About Joe Tewell

 

I have built a 30-year fitness and wellness career based upon one observational similarity in people pursuing self-improvement. People’s physical bodies are a direct reflection of the way in which they deal with adversity, loss, and suffering in life. You see, during a person’s struggle, the daily mindset and habits that sabotage good physical, spiritual and relational health are created. Our bodies are a direct reflection of our mindset and habits.

My personal journey to health really demonstrates this premise to be true. I grew up in an environment that put me on course to live a life of poor health, lack of purpose and a broken future.

At the age of 12, I was routinely consuming alcohol and drugs daily because it was made available, and I sought escape from my situation in life. These drugs were my coping mechanism for my personal struggle and pain. This all came to a screeching halt when I did a lethal combination of alcohol and barbiturates that threatened my life. At the moment I faded into unconsciousness, I vowed to change if I could survive. When I regained consciousness, I knew I had a huge battle ahead of me. I lacked the mental maturity to change my situation and I lived in an environment that shaped the dangerous behaviors I lived with daily.

I did not know how to change but I knew that I had to do everything in my power to turn my life around. I started by running instead of drinking. I lifted weights instead of getting high. It was hard to change but as I put the effort into my future, I began to feel better, look better, and most importantly, think better! I realized at a very young age that success comes in the way you think and react to your burdens. Every day I had to make a choice. Do I want to fall back into a life of loss, or do I want to pursue the life that I desire? This is quite simple to verbalize but the effort it requires to take action is where Live Life Better was built.

Maybe you did not use the same coping mechanisms I chose. Maybe your coping choices are food, gambling, pornography, or self-absorption? It doesn’t matter the choice. All of these lead to loss and a life of turmoil. I have interviewed thousands of clients over three decades, and still today I always find that the root cause for poor health is not a lack of good nutrition or inactivity. Rather, it is something from the past or in our daily life that create the poor habits that lead to a diminished body and mindset.

Considering this observance, I began to change the way I defined health and the way I coached people to live healthy. Instead of asking people what they were eating, I got them focused in on the things that were eating them and causing them to make poor choices that compromised their physical body. Healthy is not sustainable when it is pursued through sets and reps, but it can flourish when it is implemented by healthy thoughts and healthy actions. “This premise has come full circle in the way that I personally have transformed my own health.”

Joe Tewell is the owner and operator of West Des Moines Fit Body Boot Camp. He has been a passionate Fitness Coach for 30 years. Joe is a NASM certified trainer and a graduate of The Institute of Integrative Nutrition where he learned the power of nutrition in people’s life. Joe is a published author and co-founder of the fitness ministry Fit For The King. He also has collaborated on a new book called YOUR HEALTH TURNAROUND. His focus is getting his clients healthier on the inside so that their body will change on the outside. Joe stresses the importance of environment, habits, and behavior as the key to personal transformation. He believes that peoples unique situations in life are of significant value in respect to solution-based health coaching. “Fitness is not a one size fits all program!” Fitness is a way of living that is unique to the physiology, environment, and goal for each person and should serve as a source of joy, happiness and availability in daily lives.

Joe Tewell has built a successful 30-year fitness and wellness career based upon one observational similarity in people pursuing self-improvement: physical bodies are a direct reflection of the way in which people deal with adversity, loss, and suffering in life. It is during a person’s struggle, the daily mindset and habits that sabotage good physical, spiritual, and relational health are created. In other words, our bodies reflect our mindset and habits.

Considering this observance, Joe began to change the way he defined health and the way he coached people to live healthy. Instead of asking people what they are eating, he gets them focused in on the things that are eating them; or cause them to make poor choices and compromise their physical body. Health is not sustainable when it is pursued through sets and reps; however, it can flourish when it is implemented by healthy thoughts and healthy actions.

Joe is the owner and operator of West Des Moines Fit Body Boot Camp, is a NASM certified trainer, and a graduate of The Institute of Integrative Nutrition where he learned the power of nutrition in people’s lives. He is a published author and co-founder of the fitness ministry “Fit 4 the King” and a published contributor to “Your Health Turnaround Story.”

Joe’s inside-out approach to getting his clients healthier is highly effective and proven for long-term success. By stressing the importance of environment, habits, and behavior as the key to personal transformation, his clients learn to focus on the positive and finally learn how to leave the extra baggage they’ve been carrying around behind: giving way to a freedom they had only dreamed of.

Joe believes that unique situations in life are of significant value in respect to solution-based health coaching. Joe often says, “fitness is not a one size fits all program!” Fitness is a way of living that is unique to the physiology, environment, and goal for each person and should serve as a source of joy, happiness, and availability in daily lives. “This premise has come full circle in the way that I transformed my own health,” says Joe.