"Love and Gratitude" Now Organic Fitness Email:
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Organic Fitness Mission Statement
Organic Fitness intends to light the path of health and fitness to the world. Organic Fitness has a mission to increase awareness of nutrition and exercise science utilizing seminars, articles, and one-on-one training
leading the evolution completely dependent upon Love and Gratitude with only positive thoughts and intentions. Organic Fitness will adapt to any goal of any individual, and will use any and every method needed to accomplish this.
The progression of everlasting health should be an effortless challenge as we all should abide by the laws of nature, respecting movement as we forage for nutrients in our food.
May 2010
May 15 start the next adventure to Costa Rica by bicycle from Florida
Please Add to the Active Blog2010
How Blessed I am to take every breathe. The Joy is overwhelming and must be spread and shared. Organic Fitness is teaching at Broward College until May which is a cherished opportunity. Permaculture is the major curriculum for Organic Fitness personal studies and is being applied in an urban setting with 3 layers in an apartment.
2009
An entire year of Love and Gratitude! So much has gone on there has not been an update! Organic Fitness has continued the curriculum throughout 2009 and again in 2010 with Introduction to Wellness. Jamaica was outstanding throughout the month of September in Little Bay, Westmoreland. The month of October was a prize as well in Uvita, Costa Rica at Cascada Verde Organic Permaculture farm. To many stories to tell, and so much learned. Here are some pictures from this great adventure of farming, permaculture, and Organic Fitness seminars.
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Pictures and poems are the closest attempt to explaining the ever present joy released in Jamaica and Costa Rica. One month spent in each destination learning about the culture, myself, nature, and everything else as I traveled instead of vacationing making homes for Organic Fitness.
Poem
of the Blessed time in Jamaica
Feb/March 2009
Sending Positive Energy to the world. Being Over Human, Love over
Love. Full Time teaching position at Broward College. More experience
and success sprouting. Bicycled over the famous 7 mile bridge, over 50
cumulative miles from Marathon to Key West...Joy and Faith took me
home. Danced around fires to celebrate the Solstice and set intentions
and the Earth and Us farm.
January 2009
What a beautiful world with beautiful people- as Organic Fitness celebrated the new year in the Netherlands to unite with France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Japan, England, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Holland, Dubia, Italy, Ireland, and many other blessed countries...thank you all. Visited the Hortis Botanicas which houses over 6,000 different species of medicinal plants started in the 1700's being one of the 3 oldest and largest in the world. Stepped food in buildings from the 1200's. United with Jay's Juice of Amsterdam to stay healthy in the city- go see him for a shot of homegrown wheat grass and tell him Organic Fitness sent you! Mr. Keith Lopez of Organic Fitness becomes a wellness teacher at Broward Community College! ...since one aspect of wellness is environmental wellness, a veggie-Benz is in order...100% vegetable 84 Benz is how Organic Fitness travels to class!!! Be cautious when you eat it though, that stuff is dirty!!! Books studied: Ghandi Peace , Don Miguel Ruiz the Mastery of Love , Thich Nhat Hanh True Love .
December 2008
The Garden of Love was created with help of Healthy Marcus. www.BlessedLoveHealthCare.com has showed her community garden to Organic Fitness and work has been done! Organic Farming Books studied and farm-warming parties are celebrated. A Local orange distributor (oalkland and 56th) is found, named Gonzales #(954-746-2289)...wild and fresh!
Hugh Birch Park
hosts a drum circle in which free spirited organic workout dance is
practiced. The Buddhist Meditation Center is founded in Fort Lauderdale
of prospect, and thanks is giving every Thursday at 7:30pm. The reading enlightenment club is formed at the kavakava bar on sunrise in Fort
Lauderdale every Wednesday night. A Half Marathon is ran by Organic
Fitness in sunny So-Flo. Another drum circle is celebrated with the
winter solstice at the pompano pier with an amazing synergy between
drummer and Organic dance. Connecticut gives a warm welcome with 30 degree
weather and OrganicFitness visits the J.C.C.S. to share secrets, along
with a 6 mile run in the snow!
November 2008
The Garden of JAH is being laid out with the help of Mike and Family. Compost has been created with fruit and vegetable scraps to become dirt which has nourished to life sunflower and daikon radish sprouts. Sunrise productions has released a limited edition Organic Fitness Beach Workout. Constant revisions have been made to the OGFit.com and OrganicFitness Books are now available for free download.
