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David Lyons reveals the truth about chronic conditions & Exercise

David Lyons is the top MS trainer in the world & has received various awards for his accomplishments in health and fitness
and now he is offering his expertise to help those with physical limitations & chronic conditions around the world

I’m not going to pull any punches. You’re going to be shocked and maybe a bit angry by what I’m about to share with you.

When you stick to an exercise program by the letter and do everything your trainer tells you, you expect results, right?

Well, what if you discovered all your hard work was having ZERO effect on the way your brain connects with your muscles to benefit your body and was leaving you with little improvement in strength and mobility?

What if you discovered you were ALWAYS going to fall short of the results you want in beating chronic conditions through exercise, because…

You’ve been MISLED about how to train your body’s BIGGEST muscle…your brain…to reconnect to control the muscles that your chronic condition has robbed you of.

And it’s cost you in your results, your health and even how you feel.

The "Functional Exercise Myth" has, for too long, left many people with physical limitations frustrated at their lack of progress, struggling to regain their strength and mobility.

And it gets worse. Not knowing how to train properly has left you with a problem – by not following a proper exercise program designed to help people with chronic conditions you are actually going in the wrong direction when it comes to your limitations.

When you discover the right way to unlock your ability to activate your muscle fibers correctly and to its maximum potential, everything changes. You can put the pedal to the metal on the benefits of correct exercise.

And you know when you’ve trained your mind and body the right way, you become the proud owner of a strong and more mobile YOU.

I'm David Lyons, a Certified Fitness Professional, Fitness Educator, MS Fitness Specialist and the ONLY fitness expert with MS to be inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame.

I’m recognized by the National MS Society, Multiple Sclerosis Foundation, National Federation of Professional Trainers, Medical Fitness Network, Global Health & Pharma and other organizations as the leading expert on fitness for chronic conditions worldwide.

I was a healthy bodybuilder, gym owner and fitness professional when I was hit in the face with the life changing diagnosis of multiple sclerosis in 2006 at the age of 47.

I was working out in the gym when what I later found out to be an MS attack immobilized me in pain and the inability to use my body. I spent 5 days in the hospital, partially paralyzed from the chest down, unable to walk without holding onto the wall and unable to feel anything but pain, numbness and tingling throughout my body.

Every MS test was done from 6 hours of MRI’s to a spinal tap until that diagnosis was finalized. It was like someone just sucker punched me and my life would never be the same.

You see, the neurologists were all telling me that my bodybuilding days were over and I would shortly be using a wheelchair. But, although a devastating prognosis, I knew in my heart this was not a FACT but their OPINION. I knew that somehow my 25 years (at that time) of fitness education and success would lead me to an answer.

In my heyday as a 20 and 30 year old I was a competitive bodybuilder, boxer, martial artist and a very intense and competitive athlete. I took every sport I undertook as one to conquer and be a champion in. I trained with the best of the best in each sport to learn from the guys who were at the top of their game. Boxers like Olympic gold medalist Howard Davis; martial artists like world karate champion Richard Barathy; and bodybuilding’s best like Mr. USA John DeFendis, Mr. America Anibal Lopez, and Mr. America/Mr. Olympia competitor Tom Terwilliger. You see, I left no stone unturned in finding what works and what doesn’t in reaching my goals. And that was no different when I heard my MS diagnosis. I had to find out what worked and what didn’t in beating MS through exercise.

The problem was I had nowhere to go and no one who was really successful at it. I looked to the self-proclaimed MS exercise “experts” online and in the MS community and found that following their programs did absolutely nothing in getting stronger, more coordinated and ahead of this disease. Sure these programs had me moving, stretching and exercising BUT I was still steadily getting worse with my MS symptoms and was no stronger or mobile than I was before I started following these so called MS exercise gurus.

So, what did I do? Simple…I took my many years of experience and success in fitness and started applying training methods I knew worked for muscle growth, stimulation, and mobility to activate my MS body.

I knew the principles of focus and muscle concentration and how they function in creating a brain to muscle connection. But with the MS limitations I had, it was an experiment on how to get these principles to apply PROPERLY with MS. The question that needed to be answered was what training methods will work the best with MS and how do I implement them for success.

Since I have MS and I am not just a trainer guessing at what a chronic condition feels like, I was able to use myself as a guinea pig to find the training methods that bring results in conquering chronic conditions through exercise and fitness.

I become stronger, more agile, more focused, more positive and overall more able to beat MS every day. I went from being lifted in and out of exercise machines at the gym to squatting 500 lbs. again just like I did in my 20’s and 30’s. My legs were now able to do what I wanted them to do and my left side, numb from MS, was now cooperating with me in my workouts and in day to day activities despite the numbness. The MS symptoms were no longer controlling my life. I was controlling MS. I was ahead of this disease.

