Achievement Alchemy

12/18/2021

Reward in behavior science is an experience directly tied to a behavior that makes that behavior more likely to happen again.
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When working with clients to create new habits, we want to understand what is making a particular behavior hard to do, by questioning their present state of ability and work with them to determine how they can make that behavior easier to do frequently and well.
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Scientists learned decades ago that rewards need to happen either during the behavior or milliseconds afterward for the behaviors to be reinforced. That said, we need to monitor how we reward ourselves and how we time the rewards we reap.
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When we celebrate effectively after accomplishing or achieving something, we tap into reward circuitry in the brain...encoding sequences of behavior we’ve performed. Celebrating is self-enforcing. It can also be utilized as a specific technique for behavior change and a psychological frame shift.
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For example, walking is a behavior that is repeated until it’s second nature through reward. The same system can also be applied to weight training and meal prepping. So as long as we are in a position to change and be receptive to learning.
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Feel good paths of relief and reward lead us to the land of habit by creating expectations for the future.
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We work with our clients to understand good feelings and pour into routines that emphasize those feelings for good health. Join our program this month to receive the lowest price of the season for membership!

12/17/2021

Our perception of our ability to perform becomes THE reality that our neural pathway ingrains in our brain as OUR reality. So If we want to perform really well then we better start believing, behaving and fueling ourselves like we can.
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The combined power of the brain and body is miraculous. The more often we have a thought or perform an action in a repeated manner, the more powerful those thoughts and actions become. The more powerful they are, the better we become at thinking and doing those things.
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Change is a requirement for getting better in the same way change is a requirement for pattern breakage and formation. By choosing to show up and execute a particular thought or action you make a conscious decision to change the shape of old patterns and create reception for new patterns to form. You are deciding to actively and quite literally breaking down what you no longer are, to step into who you want to be.
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And we want to empower you to claim that change for yourself and your health. Personalized health management is about standing up to claim the opportunity and power you have to shape your own pattern of health and longevity.
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If you are looking to make a change ask yourself these questions:
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• Do you know why change is truly meaningful for you?
• Is this change truly a priority?
• Do you know the effort and sacrifice this change will entail? If you do know, to what extent and degree are you willing to endure it to achieve the change?
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Next time you’re in the process of trying to conquer something. Approach it from the perspective of someone who already has. Rather than saying: “I want to exercise.”- say, “I am someone who exercises.” Seriously, identify as a person who already does and then watch how it becomes true.
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Your health is not a start and end date, it’s something you do for the rest of your life. We know ​​true behavior change is the art of pursuing the conquest of what works for you.
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If you’re searching for solutions, DM us to schedule a FREE consultation about our behavioral fitness program. We work together with you to help you create the life you want THROUGH the effort you put into cultivating it! It’s the only way this works for you, for life.

12/16/2021

1 in 4 Americans spend more than 8 hours a day sitting. You might even find yourself sitting right now. These uninterrupted sitting sessions contribute to more than 80% of Americans not getting enough exercise; a key component of our growing ‘under-muscled and over-fat’ society.
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Since 1950, the number of sedentary jobs have increased 83%, while the number of active jobs have only increased by 20%. This is problematic because living a mostly sedentary lifestyle, despite how society’s progression has encouraged it, increases someone’s risk of premature death rate by 71%.
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Working to increase physical activity in tandem with nutritional and lifestyle adjustment can help!
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The Journal of the American Medical Association acknowledges that:
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• A single bout of physical activity can sharpen your mind, reduce your anxiety, lower your blood pressure, improve your sleep and strengthen your body's ability to convert blood sugar into energy.
• Regular physical activity can improve your brain health, reduce your risk of eight different forms of cancer, and lower your risk for excess weight gain.
• Chronic health conditions like osteoarthritis, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, dementia, Alzheimer’s, anxiety and depression are improved by physical activity.
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Incorporating more motion into our days also helps prevent or augment the degeneration of our skeletal muscle, which helps us:
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• Have a fighting chance against aging (sarcopenia).
• Reduce our susceptibility of muscle diseases.
• Correct the body against a more sedentary professional and personal lifestyle that prolongs pain.
• Improve access to neurotransmitters that help us handle higher expectations, stress loads, and insulin resistance more effectively.
• Create a network of fibers that works with our organs to balance glucose levels and maximize nutrient absorption in our evolving dietary regime.
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Your brain and your heart depend on movement to keep you in motion in the ways you want. Our muscles help us reach and sustain benchmarks of healthier lifestyles.
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Offsetting the negative effects of prolonged sitting can start with just 2 minutes every hour. If you are ready to tackle your activity and lead an empowered lifestyle, now’s the perfect time to join our behavioral fitness program.

