No Excuses....We're tired of them....

Look, I know the title seems harsh, in fact, it's brutally honest. I'm gonna cut to the chase....

There are two types of people in this world:

*People who get things done
*People who DO NOT get things done

It's that simple.

Over the years I've met some funny characters. I've met some movers, some shakers, some amazing 'IT' persona's and I've met people who literally are energy sappers, complainers, always something wrong, never the 'right' time, something 'always' in the way, and the infamous "I'm trying" clan.

But be honest with yourself. Which category do you fall into?

Are you a problem solver? Or a problem instigator?

Are you a 'Get it Done' person? Or a 'I'll try this week?' individual?

I've met, and worked with people who seem to have everything battling against them.

-they have multiple kids
-crazy career schedules
-numerous sports activities to drive back and forth to
-grad-bday-social parties to attend
-no nannies or babysitters
-gas prices are still hiked in their households
-AND THEY STILL ACCOMPLISH TO GET THE IMPORTANT THINGS DONE
-AND they may sleep 6 hours a night too

See they could:

- roll over and play dead no doubt.
- blame their children for the extra weight on their hips from pregnancy.
- say their kids schedules prevent them form having time to exercise.
- say their children/spouse/friends eating habits derail them from success.
- make a point that their jobs leave no time to prepare meals or workout.

But they don't.

Instead they say 'Hey, I can fit in a half hour here, I can grab an apple off the counter, I can eat some leftover chicken or steak, I can send a quick email and even watch the kids while I work out....because let's be honest again:

When you were a kid, as I'm sure as when I was, the gateway to the outdoor world opened at 7am and didn't allow you back in until 6pm for dinner...and then it was back outside all night. And the world isn't that dangerous that a kid can't hang out in the yard or neighborhood. When we were kids there were still all the complexities of drama and potential "what ifs" something could happen to us.

How often did anything happen?

Sure you fell out of tree, hurt your arm. Sure you fell off your bike and chipped a tooth. I bet you even ran top speed away from a crazy neighbor with a broomstick or pellet gun. Did you die and lose everything from it? Of course not, you're reading this. So the kids will be okay. In fact, if they don't have these experiences they'll never learn the intricacies and dangers of fuc_ing up and trying to get THEMSELVES out of a jam.

The world has only changed because the media has showed what's been around all this time because of accessibility of the news.

Plus the same media is allowing you to make excuses for being overweight and giving up easily by getting plastic surgery, taking pills, selling you bogus and fake info products and telling you it's okay to kill yourself from within because as long as we throw a new coat of paint on you you'll be okay.

But guess what?

You're not okay. The same underlying problems still exist.

If you were lazy before you'll be lazy again and the effects will eventually wear off. If you had always negotiated out of situations with 'Well Monday I'll change my ways' then you'll negotiate these thoughts in your head again.

There are no excuses. And it really doesn't matter if you change. It's entirely up to you. But I'll be honest, lately I'm getting really tired of people who say "I'm trying". Because you're probably saying it to the wrong person if it's me. You think I don't know when people are lying to me. If a client hasn't changed their appearance you think I don't know they haven't taken any of my advice.

I mean, if you've got the money, I'll gladly live with anybody in their house and follow them around all day and make sure they attain every one of their goals. I guarantee IT!!!!! Double money back guarantee if I live with you you will find success over a 3 month period.

But that's not the real world is it Peter Pan?

But the real world isn't that complicated either.
It's actually very simple. I'm not saying you're going to be a model but damn it you'll definitely feel and look better than you have in years if you just start DOING.

It's all about consistency. Hell even Chris Coleson proved that. Just be consistent. Don't stray from that. I'd say about 5% of people who say they eat and workout healthy actually do.

Again, I've been doing this for 15 years, I can call a bullshi$$er in this industry when I see or meet one. The true occurrence of thyroid holding you back or whatever issue other than paralysis is so slim and rare that you'd have better chances getting struck with lightning with a rainbow overhead. And I don't care what doctor references that you have something or need to have gastric bypass whatever because they're protecting their back end with pills/medications and the insurance companies to stay in business.

Just because I'm telling you this means nothing to my back end.

In fact I'll give you a workout right now that if you follow 3-5 days a week I guarantee you will lose weight and shape up so long as you stay consistent and have weight to lose. It's all about 'will power'.