What I developed was a series of training methods that were so effective on me that I began using them on other MSers. Time after time and MSer after MSer the benefits of my training methods were amazing. The program was getting results that people are saying are miraculous. And I can’t disagree with that metaphor!

I then started using the same training methods that were helping me and others with MS get ahead of our disease and applied them to people with other chronic conditions and physical limitations such as:

And I found they were getting the same miraculous results as those of us with MS!

My unique and specific training methods were not only beneficial for MS and neurological conditions but for ALL types of conditions that are chronic and cause limitations

But don’t take my word for it. You can read hundreds of testimonials both written and in video on my websites such as:

I’ve dedicated the last 40 plus years of my career to working at the cutting edge of training and exercise science, 15 years with MS and 10 years helping people battling all sorts of chronic conditions.

As a Fitness Specialist and Educator, I know it’s crucial to separate fact from fiction when it comes to exercises and results. Pull back the curtain and you get the real story.

I know what works. I’m in the trenches using trial and error and applying proven principles every day working with those fighting their limitations ONE ON ONE.

The problem isn’t how hard you work out or that you are following an exercise program. It certainly isn’t your commitment, although it may feel like you’re trying everything and getting nowhere.

You see, it’s not your fault.

You’ve been told the wrong information.

When we trust trainers with our bodies, we expect them to know what they’re doing, right?

But it turns out they don’t. They rely on routines based on decades-old research and training principles like functional exercise, instead of combining the latest science with REAL WORLD experience working with all kinds of physical issues.

The worst are social media self-proclaimed fitness “experts” giving out exercise advice based on a flawed understanding of what a chronic condition is and how the body responds to it.

How could they give the right advice? They don’t have any chronic condition themselves so they don’t understand how we feel. These trainers don’t get how a body dealing with physical limits benefits from training, what training methods are effective, and how the brain must reconnect to the body for results to happen.

They misunderstand the muscle. They misunderstand how to activate the brain-muscle connection. They misunderstand fundamental training principles for chronic conditions.

They don’t give you the complete picture…How could they, they’ve never dealt with the degenerative effects of a disease. But, they certainly don’t mention that.

Listening to these trainers leaves you disappointed when you don’t get the results they claim.

That’s why I had to speak out…to fight back against the misinformation and myths that some trainers keep pushing on you.

To understand why so many programs get it wrong, let’s look at the brain to muscle and nerve to muscle connections.

If you consciously and deliberately place your attention on the contraction of the primary muscle you are working, the quality of the contraction is enhanced. In other words, the more your mind (brain) is focused on the muscle being worked as it contracts, the greater your results will be.

In “normal” people without a condition like MS or other physical challenges, the brain AND nervous system creates and improves the quality of the movement of muscle fibers that are put into action most often. In the case of a neurological condition like MS, we need to rely basically on our brain since our nervous system is array. Yes, we can create neuroplasticity which I’ll discuss in a minute but it’s primarily what we do with our brain and how we engage it in exercise that is most effective. But this is also a VERY IMPORTANT process with ANY chronic condition.

Studies have shown that placing mental attention on your muscles as they’re contracting literally causes a higher percentage of the muscle fibers that you’re aiming to use for the movement to ‘activate.’

Acetylcholine is the neurotransmitter that stimulates your muscles to move.

The more active mental attention you bring to the muscle that’s being contracted, the more acetylcholine that’s produced, leading to an enhanced quality in the contraction.

So, the more you bring an active attention to the muscle being worked, the contraction in each and every rep, the more acetylcholine that’s produced.

The more acetylcholine that’s produced, the better the contraction, and better the results.

This occurrence is also true with every one of my training methods. It’s not just the contraction of a muscle that creates the brain to muscle reconnection for us, it’s how you specifically train for this phenomenon to occur.

You also must involve neuroplasticity when it can be involved which is the brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming new neural connections. Neuroplasticity allows the neurons (nerve cells) in the brain to compensate for neurological issues and to adjust their activities in response to my training program. During the changes caused in neuroplasticity through specific and precise training methods, the brain engages in what science calls synaptic pruning, deleting the neural connections that are no longer necessary or useful, and strengthening the necessary ones.

You cannot deny the accuracy of science!

So, in a nutshell, doing functional exercises and cookie cutter fitness programs that do not engage the proper science to combat chronic conditions and physical limitations…

WILL NOT WORK for any significant and long-term benefits or results in regaining strength, mobility and an over-all feeling of well-being.

Yet, these programs are exactly what the self-proclaimed fitness “experts” are teaching the chronic condition community. You hear them make claims of creating neuroplasticity using functional movements and stretching…WRONG. These movements do NOT create neuroplasticity. And they never mention acetylcholine or muscle fiber activation because they are taking you in the WRONG direction.

