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Health & Fitness Redefined
Health and Fitness Redefined with Anthony Amen. Take a dive into the health world as we learn how to overcome adversity, depict fact vs fiction and see health & fitness in a whole new light.Fitness Is Medicine
Health & Fitness Redefined
Beyond Breaking Points: The Story of Redefine
What does it take to completely reinvent your life? Not once, but multiple times?
Anthony Amen takes us through his extraordinary journey from a severely bullied teen who once contemplated suicide to the founder of Redefine Fitness, a revolutionary approach to health that treats exercise as true medicine.
Standing at his darkest hour with a knife in hand, Anthony made a life-altering choice – instead of ending his life, he would become someone entirely new. Through what he calls "repetitive exercise" in his mind, he transformed from a shy, isolated teen into an outgoing person who created his own community of friends. Years later, when a devastating sports accident left doctors telling him he'd never regain full mobility in his neck and shoulder, Anthony once again refused to accept limitation. After three and a half years of determined work, he restored what medical professionals deemed impossible.
These profound experiences shaped his mission: creating a fitness company that genuinely helps people overcome depression, recover from injuries, and reverse health conditions that traditional medicine often manages rather than solves. During COVID, Anthony's commitment to this vision led him to raise half a million dollars for lawsuits that ultimately reopened gyms across New York State.
Beyond physical training, Anthony delivers powerful insights about micro habits that transform mental and physical wellbeing. He challenges listeners to examine how much time they spend on screens, why walking might be the most underrated health practice, and why extreme approaches to diet and exercise often fail. Perhaps most compelling is his message about personal responsibility – acknowledging that while we don't control everything that happens to us, we absolutely control how we respond.
Whether you're struggling with your mental health, physical limitations, or simply feeling stuck, Anthony's story offers both inspiration and practical wisdom for creating meaningful change. His urgent message? "Don't start tomorrow. Don't start Monday. Start right now."
Learn More at: www.Redefine-Fitness.com
Hello and welcome to Health of Industry Defined. I'm your host, anthony Amen. Today we have another great episode for all of you today, if you are watching video which, by the way, I highly recommend you do now we are in our brand new podcast studio. So welcome to our Mount Sinai location in our nice secluded office so we can record these clips here in person for you guys. Almost six years of doing this and we're finally here. We got a little professional studio going on, so I hope you guys enjoy our future episodes. We're going to bring clients on, our trainers, local businesses. I'm going to do way more solo episodes because that is what you guys want and I want to give you what you want so you thoroughly enjoy this show and share with a friend. So I thought, looking back to trying to figure out what type of episode to give you today, I feel like it's a great place to start from the beginning. I know I did, about four or five years ago at this point, an episode about my life and how we got to where we are today with this show and with this gym. So why not do it all again in our brand new studio and tell you a little bit about myself and how Redefine Fitness came to what it is today. So in order to do that, we got to go back all the way back to when Anthony was in elementary school.
Speaker 1:Things were different for me back then. For those that may not know, I got heavily bullied, and I mean bullied every day, on the bus, on the ride in it was an hour ride I got beat up. In school I got made fun of all the time, every way, and the way home got beat up again, and that went on for years. Junior high school was worse than elementary school. There was more kids. Therefore, there was more opportunities to pick on me and make fun of me, and I really didn't have any friends whatsoever and full disclosure. It was probably the hardest moment of my life. It really took a heavy toll on me because, as someone being 10, 11 years old, 12 years old, you really don't know what else is out there in life. And it really piled on and my parents tried a lot for me. They always were supportive. They were always there for me. They always told me that, listen, it's just school, it's just a small portion of your life, but it was tough when you're in it, when it was nonstop all the time, 24-7. I mean even fast forward a couple years to like 13, 14, like online started coming about. So I feel really bad for kids now because I remember AIM for those dating myself a little bit but getting messages from people constantly picking on me had no help from teachers or anything like that, was constantly in counseling and things just didn't blink.
