Find out who is behind Working Man Fitness and learn about the Working Man Fitness core values.

About Justin Qualler

Justin has been training his body for over 15 years, is ACE and Steve Maxwell certified, and has taught classes and workshops in the Milwaukee, WI area.

He writes about his fitness and health philosophy on this site and in eBooks and books. He speaks about his fitness and health philosophy to anyone who will listen.

About Working Man Fitness

Working Man Fitness is a place where you can go to learn to take better care of yourself. The aim is to motivate you and inspire you to take control of your habits, your addictions, and your fitness and health to become a better version of yourself.

To keep focused, Working Man Fitness stands by the following core values:

Make Health and Fitness a Part of Your Daily Life

If you don’t address your underlying habits, you will never have control over your health and fitness. Many diets and exercise programs are only concerned about surface-level results like losing weight and getting toned. But until you change your behaviors, your level of health and fitness will be out of your control and dependent on your ability to adhere to the latest fad diet or fad exercise program. The long view of health and fitness incorporates behavior change instead of strict, short-term regimens that produce short-term results. When health and fitness become a way of life, you’re free from yo-yo dieting, starvation diets, and from the cycle of guilt and suffering that inevitably accompany the failure of short-term approaches to achieve long-term results.

Don’t Overcomplicate Health and Fitness

Remember, humans have been around for a long time. It’s only recently that we needed fancy shoes, clothes, and supplements. Eliminate the negative and accentuate the positive. Eliminate soda and drink more water. Reduce sugar and eat more vegetables. Park your car farther away. Go for brisk walks. It needn’t be complicated.

The Importance of Self-Discovery

We live in a world where if you’re not paying attention, marketing and advertising, rather than our own inner selves, is telling us what to think, what to believe, what is cool, what sucks, how we should look, what we should wear, what we should put into our mouths, and who we should be. The Greeks said “A healthy mind in a healthy body.” When you adopt a long view of health and fitness, you start elevating your consciousness and you stop making compulsive choices and begin to think about how your habits are affecting your health on a day-to-day basis. As this process unfolds, and you gain more control over your actions, emotions, and your thoughts–you are less likely to be swayed by what is new and cool, and instead opt for what is right and true, automatically and without struggle.

Spiritual Evolution is the Goal

Our culture is trapped in an unsustainable lower level of existence where fear, competition, profit, and material gain reign supreme. Short term profits and quick fixes are favored over dig your heels in approaches that actually solve real problems. On a global level we disregard and damage our physical earth while on an individual level we disregard and damage our physical body. By raising our consciousness and evolving spiritually we see the problems of our day not as us vs. them problems but simply us problems. Real change starts within. If you make yourself a better person, you make the world a better place. We won’t solve our current problems with the same level of consciousness that created them.

We Must Stay Motivated and Inspired to Change and Make Ourselves Better

Making fundamental changes can be difficult. We need to immerse ourselves in positive literature that promotes the values we aspire to. We need to associate with people who are supportive and read stories about those who live the lives we want and aspire to. Working Man Fitness aims to be a place where you can be motivated and inspired to take control of your health and fitness and change your habits to make them healthier and more sustainable.

Education is Never Ending

Each of us should continually be learning and working to improve ourselves. Getting too comfortable with where we are, whether intellectually, physically, or spiritually, leads to complacency. Working Man Fitness aims to offer educational resources that promote the long term approach to health and fitness.