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What is Emotional Fitness?
Emotional Fitness to me is best defined as empowering yourself emotionally through exercise. Emotional Fitness has the ability to help you feel your deserved emotional freedom! Movement can produce a calming and exhilarating effect on multiple levels as you begin to release your own emotions, either joyous or sad. When you embrace fitness as a means of feeling more open emotionally, then your workouts (and life) can reach an entirely new level of happiness! You can have the skills to harness your true powers emotionally and physically while shedding those negative and painful emotions that have held you back from achieving your life and fitness goals. Emotional Fitness will help you achieve a feeling of “wholeness” emotionally and physically in being who you truly are! When you classify exercise in this way, you then begin to live your best quality of life. When you experience what exercise can truly accomplish for you emotionally, you witness the marvel of Emotional Fitness!
The Most Important Workout You'll Ever Do
Emotional Fitness: Empower Yourself Emotionally Through Exercise
What if fitness became more than changing the way you look?
What if it became a way to change the way you think, feel, and live?
That's the heart of Emotional Fitness.
For more than 20 years, I've watched people walk into the gym believing they needed stronger muscles, only to discover they also needed a stronger relationship with themselves. Exercise has an incredible way of improving our physical health, but it can also become one of the most powerful tools for building confidence, managing stress, healing emotional wounds, and finding greater peace.
Emotional Fitness is about learning to use movement with purpose. It is about understanding that every workout is an opportunity to strengthen not only your body, but also your mind, your resilience, and your emotional well-being.
Throughout this journey, I introduce The Five Master Mantras of Emotional Fitness:
Accepting Your Path
Knowing That You Are Worthy
Knowing That You Are Empowered
Lowering the Volume of Trauma
Being Your Biggest Fan
These principles, combined with practical Emotional Guidance Techniques and simple movement exercises, provide a new way of approaching both fitness and life. They are designed to help you quiet self-doubt, build confidence, manage stress, and create healthier patterns that extend far beyond the gym.
Whether you read the book, attend one of my presentations, or work with me directly, my goal is the same: to give you practical tools that you can begin using immediately. You don't need to be an athlete. You don't need years of experience. You simply need a willingness to take the first step.
My hope is that you'll begin to see exercise differently—not as a punishment, obligation, or number on a scale, but as a lifelong practice of self-care, self-respect, and personal growth.
The journey of Emotional Fitness isn't about becoming someone else.
It's about becoming the strongest, healthiest, and most authentic version of yourself.
If you're ready to improve your physical health, strengthen your emotional well-being, and discover a new way of approaching life's challenges, I invite you to join me. Read Emotional Fitness, attend a presentation, or bring one of my programs to your organization.
Your body has always been capable of becoming stronger.
Now it's time to discover just how emotionally strong you can become...
Emotional Fitness will help you:
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Heal past emotional wounds while staying present
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Build confidence, resilience, and inner peace
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Overcome shame, fear, and self-sabotaging thoughts
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Achieve your fitness goals without guilt or emotional pressure
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Discover your inner hero and reclaim your life
Stop surviving and start thriving—your authentic self is waiting.
First Tier (monthly structure)
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One one hour phone call or Facetime a month
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One individual Emotional Fitness program based upon your emotional strengths and goals
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Progression Plans for next month
Second Tier (monthly structure)
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Two one-hour phone calls or FaceTime calls a month
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One individual Emotional Fitness program based upon your emotional strengths and goals
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Weekly check-ins for accountability
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Progression Plans for next month
Third Tier (monthly structure)
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Four one hour phone calls or Facetime a month
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One individual Emotional Fitness program based upon your emotional strengths and goals
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Daily check-ins for accountability
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Continous guidance with your workouts, goals, and journals (permitting)
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Progression Plans for next month
Everything truly is within your power if you are willing to: accept your path, believe you are worthy, know you are empowered, know that you can “lower the volume,” and be your biggest fan…
• Shaun Zetlin •
Real Stories. Lasting Transformation.
Hear from our clients about their transformational journey.