October 2008
The Long awaited
and intricately studied raw food culture is completely incorporated to
Organic Fitness. Sprouting, garden set-ups, and wheat-grass growing is
fully incorporated into Organic Fitness. The full spectrum of health is
now available upon demand of what the people need. Constant research is
done while Organic Fitness is in its first years with primary attention
from founder Keith Lopez. Concentrations on existing clients, farming,
botany, herbalism course-work, studying of wild edibles such as flowers,
roots, barks, and herbs.
A Story of how it started....the OGFit BIO-
My name is Keith Lopez. I began my journey of everlasting health upon completion of high school. It was a rough start, but I enjoyed every minute of it...the journey itself was the true adventure. I was severely de conditioned during that time period; it was a long slow climb to physical fitness. I began by running around the block and playing basketball. As I tried to speed up this process of fitness, I joined some friends at the local gym. It was a big corporate gym that brought intimidation into my mind, but I just followed my friends who were avid weightlifters. They pushed me and encouraged me to lift more weight that I thought I would be able to lift. I lifted it, but I was sore for weeks. I never wanted to go back to a gym again in hopes of avoiding this terrible feeling of pain and discomfort that was disabling my daily movement. However, this intense intimidation and pain faded over time with the power of knowledge. This new found knowledge made the difference and I realized that a person could spend 2 hours a day in the gym to obtain 30% body fat and another person could spend 2 hours a week exercising to obtain 10% body fat. In other words, time is not the only factor of a workout program. Instead of letting time rule my life, I made time adapt to my life. And to make sure it became a part of my habitual routine, I told myself that if I could find time to brush my teeth, then I could find time to work out.
I began truly enjoying my
workouts when I first went to college in Georgia. While in college, I
studied exercise and health sciences with a concentration in health
promotion. In class, I had the privilege of hearing fact after fact of
how exercise and nutrition can help you in every day life. The facts of
health motivated me and propelled me to stay active. I could no longer
let a day go by without activity. I could not let myself become
sedentary, even for one day, after learning that the physical and mental
impact can be more life –threatening than any other modality.
This life changing knowledge was not the only reason I began to love my
workouts and look forward to them. The enjoyment and passion also came
from the type of exercise and the person who guided me through those
workouts. That person was Dr. Wayne Van Horne. Dr. Van Horne instructs
Koshiski Sakagawa Shorinji-Ryu Karate Do at my college campus with
passion and complete dedication. I had no choice but to absorb this
passion and dedication. He changed my life.
I realized that I can change my
body to look better, feel better, and react better. I also experienced
my mind working better, with more clarity and a greater ability to
focus. This increase in blood flow to my brain certainly reflected in my
grades, which confirmed that exercise and nutrition increase the
brain’s the ability to learn. The exponential benefits of exercise
enabled me to stay committed to a progressive fitness program that is
still evolving.
Upon completion of college I moved back to Connecticut to start my
internship at a nutrition center for a large inner-city school system. I
was shocked that this was called a nutrition center since the food
offered possessed little nutrition. No fresh fruits or vegetables were
offered due to the ease of storing frozen or canned produce. The meals
did not look appetizing, so I didn’t even opt to eat a free lunch! This
could easily explain why children eat french fries and soda or a
pre-packaged cup cake in lieu of a healthy balanced lunch. That’s
unfortunately what I ate for the majority of my high school career and I
fear I’m not alone. These eating habits might also explain the stomach
pain I experienced daily for most of my life.
I constantly spoke with the
nutritionist that developed the menus in hopes of spurring change. She
agreed that we needed to include fresh produce and more appetizing meals
in the menu, but unfortunately this was not accomplished during the
duration of my internship. However, I have witnessed schools that have
increased the nutritional quality of the food served and there was a
direct correlation with increased productivity, focus, and overall test
scores.
After my internship, I started my first job out of college with high
expectations. I worked with a large company that outfits fitness centers
in the corporate work place. I was able to experience two large,
multimillion dollar companies named UBS Warburg and Ford. During this
time, I witnessed many different teaching and motivational styles of
fitness. Instructor techniques varied when motivating a bodybuilder
versus someone that has over 30% body fat. I learned quickly and my
training as a great motivator began. I found myself teaching unorthodox
fitness routines and encouraging my clients to do more than working out
in the gym. My clients would constantly speak with excitement regarding
the wholesome foods they had been eating. I recently spoke with one of
my clients from a community center where I worked after my experience
with corporate fitness. She told me that she still hears my voice
pushing her to capability. She still practices many exercises that I had
taught her in addition to her current workouts with a personal trainer.
