Learning From a Champion: What I Learned From Interviewing Alex Jamal About Real Body Transformation. I recently had the honor of interviewing Alex Jamal, a Certified Nutritionist, Personal Trainer, and Champion Bodybuilder with over 20 years of experience helping people transform their bodies. As you know, here at Custom Body Fitness we believe in learning from other professionals who truly understand transformation — not just physically, but mentally and emotionally. Alex h

How Do I Stay Motivated When I Don’t See Results Right Away? How badly do you want to achieve your goal? How will your life improve when you finally reach it? And more importantly — are the results meaningful enough for you to pay the price of change? These are the questions you must ask yourself before you begin any transformation. Your “why” needs to be powerful. For example, how motivated would you feel to walk over fire for twenty dollars compared to walking over fire bec

Where Do I Even Start? How to Begin Your Body Transformation Journey Getting started on a fitness or body-transformation journey can feel overwhelming. The real first step is not the gym, the diet, or the workout program — it is understanding what you truly want and why you want it. Once your purpose is clear, you can begin taking imperfect action or seek guidance from someone who has already achieved the results you want. When I first tried to get in shape, I admired people

Many people wonder what is the best workout for fat loss. It makes sense to ask that question if your goal is to lose fat. Anytime I want to improve my life in any area, I would like to know the fastest route to achieve my goal. And if my goal is to lose fat, why waste time on exercises that won’t help me lose fat? I would like to concentrate all my focus on those exercises that will yield the best results on fat loss.  Here I am going to explain the best exercise for weight

The Myth That You Must Eat Only Chicken, Rice, and Lettuce Lose weight without giving up favorite foods I remember one of our members, Ana, who came in convinced she’d have to live on boiled chicken and lettuce to tone her body. She was already preparing herself for a lifetime of bland meals. But after a few weeks, she realized something surprising — she could still eat her tacos and enjoy family dinners and  lose weight. So where did this myth come from? It often starts with

The First Time I Walked Into a Gym I still remember when a friend invited me to lift weights for the first time. I was 18 — curious but unimpressed. The gym didn’t spark anything inside me back then. A year later, while working as an arborist, everything changed. My boss was strong, lean, and confident — the kind of man who stood out. Watching him carry heavy blocks with ease, I couldn’t help but think, I want to be like him. When I asked if his body came from our hard work,

Do I Need to Do Cardio to Lose Weight? Many people take the action of losing weight as an event instead of a process. They think surgery, a pill, a short term program, ozempic, or any other magic trick will help them lose weight.  The truth is that nothing of these really helps with weight loss. These are only short term results because the only way to lose weight forever is by changing your lifestyle and this is the reason why all people who use the easy ways for weight loss

Elida has been with us for 16 months and has managed successfully to lose 53 pounds. She is still motivated to get to her goal of having a 25 body percent. For many people losing 53 pounds is not easy and for others keeping those 5 3 pounds off is even harder.  Elida has completely changed her life to be able to lose 53 pounds. I am amazed by the disciplined Elidas has shown over these months. However, I am also curious about everything she has changed in her life to be able

Last week I assessed one of our members who lost 4 pounds. Like I do with all my assessments, I asked him what he did to lose the 4 pounds and I also asked him what he thinks it needs to improve to see better results.  Our member talked about all the changes he made in his eating, and how he was eating. As we talked he mentioned that he ate hamburgers made at home with organic ground beef.  I like to get into details about the preparation of foods, so I asked him what else he

You will agree with me that the reason you want to lose weight is because you want to look good. Possibly another reason is your health. So, you don't really want to lose weight, you want to look good or improve your health and you think that losing weight is going to give you those results. But not really. You can lose weight in several ways, dehydrating yourself, not eating carbs, having surgery or even cutting off an arm. That does not mean that it makes you look more attr