The ONE Thing We Need to Do Now More Than Ever


I want to talk to you about the one thing that we all need to do now more than ever, one of the most important things that we need to do now, more than ever. First, I just invite you guys to look around, check out your environment. Go outside and look at the trees in your front yard and look at the growth, the green bacteria looking growth. It looks like mold is growing on your trees.


Have a look at your concrete and your streets. Some are your streets have been paved and tarred. Remember when they shut the block down to do this. Now there's already cracks in the street and the sidewalk. Why is that happening? Look around you, look around you when you're out. We live in a society now where everybody wears masks. The healthcare system treats you but never heals you. Are the kids in school or out of school? Do you have to work from home or go into the office? Be observant.

I know a lot of you like to watch the news. in 2020 we’ve dealt with riots and unrest. A black man was executed in Minnesota by police officers, and then they put him on the Covid death count. None of this is normal.

We have a boogeyman virus that's hovering around keeping everyone in fear. And yeah, this virus can survive 80 degree temperatures in sunlight. Now remember when Dr. Fauci and Dr. Atkins told us back in March sunlight and 80 degrees would kill the virus, the pathology. Yet it is still there. It's built like that stuff that Wolverine has made of because it doesn't die. So now everybody is told to wear masks. You can’t enjoy a good night out after 10:00 PM.

None of this is normal. Okay? Just observe your surroundings. Nothing going on is normal. So the one thing, the one thing that you should be doing now more than ever is cleaning up your nutrition.
You must do it.

If you want to make it to the long haul. If you're in this for the long run. People are getting pneumonia, the flu is still around, even though you don't really hear about it. It’s so important to eat well and stop giving greedy corporations your money when they have done nothing but poison you.

Like this junk food, this genetically engineered food. We have genetically modified food that are being sprayed with glyphosates. Hello? We should not be consuming this stuff. It's one of the reasons why people are getting sick. Because when we talk about genetically modified foods, when we talk about genetically engineered foods and we talk about consuming that stuff, guess what else gets genetically engineered? It is us. So some of you are wondering why you have these infections, these digestive problems, sinus infections, headaches, you know, you're sick. Young women are having issues conceiving and carrying babies.


What is causing this? What is causing this? This is not normal.

And you have to start taking responsibility and taking your health and your life into your own hands. Do you know what I’m saying? This is important. We have to start eating better, avoid genetically modified foods, avoid genetically engineered foods, and glyphosates. They spray glyphosates all over these carbohydrates, all over our rice, our corn, our wheat, our pasta, the cereal, the quinoa, mullet. The buckwheat.

If you are heavy into eating rice, which is almost every nationality, Asians, Africans, South America, Middle East, Indian culture. Everybody loves rice. Yet there’s this technology, this stuff that they're spraying on our food is always gonna be in the carbs. It's always going to be in the carbohydrates because carbon is the carrying device.


And if you guys have seen any of my videos, you know, I go at silica hard. Silica is the fake version, it’s the synthetic carrier of this technology of these illnesses. Carbon is the organic version, it’s the organic carrier. If you see anything with carbon in it, you got to run. Your carbs, your corn, your quinoa, your wheat, your bread, your cereal, your rice, your pasta. I think it's a good idea to avoid these things. Now, as a trainer, as a health professional, I'm supposed to coach you on the GI index on how they metabolize in your body. What is the difference between wheat bread and white bread and how it metabolizes and how one will give you energy quickly. And one will give you sustained energy. I'm supposed to be able to talk to you about that.

That's what a lot of coaches and trainers are out here talking about. But what I'm telling you is the technology and the particles that they are spraying and putting on the food, this gets into our body and it affects us. Not a lot of people know, and it’s worth looking up. I have plenty of resources that will support what I'm saying. So guys, when I talk about good health, I suggest to you get on a healthy meal plan, find out what a good diet is for you. You have to start avoiding high calorie snacks, sugar, salty foods, fatty and fried foods and excess alcohol. You have to start avoiding these things. Then you body will begin to heal better, feel better, while you lose some weight and build up your immune system so you can fight what’s in our environment.


