Happy Halloween!
I hope you enjoy the most non holiday of the year, just make sure you don't jack your kids up on too much sugar. I mean unless you want them to get type two diabetes.
Haven't found a way to embed an audio player on blogger yet so you'll have to live with a link to my podcast. Here
Have a good weekend
-K
Friday, October 31, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
Before Bed
Haven't written anything in a few days, thought I'd spring some questions on you.
1. What moves you? Where is the why in what you do in the gym or in your exercise?
2. Do you do it right? Are you taking the time to learn what is wrong with what you're doing and fix it?
3. Are you willing to change? Or are you so in love with what is killing you that you can't move on?
4. Have you found pleasure? Or do you just do it because you're supposed to?
5. Are you willing to sacrifice? will you not only change improper behavior but embrace the subtle suffering required for lasting change?
-Kian
1. What moves you? Where is the why in what you do in the gym or in your exercise?
2. Do you do it right? Are you taking the time to learn what is wrong with what you're doing and fix it?
3. Are you willing to change? Or are you so in love with what is killing you that you can't move on?
4. Have you found pleasure? Or do you just do it because you're supposed to?
5. Are you willing to sacrifice? will you not only change improper behavior but embrace the subtle suffering required for lasting change?
-Kian
Thursday, October 23, 2008
The plunge
I've made a commitment to myself. If you look at the post before this one you'll read about focus and picking one goal; this is my goal:
By January 1 I will be providing a results based bootcamp in the Woodland hills area 3-5 days a week.
The first step in finding success for your fitness goals is picking one.
Second, tell as many people as you can so that you will be held accountable to your goals. I am fully expecting anyone reading this blog to hold me to this goal.
I sincerely hope that everyone out there has chosen a fitness goal, and I encourage you to make the next step and tell as many people as you can about it. Start here and post it in the comments section. If that's too much for you send me an e-mail, kian.ameli@gmail.com, with your goal and a date you'd like to have that goal completed. I won't tell anyone else, but I will keep you accountable to that goal.
Don't be happy with the things in your life that are poisoning you be it excess body fat, lack of self confidence, an addiction to coffee, cigarettes, or alcohol, a vicious and unhealthy need to compare yourself to others, whatever it is that's holding you back from getting where you need to be I want you to focus in on it, and start working on it by being held accountable.
Be brave, be change
-Kian
By January 1 I will be providing a results based bootcamp in the Woodland hills area 3-5 days a week.
The first step in finding success for your fitness goals is picking one.
Second, tell as many people as you can so that you will be held accountable to your goals. I am fully expecting anyone reading this blog to hold me to this goal.
I sincerely hope that everyone out there has chosen a fitness goal, and I encourage you to make the next step and tell as many people as you can about it. Start here and post it in the comments section. If that's too much for you send me an e-mail, kian.ameli@gmail.com, with your goal and a date you'd like to have that goal completed. I won't tell anyone else, but I will keep you accountable to that goal.
Don't be happy with the things in your life that are poisoning you be it excess body fat, lack of self confidence, an addiction to coffee, cigarettes, or alcohol, a vicious and unhealthy need to compare yourself to others, whatever it is that's holding you back from getting where you need to be I want you to focus in on it, and start working on it by being held accountable.
Be brave, be change
-Kian
Monday, October 20, 2008
Focus
I'm about to hit the hay but I thought I'd send out a quick note before I did.
Most people I talk to fail in the gym, and it's because they lose focus. I was talking to a kid today at the gym who had 800 goals. He wants to bulk up, improve his posture, get a six pack, make his legs bigger, improve his flexibility, run faster, wrestle a bear, and all while saving the world.
Look the reason you fail is because you don't focus, you have got training ADD. Think long and hard about the thing that is most important to you right now and that is your goal. It will be your goal until you hit it.
I want you to go to the comments section under this post and write down exactly what you plan on achieving, how long it's going to take, what steps you're going to take to get it, etc etc.
Stay Focused
-Kian
If I read tone up I will come through the screen and bitch slap you btw.