Here it is:
All Bodyweight
*Push-Ups (however you have to do them) 50 a day
*Squats 100 a day
*Lunges 30 a day
*Back Extensions 30 a day
*15 Yard Sprints 20 a day
*Planks 10 for 30 seconds
*Side Planks 5 for 15 seconds

Finish the entire workout above in 20 minutes or less.

Cardio/Intervals: 15 minutes
*30 seconds of sprinting or high knees in place - followed by
*Walk or March in place for 90 seconds
Repeat above 6 times

Cool Down with a 3 minute walk


Is that really THAT hard?

Now take your body weight and multiply by 10.

That's how many calories I want you to eat CONSISTENTLY for 90-120 days.

I don't care what you eat! Be it apples, pizza, ice cream, so long as you stay off of bread, pasta (minus once a week) and just eat that many calories without ever going higher or lower than the exact number spread out over 4-5 meals YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND SHAPE UP!!

That's it.

So stop trying and start doing.

Because people who try never accomplish.

You're better than this. Prove it to yourself.

Remember, all you have in this world is yourself.

You may have friends and family but if your health fails they can not save you.
They can not fix your blood pressure. They can not fix your heart.
Only you can control what your body feels like and how healthy it will be.

Now go on and be someone Extraordinary. Because you can be.

Everyone in this planet is 99.99% identical in nature and ability to not be severly overweight.

You just have to quit trying, and start Doing.

Robert Belley is an Elite Fitness Trainer out of Pembroke, Massachusetts who has appeared in numerous national media and traveled the country training and cooking for clientele. His website can be viewed at www.RBfit.com.

Coleson's McDiet is McTrue but also McShit

So as many of you probably already heard, a gentleman by the name of Chris Coleson recently slimmed 14 inches from his Super-Sized belly and dropped 80 pounds by surviving on a 1,400 calorie a day McMeal plan that incorporated salads, wraps, occasional patty's, apples and fitness 3 days a week. Check his story out here.

To his credit Chris did say he didn't touch one fry the entire 200 days he followed this plan.

Even more interesting he skipped breakfast and packed all his calories into two meals a day; sounds like most teenagers and working adults huh?

His 40 year-old wife, inspired by her husbands amazing results, decided to give the ol' Col'Donald routine a try and has lost herself 30 pounds.

Now this is where I get to say "I told you so!"

For as long as anyone's known me I've stated "losing weight is simple".

It's a matter of knowing how much you need to eat every day and just staying consistent with that number. If you don't, you're lying and that's why you're not losing the weight.

My favorite analogy is the Chocolate Cake diet.

You could eat however many calories a day of the sweet tasty stuff so long as you don't go over your limit caloricly, you spread the slices out over the day, and just workout - not even train - just workout in some facet with varied exercises daily.

No shit this will actually work!

Here's the problem though:

1. You WILL compromise YOUR health
2. You WILL breakout with pimples
3. You WILL get 'The Diabetes'
4. You WILL get very bored, very quickly, with this one food choice
5. You WILL feel lethargic at some point and find energy difficult to recruit

So it works.

But you will sacrifice for it.

Perhaps more than you're willing to.

*You may set yourself up for potentially developing cancer.
*You may burn yourself out and have a serious accident.
*You may even begin to program your thoughts so much that other behaviors of your mentality and attitude will suffer due to it.

So be smarter than this guy please. And if you're reading this you're obviously not homeless collecting coins and cans on the street to get by.

Start purchasing apples, broccoli, salmon, chicken, steak, asparagus, sweet potatoes, etc...

I'm just waiting for McDonald's to jump on this dumb bandwagon and hoist this fella on their corporate shoulders as the next "Jarrod" like Subway did. By the way, I dispise Jarrod. I take that back, I don't know Jarrod the man, but I hate everything Jarrod the Subway Pop-Culture Slam-Donkey represents.

Just two cents from Rob Belley.

I do like Subway, just not their sell-out mascot.

Now talk amongst yourselves, here's a topic, Triceps Kickbacks are neither kicks, backs or even worthy of having the term triceps incorporated into the title.

Please discuss....and realize that if a guy and woman who are willing to eat McDonald's twice a day can both lose a good amount of weight, then what the hell is holding you back? What excuses are you creating?

How to Gain 6 POUNDS in 45 Minutes!!!!!!

