Are you ready to train with purpose to see results on the inside and out when it comes to your fitness and overall health? Are you ready to get back into a routine after the summer? Let’s use the fall season to succeed on your new goals!

Before we get started, let’s take a moment and talk about a goal timeline. I believe a season can be the perfect timeline for your goals. A goal needs to have a time frame that allows you to see progress and is realistic in terms of what energy you are willing to give your goal. That’s why I love setting goals each season and September to December gives you a realistic timeline for your goals and therefor today is a great day to prepare for your upcoming fall fitness season.

When it comes to goals, I use the acronym EOAP. Does the goal excite me? Does the goal have an outcome? Can I create an action plan for my goal? Does my goal serve a purpose in my life?

Is My Goal Exciting?

Let’s start by setting a goal that excites you. The goal needs must per personal to you. Saying you want to “lose 10 lbs” for the sake of losing 10 lbs isn’t enough to get you to the gym on a cold and rainy day. It is important to take time to jot down ideas when it comes to your goals. How do you find a goal that excites you? Ask yourself, what do you REALLY want for yourself and your fitness? Write out a bunch of goals that you can think of when it comes to fitness or weight loss. Is there something you want to be able to do such as 50 push ups, hiking a mountain, seeing a specific number on the scale? Once you wrote down those ideas, read each one out loud to a friend and ask your friend to tell you when your face expressed joy while reading the goal out. Keep searching until you find something that excites you.

Does My Goal Have an Outcome? What is the outcome and the why behind the goal?

Now that you have a goal that excites you, take some time to really understand what outcome this goal will bring you. What outcome do you want and why? How will you feel when you achieved your ideal outcome? How will your life improve by reaching your goal? Take some time to write it out and find the root of the goal (the why) and how it will impact your day-to-day life. For example, losing weight brings body freedom and the ability to do more things you may have not tried because of the weight because it brings you more confidence.

Next, you need to have an action plan in place…

How are you going to achieve the outcome of the goal? What changes do you need to make to sustain your progress? What are you going to do when the going gets tough? How are you going to celebrate the small wins? Who is going to be your accountability community/partner this fall? There are lots of moving pieces when it comes to goals. You must have an action plan in place, but this can be simple. Your action plan could be to attend 5 group fitness classes each week and have a smoothie every morning for breakfast. When your action plan is clear and simple, it is easy to follow through. Make your action plan part of your daily routine and habits. If you can join a program, the action steps are taken for you. Look into programs like our Women on Weights as the workouts and schedule is already done for you and that makes life much simpler.

And Finally, We Need to Find Purpose in our Goals

Purpose when it comes to fitness is about focusing on the small accomplishments. For example, I work out to simply feel better as my purpose every day. If you work out for the purpose of feeling better for your day, it starts to become part of your daily routine and who doesn’t want to feel better each day? I know that if I get a workout in I will have more energy, my brain is way sharper, and I sleep much better – therefore giving me more energy for the next day.

What purpose do your workouts bring to your day-to-day life? What purpose does eating healthy meals bring to your life? What purpose does having a goal serve for you?

A Little Reminder …

Many people get obsessed with the “accomplishment” of the goal, but they tend to miss the purpose behind setting a goal.

A goal is designed to move you forward. Let’s say you set a goal to feel better by losing 30 lbs so you could get into all your clothes instead of buying new ones. Now, let’s say you work hard and lose 27 lbs and creating healthy life habits. Does it matter that you didn’t lose those last 3 lbs? The answer is no. The goal moved you forward. You can always set a new goal and include those last 3 lbs, but we need to focus on the movement forward piece to succeed in our health and fitness goals.

A goal that excites me is …

The outcome of the goal is. ….

My action plan is …

The purpose behind my goal is …

Take the time to plan our your goals for the upcoming season and always train and workout with purpose and intent as that will lead you to be successful in your goals. For more information about our fitness classes at Inner Fit Studios, visit us at www.innerfitstudios.com

Cheers!

Coach Seay 🙂

Anyone with a goal this year. 

When we set a goal, the hardest part is the follow through. We tend to set a goal when we are full of inspiration and motivation. Sometimes the motivation comes from not feeling good about our current state, sometimes you want more from life, and sometimes you simply want to feel healthier and have more energy.

Whatever the reason, it is awesome you are ready for a change or thinking about your health.

