Hello Friends! Welcome to my twice-weekly article, Organic Fitness. My name is Trini Ortega and I’m the owner of my brainchild, http://www.organic-fitness.com.

I’m honestly just an ordinary guy who one day decided he was tired of being ordinary. I knew I had the skills to step it up, to become stronger and healthier than I was. I just had to get some real knowledge and use it.

Like many of you, I tried strength training the only way I knew how: Lifting weights. Oddly enough, though I had wrestled in high school and learned many bodyweight exercises through that, I never realized how much better than lifting weights those bodyweight exercises could be. When the only training I did was lifting weights, I found my daily trek to the gym to be a grudge. Sure, I was getting stronger, but my body was as stiff and sore as ever. I just wasn’t strong, flexible, and quick. I didn’t have that much stamina.

A couple of years ago, I started studying that “bodyweight calisthenics” program again. People were getting famous for doing this stuff, and I wanted to know what it was. I started doing some of these exercises, then I took some kung fu classes, then I got a breakdancing DVD and started practicing off of that, I combed sites on the net and videos on youtube that showed bodyweight exercises, and I found so many different ones from kung fu, yoga, aerobics videos, websites, I mean when you start looking for them, the information is everywhere!

 So I also started studying natural foods, because I know, deep in my heart, this is the way we are supposed to eat. Folks, let me tell you something: If you are downing bars that look like they’re junky but the shiny wrapper says they are healthy for you, you’re buying into a loaf of baloney. Only when you eat naturally, does your body experience true health.

So with my research, I decided I wanted to be a part of the bodyweight revolution and the natural foods explosion. And that’s when Organic-Fitness.com was born.

Now, when you hear from me, I’ll be bringing you information about exercising and eating in just the right way, and I promise that if you listen to me, and learn from me with an open heart and open mind, I will make you so much stronger and so much healthier than you are today.

For your homework assignment tonight (didn’t know this was coming, did you? Ha!), I want you to do three things:

First, stand in the mirror, naked and alone, and study your body. Don’t hate it, don’t think anything negative about it at all. Just look at it for what it is. Now, imagine what would happen if you put on 10 pounds of strong muscle, and lost 10 pounds of fat (or 20 pounds, or even 30. Be realistic). All you’re doing is trading 10 pounds of fat for 10 pounds of muscle. Imagine how much stronger, livelier, and confident you would be. Imagine the looks and praise you would get. Keep this image of New You in your mind constantly.

Your second homework assignment is, in fact, your first exercise routine. All I want you to do is do Ten good pushups (Good Pushup = Body stiff and straight, butt slightly raised, not lowered, push all the way up and slowly drop all the way to the floor, breathe in deeply as you push up, breathe out fully as you drop down), Ten good freesquats (Good Freesquat = Your feet are about 9 inches apart, cross your arms, drop slowly all the way down, spring up [briskly, but not too quickly] to full extension, exhale on the way down, inhale on the way up), and 20 ab crunches (Good ab crunch: lie on your back. Bring your knees up so that your thighs are perpendicular to the floor. Squeeze hard so that your upper body barely moves, but your abs are getting an insane crunch. Unsqueeze slowly. Feel the burn! Really work your abs, now). In the following months, we are going to take these very well-known and basic bodyweight exercises to much more advanced levels, so be sure to start practicing these basics now.

Your third and final homework assignment is to eat nothing but fruit tomorrow morning. Don’t eat the fake stuff, you know what I mean? No on the donuts, pastries, pop tarts,  enriched bread, and sugar-loaded cereals. Just eat a bunch of fruit when you get up tomorrow morning. Oh, and make a habit of it. Do it every morning. Do it.

Until Next Time, I’m Trini Ortega.

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