kinds of great fitness tips and info. If you want the free newsletter, write me here or email me from the website.

Do not put off getting in shape, remember your either winning or losing The Fitness Game, there is no in between. Start winning today!!!!

My next post, we will deal with “Fat Suits”, until then stay safe and healthy.

Forget About Your Weight, Fat Is The True Enemy

I have decided to dedicate a few post to dealing with our true enemy in The Fitness Game, Fat.

Most of everything you read or hear about is weight loss. Whether it is the people telling you that you need to lose weight and how or the the people selling you the weight loss products or the people wanting to loss weight. Weight loss is the focal point, while the real enemy gets a secondary mention.

If weight loss was such a big problem wouldn’t high level athletes be worried that they are over their supposed clinical target weight. Yes, 90% of all high level athletes are heavier than they are clinically suppose to be. If that is the case why does the world look at them as being in the top percentile in fitness. Because weight is subjective. If I weigh 150 lbs and the chart says I’m suppose to weigh 150 lbs, that means I am in shape, right?

Wrong, there are a lot of people running around at their clinical target weight and are completely out of shape. Then you have someone like Dwayne Wade, who according to the clinical chart at 6′4″, medium frame should weigh at top scale 187 lbs. Wade weighs 212 lbs, 25 lbs over his target weight. Would you say he is overweight? The answer would be no.

Here is the problem when it comes to looking at just weight loss, muscle is heavy, way heavier than fat. So the more muscle you have the heavier your going to be. But the more muscle you have the better shape your going to be. That is why I tell all the people I train in the beginning, we don’t care about weight anymore. It will take care of itself. We care how you look and feel.

Weight is no longer the thing we are focusing on. We start focusing on the thing that has them out of shape and that is Fat. So lets take a hard look at the enemy, Fat and see what it is made of (okay, go ahead and roll your eyes it was a weak pun).

There are several different types of fat in the body. We will cover two types body fat and belly fat. Body fat is technically called Adipose Tissue. It is loose connective tissue composed of Adipoctes, which are derived from Lipoblasts.

The main functions of this fat is to store the body’s extra calories. So how then do we get too many of those cells in our body and become fat? We take in too many calories, without using them. So with no where to go the body does what it naturally does and stores them.

Lets go back for a minute, because a lot of you are probably wondering, what is a calorie? A calorie is a unit of heat used to measure the body metabolism and to assess “how fat” individual foods will make you.

So how many calories do you have to consume to gain 1 pound of fat? 3,500 calories, that is without any calories being burned.

The next type of fat is belly fat, technically called Viseral fat. This fat is found inside the abdominal cavity. An excess of Viseral fat is known as central obesity or “belly fat, the pot belly or beer belly” effect, in which the abdomen protrudes excessively.

These two fats are what we are fighting in the fitness game. They are the true enemy. The other enemy that you have to deal with is you. In The Fitness Game, you can easily become your own worst enemy.

Sun Tzu says in the Art of War, “Know your enemy and know yourself, and you can fight a hundred battles with no danger of defeat”. So now you know your enemy, Next time I will talk about know yourself when it comes to your enemy.

Until next time stay safe and healthy.

Unfitness Has Become A Worldwide Problem

Since my last post I have been dealing with a lot of people all around the world needing help with their fitness problems. I was perplexed at the number of people that know nothing or very little about fitness . What really got me is that in today’s world there is so much information on fitness, training, nutrition and all the other essential health needs at your finger tips, I could not understand why people are so uninformed.

Also I saw that the problem was global. It did not matter whether it is in the US, Korea, Australia or Colombia to name a few, the problem was the same all over. Now there are a lot of excuses out there. Lack of information, misinformation, a lack of time, no energy, family or other obligations and much, much  more.

The reality is that if you are not physically or mentally limited, working two or more jobs to make ends meet or dead (that’s a big one), then all you excuse add up to,wait for it……. A load of crap!!! Unless your in the dung business that is a bad thing no matter where in the world you are.

What it boils down to is that the world has its priorities twisted. Lame excuses and laziness that is now described as being too busy is now the accepted norm. We have a fast food mentality (we have got to have it now with little or no effort on our part).