You have to start with nutrition. You're going to have to do it if you plan on being here for the long haul. Now my advice, my suggestion would be a ketogenic diet. I know some of you have done this before and it probably didn't work out. Let’s talk about it real quick. Ketogenic diets are normally high in protein. They're also high in fats, particularly animal fats, and you have fruits and vegetables with the ketogenic diet. You don't eat a lot of carbs. All right? So the reason that I like this diet is two-fold one, you have protein, you have the fats. So you're going to get all types of iron and vitamins and minerals with that. Then you're not taking in a whole lot of carbs. So now when your body is using energy, it's using your fat for energy instead of carbohydrates.


So I suggest the ketogenic diet. Now, I do also suggest you do is you increase carb intake every four days. So you're going to eat bread. You're going to eat rice at least a little bit. I would just try to limit it as much as you can, but you know, every four days have servings of that. That would be my suggestion. So you are cycling carbs. I know a lot of you have tried the ketogenic diet before, and then you stopped because you didn't eat carbs at all for like 20 or 30 days. You went weeks and months without eating carbs. And then when you started eating them again, you blew up, you started gaining weight. Surprise, surprise. So I think cycling every four days is good. And we're also using fat for energy. All right. So this is my recommendation when it comes to eating right and tightening up your meals.

Now the vegan lifestyle, the vegan lifestyle, the vegan lifestyle, okay! A lot of vegans eat soy products, soy milk, soy beans, soy is in their protein. All right. I'm not a huge fan of soy. Matter of fact, I despise it. Besides the way that is linked to breast cancer, soy really plays havoc on your thyroid. So you don't want your thyroid to be jeopardized. This is gonna mess with your metabolism. It's going to mess with your body temperature, and your overall health.

One of the things that they're not telling us, or they will eventually tell us six months down the line, like they told us about the 60 different hand sanitizers that were dangerous is one of the side effects of wearing these mask where you can't breathe through your nose and your mouth is you're damaging your thyroid.


You are doing that. If you just read a book on how to breathe and how food is digested, when you are breathing in carbon dioxide, you're damaging your thyroid. All right. Kelp is a great supplement for your thyroid by the way. I don't recommend eating soy products. And if you look at a lot of the things that you have in your cabinet, even like things like marinade and creams and sauces has some kind of soy in it. Your supplements have soy too. It’s a wonder what's giving us these infections and these headaches, and I'm telling you, we have to start looking at food. We have to start taking responsibility for what we're putting in our body.

I’m amazed when I drive past the McDonald's every day to go home and that place is never empty. The drive-thru is always full. The drive thru at McDonald's is always full. I don't understand it. It's not even real food. What are we doing here? I thought we wanted to be alive, and we wanted to protect our health. We have to start eating better. This is the one thing that we need to do. And some of you are, you know, I hear this thing about dairy. You hate on milk and you hate on dairy products, and I just don't understand it. And you wake up in the morning and you take probiotic supplements, and that doesn't make any sense. It makes no sense. With milk, you must understand the difference between homogenized and non-homogenized. What does that mean?


Unpasteurized milk and pasteurized milk. What does that mean? What would happen if you actually drank raw milk? What would happen? Oh, man. A little tug and then some chug. What would happen or what are the health benefits of that? See, that is something worth knowing and is something worth researching, because that could put you on a path to a longer life. I would also say be aware of the fish oils that you guys love. The the cod liver oil, that rancid flax seed oil. It's rancid. You got to look this stuff up. Don't just do it because somebody else is doing it. Or somebody said it was good or your friends said it was good. You got to look it up for yourself.


One of the things that these doctors, physicians and experts have known for a long time is that our atmosphere, our environment, the air that we breathe has been harming us for the past 60 years. They've known this for years ago. This was the number one cause of death was our air, our environment. It’s 2020 and I can almost guarantee you it's still the number one cause of death. Our environment, x-ray, high wave, low wave, FM and AM radio waves, frequencies, 5G, 6G, phone in the pocket, iPad in the face, laptop, blue beam technology hitting us all the time. Frequencies! Every time you walk into a grocery store, you are being hit with frequencies. We were put on house arrest for six weeks. What were they out doing? Putting up 5G towers everywhere. Why were they waiting to do that? When we're on house arrest, guys, this environment is one of the reasons why we're stressed out.


