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Rico Connor, self-taught expert in the fields of mind-body connection, nutrition, exercise, and supplementation shows you the most workable lifestyle regimen:

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I’d like to explain in as simple terms as I can why my system is the absolute #1 out there. I not only give you all of the knowledge to succeed, but I also provide the motivational tools and mind-body connection training for men and women of all ages to have a mindset for success at any endeavor. Being totally healthy is not just about having muscles or a six-pack. They are a part of total health, and you will attain these, but there is much, much more involved than these alone, which most programs focus on.

 

55 year old Rico Connor

 

My system is not another fad diet, or a dvd with a new aerobic twist that you can't and won't stick to. It is based on science and tailored by experience. Being healthy has to be a “lifestyle” that you live, so that you stay healthy as long as you live. That’s the point isn’t it? Unlike most of the irrelevant courses we took in school and never used afterwards like trigonometry, you can’t study for this one, pass the test, and then forget about it. Consider this a manual for life that will be updated periodically by science.

 

It is not a two-week, twenty-one-day, or a two-month program. If you don’t make it a lifestyle, then about 95 % of you will put back the lost weight and lose any health benefits gained within a few years or less.

 

Here is something else you may not want to hear. Once you stop healthy eating and exercise habits, you lose all the positive results that you received from practicing them. The program works only as long as you continue to use it.

 

Its mission is teaching the "secret" of staying youthful, fit, and disease free, finding happiness within; and motivating people to take action "today" to start their own journey into "total health" of the mind and body—then, most importantly, giving back by passing it on to others. The site's main feature is my "self help" ebook:

 

Its mission is teaching the "secret" of staying youthful, fit, and disease free, finding happiness within; and motivating people to take action "today" to start their own journey into "total health" of the mind and body—then, most importantly, giving back by passing it on to others. The site's main feature is my "self help" ebook:

 

Experts From the book:

 

1. What we actually do and what we can do are two different things. What we actually do is usually far less than what we can do. For reasons I’ll show you, we choose not to live up to our potential. The only difference between people who are very good at what they do, and you, is that they have mastered the mind-body connection. They’ve made a conscious decision, a commitment, and a plan to achieve it. They have clear, well-defined goals. If you make no decisions and have no goals, then you will wander aimlessly through life and you’ll take whatever life throws at you.

 

2. I recently watched one of the many home mini-gym infomercials—a very well-known, well-marketed one—that claims you’ll reach your fitness goals in six weeks or less. What hogwash! All they’re doing is tapping into your sense of hope for a quick fix! Ask any personal trainer about that claim and he’ll tell you the same thing. If it’s so easy to achieve total fitness in such a short amount of time, everyone would be fit. See if any controlled scientific evidence exists supporting the claims of the product or machine.

 

 

3.   I saw another famous infomercial guru hawking his “wonder machine” the other day. He wants you to believe his machine simulates six different exercises at once and that you can change your body remarkably in just three minutes a day. Then he hits you with all of the bells and whistles: Call now, and we will take off a whole payment. Call now and receive a slim down book. Lose a dress size in just ten days. Thirty-day money back guarantee. This piece of plastic and metal costs over $200! What a steal! He’s stealing money from you!

 

4. If you haven’t programmed (exercised) your mind, then any attempt to become healthy will probably fail. It all starts with your mind. Think about it—it’s pretty simple. Your body does what your mind tells it to do! You shape yourself by how you use your mind.
First, you must know what you want. Most people get caught up in the day-to-day activities that go on in their lives. They are reactive rather than proactive. They react to events instead of purposefully planning how their day will go. They do not prioritize or take the time to look at the big picture. People don’t plan to fail; they fail to plan.
You must want to make a commitment to enjoy life to its fullest, and this process takes some serious soul-searching. Many people don’t examine their life, what it could be, and what they would really like to be doing with it. The years slide by and the older you get, the faster they slide. Many people never delve into self-awareness. Life develops meaning when you know yourself. If you don’t develop an awareness of who you are, then it will be hard to change yourself.
I believe there are two kinds of people—those who simply exist, and those who create their own destiny. There are leaders and followers. Do you know which one you are? Leaders have goals and a plan of action. They know their strengths and weaknesses, and are always working on strengthening the latter. Followers are people who never get in touch with their inner-self and don’t have a game plan or any direction in the game of life.

