Shawn Phillips

Your body, the only one you will ever have, is the foundation of your life. And it’s either an anchor limiting your freedom and potential or a source of radiant energy, vitality and joy, elevating your life and the lives of those around you. It’s your choice… will yours be a source of strength, from which you will impact the world, or an obstacle, preventing you from your dreams and desires? ... As my friend, NFL Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway is fond of saying,“If you’re going to bother setting a goal, aim high!”… My advice to you, aim high; aim for strength.

From the beginning, what I was connecting with in the gym was a universal energy source. I would just feel it flowing. Even when I was twenty years old, I called the gym my church. When I was there, it wasn’t about being social; it was about doing my practice. I was in it. I was in the zone.

Bruce Lee said it well in these words: ‘Knowing is not enough, you must apply; willing is not enough, you must do.’ You can count on me to reach in and help fire you up, to keep you moving and inspired for greatness, but ultimately it’s up to you.

Recently we crossed a tipping point where, for the first time in recorded history, the youngest generation of children are now expected to live shorter lives than their parents, even though medical technology continues to advance and we know far more about the impact of poor diet and inactivity than ever before.

Most people are settling for less than their potential, for less strength, energy and vitality than they both can have and deserve. To accept life anywhere below our fullest potential is to be living in the gap, blindly accepting ‘what is’ without ever deeply considering ‘what could be.’

The evidence is strong and science validates what millions of Transformation success stories have revealed: ‘typical signs of aging’ are more the result of how you live than how long you’ve lived.

FIT is at the heart of the training you will do in the Strength for Life program. Its aim is to develop not simply your physical strength but integral strength: the strength of body, mind, emotions, and more. Think of this new style as strength training from the inside out—integral strength training.

As you’ll come to know, the closer you get to your goal, the more it draws you in; success feeds on success. It’s like a gravitational pull. Once you get into a rhythm, it’s hard to stop. You achieve big visions by doing the little things every day and looking at them in a positive focus.

You cannot successfully challenge your body until it’s in a positive environment first and that’s the goal with Base Camp.

Your ability to focus through strength training is a metaphor for the rest of your life. If you can’t focus in the gym, your results will be modest—not insignificant, but only a fraction of what you could achieve. The same is true with life. Through FIT, you can learn this focus in your training, and that will translate into all aspects of your life.