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• Epilogue: Share the Strength
  Shawn Phillips - Wednesday, September 2, 2009 10:00 - 1 Comment

  Why is it that some people change their bodies and others transform their lives? What is it that ignites life’s brilliance deep within?
  Your FIT for SUCCESS journey has helped you cultivate your strength. You’ve come to know your greater capacity as you forged your body and mind strong. Now it’s your turn to share the [...]

• Seasons of Strength
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, August 31, 2009 16:01 - 0 Comments

  Get in Your Best Shape One Time Each Year,
  and You’ll Be in Shape for Life

  The FIT for SUCCESS Challenge has been a finely tuned peak phase for transforming your body—a 90-day training camp providing rhythm, focus and structure, and a chance to get into your best shape of the year.
  And like [...]

• Finish Strong, Take 7
  Shawn Phillips - Tuesday, August 25, 2009 15:44 - 9 Comments

  It’s almost time to step beyond the FIT for SUCCESS Challenge to discover how to stay strong—for the next 12 months and for life.
  Next Monday I’ll share with you Seasons of Strength, a beyond-the-Challenge secret to creating an annual plan that will have you reaching new levels of fitness year after year, keeping you motivated, [...]

• Feed Your Strength
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, August 17, 2009 15:38 - 7 Comments

  It’s a common misconception that strength training leads to fuller, stronger muscles. While it’s true that training is the stimulus for growth, it’s actually the recovery and proper nourishment immediately following your training that fuel your muscles, energy and strength.
  Intense training leaves your muscles screaming for vital nutrients necessary for rebuilding your body stronger. Yet, [...]

• Questions, Answers & an Exclusive New Challenging Exercise
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, August 10, 2009 10:11 - 1 Comment

  The Final Sprint: Days 64 - 84
  It’s the final sprint, the stretch run. You’re in the last 21 days of your FIT for SUCCESS Challenge. Perhaps you’re seeing and feeling results, or maybe you’re waiting for a breakthrough. Either way, it’s not uncommon to produce the most rewarding measurable results in the last few weeks [...]

• MOTIVATION: From Discipline to Mastery In Training, In Life
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, August 3, 2009 17:12 - 6 Comments

  What gets you to do something, let alone stick with it?
  How do you move beyond discipline to find the joy of being fit and strong, staying engaged for the year ahead and beyond?
  More so than any other factor, more than knowledge–even more than the perfect plan–your ability to create, sustain and renew motivation determines your [...]

• The Transformation of Cardio Training:
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, July 27, 2009 14:17 - 5 Comments

  What HIIT Can Do for Your Performance at the Gym, at Work and in Life
  Whether it’s running the road, spinning in a gym or kicking it up to a rhythmic beat, when doing cardio, the arms and legs are in motion and sweat is pouring, which must mean calories are burning and fat is dissolving. [...]

• The Space between the Notes: Words of Wisdom for Fitness, Work and Life
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, July 20, 2009 14:01 - 1 Comment

  Multitasking has become so pervasive in our culture that even when people show up at the gym (or at work or everyday relationships), they bring their mental static with them—their minds are all over the place. Instead of focusing on training (or the task at hand or the conversation taking place), they’re thinking about what [...]

• Start Strong: Eating Breakfast Is a Recipe for Success
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, July 13, 2009 13:53 - 3 Comments

  What if you went 12, 14 or even 16 hours without eating? You’d be starving, cranky, exhausted and unable to think straight, all while your metabolism slowed to conserve energy. To make matters worse, your body would be stockpiling as much fat as possible. More ready for hibernation than battle, the last thing you’d want [...]

• Why Train With Weights?
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, July 6, 2009 10:28 - 3 Comments

  The 7 Wonders of Strength
  1. Muscle Is the Engine of Youth
  Biological aging and the loss of functional strength have less to do with your chronological age than they do with time spent training and engaging the body for physical growth and development.
  Strength training is the most effective way to build muscle, thereby slowing [...]

• How Strict Must You Eat to Lose Weight?
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 29, 2009 11:50 - 5 Comments

  With the Fourth of July holiday almost upon us, many of us will have food on our minds. It’s a great day for sharing delicious—if not necessarily nutritious—food with family and friends.
  During a radio interview the other day, I received a question that is particularly relevant to this upcoming day of celebration. The question was, [...]