Most people I talk to fail in the gym, and it's because they lose focus. I was talking to a kid today at the gym who had 800 goals. He wants to bulk up, improve his posture, get a six pack, make his legs bigger, improve his flexibility, run faster, wrestle a bear, and all while saving the world.
Look the reason you fail is because you don't focus, you have got training ADD. Think long and hard about the thing that is most important to you right now and that is your goal. It will be your goal until you hit it.
I want you to go to the comments section under this post and write down exactly what you plan on achieving, how long it's going to take, what steps you're going to take to get it, etc etc.
Stay Focused
-Kian
If I read tone up I will come through the screen and bitch slap you btw.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Friday thoughts
Have a fairly relaxing weekend coming up; some studying, some classes, our official moving in party is happening. Who knows maybe I'll get in some blogging over the weekend.
If I don't here are some things to pull you through the weekend.
1. If you're an athlete and don't do pilates, than you're really ignoring an excellent tool to help keep you healthy. I went into a tackle last week and hurt my shoulder, and after doing some of the arm in strap work along with the rotational work my shoulder continues to improve much faster that if I was just giving it RICE.
2. Change you routine. I don't care if you're the most devoted person to a class you're taking at the gym, run 500 miles a week, or are an avid boxer, your body will stop changing unless you change things up. Translation, if you were a fat ass who got results through kick boxing, and haven't yet hit your fitness goals through kick boxing, do something different.
3. What is up with reality shows? I know that I love some of them (G's to Gents anyone?), but there's a reality show about every little thing. Challenge for you is to stop being a voyeur and go do something.
4. I work at a gym with a lot of people doing almost every movement wrong. I've taken it to be my personal responsibility to make sure people maximize their results, so if you go to a gym and a (good) trainer offers some advice (unless it's to throw you up on a BoSu or something) about your form take it. You'll make them feel great and probably save your body.
5. Really rethinking the whole unstable surface training thing. One of the strength coaches I look up to just put out a book on the pros and cons of unstable surface training. If you're interested you can look at the page here.
That's it for now. Gonna go teach some pilates, then I've got to reregister to vote. Otherwise I have to drive all the way up to Santa Barbara just to make my voice heard.
Stay Strong
-Kian
If I don't here are some things to pull you through the weekend.
1. If you're an athlete and don't do pilates, than you're really ignoring an excellent tool to help keep you healthy. I went into a tackle last week and hurt my shoulder, and after doing some of the arm in strap work along with the rotational work my shoulder continues to improve much faster that if I was just giving it RICE.
2. Change you routine. I don't care if you're the most devoted person to a class you're taking at the gym, run 500 miles a week, or are an avid boxer, your body will stop changing unless you change things up. Translation, if you were a fat ass who got results through kick boxing, and haven't yet hit your fitness goals through kick boxing, do something different.
3. What is up with reality shows? I know that I love some of them (G's to Gents anyone?), but there's a reality show about every little thing. Challenge for you is to stop being a voyeur and go do something.
4. I work at a gym with a lot of people doing almost every movement wrong. I've taken it to be my personal responsibility to make sure people maximize their results, so if you go to a gym and a (good) trainer offers some advice (unless it's to throw you up on a BoSu or something) about your form take it. You'll make them feel great and probably save your body.
5. Really rethinking the whole unstable surface training thing. One of the strength coaches I look up to just put out a book on the pros and cons of unstable surface training. If you're interested you can look at the page here.
That's it for now. Gonna go teach some pilates, then I've got to reregister to vote. Otherwise I have to drive all the way up to Santa Barbara just to make my voice heard.
Stay Strong
-Kian
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Opening Day
I've tried blogging before, I really have. I tried a personal blog, a professional blog, a myspace blog, and the problem with all of them is that I tried to censor myself way too much. That's what I'm going to change in this blog. I'm going to write what I want to write about, while mostly focusing on the Training world and my interactions with it.
While I'm writing this I'm sitting in my living room, sans couch, in my jamie pants, with comedy central on (Rosanne is doing stand up, and wait, yup, she still is an annoying bitch), and over all not being productive. That's a theme in my life as of late, not watching Rosanne, but not being productive.
