A nice compliment and consistant change.

[Greg Newton]

A former student of mine from three years ago came by to see me today. She was in my class the year I was still blocky thick and hobbling around in pain from a ATV accident. The first words out of her mouth were "Mr. Newton, my Lord you have slimmed up!"

The people you see everyday don't always recognize that you have changed. They see you every day and true transformation is something that occurs gradually over time. This is opposed to the quick fix programs that put you on a drastic dietary plan and marathon workouts.

You might have a short term change in your appearance, but eventually most will quit working out and let go of the drastic diet. The weight comes back and the muscle tone goes. Many look worse than if they'd never have worked out. Actually, these drastic programs can make you look older than you are from the stress on the body.

As I've said many times before, Transformetrics is all about being a slow plodding tortoise as opposed to a jump start jack rabbit. The results are here for the long haul.:wink:

[Big Bear]

Hi Greg,

Great thread bro!

It is so true,people and yourself around you day to day don't see the dramatic change going on as you and they are to close to the situation.When someone comes back and makes a comment,it can be a great marker for what you are doing.

You are so right about the tortoise approach Greg! In fact I just wrote something similar on a thread of John's.People want instant gratification! They want to be able to be strong immediately-without work.We have a slow burning ember approach here.Day by day,week by week we diligently forge this vessel into a work of beauty.

Now why beauty? Each of you has a body,and each of you is beautiful! When you use an approach like we use here,you find that the natural beauty of your beautiful body unfolds. A friend of mine does re-construction work up here in Maine.He found in a room an old piece of glass behind a wall.The glass was very beautiful as he held it to the light.It had a lot of dust on it. He took a rag and started to dust the glass.He was astounded,it was simply the most beautiful stained glass piece he had ever seen. Now why did someone build it into a wall? Don't know.Did this work for a couple summers myself as a young man and we found all sorts of strange objects behind walls.

In relevance to todays thread I like to think analogy. The forgotten beautiful piece is our body.Over the years many come to this program looking for change.They may have been busted up or forgotten exercise entirely. You are still beautiful!!!!
As the days and weeks move forward with Transformetrics,you find that amazing piece of stained glass(your body).Has some sort of alchemy occurred? No the glass is still the glass,your body is still the body.The dust or fat has been wiped to reveal the natural beauty of your body.

I suppose in a way we are the ' new guard' in the field of physical culture.The more accurate statement would be that John has consciously taken us all along to an ancient system that had been proven in warfare,times of peace,warrior cultures etc...The new guard of weights,hopefully will be a blip in history when mankind tried consciously to be outside of him/herself in a time of severe materialism.

Greg,you are awesome.You look twenty years younger than you are.

I hope all come to this system and slow but sure,start to dust the beautiful stained glass within....

peace,
jason

[Greg Newton]

We have a slow burning ember approach here.Day by day,week by week we diligently forge this vessel into a work of beauty.

I like the idea of being a "burning ember." Thanks for a wonderful reply. You certainly made my day. You'll probably see the burning ember analogy again!:good:

[John Peterson]

Hey Greg & Jason,

Wow! What a great thread. And you men are so right. Nothing takes the place of steadily advancing in strength and fitness. And how does one know for sure that he has taken the best possible approach to achieve it?. Because the entire skeletal structure becomes not only strong and perfectly developed but also pain free. I Any method that causes pain and disability is ultimately doomed to failure. Our methods build the entire structure from the inside out and not the other way. Everything we teach is geared toward long term lifelong success.

---John Peterson

[tom]

I had the same experience last night. A kid hadn't seen me in four years, was back on break, and was shocked I wasn't the huge hulk he remembered (he was smaller and I was 6' 1' 215 - 220, certainly not a hulk). I'm now 183 (hey, anybody hear of IF, whatever that means?).

As of last night, I think he saw my slimderness as a step back. Give him 30 years, he might get it. In the meantime my blood pressure is down, my feet don't hurt, I feel good, and I upped my chances to be around when he figures it out.

Tom