Tired of the pressure to achieve extreme fitness goals like ripped six-packs or bulging muscles? Let's shift gears and explore how RiversZen, a unique fitness studio, embraces the philosophy of being fit, healthy, and happy without extreme measures. In this episode, we discuss the importance of establishing a fitness routine, avoiding the pitfalls of over-medication, and finding a balanced approach to health and wellness.
Join us as we break down the mindset behind RiversZen, offering a variety of classes for everyone, regardless of experience or fitness level. Learn how to move away from medications and towards a healthier, happier lifestyle through regular exercise, clean eating, and mindfulness. Embrace the goal of moving well, feeling great, and staying healthy without the need for extreme fitness programs. Let's live every single day with passion and enjoy the journey towards a balanced and joyful life.
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Speaker 1: What makes RiversZen different? By different, i mean from your regular fitness studio, where you go in and the whole goal is to get extreme ripped six packs or bulging muscles or to be this physical specimen. We started RiversZen because that's not what we're all about. Our goal is to be fit, healthy and happy. We don't need ripped six packs. I want to be trim. I want to look good in my clothes. All of us do. I want to be healthy. I want to be fit enough that I don't deal with health issues. Part of that you're eating. The whole goal for me is to move well, feel great, look great and to enjoy life. I don't need extreme. You should not have to think about fitness 24-7. What you should do is be able to get a fitness routine. That's how we've designed RiversZen To get a fitness routine where you can do a class five days a week, throw in some common sense eating and learn how to breathe. Do that and make it your fitness routinen
You're not thinking about it all day long. You're not obsessing. You're not running down the rabbit hole every time you see a new post on Facebook or on Twitter or TikTok or whatever it is. You're watching Commercials Oh my God, commercials. I've been listening for the past few days. I swear to God if there were not commercials for drugs, pain relief medications, selling, getting vaccines and I'm not talking the COVID vaccine, talking all vaccines It's amazing the sales job the pharmaceutical industry is doing on us.
We're bombarded constantly. If they have to do that big of a sales job, it makes you wonder. In fact I've been thinking a lot lately about. You know, my mom, as she was aging, said she didn't want to go to the doctor because if she goes to the doctor they'll find something wrong with her. I kind of blew that off at the time, but now I'm understanding it because it's almost like the mission of these people is not to check you out and tell you you're healthy and fit and doing a great job. The mission is to find something wrong and write you a prescription. Now I don't know how much I mean the money that the pharmaceutical industry spends on advertising. I got to believe doctors are well compensated for writing prescriptions.
Now, i could be wrong. I'm not going to get into a big argument with anybody over that, but I truly believe that the whole world now is poised to be sick. Some people love to be sick, but most of us don't. Most of us want to move well, be healthy, live a happy life, be able to go down to the beach, do whatever they want whenever they want. That's not what seems to be happening. It seems there are more and more people sick. You'd think with the advent of all these medications, all the medical knowledge, we would actually be getting healthier. But we are not getting healthier as a society. We're getting fatter, we're getting slower, we're getting less healthy, we're not breathing deeply, and it's a problem. We are not getting healthy, we're getting unhealthy. So something's wrong. What's wrong? I feel the problem is we're chasing medications rather than chasing health.
My recommendation to you is to stop looking for drugs to resolve your issues. Establish a fitness routine. Get where you're moving at least five days a week in a planned fitness routine, a planned class. That's why we've developed the classes. We have it River Zen. You have a wide degree of choices. If you like live classes, you can go to a live class and get that interaction with the other people and the instructor, either online or in studio.
But we have almost 800 on-demand classes. You can find classes that work for you and do those classes, or maybe you're going outside rivers, that's fine. If you're not resonating with our classes, that's cool. Find something that works for you. I think you will find. Most people will find exactly what they need in the RiversZen classes. That's what makes us different. You're not going to see a level on the classes. You're not going to see a beginner and intermediate, because every class is designed so that you can modify down or modify up. The instructor gives you great instructions. Everybody should be able to do every class we have Period. Get your mindset off of medication, off of jabs, off of all these crazy things. Get your mind off of needing an extreme six pack and needing to be muscle bound.
Lifting weights is important, especially as we age, or strength training, not lifting weights. You can get strength training in many of our classes. All of my classes, particularly, are designed with stretch stronger. That's where we're actually building strength for a full range of motion as we stretch. Kim's classes all core based. Peggy's classes core based and working all those tiny muscles in your body.
I just wanted to come today and I wanted to talk a little bit about this concept of the goal of not being ripped. Thank you for watching. Not being an Olympic athlete, not being this crazy, insane person who works out 30 hours a day, if that's possible. I think some of these guys at the gym do work out 30 hours a day. My God, they're always in there. My goal is for you to be able to work out five days a week, anywhere from 20 to 45 minutes each day. I'd work out seven. I do work out seven because on the weekends you can do a 10 minute, you can do a 15 minute, you can do a 20 minute class, you can do a meditative. I love doing a meditative class on Sundays. So find what works for you and do it.
Your goal is to move well, to stay healthy and, in general, be happy. Don't go running to medication. Go running to a fitness routine. Clean up your eating and, by cleaning up your eating, get rid of processed foods. Get rid of most sugars. If you're diabetic, get rid of all sugars. It's not really that big a deal. A carnivore diet works perfectly fine. You get all of the nutrients you need. Subject for another day. That's it. That's my message for today. Accept that your goal is not some extreme fitness program, but that your goal is to move well, feel great and stay healthy, and with that may you move well, stay healthy, be happy and live every single day with passion.