Working out FOR a BETTER life :-0

It's not just working out, it's building a foundation for a better life. This is a phrase that came up a couple years ago about what I believe is the purpose of a complete health and fitness routine. This is something I've thought of since I've been young. I didn't have the words, but I felt it in my soul. And I've used a complete health fitness program to better my life, to not just better my structure, to challenge who I think I am, to get to new levels who think I am. Because it's not just a physical activity. It's a mental, emotional, spiritual, physical activity. My name is Akimba, so I'm the owner of Soulcore Fitness. And I've been on this journey for now 49 years, and I've been in this field for over 25 years. And I've used this holistic method, excuse me, on all my clients, even when I didn't know it was a holistic method. So I want to kind of go through my little journey what I believe and what I've used in practice. But before I do, please take a second here to subscribe and then don't forget to hit the bell. That way you'll be notified each time. I put out videos about the best way to balance your body so you can live your best life. So even when I was young, I knew that movement would allow me to better my life. Probably about fifth or sixth grade, seventh, something like that. Around there, I realized that I could use movement exercise, which at that time for me was playing sports. I can use these activities in a structured way, along with eating healthy and mindset, to better my life. Now, back when I first started, like I said, movement was just activities and sports diet was what I knew, which wasn't very good. And the mindset was me posting pictures on the wall, on my wall and writing phrases about what I wanted to achieve. But it still worked. It wasn't near perfect, but it worked. Because back then I was struggling with energy and paying attention. They diagnosed me with adhd. I don't know how much I believe in that for me, but I did have problems focusing. Thinking back, it's more like how they teach classes. But I digress. So I use that to structure my life because what they want to do is put me on Ritalin, which, which is terrible stuff. So I develop a program with mindset, posting things on a wall, eating as healthy as I could, structured wise. I'd even make my own food even back then, and then structuring my sports. So I did sports every single season. Then I would do workouts with what I knew for the sports around those years. It gave me a structure to follow, which, of course, got me better at sports, but gave me a sense of purpose, focus, calmness that was doing more. And by going through these things, especially the mindset, I started to see that I could achieve things and feel differently than what they thought I could do and also what I thought I could do. Even back then, even when I was younger, I was like, this is pretty impressive. Even back then, I had this phrase. I'm like, hey, if I want to jump to the moon, I can. It was just that I started to have that belief that, like, if I really set my mind to something, I can do it. I continued this process for a little bit through junior high, high school, and college. The only thing that changed was the intensity of what I did. Sports, the workouts I did for my sports, because that improved as I learned more about the sports and as I learned more about the training for the sports, it improved as I did. I learned more about nutrition. It also improved as I started to get more specific with my goals and light meditation, I guess you could say back then. And that continued all the way through, through college. It even continued a little bit after college when I got my first personal training certification and became a personal trainer. So even back then, I was still using holistic models. So people come to me for workouts. And if those of you don't know when you first start personal training, you generally work in a gym, and you're generally just kind of doing what everybody else is doing. I never really accepted that. It never made a lot of sense to me that I just kind of follow these different boxed ideas of doing things, and when something new comes on a scene, okay, now you do this different thing. I'm like, doesn't make any sense. How does that work together? How does that get me to my goal? So even back then, I tried to put together what I knew to be a holistic program. And I would teach my clients about nutrition, talk to them about mindset, broach the topic of meditation, and how it could help to center yourself. And I kept going with that. Now, for those of you who don't know, I had a little pattern interrupt. I got hurt. I talk about it in the sciatic pain video I did, which I'll put in the description. And. And obviously that hurt me physically because I got a compressed L4, L5 vertebra, and I got anxiety pain. So physically, I now can't do what I've normally been doing, but mental, emotionally, I've now lost my vehicle that I've been using since fifth, sixth grade, whatever it was, until early 30s to keep my life on track, to keep me moving forward, to try and better myself. I now don't have that at all. I became slightly depressed because I