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www.MOSTmag.com || FITNESS MAG A ZINE || 25 A workout should be 4% of your day, the other 96% of your day is filled with opportunity. Opportunities to eat cleaner, be more active, and change the habits that are keeping that 4% of your day from being successful. As a trainer I identify the limiting factors a person has that keeps them from achieving their fitness goals. With a specialized focus in holistic nutrition, food pairing, strength building, interval training, and physical therapy; it%u2019s the unique combination I have developed that helps each client see results. The first step is getting out of your own way. You have to go into it a fitness routine knowing you%u2019re going to start leading a healthier lifestyle, otherwise it%u2019s only natural to adjust your habits to prevent change. Example: You do thirty minutes of cardio at the gym, so at lunch you reward yourself with a cookie because %u201cyou deserve it.%u201d Newsflash. That cookie cost you more than your cardio. With diet, I believe food pairing and timing are key factors to getting results. Fad diets revolve around restriction and deprivation. Your body needs a balance to optimally function. If you deprive your body you may see rapid results, but you%u2019re setting yourself up to revert back to where you started; or in most cases, worse off than where you started. When I began training I had no intention of sticking with it. I graduated high school at 16, playing sports such as soccer and volleyball up until then. At that time I never had to focus on nutrition because I lived such an active lifestyle. When you%u2019re young your relationship with food isn%u2019t as apparent. Food is easier to think about as flavor vs fuel. As the years went by, my interest in food seemed to develop. It became a passion of mine that surpassed sports. After graduating I went to culinary school, to explore the food culture I loved so much.Learning how to prepare decadent meals was such an experience, but my weight took a toll. Without sports I had to look for other ways to stay active. I joined a gym where, like most people, I felt intimidated by big machines I knew nothing about. I started working with a trainer to get on track. With my athlete mentality, I started getting very interested in the most efficient ways to gain mobility and strength through exercise. I felt at that time there was a hole in the program. Why push yourself to do heavy bicep curls or to add weight to your bench press if it doesn%u2019t make you stronger in your daily routine? Although some machines are great and serve a purpose, I felt that there were a lot of limitations. They restricted movement patterns that target functional mobility. I kept adding certifications to my resume as I was finding out how truly passionate I was about fitness. I was recruited to become a trainer at 18 and was a fitness manager by 19. I built up my technique in instructing Olympic lifts; one of the most improperly ELIZABETH POURCelebrity personal trainer and holistic nutritionist Elizabeth Pour shares her philosophy on fitness, health, and food>>>