If you are a stay at home mom, a busy executive, working a 9-5, a college student, a middle aged bachelor or a working mother in charge of feeding 5 mouths, our Nutritional Habits Program is for you!

Early in September I completed an event that I'd been trying to complete for almost three years.  I had never been in better nutritional rhythm than I was before that event.  Every single thing I put in my mouth was adding value.  It showed too.  I was functioning at an extremely high level.  

I knew that once that event ended I was going to "take a break".  I wasn't going to be quite as strict with my nutrition.  I've heard it explained as nutritional periodization.  In exercise, good trainers will schedule in times of easier work for their clients to maintain their gains yet give their bodies a break.  

With the system I use where I train for specific dates and blocks of time, it's beneficial to give my mind a break every once and awhile.  I recommend that for everyone.  Now, let me be clear, I did not let myself go.  I like Root Beer and my Mom's cookies.  Who doesn't.  For the past few weeks, I have been saying yes to some of those comforts.

Well, it's time to lock down my nutritional habits again.  We've ordered our AdvoCare 24 Day Challenges (superiorhealthandsuccess.com) and have all the product ready to go.  The fridge is stocked for Saturday when my winter training begins.  

I would love to coach each person individually and teach them the system I use to get in rhythm.  Time does not allow for that to happen.  That's why I've created a program for you to get your nutrition in line.  It doesn't matter what your current situation looks like, the six week Nutritional Habits Program that I've put together will give you tools to establish a healthy nutritional rhythm. 

Check out the welcome video here and I encourage you to take the leap today towards establishing a nutritional rhythm in your life.  There's a link at the end of the video if you are ready to commit to this six week process today.  The cost is only $49.95.  That's less than ten bucks a week.  Go for it! 

EDGE Training Group is taking off.  This week I’ve been working to make a difference.  Does nutrition intimidate you?  Do you feel like you are so far off track that there is nothing you can do to right the ship?  I’ve been there and that’s why I’ve created EDGE Training Group – Nutritional Habits Program.  This program has been designed to get you "in rhythm" with your nutrition.  Opt in to receive special pricing HERE!  http://forms.aweber.com/form/53/1986030353.htm

Check out the framework here.  

This is the first of five products under the EDGE Training Group umbrella.  This week, if you opt in to receive special pricing, you’ll have the opportunity to get this life changing program for over %50 off!  Opt in HERE!  http://forms.aweber.com/form/53/1986030353.htm

Change is a three stage process.  The first is discovery.  What are you currently doing?  The second is traction.  This is about learning good habits and practicing them until they become the third stage.  The third stage is transition.  When we transition our habits to autopilot, we free up energy in our lives to focus elsewhere.  This is how we become more productive individuals with more to give.  

We can’t create more time but we can integrate healthy nutritional habits into the fabric of our lives.  We can establish a good nutritional rhythm and ride the wave of healthy nutritional habits. 

This program focuses on integrating healthy nutritional choices into your life.  This program is for you whether you’re a bachelor or feeding a family of five.  These are nutritional tenets and they’re repeatable.  Your goals and objectives may shift, but you can use the principles and integrate the habits you’ll go through in this program regardless of your goals.

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I’m excited to be a part of your journey.  Get started with nutrition and keep your eyes open for our next offering, EDGE Training Group – Career Integrated Wellness Pro.  Look for that in the next week or two.

Jon Howard – Husband and Father of 3 | Ultra Endurance Athlete | Owner – Training Edge Sports

I am excited to announce the first of five products that I'll be launching between now and December 1st.  

This Nutritional Habits Program has been created because I know how difficult it can be to start and sustain healthy eating habits.  

With over 15 years experience I know how important it is to establish a good rhythm with nutrition.  This program, combined with commitment and discipline, solves just that problem.

Whether you're living on your own or are responsible for feeding a large family, this program is for you.  Trust and commit to the process and I know you'll be glad you did.  

Think about this as a gift for someone if you know they are looking to recommit to healthy nutritional habits heading into the new year.

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I have been working on becoming an online presence now for over a year.  It's happening due to hard work and committed action.  I had the most inspired 6 minutes of my professional career just this morning.  

In the spring of 2014, I created my first online product and sold a few of them.  It was a good experience and a lot of work.  Success often does not come without sacrifice.  

So, in this writing I'm going to outline my upcoming product line and encourage you to begin thinking of those individuals you know that could use any of them.  Share this message with them or consider giving one as a gift this holiday season.  

Let me start by telling you about my 6 minutes of inspiration.  I have a white board in my office where I have a place for the day of the week, projects, etc.  See below.

As you can see one of my goals today was to create some structure around my product(s).  As I began doing that I looked back on a few of the things I had created last spring.  Wow!  My initial vision came flooding back to me and I got on a roll.  I left my office and started pacing my kitchen.  I began writing on the white board there.  There was not enough space so I grabbed a piece of paper and began writing on it.  There was not enough room there either so I grabbed a bigger piece of paper and in between pacing and speaking aloud to myself, excited and inspired, wrote my next 6 months out.  Whew!