Speaker 1:This came to a point in my life I was in 8th, 9th, 8th grade, 9th grade it was around that time I don't know the exact time in my life, but it was like 8th or 9th grade, but I do remember this. My parents went out for the night. I was home by myself and it was another really rough day at school. So I Just couldn't take the crying anymore. I couldn't take where I was in my personal life. So I went into the kitchen. I Pulled open the drawer. I saw all the butcher knives in there. I grabbed one of them and I said this is it.
Speaker 1:I figured at that moment it was time to end my life because I couldn't take the abuse that I constantly got. But then something happened. Instead of killing myself, which is what I wanted to do, which I originally went to go for I started thinking about my parents and I started thinking about everything they did for me and I started thinking about how they always told me life was better beyond school. I started thinking about the vacations we went on, all the people we met on vacation, and I felt really bad for them and I was like I can't do this because this is going to destroy them. I know my parents love me and it would be horrible of me to put this heavy toll and burden on them, but I can't continue in this life. So what do I do? And I ended up in this little predicament where it's. I don't want to be the person I am today, but I also don't want to kill myself. I can't go back. So I put the knife away, went and laid in bed and I was like what am I going to do? I started up at the ceiling for hours. I was like I can't live this life. I can't do it anymore. I can't cry every night and get made fun of all the time. I can't be this little shy, insecure person. I need to be somebody else. So I said you know, if you're not going to kill yourself, be somebody else. And that's what I decided to do. I went to school the next morning and I told myself you are now a different person. And I meant it.
Speaker 1:I did something called repetitive exercise in my head, which basically means I would reiterate you're not reiterate, you're outgoing, you're outgoing, you're outgoing. Thousands of times in my head in the hallway, with the idea being that if I could make myself outgoing and I could start talking to people, eventually someone's got to click. I could talk to 100 people and one person would probably find they're talking to me. And that's what happened. It took weeks to really get the first person to start talking to me and I noticed that the more people I talked to, the more people talked to me. I talked to 100 to get one. I started talking to 200 to get two, and over the course of a year, I built my confidence up by just telling myself I was going to be more confident and just by telling myself I was going to be more outgoing, reiterating it so many times that my brain would not forget it. And I ended up building a group of people who also felt like outsiders and brought everyone together, and I completely and utterly changed my personality over the course of that next year. That went all the way through high school, went into college, had no problems in college whatsoever with that. I was a completely outgoing eccentric person, made a lot of friends quick. That went all the way through High school, went into college, had no problems in college whatsoever with that. I was a completely outgoing eccentric person, made a lot of friends quick. And then I was 20 years old.
Speaker 1:I was playing a sport called broomball. For those that may or may not know, in this story I tell a lot more. But I was on the ice. My friend blew his ankle out the night before he went to go slide tackle me. I didn't want to hurt him, so instead of sitting down bracing for it on the ice rink, I decided to try to step around him. Doing that made him hit me in the back of the calf. My legs flew up, my head flew back. I went boom on the ice so hard it stopped both games. I laid there for a couple seconds, went out, was analyzed by a couple people hey, are you okay, are you okay? I was like yeah, yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine, I'm fine. I told myself I was fine, waited a couple minutes, went back, finished the game. Whatever, that was stupid. Don't ever do that Went back to my dorm room that night.
Speaker 1:I was sitting in my bed and I was like, oh, I'm just going to lay down. I was starting to get a headache. I laid down, someone asked me a question and apparently at that moment I couldn't speak anymore. I was just gibberish. I was going like nothing was making sense. I really started slurring my words At that point. They're like we're going to the hospital. We went to the hospital. I really don't remember anything from that point.
Speaker 1:That was in February until about May. All I could tell you is throughout those three months that I herniated every single disc in my neck. I ended up with a massive concussion. I did not stay the night. I don't know if I stayed the night at the hospital, I just thought I was in school. I will tell you full disclosure to my parents. I never told them. I just kind of tell them everything was okay and that I was fine and that school was great, even though I just laid in my room for three months.
