2011 is an eye opener already

2011 has been a real eye opener for me professionally already. Doing more and more writing and reading, my mind is in overdrive everyday it seems. The wheels are turning.

With the current state of physical activity (or lack of) and the obesity epidemic, how have we (as the fitness profession) helped? Have we done what we can do? Have we been going in the opposite direction of what we were intending?

Dealing with tons of people on a weekly basis, I see the good, and the bad. But is there a way to fix "the bad" (not necessarily completely) but to a greater extent than (fitness pros) have. We seem as a society to be at a "stand-still" as far as our education and understanding of how to take care of ourselves. We're still turning to the fancy marketing "gurus" and self-help aids that we have been for years; magazines, books, infomercials... We seem to believe that if it's in a book or on TV that it must be fact!

We have to STOP! We have to LEARN!

I'm seeing more and more opportunities daily to shift my focus, do something bigger, better and new that hopefully will get people understanding and learning more. But we all need to do our part. We HAVE TO STOP THIS PROBLEM where it is and start to reverse it! Inactivity, POOR nutrition, and awful workout habits .... LETS CHANGE THEM NOW!