 

5. The main focus is on your mind. We can do almost anything we set our minds to, but often choose not to. Life is all about choices. You’re the person you choose to be. Your choice can be a Big Mac or a grilled chicken breast on whole wheat. You can choose to go to bed a little early and get up and hit the gym before work, or you can stay up late, watch TV, and sleep in. It’s all about making a decision and taking action. It’s that simple. There’s no other solution. If you do nothing, then you’ll never change and your body and life will stay the same. If you read this and say to yourself, “Okay, I’m going to start a program next week,” you aren’t getting it! YOU MUST WANT TO CHANGE NOW!

 

6. Environment shapes us and makes us think the way we do. Your goals, attitudes, and personality are formed and shaped by it. Let me give you the perfect example—Tiger Woods. He was a child prodigy. He held a golf club in his hands at a very young age. He was shaped by his environment—his father. He then formed habits and beliefs from repetition. His father was a positive role model who implanted the thought and belief in Tiger’s mind that he would be the best. Once these beliefs and habits were formed, there was no stopping him. He used visualization to the max and became the best golfer in the world.

 

7. I used the mind-body connection, focusing on my health. You can use this connection for every phase of your life: health, business, relationships, and so on. It’s been a while since I was in school and I’d be willing to bet there isn’t a course taught that focuses on this concept. Why aren’t we helping our children ease into adulthood? If everybody, at an early age, was educated on how their minds could really work for them and help them to be successful at whatever they attempted, then the world would probably have a lot less depressed, unsuccessful, unfulfilled, unhappy people. I guess educators feel it’s more important for a child to know that an earthworm has eight hearts.

8. How did Oprah lose all her weight? She learned the science of nutrition. In her book, Make the Connection: Ten Steps to a Better Body—and a Better Life, she says, “Eating increases your metabolism. I learned that the key is what you eat, how much you eat, and how often you eat. Five meals spread throughout the day, with the greater proportion of calories eaten early in the day, will help you tremendously in controlling your weight. I’ve learned that when I eat smaller meals throughout the day, I’m less hungry and I get the added benefit of keeping the flame under that metabolism of mine. You’re burning calories more efficiently. Your body is also more grateful and will reward you for it.” You tell’em, Oprah. You hit the nail on the head.

 

9. Carbs have gotten a bum rap. Just eat the right kinds of carbs in the right quantities at the right times. As they say, timing is everything in life. I got down to almost 3% body fat when I entered and won my first contest, consuming 300 grams of carbs per day! I needed the carbs as fuel for my workouts and energy for the day. People who don’t eat enough carbs catabolize their hard earned muscle for fuel during workouts. The muscle is broken down for energy because there are no carbohydrates stored for their workout. Small portions over five meals is the correct way to consume carbs.

10. Most candy is fat free. Does that mean it’s healthy for you? Once again, it is simple sugar, which is stored as fat if not used by the body. Look at the amount of sugar in candy like Twizzlers and Skittles. Eat just a few, and you’ve ingested twenty to over thirty grams of sugar. Remember going to the movies and consuming half a box of candy, such as Dots, Junior Mints, or Milk Duds? You put between 50 and 100 grams of sugar in your body. Ten grams of sugar is equal to one teaspoon of sugar. Do you think you could eat five to ten teaspoons of sugar?

 

11. I feel the need to warn people about the dangers of long-term, chronic aspartame poisoning and of other potentially dangerous artificial sweeteners. I have only glossed on the surface of the subject and the dangers. Check out the websites and the many references listed. You need to know what you’re putting into your body. When you know, I’m sure you’ll make the right choices. Just because something has been approved by the FDA doesn’t mean it isn’t harmful to your health. Big business has always influenced government. Money is power. Don’t have blind faith in everything you read or hear. Always consider the source and if the source is tied into the money machine, be skeptical. Seek information from non-profit organizations who have no financial interests in supplying you with information.

 

12. Research has found that the half-life of caffeine can be extended with a single serving of grapefruit juice, preferably canned, which slows caffeine breakdown in the liver. This allows you to consume less caffeine and still get the same results. It’s not wise to take any prescription drugs with grapefruit juice, as it increases the concentration of certain drugs in your body.

