Evolve with Jared

Thank you to my great friend and incredible artist / for these epics shots 🐒🙏📸

Friends that ice together, stay together 💙

Sundays are typically rest days. Diego does ice baths every Sunday. Netta and I don’t always, but we feel amazing when we do!

What do you do on your rest days?

❇️ New Classes in Samui!

Tuesday at 2:30pm | Primal Flow 🦍
Train your body and your brain by learning ground-based, natural movement flows. Through crawling, you'll reconnect your body and mind while growing stronger, becoming mobile, and enhancing endurance.
[Intermediate class: You should be comfortable sitting in a squat and spending lots of time in a plank position]

Thursday at 2:30pm | Calisthenics 🤸
Master essential bodyweight strength skills like Pull Ups, Dips, & Squats before progressing to masterful feats like Handstands, Front Levers, & Pistol Squats!
[Intermediate class: You should be comfortable sitting in a squat and spending lots of time in a plank position]

Saturday at 9:30am | Movement & Mobility 💚
An introduction to movement and mobility training. You'll learn how the human body moves and how to optimize your movement patterns while growing stronger and becoming more mobile.
[Beginner level class: suitable for everyone]

👁 See your movement practice in a whole new way:
Join the Samui Movement family at Koh FIght!

Send a DM or message me on WhatsApp to secure a spot:
📲 +1 6478078147

Finding bliss

Thanks for the shot 📸

💪The Best Shape of My Life 🌿

I visited for the second time on December 20th to check in on my progress towards my body composition goals. Along with my training log I now have the records to prove that I am the strongest, leanest, and most skilled I’ve ever been in my life. I’ve lost weight (mostly fat), continued getting stronger, and taken more steps towards skills like one-arm chin ups and one-arm handstands. I’ve been able to get here…

❎ Without tracking calories or macros

✅ Eating mindfully and keeping myself full of food and energy
Increasing my training volume slowly and sustain

I don’t care so much for aesthetics, but one arm chin ups and one arm handstands will be much easier to achieve if I weigh less. My #1 priority will always be how I feel and my relationship with myself. At no point will I ever sacrifice my mental health to “get shredded” or look a certain way. In the first photo, I am feeling amazing, as well as physically in the best shape of my life. No fancy lighting, no flex, and fully hydrated.

I want to prove to everyone:

➡️ It is possible to look good AND feel good

➡️ It is possible to lose weight WITHOUT starving yourself

➡️ It is possible to achieve your fitness goals while eating intuitively/mindfully

Focus on how you feel.
Give your body, your mind, and your spirit the resources they need to thrive.
And watch what an incredible human being you grow into.

Humans are not built.
We are grown.
Cultivate the best self you can be. 🌿

💪 Thanks to the team , I am better equipt to make a personal evolution than ever before.

I’ve always recommended my students don’t focus on the number on the scale. Our overall bodyweight is not a good indication of our health. When we gain or lose weight, we don’t know if it’s muscle or fat that we’ve gained/lost. Fluctuations in our weight can be misleading and hard to understand.

In pursuit of some relative-strength feats like the one arm chin up, one arm handstand, nordic hamstring curl, and more, it’s important to maintain a lean body composition while maintaining as much strength as possible. The lighter I am the easier the skills will be to achieve, but I can’t sacrifice my strength in the process! So I want to make sure that if I do lose weight, I am losing mostly fat mass.

Now, I want to take my skills to the next level. That’s where Body Sculpt comes in. This machine measures body composition with great accuracy and even provides insights into health-risks based on body proportions, exercise programming recommendations based on your goals, and more. When I go back in about a months time, I’ll know whether I’ve lost muscle or fat, so I can adjust my programming or stay the path.

My goals:
- Drop from 82.5 kg to 78.5 kg by January 20th
- Maintain as much muscle mass as possible
- Unlock the One Arm Chin Up and a 5 second One Arm Handstand in early 2023

My plan:
- Reduce overall calorie intake so I’m at a small deficit (about 550 cal / day)
- Increase protein intake so I continue to grow stronger and maintain muscle mass
- Strength training 3 times a week
- Skills & movement training 3 times a week
- Increasing my daily step-count
- Good quality sleep and smart programming to ensure recovery between sessions

I’m partnering with Body Sculpt to reach my own goals and help my students reach their goals too.
Interested in getting a custom workout program, guidance from myself, and incredible insights about your body? ⬇️

Book a free consultation today.
Link in bio 🔗



🤷 Struggling to improve your flexibility?

