Your New Year's Resolution?

It's the Holiday Season in many places this time of year - likewise,
there are many places in the world that are in a different season.

No worries - because what I'm about to share will help you no matter
what time of year it is for you.

I've created a downloadable PDF file from an article I wrote a few
weeks ago for a local publication. Doesn't matter if you are a pure
beginner or an advanced fitness follower - anyone can get something
out of printing, posting and sharing today's gift from me to you.

(Fitness pros feel free to reprint and share it with your
students and clients - just be sure to leave the copyright
notice and author resource box intact.)

Here is the page on my main site where you can download your
copy. And please feel free to print as many as you wish to
share with co-workers, family members, etc...

Your Free, New 'Life' Fitness Resolution Checklist

When you get there just click on 'New Life Resolution'
and print out as many as you like.

And feel free to forward this page to anyone you think will
appreciate it.

Don't Be Like Everybody Else... Be Fit!

Joey Atlas

Fitness Self Destruction

When it comes to the practice of fitness, I like to observe the
habits of others. It's extremely insightful and this helps me refine
my coaching and teaching methods. (True masters never stop
learning.)

Anyway, since I moved into the new Atlas International
Headquarters location a few months ago - it has given me an
opportunity to get my own workouts in at some of the public
places in town here. One of them being the YMCA.

On rainy days I'll do my cardio indoors - usually treadmill
intervals or jumping rope mixed with treadmill sprints. During this
time I make it a point to observe what other people are doing and
at the same time, try to guess what their goals are. A fun exercise
that does highlight some of the problems in the fitness industry.

The more I watch the more mistakes I see. Mistakes ranging from
lots of wasted time to risk of severe injury. Very poor/dangerous form,
inappropriate use of certain exercises, machines and/or weights...

This I've come to expect and accept, for now...
- but sometimes I'll see
something that is totally over the edge and ridiculous. Such as
someone using the lat pulldown machine with way too much weight
and slamming the weight stack on the way down as the user gets
jerked up out of the seat and then leans way back while jerking the
bar back down in a sloppy and fast manner. Crazy, but true...

And this is just one example - it literally never ends...

It still intrigues me as to how people are allowed to join a fitness
center and just go workout on their own if they choose to do so...

This is one of the top factors in the Fitness Failure Epidemic. I will
be highlighting several others in my book, Fatness to Fitness, when
we release it in early 2008 - and most importantly, I'll be teaching
you how to sidestep these 'obstacles' and avoid self destruction
along with a host of other
powerful strategies and techniques to help you achieve permanent
fitness success.

If you have any friends, family members or co-workers who will be
able to benefit from this book - please forward them this email and
they'll be able to sign up for early notification of the book's release
via this page on my main website:
www.TheBodfather.com/Joey_Atlas_Blog.html

- Remember this book will be accompanied by several valuable bonuses,
one of them being a f-r-e-e home exercise dvd - 'Foundational Fitness'.

Stay tuned for 'Fitness Stories From Around the World' - we have a
bunch that we need to get out to you as they have been piling up...

Don't Be Like Everybody Else... Be Fit!

Joey Atlas
PS - I've been getting requests for producing a few exercise e-books,
as some of our overseas friends are adverse to ordering physical
products (dvds) because of shipping concerns, etc... - I'm planning
on releasing 2 e-books in 2008 along with "at least" 2 new dvd series,
resistance band training and dumbbell training. Also, the current plan
is to have Fitnessjuice(TM) ready for release in late 2008.

Fitness Success

Hi Joey

I'm really good! Thanks for asking.

I have been keeping up to speed with what you are up to via you site & blog, hope that you are as well & good as you seem! It all looks very busy at your end, exciting stuff, good luck with it. I cannot wait for the book etc.

Actually it's kind of mirroring what is happening in my life at present!

You know that pattern of when you start to sort out the crap that you know that you need to face for ages & then the positive stuff starts to snowball off of it? Well that's what has been happening in my life.

