Lower Carbs, Lower Calories but the SAME great product for Energy, Vitamins, Mental Focus and even pre-workout fuel.

If you are a spark fan like myself, this is great news! Advocare was able to reduce one of the inactive ingredients called maltodextrin. I never knew this, but Maltodextrin is where three or more carbohydate molecules are joined together to help product pass through equipment during manufacturing.

One of the things I love about Advocare is that they are always ahead of the curve and looking for ways to improve. With their new access to better manufacturing equipment, they have now been able to reduce from:

45 Calories – to Only 15 Calories

11 Carbohydrates- to only 4 Carbs

They did this without changing any of the active ingredients like B-Vitamins, Chromium, Zinc, Vitamin C, Vitamin E and all the other great stuff.

You still mix the scoop (which is smaller) in 80zs of water.

Who is SPARK for?

1. Everyone… Seriously though, it has so many applications and is helpful in so many ways there are hundreds of ways it can make an impact in your daily life.
2. If you struggle with energy or mental focus around that 2-3pm time – The B-Vitamins are like brain food and will help you re-focus and finish up your day.
3. If you are a coke or diet coke drinker – I can’t tell you how many people Spark has helped kick the nasty soda habit.
4. If you need something to use before your workouts – If you ever struggle to get in the right nutrients or run out of energy before you finish your training session. Not only the vitamins that are in it, but the caffeine (equivalent to a cup of coffee) will help power you through your training session and ensure you are burning FAT instead of lean muscle.
5. If you are a heavy coffee drinker – Don’t get me wrong now, I love love love a good cup of coffee (black) but when it turns into 3, 4 or a pot of coffee that is a bad thing. Perhaps its that you take your coffee with cream, sugar, etc… It’s like I used to tell my wife Brandy, you have cream and sugar with a splash of coffee!

As you can see there are so many applications, but in the end… I feel that if we just have enough energy the decisions we make are usually so much better.

Too tired to… go to the gym

Too tired to… prepare a healthy meal

Too tired to… keep working on that big project

Too tired to… (you fill in the blank)

With this new and improved formula I want to encourage each of you to take the SPARK challenge:

If you struggle with any of the above, give it one month and just see. One box of Spark has 14 packets so two boxes will get you almost a month. Or, a canister has 42 servings and is even more economical per serving.

Get Yours Right here: Gritton’s Advocare Site

Enjoy

Jeremy

239 Years ago one of the things our forefathers wanted was the opportunity for LIFE, LIBERTY and you know the rest… The Pursuit of Happiness!

Those 13 colonies, and the majority of people who occupied them, wanted freedom and the chance to live and become whoever they wanted. Regardless of birthright.

This week I want to issue a challenge for everyone reading this, go and pursue your happiness with your body. Don’t succumb to what the world is telling you is the new fit or strong. Some photo shopped picture of a celebrity who probably doesn’t look anything like that minus the cosmetics, air brushing and proper lighting isn’t even realistic nor accurate.

What does fit and healthy mean to you? Is it being able to get down on the floor and play with your grand-kids? Perhaps it’s putting on a pair of jeans you haven’t been able to fit into for a few years?

But no matter what, don’t let anyone else tell you what you should look like. Great Britain tried to do it to us all those years ago and it didn’t work then, don’t let the current popular SHAPE determine your pursuit. You know what feels right, you know what makes you happy and confident so go and PURSUE it.

Happy 4th of July my friends, and YES, it’s still the greatest country on earth.

Your Coach;

Jeremy

I hope you had a nice Fathers Day last week with your families!

After my wife Brandy made my favorite meal (and no I’m not telling what that was) we were sitting around discussing things we wanted for the future and you want to know what I wished for?

I wished for the opportunity to help more people achieve a healthier lifestyle and lead happier more fulfilled lives. Specifically, I hate when people miss out on all the adventures life has to offer because of either being self conscious or not in the best physical condition to do something like hiking a mountain with their family.

This is a big part of our mission statement at GTS and I just had a client share her success story of just that kind of event.

