“Use if useful” isn’t just a quote—it’s a mindset. Fitness should fit your life, not overwhelm it. Keep what helps. Let the rest go.
Your body. Your life. Your call.
There’s so much fitness advice out there, it can start to feel like static. Heavy lifting is the secret. No—long cardio. Or mobility. Or cold plunges. Or “X, but only in the morning.” If you’re exhausted just trying to sort the advice, you’re not alone.
But here’s a rule you can always fall back on: use if useful.
If it works for you, great. Keep it.
If it doesn’t? Let it go.
Fitness isn’t about doing all the things—it’s about finding what actually helps you feel stronger, steadier, and more you.
Just ask Heidi.
Seven years ago, she dipped her toes into Formidable Strength and Conditioning for the first time. Life followed, as it often does—with grief, chronic foot pain, and forty-plus extra pounds. Fitness slipped down the priority list.
But last summer, after half a year of quietly watching our Facebook videos and feeling that itch to move again, she came back.
“I knew if I committed, it would change my life. Formidable now is exactly the place I need—patient, supportive, ready to meet me where I am.”
Since then? Heidi’s shown up—literally—every week. One hundred logged workouts. A 35-week streak without a single miss. Two sessions a week, every week.
She balances group classes with Open Gym, joins every Golden Habits challenge, walks on her rest days, checks in with Coach Katie on nutrition, and has traded nightly drinks for water.
The bathroom scale hasn’t always been on her side—but her energy is steadier, her foot pain is shrinking, and movements that once felt out of reach are hers again. She’s now training for another half-marathon.
Heidi didn’t try to overhaul everything. She tried what felt right, kept what worked, and let the rest go. That’s “use if useful” in motion.
Need help figuring out what’s useful for you? Your coach can help. Not by handing you a universal formula—but by walking alongside you as you build your own.
Because your health isn’t built on what should help. It’s built on what does.
Find out what that is. And then keep doing it. Over and over.
And if you need help? We’re here and have been doing this for over a decade here in Canby. Just reach out.