One of the reasons why we're unhealthy besides the food, one of the things that affects and corrupts our genetic code, our genetic code, our mitochondria, our organs, the mitochondria which is the powerhouse of the cell, the muscle of your cells, that's the mitochondria. So guys it's time to take your nutrition and your eating into your own hands. Stop eating out so much. Stop eating all the junk food. Stop supporting these, these ratchet Keebler, elves cookies, and all the cookies and snacks and the fruity pebbles, because that food is not giving us any nutrition. It's not doing anything but harming our body. I promise you that. I promise you that that's not a conspiracy. Okay? Soy, be aware, be aware of veganism, be aware of it. Listen, I like the vegetables and the grains and the fruit. I think like a diet like that is great for five days, for six days, for three days, I think it's a great way to clean your body. It's a great way to detox.

But when you start talking about long-term veganism, well, one thing I can guarantee you, you already going to have an iron deficiency. You're not eating any meat. You're not eating any beef. You're going to be low in iron. This is one issue you're going to have among others right out the gate. Remember what I was telling you about soy earlier, how it's linked to breast cancer, how it messes with your thyroid. This is one of the reasons why vegans are very sick. Have you ever met a healthy vegan before? A lot of vegans are very sick because they're consuming too many soy products, which is messing with their thyroids. So be aware of the vegan lifestyle. Five days of no meat, no dairy. It's a great way to cleanse. But guys, when I talk to you about eating well, and taking nutrition into your own hands, consider using a ketogenic diet where you cycle carbs.


You're talking about eating animal fat. So not just the breast, but also eat some wings, eat some drumsticks, the thighs. When you're eating steak, eat some of the marble on there, cook it in animal fat, right? You're talking about healthy eggs. God knew what he was doing when he created these animals to feed us. And he even tells us in his Word what animals to eat and not to eat. So that's all I got to say about that. And one last thing, since I'm on the subject of God or Yahuah, you know that heavenly father, I read the Cepher guys. So in the Old Testament, there is the story of Joseph, right? You have his dad, Jacob, Joseph had 10 older brothers and a younger brother Benjamin. And that's what made up the 12 tribes of Israel.

What the Bible doesn't have that the Cepher does have is those 10 older brothers. They were some fierce warriors, all the battles that they fought were amazing. Amazing, amazing. So anyway, Joseph went to Egypt and he became basically the second in command of Egypt. And there was a famine for seven years. There were no grocery stores. Open farmers couldn't grow food, but Joseph was smart because during the seven years where there was abundance, he took the food into the storehouse. He stored the food. He took some of the soil from the ground in with the food and he stored it and he saved it. So then when the famine came, guess who was the man, guess who everybody had to come to? They had to come to Joseph. He basically had the first Whole Foods. He basically had the first whole foods chain.


People would come from miles away and get his groceries, his food, because he was prepared. He was smart. He was thinking. So I would advise you guys just think about the possibility that this fall, and winter there might be a shortage in food. Already on the news they’ve been talking about a change shortage. There's a shortage and pennies and nickels and dimes and quarters. So let's just assume in the future, there might be a shortage of food. You need to have some stored at home. You need to have tuna stored at home. You need to have powdered eggs, powdered milk, canned milk. You need to have some stored at home just in case you can't get to the grocery store. A water filter is also good. Prepare for a power outage.


How are you going to cook your food? Do you have a barbecue grill, charcoal grill? Do you have a hibachi? How are you going to cook if the power goes out? These are just some things to think about.


Some of you gotta slow it down on the alcohol. Some of you men drink too much beer. My ladies and moms with the wine. I know you're stressed. You can't drink a bottle of wine every night. If you can control your alcohol shots of vodka, shots of tequila, shots of rum with a few drops of essential oil, maybe some oregano, some pine, some Rosemary, some Sage take a little shot with a couple of drops of essential oil. Boom. You want to talk about a jolt to the immune system, man that deserves a handclap. That's a great way to support the immune system right there, but you gotta be able to control your alcohol.


What's my opinion on working out while wearing masks? Well back in 2012, 2013, 2014, that was very popular to wear elevation masks. I even have one. I never wore it before except when I did a video shoot, a photo shoot and I got to tell you, I almost died. I almost died that night. We've seen the news about guys out running with their mask on and they've collapsed their lungs, their heart stops. You are restricting your breathing when you wear that mask. So why would you want to wear a mask when you're working out? I feel sorry for the people that do wear masks when they work out, turning their oxygen into carbon dioxide. Then they're going to breathe that in. Oh, the mouth, the throat, the heart, the brain, the lungs, the thyroid.

