Working out but not seeing results? 4 reasons why. 1 of 2

Okay. There you go. Everybody can see me now. Yep, think so. So why do people quit exercise routines all the time? For a number of factors. But to begin with, I heard somebody say one time, your house is the most important investment in your life. I completely disagree. It's you. I can have a great house I can sell later on or pass down to whoever I want as I hobble out of it, or I'm in the hospital fighting some sort of disease. So I think you are your most important investment. And I think too many people don't really take that in consideration when going out and trying to do their routines. So for those who don't really know me, my name is Ekimba. I was born in Cameroon. My name is Cameroonian and little fact. My last name means small antelope. Don't really have anything else outside that. Akimba doesn't really mean anything outside that. It's my grandfather's name, so I have him to thank for the cool name. And I've been in health and Fitness for over 25 plus years, which makes me seasoned, not old seasoned. And along the way, I've been certified through multiple different areas. So I started with nasm, which is a national certification. I did that for a while. Then I did ace, which is another national certification, but just a little bit better. And then I went check, which is more of a holistic exercise kinesiology. And along the way I found Guivoyer. And Guivoyer has an osteopathic program that has multiple components, multiple degrees, excuse me, with inside of it. So a SOMA therapist, SOMA trainer, and of course a manual osteopathic practitioner, a doctorate of. And so I'm the first two. I'm a summer therapist and SOMA trainer. That's approximately seven years of school linear. But most of the people who are in that program, who are worth their salt will repeat, repeat courses because it's so overwhelming. So I've been involved with Gee for the past, I think almost 12 years now. And once I came in contact with Gee, he just. He changed my life. I came in contact with him because I got hurt. So I got an L4, L5 herniation with sciatic pain. And I couldn't fix it through any means. And once I found his program and his techniques and therapy, it went away after hard work. It didn't just vanish into thin air. So why is getting surgery so hard? Why is standing shape so hard? The main thing is people don't have patience. They don't have patience to work with their body, right? They just totally ignore what's going on in their body and just jump into something and expect it to work. And they expect it to work in some unrealistic realistic time frame. They haven't worked out their whole life and they think in one month they're gonna get fit or they have a. They get back pain for whatever reason and they think he's doing one or two exercises is going to cure them for life. It's just. That's just not the way the world works. And just think about it, you know, has anything you ever done that's been difficult been solved with like a small action? No, it's usually big actions. The problem is with exercise, anything will work for a little bit, right? So if I'm not working out at all and I start moving, get results, okay, I'll maybe feel better, I'll get some endorphins when I work out, maybe I lose a little weight, maybe I get a little stronger, or if I switch workouts, same thing, maybe I get some results. But every action you do has a reaction on your body, and that reaction has to be is either beneficial or not beneficial to you. You want to find something sustainable. Some reasons why people struggle. Most obvious one, you are not a health and fitness professional in general. Maybe you are, I don't know, but generally people aren't. You have not dedicated your life to be in health and fitness. You have not gone to school and taken courses, and you're at the whim of basically instinct, what you read on the Internet or in papers and what's popular, right? And unfortunately, that's not usually the whole picture. And you don't have time to do research. I'm in this field and I don't have time to do all the research. I do the best I can. But, like, there's a lot of information out there. There's a reason why, you know, they call it practicing medicine or, you know, we're always constantly evolving. It's never, I know this and I can achieve this. And then, unfortunately, you are being led astray, either intentionally or. Or unintentionally by professionals claiming things that aren't true. And I'm going to go to that in a second. As I say again, so whether intentionally, unintentionally, they're not telling you the whole truth. Now, I'm going to give a disclaimer here because I'm not trying to talk bad about anybody here. I've never done any of these people's programs. I'm about to show you with Their ads. I'm merely using these ads to explain how what you see is not the whole truth, but they can make it seem like the whole truth. So start from the beginning. I just typed this into Google. I typed in health and fitness programs. I don't know what I typed in and I put on images and I just cycled through ads and read some and I pulled this out again. I've never