FusionSouth is happy to announce that Greg Bajan has successfully integrated our blog to our official domain! He has seamlessly moved it to us from WordPress. For you, the reader, absolutely nothing has changed! To view the blog, you can do one of three things:

Click Here To See The New Blog – the style and substance are unchanged, and all our past posts are still in the index over there for you to read!

Type Our New Address Into Your Browser – http://www.fusionsouth.com/blog is the address! Be sure to update our address into your favorites!

Get To Our Blog Through The Official Site – Our new blog is posted and updated on the right-hand portion of our main website, and you can reach it through there, just as in the past!
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To close, just a few quick things about the move and other FusionSouth issues:

Integration Makes Sense For Us
We wanted from the beginning to integrate our blog into our domain, in order to get all our traffic flowing through our Official Website, and make a more seamless internet product for our readers, followers, and clients. For everyone involved, the transition makes sense.

WordPress Is Phenomenal
Although we transitioned away from it, WordPress is a great free site on which to blog. If you are currently blogging, or considering it for any reason, we definitely recommend WordPress as being incredibly professional, easy to use, simplistic, and generally superior. Go there for all your blogging needs!

Our Product Remains The Same
Rest assured, our product remains unchanged. We will continue to blog between five and seven times per week, we will continue to add to all of our different categories (including Letters From Readers, Fitness Hall of Shame, and more!), and you can continue to come to us a source of reliable, original, and sensible fitness and health information. The layout of the blog is also generally unchanged, so you will be able to navigate it in the same way as you did our WordPress blog.

All Other Contact Information Remains The Same
Our Facebook and Twitter accounts stay the same, our contact e-mail address is consistent, and our website is generally unchanged – although we add new pages and text to it from time to time as necessary!

Thanks for the continued support, enjoy the new blog, and remember to update your Bookmarks to include the new address! Be Well!

The easiest way to get somewhere you don’t want to be is to start down your road in this life without a path picked out. Unless you put together a plan of action, your path will diverge from goals and successes almost immediately when failure and adversity strike – and you will almost assuredly end up well short of where you want yourself to be in the future.

Instead of floating through your life aimlessly and getting pushed into all sorts of different endeavors, grab life by the horns and take control. Write down a plan of action. Take stock of your current existence – it may be gut-wrenching to analyze yourself honestly, and come to grips with your shortcomings, laziness and mistakes – but in the long run, that self-awareness will pay dividends about which other people can only dream.

Where do you want to be in one year? What about ten years? How do you want to feel about yourself? How will you get there? Who will help you? Who will not?

Sit down, right now, and ask yourself those questions. Write down a few goals that you want to accomplish within the next year. Write down some long-term goals that you want to accomplish across the next five or ten years. Be realistic, but be challenging. Then, write down a plan of action, detailing exactly how you are going to reach those goals. Write down ideas, ways, means, methods, and thoughts – anything helps. Don’t just hope success will fall into your lap – figure out exactly how you will reach your goals and pursue it intensely, fully, and excuse-free. Losers make excuses; winners make changes.

As for the last two questions, take stock of those around you. Who will help you reach your goals? If you are trying to lose 50 pounds, do you need the help of a trainer or a nutritionist? If you are training for a triathlon, do you need an experienced workout partner?

Who will not help you reach your goals? If you are serious about your aspirations and dreams, jettison the negative people clinging to you – only surround yourself with positive, uplifting and helpful people. Do not let anybody trample on your dreams – those who do are the ones you immediately need to leave behind when pursuing your aspirations.

Rise to the occasion that is your life – live it fully and purposefully. Take each day as positively and as intensely as possible, knowing that you may not get another chance. Pursue your dreams and goals hard. It’s your life, and you make what you want out of it – it’s a beautiful life, but it’s can be a hard life. Quit just talking about it, and go get it – live it on purpose. It’s your time.

If you are thinking of beginning an exercise program, and you feel a little intimidated by where to begin, here are a couple of simple exercise tips from FusionSouth to begin any fitness regimen. Remember, consult your doctor before beginning a regimen and be health and well!