Speaker 1:I couldn't look at light, they used to give me tension, migraines, couldn't move my shoulder, couldn't move my neck and was pretty screwed up from that accident. I people ask why I stayed in school. I think the reason was because I knew that if I came over my suicide, then then I can get over this, and I wanted to show that I can get over this. But I still, at this point in my life, thought I needed to get help from other people. So I started doing what everyone would do. I went to different doctors, I went to physical therapists, I went to massage therapists especially when I went home that summer, my parents eventually found out, couldn't really hide it and we went to about 20, 25 different doctors. The last doctor I went to top orthopedic surgeon, walked into his office, pulled up my chart, looked at everything and said I can't help you. Close the chart. I'm a physician, not a magician. You can leave now.
Speaker 1:And that was heartbreaking, because I thought my whole life I had to rely on all these doctors and these people that knew more than me. And they kept telling me listen like. I know you can't move your neck. I know you can't move your shoulder. I know you're on muscle relaxers. I know you're on pain medicine Tough shit. You're never going to be able to do everything again, never going to be able to put your hand above your head again, never going to be able to move your neck again. Can't help you with that. But I knew that wasn't it. I knew that wasn't it. I knew that. You know there is more to life. I knew I could Back then. This isn't bad.
Speaker 1:What I went through in junior high school, that was bad. This is easy. So I started going to the gym. Through a lot of trial and error and I mean lots of error I started getting moving back. It took three and a half years to be able to do this again raise my hand above my head, to move my neck from left to right. Three and a half years of hard, grueling work to give me my life back. And I remember I broke down crying in front of my parents when I finally was able to lift my hand above my head again, because it was such a relief to me that I was creating this movement again. I knew this was my passion. I knew this was my purpose.
Speaker 1:So I started getting into the fitness industry and I started doing everything I would do Started bouncing around different gyms, worked here, worked here, tried learning the ins and outs and thought maybe that you know, I need the guidance from other people in order to get me where I want to go. But what I realized is real quick. The fitness industry knows nothing. These people are all in it for looking good, feeling good, and it was still very bodybuilding heavy and it was kind of taboo for people that had a shit ton of injuries to go and work out and no one ever thought of it as a form of medicine. And I was like, listen, fitness is medicine. Fitness is something that saved my life and gave me the ability to cope with day-to-day tasks again, and that is what I wanted to give to other people. And there was nothing out there like that. Trainers were getting certifications online. They would just sign off on it and then all of a sudden they're personal trainers. You don't even need one of those certificates in the state of New York, so they're just teaching people bad exercises from people they learn from bodybuilders, and it was just a shit show.
Speaker 1:So as I was bouncing around, I had the opportunity for one of the owners to tell me that he didn't want to do personal training anymore. He's going to cut the department. I pay rent, I start my company, and that's what happened. So, going back eight years ago almost to date, the date was July 18th. I started redefine fitness inside of a gym it was called retro fitness at the time and Port Jeff station and I said this is the company that is going to redefine what it means to be fit. And I don't mean that you're going to look good, feel good. Yeah, those are things that are secondary nature. I mean, you have depression, we're going to fix it. You have a shoulder injury, we're going to fix it. I want this company to be so well known that when they go to the doctor and they say, if ABCD issues, you're good enough, go to Redefine Fitness. They're going to be able to help you. They're going to be able to give you your life back, because modern medicine just isn't there yet.
Speaker 1:So inside this company, we worked real hard. We got our first location open in December 2018 over in Mount Sinai, just a town away for those that don't know the local area and I pushed. I was like we're changing this industry. We started with, first off, the trainer quality we hired. We were like, listen, you got to know more than the basics and I started putting trainers to test. I started implementing weekly education inside of them and we rode that avenue hard and then you know what Did that for a year? Boom, covid hit May 16th 2020, march 16th 2020, never gonna forget that day in my life. Governor Cuomo goes on TV and tells me I'm not good enough, I have to close my gym because of some disease going on in the world. Does that for two and a half years. For those that watch the show, they know very deeply. This is where the podcast started.