 

13. Having two drinks a day is associated with approximately a 30 to 50% reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease. As hard as it is to believe, people in this category are less at risk than people who don’t drink at all. If you don’t drink alcohol, I’m not telling you to start. If you consume more than two drinks a day, adjust accordingly because your risk of health problems increases rapidly. Drinking in excess of two drinks daily may increase the risk of breast cancer, contribute to high blood pressure, trigger cardiovascular disease, and cause brain damage and birth defects. We all know that alcohol is addicting and destroys thousands of lives when that stage is reached.

 

14. Let’s try this from another angle. Would you eat a big chunk of visible fat on a T-bone steak? I doubt it. The problem is that as long as you can’t actually see the saturated fat in your foods, you don’t worry about it—out of sight, out of mind, but it’s still there.

 

15. Skipping breakfast is a terrible idea. A car cannot run without gas! A Mayo Clinic study found that breakfast eaters started their days with significantly higher metabolic rates than breakfast skippers.

 

16. I’ll stack my state of health and my relative “body-age,” compared to my chronological age, against any of these diet gurus any day of the year. Yes, that’s a challenge. “Gentlemen, put your money where your mouth is.” I can only assume they practice what they preach if they truly believe in their diets. Look at the personal appearance of the experts making these dietary recommendations. Let’s compare their programs and mine by looking at the physical results, then draw your own conclusions. The proof is in the pudding. I base my program on the science of nutrition. I would love to see the studies on the fantastic health claims of diets such as those. Science doesn’t exist to make money off book sales to a gullible public. Don’t go with a fad when your health is at stake. Go with the real thing.

 

17. Let me give an example of why good health is a combination of diet, aerobic exercise, and anaerobic exercise (resistance training). Have you ever seen long distance runners? Good long-distance runners don’t do any kind of resistance training and they take one-fourth of the equation for optimum health out of the picture. This is why they are all frail and skinny looking. Whatever muscle mass they would have had was eaten up by their overload of aerobic activity. Their lungs and hearts are in unbelievable cardiovascular shape, but their muscle has been cannibalized for energy. To endure their large amounts of aerobic activity, their bodies shed both lean and adipose tissue. This is why you should do cardio in moderation. The right amount of cardio helps you lose that fat, but too much can strip away any lean muscle you may be trying to build. These three components have to be balanced to achieve a muscular, lean, heart-healthy symmetrical body.

 

18. The unconditioned heart requires seventy to one hundred beats per minute at rest to do its job. The average resting heart rate is about seventy-two beats per minute The conditioned heart pumps between thirty and sixty beats per minute at rest, pumping the same amount of blood as the unconditioned heart does at seventy to one hundred beats per minute. As we can see, the conditioned heart pumps far fewer times to get the job done and therefore suffers much less wear and tear than the unconditioned heart.
Let’s do the math. An average of forty beats per minute difference, times sixty minutes (one hour), times twenty-four hours (one day), times 365 days (one year), equals an unbelievable extra 21,024,000 beats per year that the unconditioned heart has to pump more than the conditioned heart! Now do you see how cardio fitness relates to your heart?

 

19. You will control your blood sugar level by eating whole fruits rather than the juice of four or five “juiced” fruits. Eat the orange; don’t drink a glass of fresh-squeezed orange juice, which contains sugar from four or five oranges.

 

20. If the skeletal muscle is conditioned, then the heart has an easier time pumping blood through it. A person can be fat or skinny and still have unconditioned muscle since it doesn’t condition itself naturally. Since the heart of someone with unconditioned muscles must pump harder and do more work to get the job done, the blood pressure is raised. When your muscles are conditioned, your body finds its natural blood pressure. Want to lower your blood pressure? Weight train.

 

21. After age thirty-five, women start losing muscle mass and bone mass each year. After menopause they lose even more bone mass. If they do nothing to counteract this, they risk osteoporosis and bone fractures. Once again, the best way to counteract these pitfalls of aging is strength training combined with a proper diet and supplementation.
Women in this age group who participated in a regular strength training study gained bone mass and bone density, muscle mass, became stronger and more active, and had more energy. It was also found that strength training elevated their moods and fought depression.