It’s a shame. The amount auto-immune diseases and cancers that we're going to see in the next three or four years because of these masks.


Are probiotics bad for you? No, I don't think so. It's just funny to me that people will tell me that milk is bad for you. Milk is not bad. It’s called the land of milk and honey, for a reason. It's when man messes with the milk, with the pasteurization and homogenization. When the man messes with the milk, that's when things start getting muddy, that's where the problem comes in. Raw milk is the best. If you drink real milk, where the cream rises to the top and underneath you have the skim milk and you have to shake it up. If you drank that type of milk, if you eat cottage cheese, if you eat Greek yogurt, then you don't even need probiotics. You're already consuming the good bacteria.

Most people don’t think, they just follow orders like good little robots, good little machines. I am not that. And people like that can’t even see that they are walking off a cliff.


If you have lost your ability to think critically, you are walking off of a cliff, you better be able to read and research and think and start connecting dots. Avoid the GMOs, avoid the genetically engineered foods. Avoid that crap. Just get it out of your house.


Stop buying it for your kids. Nobody deserves your money if they're poisoning you. Nobody deserves to get your hard earned dollars if what they are giving you in return is going to make your sick and affect your genetics. So stop eating garbage. That's the most important thing that we need to do now more than ever stop eating garbage and get into the gym.

Using Cardio to Fight the Flu; Seven Remarkable Endurance Feats

We have a young lady say that she has to buy new jeans because her legs and butt have grown so much over the last few months that her jeans don’t fit anymore.

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Another young lady told us that she didn’t want her thighs to grow any larger. Another young lady said that her shoulders and arms were looking too strong. Needless to say, the variable strength program we’ve been running for the past few months have gotten some exceptional results. Maybe too exceptional.

So we are going to dial it back for the next few weeks and put the focus on something very important this time of year: cardio.

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Why is cardio important this time of year? Because of the influenza virus. This is a virus that’s been around forever ages, and does actually kill people. It affects the respiratory system and shuts the body down.

Knowing this, we can use cardiovascular exercise to help prevent and/or fight against the way this virus attacks.

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When you do cardio exercises you are forced to take deep breaths. These deep breaths not only help you distribute oxygen throughout the body, but they also clean out waste, toxins and build-up that is stored in the lungs. Clean lungs makes for less restricted breathing. So cardio helps you distribute oxygen throughout the body, and helps clean out waste from your system, but more than that it also strengthens the workhorse of your cells, the mitochondria.

The stronger your mitochondria, the better you can resist assaults from viruses, frequencies, technology, and other pollutants that makes people sick. So now is the time to step up your cardio game. We are not saying that you won’t get sick, but your body will definitely be able to fight back with strength if sickness tries to touch you.

If you feel it’s necessary to go get the flu shot, you are encouraged to look up the ingredients like you should be doing with your food. Getting something injected directly into your body will affect your DNA, so this is no small matter.

Read the ingredients!

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Let’s talk about Seven Remarkable Endurance Feats

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  1. The Official International Association of Athletics Federations world Marathon record for men is 2:01:39 set September 16, 2018 at Berlin Marathon by Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression#:~:text=World%20records%20in%20the%20marathon%20are%20now%20ratified,September%2016%2C%202018%2C%20at%20the%202018%20Berlin%20Marathon.

  2. Once upon a time the women’s record holder in the marathon was Paula Radcliffe of the United Kingdom in a time of 2:15:25. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marathon_world_record_progression#:~:text=World%20records%20in%20the%20marathon%20are%20now%20ratified,September%2016%2C%202018%2C%20at%20the%202018%20Berlin%20Marathon.

  3. The predicted human capability of the marathon based on physiological chracteristics as described by Joyner (1991) is 1:57:58. This equals a 4:30 per mile pace.

