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Nourish & Nurture

Nourish & Nurture

The practical tools of health create a foundation. Clean eating, exercising, meditation, journaling and many modalities all support health foundationally. Growth requires a space in between, where you begin to let go and release. This uplevel shifts your perspectives, bringing about a pause for clarity, 

Movement Patterns and Function

Movement Patterns and Function

There is so much emphasis on fitness and training, which is wonderful. There is a whole other level of training which is more conducive to health. Health and movement require a process and function to mechanics, motion and movement. Your body has systems and processes 

Fitness and Health

Fitness and Health

Modern society has looked at fitness to be a certain way. So much emphasis on harder, more core and strength, from the outside. To be transparent, health in relation to fitness doesn’t come from here. Health in relation to fitness comes from connecting within. Your stabilizing system, your deep intrinsic muscles these are the key to health longer term. When you are active and engaged in this kind of fitness & health you hold power, leverage and the capacity to stand strong. Resistance, while helps us become stronger must be balanced with stability and mobility. Traditional training does not interconnect on a global level this type of motion.

Stability and mobility are foundational for any type of strength, flexibility and movement. No way around it. Stability and mobility keep you young and youthful. It’s not about more or harder. Seriously it is about practical, intentional and integrative. When you can apply all the aspects of fitness into your fitness, you’re on to something. This means scheduling your time for movements and activities which are more than the doing of cardio, weight training or HIIT. This becomes understanding the methods which move your body and the systems as they connect.

Integrating a functional and integrative movement program brings to you greater health from your fitness.

Look to maximize your workouts, by exercises which work your deep muscle fibers of your rotators, your pelvic floor, your inner unit in your hips and the movement of the shoulder blades and rotators of your shoulders. These areas are the true identity of your core. Keep them moving well, with rotation, stability and mobility. Your body will show up stronger, more powerfully and leaner and longer.

The gift in fitness is the health you gain. Don’t sacrifice what you think strength and a healthy body is for the true nature of fitness and health.

3 Dimensions of Health

3 Dimensions of Health

There are 2 paths. The path I am looking to show you is one that embodies all of you, values your health and success. The path I have to show you knows growth, success, health and vision are matched and elevated in the heart, mind and body through your thoughts, feelings, emotions and presence.

Your True Spirit of Health

Your True Spirit of Health

It’s interesting that you may look for a diagnosis to prove your feelings, emotions and health. A label that gives you permission to feel the way you feel. I always go back to the story of one of the greatest athletes, Wilma Rudolph. Dr’s told 

NEXT LEVEL OF HEALTH

NEXT LEVEL OF HEALTH

These are actually exciting times for health, fitness and lifestyle. While the relevance and importance of fitness and clean nutrition is at the forefront for health, this has been a trait and essential for high performance leaders. By high performance leaders I am referring those who take responsibility, value integrity and show up in passion, presence, growth and grounded. High Performance leaders often have a background in athletics/sports at an elite level, high rank in the military,

Let me tell you why. Because to be of a high-level discipline, concentration, focus, structure and emotional intelligence is required. Forging ahead is not for the faint of heart, won’t tolerate victim mentality and accepts surrender as a rite of passage with tenacity, fortitude and dignity.

This means the fun of just trying or getting in your steps or somedays you feel like it and somedays you don’t is not to the next level of health. What it is, is building your foundation- habits, discipline, structure and commitment.

There is seriousness in your next level of health as you take responsibility.

You decide you know your worth, your abilities and you choose your goals, and faith over maybes and fears.

Responsible is response able. Your next level of health will look at your Mitochondria. Your next level of health will look at autophagy. And your next level of health will look at a balance of hormones.

We go deep, rooted, grounded and vision focused with vigor. Afterall health is synonymous with vitality.

This in itself shifts your mindset and recognition of food, fitness and lifestyle. Vitality comes through choices, finding presence and peace. Being focused on food, eating, when to exercise again is foundational. Gaining autonomy in nutrition and fitness keeps you pointing your radar to new heights. Next Level.

What I love to teach is the expectation of concentration. Concentration keeps you in the moment and open. This flow state brings more awareness, heightened feeling and senses and a place of personal power.

The power of this process and experience is no negotiating with yourself. You do. You are aware in the body out of the mind and in the spirit.

Are you ready to take your health to the Next Level? Do you want to accelerate your current foundational fitness and nutrition or are you ready to begin a foundational program?

Schedule a 1:1 call with me.

Monica

The Evolution of Health

The Evolution of Health

Now it is ahead of the curve. This isn’t something to wait on until others do it. The research and data is out. High level functional medicine professionals already know the trends and where to focus on for health. To look deeper.

Anti- Aging, vitality has a very distinguished process that you can find your way towards health.

Fitness as a Lifestyle

Fitness as a Lifestyle

This may seem odd to mention or talk about. A majority of people use fitness in relationship to eating, food and calories. Lifestyle honors fitness in all areas of health and well-being. Lifestyle is foundational, from the way you live, things you value, how you 

The Power of Training

The Power of Training

Often we look at training as individual and specific, such as weight training, cardio, cycling, yoga etc. What I can tell you from experience is…it’s the wrong way to look at training for results.

Your body is designed to work efficiently and effectively in movement. This means training for Performance. Performance wants you and your body to be tapped into how you’re moving, the effort you’re feeling and the depth you are connecting. To get into your body during fitness you must train your brain to work with you, be present and let go of hard or easy. What are you feeling? How much deeper can you go?

The answer to your weight loss or body shape goals isn’t in cardio. It is in muscle building, interval training, stimulating the parasympathetic nervous system and activating your stabilizing system.

You see those deep fibers help you to move and function better, which produce a response that you are working effectively without stress from the fight or flight sympathetic system which is your body in stress overload. That state of being does more harm than good. In other words, positive effects don’t stem from there and become a cycle and circle of trying to lose weight and be healthy.

Good training comes from understanding how to balance your body and find the sweet spot for your training. Posture, alignment are impacted tremendously with good smart training. Long term this type of functional training helps in every way for you to age gracefully and build up a strong foundation.

We know how important nutrition and clean foods are for your body weight as well. Again thats looking at Optimal Performance over getting into what’s good, what’s bad- it focuses on how does your body response, get you the best results and be your best. Optimal Performance looks at nutrition and fitness from this perspective and lens.

This path is way more enjoyable, more coherent, and more aligned with you training you…not for everyone else’s beliefs.

If you’re ready to take your health, fitness, weight loss, energy goals serious and to the next level, you know invest to get results in order then I have the program for you. Reach out and schedule your Discovery Call 📞.

Monica

Mindset: The New Strength Training

Mindset: The New Strength Training

Mindset looks at your thoughts, feelings and beliefs, Your thoughts are electric sending out a signal. Your feelings are magnetic, what you are feeling is drawing in to you experiences- good and bad. And your Beliefs control, dictate, oversee what you think and how/what you feel.