Excercise
Our tag line: “Unlock Your Potential”, has real meaning
to The Fitness Buddy.

The following are six locked doors most of us face on a day-to-day basis. Click on the locked doors that describe your situation and find out how The Fitness Buddy conquered each one.

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The reasons why so many of us fail at health/fitness is we have no idea on how to get over, around or through the locked doors placed in front of us. I was in the same boat as you, but through time and effort I became one of the fortunate to bust through those locked doors and I haven’t looked back.

You have so much to gain by starting down this road to living healthier/fitter. Everyone and everything that touches your life will be better because you took a stand and decided to break the chain. Will it be easy, NO WAY! No matter what the infomercials tell you there is no EASY way, no SEXY way and no SHORTCUTS in this journey. It is about a Lifestyle, not a band-aid.

  • Are you ready? MAYBE only you can truly answer that. Look deep inside because that is the only place that will really tell you if you are ready or not.
  • Will it be hard? YES and it is a lifetime journey. There is nothing SEXY about this. SEXY is easy. SEXY doesn’t teach you one thing. SEXY for the most part doesn’t work!
  • Do you feel alone? NO because you have a BUDDY standing right next to you in this journey who has been through this himself.

Unlock the doors that stand in front of you! Become the person you always knew you could be! Wipe the slate clean and we at The Fitness Buddy would be honored to be apart of your journey!

“I am not your typical shopper when it comes to hiring a personal trainer. My undergrad degree was in Kinesiology (think Exercise Physiology), I played three college sports, worked as a Physical Education instructor and have personally worked with a number of personal trainers over the past 20 years. Let's just say… for me to even consider hiring a personal trainer, you've got to have something extra special, something far beyond the basics.

Jim Ristow was exactly that. He not only met my high standards: strong knowledge base, professional, passionate, results-driven with a sound methodology, he exceeded my expectations. His approach is honest, simple and will get you results. His motivational style is authentic and uplifting and shouldn't it be, given his story? He's definitely not doing this for a paycheck — he's here to partner with you for transformation and he'll stop at nothing to inspire you to get there.

Oh yea, if all that isn't enough for you: He comes on vacation with you! Yep, I'm writing this from a vacation in Hawaii and right next to me is The Fitness Buddy, a very user-friendly fitness book that Jim put together that illustrates all the exercises and processes we work on together. So, he's never that far away! Talk about something extra, that itself puts him over the top!

So, if you're foolish enough to think you can't afford him as your personal trainer — at least get his book — it's the next best thing to hiring him!”

– Jody M.
Chicago, IL