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The Shocking Truth About Why You Don’t Like Healthy Foods.

September 5, 2011 By Hristo Hristov View Comments

The reason why people do not like or eat some of the healthy foods is…well,  it has nothing to do with taste or your taste buds. It is all psychological. It is very simple, I encourage you to start orienting yourself to eat healthy foods you dont usually like and stay very positively emotional, constantly look for the benefits from them when you eat those foods. Just test it for 3 weeks each day eating a certain type of veggie that you dont usually like.

Ask yourself: do i constantly try to like healthy foods? When someone hands/serves me healthy food, do i smile and take it with open arms or I make faces internally and say: Oh boy, I wish I had some chocolate now, I dont like those eggs, avocado, broccoli, asparagus.

Make sure you fill yourself with positive emotions while you are eating it. The more reasons you can come up for why this veggie is so healthy, delicious and awesome the sooner you will transform your taste for it.

If you are really serious about your health which you should be, I would even recommend you going to a higher level and write down all the reasons why and benefits you would receive from eating the veggie you chose and read them every day.

I know it sounds almost crazy and silly but stay with me here and be as open as possible about it and this is when you would see some positive changes

You have to change the way you think, feel, and talk to yourself in a positive way with benefits about healthy food and you will see how soon you will like them.

Simply put you need to change the way you have programmed your brain (as much as some of you will not like this expression), or your attitude toward healthy food.

This is not a theory. It is science and it works but it won’t work if you put it to the test.

If you find it valuable share it with your friends and let me know what you think by commenting below

Your 3 Pillar Coach Hristo

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South Elgin Fitness Boot Camp Trainer Riding 4-Wheeler, Makes A Dangerous Movie And Gives Away A Personal Training Package.

November 1, 2010 By Hristo Hristov View Comments

I am giving away a small personal training sessions package to the person that finds the 3 life changing lessons learned in this adventurous movie I filmed that has something to do with your health and fitness goals. Watch the 4-wheeler video I did with Ted and comment below with the 3 powerful lessons learned. YOU BLINK, YOU MISS IT.

Deadline: 11/7/10 Sunday 4pm CST

The Personal Training package includes:

-Full assessment to your medical and exercise history and a blueprint to how you will achieve your goal.

-Functional movement screen. We will screen your movement, posture and identify muscle weaknesses, tightness and movement patterns that prevent you of performing a proper movement

-Kick butt workout that you have never experienced before that will engage all the muscles for burning maximal calories and fat.

Watch the video and intelligently guess the 3 life changing lessons you learned from this crazy video that will help your fitness and health goals. Hint – you can find them on few spots…so follow the breath taking drama from the beginning to the end. You blink, you miss it.

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Make sure you do your friends a favor and share it with them and facebook.

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South Elgin IL Personal Trainer Reveals 8 Keys to Get the Most From Your Fitness Training

March 7, 2010 By Hristo Hristov View Comments

As a personal fitness trainer in the Western Chicago Suburbs and Fox Valley area, I strive to educate my readers and clients on all aspects of achieving higher level wellness. So today’s topic is on developing behaviors that maximize your ability to reach your fitness goals.

There are 8 key components for behavior change. This applies to every aspect of life, but in this case please relate these behaviors to the Three Pillars of Higher Level Wellness: Complexity Conditioning, Premium Nutritional Fuel, and The Mental Edge.

As you read through those components stay open minded and think critically:

1. You must believe that the advantages (benefits, positive outcomes) of the behavior outweigh the disadvantages (cost, negative outcome). Stated differently, you need to have a positive attitude toward your new behavior (exercise on a regular basis, or nutrition).

Action: Write down all the benefits you’ll be getting from your fitness program. For example: better mental clarity, muscle tone, fat loss, gain strength, being able to play and keep up with family members without getting tired, better self-image, lose weight etc.

2. The emotion you feel about your behavior must be more positive than negative.

Action: If you’re a beginner, you may need to work a little harder at first to program yourself to display more positive emotions than negative. This is why I want you to physically write down all the benefits on a sheet of paper. This will help solidify your belief that the positive benefits outweigh the negatives.

3. Performing the behavior must be consistent with your self-image.

Action: Whether you’re working with a personal trainer, or you’ve designed your own workout program, the exercise fitness training you are doing needs to match your self-image or how you see yourself. Look at yourself as a person who loves exercise, really values his/her body and is careful about foods. Think of yourself as an exercise enthusiast who already has the body of their dreams, and performs at the highest level.

