"The Fitness Doctor"
Hi, my name is Dr. Michael J. Norwood and I’d like to personally welcome you to my world of fitness, peak performance, health and wellness blog.
The purpose of my blog is simple: whether it comes to weight loss (body fat loss), muscle gain, increasing your energy or improving your overall performance, you’ve been lied to repeatedly and enough is enough! In the coming post I’ll invite you to look over my shoulder to learn from the thousands of training hours that I’ve performed over the span of 15+ years. I also log close to 4,000 appointments annually so you’ll have the benefit of learning from clients, past and present, who are just like you: what their goals are, what their presenting issues are, how they’ve progressed, their shortcomings, their success stories and specific strategies as to how they got there.
In the coming days, I’ll also be reviewing and recommending the latest trends in health and fitness. From infomercial products, to exercise programs like P90X, to diets like SouthBeach and supplementation like Hydroxycut. I’ll give you the latest research that either substantiates the effectiveness of a product or negates the proposed benefits. If it’s not substantiated by rigorous research, not safe or the results are negligible then why waste your hard-earned money? The basic tenet of this site is to assist you in becoming a smarter consumer of health and fitness so that you aren’t spinning your wheels, wasting your time and money and ending up with little to no result.
My aim is to inspire, inform and to initiate a healthy dialogue about what we need to do in order to preserve our nation’s health, our most precious commodity. I’ve learned a lot about people and fitness along the way and hopefully within the pages that follow you’ll find a few nuggets that will help you to grow in some way–to reach beyond yourself and to learn to enjoy the often times uncomfortable yet rewarding results of challenging yourself to be, do and have more than you ever thought possible.
“Where do I start?” you might ask? Well, it all starts with expecting more of and from yourself than you currently do–ask for more and often times you’ll get more. Throw away your excuses, stop complaining about where you are now and begin moving to action. I don’t care how you got here, but I do care about what you’re going to do about it now. If you want to have something different in your life (whatever it is) you have to act like it. That’s it. No magic pill, no weird tasting concoctions; just you, your vision and the infinite power that resides within.