 

22. Supplementation means taking substances in addition, not in place of healthy meals. Fruits and vegetables remain the best source of micronutrients for survival. Some people might tell you that supplementation is worthless. This might be true if you were looking at the perfect specimen who led a perfect life, had no stress, perfect sleeping habits, a perfectly balanced healthy diet, ate organic fruits and vegetables, didn’t smoke, wasn’t exposed to pollutants, didn’t eat processed foods, didn’t drink water mixed with chemicals, exercised regularly, and had lots of free time to do the things he/she enjoyed. How many people do you know like that? I don’t know a single one and seriously doubt whether one exists.

 

23. When you eat fast, you usually eat too much food. Why? Your brain has about a twenty minute timer—the amount of time for the brain to realize that you’ve had enough food and that you’re full. Taking your time and eating leisurely will make you eat less, because you will feel full before you eat those extra servings.

 

24. If you think an ab machine can transform your gut into washboard abs, look up the word “gullible” in the dictionary. Of course the infomercial models have sculpted abs but they did not get them from using a piece of plastic. It is virtually impossible to get those kind of abs with one device and a few minutes a day.

Now you can buy a little machine that sends electrical impulses to your abdomen, which (the manufacturer claims) amazingly tones, firms, flattens and strengthens your abs, love handles and thighs. This is for those of you that don’t have time to work out and still want to have a “six-pack.” Proof positive that if someone can dream up something, somebody will buy it. We love to spend money.

 

“As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.”

... Dick Cavett

25. “If you want to see what your body will look like in the future, examine your mind today. If you want to see what your mind was like in the past, examine your body today”

 

If you follow the total health program I lay out for you, you’ll notice positive results and start to see your body change within six to eight weeks. It’ll take a bit longer to achieve optimum health. It truly would be a miracle if you could reverse years of unhealthy living in just a few weeks. I hope you are starting to grasp the difference between fact and fiction. Total fitness is a gradual process, which takes place over time.

 

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My sense of purpose is to teach my secret to as many people as possible and to help them help themselves to change their lives in every way, not just in their outer appearance.

This book allows me to reach everyone who wants to change his or her life and needs help doing it. It is my life’s project

 

It’s my chance to dive into the health/fitness industry, to motivate people and give them the knowledge to change their lives for the better. In giving I get a huge feeling of purpose and meaning in my life. I believe that everyone should try to leave a mark in the world and make it a bit better than before he/she came along.

 

My satisfaction is when I am stopped in the gym or out in public by someone who recognizes me and stops me to tell me I am an inspiration (because I am an old man!) or asks me about the several facets of becoming healthy, i.e. nutrition, diet, anaerobic and aerobic exercise, mind-body connection, supplementation, etc.

 

I know I’m going to sound a bit “Anthony Robbins” but (the dude is right!), since I used my mind-body connection to change my unhealthy body and lifestyle, my whole world has changed along with it. It’s all about programming your mind for success. My confidence and self-esteem have risen dramatically. It has given me piece of mind and an inner security. I have learned that not only can I change my body and my health, but that I can achieve anything I set out to do in my life if I believe in myself and my abilities. If you don’t believe in yourself no one else will either. Stay positive and take small steps every day to achieve your objectives, whatever they may be, ie. health, relationships, financial goals, self improvement, etc.

 

Nothing worthwhile happens overnight. It is an ongoing process, which you need to convert into a lifestyle. My drastic physical change took several years (yours may take far less) and it was worth every second of the hard work. You’ve got one life people. No matter how well you are doing financially, it’s hard to enjoy life when you are sick and in bad health.

 

Give yourself the gift of good health and see how much you will enjoy your new and improved life! You’ll discover a whole new person inside you on this journey and receive a whole new lease on life. The tangible benefits of physical health will be readily apparent. The psychological benefits of self-confidence, improved self-esteem, and a positive outlook on life will change the essence of your being. Every phase and aspect of your life will be better.

 

You’ve got two choices—ignoring your health and becoming a statistic or virtually eliminating the probability of heart disease and cutting the odds of getting cancer in half so you can live a long healthy life. Thousands of people are slowly killing themselves in America each year because they lack knowledge and motivation.

 

Most of your life centers around the relationships you have with your loved ones, family, friends, and associates. If you plan on being around to enjoy these relationships, you need a good relationship with yourself, your mind, heart and body.

 

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