Here is what the world does know. It takes work (I know I should not be using bad four letter words) to get into good shape and it will not  happen over night.

Here is sad part about the whole thing, if your not working to get into good shape, then your working hard to be out of shape, whether you realize it or not (remember The Fitness Game). To be overweight and out of shape is no easy feat. Your body is a fat burning machine when it is in descent shape. It takes a lot of non work and nutritional abuse to turn the fat burning machine off. The difference is that getting into shape feels like work and getting out of shape does not.

Here is the truth about that, you really do feel being out of shape. The aches and pains of your joints and muscles from carrying excess weight, the lack of strength, being sick because of a weak immune system and lack of energy are some of the ways you feel the work of being out of shape.

So what needs to be done. We need to help each other and quit being so selfish. If you are in shape and know people close to you that are not, you need to help save their lives. You need to get them off their couches and help them get into the shape they need to be in.

Yes, your going to get rejection, so what. If you saw them drowning in a swimming pool would you jump in and save them? Of course you would. If they fought you while you were trying to save them, would you give up and swim away? Of course you would not?

It is no difference with their fitness. People are slowly killing themselves being overweight and out of shape. They need help.

The bottom line is this, no matter what your doing your playing The Fitness Game and your either winning or losing. There is no in between. So for you that are winning your game keep winning, but stop and take the time to reach out and help others who are losing their game. If you are losing the game seek help, write me and I will help you or find someone you trust who is winning their game and get them to help you get on the winning track.

I will say it again. The only way to stop this worldwide problem is for each of us to help someone in need.  Otherwise the problem will continue to grow along with all of those people’s waist size. The problem is solvable, the game can be won if everyone decides to play it right.

Until next time stay safe and help someone or allow someone to help you.

Athletes are coming out of the Woodwork

First, I want to thank everyone of you, who took the time to read my blog. I hope for those I have not talked to personally, it has helped you in some way.

The last couple of days have been a blast. I have talked to so many people around the world looking for answers to how they can get in the best shape possible.

I have given some advice, set up workout and nutrition programs and even had video conference workouts with individuals and a few groups.

Doing the video conference workouts were so cool, because I could be there without being there. I got to inspire and instruct people that I would never get to meet because they lived in different cities and a few different countries. What was really wild was when one of the people took their laptop to the gym and set it up so I could be a part of their entire workout. He told me it was the most intense workout he had ever had, and everyone was watching him while he was doing it. A few of the people there also asked me some workout advise. I think that this will soon be a wave of the future.

There was one point I want to make, I was talking to a lady in Australia, who to me has the athletic mindset that I talked about in my last post. She was concerned that she has been working out but lately it had not been showing on the scales.  Her question was,”Is it normal to workout and not lose weight?” She was concerned that something was wrong, she sounded kind of frustrated. After couple of conversations and asking her about her workout regiment and making a few suggestions, it boiled down to one thing. It had nothing to do with her workout, she was in incredible shape. It had to do with the misconception that we as a society must weigh a certain weight or we are not in shape.

The real questions are: Do you feel healthy?; How do you look?;  Are you happy with where you are?

If you answer positive to all the questions above, how much you weigh does not matter. She said she was happy where she was at. Problem solved. The point is if you are happy where you are, don’t let scales , charts or people tell you differently.

Let me clarify something, this lady is and has been working her behind off and that is why she is in incredible shape. Her concern really boiled down to whether or not she was fitting in the so called norm, because of what we have been told we are suppose to weigh.

If you are overweight (actually the correct term is out of shape), then you need to get into shape. My message is to you the people that have been working your tales off but are not hitting the numbers you have been told your suppose to weigh. Like I said if your happy where you are then you have won. The scales and the charts can lie to you.

Here is a great example, I know somebody that is 6′8″ , 265 lbs. The charts say that this person is 30 to 40 lbs. overweight and out of shape. Do you think that LeBron James is overweight or out of shape? Most people think he is a total physical specimen. Those are his measurements. See the scales and the charts don’t always tell the real story. Your happiness is the real key.

Got to go, workout time for me. I will be talking to you again in the next couple of days. If you have any questions: MSN: aussery@gmail.com  Skype: aussery.ussery

I will be back in a couple of days, until then stay safe and blessed.

