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For a summary of the BioFit approach please see: Compare; for an overview of services please see: Solutions.
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If you’re interested in learning more, contact me so we can talk. You can email me or call me if you’d rather talk on the phone; I work out of my home office so you can call anytime until 10:00 pm. If I’m not home when you call, please leave a message and I’ll call you back within 24 hours. I’d be glad to meet you in person as well so I can show you a sample fitness program and talk to you about how I can help you reach your goals.

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Frequently asked questions Q: How long will it take for me to see results?  A: It varies considerably, but usually 3-4 weeks, sometimes even sooner. Typically other people will notice before you do, or your clothes will start feeling looser before you've even noticed any difference. The reason is that we see ourselves everyday in the mirror and don't tend to notice small daily incremental changes. But when you see someone who hasn't seen you in a few weeks they tend to notice and may comment. I’ll provide you with easy ways to measure your progress.   Q: What if I’m not interested in holistic fitness and all that other stuff and I just want to lose weight?  A: Then we’ll focus on weight loss and nothing else. My offerings are like a restaurant menu—just because I offer many services doesn’t mean you have to choose them, and I won’t push stuff on you that you don’t want.   Q: How much of the ‘battle of the bulge’ is diet and how much is exercise? Is it 50/50, 40/60 or what?  A: Based on my education, research, experience with clients and with my own fitness program, I’d say it’s more like 25/25/50: 25% diet, 25% exercise, and 50% mind/mental/psychological, which tends to surprise many people. But that’s actually quite conservative, many believe it’s more like 10/10/80: 10% diet, 10% exercise, and 80% mind/mental/psychological. Think about it—the mind controls the body. The body can’t exist without the mind—without consciousness the body decomposes into inert uninformed unintelligible unconscious matter.

The main reasons most people fail at weight loss are psychological: lack of clear goals, motivation, willpower, self-discipline, emotional eating and/or drinking, poor time management skills, etc. You can know that you need to eat good and exercise, but if you lack clear goals, motivation, willpower, self-discipline, time management skills; knowledge of what foods are compatible with your metabolic type, body type, and blood type; knowledge of what exercises and exercise protocols are compatible with your muscle fiber type ratios and goals, etc., it’s just not going to happen and that may be why you’re reading this right now, yes?   Q: Can I still have a guilty sin or two?  A: Sure, that’s your choice. What I do is inform you of your choices and encourage you to make better choices, but it’s up to you to choose them.   Q: What's your style? Are you nice or mean? Do you believe in using the carrot or the stick?  A: Intrinsic motivation is much more effective than extrinsic motivation of any sort, whether positive or negative. I remind you of your goals and the reasons for your efforts to get there in order to help you "keep your eyes on the prize" and stay on course to reach your goals.  As for my style, imagine a continuum between an intimidating drill sergeant barking orders at one pole, and Richard Simmons jumping up and down clapping his hands like a cheerleader at the other; I'm pretty much right in the middle of that continuum—pretty normal, with determination and assertiveness delivered with friendly encouragement and humor. One of my clients described my style as, "cheerfully encouraging rigor."   Q: What’s the most important thing to do if I want to change?

A: Setting clear and worthy goals is the most important step in creating change. That’s why it’s the most important step in improving your health and fitness, and the most important step of the BioFit System™.

Q: Why is goal-setting so important?

A: Because goals are what guide our volitional powers. This faculty, capacity, or power that we have to act—the will—is guided by a mental model or cognitive concept that creates an intention to act. A goal is a conception of a specific end that motivates us and creates an intention to act in order to attain it; goals are ideas or concepts in the conative realm of volition—the realm of intention and action.

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare. Japanese Proverb
This great proverb highlights the two essential elements of successful action: the vision that guides action and the willpower to actualize the vision. Vision, a product of the intellectual imagination, and willpower, the faculty of the will, are both qualities of mind. Because conception and intention precede and cause action, and action is, in turn, perceived, evaluated, and stored as a memory in the mind, all action begins and ends in the mind. Both elements of successful action are necessary: interior positive intention as well as exterior positive action; each is necessary but insufficient without the other.

Goals have to do with the first half of this equation: forming the vision that guides prospective action. Serious goal-setting is the purposeful directing of the will towards the ends of action: the goods of life. It involves the intellectual setting of intentions and the emotional commitment to move in a certain direction toward the objects of our goals. This act of creation is a mental act occurring in the mind with conception and intention.

The actualization of the goal at the physical level of complexity is merely follow-through: a material representation of this creation, a manifestation or configuration of energy in the form of the goal previously authored by the mind. The conception of the goal in your interior consciousness is the creative cause that necessarily precedes its effect in the external (part of the) world evident to the senses.
The mind can thus be seen, using a biological metaphor, as an organ of energy manipulation. Everything begins and ends in the mind: all our thoughts, feelings, motivations, intentions, goals, values, judgments, memories, passions, loves, etc., are the content of interior consciousness and these manifest in various ways in the external environment, including the actions and corresponding adaptations of the physical body.