The problem with goal setting is life gets busy, and our best of intentions tend to fall to the side. Our “why” cannot compete with old engrained habits or busy lifestyles. And without the tools in place to create real change, our goals often lose their steam shortly after setting them and then next thing you know a few days turn into weeks, and weeks turn into months, and then months turn into a full year, and the next thing you know your goal has passed you by. The hard part is when a goal has passed us by it affects us on an emotional level.

As a certified fitness coach for the past 20 years, I have seen incredible transformations. I have seen the busiest people with the odds stacked against them accomplish remarkable changes in their physical and emotional health. They literally changed the course of their life by making a decision that the time is now.

Once you make the decision that you are ready for change, the next step is understanding that change does not habit with one giant life change. It happens with small doable daily action steps that over time lead to huge results. Long term success stories come from people who lost a few pounds each week and over time those few pounds added up. That is how I lost over 100 pounds and have kept it off. I did not go on some crash binge diet or exercise myself to death. I made the process fun and rewarding and over time people started to notice the changes. Some weeks I saw weight loss and some weeks I didn’t, but I never let that discouraged me. I regrouped and kept going and I asked for help and support when I knew I needed it.

When it comes to helping people, nothing gives me more joy that seeing my clients regain their confidence and do things they never imagined possible. But with 2020 and Covid, I also saw people struggle with life and I knew going back to my roots with a program that worked so well for so many people needed to make a return. Many people shared with me they felt lost, stressed, tired, full of anxiety, and trying to hold it together. And with no change in sight for the next little while, why not have something to look forward to and that helps you reach your weight loss goals.

I designed the 16 Week Online Weight Loss Boot Camp Program with accountability and follow through at the forefront of my mind for the community. I know that people always have the best of intentions and really do want to improve their health and lose the weight, but it is hard. And that is why I designed this program using the Thinkific platform which provides a personal dashboard so you can easily follow along and reach lots of small goals along the way. This program is about giving you tools for success with the support of me, your coach, and a like-minded community who will cheer you on!

The dashboard is a place you go to each day for a quick check-in. You also have a place to connect with your community who are also on a similar journey. As you progress through the program, more content will be release and on your workout days, you simply login to the dashboard and you will see the link to join the workout. If you miss a workout, we will post the recording that day.

Weight loss is not easy, whether your goal is 10 pounds or a 100 pounds. It still takes the same principles of consistency, changes in nutrition, follow through and fitness. But with a program surrounded by like-minded people, your chances of success exponentially increase.

So if you are not sure if this program is for you, ask yourself what is your goal. Then next ask yourself, what do you need to be successful on accomplishing your goal. If your answer is accountability, follow through, a supportive team of coaches and community, and tools to make things easier then this is the program for you.

I have seen incredible changes in people on the inside and out from something as a simple as a 16-week program and I invite you to join us this January and invest in yourself.

To learn more, visit our website www.innerfitweightlossbootcamp.com or email me and I will happily answer your questions 🙂

Sincerely,

Rachel Seay

BCRPA Certified Group Fitness Coach & Educator Since 1999

We are not breaking, we are not broken, we are unfolding.

When news first broke about this virus, as a business owner of a fitness studio, I will admit I was scared. Honestly, “scared” is not the right word, I was downright terrified.

I thought to myself, “How could a virus wipe out a business I had put my blood, sweat, and tears into for the past 14 years?” I never imagined I would have to shut the studio down, let alone worry about closing the doors forever.  I thought to myself, “two weeks, no problem we got this (in true Inner Fit spirit),” but then the reality set in that two weeks was a blip into the reality of this.

I don’t know about you, but the last few days have been sobering. Today as I taught my online classes, my heart felt so heavy. I simply missed my Inner Fit community today. Don’t get me wrong, I am having a blast doing the online fitness classes we created with the AMAZING Inner Fit community, but tonight I missed their hugs, the laughter and smiles, the late-night conversations after class, the in-person energy and fun, and I even miss their cursing (you know who you are).

It is hard because we just want things to go back to the way there were before we took it all for granted which may or may not have lead to an epic cry in my truck. You know the kind of cry where you turn the windshield wipers on thinking it is raining, but nope, it’s just your tears causing the blurred vision. But don’t worry, for me, tears are healing, and I welcome the emotions to flow because it pushes me to get uncomfortable.

Change is hard and there is a lot of change taking place right now. Change makes us uncomfortable and when we cannot see a clear vision of our future we get unhinged, we get reactive, we shut down, and we do not grow nor do we allow new experiences or people that could change us for the better in. But there is so much beauty in change. It rips us out of old patterns that were no longer serving us, even if it doesn’t feel good right away. And right now, this virus is ripping us out of some really old patterns and I believe there will be good to come from this.