Save this post and read below! 🚩

There are many types of stretching, so if one hasn’t worked, there’s another that will! Below are a few effective techniques. But first, the KEYS 🔑 to making them work!

🫁 Breathing!
Keep your breathing slow and controlled. Lengthen your exhalations. This will relax the entire body, including the muscles being stretched.

😫 Your Face!
Stop making that “I’m holding in a 💩” face. Tension in the face, neck, or jaw will translate into tension in the rest of your body. Calm face = calm mind = calm body.

Now, apply those keys to these techniques:

1️⃣ Static Stretching:
The best place to begin. This involves stretching a muscle to near its furthest point and then holding that position for at least 30 seconds or more. There is no movement or motion. It can be active or passive.

2️⃣ Dynamic Stretching:
A form of active stretching. This involves making controlled, active movements that stretch the muscles to their full range of motion.

3️⃣ Ballistic Stretching:
This is similar to dynamic stretching , but instead of moving a body part to the end of its range of motion you attempt to go beyond this range by using some momentum. These stretches are often a higher risk of injury, but can be effective for experienced practitioners.

4️⃣ PNF (Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation): This form of stretching involves stretching a muscle to its max ROM, then using an isometric contraction (contracting the muscle without moving) of the target muscle for 6-10 seconds, then relaxing the muscle again and allowing it to stretch further.

Stretching works! It just needs to be done right!

Want to improve your flexible, mobility, and move pain free? ⬇️

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🌿 A lifestyle transformation... from corporate consultant (left, 2017) to traveling movement coach (right, 2022)

And it was largely thanks to journaling!

I started journaling (near) daily in early 2017. Aside from my movement practice, it has changed my life more drastically and positively than any other practice I have to date.

How?

Without my journaling practice I would not have found the courage too...

1️⃣ Quit my old job and start a business

2️⃣ Spend more than a year traveling solo

3️⃣ Been able to navigate through uncertain (and COVID-filled) times with relative confidence and trust in myself and the world

What my journaling practice entails:

🙏🏼 I reflect on the many things I'm grateful for

🧠 I use a series of questions that keep me in a steady and confident state of mind

🍏 I reflect on my diet, my movement, and my personal philosophies and how it effects my well-being

♥️ I spent more than a year exploring my purpose and I remind myself of it always

Doing these things consistently for a long time has created a positive feedback loop of healthy habits, behaviours, and beliefs.

I believe so strongly in the transformative power of journaling that I've decided to create a challenge that is going to focus on enabling YOU to develop a series of questions and focus points for yourself to find this same positive feedback loop through journaling and in your own life. 🔄 Its been more than a year in the making! I started it before returning to Thailand, but I got caught up in new endeavours! I've finally taken the time to finish it!

It will be called
🌱Evolve Everyday 🌿

I'll be launching the challenge very soon! Keep your eyes peeled for the launch date and the sign up links 💚 It will be 100% free to join.

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DO YOU HAVE A JOURNALING PRACTICE ALREADY? 📖

I'm very curious what you like to write about 🙏🏼 No need to share anything personal, but please comment below: what is your strategy for journaling?

🥶 Laughing through discomfort. Thanks for another magical experience .connection

Ice bath with .alessandra

🦍 Can't wait to be teaching Calisthenics again 💪

The classes are suitable for all levels. I'll show you how you can get an incredibly effective workout using the only piece of equipment you ever really need: your body.

We'll focus on developing fundamental strength and mobility for exercises like...

✅ Push Ups
✅ Pull Ups
✅ Full ROM Squats
✅ Hollow Body Holds

& practice progressions for more advanced moves/postures like:

✅ Tuck Planche
✅ Tuck Front Lever
✅ Pistol Squats
✅ Dragon Flag

Classes start tomorrow!
(Tues & Thurs at 630pm)

300b drop-in
1000b for 4 classes
2000b for 8 classes

DM me for more info 👍🏼

💚 Gratitude 🙏🏼

Had a great conversation recently with a friend about gratitude. It inspired me to bring back the "What are you grateful for?" posts on my stories.

To my friend and I (and many others), it's self-evident that the more we practice gratitude, the more positive things seem to come to us. Maybe it's simple psychology, maybe it's something much deeper. ✨

I've come to believe that we make our own luck. If we can think positively, speak positively, and share positive energy, naturally we fall into a positive environment and opportunities come to us with little effort. The "luck" is an illusion.

Any change outside of ourselves first comes from within.