  4. The longest certified road race in the world is the 3100 mile Self-Transcendence Race in New York City that takes place around a half-mile city block in Queens, NY. Only 30 runners have completed the race, which requires each contestant to complete 2 marathons per day for 50 days. https://3100.srichinmoyraces.org/

  5. The longest bicycle race is the Tour d’Afrique, which is 12,000 km (7500 miles) and 120 days traveling from Cairo, Egypt to Cape Town, South Africa. https://www.africa-ata.org/sports3.htm

  6. One of the longest swims ever recorded by Martin Strel in 2009. The Slovenian man swam the length of the Amazon River (3,272 miles) in 66 days. Starting February 1, 2007 finishing 66 days later on April 7, 2007. side note: Q. McCohn is highly skeptical of this report based on numerology. Feb 1 = 201, “66 days later,” finishing 4/7. All occult numbers. I’d imagine one might find some interesting things if they dug into this man’s history.

  7. Another outstanding swimming feat was a performance by Benoit Leconte, who swam across the Atlantic Ocean from Cape Cod to France, which is 3,736 miles. he averaged six to eight hours per day of swimming. https://benlecomte.com/#atlantic

What You Need To Know About Cardio


What's up y'all! I'm here at the gym and I wanted to talk to you guys today about cardio. I have a gentleman here who's training and he has to take a few fitness tests that involve cardio. He has to run a 300 meter sprint. All right. That is almost like sprinting for a quarter mile, 0.186 miles to be exact. And he has to run a mile and a half that has to be done in a certain amount of time.

So that 300 meter sprint that's some serious high intensity training. That is not the same as HIIT (high intensity interval training). When you do high intensity interval training, your heart rate goes up and then you rest for a second til it comes down, then you take it back up again.


When you sprint a quarter mile nonstop, that is high intensity. And then a lot of you like to run three miles, four miles, six miles. That is continuous slow endurance. So let's talk about the benefits of this type of training. All of you who like to run marathons, train for half marathons, bike riding, etc. let's talk about the benefits you get from that.

I have 9 of them, 9 benefits.

1. You're going to get increased cardiac mass. Now this is if you're running three times to seven times a week. All right. And you're exercising for 40 to 60 minutes. This is going to give you increased cardiac mass cardiac mass. So your heart is not only going to get stronger, but it's going to get larger. It's a muscle like all the rest of them.

2. Increased stroke volume. This is your heart's ability to pump blood throughout the body, to the muscles.

3. Increased disposal of metabolic waste, which is very important. We got viruses and bacteria and all kinds of things floating around. So we want to be able to get waste out of our body.

4. Increase oxidative, enzymes, and efficiency. So basically your body's ability to use oxygen effectively. To take in oxygen for energy.

5. Then you have faster diffusion rates of oxygen and fuel into muscle. In the video I have my client taking in deep breaths so he can increase his body’s ability to take in more oxygen, and then use it for energy

6. Increased left ventricle dilation and chamber volume. Now that left ventricle allows your heart to pump blood to the rest of your body, all your extremities, all your muscles, all your cells. All right. So that left ventricle to get that thing stronger and to be able to push more blood out of there, you're doing wonders for your health. This is a great thing.

7. An increase of carbohydrate sparing. So this basically means that you use fat more for fuel instead of carbs. Who doesn't want to burn more fat right now? once again, guys, we're talking about continuous cardiac endurance. So walking 40 minutes, biking, running 40 to 60 minutes, like steady state cardio,

8. An increase in the mitochondria. If you don’t know, then you should, I am all about the mitochondria. This is the powerhouse of your cells. If you guys know anything about what I preach, you have to take care of your genetic code, your DNA, and your mitochondria. This is very important. This is important for you to sustain health, and longterm athletic performance. So if you're doing your cardio, good for you, keep it up. Alright.

9. Increase fat oxidation. This is your body's ability to use fat for fuel and increased expression of fatigue, resistance, slow twitch, muscle fibers. The slow twitch muscle fibers are what you use for long distance running. The sprinters, boxers, the bodybuilders who push a lot of weight, they are going to use more fast twitch muscle fiber. I think it's very important for you to use both. You don't want to just have slow twitch muscle fibers activated to where you can’t explode, can't run fast or react quickly and make quick decisions.

In the video the training that I have him doing: he did four minutes on an exercise bike going all out 90 to 95% of his maximum heart rate for four minutes. And now for three minutes, I just have him taking deep breaths and doing exercises to bring his heart rate down. In a couple more minutes, he's going to get right back on the bike. Boom. And start going again. Alright.