I also choose to believe this moment right now is offering us a chance to pause and see what and who is important to each of us. It’s a moment to be grateful for the good people in our lives, a moment to change what needs to change, and a chance to slow down and do some inner work.  It also has opened up doors for many business owners because it has forced us to get uncomfortable and step outside our boxes and do everything we can to make it out of this and sometimes we need that push.

The scary part is right now we may feel like it has taken away our tomorrow but this is also an opportunity to see what you have taken for granted in the past too. Who have you put off seeing to tomorrow because you were too busy or what did you say you would do today but then said tomorrow? Fitness comes to mind lol

So perhaps when we return to a new “normal,” there will be clarity for each of us as to what we thought was important before and what is truly important now. I know now how much I value the warmth of a hug, seeing my members each day,  and the great outdoors (man I miss my mountains). 

I believe our reality is not broken; it is merely unfolding to show us a new path and to appreciate what and who we have in our lives.

In the unfolding phase, I highly suggest connecting with people who you know will lift your spirits and stay connected with them. The Inner Fit community is keeping my spirits up every time they log in and smile and I invite you to join us anytime for a workout online www.innerfitstudios.com

Let’s unfold together and see what this beautiful life has to offer us … #innerfitstrong 

 

With Love and Hugs …

Rachel Seay,

Owner of Inner Fit Studios

 

 

For the past 12 years, I have observed countless challenges at Inner Fit Studios. One person walks away as the big winner, losing the most % of body weight, while the others, who started off strong in the challenge, get frustrated and end up throwing their hands in the air while saying, “F&*$ IT!, I am not going to win anyway so what’s the point?.”

It’s a little bittersweet as the winners and close top 10 worked really hard, but several gave up fast.

What I love about any challenge is seeing those who did amazing and lost the weight. It’s such a wonderful thing to see when people achieve their goals and the results of their hard work is so inspiring! Continue reading →

Rest Vs. Active Rest

No, taking a rest day doesn’t mean you should be sitting on the couch eating chips, chocolate or cookies all day long. This, as you might imagine, won’t do you much good and could destroy all your progress from the week prior.

Instead, an active rest day is meant to be a light or easy day where you’re still moving, but not at the intensity level you normally move.

According to Athlete’s Edge, active rest:

“Involves performing light exercises (often swimming or cycling) that stimulate the recovery process without imposing undue stress on the injured body part.”

Taking an active rest day will quicken your recovery, making you feel stronger and faster when you’re back in workout-mode—as long as you don’t overdo it.

Plus, it’ll help you feel less sore and stiff after an extra tough workout day.

The perfect active rest day is indoor cycling at Inner Fit or a Yoga class. Choosing to not doing anything active is counterproductive to your training.

We live in a time where people rarely go for a walk longer than 30 minutes and the rest of our time is spent on the phones or watching Netflix or sitting around with friends. We simply need to move a minimum of 10,000 steps a day, period, or engage in one hour of exercise daily to simply be healthy as a baseline.

And I hate to be the one to break it to you folks, but we are not hard core athlete training 4-6 hours a day to deserve a “do nothing” rest day. Activity is very important for our daily health both emotionally and physically.

Wake up, kick off your “active rest day” with a cycle class on a Sunday morning versus “taking a rest day” and make it an awesome day. Cycling wakes up your mind by activating your brain, creates fluidity in you fascia and prevents injuries.

If you can’t make a morning class the odd time, make sure you get outside for a power walk as your active rest activity.

Let’s rethink the way we use the words “rest day” as they have a powerful affect on how our day unfolds.

When was the last time you submerged yourself in nature? If it has been a while, have you noticed a shift in your mental and physical energy? Have you been feeling tired, sleepy, unmotivated? Have you noticed a change in your energy? The good news is nature is the fastest way to restore our bodies and simply feel better and here is why …

As humans become less connected with nature, we lose an essential health buffer. “There is mounting evidence that contact with nature has significant positive impacts on mental health,” said Mardie Townsend, PhD, an honorary professor at the School of Health and Social Development at Deakin University in Australia. Continue reading →

If your goal is weight loss, do you know your numbers?

So many people have an unhealthy relationship with the scale and it’s simply the society that most of us were raised in.

Over the years, people have slowly attached their self worth to the number on the bathroom scale and it is simply not true. Your worth comes from who you are as a human being.

The first number you should always know is your current weight. This should never be a guessing game of where you stand. Continue reading →