🧘🏼 Practice gratitude 🧠

➡️ Manifest health, wealth, and happiness 💚

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Check my IG stories to share what your grateful for each day 💚 it makes me incredibly happy to share this practice and see what amazing things are happening in your lives.
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Grateful for you 💚🙏🏼
Wishing you well





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🎾 Never thought I'd be a PE teacher, a personal trainer, or a yoga teacher. Here's a few facts about me you probably don't know:

1️⃣ I graduated university with a bachelor's of design (I'm more the artsy-fartsy type than the jock)

2️⃣ When I was a kid I wanted to be a paleontologist or marine biologist (I'm still obsessed with nature, evolution, and Jurassic Park) 🦖

3️⃣ My first real job was working as a Tech Design Consultant at a corporate firm

So how'd I end up teaching yoga, personal training, and physical education?

💚 Following my heart,

✊🏻 Facing my fears,

♠️ Taking risks

🔄 And learning from my mistakes

And the funny thing is...

I still don't know what the f*ck I wanna do or where I want to go

I just trust that this life, this world, and the entropy that drives them are already in perfect harmony. I do my best to stay present and experience life as fully as I can. I don't want to know where I'm going, I want it to be a suprise. I'll be prepared for the worst and manifest the best.

Taking that approach to life has served me pretty well the past few years. It'll be interesting to see if it continues that way.

I am here, now.

Teaching PE, yoga, and all sorts of fun and useful stuff to people who are as interesting, crazy, and loving as I intend to be.

✌🏼& 💚

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Thanks for the epic shot 📸
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“What’s the time, Mr. Wolf?” ⏰

FS2 fun and games with P.E. Teacher Jared! 😁

Reposting: .lis.family

🐉 Learn to bend and you'll be hard to break

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Yoga + Animal Flow class tomorrow at 8:45am ICT

Check the link in my bio to book
➡️ LIVE CLASSES
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👽 See the bridge. Be the bridge.

👁‍🗨 "When I die, I will return as a baby...

When I die, a baby will be born...

I believe there is no difference between these two sentences"

- Alan Watts

🏝 LIVE CLASSES IN LAMAI COMING SOON ⬇️

Tuesdays at Lamai International School 📍
( .lis.family )

Thursday's at the Samui Health Shop 📍( )

These classes guide participants through a no-equipment-needed, full-body session aimed at achieving freedom of movement, strength, mobility, balance, control, and mind-body connection. Please bring your own yoga mat, proper attire, water, and a big smile 🙂

For more details, times, and booking; click the LIVE CLASSES link in my bio 🔗

📸 Cant take me anywhere...

Which pose do you like most? (comment below) ⬇️

🐺 "LUNCHTIME"

Teaching the kids how to play Mr. Wolf, dance to the Hokey Pokey, and move like all kinds animals in PE class today. I love my job 😅

Blog post about my first month as a PE teacher at the Lamai International School coming very soon! Stay tuned 👍🏼

🦍 Free Virtual Handstand class this week! 🌿

Suitable for all levels! We'll be using a combination of calisthenics, primal movement, and yoga to learn the foundations of hand balancing so you can begin (or strengthen) your handstand journey!

Check the link in my bio and click the LIVE CLASSES button to book this week's class and get all the details. ✅

I'll be teaching from the balcony of my quarantine hotel in Thailand 🏝 So excited to bring live classes back!

Hope to see you there!

💭 thoughts

How strange and amazing it feels to be back on this island. It’s the only place I’ve called home outside Canada. I haven’t been able to leave my room yet, but luckily I will be able to explore the island under the program very soon (assuming my 2nd COVID test comes back negative).

It seems in the blink of an eye the whole world has changed… I was last in Samui in August 2019. Since then…

I visited Malaysia, Singapore, and Bali

I found a new job

the pandemic hit

I got layed off from that job

I built a collection of tutorials that eventually became a whole new business venture and coaching practice

I fell in love

I fell out of love and into depression

I realized the love was always there (and much grander than I know what to do with except laugh)

And I created innumerable memories with family and friends

All the while, things here in Thailand have changed drastically

It’s a whole new place I’ve come back to

A reminder that change is the only constant

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I’ve been doing a lot of reading and writing - the Evolve Everyday Challenge (a month long guide to mindfulness journaling) will be released on August 20th. Stay tuned for more details 📚

This page is an extension on my journal.

is a document of my recent life’s journey. It began when I quit my 9-5 and jumped on a plane to visit this very island. That was 3 years ago.

It’s as much for myself as it is anyone else.

It’s a space for me to reflect, pour my thoughts, as well as connect with others.

I’m so grateful for those who read and listen 💚🙏🏼

Even more so who share their own journeys as well.

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The adventure continues…