Local Antelope Valley fitness pro and creator of the Lean & Sexy Ladies Fitcamp Ron Kusek speaks on fitness and the one thing  that has plagued Antelope Valley residents and lets them know how to get lean for life!

As a fitness pro, I spend a lot of time talking to my clients about self sabotage. Self-sabotage has got to be one of the worst things people do to themselves when it comes to getting into ultimate shape. We give in to our temptations with no regard to what it will do to our body, but then we scratch our heads when we gain five pounds.

We give to the donuts sitting in the break room at work. We give to the ice cream our significant other has brought home. We give in to the sweets, the soft drinks, and the high calorie meals at the fast food and sit down restaurants on a daily basis, but we still scratch our heads when we gain ugly fat.

We want the weight off, but yet we still eat the foods that have made overweight and obese. We want to look good, but yet we don’t want to sacrifice our comfort foods in return. We want a great body, a healthy body, but yet we do things that deter us from being healthy, and looking great.

Have you ever asked yourself why? Why do you continously stop yourself from reaching your goals? What can you do stop jumping on the merry-go-round and move forward in reaching your fitness goals?

Here’s my top 2 tips on getting fit and staying fit.

1. Change Your Mentality on Fitness- Think of fitness as a journey and not a destination. Don’t treat being fit as something you do before a wedding or a cruise. Waiting two months before an event then doing a crash diet and burning yourself out with exercise is only going to make you miserable, and possibly injured. Make fitness a part of your lifestyle if you want to live longer and happier.
2. Good Nutrition Can Save Your Life- By eating foods that you are supposed eat; things that were made from the soil of the Earth and not in a factory or a lab can improve your health drastically. Focus on eating a colorful diet full of a variety of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and lean proteins sources. Each food source has different nutrients that serve a specific function to the body. So don’t be a picky eater. Every person that I have met who didn’t like vegetables or didn’t like one thing or another has always been overweight.

Has anything I said hit home? Take a good look at yourself and your life and make the necessary changes so you can look great, feel great, and live a great life.