done Physique 57's program. I have no idea. It's Pilates. I've done Pilates, but I don't know how they adapt. What I have problems with is is what I circled. See results in eight workouts. What results? What results do I want? They are leaving it to you to input your results you want in this ad. So if I want to lose weight, I am going to see eight results. If I want to get rid of pain, I am going to see eight results. If I want to have more energy, I am going to see results with this program. That is simply not true. Then you have vague promises hidden. Excuse me, under the guise of complete program. So let's start from the top. You'll lose up to £20 in 30 days. That could be a half pound. That's up to £20. There's a 30 day shred. So losing weight is not easy. Because if it was, you just do one program and you lose weight, we wouldn't have a billion dollar industry to lose weight. To say that in 30 days you'll be shredded is ridiculous and it's just not the truth. Oversimplification. So I pull this up for knee pain and it says a 10 second towel stretch that will instantly relieve knee pain. Then on the right I put two basic pictures up the tens and ligaments that have to do with the front of the knee, that's the top. The tendon ligaments have to do with the bottom of the knee at the bottom. I'm not even showing what's inside the knee, above the knee, in the hip and pelvis, below the knee, lower leg and foot which have a direct relationship to the knee. So I have knee pain. I can have any one of these tendons, ligaments, muscles, joints have an issue and cause me pain. If you think putting a towel behind your knee and pulling it toward your body is going to instantly relieve whatever you got going on, I got a bridge to sell you. That's just not true. And it's dangerous. As we see in the next one. Oversimplification can be dangerous. So I have back pain. I'm searching Internet And I see this ad, I must do these yoga poses to decrease my back pain. Well, back pain has a lot of different reasons why it can happen. In this first picture, number one, there's a little thing below her back, a little roller. If my back pain is because my facet joints, that's a part of the spine, the back part, where it looks like that kind of guides it are inflamed and have some hypertrophy, some osteoarthritis, and I lean back on that thing, that's going to make it worse. If I have a pinched artery or nerve coming out of one of my forearms of my spine, leaning back could make that worse. So to say that I must do these six poses of yoga to decrease my back pain is dangerous. It's oversimplified. And it's dangerous to the body. And then watch out for clickbait. They want to get your attention, right? That's what advertising is. In a former life in college, I studied advertising for a little bit. I chose not to go into it because it was super boring to me. But they wanted, they want, they want to get your attention. So when I say only three exercises you need for your abs, or the one ab exercise you only need, or the one that will get you a six pack is ridiculous, as we see on this picture. This is a basic picture of the abs. It doesn't even show the tva. It doesn't show the erectors, the back muscles that are attached in the back part. But if you think I can do one or three exercises and get super strong abs, when I have to work all these different ways right here, then unfortunately be deceived. Anybody who's taken my class has seen all the different ways that we move. Roll up, roll down, the pelvic tucks, the turn back and forth, your legs turn back and forth, your torso, pull your hip up and turn it across. I work with my trunk to my pelvis, my pelvis to my tr. I work deep. There's so many hundreds of ways to work the abs. To say that there's one to three that's gonna get me totally strong and ripped is false. Completely false. Do these ads take in consideration where you're starting from? We all have a structure like a house or a good car. We all need to assess and know where that's coming from. When I read an ad, they're coming off an assumption. I guess they are. I don't even know if they are coming at this assumption. I guess you can say to be nice, they're Coming up with the assumption that everybody's balanced, but that's just not true. Nobody's balanced. Even if you work out totally. I myself work out all the time. I'll never be totally balanced, right? And so one of these routines that they do, let's say I do it well because of my imbalance, something could go wrong and I could hurt myself. And I am very seasoned in terms of working out. Now take the average Joe Blow who just sits at a desk or does random exercises and he sees his routines, they go, I'm going to do this. And they kill themselves. They hurt themselves more. What's the most important thing that you need to do? Maybe you need to do squats. Maybe you need to do myofascial stretching, Maybe you need to do some eldoad to open up your joints. Maybe you need to go on a walk, maybe you need to meditate, maybe you need to drink more water. Who knows, right? But all these things need to be taken consideration. When you work with these ads, you're trying to find