When I worked at a local community center in Connecticut, I found that it was a great balance to my past career experience. It was an opposing setting from the previous job I had in the corporate world. I taught many fitness classes and trained people from ages of 8 to 83. I began molding my own fitness techniques though research and experience. I constantly worked to refine my fitness program to mold to any goal, body type, age or gender. Regardless of conditioning or time schedule, I was determined to create a fitness program that would make anyone and everyone healthier. I can now guarantee this claim to better health for anyone and this is why I created this website. Welcome to the website that will change your life; these theories are guaranteed to make YOU healthier regardless of your current health.
OrganicFitnessMission Statement
Organic Fitness intends to light the path of health and fitness to the world. Organic Fitness has a mission to increase awareness of nutrition and exercise science utilizing seminars, lectures, articles, and one-on-one training. The progression of everlasting health should be an effortless challenge as we all should abide by the laws of nature, respecting movement as we forage for nutrients in our food. Organic Fitness leads the
evolution of nutrition and fitness completely dependent upon love and gratitude with only positive thoughts and intentions. Organic Fitness will adapt to any goal of any individual, and will use any and every method needed to accomplish this.
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Chris Nettles, Owner of C.J.'s Draft House
Dear Keith,
Just a letter to express my gratitude for all of your help. When I started training with you , I weighed 220 lbs. With your expertise and knowledge and my will and determination, I now weigh 183 lbs (it only took 5 months, the slower you lose it, the easier it is to keep off) That is almost 40 lbs of fat gone forever! Eight months later, I still eat and train just as hard if not harder. Your supervision of my diet was an aspect of your program that no other trainer has ever done for me. As you know I own a restaurant and am around lots of food that tastes great but is sooooo bad for you. Now my normal choices are grilled chicken and fish, broccoli, and lots of delicious salads. I now eat lots of fruits and vegetables, I stay away from refined grains, and I love life. I feel great. At 38 years old, I feel like I’m in my early 20’s. I even did a 75 mile bike ride to the keys just 3 months after we started our training. Keep up the good work and if anyone has any doubt that they can do it, have them call me!
I trained with
Keith Lopez for two years. As a 30-something mother of two boys, I knew
nothing about fitness. In fact, I had never participated in sports or
any other athletic activity. I didn't even understand where my biceps
and triceps were, and I had never done a single push-up in my life. I
started training with the intent to do just a few sessions to learn the
basics, but he always made the sessions so fun, innovative, and
challenging that I kept buying more sessions for two years. I would
still be training with him if he hadn't relocated. As a result of his
extreme patience, dedication, and encouragement I can now do exercises
that I never could have imagined were possible for me. I can do 15+
pull-ups consecutively, multiple types of push-ups and I can bench press
my own body weight - all with perfect form. He always said that he
would never ask me to try an exercise that I wasn't capable of so I just
assumed I must be able to do the exercise and forgot to doubt myself.
Most importantly, my increased self esteem
translated to other areas of my life. Now I serve as role-model to other
women who want to reach the levels that I have. The fact that I
continue to inspire others keeps me motivated. When I'm doing all the
exercises he taught me I still hear his instructions and remember how
important perfect form is. There is always room for improvement so I
continue to challenge myself farther, both in exercise and nutrition. In
fact, during my vacation I plan to work out on the beach with friends,
just because it's fun! Thanks to Keith Lopez I feel healthy and strong
and have a lifelong passion for exercise. I will never forget how
valuable his sessions were.
-Amy Borders
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Allan Prince, Exercise
and Health Specialist, C.P.T.
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As an in
dependant, career-absorbed single woman, i had no time for my own
fitness. I was never overweight but i wasn't what anyone would call
"toned" either. In my industry, hours and days fluctuate often and
include almost consistent travel. This made it almost impossible for
me to see any real results when i finally joined my first gym and
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Allan Prince
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Ranen Nicholson, Personal Trainer and Supplement Technician “Training with Keith is a great pleasure, what ever training you desire will be acquired. Whether it’s training with heavy weights or just body weight I guarantee results. I train for football hard ass hell four times on level 10 intensity. I sprint one mile in intervals of 10- 100’s, 10- 40’s, 10- 20’s, and 20- 10 yard sprints Training with
body weight was hard as hell even through in great shape…in 5 minute
body weight workout I was sore for two days When people come to you they
actually get taken care of, unlike the majority of larger training
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Shawn Carroll, Business owner of a million dollar sales organization I was
skeptical at first meeting with Organic Fitness, Keith asked me some
questions about my eating habits and exercise routine, which I skirted
over as an old pro., Keith asked me to keep a list of what I actually
put in my body, this was the beginning of what turned into a huge
realization of the facts of what I was doing to myself physically and
long term. The fast food horrible portion control, bad eating habits of
a lifetime. Thanks Keith for all your help,
Click here for a picture of Shawn Ripped!
