360fit Blog - Goodlife the Puppy Mill of Gyms

Goodlife Fitness is the puppy mill of fitness in Canada. 

They have lots of pretty machines and weights. You look around and think, heck I could get fit in a place like this!

They also have some of the worst trainers around, and over 80 percent of their members never come to the gym at all, let alone get fit.

There’s a reason Goodlife Fitness hires and keeps bad trainers. It’s all economic.  

You see Goodlife Fitness hires kids most of the time. They have zero experience, only a weekend course, and no real understanding of fitness and how to work with clients.

But those kids make Goodlife millions of dollars a year.

You see, better trainers command higher wages. This means the company makes less on those trainers. So it’s in Goodlife’s best interest to hire and keep young and inexperienced trainers. Those trainers are fed clients who walk in the door, wanting to get fit. They pay Goodlife thousands of dollars for an expert. What they get is a novice, who likely knows only a fraction more than the client does.

The client works with the trainer for a long time and doesn’t progress, because the trainer doesn’t know how to help them. Usually then the client quits and says, personal trainers are waste of time money.

The fact is there are lots of very good trainers. Just very few of them work at Goodlife Fitness. They work at smaller gyms that care about their clients. These trainer get results, help people every day, and are worth every penny you pay for them.

If you want to get fit, skip Goodlife and the other big chains, and look for a smaller gym with better trainers. You will actually get something good for the money you put down and be much happier with the results.

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Devin Sherrington was named #2 trainer in Canada 2015, is 8 time Best Personal Fitness Trainer Halifax award winner, and owner the award winning fitness studio 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his girlfriend Lauren and children Reign and Journey.

360fit Blog - Are You a Child Abuser?

This summer I went to the beach with my kids. My children are normal 13 and 9 year olds. I'd say they are built exactly like I was at their age.

One of the other parents came by while the kids were playing. She looked at my kids and said, "Your kids are so skinny."

I wanted to say, "No, your kids are fat."

When I was a kid, which is not that long ago, when we went to the beach there might be one heavy kid. Not fat, just heavy.

Go to the beach now and look around. The heavy kids are the new normal. The obese kids are all over the place. There's hardly one skinny child and they stand out like sore thumbs.

If  you feed your children junk food, all the time, you are a child abuser. It's that simple.

They can't go anywhere else to get fed. They need to eat what you feed them, so they have no control. You do.

When you choose to abuse their little bodies by feeding them garbage all day, you are abusing them!

People wouldn't ever dream of feeding with pets the junk they feed their children. Somehow it's not ok to feed crap to pets but it's ok to do it with yourself and your kids.

Now I'm talking about having junk food once in a while. We have movie night every second week, that’s the week I have my kids, and they have junk food. That's not going to kill them.

I'm talking about the people who feed their kids crap everyday. It's time to wake up! You are killing your children. They will die young and sick, and it’s your fault.

Its high time people acted like parents and took care of their kids! Give a damn about their health in the same way you care about your house, your car and your pets. They are definitely worth more than all those things put together. 

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Devin Sherrington was named #2 trainer in Canada 2015, is 8 time Best Personal Fitness Trainer Halifax award winner, and owner the award winning fitness studio 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his girlfriend Lauren and children Reign and Journey.

360fit Blog - Give A Damn

Last night the kids and I took our little dog Beatrice to puppy training. Beatrice is French Bulldog and while she’s nice, she doesn’t like to listen much. After a bunch of training exercises, which Beatrice half assed, we all sat down to let the puppies play and listen to the trainer.

The information he gave us was interesting. When to fix your dog, foods to eat, things to stay away from, but what caught my attention was the food and exercise side of things.

The trainer told us about how important it was for the dogs to walk and play because their exercise was so important. He told us to feed our dogs raw food if possible and all the kinds of dog food to stay away from. Everyone listened, took notes and promised to do what he said. 

In what crazy world do we live in that we care so much for feeding our pets, making sure they get lots of play and don’t care about our own bodies or children’s bodies?!!

We were the only family there that was fit. Everyone else looked unhealthy. Most were overweight. Some smelled of smoke. The trainers both were very unfit, and both were way over weight.

I don’t point this out because I’m prejudged against people who are unfit. I point it out because these people will care for their dogs incredibly well. They will feed them only the best food, walk them, and make play dates for them. 

But  they will ignore their own health and fitness completely!

It’s time we take care of our bodies and our families the way we take care of our pets! It’s time to give a damn about our health! 

If you can do it for your pet, you sure as hell can do it for yourself and your family!

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Devin Sherrington was named number 2 trainer in Canada 2015, is 8 time Best Personal Fitness Trainer Halifax award winner, and owner the award winning fitness studio 360fit in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. He lives in Fletcher's Lake with his girlfriend Lauren and children Reign and Journey.