When I was 30, I tried my best to be good at golf. I golfed twice a week and even hired a pro in Lake Tahoe who played with me daily for a week. By the time I was 40, I realized it was a losing cause, so I put my clubs in storage.

Then, I retired from practice and thought I'd try to retry my swing. Isn't that what we are supposed to do when we retire?

It didn't take too long before the clubs were back in storage.

Me giving up golf is why you're reading this. Instead of getting beat up on the golf course, I research, write, and coach.

I am a much better teacher than a golfer, and there is no greater joy than seeing a client create the person they desire to be.

Anyway, I bring up golf to tell this story.

One day, I was golfing with a man in his eighties. He was 86, I remember correctly because my memory has yet to become an unreliable narrator.

He kicked my butt all over that golf course. Once we hit the 19th hole, we sat and had a beer while we conversed. I asked him his secret to being proficient at the game at his age. Remember, I was 30, and he was 86, and I had pros teaching me this game at great expense.

What he told me that day still rings in my mind.

He said:

I knew right there and then why I was so bad at golf. I am an ex-football defensive tackle.

Side note: My high school team went undefeated, and we were a Division 1 team.

When you watch a football game, look at those big guys lined up, hurtling themselves toward the quarterback, trying to tackle him. I'll bet you that not one of those guys can cross their legs while sitting. Neither can I. But I have short legs. 🤣

Anyway, I have never forgotten what my golfing companion told me.

I enrolled in a course by the Olympic Doctor of the Year, who taught doctors how to be sports doctors. Part of that course was how he taught Olympians how to stretch.

I absorbed his stretching techniques, and after years of practicing them, I made a pamphlet on stretching for my patients.

I never became as flexible as I would have liked. Don't get me wrong; I was more flexible but have never become as flexible as that 86-year-old man.

Then, one day, probably about twenty-five years ago, in my forties, I bought a beginner yoga VHS. I started practicing the poses on the tape and had a spiritual experience. My whole life changed. Anyway, this is not a course on spirituality. It's about optimizing your hormones and weight.

Instead of teaching you how the top athletes stretch, I'd like to convince you to do a short yoga exercise every morning because yoga is the best way to become more flexible and youthful.

Yoga also calms the spirit, which calms your hormones, primarily cortisol. Elevated stress elevates cortisol, and elevated cortisol will prohibit you from optimizing your hormones and weight.

Yoga also builds muscle, essential to shaping your body and maintaining your healthy, happy, bottom, ideal weight.

THE FIFTEEN-MINUTE YOGA ROUTINE

I do yoga twice a week, but I should do it daily. I like to do yoga in a class because the poses are different each time, making it more exciting. I also do Pilates and balancing yoga classes. I strength train thrice a week and do aerobics twice a week. My goal each week is to do seven workouts at a minimum. Someday, when you are as old as I am, you'll understand why so much activity is necessary.

These one-hour strenuous yoga classes are not allowed during Phase One of HOPE. If you are new to HOPE, I'll explain why strenuous exercise is prohibited below.

Here are the benefits of a short fifteen-minute yoga session during Phase One of HOPE.

• Improved flexibility, strength, balance, and posture
• Reduced stress, anxiety, depression, and chronic pain
• Better sleep
• Relief from neck pain, headaches, and knee pain
• Improved bowel movement
• Weight loss

PHASE ONE EXERCISE PROTOCOL

While losing weight in your third act, this is how I would approach exercise.

1. During the first third of your weight loss journey, I would stroll.
2. During the second third of your weight loss journey, I would add 15-minute yoga sessions.
3. During the last third of your weight loss journey. I would add the four-minute workout.

To avoid confusion, here is an example of my exercise protocol while on a journey of losing 30 pounds.

• During the first 10 pounds of weight loss, do the strolling protocol.
• During the next 10 pounds, continue strolling and add yoga.
• During the last 10 pounds, stroll, do yoga, and add the four-minute workout.

Below is a YouTube video of a fifteen-minute beginner yoga session designed for hormone and weight optimization.

WHY STRENUOUS EXERCISE IS PROHIBITED

Remember to lose weight in your "Third Act" of life; you cannot exercise strenuously.

• Strenuous exercise elevates cortisol.
• Elevated cortisol causes stored blood sugar to be released.
• Elevated blood sugar causes insulin to be released.
• Elevated insulin switches you from fat-burning to fat-storing.
• Being in a fat-storing state causes metabolic disease.
• Metabolic disease is what will most likely cause our death.

I have found that short 15-minute sessions are a great way to introduce you to yoga, keep cortisol tamed, and accelerate weight loss. However, before introducing you to the fifteen-minute yoga video, let me explain why The HOPE Protocol is so successful.

THE HOPE PROTOCOL

What is The HOPE Protocol?

It is a four-strand system of:

• Hormone Optimization
• Organic Sustenance
• Purification Protocols
• Enlightenment Coaching

Hormone Optimization: You are nothing more than a reflection of your hormones.

• You only look and feel as well-balanced as your hormones are.

Organic Sustenance: We believe in using God-made substances to achieve optimal health.

• You've won the battle to achieve excellent health if you eat Godmade food and avoid human-made food.

Purification Protocols: we must feed the gut and protect the liver.

• We purify the liver and gut and optimize them with Godmade food in its natural form.

Enlightenment Coaching: self-discipline makes health optimization easier, not easy--easier.

• We must master optimism to be disciplined because diligent, optimistic discipline is the key to success.

THE HOPE PROTOCOL FEATURES

What makes us so successful are these four components of the program

1. Accountability: We keep you accountable through daily statistical texting. You must text me your weight and how many hours you slept every morning. We expect a minimum of five pounds of bloat to be removed in the first week. Many of our clients have lost 10 pounds and even more bloat. You can eat six lose-the-bloat meals a day during the first three days of the program, so it's not a starvation menu. After removing the bloat, we move you to the Meso Menu, where you will maintain muscle and lose 3 to 4 pounds per week, eating whenever you are hungry.
2. Customization: I am available 24/7 via texting. Whenever you have a question or problem, text me, and I will answer your question and help you solve your problem. After forty-four years of health optimization practice and coaching over ten thousand patients, I usually have an instant answer or solution. I know that everyone is different. They have different hormones, metabolisms, food likes and dislikes, and schedules. There is a different customized protocol for each client.
3. Knowledge: You'll receive an email course that explains step-by-step how to optimize your hormones, weight, health, and life.
4. Motivation: I keep you motivated through a weekly phone call that helps you stay on course and get back on course when you fall. I won't let you fail.

If you are interested in looking and feeling the way you wish you looked and felt, I offer two people per week to take The HOPE Protocol for a free ride. I will teach you exactly how to do the protocol so you can continue doing so on your own.

My roster is always full, and I only accept direct referrals, so there will be no sales, just training and, of course, results, all for free.

Discover how The HOPE Protocol will benefit you. I have time set aside for each week for the readers of this newsletter. Schedule a talk, and I will listen to your concerns and give you a protocol to achieve the "YOU" you desire. Remember, it's all free.

Schedule our FREE conversation by clicking on the link below.

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Here is your 15-minute beginner yoga video for improved

flexibility, hormones, and weight.

​15-MINUTE BEGINNER YOGA YOUTUBE VIDEO​

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