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“When I met Keith for the first
time, what attracted me most was his “zest for life”. Of all the people
at the fitness center, Keith had a certain energy that no one else
had. I hired him on the spot, as I wanted to know what he was doing
that no one else did. What I found out was extraordinary… so much so
that he helped me change my life – from the way I train, to the way I
eat. www.SalsaWeb.com PICTURES- http://www.salsafreak.com/gallery.html -The World's Largest Online Salsa Magazine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Christine Kontomerkos, N.D. “Keith is one of the most passionate people I know about health and fitness. I would recommend Organic Fitness to anyone who wants to increase energy levels, feel stronger, healthier, and more confident. And the best thing about Keith is that he can show you how to utilize foods to rejuvenate your body, while simultaneously motivating and nourishing your spirit”. -Christine ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -Jake DaVita, Manager of Multimillion Dollar Gym “I am the manager of a gym, since I have known Keith my
outlook on diet and nutrition has changed. He has always trained me
whenever I needed help. Keith’s entire life is about being as healthy as possible, and to feel like you can live forever”. -Jake ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Chris Ramano, Achieved a Wrestling Award, ranked number 1 in Connecticut
I never thought, in this existence of overindulgence and If it's in your soul, your
mind will shape the body. No matter who -Chris Romano ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
4
months later 
“Training with Keith has changed my life in many different ways!!
First of all, the variety and intensity of programs constantly change
and that is awesome! The fact that I am constantly presented with a
challenge keeps me motivated. Not to mention numerous nutritional
questions I have had for years were clearly explained in a professional
yet understandable manner. The most important part for me was that his
outlook is always extremely positive and inspiring! “
-Wesley
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Isang, Author and Martial Artist
I only do bodyweight exercises with
emphasis on my core and I was becoming a bit stagnant. Keith showed me
some new routines including the Muscle-Up, which until then I had no
clue how it was done. Keith walked me through the steps. I was
unsuccessful the first few times and would have probably given up, but
Keith saw my potential and encouraged me to keep trying. After a few
more attempts, I completed a successful Muscle-Up and now, it is one
of my primary exercises in my routine. Keith's philosophy, motivation,
and enthusiasm are a breath of fresh air and I highly encourage
anyone looking to up their game to contact Keith for training
sessions!
Isang
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Keith Lopez of Organic Fitness is an inspiration and true delight to train with and learn from. He is a wealth of knowledge on both the physical aspect as well as the nutritional aspect. He focuses on the individual and presses each of his clients to success. Keith's personalized workouts keeps his clients pushed to their own limits but always leaving with a smile. I recommend his services for anyone that is serious about improving their overall health and well-being.
-Rebecca Smith
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12 Questions for Health Survey
-All questions are based on daily average-
1. How many servings of uncooked fruits (1 medium sized fruit per serving/ size of one fist) do you eat daily? ___________________________________________________________
2. How many uncooked servings (1 cup per serving/size of one fist) of vegetables do you have daily? __
3. How many servings of animal products total do you have daily? Including all products made from animal (2-3 ounces per serving/size of deck of cards) of meat (cow, pig, chicken, fish, and all animals) including servings of dairy/eggs (8oz milk, 8oz yogurt, 1 egg, or 1 once/small eraser block of cheese) do you eat daily? ___________________________________________________________
4. How many servings (100 calories or 2-5 bites of food) of refined food
(white flour, white rice, sugar, oil, candy, chips, sugary drinks and ALL processed food) do you eat daily? ___________________________________________________________
5. How many minutes is your heart rate elevated (over 110 beats per minute or breathing heavy) for daily? ___________________________________________________________
6. How many minutes do you exercise with muscle contraction (resistance training/bodyweight exercises) daily? ___________________________________________________________
7. How many servings of alcohol do you have daily (1 shot liquor, 8oz beer, 6oz wine)? _____________________________________________
8. How many cigarettes do you smoke daily? ______________________
9. How many pills do you consume daily (all over the counter such as aspirin or prescriptions?) ______________________________________
10. What is your rating of Love and gratitude for life: 1-10 (10 being the most Love)? _______________________________________________
11. Have you ever, or do you have any preventable diseases: clinically obese (over 30% body fat), heart disease, diabetes, or cancer? ___________________________________________________________
12. What is your name, email, phone number, and today’s date? ___________________________________________________________if possible...
-1 minute video testimonial: strength, endurance, energy, emotion, & health-
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