So let's talk about HIIT, high intensity interval training. Now HIIT does everything that steady state does. Increases your body's ability to take in oxygen, increases your body’s ability to use oxygen for fuel. Increases your body's ability to strengthen your mitochondria. Your left ventricle will increase in size, your heart overall will increase in size and strength. And the beautiful thing about HIIT is it has all the benefits of steady state endurance but you get the results in a shorter amount of time. This is one of the reasons why I think Orange Theory and CrossFit are very popular because they probably get results in a short amount of time. You're going high then you go low. You run, you row, you lift.

Now you guys already know I'm about burning fat and building muscle. So weights have to be a part of the equation because weights have you burning fat all day long, just like high intensity interval training. When you get your heart rate up and then you take it down and then you get it up and you take it down. When you're doing that, you're going to be burning calories and burning fat for 48 hours after your workout,. You don't get those kind of a performances, body performances with steady state cardio 20 or 40 or 60 minutes of steady state cardio. Now you will burn fat while you're doing the cardio. Your body will be using fat for fuel, but when you're doing hit high intensity interval training, your body burns calories and fat 48 hours after your workout is done.

So which one should we do? And when should we do it? All right. I think it's important that you do both. Do steady state and do high intensity cardio, because you don't want your body to get used to one thing and you never know, one day you might have to use them both. One day, you might be an emergency and you have to run a quarter mile real fast. One day your car might break down and you have to get somewhere and you got to be there and you got to go a mile and a half, two miles. So it's great to train both of them. Don't let your body get used to just one method. Also, when (the time of day) you do it is not as important as getting it done.

If you're somebody who works out in the morning or you have time to do your cardio in the morning after your workout, do it! If you want to do it right before bed, do it! It doesn’t matter when you do it, just as long as you get it done.

Some people love doing their cardio first thing in the morning when they wake up, because you have fat in your blood and your body's going to use fat for energy. And I like it. I believe this is actually true. There's no scientific research to back this up, but I think it's an efficient way of thinking. What I would say is you should have a protein shake, or an amino acid drink before you start doing your cardio in the morning. And if you're going to do your cardio in the evening before bed, I think you want to eat your meal before you do your cardio.
Then lastly, should you do cardio after your workout? That's a great time to do it too. You know, you can get that fat into your bloodstream and start using the fat for energy because your body has used all the carbs and sugar for energy during your lifting session. Now you're tapping into fat, but as I’ve mentioned before: when you do it is not as important as doing it. All right?

If you guys want some sample workouts, some sample cardio workouts, I got five really good ones. They combine high intensity cardio and steady state. They combine high intensity interval training and steady state. This is going to help you get results. It's important that you warm up. You want to warm up before you start sprinting or giving a hundred percent or 90% in any type of exercise. All right. So if you guys need help message me. Email me at quentin@mccohnmuscle.com and I will send the workouts to you. See you guys in the gym.

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January 2020- McCohn Muscle Client of the Month

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Heather’s story began back in 2013 when she started having some pretty serious health issues. After several appointments with doctors and specialists she was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis. UC is an autoimmune disease where the immune system basically attacks the digestive system, cause inflammation and as you can imagine, some pretty crappy symptoms (yes pun intended haha).

There is no cure for UC, but for most people the disease can be managed through medication, healthy lifestyle, and diet. However, since the disease can't be cured, it's very common to experience flare ups where symptoms become pretty bad as well as periods of remission with little to no symptoms. It was pretty devastating to learn in her mid 20's that she would have a health condition that couldn't be cured, and that it would affect every aspect of her life.

For a long time she was just getting by, but she didn't really have the motivation or energy to do much of anything. Fast forward to January 2018 when she reluctantly signed up for McCohn Muscle's 6 Week Transformation Challenge with Q. McCohn after her coworker (shout out to Astrid) convinced her and another friend to sign up.

Suad, Heather, and Astrid = Team Dynamic

Suad, Heather, and Astrid = Team Dynamic

She was nervous, but also excited to see if the exercise and accountability for healthy eating would help her feel better. Long story short, it did! She felt healthier in 2018 than she felt in a long time- she lost weight, gained muscle and her UC almost seemed like a bad dream.

At the time she was trying to run in several 5Ks throughout the year, and she really wanted to push herself to run a half marathon. It was something she never thought she could do, but her year of working out with Quentin gave her the confidence that she could.

More struggles came while training for her half marathon. Things started getting really stressful for her at work, and the stress from work combined with her ramped-up training schedule caused her UC symptoms to creep back in.