With that in mind here's some things I plan on getting done in the near future:
1. Start Hiking again
2. Check out the Pilates studios around woodland hills
3. Find a highschool to be a volunteer strength coach.
4. Get my CSCS study work done
5. Get back to blogging (check)
6. Go to the docotor about my broken wrist (it's been about 2 years ladies and gents)
7. Renew my CPR
8. Be epic (more on this in a later blog)
The only real job I've ever known is working in a gym. Serously the only other jobs I've done don't really count as jobs; I was a receptionist at my dad's office and a RA at my college. I wouldn't exactly call that real world experience. Other than that I've worked at 24 hour fitness, a private gym in Lafayette, Spectrum, and at home gyms. I'm kind of a gym whore.
After all this experience with gyms I've realized that I really hate corporate gyms. They don't function well. They don't treat their employees with the respect they deserve, and what is worse their members are disrespected.
Tyler (His myspace) and I are planing on opening up a gym some time in the future, and from both our experiences with gyms I think its fair to say that we both have learned more about how not to run a fitness facility than how to run one. The disjointed anything for a buck style that dominates the fitness arena is ill fitting to the actual needs of the American population. 58 million people in America are overwieght, and most Americans don't move nearly enough in the day, so getting a shitload of people in a gym seems like a good idea, right? Not when they don't have a clue how to do things right. People lifting weights training like chickens with their heads cut off pretending that they are actually getting results and decreasing their health risks or chance of injury (suuuure) with no real instruction as to how to lift properly is about as effective as the last 8 years of presidency.
I'm not even going to mention unrealistic sales quotas for trainers (I'm sorry, I thought I was hired to train people not peddle your wares), and the difficulty in implementing programs or getting events off the ground.
More to come
Stay strong
-Kian
oh and I realize that I made a blatant baseball reference in the title of this post, mostly to point to the fact that the season (praise the lord) is almost over.
While I'm writing this I'm sitting in my living room, sans couch, in my jamie pants, with comedy central on (Rosanne is doing stand up, and wait, yup, she still is an annoying bitch), and over all not being productive. That's a theme in my life as of late, not watching Rosanne, but not being productive.
With that in mind here's some things I plan on getting done in the near future:
1. Start Hiking again
2. Check out the Pilates studios around woodland hills
3. Find a highschool to be a volunteer strength coach.
4. Get my CSCS study work done
5. Get back to blogging (check)
6. Go to the docotor about my broken wrist (it's been about 2 years ladies and gents)
7. Renew my CPR
8. Be epic (more on this in a later blog)
The only real job I've ever known is working in a gym. Serously the only other jobs I've done don't really count as jobs; I was a receptionist at my dad's office and a RA at my college. I wouldn't exactly call that real world experience. Other than that I've worked at 24 hour fitness, a private gym in Lafayette, Spectrum, and at home gyms. I'm kind of a gym whore.
After all this experience with gyms I've realized that I really hate corporate gyms. They don't function well. They don't treat their employees with the respect they deserve, and what is worse their members are disrespected.
Tyler (His myspace) and I are planing on opening up a gym some time in the future, and from both our experiences with gyms I think its fair to say that we both have learned more about how not to run a fitness facility than how to run one. The disjointed anything for a buck style that dominates the fitness arena is ill fitting to the actual needs of the American population. 58 million people in America are overwieght, and most Americans don't move nearly enough in the day, so getting a shitload of people in a gym seems like a good idea, right? Not when they don't have a clue how to do things right. People lifting weights training like chickens with their heads cut off pretending that they are actually getting results and decreasing their health risks or chance of injury (suuuure) with no real instruction as to how to lift properly is about as effective as the last 8 years of presidency.
I'm not even going to mention unrealistic sales quotas for trainers (I'm sorry, I thought I was hired to train people not peddle your wares), and the difficulty in implementing programs or getting events off the ground.
More to come
Stay strong
-Kian
oh and I realize that I made a blatant baseball reference in the title of this post, mostly to point to the fact that the season (praise the lord) is almost over.
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