Yes, if you are reading this (currently March 1st, 2020), you have entered the ‘Fitness Continuum’ unbeknownst to you. The Fitness Continuum starts your progression from couch potato to hot potato! Like a road, it goes on forever, there is always another one to travel beyond the horizon!

You have started on your Fitness Journey simply by losing weight (as long as it is mostly fat and not muscle). By doing so, you have increased your horsepower to weight ratio, meaning your have more muscle to move less weight. When this happens, everything of a physical nature becomes easier.

However, looking beyond the gratification of attaining a certain amount of fat loss, a greater purpose beckons. Once a goal has been reached, a question inevitably arrises:

NOW WHAT?

In fact, the process you have come to understand and appreciate as relates to losing fat, is the same process you can apply to progress along your next physical transformation.

• Accomplished your 30, 50, or 100 pound fat loss goal? Awesome!
• Want to see some definition and gain some strength? Great!
• Want to have the energy, drive, and pain free body of your 20s and 30s? Go for it!

In all my years of private training, I have never encountered one single person who was successful in losing that part of them they didn’t like (and keeping it off forever), that opted just to be satisfied with the initial accomplishment. The successful people just did not want to rest on their laurels, they were hungry for more.

It is just human nature that once you taste success, you want more. In the case of fat loss and fitness, it is a healthy addiction.

Everything is a win-win situation. The fat loss has created a condition whereby all athletic endeavors are facilitated. Walking is easier, running is easier, strength training is easier. With recreational sports, the same is true. Skiing is easier, Scuba diving is easier, and so is sailing! It is the same even with pastimes and hobbies such as gardening or photography.

However grand all these accomplishments are, they exist on a rather finite time  line. Perhaps a time frame to contemplate bringing all these concepts to fruition might be 2-3 years or thereabouts.

However, in the vein of GoingOn30, the above mentioned fat loss is merely the warm up to lifelong fitness. It is merely the beginning steps to a lifestyle of an entirely different nature.

As I have pointed out in another area of Go30, I did not initially contemplate all my athletic pursuits and lifestyle choices as contributing to the concept of ‘Longevity and Quality of Life’. In fact, I never paid a lick to the concept until I was well into my 40s. Then, and only then, as the monkey jumped on my back, did I start to gain an understanding of what the previous 45+years really meant to my present constitution. I had unwittingly created and followed my own ‘Fitness Continuum’.

And that is what the Fitness Continuum really is: it is a lifestyle of continually manifesting increasing levels of fitness all through your life time.

This concept features prominently in Go30’s philosophy. The clarity I would like you to come away with is the following: That losing the fat was just the start, it is merely the gateway into the  ‘Fitness Continuum’.