We celebrated our 10 year anniversary for Heavy Metal Fitness!!!
I wanted to say a very heartfelt thank you to every single person who has supported HMF:
- Family who stood by us when we changed careers and built our business – we know how uncertain those times were.
- Friends who literally helped build the phyical studio – we put your handiwork to incredible use every single day.
- Businesses who are part of the guidance starting our own – this stuff was out of our understanding when we began.
- Our staffing – your passion taking care of people is a massive part of why these doors are open.
- Past, present, and future clients who make this studio possible every single workout – we hope the positive health changes you’ve made from our sessions continue to grow and shape your world.
- Special thanks to Trainer Tracy who is the creative force behind this entire operation. While I am simply the hired muscle, Tracy’s talents extend across training expertise, creating our website/media, crunching (pardon the pun) the numbers, maintaining the studio, and making us all smile when we need it the most.
Tracy & I love what we do. That passion goes into every last possible aspect of Heavy Metal Fitness. We are so proud of what we uniquely offer. We don’t label ourselves as being better than what’s out there in the world of fitness – we simply showcase the very best of our personalities in order to share what we continue to learn and experience with the collective journey of health.
Much of what we pride ourselves in is that everyone who walks through our door is on equal footing. Fitness can be such a competitive thing, but that can isolate and exclude people. I feel that regardless of experience or skill, if everyone is challenging themselves properly at their own relative level, then we’re all in the same boat. You can be lifting 5 or 50 or 500 pounds and the difficulty has the exact same effect individually. That has always led me to see other people as inspiration, not competition.
Using that mindset, you can shift to looking inward, rather that outward, for competition, progressing what you’re capable of. I grew to focusing on being better than the person I was yesterday, rather than being better than someone else. I recently evolved that way of thinking though. The word ‘better’ can lead to feeling like you weren’t good enough before, and that can lead to negative things. The competitive nature of being ‘better’ than someone else or a group of people is downright dangerous. I now look at it as trying to improve your quality of life each day in the ways you can, and sharing that with others. The rippling effect of that is incredibly powerful.
Fitness truly applies to every aspect of our lives and the world around us, way more than most people realize. The strongest and most successful people on the planet don’t look for recognition. They put in the real work when no one is watching. They take what they have learned from the struggles they have overcome and look not for that recognition, but instead look for the hands of those in need – in order to help them overcome their struggles. At it’s core, that’s what fitness truly transcends, and why it’s so important. And that’s Heavy Metal.