Releasing Your Athlete From Within™

Hey there, today is the day for you to make a decision whether you ready to change your life forever. If you did not read my post from yesterday you need to read it. If you did you need to decide if your ready to get in the condition you want to be in and be able to sustain it for the rest of your life, as long as your health allows you to.

My new “Release Your Athlete From Within™” Program is a one on one (actually one to four people) program, where I will be taking you step by step through your training. For those people in my area it will be a face to face meeting.

For those of you on the internet we will be working in a couple of unique ways, we will be contacting each other through either msn or skype. I will at the end put of this post my contact information. If you want my help you will have to sign a contract that states I will not quit until I reach my goal. If you quit there will be a cost that you will have to pay, because quiting is not a acceptable option. Unless you are not getting the results you are looking for.

So all of you people that have written me and for those I sent workouts to, we need to talk. For all of you that have written me but I have not contacted you yet, we need to talk. For those of you that are looking for help, we need to talk. If you haven’t realized there is a pattern, talking is the key.

You also need to understand our new relationship will be (if you take the challenge), you are the Athlete and I am your Coach, we will together set your goals and the methodology that you will accomplish them. It will not be for everyone, but it should be (smile).

So you need to sign up with either MSN or Skype, if you want to send me a email to start that is fine but we will need a face to face to get started. So you also need  a video camera that you can hook up to your computer ( You can find very inexpensive one).

Here is my guarantee: 1. If you follow my instructions you will fulfill your goals and more; 2. It will be a life changing experience; 3. It will not be easy, but it will be worth it.!!!

I expect to here from all you potential athletes very soon, because we need to get started as soon as possible.

My contact information:

Skype: anthony.ussery     MSN: aussery@gmail.com

Neither service cost anything to sign up or to use, they are free.

Until we talk, stay safe and be blessed.

The Bar Is Being Raised!!!!

Since my last post a lot has happened. I decided against going the IPTV route. I have been for years working on the optimal workout that would work for everyone. I found that it does not exist.

But over the last 6 months my whole outlook on Fitness and Conditioning has changed. I was dealing in two worlds, the Athletic World and the Fitness World. Each had their own set of rules, each world treated differently. The athletes I trained were pushed to the brink, while my fitness clients were kept in their comfort zones.

I realized I was getting two type of results; my athletes were having incredible, mind-blowing results, while my fitness clients were having very good results. So why was I unhappy?

The answer finally came to me one night when I accidentally had a dual training session. Because my fitness client had to change her workout time, I had her workout with one of my female athletes. While putting them both through their separate workouts, my fitness client was amazed how much more I was having my female athlete do than I had her do.

She made a comment that even though that was the shape she wanted to be in, there was no way she could do half the stuff the female athlete was doing. I asked her why not, her answer was it looked like it was too much to do.

It got me to thinking, is this a common perception. So for the next month I setup dual workouts for some of my other fitness clients (both male and female), to work out along side of one of my athletes. The results were astoundingly the same.Each fitness client was amazed at the amount of work the athlete was doing and wished they too could work like that.

After deep contemplation, I came to the conclusion that the difference between the athlete and the fitness person was their mindset. The primary difference was that the athlete accepted the fact that there was going to be major discomfort to reach his or her goals. While the fitness person wants to reach its goals with minimal discomfort.

But here  is the catch, because the fitness person typically works with minimal discomfort, it is easy to give up on your goal(s) or once you reach them to backslide away from them.

It started making total sense, why I would have repeat fitness clients, that I help get into shape, come back to me after months of not working out, needing to start over again. Because of being comfortable, there was not enough price being paid to keep most fitness people from quitting or backsliding. When my athletes return, it is to get in better condition or to maintain the level that they are at. It takes time to lose that fire, that is why most athletes stay in shape for many years after they stop competing.

I decided I was not doing my fitness clients justice, by not pushing them harder. So I took a handful of my fitness clients and told them I wanted to do something new. I told them I would train them for free, but they could not quit until they reached their goal. They had to sign contracts to that effect.

Here is what happened, I no longer had fitness clients only athletes. I had to “release the athlete within” each of my clients. So the bar was raised!!!