Prioritize Your Health and Fitness
Every time you eat or drink something, you have an opportunity to do two things. You can either help yourself towards reaching your goals, or you can make things harder by working against your goals. If you are prioritizing your health and fitness, it makes sense to be making positive choices that are going to make achieving that success easier.

Think of it this way: when you are training hard, and you are almost at that level where you are going to vomit, think about the nutrients with which you are fueling your body. I can guarantee that you aren’t thinking about feeding your body fast food, desserts, and empty calories – all you want to do is make sure that you are giving your body the best fuel you can so that it make the workout easier!

Think that same thought the next time you are reaching for a food that isn’t going to help your health or fitness. Suddenly, the ‘pleasure’ of eating this food isn’t worth the pain of getting it off again. So each time you eat or drink something, ask yourself if you are putting your health first and helping yourself out. If you aren’t tell yourself that you are making it harder to achieve your goals by making a negative choice. You won’t want to be telling yourself all the time that you are making life harder for yourself and for your health goals. You are suddenly accountable for all your actions, and hopefully will make better decisions that will impact on your health and weight loss goals.

Do Something Everyday
You’ve got the eating and drinking under control, and now its time to get some movement happening. The key here, the minimum you are working towards, is to do something everyday. Now before you immediately say how you don’t have time, revisit our first tip, and get to prioritizing your health and fitness. The same goes for exercise; if you want to do it, and you are making it a priority, then you will make time for it. Do you watch any television? What about surfing on Facebook and other time killers across the Internet? There are at least 15 minutes per day in which you can get some sort of exercise.

Ideally you will be spending more than 5 minutes per day on exercise, but the point is to do something everyday – and it will begin to add up. Spend some time with the family at the park and walk there and back, go for a bike ride, jog around your neighborhood – it all works. The more you can do (within reason) the better, but we can start simply – do something everyday.

Now get out there and make it happen. Give yourself positive reinforcement each time you make a positive choice, and actively question yourself and attempt to get better when you are making bad choices. Your habits will change, and in time, so will your body. Be Well!

Chances are you’re not in as good of shape as you’d like to be. You’re a little overweight, your arms aren’t toned enough, your hips seem to be widening faster than the universe, or you have skinny leg syndrome, where you fail to put on leg muscles no matter what you attempt. And yet chances are – once you actually take the leap, set down the remote, and head to the gym – you’re doing the same routine every time. At FusionSouth, we see it all the time – clients who work their bodies into stagnation, through monotonous and unoriginal workout regimens.

The physical and psychological commitment of going to the gym is hard enough for most people, so once you actually get there, you probably fall into the same habits, and find yourself on the same machines doing the same exercises. Guys, do you head straight for the bench press rack? Ladies, is your machine of choice the elliptical or the treadmill? It’s comfortable, and easy, and even though you finish without much sweating or actually doing any real hard work, you feel good and pat yourself on the back – at least you showed up.

Is your exercising routine stagnating?

This mentality is flawed. Time is valuable, and you are only as strong as our weakest points. When you are in the gym, you are devoting minutes of your precious day – minutes that could be spent elsewhere – to getting bigger, faster, or leaner. If you do things you like to do at the gym, eventually your body adapts and you stagnate. Then the worst thing of all happens – you start wasting your time.

No matter what your goal is in the gym, you have to do things you don’t necessarily like to do if want to go anywhere. The things you love to do are likely doing very little for you. The human body adapts quickly to any routine – usually within 4 weeks. You still might be able to see results, but your progress will be much slower if you stick to the exercises that are easiest for you. If you’re going to be in the gym in the first place, you might as well make it worth your while. After all, anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

So, when you’re in the gym next time, do one exercise you absolutely hate to do. You’ll feel like you’ve accomplished something great when you are done, and you will begin to mix up your routine and fight stagnation. Keep an open mind, do what is difficult, and Be Well!