Joe Stein, Author at Renaissance Fitness & Wellness

Who is the Fittest Leader in the C-Suite?

The Common Lessons of Leadership and Fitness: Who is the Fittest Leader in the C-Suite? Asking who is the fittest leader in the C-Suite is, of course a trick question, as there are eight different elements to being fit. Unless your name is LeBron or Kobe, no one person embodies them all: Strength Power Endurance Speed Balance Flexibility Coordination Who are some C-Suite execs that embody specific elements of fitness? The FruitGuys® CEO Chris Mittelstaedt can bench press 315 [...]

By Joe Stein|2015-02-15T11:36:58-05:00February 15th, 2015|Fitness, Leadership|0 Comments

Why Leaders Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions and You Don’t

The Common Lessons of Leadership and Fitness: “Why Leaders Keep Their New Year’s Resolutions and You Don’t” Research shows that over 90 percent of all people do not keep their New Year’s resolutions. Why are successful leaders able to keep theirs? The answer is painfully obvious: Most high performing leaders, executives and professionals I train and coach simply do not make New Year’s Resolutions. “Vowing to making a course correction once a year is like updating the old Soviet [...]

By Joe Stein|2015-01-05T15:51:13-05:00January 5th, 2015|Success|2 Comments

Top 5 Blue Chip Holiday Fitness Gifts

In today’s economy, we are all looking for superior returns on the money we spend on gifts for those we love. Nothing works better to increase the value of your preferred stock than to give the gift of fitness and health. Below please find recommendations for my budget-friendly physical stimulus plan: Wearable Fitness Technology: Fit Bit, Jawbone, Basis, Apple and other wearable fitness technologies are what’s really hot this holiday shopping season. With the ability to count steps taken, [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-12-02T22:05:30-05:00December 2nd, 2014|Fitness|0 Comments

The Common Lessons of Leadership and Fitness: 5 Reasons Leaders Run Their Offices Like My Gym

In 1996 I began my career in fitness working weekends at Xercise Incorporated as a floor trainer. My responsibilities included opening the facility at 5 AM, showing members how to use the exercise equipment, personal training any clients I could sign up and closing the facility at 6 PM. The lessons I learned as a floor trainer have merged with my experiences as a sales manager at NCR to form the prism through which I view the qualities of [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-11-14T16:41:37-05:00November 14th, 2014|Fitness, Success|4 Comments

The 6 Common Lessons of Leadership and Fitness

When I rise each day at 4:30 AM to train my early morning high performance clients, Lou Gehrig’s famous words run through my mind, “…I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.” The cold and dampness and ungodly time of day I face are a fair tradeoff to learn the lessons of leadership from my pre-dawn movers and shakers. From CEOs, COOs, psychiatrists, managing partners and surgeons, I have learned as much from them as [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-10-26T19:59:06-05:00October 26th, 2014|Motivation, Success|0 Comments

Mt. Rushmore of Fitness

A few weeks ago I heard a spirited discussion about who should be carved into basketball’s “Mt. Rushmore.” NBA fans were tweeting all the usual suspects: LeBron James was at the head of the list as he already proclaimed that position long before Miami lost to San Antonio in the finals. Other contenders included Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Oscar Robertson, Julius Irving and Wilt Chamberlain. I love this kind of conversation because there are no wrong answers, [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-08-17T21:28:53-05:00August 17th, 2014|Fitness, Success|2 Comments

Hara hachi bu

Hara hachi bu 腹八分 In the United States 17 people per 100,000 population live to at least 100 years old. By contrast, the island of Okinawa has the highest concentration in the world at 35 per 100,000, more than double the United States. Gerontologists believe there are several factors that contribute to a population imbued with such longevity, with eating a healthy diet high on the list. Okinawans diets are high in fish, fruits and vegetables and they eschew [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-07-23T09:55:46-05:00July 23rd, 2014|Nutrition|0 Comments

What’s in the ‘Faux Food’ you’re eating?

Lately I've heard a lot of people saying things like "He's a real phony." Or "She's a fake." Or "He's not the real deal." Or "What a fraud." I'm not a conspiracy theory type of guy, but there is something going on here. Some say we are the products of what we consume. If that's true, can eating fake foods disconnect us from reality? Do we even know what we are consuming anymore? Let's see if you can identify [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-06-25T22:00:47-05:00June 25th, 2014|Fitness|9 Comments

How to Jettison Jet Lag

Over the years I’ve traveled to Israel for ten days, Hawaii for two weeks and Italy for a week. Last May I was at the podium in San Diego on a Tuesday and spoke again in Baltimore that Friday. Helping people leverage their wellness in order to increase their wealth was an exciting and rewarding mission. Jet lag has always been the small toll I paid for going across the time zones to spread the good word. Fortunately, paying [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-06-14T11:12:33-05:00June 14th, 2014|Fitness, Motivation|0 Comments

Trainer Joe’s 4 Pass Buffet Beater

Recently, I was waiting my turn to chow down for lunch in buffet line at a business function held in a nice hotel. The gentleman ahead of me, obviously agitated, turned and said, "I really hate buffets. I eat smart at home and in restaurants. But these things are killers. I'd rather wait on a static line about to jump out of a plane than stand on a buffet line." Wow, what a straight-man setup line to hand a [...]

By Joe Stein|2014-05-21T18:06:33-05:00May 21st, 2014|Nutrition|0 Comments

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