12/10/2021

Please tell your mom that creating positve health habits for your life isn’t just a ‘phase’. Well, it doesn’t have to be anyway. Our habits of health are powerful indicators of pleasure and longevity for our personal and professional potential.
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We know that our habits of health can either inspire us to live functionally empowering lives as our own wellness authorities or they can disempower us to give that control to other people and things instead.
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Our behavioral coaching approach aligns with the first point to help you promote a sense of curiosity and healthy introspection into your own life; so that you not only know ‘what you’re after,’ but ‘why’’. We’ll ask you to redefine ‘who’ you are at your best self and how you would like to be remembered for the effort you put into going on a journey to get there that’s based around realistic guidelines to bridge the gap from where you are right now to where you want to be.
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We’ll cover an integrated approach to nutrition, hormones, neurotransmitters, gut health, muscle development, motor control, lifestyle and environmental factors, habits, mindset, etc. to focus on what actually works for your body. We do this by assessing your body’s unique biofeedback and customizing things for you accordingly.
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Good health for life starts with a good understanding of who you are, how you’re motivated and what needs to happen to help you feel capable and able to execute on lasting habits you know make you feel good. If you need help doing that, we've got you covered. Please comment below or DM us for more information about our program and membership this month.

Learn more about Achievement Alchemy's unique behavioral coaching and habit shifting style of lifestyle transformation through neurotype assessments and personalized fitness plans!

12/09/2021

Let’s save the running in circles for track practice and not your pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle regime. Seriously, it’s exhausting to travel the same path only arrive back at the starting line. It’s dissatisfying and dysfunctional. We get it.
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We want to be the final lap of your health and wellness journey. You deserve to feel the positive effects of your effort and energy and get somewhere new.
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We want to help you make the most out of the personalized path for your health goals that you pave yourself. No more entrapping patterns, fad diets, ‘cure all’ supplements, restrictive programming, problematic mental and emotional recourse or impersonal instruction.
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To properly honor your body as the complex system that it is - we created a program focused on strengthening and healing the mind and body together. Using outputs from our Neurotyping assessment, we help identify the ideal whole food nourishment and functional training parameters for our clients depending on their values and what they want to achieve; recognizing both their personality and physiology to create positive health habits and behaviors that lead to a fulfilling and prosperous lifestyle.
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Let’s end the cycle of mindless circle running. The bell for the final lap on your health journey is right in front of you. Will you choose to ring it and run this race? We hope so! Join our program this month to receive our lowest price of the season! Visit our website for more information: https://www.achievementalchemy.com.

12/07/2021

If you were searching for a sign to jumpstart your fitness goals for 2022, then this is it.
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We understand that meal plans and workouts don’t teach you anything about sustainability. That’s why 95% of people that go through a “diet” and “training” protocol will fail to sustain the weight that they lost for more than 3 years. It is mindset and habit coaching that makes sustainability possible.
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We know that true performance enhancement starts with neurological analysis. That’s why we equip people with the tools they need to analyze and understand themselves, their health habits, and behaviors to make meaningfully consistent change.
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Consistency isn’t about perfection, it’s about the progression towards performance indicators and biofeedback markers that improve our satisfaction for life, which not only makes change possible, but enjoyable!
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In order to achieve optimal health for YOU, we need to take care of things internally first.
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It’s a dynamic process because, quite simply, you’re a dynamic individual. Your plan should fit your life, not the other way around.
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Reach out to us to book your free consultation! Get ready to become the best version of yourself and progress towards your goals, all while enjoying the truly meaningful experiences that life has to offer.

A one-on-one health coaching program that helps you create a satisfying and high-impact lifestyle th

12/07/2021

Achievement Alchemy started as Try-force Fitness 7 years ago in Missouri when Ben and Peyton were training together in college. Separating after college, Ben moved to California to chase his dream of being a personal trainer, while Peyton entered corporate advertising and medical system health coaching. While in their respective industries, both came to the conclusion that the fitness industry needed to evolve to better service its clientele. We are all about cultivating communities of healthy people and working every day to raise the standard of care for people ready to commit to change.
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Ben has been an ACE certified trainer for 7 years with specialized training in behavior change, nutrition, and weight management. He has clients of all backgrounds, including those born without legs, those with multiple nerve diseases, and those who have never been in a gym before. His belief that there are truly no limitations but those we believe in has become a shared belief with every client.
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Peyton started her fitness journey after stumbling upon Chalene Johnson's Turbo Jam as a 7th grader to help herself perform better in Track & Field. She'd go on to place at a high level in multiple sports across the state, compete on American Ninja Warrior and train aspiring athletes. Peyton is currently studying functional medicine health coaching to help people actualize their agency and advocate for their best health.