The physical environment evident to the senses is a mirror that reflects these higher realities, and as the image in a mirror is an appearance, a reflection of reality, not the substance of reality itself, if you change the interior realities regarding your health and fitness beginning with clear and worthy goals, and follow through with purposeful action guided by the will in order to actualize the potential conceived in the mind, the reflection of this in your physical body will necessarily manifest. Intention precedes and causes action, and form follows function, thus intention causes form; put another way: intention informs substance.

Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners; so that if we will either to have it sterile with
idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. Shakespeare, Othello
When you are truly aware of the awesome power of the mind—particularly the power of continuous conscious creation—the real meaning of ‘miracles of mind’ becomes evident: to the extent a miracle is a break or exception in the causal order or chain of events at the physical level of complexity, the mind is quite literally a living, everlasting miracle in that it is a constant source of events without external causes—it is an originator and creator of effects. When this is realized at a deep, meaningful level as a reality in your life, not merely an interesting idea, apparently insurmountable physical obstacles such as being overweight can be reframed and more realistically understood as static, passive, unconscious challenges relatively easy to surmount by a dynamic, proactive, conscious being who exercises volitional power over physical processes. You are the author of multiple series of cause-effect relationships at the physical level of complexity. But this can only be fully realized when you are fully aware of the power of the will so that it can be exercised accordingly.

Q: One of the large commercial weight loss chains advertises that I can change my body without changing my lifestyle. Can I lose weight and change my body without changing my lifestyle?  A: No, that’s impossible. Your body is a reflection of your current lifestyle because your body is part of your life. The human being is a complex self-adaptive autopoietic or self-organizing living system in continuous relational exchange with its physical, social, cultural, and mental environment, simultaneously effecting and being effected by it in bi-directional causation. Form follows function, which in turn effects future functioning: structure adapts to function and those structural adaptations create the capacity for enhanced functioning in the future. The only way to change your body composition/structure/form is to change the environment it functions in and adapts to; you have to change the lifestyle that shapes or informs or gives form to your body in order to elicit an adaptive response in the body.

Want a better body? Then you have to give your body a reason to adapt and change by adopting a healthier lifestyle/environment and your body will follow suit—form follows function; as in art, so it is in life. Healthy bodies inhabit healthy environments because healthy lifestyles inform or give form to healthy bodies—they are mirror images of each other because they are actually correlative aspects of the same thing: a healthy life.

Stated more accurately in a nondual way, the substance of a healthy life is what we call a healthy lifestyle or healthy living while it’s form is a healthy body. Substance and form are inseparably correlative: substance without form is unintelligible; form without substance is empty. Form gives intelligibility to substance; substance gives content to form. The body and mind are two dimensions, aspects, or facets of one bodymind or compound sentient being rather than two separate things that are somehow connected which implies separation rather than mere distinction. That's just how they appear to us in casual perception/conception in the mind of the perceiving/thinking subject (savikalpa perception, or perception with thought construction, which is to say perception is not merely given but at least partially constructed, and is transcended in meditative nirvikalpa perception of things as they actually are in their nondual wholeness) but are inextricably bound in the object perceived, in this case the bodymind or compound sentient being that has matter, body, mind, soul, spirit dimensions.

We see the exterior gross body and can't see the interior consciousness that animates it (and that’s doing the seeing) so we tend to split them analytically then fail to realize that they're not split in actuality—we confuse the map with the territory, our cognitive map with that cognized or represented by the map. This is a cognitive bias referred to as ‘naive realism’ or ‘the myth of the given’ that traditional Western science still suffers from and that can be transcended in meditation.

The origin of the phrase 'form follows function' is traced back to the American sculptor Horatio Greenough and was made famous by the American architect Louis Henri Sullivan, but it was noticed by the philosopher Aristotle two and a half millennia before in studying the very close relationship between morphology and physiology, structure and function. In order to change one you have to change the other—they are inseparably correlative aspects or dimensions of the same life, the same person; both aspects of your being change together or not at all, both the exterior physique and the interior consciousness that informs it or gives it form. There is so much emphasis in our culture on the external vehicle and little attention to the interior driver who controls the direction of the vehicle. Change comes from within: we change our lives from the inside out. Of course, change, though extremely rewarding, can be difficult and that’s what I can help you with, I'm a 'Change Master,' my core competence is helping people change.

FAQ to be answered in the near future (check back periodically for updates):
Q: I’ve heard that doing three sets of 10 repetitions is the best protocol for strength training and muscle building. Is that true?

Q: I’m a woman who wants to get in shape but I don’t want to become muscle-bound. I’d like long sleek graceful flexible muscles, not big muscles. Will training make me muscle-bound?

Q: You do a lot of cutting-edge stuff that I don’t see anywhere else. Why aren’t others doing what you’re doing?

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A human being is part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.
Albert Einstein

And the men who hold high places
Must be the ones who start
To mould a new reality
Closer to the Heart

The Blacksmith and the Artist
Reflect it in their art
They forge their creativity
Closer to the Heart

Philosophers and Ploughmen
Each must know his part
To sow a new mentality
Closer to the Heart

You can be the Captain
And I will draw the Chart
Sailing into destiny
Closer to the Heart

Rush, Closer to the Heart
©1977, Core Music Publishing Canada

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