She was in denial since she had been feeling so good the past year. She thought that things would get better quickly, but they did not. During her half marathon she felt so sick she ended up missing her goal by almost 7 minutes. She knew it should have felt like an accomplishment that she pushed through and finished, but she wasn’t feeling the fact that she didn’t achieve something that she had trained so hard for. Then there’s that internal depression or sadness of being sick again after a year of feeling so great. On the outside she looked fit and healthy, but inside she was slowly falling apart.

Things took a turn for the worse on July 4th 2019 when she went to the ER, where she was then admitted to the hospital for 5 days. During this time she lost over 15lbs (including most the muscle she had spent the last year building), and she was told that she would have to have surgery to have her colon removed if things did not get better soon. She was put on a new treatment plan and sent home to work on getting healthy again.

Her road to recovery took a lot longer than she was anticipating. Even as her digestive issues were getting better, she started dealing with severe joint pain and swelling. The iron in her blood dropped to the point where she was close to needing a blood transfusion. Her hair started falling out, and the steroids she was taking cause her to gain 20-25lbs. It was one thing after another and she struggled mentally with getting back to the level she was in the past year.

Even though Heather endured these health challenges, she did not give up on her dream of being the healthy, fit, happy girl from 2018. She knew that if she could get her health back on track, she could have another chance to find that girl again. She could have a another chance to reach her half marathon goal. Even through all the sickness, she was determined to do all she was physically able to.

For a long time, she was only able to take short walks around the block, but her walks gradually got longer and longer until she felt confident enough to go back to the gym. It definitely wasn't easy- there were several weeks where she almost passed out during every workout. The key is: she never gave up.

At McCohn Muscle she approached every workout with intention. She never knew when her health issues would flare back up, so she pushed herself every day to do her best, and she was super motivated to come back stronger that she was before.

She saw the mental focus pay off in November when she got a new 5K personal record that was almost 2 minutes faster than her previous record, and then she beat this record by 30 seconds a week later.

Ask Heather what her journey has taught her and she will likely say that she appreciates how fortunate she is. She takes the time to count her blessings and focusing on the positive helped her get through some pretty rough times. Also realizing in a big way what a negative effect stress can have, it's easier for her to not get worked up over little things.

We have teased her about becoming a Personal Trainer because she is always encouraging others to do and be their best. While training at McCohn Muscle she was able to

  1. experience the relief that she is accomplishing her goals

  2. understand that living with an ailment would not stop her from reaching her goals

  3. learn that illness is temporary, and good health is not something people should be willing to give up on

Now she is back to her dream of being the healthy, fit, happy girl from 2018. She is finding that healthy girl again. She has another chance to reach her half marathon goal, which she is training for now.

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This is exactly why we are passionate about health and fitness. There is someone reading this that is struggling with their health just like Heather was, and perhaps you may have even given up on the idea of being that healthy, happy person you once were. Heather is proof that with an ounce of determination, you can change it all around. Let McCohn Muscle help you find the confidence you need. Hit the link below and get more information about our 42 Day Transformation Challenge.

https://www.mccohnmuscle.com/sign-up

The FOUR Costs When Starting a Training Program

The FOUR Costs When Starting a Training Program

When you start a fitness training program, and are committed to succeeding, it will cost you in four different ways. Let’s discuss what a typical member at our training gym in Columbus, Worthington, Ohio will normally have to endure to get great results.

Q. McCohn's Training Philosophy

Q. McCohn's Training Philosophy

So that is my philosophy when it comes to training. Don't spend a lot of time talking, stay moving, keep people moving and go from one exercise to the next quickly. But this doesn't mean that you do exercises with poor form. You don't execute the exercise quickly, you do it correctly. But you go from one to the next very quickly.

So if you're interested in coming and finding out our style, our concepts, and the way that we train, because we are the premiere training facility with some of the best Personal Trainers in Columbus, Ohio and Worthington Ohio.

THREE Ways to Get the Best Results in Our Program

THREE Ways to Get the Best Results in Our Program

Three ways to get the best results in BootCamps and Personal training at our training gym, the best training facility in Columbus, Worthington Ohio. You must get dialed in on your nutrition, you must understand the importance of lifting weights, and you must be able to FOCUS.