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by: aaronsavvy

My name is Aaron Savvy and I am in the best shape of my life. I am a certified trainer in Seattle and my goal is to guide and train you to be the best “YOU” you can be. I don’t believe in steroids or any other illegal substances. They’re quick and easy solutions that have devastating results: stroke, heart attack, and severe acne to name a few. I believe only in mental preparation and hard work.

I come from a very athletic family.  My father ran marathons, my brother was the captain of his swim team, and in my younger years I played basketball, baseball and football, as well as boxing on FX’s “Tough Man.”  As the years passed I started to see a change in my father, he stopped working out and stopped eating healthy.  As a result he wound up having two open-heart bypass surgeries.  My brother, the guy with 3% body fat who ran 5 miles a day and who was captain of his swim team, also became (and since has been) sedentary.  Slowly but surely I too started to feel that drift.  Why the change? 

I always refused to settle for average and constantly pushed myself to perform at the best of my ability.  Why now did I feel the need to drift!  I then began to push myself that much harder in my workouts and nutrition, and yet I still wanted to drift.  I couldn’t understand it—my body was telling me to “GO, GO, GO” and yet my mind was telling me to “Stop, who cares”!

I finally opened up the yellow pages one day with the goal of finding a personal trainer.  I was hoping to gain some insight as to why I could not stay on course with my fitness and nutrition.  My first trainer, Ken, happened to be a 70-year-old man and probably the fittest man I had ever met.  He had the muscles, the definition and the attitude . . . and he was 100% natural.  Being in his presence made me want to be like him even though I was the 21-year-old and he was the 70-year-old. 

I felt like I was Rocky and he was Mickey.  I trained in a small, hole-in-the-wall, musty gym with rusty weights.  All the equipment was outdated, and the training was old school.  There was no fluff to my workouts just tough love, determination and what I call the “it” factor to working out—mental preparation. 

Since then, I’ve become a personal trainer dedicating my life to learning how the body works and mastering the “mental aspect” of fitness.

That being said, I don’t simply want to give you a workout that you would do and that’s it.  You would miss the whole point and most likely fall back into your notorious bad habits.  Instead, throughout the next couple of months I will help you create a healthy lifestyle starting with the “mental aspect.”

Believe it or not most people skip the first and most important ingredient to working out—the mental preparation needed to start.  This is the time that you give yourself that wake-up call and a verbal pep talk acknowledging and reprimanding yourself for your current state of mind and being.

There are seven days in a week and 24 hours in each day.  I want you to pick a minimum of three hours per week that you will dedicate to your body.  I recommend Monday, Wednesday, Friday, or Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday.  I do not want to hear:  I work long days, I have kids, or I have to travel, etc. These are negatives or what I like to call “crutches.”  It just takes a little reorganizing with our schedules to make it happen.  Our body is the single most important thing we have.  If it breaks down, your job, family, and more importantly your health will suffer severely.  Instead, you are reprogramming yourself and engraving a new “must-do” in your brain. 

We religiously use these engraved “to do’s” on a daily basis when we wake up, go to the bathroom, shower, brush our teeth, eat, go to work, etc., now just insert “GO TO THE GYM.”   As you do this, going to the gym will become second nature.  You simply have to do it!  You don’t think about it, you don’t question it—you simply do it until THAT becomes a habit.

My results did not come over night.  It took time and consistency.  Nothing worthwhile comes with ease, we all know that, and yet there are thousands of companies that are rich and successful because we fall for their “get in shape quick schemes”.

Creating the mental aspect takes constant self-coaching.  Verbally ask yourself:  “What are my physical results going to be if I exercise regularly?”  Answer the question in writing and reflect on the results:  Weight loss, muscle gain, definition, toning, and boost of energy or self-confidence.  Also focus on how your life will change . . . you’ll be able to run the marathon you always wanted to run, finally take up snowboarding or simply have enough energy to go out with friends after a long day’s work.

So you’ve been out of shape for five plus years.  I am going to give you the tools to achieve results in less than a year.  So you don’t see a change in a few weeks or even three months!  Why get frustrated, you’ve been out of shape for five-plus years—give yourself a year.  Allow your body a chance to react to your new change.  It’s been going in one direction for a long time and it takes a bit for the body to slow down and then finally go into the direction you want it to.

So let’s sum this up:

1. Think about, visualize, and write down your goals and results.

2. Find things that inspire you—songs, pictures, and when you are not “feeling” the gym . . . listen to the music,  look at your goals, focus on them and get inspired and pumped up.

3. No matter how silly it may seem, I want you to verbally talk to yourself on the step-by-step changes you personally are going to mentally and physically make.  This is a strong tool and will work.

4. Just DO IT!!!  No options, no excuses, don’t think about it—just go!

Once you’ve decide to take that step, visit EnvyMan.com or AaronSavvy.com for continuous coaching, tips, and training suggestions.
I will also answer your questions at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it