4. You must display a strong commitment to your new behavior, and form a strong positive intention to continue doing it.

Action: Add fitness to your calendar and start living by it. Mark the days and times you will dedicate to exercise and don’t deviate from it. Commit in public what you’re planning to do, and tell your family and friends about it. Promise them, and yourself, you will do it and follow up on it.

5. You must develop the correct skills needed to perform the behavior…

Action: To be fit and healthy you need to be efficient and effective when you exercise. This means learning the proper form for each movement, and practicing for perfection. Perfect form will prevent injuries and speeds up the process of achieving your goals.

…..Are you relating the behavior with exercise and nutrition? Good, lets keep going..

6. Your self-efficacy (confidence) to perform the desired behavior must be very high. You have to believe you can perform well under different situations.

Action: Having confidence and believing in yourself as you exercise gives you more drive to do it. The more you do it, the better you become. If you struggle initially, act the confident part. Pretend you’re already there, and involve positive emotions. Soon you’ll start seeing success, and your confidence will be real.

7. You must perceive more social pressure to perform the behavior than not to perform it.

Action: Get surrounded by people that support you. People who won’t put you down, and are enthusiastic when you share with them what you’re committing to.

8. Your environment must be free and clear of obstacles that would make it impossible for the behavior to occur. Your environment should provide opportunities to perform the behavior.

Action: Again, choose wisely the people you spend time with as you commit yourself to a fitness program. Also, your physical environment should be as convenient as possible. It’s easy and inexpensive to set up couple of dumbbells, exercise ball and a band at home. On the nutritional front, plan and prepare food ahead of time for easy access to your premium fueling.

If you work on and improve all of those steps you’ll be virtually guaranteed to achieve any goal you have in your health and fitness journey.

Now: Print this page and put it on your refrigerator or bedroom wall, and read it often. Not to put pressure on you, but if you don’t do this, you’re not serious about your fitness goals. I am 100% confident you’ll forget these 8 keys very soon. You’re very busy, so do it NOW and your journey will be underway.

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Fitness and Motivational Trainer Shows The #1 Rule for Mastering Motivation (How to Never Give-up)

January 1, 2010 By Hristo Hristov View Comments

Try this quick-fire motivational tip, and you’ll find it more painful to give-up your health and fitness program than it is to stick with it.

That’s what I hope anyway. Here goes…

The #1 way to stay motivated is to set goals. Now don’t sigh and stop reading. I know everyone has heard about goal setting a thousand times… but STILL don’t set goals. And they fail.

Please do this #1 thing. Just TRY it. What’ve you got to lose?

Decide on your final goal – building muscle, fat weight loss, being able to walk for 20 minutes without losing breath, gaining your muscle tone back, or just to get in shape – whatever. Now work backwards and set weekly goals that bring you closer to your final goal. This creates your step-by-step plan, therefore making it easier to do.

The most critical thing to do is WRITE everything down. Put it somewhere that you’ll see multiple times a day. Review your goals every night. This will take a few minutes each day… but the motivation you’ll gain, and the action you take because of it, will be life changing.

Seriously, TRY this and see how much of a difference it makes.

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St Charles IL Weight Loss Expert Presents Successful People Who Were Big Failures

December 31, 2009 By Hristo Hristov View Comments

It’s “Make Your Own Luck Day” tomorrow (what will they think of next?), and so I want to inspire you with a few famous failures. People who defied the odds, made their own “luck,” and became some of the most fantastically successful individuals of all time.

Ever feel like great success can never happen to you? This is where you must work on sharpening your Mental Edge. These amazing-but-true stories should help motivate you…

Cut from the high school basketball team. He went home and locked himself in his room and cried… Michael Jordan

He was told by a teacher he was “too stupid to learn anything…” Thomas Edison

His fiancé died, he started two businesses that failed, suffered a nervous breakdown and was defeated in eight elections… Abraham Lincoln

A comment from his music teacher, “as a composer, he is hopeless…” Ludwig van Beethoven

His parents thought he was mentally retarded. A teacher told him “You will never amount to anything…” Albert Einstein


Turned down for an engineer’s job at Toyota and unemployed, he built and sold scooters to his neighbors to make ends meet… Soichiro Honda

He failed in school, and suffered from a speech impediment… Winston Churchill

What you can learn from this, personally and professionally, is quite obvious,. It’s YOU who makes your own luck and your own success. Circumstance or luck are just excuses.

Whatever it is you want from life (and from health), go get it.

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