I have had moments of inspired creation before but nothing like this.  I came back down to my office and began categorizing all of my ideas.  I went into my email marketing account and created lists and descriptions for all of my products.  I decided how each of the 7 new products would be delivered.  

You know what excites me the most?  I recently had a conversation with a mentor of mine about purpose and he helped me discover mine and helped me realize that if I don't create and use my creative gifts, I'm serving no one.  Time will go on whether I create my vision or not.  Many of us don't.  I am.  

Here's the products that will be coming out for me in the near future.  There's nothing fancy here but I'll leave an overview because I'm inspired to share this with you NOW!

This 6 week online Lifestyle Coaching Series will inspire you to live life on your terms. With your purchase you receive a video and coaching form each week to coach you along through our process. In 4 hours per week, I make over $4000 per month. I've discovered my passion and am serving a clear vision of my impact on this world. I'm here to help you discover and take committed action too!

This exercise program is titled "24 Day HIIT Package". The 24 days can be run through a number of times. Once you purchase this product, it does not go away. You may need a boost or a jumpstart to get moving again. I encourage you to save this product and use it over and over again. Share your experience with your friends and go through it together.

I've been doing this for a long time. If you want results, it's your job to make good food choices. This list focuses on healthy and productive food habits that contribute to a longer life and more productive days. There's a meal planner with grocery shopping tips and one thing I'm most excited to share with you are my "10 Foundational Healthy Combos". You can build dozens of meals on them.

Commitment is a muscle and it needs to be worked to be strengthened. That's why I've created this 24 Day Commitment Interactive Workbook. It includes the dictionary's definition of commitment, our four pillars of health and success, our three steps to success, our two daily actions approach and your one commitment challenge. This challenge could just change your life.

This package has been created to help you integrate wellness into your career. With extensive experience helping many like you do just that, I look forward to your continued success. Our program has been built to inspire you and has given you tools that you can use throughout your whole lifetime.

This product has been created to inspire your organization to be a healthier version of itself. The processes included have been tried, tested and successful in creating an environment where employees look forward to coming to work every day and are inspired by the opportunities provided by their employer. Healthy people are more productive and happier people.

Welcome to EDGE Training Group! You are a part of a very unique group of individuals who have invested in themselves. This program has been developed to inspire you to take committed action today. The tools included are in place to serve you for your entire lifetime.

For all of you that purchased an EDGE Training Group package early in 2014, everything created is yours to keep!  I'll reach out to each of you individually to get you set up.

I'm fired up to inspire you and your friends.  I spent three years pursuing a 100 mile footrace finish.  I finally got it.  I am an entrepreneur and my vision for Training Edge Sports is to become a global community encouraging health and success.  One thing I've learned in my 15+ years coaching and training is to trust your vision and move towards it every day.  My vision becomes clearer all the time.  That's why I'm so excited to share what I know with you over the course of the next 6 months.  Stay tuned.  I'm all in to serve you the best I can.  I'm committed.

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When it comes to the brilliant ideas that form in our minds we have three choices.  We can think them and nothing more.  We can think them and talk about them.  We can think them, talk about them, commit to them and then take action.

Everybody thinks them.  Many of us stop there.

Some of us think them and talk about them.  Usually though it comes out as negative gossip.  Instead of being excited about our idea we feel the need to complain about the ideas that have already been acted on. 

Even fewer of us commit and take action.  Why?  Is it fear?  What are we afraid of?  Is it failure or success?  In my experience it could be either one.  Is it comfort?  That probably plays a role.  I know from my own personal experience it sure is easier to talk about why an idea is not possible than to commit and move on it.  There might be some serious risk involved right?  I mean, if you were to quit your job to do something that you actually enjoyed and were passionate about, who would pay your bills?  That’s just one question that might hold us back.  There are many, many more.

Ever since I stopped talking about it and started doing it, my life has been totally different.  I now live life on my terms.  I am my boss.  We are all blessed and gifted with talents and we are all capable of refining our gifts through hard work and committed focus. 

I’m going to share with you my personal development commitment for the next 6 months.  I am currently enrolled in the School of Greatness Academy and our assignment this week is to fill out a Certificate of Achievement for April 30, 2015.  We are to establish objectives that we’ll complete by that date and sign the Certificate before we even begin our committed journey.  Some are in the middle of their journey but just need a kick in the pants to finish making it a reality and some don’t have quantifiable goals that they can objectively measure.  That’s me. 

I’ve broken my goals into three categories and chose to start with personal development.  If that’s in place, everything else will follow.  The other two categories go along with my two businesses, 10x Traction Wellness and Training Edge Sports.  Both are LLC companies and I’m excited to grow and develop each in the next 6 months.  In the next 4 days I’ll examine realistic and objective goals around each of them as well and share them here.