• FIT Challenge Exercise Photos
  Laura with SUCCESS Magazine - Friday, June 26, 2009 11:12 - 1 Comment

  You asked for it and Shawn listened!
  Exercise photos and more at Shawn’s site MyStrengthForLife.com.
  You will be able to click on a training day, say Monday, and a pop-up will open. Mouse over the images to go forward through the day’s exercises (two pictures for each exercise: start/finish, and midpoint accompanied by a description).
  You will [...]

• A Strong Mind for a Strong Body
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 22, 2009 14:27 - 5 Comments

  Can you focus? I mean really focus. Are you able to spend just two minutes without being distracted, free from the noise and constant chatter bouncing around in your head?

  For just two minutes sit quietly and clear your mind of all activity—be free from any thought. Go ahead. Close your eyes. I’ll wait. Seriously, give it a try. The clock is ticking.

• THE FAQ POST
  Shawn Phillips - Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:26 - 33 Comments

  I wanted to create a post that will continue to be added to with your questions and our answers! If you don’t see your question answered please check back again! We’re also working to respond individually as well.
  June 16:
  Question from Schoenburg
  Are the nutrition guidelines for the 12 weeks after base camp different than the [...]

• 5 Circles beats 3 Squares
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 15, 2009 13:18 - 3 Comments

  Americans have, by and large, distorted the golden rule of three square meals a day beyond recognition.
  We skip breakfast, eat quick lunches, slug down coffee or energy drinks, snack throughout the day to compensate for the poor start, and then consume more than half of our daily calories in one meal: dinner.
  This is a perfect [...]

• The Weekly Training Schedule
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 8, 2009 17:16 - 24 Comments

  This week kick’s-off your Training Camp. For the next 12 weeks you follow the same weekly rhythm.

• Training vs. Exercise
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 8, 2009 15:45 - 59 Comments

  Yet, Americans continue to pack on the pounds, and I believe I may have uncovered the cause. So I have a slightly different message to offer: Stop exercising!

• Forging Your Strength for Life
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, June 1, 2009 9:04 - 75 Comments

  It’s time to begin the noble climb from out of the ordinary to the heights of extra-ordinary—an elevation few choose to pursue in their lifetimes.

  Take the next six days to complete your preparation in Base Camp so that you’ll be rested and ready to enter your 12 weeks—only 84 days—of training.

• Rest, Renew, Reboot
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, May 25, 2009 10:00 - 56 Comments

  Would you climb Mount Everest without an acclimation period? Of course not.
  The same way, you shouldn’t start a training program without a period of time to renew, reset and reboot your body to prepare for a rigorous and challenging transformation.
  Many people get real geared up when I say the worst time to start a fitness [...]

• Your Blueprint for Brilliance: Setting Your Vision and Goals
  Shawn Phillips - Tuesday, May 19, 2009 10:08 - 28 Comments

  Together, an inspiring vision and clear goals serve as a blueprint for your lasting success—your choice to live a strong life, however you define it. It’s the life you’re most drawn to live, a brilliant future that pulls you forward each day with great force.

• The Shape of Your Life
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, May 11, 2009 16:24 - 12 Comments

  Whether you’re tall, short, thin, curvy or stout—whatever shape you see in the mirror—the shape your life will likely take on is much the same as every other. It rises up, arcs over and slides back down.
  If you were to graph the energy and vitality of your life, it would look like a cross section [...]

• FIT for SUCCESS: 90 Days to a New You
  Shawn Phillips - Monday, April 27, 2009 14:56 - 39 Comments

  The FIT for SUCCESS Challenge is the gateway to transformation—true and lasting change—from the inside out. This is an opportunity to create a powerful transformation have a performance lifestyle, allowing you to effortlessly enjoy more clarity, more energy, more strength, more success and, ultimately, more freedom.
  In the next 90 days, we’re going to cover a [...]

• Meet Shawn Phillips
  SUCCESS staff - Thursday, April 23, 2009 14:02 - 12 Comments

  “Strength is about being more, doing more, giving more. It’s not just surviving; it’s thriving. Most importantly, strength is about cultivating a reservoira deeper, fuller capacity of body, mind and heart.”
  Longtime ambassador for personal transformation and fitness, Shawn Phillips is on a mission to spread a new standard of strength throughout America. On his quest, [...]