Wednesday at one of my FAVORITE Boston Annuals "The Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl" I devoured 29 half-cup servings of Ice Cream provided by Haagen Dazs, Ben & Jerry's, Cold Stone Creamery, Breyer's, Edy's, Giffords, Hood, Delati Gelati, Elan Frozen Yogurt and more...


All in all:
*Over 6 POUNDS of Ice Cream
*4,850 Calories
*Just 45 Minutes

How my abs look Thursday morning after breakfast....


Mind you, follow this brilliant time-line:

Tuesday Night 8:00pm
**Ate an entire half-gallon of ice cream

Tuesday Night 10:00pm
**Ate an entire Cheese Pizza from Pembroke House of Pizza while watching the Celtics-Lakers after Hells Kitchen

Wednesday Morning 8:30am
**Ate half a steak

Wednesday Afternoon 12:00pm
**Ate 6 POUNDS of Ice Cream at SCOOPER BOWL

Wednesday Evening 5:00pm
**Ate Half a Large Pizza from Pizzeria Rico in Boston's Downtown Crossing

Wednesday Night 9:00pm
**Ate some Mexican Wraps

Wednesday Night 10:30pm
**Ate Peanut Butter and Jelly

Thursday Morning 7:45am
**Ate 3 Whole eggs and 5 slices of Bacon

And this is still how my stomach looked. Only worked out twice in three days.


Not too shabby....

Point being...

Train consistently, eat healthy most of the week, and keep active.

And hopefully I won't develop the Diabetes from the Jimmy Fund. LOL!

Annual NINA & MICHAEL Summer Special

It's that time of year again!! So here it is: my ANNUAL Nina & Michael Summer Special. Bookended by my beautiful goddaughter Nina's birthday and my extraordinary brother Michael's birthday.
May 27th - June 19th, 2008.

50% OFF all regular rate Private/Personal (1 on 1) and Semi-Private (2-4) training.

50% OFF!!! But act quick cause my schedule has been filling up with everyone trying to get in shape for summer ;)


Robert Belley

Readers Choice Award, Best Weight Loss Service

Robert Belléy Fitness

www.RBFit.comE: Rob@RBFit.com

Actual Client email...this truly moved me

Hey Rob - hope last night was a good work out, the rain held off just long enough for you!!! I have to share this story with you cause I know how much you love kids....

Kathryn said to me "mom, I know how much you like boot camp sorry you couldn't go cause of me" she is so cute, I told her it was no big deal and that it was so much fun to watch her play softball... she sat there for a minute and said "don't worry I am going to boot camp you when we get home" so I laughed and said thanks....

sure enough she went around and collected things and set them up.... we did planks, pushups, she put flip flops at either end of the hall way and had me run to pick them up/run to the other end put them down etc... (my best time was 11 seconds!)... "no cherry pickers tonight" she told me.... hahahaha

anyway... my cute kid story for the day.... you might have a future employee!!

Have a great long weekend, hope you have at least one of the days 100% off. We are running trucks Sat, Sun and Monday but I am closing the office all 3 days. nearly unheard of around here. yaay!

She also told me that she was going to "teach Rob how to do the run outs" which is what she called the thing where I had to run and get the flip flops.

-K.M.


The above email may not seem like much to you, I understand, but I’m not lying when I tell you I literally cried after I responded to this email. I’m a 29 year old man and I can admit that. This is EXACTLY why I know I am in the right passion of profession.

I’ve been in this industry for 15 years, more than half of my life. I’ve been published hundreds of times in the media. Been featured dozens of times in newspapers, radio interviews, local and national magazines. Named one of America’s Greatest Trainers. Won best weight loss/fitness service in the Reader Choice Awards. Was first World Certified by the International Youth Conditioning Association for improving the lives of millions of children. Helped hundreds of people in person and hundreds of thousands online and in print to get in great shape and literally help improve their lives. From children to men & women in their 80’s. From super athletes to cancer survivors/MS patients/diabetics getting off insulin and children with autism or severe low-self-esteem. I’ve been thankfully involved with fantastic charities and have the ability to donate near monthly to others and client events.

But no matter what I’ve accomplished, am accomplishing and will accomplish this is the GREATEST, UNDOUBTLY the MOST AMAZING experience of my passion for fitness, health and improvement.

This means a child “GOT IT”!

I would trade in every accomplishment and remain unrecognized if I knew this would grow as the anatomy of a tidal wave and carry the state of our youth to this behavior.

