I named my site after the most famous seven stars gracing the heavens – The Big Dipper.
Why?
I could just say I think it just looks and sounds cool and end it there, but that would be an incomplete explanation.
Throughout human history, the seven stars which form the Big Dipper have given cultures a sense of lasting permanency and comfort with which to literally guide them through troubled times whenever they needed a reliable and sound navigational aid.
Many myths and stories have been attributed to these seven stars, but I like the Chinese belief that the god of longevity resides in a palace within the Big Dipper.
One cannot lead a quality life of longevity without having your physical, mental, social and financial houses in order.
All the content I share with you is designed to navigate you through a confusing and overly complicated fitness industry using sound, reliable and time tested methods to help you attain a quality life of vitality and longevity.
I invite you to change those behaviors that haven’t worked for you and just flat out failed you in the past in your worthy quest to get fit and healthy not just for yourself but your loved ones who count on you and want you around for as long as possible – I hope!
Explore my site for ideas and methods that will position you for success and propel you to the actively healthy life you desire.
It seems like everybody in this industry is rabidly tripping over themselves to constantly re-invent the wheel as it applies to health and fitness methods and best practices which creates way too much confusion and paralyzes people into taking no action due to the glut of crazy variety, innumerable choices and dubious calls to massive supplementation.
I think the basic design of the health and fitness wheel is just fine and if people just followed the basics of movement, nutrition, and recovery practices they would be positioned for a most high quality life and success.
I am not concerned with re-inventing the fitness wheel, but merely fine tuning and tweaking the tread around the fitness wheel with my methods. There is a difference.
I won’t ignore timeless health and fitness methods and get caught up in chasing variety for variety’s sake like so many do.
Getting Fit and Healthy sure has gotten complicated! There are so many exercises, programs, diets, theories, gadgets, gimmicks and over- engineered devices out there that you could choke a horse, confuse a team of Harvard professors and exile most people into eternal analysis paralysis figuring out where to start and how to keep progressing.
You will see me with a lot of kettlebells in my hands simply because they are an almost perfect training tool that address most deficiencies in your training program and will get you solid, strong, incredibly lean and moving well.
I frequently use sandbags and bodyweight exercises to also drive one’s fitness and well being to new levels.
I don’t waste my time performing or teaching exercises that have no transference to directly improving your everyday activities, accelerating you to your ideal body composition or improving your quality of life.
Stop Following The Herd
However, If you are not concerned about results and adopting sound and sustainable fitness strategies that will serve you well throughout your lifetime, you have many popular alternative options out there to try that are marketed to the fitness herds.
But remember – If you follow the fitness herd, then expect to get the unremarkable and below average results of the herd!
There are plenty of Hollywood- Type Fitness Phonies and crazed adrenaline addicted fitness clowns out there willing to dazzle you with their hype and inept circus-like movements and low value methods.
You know the type – directing you to showboat and jump around your living room with no rhyme or reason promising you incredible results that never seem to come your way.
All this as they pick your pocket delivering plenty of frustration, but marginal and fleeting fitness results at best.
So beware of those flashy Youtube and 2:00 AM fitness infomercials and seedy, dishonest fitness gurus who think fitness is having you dance around with weights and hawk gadgets with no thought to quality fitness programming or proper movement!
If you are just looking to move around with reckless abandon and chase crazy, thoughtless exercise variety with no interest in meaningful results, then this site may not be your cup of tea.
I don’t try to be everything to everybody. That’s a loser’s life strategy.
So if you dig what I’m sharing, then come get some. If not, then may your pursuit of a quality life always be fruitful.
My goal is to take the complicated elements of getting fit and healthy and present them to you in a simplified manner that you can readily sink your teeth into and apply to your own fitness and health journey.
My own fitness philosophy is to be “Just Fit Enough” to be able to pursue the activities you enjoy doing and performing your everyday tasks with strength, confidence, pain- free movement and ever present vitality without a huge time investment or setting up a permanent cot at the gym.
We only have so many hours to spend on this wonderful planet, so I design, teach, advocate, and pursue fitness programs that provide Maximum Fitness, can be performed in Minimal Time and produce Stellar Results leading to a life of active vitality and longevity.
Live Powerfully
Life is about people, the relationships you cultivate and the activities you enjoy pursuing.
I would rather spend my time with family and friends enjoying these activities while being optimally fit without wasting my time haunting gyms for countless marathon sessions following the fitness herd accomplishing nothing.
I have figured out how to maintain this balance through trial and error (more errors than I care to count), years of progressive experience and simply surrounding myself with quality people while getting rid of all the toxic people in my life who are eternal drains on my well being.
My fitness perspective is honed through the lens of someone who has “been around the block” in the fitness universe, yet I will always remain an open minded student of physical culture always striving to enhance the effectiveness of my training methods while keeping things fresh, fun and progressive.
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All of my workouts, training style, financial independence tips, career thoughts, mental toughness and life discipline tips are not for everybody since we all have different goals and I don‘t waste my time convincing people otherwise.
My body of life work speaks for itself.
I do pride myself on being a result and product of the advice I share with you regarding fitness and health.
My hope is that you can find something useful in the knowledge I share with you and apply it to enhancing your quality of life.
I guarantee that if you put in some solid Earthly efforts and follow a safe, sound and sustainable fitness program you will get Galactic results leading to fitness and health worth bragging to the heavens about!
Wealth without health is spiritually useless and therefore of no true value.
No apologies. No Regrets.
Stay well. Train Smart. Eat Smart. Spend Smart. Be a friend!
Mark Mellohusky (Mellow-Husky)
There’s A Sparkle In My Eyes And Iron In My Thighs!
Seven stars Fitness