Temple Fitness is a health enterprise started by me.....Robert Booker. My Vision is to provide everyone the tools for healthy living and achieving realistic fitness goals, without compromising their lifestyle. People deserve the comfort of knowing that it is possible to live a healthy happy life.
Temple Fitness was founded in early 2010 when I realized how much I loved working out and wanted every one around me to be in shape and healthy. I would go to the gym every night, eat properly, and constantly do research on how to better my health. Soon I found my body changing remarkably. I also enjoyed my new perspective in life. Exercising became a stress reliever and tool I used to help refocus for up coming events and even personal situations in my life. My quest to live healthy and be in better shape started to show on the outside and people wanted to know what I did, how I did it and why I was so fulfilled. I shared with every one I could; friends, family and co workers.
I was reminded of my uncle who I admired when I was little. He was always working out at the gym and even at home. He always played sports with his kids and his friends even at the age of 40. Then I started to think "this is why I'm motivated to do this." I'd watched a role model of mine sustain a healthy and happy life, and was so successful at reaching my own short-term fitness goals, that it ignited something in me.
I was motivated to get more information on how to exercise the proper way. I became a certified personal trainer just to gain more knowledge on the subject and lifestyle. I had no intention of being a full time fitness instructor. At the time I was content as the Audio Visual Coordinator of Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. After 4 years, JHU decided to eliminate my position.
I immediately started Personal Training to occupy my time until I was rehired. In the time that I was waiting to be called back for interviews, I'd gained about 10 clients. Things sky rocketed from there. I told myself that if I wasn’t rehired at JHU then Personal Training was my purpose and destiny.
Needless to say, I wasn't rehired and Temple Fitness has been going strong ever since. I've trained all kinds people with all types of goals: your everyday person trying to lose weight and beat hereditary disease, professional athletes getting ready for the upcoming season and high profile people just trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle and image.
My rule of thumb for training is to give everyone the tools and keys to live a healthier life, but still have fun along the way. Living healthy and being in shape doesn't happen overnight, nor is it something that u can treat as a fad or trend. It’s a change of lifestyle; from your eating habits and exercising, to your sleeping habits and even your way of thinking.
The Temple Fitness motto is SEE. BELIEVE. PURSUE… See the change, Believe that you can change, and then Pursue the change!
Even if you don't have the time to join Temple Fitness, you can join this blog, follow us on Twitter @templefit4life and like us on Facebook www.facebook.com/templefit4life . I will release tools and keys to living a healthy lifestyle and making this a transition full of great expectation. We only get one Temple, let's make it fit for life!