couldn't do it. And any stuff I knew from being a trainer and these things, foam rolling, stuff like that didn't work. All the modalities that I used prior to keep me going, like acupuncture and chiropractic and PT and yoga and Pilates, like all these things I've done prior, nothing helped. So it was a pattern interrupt, more mental, emotionally, because now I had to do a deep check in and say, hey, what I was doing didn't work. I have to find a different way. So that's when I ran into osteopathy. And the phrase structure dictates function. And the idea that holistically we can train our bodies to be the most effective was right up my alleyway, but so much deeper than I'd ever gone prior. When I gone through classes and trainings, I always asked, why? Because. I asked why because it didn't seem to fit together with everything else I knew and what they were talking about. And nine times out of 10 I would get a dogmatic answer just because. And this would lead me to a wall. And so I say, okay, I see where this is, but it doesn't really. It's not the end all, be all. When I asked a question in my osteopathic classes, I asked a question for the detail. I knew philosophically how it fit together. I opened up my 3D image of my brain and I saw how it worked together. So I've taken this now and use this to come back to better my life. But it's so much greater than it was before. Because a complete health and fitness program obviously challenges your body, but it challenges who you think you are. You go do an exercise, you're like, no way, I don't think I can do it. All of a sudden you do it, you realize, I don't really know who I am. Totally. I know I can achieve more, and you go for more. So it does that right? As you go through and start addressing these little specific areas in your body that are asleep or tight or not strong, and you have to work on them, then your body has to respond by waking up, as I call it. Well, that waking up also gives you a better awareness of your body, so you Sort of have a greater awareness of physically who you are. And at the same time, it still works on the other level to basically challenge who you think you are, right? You come into the workout, your obturator internus is tight. You go to obturator internist exercise. As an adult, you think, oh, my God, this is impossible. This isn't for me. My body isn't built that way, blah, blah, blah. All these limiting beliefs, all these fears, and all of a sudden you go through that and you came for basically your hip to feel better. And once that opportunator releases and normalizes, well, your hip doesn't hurt it anymore. But more importantly, you go, hmm, I don't really know exactly what I'm capable of. So now you improve your structure because you wake your body up and you keep improving your totality of who you being who you are, because now you think there's more to you. That's why I got into this business. Not to just correct people's injuries, not just to help them get strong, mobile, all that stuff I got into, because I want you to improve your life physically with very specific stresses, exercises you can't find anywhere else, and macro to improve it through a progressive program as we move along. So that is something I wanted to impart to you. That's why I want you to kind of tell my thought process and feelings about it that you can be more than who you are through a proper program. So what does all this information have to do with you? What's in it for you? Well, if you're interested in moving better and continue activities, be able to play with your kids, your grandkids, and be active into your 90s, then you need to set yourself up for that. It's not going to just magically happen. You need to get on a consistent, progressive program. But more importantly, you need to do exercises that keep your body imbalanced. Because unfortunately, all of life, all activities, all sports, slowly degrade your body. So you can't ask those exact same activities as you're doing to keep yourself moving, to correct your issues. They cause your issues. You have to take exercises that are designed to strengthen, to lengthen, to use treatments that are designed to normalize the body. You have to put yourself on that program. And I promise you, if you put yourself on that program with the proper stretches and exercises, your life will increase and maintain well into your 90s. So you can live your life until one day you decide to just call it quits. I would love to talk to you more about it if you're interested in the description, I'll put a link for diagnostic call where we'll hop on a call and talk for about, I don't know, 20 to 45 minutes and I'll kind of talk. You'll listen to where you're coming from, I'll listen to where you want to go. I'll impart as much information I can, and then I'll give you my 2 cents on what you should do. If that 2 cents includes working with us, then I'll tell you what's involved. And if you're a good fit, stay tuned for this next video on the secret to sciatic pain. Don't forget to subscribe and hit that bell. And to help others find this video, please like and share it. And please remember, it's not just working out. It's an opportunity to build a foundation for a better life.