Speaker 1:I got involved with somebody and we sued the state of New York. We are the only reason that gyms got to open. We are the only reason that gyms got to open. I repeat, the next few people don't know that we raised a quarter of a million dollars. We sued the state of New York because we thought it was unfair that other industries were open and we were not, when it has been shown time and time and time again, and still to this date, five years later, that fitness is the best fix for COVID. The people that were dying from COVID had underlying conditions, the biggest one of that being obesity, and you know what fixes obesity Exercise. So we sued the state after raising a quarter million to all these gyms that were suffering and broke. We had a class action lawsuit. The gym we used to represent. Our class action lawsuit was up in Syracuse and we got a lot of hate from it from people, but we didn't care. We kept pushing forward. Day before the court hearing, governor croman was advised he was going to lose. So they told us uh, they told him and ford to open the gyms, because if you go to court you're going to lose and they're going to get a blanket open. So that day he went on tv and announced we should open with limited capacity.
Speaker 1:For those that remember that limited capacity wasn't good enough, we still couldn't make ends meet. We didn't get any loans from the government that people think we did. We got no grants. I was shit broke, starving it was. It came to the point about six months in that I looked at my wife. I said, honey, I don't know if we could pay our mortgage. And but at the same time I looked at her and I said, honey, I don't know if we could pay our mortgage. But you know, let me tell you that one time, back in ninth grade, I overcame suicide, again in 20. When I had a bad accident, I overcame a severe neck and shoulder injury that people told me never get over, honey. I started a new company when I was told I was too young and I never get off the ground running and I got us successful in a year before we got everything taken away from us. So I'm going to make this work and we struggled for years.
Speaker 1:Through COVID we had to raise a quarter of a million to get sued to get open the first time. Then we had to raise another quarter of a million because we ran a second class action lawsuit again because the right for limited opening, like I was explaining earlier, just wasn't good enough and we sued the state again. Same thing happened again day before the court date. Como was the vice? He was going to lose. He should just open us. And that's eventually how jim's got open. You're welcome. But we, we fought that fight and we got our opportunity to get open. A quarter quarter of gyms went out COVID. It was probably the saddest day, saddest couple years, because we were already losing the biggest fight.
Speaker 1:The biggest fight in my eyes is obesity. When you have an issue in society where almost 70% of people are overrated and obese and that number still climbs, you have bigger things coming. Covid was just the tipping of the iceberg. It was the top. It was the frosting on the cake. When you start putting all these underlying conditions that obesity hits, such as type 2 diabetes or depression or all those other things that factor inside of it high blood pressure, you're going to have a lot of things you're susceptible to that are going to kill you.
Speaker 1:We need to fix this. We need to fix obesity at the end of the day before we worry about anything else out there, and instead of going to prescribe things like we're dealing with now, like ozepic and zepound these are great, but they're destroying muscle tissue. I did a whole episode and I recommend you go check that out. But when you destroy muscle tissue, you drop someone's metabolism. Therefore, you're not fixing the underlying problem. You're still not fixing the habits and the issues associated with that. So what does that mean? For Redefined as a Whole is where we are now.
