360fit Blog – I Don’t Want To Workout Today

I’ll let you in on a secret about me… I don’t always want to workout.

I know it shouldn’t be like that. I own a gym for God’s sake! I train people for a living. I should love everything and anything about health and fitness right?

Well, yes that’s all true. I do love exercise and working out. I love the feeling of being sweaty and breathing hard. I love the feeling of finishing a hard workout.

But some days I just don’t feel like it.

On those days I usually have lots of things going on, or my mind is somewhere else. I just feel like saying, I have to skip today… I’ll do it tomorrow.

And those are the days I grit my teeth and say, not today!

Look here’s the facts, fitness is hard. Eating healthy is hard. It’s giving things up. It’s not a walk in the park, and it’s hard for every single person who does it.

But the secret, is to just go do it. When you feel down and don’t want to workout, go anyway. When you feel like sleeping in, just get the heck up. When you are working out and feel like it just isn’t flowing, remember you are miles ahead of the other version of yourself who stayed home!

Health and fitness is about grinding every, single, day. It’s about putting in time. That’s how you get fit, by not skipping. You get fit by putting in time when you don’t feel like it.

Anyone can exercise and eat well on days they feel like it. What separates the people who are successful, from the rest, is the successful ones do it no matter what; whether they feel like it or not!

Next time you feel like taking a mental health day, take it at the gym. You will be happy you did it!

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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 – Think You’re Special? You’re Not!

You’re not special. Neither am I. No one is… and that’s actually really cool!

There’s a feeling we have all had, that everyone else has it easier than we do. We see it on Facebook and Instagram. Everyone has a great life. Everyone is traveling and everyone is having a blast.

When it comes to fitness we think other people have it easier. We say, well they are just good at it, or they don’t like junk food. The problem with this argument is that it is completely wrong.

The thing that always amazes me about fitness is the commonality of all people. Across all people when it comes to fitness, we all have exactly the same struggles. The fact is we all battle the same things every day, just in different ways. Some hate working out. Some hate eating healthy. Some hate both.

Now lots of people I’m sure look at me and say, well it’s easy for you. You’re fit. You like healthy food. You own a gym. It’s a joke for you and you can’t understand what I’m going through!

There have been many times I’m working out in a class and I look around and think, everyone is killing this, why is it so freaking hard for me?! I feel like I’m struggling and everyone else is cruising.

But every single time when it’s over and I voice how hard I found it, everyone else agrees. Those are the moments that I know we are all the same and we all struggle with health and fitness.

No one is perfect. It’s never easy every day. There’s always a struggle.

So next time you feel down, or are having a hard time, remember everyone has the same feelings. Draw strength from the fact we are all in this together, and everyone knows exactly how you feel.

We have all been there before and that’s what we do at 360fit! We are here to help you battle through and help you keep going when you don’t want to!

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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 – Don’t Waste Your Time

I hate wasting time. It could be because I have ADHD and I always want to be moving and doing something. I really have a terrible time sitting still. But what frustrates me the most about wasting time, is people wasting their time exercising!

I love when people exercise! I believe, passionately, that the way to lower health care costs, and better quality of life for everyone in Canada, is fitness. Exercise not only makes you feel better physically, but totally changes your mood and outlook on life. I went through a divorce, and I can tell you I wouldn’t have gotten through it without exercise!

It kills me to see so many people flocking to fitness centers and gyms this time of year and wasting their time!
The reason they waste time is because they really don’t know what to do, and that’s totally normal. If I showed up at your job tomorrow and tried to do what you do, I would fail miserably. It’s not rocket science. I wouldn’t know what the heck I was doing, and that’s the reason so many people waste their time at the gym. They don’t know what to do.

Look everyone wants to be more fit. I don’t think you could find one person who says, I’d like to be less fit this year! But the facts are, you are going to waste a lot of time if you don’t know what you are doing.
I know trainers are expensive, and many people don’t want to pay. I hear you. But when something clogs your toilet you call a plumber right? When your car breaks down, you take it to a mechanic. A personal trainer is no different.

Will it cost you some money? Yep it will. But lets be honest for a second. When you get no results are you going to keep going or will you just stop going to the gym? Then you are basically donating to the gym and getting absolutely nothing in return.

Do yourself a favor and get some help. We work with every budget, no matter what it is! We will figure out a way for you to get fit and healthy.

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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 - 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.

360fit Blog #SharedFit

 As everyone knows I am a huge fan of social media. There is no better way to engage with others who have similar interests, ask questions or find information. Heck I even used online dating when I let Lauren!

One very cool social media thing I have been part of in the last few weeks was created by 360fit trainer Ben Costigan. It's called #SharedFit.

Sharedfit is something Ben came up with when he was brainstorming something to do to engage with clients and people online.

Each Wednesday at 8:00 pm AST Ben goes on Twitter and Facebook and asks four different fitness related questions with the hashtag #SharedFit. The amazing thing about it how interesting the conversation is and where that conversation flows.

The answers are always interesting, and even as a trainer, it makes makes me think about fitness in a different way because people have different ideas and thoughts when it comes to fitness.

Check out #SharedFit on any Wednesday night at 8:00 pm AST. Its defiantly an interesting hour.

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Devin Sherrington is seven 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.