Cord’s 4-Layer Cake: Moderation, Body, Mind and Spirit

A fitness philosophy born from 23 years of writing, training, and watching the industry contradict itself — distilled into four simple layers.

On Wednesday, May 6, 1998, my first Fit & Healthy column was published in the Pikes Peak Courier newspaper in Teller County, Colorado. In it, I laid out the importance of fitness and a healthy lifestyle as it pertains to quality of life and longevity. Slowly, over the years, those first words morphed into the guiding principles as to how I try to live my life. It also became the foundation of my training techniques and lifestyle counseling for hundreds of clients over the years. I find those principles as pertinent today — here in Bigfork — as they were 23 years ago.

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