Speaker 1:Well, I'll tell you simply, redefined as a Whole started to function out like I was saying the belief that fitness is medicine redefined and evolved into taking the training education to a whole new level. We're the only gym that employs people full-time. I don't mean full-time the capacity that most trainers are used for those that don't know the fitness industry which is only pay per session and if you're not training you you don't get paid, sorry, or you get some shitty floor rage that you're working trying to make ends meet, pay time off too bad, and you're going to get paid almost nothing and this is going to be a step through job for you. I wanted to get people that took this as a career and were serious about it. So I pay people full-time pay, irregardless of the training with PTO. But on top of that our education requirements are stringent. We are doing education so thoroughly involved it's closely related to physical therapy than actually using even personal training. So those weekly educations turned into the COVID, which we launched, a brand new apprenticeship program. This apprenticeship program we wanted to get the state somewhat control over licensing for us. That was the idea of the lawsuits, because the state didn't want to open us, because they had no control, because we had no license to the state, like we would expect of a physical therapist or a nurse or a doctor, someone in that realm they could pull the license. They don't follow their rules. So we created this to set a higher standard. We got it approved. We're not the only gym in the entire country that has an approved apprenticeship program, which means that we do on-the-job training and we get to send our trainers to college on top of the education requirements that they're learning here. So, fundamentally, we're taking things to a whole new level for what it means to be a trainer and their education beyond that From a client standpoint.
Speaker 1:A lot of gyms focus on the belief of not teaching and educating their clients. Right, you're gonna go in. They're gonna say, okay, see you next week. Goodbye, instead of sitting with you, going over your program and being like, okay, based upon your movement screening God forbid, they do a movement screening. We see X, y, z, so our program needs to be A, b, c and we're gonna work with you on this and we're gonna teach you everything. Not only are we gonna teach you everything, we're gonna log everything into an app which we're both gonna have access to. This is two things One for a client standpoint they're gonna have videos, directions, exactly their weights, reps and how many sets they're doing and everything, so they can start learning how to work out On top of that for us as a trainer.
Speaker 1:And the second thing is, if you want to work with somebody else, because everyone is so educated, that trainer can go into that app. They can read exactly what you're working on and say oh wow, you did ABCDE last time with this trainer, so today we're going to work on all of this kind of stuff and it gets a continuing program, but it gives you the capability of your crazy schedule to not worry about following one person's schedule. Now you have 20 trainers you could track off of. So if your trainer goes away or you need to come in later that day, whatever doesn't matter, the trainer's going to have your program ready for you to go. So you walk in, boom, and you're not going to hear our staff saying what are we working on today? Because that's a trainer's job to design that customized program for you, not you as a client to dictate what you're working on. Because how do you know that's what Akeem says in the first place? Does that make sense? Unless, of course, you're an athlete, you have some super-strained program, then we can go off that. But people, it's not that case.
Speaker 1:So we dove into my story. We dove into redefining how we took that as a whole and the only thing I coming to the gym Because, yes, we stress time and time again, exercise has been shown to be just as effective as the leading antidepressants on the market, by the way, with no side effects. So if exercise could do it alone, what other habits could we do to help fix especially depression, but also help with anxiety and even obesity as a side effect of it? And I think that comes down to habits. And I think it not only comes down to habits. I think it comes to people's education of different types of habits and how they associate those. So let me break that out for those that want to truly understand what I mean.
Speaker 1:When we went to school and we took health class and I remember for myself it was just one time in sixth grade and then one time in seventh grade with like a chapter on nutrition the things we learned weren't true. So what we learned is healthy ended up not being considered healthy 20 years later. So when we say and I see this a lot in assessments, when I talk to people people say I eat healthy. Ok, explain to me what healthy means. No, no, I eat healthy. No, explain they break down breakfast lunch dinner. Ok, well, that's not healthy. No, explain they break down breakfast lunch dinner Okay, well, that's not healthy. So people have a misunderstanding of what healthy is, so they're reaching for the wrong cup. They're not understanding what they need to do and what they need to go for because they never learned that information. And I think that ties into beyond nutrition, but even day-to-day micro habits that help make us better people and help us function better as a whole.