I put each of them through the same type of workout that my other athletes were going through, customized personally for them. And yes, I got cussed, threatened and sometimes hated by my clients. The question was, “Was I doing the right thing for them?”

The results: My new athletes got in top shape, in half the time it would have taken before, with no desire to blackslide or quit. It has now become part of their being and their life. My new athletes got in better shape than they hoped for, but another byproduct came out of it. Each one of them had a new confidence that was displayed through every facet of their lives. It came from doing something they thought they never could do, in a way they never thought they could do.

So, tomorrow I will be posting how my new “Release Your Athlete From Within” Program will work. For all you people in the past who have written me for help you will get it, but the rules have changed, expect to accomplish what you thought to be impossible. And for all you new people if your ready to change your life, stay tuned!!!

So until tomorrow be safe and blessed.

My trip to China got me to thinking

I was called over to assist with a special project for the Olympics. I have done work for them before and I have also have worked in China and loved it. So it was hard to say no.

What my trip reminded me of is that America needs to get off the coach and back in the gym. We are a country that is not on our toes but on our butts. I have gotten many requests for help in other countries. But most of the ones I get here start off with how unmotivated people here are and how do you get that back. Motivation is a state of mind, no one can get you motivated unless you are ready to get motivated. Hence, you can cut out the middle man and get yourself motivated if you choose too. For example, you see a McDonalds, Jack In The Box, or Dairy Queen commercial. You just have to have what you saw on the TV. So you get dressed if your not already and you get in your car and drive to that place and you get your desired product. Did someone have to pull you, hold a gun to your head or bribe you to go, No. So it is not motivation we lack. It is the inner decision that we are going to get a particular thing done, and the willingness to sacrifice that we lack.

In China fitness is a primary way of life. They do not have the luxuries that we have here. Also the government and businesses can hold the people accountable for their fitness. Even the people overweight are still in pretty good shape.

Don’t get me wrong. Fitness is not the end all cure for our problems. It is however an important component to a complete package that we as individuals need, in order to be the best we can be. The complete package is our mental wellness, physical wellness and dare I say it, our spiritual wellness. When we have that complete package, we can be strong for ourselves, our families, our respected countries and our planet.

I know a lofty statement, but if we don’t start with ourselves then how can we help others reach their potential. I am not a psychologist (I just play one on the blog) or a pastor. So I won’t give you all the reasons we need to be mentally and spiritually strong. But I can tell you that being physically on top helps with the other two components. When you are healthier, you are sharper mentally and spiritually. You have more energy and determination to take on whatever you encounter.

But understand, one component without the other two can be a good thing, but you still will have a sense of incompleteness. It seems that the stronger you get in one area you usually crave to be stronger in the others as well. You need them all to be the best you can be.

The cool thing is that they are all obtainable. When you get off the couch and get in the gym you will be working on the physical. When you sit back on the couch, don’t just turn on the TV, exercise your mind. Learn something new or learn more about something you know, do mind puzzles, read a book. Constantly challenge your mind and it will grow stronger just like when you exercise your body your body grows stronger.

Spiritually, I can only speak about what I know. I am a Christian so for me and other Christians, read your word more, pray more, walk the walk more. I won’t comment on all the rest of you guys and gals, only that you have to strengthen that part of your life for completion.

Remember, happiness and sadness are only emotions and should not be our end goal. Being content with ourselves is the true goal we should be trying to reach. It takes all three components to truly reach that goal.

I will continue to do my part in the Fitness realm. I have a lot of you waiting for your Fitness Programs. I will get everyone of them out including all the new requests I am constantly getting.

Also, for all of you who have your programs. To make it easier for me to followup with you on a consistent basis, if you have MSN or Yahoo Messenger give it to me so I can stay in communication with you. I don’t want to give you a program and no support and email is cumbersome because of all the requests coming in.

I am headed back to China in 2 days, but while I am there I will be working on your Fitness Program. I also know, I still owe the Back Section of The Fitness Game and that is coming.

I hope what I have said did not offend anyone. If it did I am sorry, but I will not retract a word of it. I am speaking what I believe to be the Truth and from my heart.

Keep moving forward. Remember the word Can’t (when it comes to accomplishing a goal) only means you have not done it yet. Peace and good blessings to you all. Bye for now.