This amazing book provides the tools and encouragement to transform your relationship to your mind, heart, and body. This powerful, integrated approach to fitness also supports the reader with a path to healing. Shaun Zetlin has developed this program through his own journey to emotional and physical well-being. Shaun has turned his own journey into a distinguished career as a bodybuilder, professional trainer, author, and public speaker. This effective approach to fitness demonstrates how emotional and physical health are deeply intertwined. Shaun provides ways to contradict negative messages we have internalized through a series of memorable messages, reflective written exercises, and compassionate encouragement. Shaun's authentic, warm encouragement to overcome the places that keep us from caring for ourselves shines through the text. Shaun makes space for us to believe we can reclaim a positive relationship to our bodies. Shaun also provides a series of progressive exercises that can build both confidence and muscle. This is not your typical fitness approach, but a revolutionary way for the reader to gently confront their vulnerabilities by strengthening the body. As a woman in my 60s, I had been convinced that I was past the point of gaining muscle mass, bone density, and height. Surprisingly, after working with Shaun's training approach regularly, I have gained in all of those areas through progressively demanding exercises. This approach is accessible, as it does not require expensive equipment or complicated routines. The photographs of Shaun demonstrating the exercises and the gradual progressions make the program easy to follow. This is a revolutionary, affordable, and compassionate approach to regaining our emotional and physical well-being through self-reflection and strength training. I highly recommend Shaun's book for people new to strength training, as well as those of us who were subjected to the "girl" push-up in elementary school. The mantras, the emotional guidance techniques, and a new sense of possibility as one gains physical strength will provide the fuel to keep you following the routines! Shaun is right there beside you to cheer you on!"
-Christine Baeumler
Professor and Chair I Department of Art, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
"A great many fitness books seem to be written mainly for those who are rather narrowly interested in physical fitness, but this is a book for people who are interested in self-realization. Shaun Zetlin offers guidance here for those for whom physical fitness is part of an overall effort to feel whole again, to feel strong emotionally and spiritually as well as physically. Zetlin models the value of his approach by bringing himself fully to the book. This is a book of amazing honesty and even vulnerability--but with the recognition that vulnerability is strength. For those who want to bring mind, body, emotions, and spirit together for a rich and confident life, this is the book. The exercises are manageable, the guidance accessible and supportive, and the results potentially life-changing. There's no other book quite like it."
-John Ernest, Chair
Judge Hugh M. Morris Professor Department of English University of Delawar
"Consistent with the ethos of his book and his messaging, Shaun's speaking engagement during a professional development day with our faculty, landed as authentic and overwhelmingly genuine. Shaun's willingness to tap into his vulnerabilities, leaves him exposed to an audience that ultimately can empathize with his past experiences and then be inspired by the path he has carved forward as a virtue of them, to inform their teaching and connectivity with their students.
Expertly weaving in his physiological expertise, the audience was gripped by the simplicity of the best way to be seated and proper standing posture, that allows us to eschew nagging pains that plague most adults. Effectively modeling these habits and folding in the way to implement them into the curriculum for their students, Shaun offered countless strategic examples in ways small movements and methodology tinkering have the ability to create large scale, long lasting wins.
Above and beyond the content, Shaun's presentation skills bring a warmth and relatability that is immeasurable, and trumps the lessons he is imparting. He is kind, self-aware and in that, captivating. I would vociferously recommend his work to any group, and believe his presentation is profoundly impactful and needle moving, industry or age group agnostic."
-Matt Auerbach,
Board Trustee Chappaqua Central School District
"I wasn't sure what to expect when I got a book about emotional fitness. What does this have to do with me getting the body I want or the life I want? I was hooked after the first few pages and couldn't put the book down. "Emotional Fitness" dives to the core of what is holding us back - us. Not from a place of blame, but from a compassionate place of understanding. This book is going into my list of most recommended as it applies to all of us."
-Doug Holt
CEO, Business Coach, Mentor, And Fitness Expert
"Today, we had the pleasure of welcoming Shaun Zetlin at our Superintendent's Conference Day as a guest speaker for our Physical Education and Health teachers, focusing on the importance of emotional fitness. His presentation was engaging from start to finish, offering a valuable refresher on anatomy and physiology, while weaving in meaningful insights from his book. Shaun's personal mantras and the principles he lives by truly resonated with our group. In a field that can often feel intimidating for our students - his message underscored the importance of fostering self-belief, emotional well-being and a commitment to physical health. By empowering students in these areas, we help them build resilience and develop the tools they need to persevere through future challenges. We are grateful for his time, passion and the inspiration he shared with us today."
-Jamie Block
Director of Athletics, Physical Education & Health Chappaqua Central School District