Speaker 1:So another big commonality, besides not understanding what to eat and how to eat, would be what to do day-to-day outside of the gym and work. A lot of people go straight for the phones, go straight for the TV. I know people who watch TV pre-work and post-work, or they scroll to their phone pre-work, post-work and then complain that they're depressed or that they're bland or they can't get their brain working or that they're tired. But meanwhile, if you add in all the times you're looking at your screen for example, most people it's an hour before work, it's eight hours at work, then it's during your lunch break, so eight nine for lunch break hour before 10 hours, and then it's at least two hours post, so 12 hours a day. And then you add eight hours of sleeping if they're lucky, so 12 hours a day, which is half the day you're looking at a screen and then you want to tell me that you don't know why you're tired all the time or you don't know why you can't lose weight, and those two are the same. I'm not saying that TV or screen makes you overweight, but the habit of watching TV and looking at a screen makes you overweight and makes you depressed and adds to your anxiety because you're not understanding what to do in replacement of that. So if you could take a micro habit, for example, looking at your phone or watching TV pre or post work, turn that into something productive, as in clean your room, like you're moving, your body's moving around, put your phone away, go do that or go for a walk.
Speaker 1:I think walking is one of those underrated things. I go for walks pretty much every day, minus when it's raining out or when it's literally zero degrees, but, like in the summer, it's almost every day and it's almost an hour, so it's an hour of block that I can take my dog for a walk, so my dog's getting healthy. I go with my wife, when possible, and my kid, so therefore it's family bonding time and that's when we turn our phones off and we have Awesome family bonding time with each other. Now not only just that I'm moving my body walking, I'm getting vitamin d. Vitamin d has been shown just as much as exercise to help with Depression, along with a bunch of other things like immunity response.
Speaker 1:I'm getting the exercise in from walking and moving my body, my blood's pumping. I'm helping my exercise in from walking and I move my body and my blood's pumping. I'm helping my blood sugars by walking and I'm regulating my eyes to the circadian rhythm to help me sleep better. So when we watch the sun rise and watch the sun set, it helps our body regular circadian rhythm, which is basically our internal clock. For those who don't know what that means, especially if sunset will help your body know that it's time to release more melatonin, which helps us sleep, and it will trigger us going to bed and be able to regulate sleep time, as opposed to looking at a screen which has blue light which triggers midday sun and makes you think that it's mid-afternoon.
Speaker 1:And I love the reasoning. Well, it makes me feel tired when I watch tv. Yeah, no, duh, your eyes are strained as hell. If I had to stare at a light all for an hour and you looked up near the sun not directly at it, but near it your eyes are going to get strained and you're going to feel tired. You're going to not, you're going to go into, maybe, stage one sleep. You're not going to go into stage four REM sleep, which is what makes you feel better. So so your eyes are strained and you close them and you might feel internally slightly better, but you're not getting into that deep sleep.
Speaker 1:It's like comparing a nap to going to bed at night when you're napping. Some people think napping is like full deep sleep. No napping you can still hear everything around you. You don't realize how quickly time's elapsing, but you can still hear everything and you're still semi-aware. That's a nap. You're not in stage four sleep. You're in stage one or stage two, whereas deep sleep you don't hear anything around you. You're out like a light because you're trying to teach your body.
Speaker 1:This is bedtime and this is when you need more melatonin and it's time to relax. And sleeping is where, for those that don't know, your muscle tissue repairs. It flushes out toxins out of your brain, it boosts your metabolism, helps with lowering your cortisol levels, which is a stress, and it helps curb appetite, because when we get stressed and we tend to overeat, especially bad stuff. So it's important to notate that sleep helps regulate all of that Super under the hood micro habit. But what helped trigger that micro habit before Not locking your phones before bed? So whatever we replaced going to phones before bed for we did that with a walk, or we did that with family bonding, or we did that by reading a book, or maybe going for a walk, then reading a book right, reading the book could be something productive. If you own a business, maybe it's a business book. So now you're getting your exercise in, you're learning something, then you're going to sleep, then you're waking up.
Speaker 1:I prefer walks in the morning, overnight, but for me it wakes me up, it makes me feel good, I get my brain pumping, feel great. So I get to watch the sunrise, feel awesome. I get to have quality family bonding time. I feel refreshed when I go to work because I was exposed to the sun. I feel awesome, I get a great workout in to feel great. And those habits just continue and stack on top of each other.
