Awesome Interview By Jimmy Smith – Part 1

February 21, 2009 · Filed Under Interviews 

A few weeks ago Jimmy Smith from http://www.jimmysmithtraining.com/ contacted me asking to pick my brain and see what was going on inside this head of mine.

Of course I agreed, and now you get to read the entire interview absolutely free :)

So here it is:

Jimmy Smith: Tell us about yourself. Who are you? How long have you been training and what are your goals and aspirations in the fitness industry?

Jeremy Reeves: My name is Jeremy Reeves and I’m the owner of the report “The 7 Deadly Fat Loss Sins” which I recently came out with that is making a lot of heat in the fitness world because I debunk one of the biggest myths that most people follow blindly.

I’m a certified personal trainer even though I don’t actively train people in real life. I’ll get into my reasoning on that a little later though.

I’m also kind of “unorthodox” in a lot of different ways. I speak my mind, I’m incredibly “transparent” and show people my TRUE personality, not my online personality. I hate when people act all “business-like” – they’re just too boring for me!

That’s actually one thing I get compliments on the most – the way I’m very personal with people and don’t try to hide behind a curtain or act like I’m better than anyone else, because really, I’m not.

I’ve been into fitness pretty much my whole life, but a lot of times it was kind of “on and off”. Kind of like the yo-yo diet people talk about a lot. I was part of those statistics.

It took a few years for me to really kind of “find myself” and understand what excuses I was making for working out, and I hardly ever miss a workout nowadays because I finally took the time to take a good look at my life, my training, my eating habits, excuses, etc. – which I would highly recommend everybody does because it’s an eye-opening experience.

As for goals, I have a lot of them. I think they’re very important and actually keep a big whiteboard in my house that lists all my weekly, monthly and yearly goals.

Some of them include progressing in pretty much every area of working out, whether it’s lifting more weight, running faster, getting my times down, or whatever workouts I’m focused on at that time.

As for my fitness industry goals, probably in mid-2009 I’m going to be coming out with my own (and first) fitness product that I can guarantee you is going to rattle some cages and open a lot of people’s eyes.

As for right now my goal for that isn’t exactly clear – when the time comes closer I’m going to try and figure out exactly how many people I want to help with the book, which is my main goal in creating the book…to help people who are having a hard time losing weight following the “traditional” methods of weight loss.

Jimmy Smith: How would you describe your training? First, what type of training do you find that works best for your clients? Second, what about yourself? Are you into body part splits or full boy training?

Jeremy Reeves: The best way to describe my training that I do for myself would simply be to say “balls to the wall”.

When I’m done with my workouts I’m usually completely exhausted like I just sprinted 5 miles.

As for my clients, as I hinted to earlier I don’t really take on “clients” per se. Although I got certified as a personal trainer, I like to do things more online than offline because I think it allows me to help a lot of other people that way.

For example like I said I wrote my 7 Deadly Fat Loss Sins Ebook. Instead of working with maybe 5 people per day in a gym, that Ebook allows me to help dozens of people every single day. At the end of the Ebook I even give my contact address so if people have any questions or whatever they can simply email me and ask me whatever they had a question about.

One of the things I mention in the book that could answer your question is that honestly, there is NO “best” way to workout. I think people have this notion that you have to do a certain kind of workout to get the best results, when my philosophy is that if you simply do what you actually enjoy doing, you’re going to get A LOT better results long-term than if you follow some strict, regimented plan that some “expert” told you was the best way to do it.

Now having said that, I definitely think trying to up the intensity of workouts is the best way to get in shape fast, but if you either can’t or really hate doing high intensity workouts it won’t work for you because even though it might work better, you’re not going to have the motivation to actually do the workouts, and you’re going to end up quitting!

As a little side note, that’s the main reason I was on kind of a “yo-yo” diet for so many years. Once I realized that if I just did what I wanted to do and not what everybody else said was the best thing, my motivation to workout has probably increased, not decreased.

As for my workouts, I actually get a little crazy with them.

For example, I workout in my basement which is this dungeon-like, freezing cold place. There’s no carpet, nothing fancy whatsoever..just some hardcore music (I like Breaking Benjamin) and me.

I love to mix up my workouts to keep things interesting…which is why I probably haven’t progressed as much as I want to..but hey, that’s what works for me ya know? I try not to worry about how much I’m lifting, just that I’m having a fun time doing it and that I’m getting in better shape.

Now having said that, I DO keep a workout log of what I’m doing. I don’t mix up my workouts every single workout.

What I do is pick a workout plan and do it until I either start losing my motivation to do the same workout, or I stop progressing. I think that’s a plan that most people should try out because it seems to work pretty good for me and for a lot of other people I know as well.

When I do my workouts though I like to do full-body workouts. I’m not into split training at all.

I think the body is meant to be used as 1 unit instead of separate individual parts, so I train it that way.

I’ve actually kind of made up my own version of full body workouts though which I’m going to reveal in my book that I just started writing and will hopefully be out in June. That’s what I’m shooting for at least.

So I apologize but I don’t want to give away TOO much information on that part of my training, it’s kind of a secret for now :)

But getting back to the kind of exercises I do…

What really got me excited about working out was not working strictly with weights. I actually combine a lot of different exercising techniques into one.

For example, I work with free weights, my own bodyweight, I have a weighted vest, a sandbag, I kickbox, I do sprints, I have resistance bands, I have a climbing rope attached to an 80 foot tree next to my house (the rope is only 15 feet though), I do various grip training techniques, and I also have a few homemade pieces of equipment.

So there’s always something different for me to do and that’s the way I love doing it. To me, it’s fun doing it like that.

Click here to go to Part 2 of the interview and learn more about my unique training methods

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