If you’re of a fitness mindset—if you’re on the lookout for new ways to live leaner, stronger and better, as the saying goes, the future’s so bright you’re gonna have to wear shades.

Ouch! That was a bit of a painful flashback.

Without further ado, here are my Top 10 Most Exciting Health, Fitness & Nutrition Predictions 2010.

If these don’t get you geared up and ready for an amazing year then well… here we go…

No. 1. The Ab-Rock-n-Roller Strikes Infomercial Gold!
In a desperate attempt to strike infomercial gold a team of rocket-scientists will merge the Ab-Rocker with the Ab-Roller. The resulting machine will produce a tear in the fabric of space time and bring Elvis back to life.

No. 2. 14. Tony Horton Becomes a Free Agent but Not for Long
When Beachbody (P90X’s corp.) opts not to renew his contract, Tony Horton is picked up by EAS who promptly dilutes his workouts by 80% and replaces all the normal people with massive, steroid infused bodybuilders for effect.

No. 3. The Hidden Secret Inside All Diet Books
The vast majority of the 277 Diet books published in 2010 will once again turn out to be just as effective as the person using them.

No. 4. It’ll Make You Lean, Fit and Attractive, Instantly
A new miracle pill will be invented that makes you instantly fit, lean and uncontrollably attractive. Millions will try it only to find they are still unhappy and seeking something to fix.

No. 5. Fat-Loss Supplements Will Deliver Only Not to Consumers
Consumers will waste more than a billion $ on fat-loss supplements in an “at all cost” attempt to avoid the hard-work of eating right and exercising. They will once again fail—a tragedy the industry celebrates for it ensures the next consumer for the new product is same as the old.

No. 6. More Pro-Athletes Will Get In Trouble and Forget to Accept Responsibility
13 pro-athletes will get DUI’s, 5 will be arrested for domestic abuse, 7 suspended for smoking marijuana and they’ll all blame it on having ingested a supplement that unknowingly contained these illegal substances and/or actions.

No. 7. Pro-Bodybuilding Reaches New and Messy Peak
The ever increasing cartooning size of the pro-bodybuilders will reach a disturbing pinnacle at the 2010 Mr. Olympia with a contestant exploding into a million tiny pieces while posing on stage. Well practiced at downplaying real issues and concern, the pro-bodybuilding “heads” will promptly release the statement, “He meant to do that!”

No. 8. Study Reveals the Shocking Truth About P90x
Shocking scientific study will reveal that P90x is no more effective than simply training your ass off an hour a day for 90 days!

No. 9. The First Fair Trade Fish Oils
In an effort to satisfy the escalating desperate need for Omega-3’s in the vegan community, a group of activists will attempt to establish the first “fair trade” fish oils, by talking the fish into giving their fats away.

No. 10. The Best Kept Secret in Nutrition: Revealed
I’ll come up with another 10 grade-A excuses to avoid widely telling the Full Strength story and it’s growing body of science and success stories. Unfortunately, one of the many high-profile celebrities who live it, will let their secret slip and the best built secret in nutrition will be outed leading to even greater challenges with keeping up with demand.

Exciting stuff, no doubt. Now, keep in mind I can’t guarantee any of these for they are after all, predictions. But if they all come true or just a few are realized no doubt when in for an exciting—dare I say Transformative year ahead.

Here’s to your best year ever in 2010!

To Your Life @ Full Strength,

Shawn

About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.

‘Tis the holiday season; a time of joy, of celebration, of family, friends and feast.

Amidst all the wonder, it’s also a time of hustle and bustle, of busy-ness and stress.

With Christmas on top of you and the New Year near, I invite you to take this moment to breathe!

Cease all other activity and fill your lungs to their tip-top with all the clean, crisp air they can receive. Pause for a moment or two, then let the air escape until your lungs a as empty as they were full.

Again. Breathe in, to full capacity. Pause and exhale. And again.

Feel the ground, solid, under your feet as the energy in your core begins to refill. After just a minute of this practice you will feel lighter as tension is released from your body.

To breathe is to be the flow of energy, the rhythm of life. It is at once both the giving of life and the receiving of life.

Giving as Receiving

During the holidays it’s giving we celebrate. That’s great, for giving is a vital force for good in this world. Giving generates.

Yet, just as receiving air fills your lungs and invigorates life in you, so does the act of receiving.

In the absence of receiving there can be no giving.

Your capacity to give—be it love, strength, compassion, or resources—is ultimately only as strong as your capacity to receive the same.

Just as it does with your breath, one expands or contracts the other. Take but a small breath of air and you can but only give on that small amount back out.

In the Eastern traditions this concept of two opposing yet interconnected and interdependent forces that give rise to each other is captured in the Yin-Yang.

Giving and receiving, like night and day, dark and light, female and male, low and high, are natural dualities—complimentary opposites within a greater whole. As one aspect gives rise to the other.

To constrict receiving will constrict giving. If we only give, denying receiving we cut off the flow for ourselves and others.

Commit this moment to ground yourself in openness and receiving and in so doing honor yourself and to send a powerful message to the universe that you are worthy; you are the source; a deserving recipient of appreciation, gratitude and abundance.

F.I.T. : How to Get Your Training “in the Flow”
In your physical training these principles for expanding your energy, strength and capacity are captured in my F.I.T. practice in my most recent book, Strength for LIFE.

Focus Intensity Training (F.I.T.) is a practice of mastering the flow of energy in the conscious presence of strength integrating body, mind and spirit with the universal principles found in yoga, martial arts and even the rhythm of your beating heart.

Your focused mind producing laser-like concentrated energy in your body, is as elevated and intense as the preceding receptive phase, the embracing of energy and harmony. F.I.T. is an integrated, escalating flow state of receiving and giving in seamless succession.

PS The perfect gift for yourself or another this holiday may be Strength for LIFE… The New Guide to Wholistic Transformation from the inside out.

About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.

In response to hundreds of questions I received following last week’s SSM, How to Eat, Drink and Be Merry and Lose 10 lbs by New Year find your answers here.

In this video you’ll see my day by day plan for igniting the fat-burning freedom of Metabolic Overcompensation.

Watch this brief “how to” presentation video now. Afterward, follow my schedule or create your own.

I look forward to hearing how your applying the principles of Metabolic Overcompensation for the month and beyond.

Until Next Week,

Stay Strong,

Shawn
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About the Author

Author, innovator and expert in Life Performance for two decades, Shawn Phillips is as respected for his physique as his wisdom. Working with his brother Bill (of Body for LIFE fame) he helped create the performance nutrition giant, EAS. In his 40's, a husband and father of two young children, Shawn has shifted his focus to helping busy, high-achieving men enjoy vibrant, energized, amazing lives! To help more men towards Life @ Full Strength Shawn created the World's First truePremium Nutrition Shake, the clinically proven Full Strength . For a "how to" guide to a Lifestyle of Fitness Freedom, check out Shawn's most recently instant best-selling book from Bantam BooksStrength for LIFE, called by Next-Level in Transformational Fitness, Here.