There is no greater reward in this life than impacting the world of a child. Knowing you’ve done something, albeit small, but important, to directly guide or steer a developing mind towards a proactive and healthy lifestyle choice.

I can not thank K.M. enough for sending me this email.

This totally made MY WORLD.

On a weekend I’m celebrating the 2nd year birthday of my gorgeous god daughter Nina, celebrating the 29th birthday of one of my best friends and the man who I was given the honor to wed he and his wife to one another – wrote the entire ceremony & performed it – plus co-founded our Non-Profit organization Foundation Forward THIS IS the highlight.

This is my one of my most cherished indirect compliments ever.

I’ve already printed it and placed it on my vision board. Few things make that list. Very – very – very few. It’s not a very big board ;)

But I wanted to share this with all of you who have helped me learn and hopefully I’ve helped teach a few things too as well.

Whether you’re a best friend receiving this letter, an amazing client/friend, a partner in business, a member of my family, the love of my life, or simply a person who has only once taken one of my Camps or I’ve met along the way...I forget no one.

Thank you for all adding a little piece of enjoyment, fulfillment, challenge, trust, passion, laughter and excitement to help me become the man I am today.

Thank you...and I can not thank you K.M. enough again.

Your friend,

Rob

The Revolution of Youth Fitness - I'm in!!

By now you know that the Fitness Revolution has started.

'Youth Fitness' and 'Youth Sports Training' are the most expansive markets this industry has seen in years. And I already gave you the heads-up.

Unfortunately, nearly 1 million Fitness Professionals worldwide got the heads-up, too.

Thankfully I was the very FIRST WORLD CERTIFIED Fitness Professional to earn this prestigious honor through this amazing industry's IYCA organziation.

And very seldom are you given the chance to get in on'the next big thing' early.

Most Fitness Professionals and organizations like to keep things to themselves. They're not looking to share or bring you 'inside' the secret chamber of what it is they've got going on.

But this Revolution has been different.

My good friend Brian Grasso and the IYCA are searching the globe for passionate and dedicated professionals like you.

They want you to become one of the frontline soldiers in the war against youth obesity. They want you to become an agent for change and esteemed notable expert in the world of youth sports performance.

They want to open the doors for you and your career in a marketplace that is considered the'largest opportunity-oriented demographic in the industry' by countless organizations both insideand outside the world of fitness.

But are you listening? If you haven't yet gone to check out this immense Revolution than you are literally letting one of the greatest opportunities you will ever see slip straight through your fingers.

The IYCA only has room for 74 more Fitness Professionals to take hold of this Revolution. 74 That's because they aren't looking for just anyone.

They're looking for the best, most passionate and most dedicated professionals out there today.

They're looking to personally mentor, provide directionand blaze an opportunity-rich path for those few Fitness Professionals who want more for their careers.

74 and counting down.

Sometimes in life it's not whether you can afford to take action... ... It's whether you can afford NOT to.

74 more action oriented professionals can get on boardbefore the train leaves the station.

My sincere opinion is that you should be one of them.

Have a look at your careers future - IYCA MISSION and YOUR PLACE IN IT


Again, I was the FIRST EVER CERTIFIED IYCA FITNESS PROFESSIONAL.

Back neraly 2 years ago I took action and absorbed all that I could. I'm a much better person and professional today for my inclusion and studies of the IYCA and its mission.

Together we are going to change the shape of youth obesity, disease and fitness.

Sincerely,

Robert Belley

Robert Belley Fitness
1st World Certified YCS through the IYCA

Chicken Dog Food Soup for Hunchback Nation!

Kyphosis sucks through and through. Not only does the kyphotic curve (think Hunchback of Notre Dame) totally disrupt the kinetic chain but it'll literally shave inches off your height over time. How you gonna reach that Tuesday night chicken soup and dog food dinner when you're in your 60's?

Neglected stretching and soft tissue work are the culprits here along with the wild array of ab gimmicks, crunches and sit-ups that plagued your teens, 20's, 30's and 40's.

So here's the deal kids, begin stretching the holy Moses out of your abs, chest, deep neck flexors, hip flexors, piriformis and quads.

Start strengthening your rhomboids, serratus, external obliques, glutes and hamstrings.

This is just a start.

Follow this daily and you'll be putting me on your Christmas card list and inviting me to your rockband parties before you know it ;)

Rob Belley

Robert Belley Fitness in
Pembroke Fitness, Marshfield Fitness, Duxbury Fitness