If you are interested this is what I has happened.....

You may remember that I have mentioned that I am a sound engineer...i'm self-employed, barely make a living at it etc but, as with all professions, it is my passion & you have to follow your passions when you believe in them.

I got to a point earlier this year where I hated myself, my life, it just wasn't working for me any more, I felt stuck & alone, despite having a wonderful boyfriend of 10 years & a good circle of friends.

I decided to try to do something about it so I picked on the one thing that I hated most about myself & my life & tried to change it.

I had always wanted to be leaner, healthier & it was dawning on me that I could not physically do the job that I had chosen because I was not fit enough. I would do a gig, load PA in & out of a venue & run the gig then I would need two days to recover! Not good! not sustainable.

In a fit of spring madness at the beginning of this year I went on the net & looked for abs exercises because that was the part of my body I hated the most & wanted to change. What I found was your stuff. As I have previously mentioned I did the free exercises & tried to eat better & gradually ended up on the Blow Torch Diet, LBHT & Abs & Core stuff too.

I have gone from 10 1/4 stone (143.5 lbs) to 8 1/2 stone (119 lbs). I have been here for months now! Feel fantastic! Everyone has complimented me & wants to know the secret. I point them towards your site & have loaned some of them the DVDs to see for themselves, before snatching them back as I need them.

This has all totally changed my life. Not only have I lost weight, gained muscle, I have so much energy & confidence that I cringe to look back at that person that I was 8 months ago. I am well aware that 8 months is not a lifetime or even a year but I KNOW that I will never go back to being the way that I was. I feel kind of free, I am determined in my mind, my energy & my actions & I know that I can do anything that I want now. Hell! I even run now & I was one of those people who laughed at joggers in the rain! Now I like running in the rain & even found new & exciting places to run whilst on holiday recently.

Nobody's perfect! On off days I think to myself "Oh well I feel crap! & I don't want to do this or be bothered with that." Then I remember that I am somebody different now & that you are telling me to "F*+~#*g get on with it !" or something & I get up & carry on.

What this has ultimately led to is better career stuff.

I was working out one day, abs & core stuff, & I get a phone call from a friend who runs a studio. They had a call asking for a live sound engineer to do a gig, just down the road from me, as the touring engineer was sick.

Off I trundled at 1 1/2 hours notice. The PA that they had hired in was looking for an engineer, permenantly, as their's had left for another job. So, now that I have the energy to lift PA, run gigs & run home afterwards I am the engineer for a PA that goes all over. I have spent the summer engineering on dome stages all over the country. This autumn we have been doing gigs for the Drifters & the Kommitments. Both of these groups are so pleased with our work that we have now been asked to cover all of their gigs! Our work diary is full for next year! & that's before the random surprise cool stuff that you get to work on with this job!

Oh yeah! & the migranes have still not come back, except for one time I ate a multigrain baguette because I was starving & working & forgot! Just to remind me not to be so stupid! LOL!!!

Anyway, Thanks Again ;-))

What else can I say? It really IS your fault! ;-))

Cheers Joey x

Oh...& sorry for the essay! It seems I had quite a lot I wanted to say ;-)

Julia Atkins
Nottinghamshire, UK

Dangers of Aspartame - Side Effects, etc...

My view on the dangers of artificial sweeteners, including aspartame seems to strengthen with every new article and independent review. As I finalize my first book, Fatness to Fitness, for early 2008 release and work on the Fitnessjuice(TM) beverage concept (aiming for launch in late 2008) - I continue to come across so many interesting reads. Some of them I feel I must share with you. Here is one I found today.

I even went so far as to look up some of the references listed at the bottom - to continue digging and reading. Intriguing stuff. Here is the article


Dangers of Aspartame and Side Effects

Don't Be Like Everybody Else... Be Fit!




Joey Atlas
Learn the True Path to Permanent Fitness at www.JoeyAtlas.com