My personal development objectives are around a physical challenge.  I recently completed a 100 mile footrace in northern Minnesota.  That was a three year commitment that took more time and energy than I originally thought it would.  Last winter I taught myself to nordic ski and completed my first ultra-ski event called the Vasaloppet.  I’ll do that one again and also three more.  Here’s the schedule:

February 7 – Vasaloppet 58km http://www.vasaloppet.us/index.php

February 15 – Minnesota Finlandia 50km http://www.minnesotafinlandia.com/

February 21 – Birkie 50km http://www.birkie.com/

March 7 – Sleeping Giant Loppet 54km http://www.sleepinggiantloppet.ca/

So there are my personal development ideas in action.  I know that since I have them on the calendar and have already committed finances to them (I just paid the entry fees), I'm in.  It's not an idea anymore.  Now it's about finding a way to make it happen and to do that I'll need to train, focus on my nutrition, categorize my life making sure I create enough time and space for my family commitments.  Things will be sacrificed and choices will be made that I won't want to make in the moment.  That will happen for you too.  But... let me tell you from experience, if you make those sacrifices and honor that idea with commitment, you'll come out better because of it.

What are you willing to commit to in your life?  Take your ideas and make them a reality.  We are all capable of much more than we give our selves credit for.  Ideas don’t make a difference, committed action does!

Jon Howard – Husband and Father of 3 | Ultra Endurance Athlete | Owner – Training Edge Sports

Going all out all the time might sound like a good idea.  About all it does is sound like a good idea.  Today I'm going to talk about picking a starting point for exercise and also navigating your way through an exercise program using a periodized approach.

With over 15 years coaching and training and more than a dozen ultra marathon finishes under my belt, I have done it the wrong way and also know what it looks like to do it the right way.  It's taken some time and many mistakes, but I have learned what a healthy program looks like and I'm excited to share some of what I know with you today.

Selecting your starting point

If you are thinking about starting an exercise program do yourself a favor and start by creating a habit to exercise.  Instead of beating yourself up for three days because your motivated only to come away with an injury or a massive dislike for anything movement related, start slow.  You'll be glad you did.  

I'm working on a project right now to go along with the AdvoCare 24 Day Challenge.  I'll likely sell it on the side as well.  Look for it in a month or two.  There will be three 24 day programs to choose from.  Base Builder (beginner), Fitness Builder (intermediate) and Advanced Training (advanced).  That's what your build up should look like too.  

One of the things I tell people is to be honest with themselves.  Most people think that they are at a higher fitness level than they actually are.  Just because you've been there before does not mean that you should start from where you left off, especially if it was three to six months ago or more.  Our bodies adapt to how we train them.  If we don't train them physically, they adapt to a sedentary lifestyle.  Any increase in activity is an increase in the stress to all systems.  I say it all the time, "it's about progress, not perfection."  This applies when choosing a starting point to exercise just like it does on choosing the food you put in your mouth.

If you are looking to create lifelong habits of regular exercise, I recommend taking the time to truly identify your starting point.  Spend the extra energy starting slowly and building up a good base.  Start at the shoulders, hips and spine and work your way out.  Your biceps and triceps will benefit from a strong foundation.  By focusing on stability and balance early on in your program, you'll be much more functionally strong as well.

A periodized program example

When I started running ultras, I just went out an ran.  That led to always feeling wiped out and injury on more than one occasion.  This past summer I did four ultras, felt great all summer and came away unscathed.  How?  I'm going to tell my story now and share with you some of what I've learned on the inside of our fitness industry.  

First of all, I like the idea of training for something.  It doesn't matter what it is, but if you choose something doable out there to achieve, where there is a real objective and a quantifiable success, it's my experience that you'll be more likely to achieve it.

Like I said before, I used to just run.  I would run in winter and in summer.  I would run whenever I felt like I needed to move.  I hurt myself and missed an event or two because of it.  Now, instead of just running, I have a plan.  I have learned that what AND how you train does affect the end result.  

My training used to consist of ten miles every day and longer on the weekends.  Now, I bridge the long runs with five milers and throw in the occasional longer midweek run if I'm in a high volume period.  

I know that many of you reading this might not be able to relate to ultra distance running.  Let me speak a language many of your would understand, going to the gym to workout.  I'll start by saying that no matter what you do for exercise, if you don't eat good food that helps your body to recover, it won't and you'll likely end up falling short of your goals.  It doesn't matter what your goals are, what you eat DOES matter and is often times the difference between failure and success.  What you eat can be periodized too and I'll save that for another day.

Like I talked about last week, threshold and recovery matter and finding a balance between pushing yourself physically and knowing when to back off and recover is a tough one to establish.  It's unique to each individual and changes based on their current fitness level and accumulated work load. 

Not only should you incorporate rest and recovery into your workouts, you should also incorporate rest and recovery into your program design.  If you're training for a big event, push hard and dial it in on your specific training prior to the event.  Once that event is over, it might be a good idea to shift your focus into rest and eating for recovery.  This will not only give your body a much needed break, but it will allow your mind to refocus and prevent burnout as well.

It's time to finish this post now.  Be honest with yourself when you are starting a new exercise program.  Instead of starting where you left off six months to a year ago, take the extra time and energy to build your body up.  Also, understand that incorporating rest and recovery, not only into your workouts, but into your program as well, can have a huge impact on your success over time.  

Jon Howard - Husband and Father of 3 | Ultra Endurance Athlete | Owner - Training Edge Sports