So what’s the fix? It’s my OptimalBody Training Program for chronic conditions and physical limitations

Follow a proven exercise program that engages the brain to muscle reconnection your body must have while activating neuroplasticity for the nervous system.

The science behind my OptimalBody Training Program is evident and the confirmation is in the results from everyone who follows the system. I am living proof as I was told by the doctors that I would be wheelchair bound when I was diagnosed yet I have never sat in a wheelchair other than to demonstrate my program! You can’t hear that fact from the online trainers with generic programs who do not have any physical limitations or chronic conditions.

So now I’ve walked you through why the exercise programs out there are minimally effective and why implementing specific training methods through my OptimalBody Training Program is the most effective path to the stronger and more mobile body you’ve always wanted. And I’ve shown you why I have the experience, credentials, knowledge, and awards no one else in the exercise arena has.

There’s nothing left for me to say, except… now, it’s up to YOU.

You have three paths before you right now

You could read this and decide to stick with your current exercise program and trainer. Sure, you are comfortable with the entertainment you are getting and it’s much easier to stay where you’re at then it is to make a change. But MY program is the result of over 40 years experience and expertise, more than 14 years with MS, spending a few years finding the true answer to getting ahead of my MS diagnosis and beating this disease, then implementing these training methods with almost every kind of chronic condition people suffer.

Change is hard but the right change can be Life Changing!

You may read this and think “I’ll come back to it later”… but we both know what that means. Within a few days, you’ll forget you even saw this. You’ll go back to sitting at home, your body weakening and making your goal to conquer your physical limitations even harder.

In a months’ time, you may be right back feeling frustrated over your lack of strength and mobility, reminded of this every time you try and do something your body just won’t let you do.

Then a year from now, you suddenly remember this day and wish you had made the decision to say “YES” and finally get ahead of your chronic condition.

Imagine how your year would have turned out if you’d felt stronger, more powerful and with more ability to move.

I hope that’s not the path you take.

Instead, make the choice so many have made before and choose yourself. Decide you’re going to build a better, stronger body for your long-term health and well-being.

At last! You finally have the answer to building the strong, mobile body you always knew you could if you had the right guidance.

After just ONE workout, you FEEL the difference. It’s never felt this way before. Parts of your body are now stronger and able to do what you tell it to do!

Within a few months of following the program you can feel the muscles awakening. You notice some of the mobility issues you once had have disappeared. You stand a little taller. Walk a little better. You have a feeling of well-being. You smile to yourself, proud of the moment you acted decisively to make this happen.

So make the right choice for yourself today. Click the SIGN UP NOW Button and become a Member of my OptimalBody Training Program. You will receive unlimited access to all the resources on the private members only website. Tools like a complete video library of my many training methods created specifically to overcome any chronic condition, step by step guidance on how to beat your physical limits through proper exercise methods, monthly updates and LIVE interaction with me personally. I will become your online coach you can reach for any time and from anywhere in the world.

Once you’ve submitted your details, you have now locked in your special discounted price just like the other OptimalBody Members who have taken action to better their lives and strengthen their bodies. There is no other online exercise program like this anywhere and no other true fitness expert who has a chronic condition that has my experience and credentials. Take action. Secure your monthly membership discount for the OptimalBody online membership and see what results a real exercise program designed for chronic conditions by a fitness expert who has one can bring you.

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Health & Fitness for chronic conditions

Why Everything You Know About Exercise & Training For Strength, Mobility & Long-Term Results Is WRONG…

(HINT: if you’re still doing functional training ONLY… it’s time to STOP!)

🎉 33-55% OFF Limited time offer

Sign up as a member today!

The "Functional Exercise Myth" has, for too long, left many people with physical limitations frustrated at their lack of progress, struggling to regain their strength and mobility.

I'm David Lyons, a Certified Fitness Professional, Fitness Educator, MS Fitness Specialist and the ONLY fitness expert with MS to be inducted into the National Fitness Hall of Fame.

So, what did I do? Simple…I took my many years of experience and success in fitness and started applying training methods I knew worked for muscle growth, stimulation, and mobility to activate my MS body.

But don’t take my word for it. You can read hundreds of testimonials both written and in video on my websites such as:

I’ve dedicated the last 40 plus years of my career to working at the cutting edge of training and exercise science, 15 years with MS and 10 years helping people battling all sorts of chronic conditions.

The worst are social media self-proclaimed fitness “experts” giving out exercise advice based on a flawed understanding of what a chronic condition is and how the body responds to it.

To understand why so many programs get it wrong, let’s look at the brain to muscle and nerve to muscle connections.

So what’s the fix? It’s my OptimalBody Training Program for chronic conditions and physical limitations

There’s nothing left for me to say, except… now, it’s up to YOU.

You have three paths before you right now

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