Maintaining fitness and health is a challenge for lot of busy entrepreneurs.
Hectic work schedule, constant meeting, discussion, and responsibility to take their startup towards success keeps entrepreneurs so engaged that they failed to give much attention to fitness and health.
However, all entrepreneur at some point realize the urgent need of good health. Deep down, they advocate strong body and stable mind and healthy diet. And, even several entrepreneurs and business owners make efforts, plan their routine, and practice their plan for days. But, sooner or later they lost the path.
I have a solution for all those busy entrepreneur and business owners to stay fit and healthy. You can get strong body even in busy work schedule.
Meet Devin Church.
Devin is a fitness coach and founder of Fit Game. He believes that fit body and mind is the top resource for an entrepreneur, and therefore he helps them with his expertise. Devin and Ashley gives one-on-one fitness coaching and can help in choosing the right diet and supplements.
A lot of people and entrepreneur have transformed their health and fitness under them without any harm to their business. Keep reading and learn the best health tips for entrepreneurs.
About Devin & Ashley
Growing up being physically active, and always being involved in sports, Ashley and I always knew we wanted to pursue a lifestyle and career in health and fitness.
Ashley with her 7 years of dance experience in Tap, Jazz, Ballet, Acrobatics, and Hip Hop, was always over achieving. I after my high school, immediately took to bodybuilding, and started training friends and family members. Competed in the MABBA novice heavy weight competition and received 1st place in 2008. I’ve then since acquired my CPT through Body Design University.
We started our online Health/Fitness coaching business FIT GAME! When we do something we’re passionate about, we do it right! Life is a Game. Play it Right!
Interview
Q1. How do you define fitness?
I define fitness as an overall harmony of your body, mind, and fractal. With this harmony you’re prepared, you’re resilient, you’re charged up, you’re centered, & you’re empowered.
Take care of your body. It’s the only place you have to live
— Jim Rohn
Q2. Why is a fit and strong body important for business owners or entrepreneurs in particular?
I feel a fit and strong body is important for entrepreneurs because when we’re fit and strong, the average day-to-day stuff will be a breeze.
Being fit and strong has given me patience, confidence, and drive to learn and grow in all aspects of my life.
The benefits of fitness for an entrepreneurs are:
- Fitness Increase physical capability of entrepreneurs: Many often business owners need to take regular meeting, sitting or standing for hours. Or, travelling to places for deals and meeting, etc. All of that demands physical strength and therefore fit body of an entrepreneur can meet that.
- Boost Mind Mechanism: A healthy and strong body gives healthy mind. Regular exercise boost the mind process, activates neural connection, increase signal strength, increase memory, and keeps overall brain and mind healthy. It helps entrepreneur to increase their decision making, thinking and mental capabilities.
- Kills Stress: Sports or fitness exercises kills stress of entrepreneur and give them a clean approach to their business and goals.
- Increase confidence: Confidence is an outcome of healthy body and knowledgeable mind. Entrepreneurs are mostly smart and intelligent, and with fit body, their self resect and confidence boost to a new height that help a lot in their business or startup.
- Avoid the risk of any chronic disease: Imagine your business condition if you get seriously ill for two weeks. The graph of your business might fall rapidly. But with regular fitness exercise and strong body, the risk of any chronic disease is almost zero.
- Improves the quality of sleep: Healthy mind and body, regular exercise and food leads to quality night sleep. A good sleep in night boost working mechanism of day.
Q3. Business and Body; two different and conflicting domains. If you focus on one, the other naturally gets disturbed. So, how to build an alliance between business and body.
I get up early and get my workout done first. Get to bed at a reasonable time so I’m fully rested. I try to mainly eat whole foods, limit the processed stuff, hydrate before I eat, and in between, and gotta have that protein!
You need to find a balance with your fitness, to incorporate with the balance of your business. Then we can all get along. A lot of health tips for entrepreneurs and business owners are out there, and fortunately you can plan out your own fitness schedule and strategies.
Q4. How does a fit and strong body help in building confidence?
It takes time, patience, and a ton of persistence to be fit and strong.
When you know you’ve put yourself through the resistance, the tests, and the agony in the gym or on your mat, you get a better understanding of who you are and what you’re capable of. You know that you got this!
Q5. What are the major fitness challenges for women entrepreneurs? How to overcome that?
I find one of the major health challenges for women is Time!
Time for work & family, time for exercise & selfcare, time to eat & sleep properly! Being a mother of two as well, I find time very limited! This creates stress and depression for most women and it’s very hard to get out of that slump!
Implementing consistent healthy nutrition and routine into your life is best way to have the energy and time to live your best life! Everyday a new adventure awaits you but only if you get up and go for it!
The best health tips for Women entrepreneur are:
- Eat Healthy and stay hydrated
- Give time to your hobbies
- Go out with family and friends
- Avoid business meeting and calls during personal time.
- Stay away or ignore haters
- Stay emotional and practice kindness.
- Give time to self-care, you mate and your kids
Most of these health tips equally matter for men as well.
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Q6. For those who can’t afford fitness or gym equipment. How do they manage that?
I have the pleasure of working with individuals who can’t afford the gym, or who are having troubles with the fear of even going to one. So a lot of my clients I provide with workouts they can do at home, with little to no equipment needed. These are some fitness tips for entrepreneurs.
1. Consistency Over Intensity: It very important that entrepreneur stay committed to their fitness schedule. the first tip is that, entrepreneurs should give 30+ minutes to their health every morning or evening. Slow and steady wins the game.
2. Plan Your Eating Habit: What and when to eat should be planned. Because what we that we become. Excessive fast food will not give you a fit body as an entrepreneur.
3. Use Calendar-Cross Trick: This is something I suggest to those who failed to maintain consistency. Take a calendar, and cross the date for the day you workout and try not to break the chain.
4. Understand Muscles’ Basics: Every muscles of your body has different dynamics and understanding this is important for you to grow that particular muscle. As a trainer, I will be helping you with different muscle building exercise to help you grow the best of your needs.
5. Setup a fixed Place: Setup a fixed place (if not in gym) to workout daily and keep everything in order to avoid much disturbance.
Read More: Habits of an Entrepreneur
Q7. What should be the diet for an entrepreneur who is doing both — the business and the body? How to decide on great supplements?
There is no ideal diet for anyone.
This all must be discussed with the client to find out if they have any dietary restrictions. We have to figure out their day to day energy expenditures, their age, gender, and the type of workload they have.
Once this is done, supplementation should only be done where we feel it needs supplementing. I, for example am vegetarian so I find it beneficial for me to have protein shakes. Also, I like to have creatine in my regimen for increased strength and muscle mass.
Q8. How can you help someone who is down with poor health and willing to make a change?
If there is will, we can change anything. We just need to incorporate consistency, and integrity. We have to reprogram ourselves. I look at it this way…
“Do something three times in a row, and you got it!”
Do you have trouble making your bed? Get up and make it everyday for three days in a row. You do this and you’re starting to reprogram yourself. Three strikes you’re out can work both ways. Let’s strike out the non beneficial ones!
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Wrapping Up
Thank you Devin and Ashley for sharing your view on fitness of an entrepreneurs and its importance in business. Of course, without health, an entrepreneurs are out of business. While, an entrepreneur with strong health have high productivity, better time management, more capable of handling workload, higher confidence, and other direct business benefits.
Fitness is a must for all entrepreneur as it impact their business in a long run, as well as the quality of life.
Do connect with Devin for personal fitness and health guidance through their Facebook link shared above. And, be a fit entrepreneur, be a fit and successful person.
Very interested topic indeed! I will try the do something 3 times strategy lol