Speaker 1:We don't need the extreme, and that's what people tend to live. I mean, you see all these diets all the time where it's keto, cut carbs completely, or it's this, or it's this, or carnivore diet, which cut everything but meat. No, it's take the good habits out of things and formulate it to take 80% of what's good out of it. So carnivore diet example I'll do an episode on this later but it's 80% good. You still need fruits and veggies, you still need some forms of carbs, but meat 80% of your diet is amazing. 100% is not. So micro habits 80% micro habit is great.
Speaker 1:Overdoing it with all these fucking things and having a four-hour wake-up workout routine what's that doing for you besides distracting you? Now small, quick things are way more productive than lining up. I'm going to meditate and then I'm going to go in that sauna and then I'm going to work out, then I'm going to read. Then it's like, by the time you're done with your morning routine, my day's over over and you've got no work done or you didn't get to have fun and therefore it becomes a chore. And once something becomes a chore, then you tend to not do it, because now it's work, oh, I've got to go do all this again. And it just adds up in your brain. Of all those things you now have to do, it's like oh, my goodness, that's so many things. I can't believe I have to do that right now.
Speaker 1:So if you just made small little changes and amplified the things that are the most beneficial for us, like walking, or like hitting the gym for half an hour, or just reaching for better quality food over worse quality food. Small, little quality changes are going to stack over the long period of time and, overall, make you feel better. That, in and of itself, is how we fix depression, anxiety and the obesity epidemic all in one Microhabits, fitness and the understanding and I think this is the last vital point I'm going to make, especially from society that we have to take blame for what we do as humans and we can't rely on other people to fix it. We have to fix it for ourselves. We need to teach our kids and we need to learn for ourselves. It's not the government's fault, it's not your boss's fault. It's not your boss's fault. It's not your parents fault, it's not xyz trauma's fault and that gives me the right to be depressed. That's not true. The person who dictates how you live your life is you.
Speaker 1:I was asked this question two weeks ago by somebody. I I told them my whole story and they go. Would you relive it? Didn't blink an eye. Yes, every single moment, every painful moment, every good moment, I'd relive 100% of it to get where I am today. Those moments that happened in my life defined who I am today as a human being.
Speaker 1:If I didn't get beat up, get bullied, I never would have committed suicide. If I didn't ever go to commit suicide, I never would have learned that I could pick myself back up. If I never got hurt, I never would have learned that the fitness industry is where I belong Never, never, would have started this company. If I never got into the fitness industry, I never would have met my wife. If I never met my wife, I would have never had my kid and surprise, by the way, we're having another one. For those that don't know, great way to find out.
Speaker 1:With all that being said, it's important to understand that I took responsibility for everything else and I changed my own personal outcomes based upon what happened in my life. I'm the one who dictated how I went forward with every single obstacle that was put in my way, and I'm the one who tried reaching out to people and realized it didn't work, and the only way it did work was to take that responsibility back into myself and fix it and give the life that I wanted to give to myself. So if you're looking at this and you need a little shove in the butt, it's you need to start now. Start now and take responsibility for every little moment and every little thing that goes on in your life and redefine who you are and notice something I said start now. I didn't say start tomorrow. I didn't say I'm going to start Monday.
Speaker 1:Why? Because there's no other bigger priority than you. Your body, your life is a direct reflection on the habits and those things that you do and the responsibility that you take inside of your own life. Why put that off another day? What makes anything else in the world more important than this? Right now? Nothing. There's no birthday party, there's no dinner date or whatever. That's more important than changing your life for the better so you can give back to yourself and your community and live the life you always wanted. So don't start tomorrow, don't start Monday. Start right now. And if you know somebody that needs some tough love, I want you to share this episode with them right now and hopefully you can change somebody else's life and hopefully this is something you needed to realize that the time for change is now. So thank you, guys, for listening to this week's episode of Health and Fitness and Redefined. Don't forget, fitness is medicine Until next time.