a full body fitness program with limited and simplistic solutions. So I do these routines that gives me a 30 day shred and I think, oh, I'm going to total body workout because I'm moving my whole body. But that's not a full body program. That's not holistic as a routine for, in this case, losing weight. That doesn't address other aspects that you need. Again, I go back to the initial one. If you had any big goal and it has been solved with a simplistic solution, I'll give you two examples. Let's say you got in really bad debt and you got really bad debt because you can't manage your money. You jacked up things on credit cards. You, what else do people do? You got a car loan that's like 20% interest and somebody says do this one trick to fix all your finances. Well, that's not true. You got to come down to basics. You have to budget and you have to invest and you have to save, right? It's not one thing. Another example is if I went to college and let's say if I went to college I want to be a doctor, right? Well, there's a bunch of courses that I needed to take to be a doctor. I can't go in and take underwater basket weaving and expect to be a doctor. I can't read one book on how to be a doctor and be a doctor. I have to take a lot of stuff to think that one little thing is going to help Is not true, but I get it. It's enticing. We want quick fixes. You got a lot of stuff going on. You got busy life, you work, you have a significant other, you have family, you got obligations with, maybe charities or whatever you got right, you know that stuff. And so you get this feeling like you want to, as everybody tells me, get fit. And you just try whatever comes up, whether it's on a magazine article or something a friend told you, or you just walk into a gym and try the news fangled thing or whatever class is going on, you want just to work. And that unfortunately leads to more harm than good. Understanding some basics on how the body's balance so its foundation is solid is imperative. You don't need to know what I know, you don't need to go to school and study like I do. But if you understand these basics coming up, just understand you don't have to implement totally. You'll have a greater understanding of what you need and why. Why certain workouts or exercises aren't for you. I'm not going to go over all of them because I'm going to leave some time today, but I'm going to start this. So the four aspects to get health and fitness results. I'm going to go over the first two today, more in depth. I'm going to leave the last two for next Thursday because there's a lot of rules that I want to talk about how it incorporates to your life, but I want you to understand the broad outlook. So of course it sounds simple, but you have to know where you're starting from. Me, you, your friend, we all have different bodies. You have to start from different place, do a different thing. We can't all do the same routine and expect the same results and expect not to get hurt. The exercises you choose must work for you. You can cross out exercises and put in education. The education that you give your body must work for you. So what does your body not know? You have to find out what it doesn't know, what it's confused on and educate it with an exercise. Just exercising won't educate the uneducated areas to be basic. I go do a big workout for my body, but I have one or two areas that are uneducated. Well, the rest of my body will compensate, cheat, adapt to perform the workout in place of theirs are uneducated, but that makes the rest of the body stronger in those places more uneducated because they're doing it for you. So I've got kids, I've got two Kids, and they always come up to me, papa, do this for me. I sound mean right now. I say, no, no, go figure it out. I mean, if it's really complicated, I'll help them. But if it's something simple, I said, no, I want you to figure it out. Because if I do that for them, then they don't learn anything. So you want to take your exercise just like that. If you do an activity that doesn't educate that area, you're making yourself worse. You have to understand that the body works as an interdependent unit. We're not a bunch of just pieces of meat placed together on bones stuck together through joints and glue. It all functions together. You can think about it as holistic, but everything needs to function and have a rhythmic flow with each other. There's a lot of reasons why that needs to happen. These reasons are number four. Understand there's some basic rules of how the body functions. Again, I'll go over this later, but there's literally. There's people from Archimedes to now who study the body. They study the body as a cadaver. They also study the body as a moving. A moving thing. And they go, oh, look, when XYZ happens, ABC happens. Oh, that should be a rule. And so we take all these rules that people have done over hundreds of years and go, until somebody disproves these rules, we take them as fact. I know there's an objectivity to all this, but we work with what we got until we know better. Right? And so far, these rules have not been disproved. They try, but they're not. Okay, so you