12/06/2021

Making a resolution to become healthier is a good decision, no matter when you do it; so as long as you are ready to entertain and implement what it means to change.
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While many people wait to make these type of resolutions in January, research shows that it’s not really the best time for a new health or fitness goal. After all, more than 42 percent of people say that they fail to achieve their New Year’s resolution every year. Emerging research shows that if you wait until after the holidays to start working on better health, it can put you at a disadvantage. This is why we’re talking about it ‘ahead of schedule.’
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Did you know the most popular resolutions for 2021 were exercising more and improving fitness (50% of participants), losing weight (48% of participants), saving money (44% of participants), and improving diet (39% of participants)? Of those that made a resolution in 2020, only 35% kept all their resolutions.
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Improving the percentage of people that keep all their resolutions is important to us. Did you know our program can help with each of these popular resolutions?
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Here are some steps to consider when seek to secure a big stretch goal:
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1.) Understand very deeply why you want this goal and what motivates you to achieve sustained progress intrinsically.
2.) Address proactively your greatest fears about reaching this goal.
3.) Figure out now what’s in the way of believing: firstly, you are truly worthy of it. Secondly, that you actually deserve it. And lastly, that you will be able to handle other people’s reactions when you finally achieve what you desire.
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It’s true that most of us simply can’t bring about significant change in our lives if one key thing is missing—understanding at a deep level why you operate the way you do, and recognizing what keeps you locked in specific “negative,” self-sabotaging, or self-limiting behaviors that resist change. We understand this as behavioral fitness coaches.
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When you begin working with trusted company to intimately accept your mindset, values, beliefs, habits and greatest fears, you will notice a massive shift as you begin realizing why certain goals are going to be very hard for you to achieve, and even harder to sustain, unless you deeply commit to yourself and future satisfaction.
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Remember, it’s your consciousness that needs to change before your behavior can change. If you lack accountability or structure to help you sustain change or are actually scared and completely resistant to achieving a goal, your body will resist your mind.
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Do you want to make an exciting New Year’s resolution that you can actually achieve in the new year? Don’t wait to start. If you’re ready, we’re booking clients this season and would love to speak with you.

12/01/2021

When diseases aren’t killing us before our time, they are burdening our lives with pain, discomfort or limitations that undermine or rob us of our quality of life.
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As Dr. Jeffery Bland said, “Our current medical model is based on reductionist thinking - as brilliantly as it works in acute care, it does nothing to restore or maintain balance among function systems or the networks that connect them.”
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Functional medicine inspired services look at patterns of dysfunction underlying the chronic diseases that are shadowing all of our lives to potentiate change in health outcomes.
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This transformative type of change happens through an intensive regimen of personalized health management incorporating specific physical training, conditioning, mental training and pattern development as well as structured nutrition and dietary understanding.
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Through lifestyle and habit work, we can positively affect the ways our genes regulate or direct our biological functions to reduce pain, improve our ability to experience pleasure, and extend our health span.

11/02/2021

Taking responsibility for your health is such a powerful position to be in. We want that for everyone and work to make it clear and easy to understand for our clients. Knowing how to apply practical and productive measures in your own life helps substantiate health solutions unique to you! Your health goals matter. Your wellness can help you outlast your illness. Is it time for you to turn to a blueprint that works with you? We think so! That’s why we’re here. Thank you, James!

11/01/2021

Welcome to November! Tis the season to give thanks and appreciate our body for how hard it works to keep us moving and grooving each day. By pushing his body in the gym and eating in accordance to a plan that matches his goals, Ryan was able to walk away from a recent car accident rather unscathed and make a full recovery. That's something to be thankful for and that's the broader vision of the work we do with you! Preparing you for both the seen and unforeseen ahead. We're amazed by your healing and your dedication to the intensity you keep earning, Ryan!

10/31/2021

We’re advocates of empowered education, not only so you have the resources and knowledge to understand how it applies to your life, but so that you can begin implementing it consistently until it’s less of a ‘task’ and truly becomes a ‘habit of good health!’ Thank you, Tonya! We’re so proud of you.