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13 Steps

Along The PATH To Fitness

We learn by doing.


The PATH To Fitness provides 13 Steps to guide you through the process of living a fit life. Each Step lasts for one week and focuses on a topic we need to handle in our lives. 

 

For the duration of that week, you will learn about that Step, be asked to do Homework, stretch your thinking to new levels.

Below you'll find the 13 Steps.

These will guide you along The PATH to Fitness.

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13 Steps You Need

For Fitness For Life

Greetings!  Get ready to completely rethink fitness and exercise.  Even if you’ve started and stopped exercise routines multiple times before, this time, it really is going to be different.

 

 This online course is philosophically aligned with THE PATH since it pokes holes in the outworn bastion of what’s conventionally preached as “the right way to exercise.” Instead, you’re about to experience a new approach to fitness, based on   findings presented in “The Fitness Instinct,” a four-year research project that went to the heart of our instinctual desire to move for the health of it!

 

Your 13-step journey covers the following:

 

Section One:  Getting to Know Yourself

Step One: What’s Your Type

  1. Let’s Get Started

  2. Get to Know Yourself

  3. What’s Your Type?

  4. Get To Know Your Body

  5. Challenging Your Movement Personality

  6. The Four Movement Symbols

  7. Movement Types:  A Summary

Step Two:  Learn the Truth

  1. Weight Training Will Create Bulky Muscles

  2. Sits Ups, Fat to Muscle, and Stretching

  3. Max Intensity Myth and Can Fat Be Fit?

  4. Performance and Appearance

  5. Is More Better?

  6. Expensive Gear

  7. Buying Fitness

 

Step Three:  Wellness Assessment

  1. Eight Areas of Wellness and Body

  2. Mind and Emotions

  3. Spirit and Relationship

  4. Relationships

  5. Career

  6. Personal Growth

  7. Community  and Final Scoring

 

Section Two:  Move According to Your Type

Step Four:  Move in Synch with Natural Rhythms

1.       Head to Toe Kickstart

2.       Moves to Re-energize

3.       Moves to Soothe, Stabilize and Strengthen

4.       Strengthening Movements

5.       Stabilizing Movements

6.       Time and Movement Type

7.       Secrets of Body Wisdom

 

Step Five:  Gather 30 as You Go

  1. Specifics for Your Type

  2. Moderate versus  High-Level Activity

  3. Eat Right for Your Activity

  4. Strength Training

  5. Stretching

  6. Fun Break

  7. Change Your Mindset

 

Step Six:  Get Creative

  1. The Fitness Pyramid

  2. Restorative Fitness

  3. Rock Video and Sufi Dancing

  4. Trekking and World Beat

  5. Yoga

  6. Fidgeting

  7. Change Your Mindset

 

Section Three:  Inner Fitness

Step Seven:  Fire Your Bad News Chorus

  1. Fitness is Your Birthright

  2. Avoid Discounting

  3. Focus on the Positive

  4. Reality Check

  5. Proper Motivators

  6. Hire the Good News Chorus

  7. Power Up

 

Step Eight: Cultivate Your Still Point

  1. Slow Down to Speed Up

  2. Freeze Out Stress

  3. Soothers

  4. Fitness Personality Still-Point Activities

  5. Mind Releasers

  6. Visualization

  7. Music and Belonging

 

Section Four:  Widen Your Choices

Step Nine: Explore Alternative Moves

  1. Why Go Alternative?

  2. Authentic Movement, Climbing and Continuum

  3. Eastern Power, Qigong, Tai Chi

  4. Rethink Cycling

  5. Hiking, NIA , Rosen

  6. Tibetan Rites

  7. World-Beat and Yoga

 

Step Ten: Reclaim Your Inner Trainer

  1. Get Inspired

  2. Benefits of Getting Fit 

  3. Getting Over a Hump 

  4. Learn from Limitations 

  5. Dream-Time 

  6. Intuition

  7. Seeing in the Dark

 

Step Eleven:  Move from Core Desire

  1. Motivation as a Constant

  2. Intrinsic Rewards

  3. Move Today, Not Tomorrow

  4. Break Old Habits for Good

  5. Tap into Your Core Desire

  6. In-Your-Body Experience

  7. If Running is Your Core Desire  p. 138

 

Section Five:   Tap Your Seventh Sense

Step Twelve:  Awaken Your Seventh Sense

  1. Defining the Seventh Sense   - p. 81

  2. Transfer Authority Back

  3. Staying Present

  4. Body Scan

  5. The Wisdom of All Fours

  6. How Inactivity Becomes a Habit – p. 82-3

  7. Fitness Awaits p. 90

 

Step Thirteen:  Unleash Your Seventh Sense

  1. Your Course in the Fitness Instinct

  2. Real Fitness (p. 4)

  3. Re-inspiring the Children (P. 15)

  4. Guilty Desires (p. 199)

  5. Quick Fixes That Work (p. 200)

  6. Real-Life Instincts (p.80)

  7. Create Your Own Life Dance (p. 220)

 

 

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