know where you're starting from. It's easy to get distracted by shiny objects. So like the ads I showed you, if you don't accept where you are now, sure, you'll just jump back and forth. I generally get some good people who come through here, but I can always tell when people want to see me as a shiny object. They're very impatient. They don't. They expect by just paying the monthly membership and getting here to class every so often and not doing homework, they think they should get results. I've literally had somebody say, I didn't get results to your program. And they literally came 20% of the time and didn't do any homework. Nothing's going to work. So you have to understand where you're fired from so you can accept where you are now so you can choose a good program. What you think and feel about yourself right now is a lie, is a conditioned state that you're in that you believe to be true. And you can look at this on an abstract and an absolute level. Sure, an abstract level. My world is what I create, right? How I think of myself in the world is what I project with myself. But it's never the total truth because it's your reality. And you can look at this on an absolute level. I've got a bunch of tendons, ligaments, joints, muscles, fascia, all have proprioceptors, little computers in my body. They tell my brain where I'm at and posture wise, and they give me a map in my brain on what I look like. If I were to have every computer turned on, I would have a perfect map in my brain. I would stand tall and I could move perfectly and have total connection with my body. Nobody has that. Nobody. So what you think and feel and what your body can do and work and go is aligned. Because until we start to work, not we, but you, until you start to work and turn on those computers and develop a new map in your brain and understand that you can go further, you don't know where you are. Right? And that comes down to third one. So acknowledging where you are right now allows you to understand what and how long it will realistically take to achieve your goals. This comes back to patience. Don't expect for it to come right away. You should expect, if you're doing a good program, a minimum bar, minimum a year to change your body. I saw some handout or something one time and I kind of liked it. I don't remember the exact numbers, but it said like for the first year of not working out, it'll take you about three months to get it back and then maybe a month after, I don't know, equal a year. I'm just confusing here, but think about a year. The exercise that you choose must work for you. Again, like I said before, cross out exercises, put in education, because that's what an exercise is. An exercise is a stimulus to my body and my mind on what I want it to do, how I want it to get better. And exercise is relative to where I am now. So if I give an exercise to bend my elbow in a curl, but my elbow is hurting, I'm teaching my body to curl and bend my elbow while it's hurt. So it's going to do it badly. So even a simple activity like that can get messed up. And I get it. It's scary to take an honest look at where you're at and the challenge you have. But if you continue haphazardly kind of just putting things together through different sources. You're going to make your body worse because there's no static point. You're either going forward and getting better or going backwards and getting worse. There's no static. There's always. There's always movement in life. There are a lot of routines out there for you to follow along, but then understand that your body will react to each one differently. Here are all the different type of workouts. Well, not all, it's not exhaustive list. Here's a bunch of different types of workouts. You can do a gym workout, which I classify as generally walk into a gym, jumping on some sort of cardio. Maybe you sit in some machines and push some machines around and you talk to your friends. That's generally what I see in gyms, right? You can do a yoga workout, you can do a CrossFit. You can do kettlebells. You can just do your fun activities, which is, you know, the hiking, biking, swimming, skiing, tennis. You can do Zumba, dance or nia. You can do like a challenge courses like the obstacle courses, or you can do races. But these workouts all affect your body differently. You have, when you do a workout, you have exercises, you have the amount of reps you do an exercise you do, how many times you do that exercise, you do what other exercises you have with it. You have a time, amount of tension, how long you, the pace you work with the exercise. I think I'm forgetting something, but basically you might have some more. But if you change any one of those things, you get a different workout to your body. So take that curl. A curl is when you grab a weight and pull it up to your shoulder. If I take no weight and do that 100 times, that's different than if I take a moderate weight and do it really slowly. 10 seconds up, 10 seconds down for 10 times. Those are two completely different workouts for your body. So I'm going to stop it right there because the next two are slides that have more science involved.