One of my clients (who requested to remain nameless) told me I could tell her story. I hope it motivates and inspires you as much as it did me;

My friend, came to GTS about 18 months ago feeling sluggish, defeated and nearly on the brink of giving up on regaining her fitness and pre-baby body.

I will never forget her emotional consultation on day 1 and how she shared with me the importance of being an example for her 3 small children. What brought her to us was the day that she was out of breathe after climbing her kids steps at school and was horrified that she would embarrass her kids in front of their friends.

So she made a decision that day that she would find an accountability partner, a workout buddy or just someone who would be honest with her, while still encouraging her to reach for her dreams.

She was still hesitant to do anything long term for fear or failure (which is such a terrible, but very real thing in our minds). She tried us out for a month, started to feel her energy come back and then on final weigh-in day she saw her first glimpse into her new future… one that was 17 pounds and 13inches lighter than just 4 weeks before.

Again the moment was emotional, but this time for a different reason. Exuberance and joy because she finally had hope again, hope that she could be that example for her kids and she could be energetic and active. She could even begin the process of healing her self-image.

I share this emotional story with you because she just recently sent me a picture of herself on the top of a mountain in Colorado where she had just hiked up nearly 2500 feet in elevation.

The smile on her face was motivation and a reminder that what we do at GTS is such more than helping people lose a few pounds. Our wish, is to see that same smile on your face.  Come visit us and take your first step toward climbing your own mountain.

Your Coach,

Jeremy

Believe it or not, 1% of tweaks in your life can lead to the most profound changes in every area.

I know 1% doesn’t sound like much, but before you stop reading, let me explain.

Would you agree that we have hundreds of habits, that we practice every day without even being aware of them.

For Example

1. Which shoe do you put on first?
2. Which way do you drive to work?
3. What radio or satellite station do you listen to?
4. When do you eat each meal?
5. When you kiss your spouse, which way do you tilt your head?

There are hundreds and hundreds of these habits that every single person on the planet follow without giving any thought to what they do.

So what if you changed just one of these? What if, instead of having a glass of wine after dinner you eat some greek yogurt? If you did that every day for just one year, could it have an impact on your body-composition? Of course it would!

I recently read an article by James Clear, you can look him up at jamesclear.com and see the article I’m referring to, I can tell you it had a profound effect on my thinking.

He talks about how a cycling coach from Great Britain. Dave Railsford became the coach of Team Sky (Great Britains professional cycling team) in 2010 and faced a challenging situation.

No Brit cyclist had ever won the Tour de France and when Railsford took over the team he declared that in 5yrs time they would win their very first Tour.

Railsford focused on the smallest of things (pillows they slept on, the best way to wash their hands to avoid infection, tire weight, seat ergonomics) the things that many performance coaches didn’t even think about.

This 1% changes added up to a Brit winning the 2012 and the 2013 Tour de France and the team dominating the gold medals at the 2012 Olympics.

So how does this apply for us?

Habits are hundreds and hundreds of tiny decisions made over the course of time that lead to either a positive or a negative in our life. We don’t suddenly change a habit and transform our life, but in the long run I believe these small nearly unnoticeable changes become who we are, how we feel and our overall happiness.

When we make the decision to lose weight and get into shape, we forget that the habits we have formed over X amount of time will also take time to change to the positive.

Just as easy as it can be to make a 1% change for the good, it is also just as easy (or easier) to allow one extra cheat meal or one more time to skipped workout to put an extra 10lbs of bad weight on.

So today, as soon as you finish reading this post, I want you to pick one thing you can improve by just 1%. Write it down, post it on your bathroom mirror (or somewhere else you will see multiple times each day) and begin to see the power of 1% compounding over time.

For me… I am going to make sure I get my third day of cardio in each week. Note is going up tonight when I get home. It’s too easy to say…ohh my knee hurts I shouldn’t run again this weekend, but you know what? I can ride my bike, take my paddleboard to the lake, do mountain climbers and other cardio exercises to get the heart rate up. The bad knee Ive been nursing is just an excuse.

Join me, lets do it.

Your Coach,

Jeremy