About me an health and wellness site with a difference.

Hi and welcome to my health and wellness site,

I thought I would write a few paragraphs, to introduce myself and explain the inspiration behind this site. Yep that's me to the left posing as usual (My wife made me do it honest, her name is Isabel by the way).

It's always best to start a story at the beginning so here goes, I promise I shall try not to ramble on to much.

About two years ago (Feb 2008) my back just "popped" out of place. That is the only way I can think of describing it. Although to start with I did not feel to much discomfort, just a bad ache, things started to deteriorate.

Whilst on a shopping trip for some much needed extra supplies from the DIY store the pain started to develop.

As we were walking around, scanning the aisles for the products we needed to buy, the pain started to get steadily worse, until I felt a sharp agonising pain from my hip to the the toes in my foot. Hanging onto the shopping trolley like it was some kind of large, wheeled zimmerframe we got back to the car and then home.

The pain seemed to go away and in a few days apart from some mild back pain I was fine. Then a short trip to Germany for work (I work as an Electronic Engineer) was scheduled.

After disembarking the plane at Munich airport I started to notice that the pain, although much milder was returning. I got to the hotel room and as I did'nt need to be at the factory until the next day I thought I would have a lie down to take the weight off.

After grabbing this much needed 40 winks, I got up to get dinner in the hotel restaurant. That was it - shooting pain down my left leg, again starting from my hip and finishing in my foot. The pain settled and I managed to finish the work in Germany successfully and came back to the UK.

I had only been back to work a few days when the pain started to come back, sparodically at first but then progressively worse. And so started my journey made up of doctors visits, orthopeadic consultations and osteopath appointments. But the pain got worse until it was constant and unrelenting.

One day at work I spoke to my boss as the pain had become unbearable and asked if I could finish early. He agreed, by the way I am extremly grateful to him and my HR manager for their support and understanding because after a very uncomfortable and extremely hair raising drive home I did not return to work for 8 months.

After an MRI scan it was confirmed I had a prolapsed disc of the L4/L5 region and after carefully considering my options I chose to have surgery to remove part of the disc that was pressing against the sciatic nerve.

While all this was happening I was also looking at ways I could boost my existing income but had very limited choices as to what I could do because of my injury.

This injury changed everything...

So I had to think very long and very hard as to what it was I could do, preferably something from the comfort of my own home.

After countless hours of web searching and hair pulling I finally stumbled across SBI.

The reason they stood out? Because the promotional video and web pages explained it all. I did not need to spend any money or pass on my email address just to find out what they did, it was all there for me to see. This came as a refreshing change - like a cold drink on a hot day.

After showing my wife the same material I had seen we both agreed I should give it a go (in fact she now has two of her own websites). My subject would focus on health and wellness by providing fitness training tips.

I shall explain a bit more about SBI in a minute but first....

Why did I choose a fitness based website as my work from home project?

Firstly because this is a subject I have over 20 years knowledge about as an amateur runner and weight trainer, and as SBI explains you need to choose a subject you have a passion for.

We all have many passions, if you think about it I bet you yourself could think of 2 or 3 of your own - I certainly can and am already considering my next projects.

Secondly because of my injury I soon rediscovered the benefits of good nutrition and exercise. Most importantly, to me anyway, specific exercise tailored to an individuals needs whether that is rehabilitation from injury or illness (as in my case) or to improve in a sport.

As I mentioned SBI talks about turning a passion into a website and a work from home type business.

This passion becomes your own niche. Well this is my own niche. After getting fed up with all the fitness hype and misinformation out their I wanted to create something that just focuses on the facts and proveable, real world science related to fitness and health.

The truth is just about everything that is already known about fitness has been well researched anything else is old knowledge repackaged or simply an outright scam (think acai berry weight loss pills or as I affectionatly term them acai berry money loss pills because thats all you will really end up losing!!).

The real grey area is within nutrition and this is where supplement companies try to create products to enhance performance. Mostly these supplements do not work, or have yet to be proven to work (there are some supplements of benefit and I discuss them on this site).

Think of any top professional sports person or athletes from the past who built fantastic physiques just by exercising smart and eating whole foods. Physiques built on an understanding of solid nutritional fundementals.

SBI was the tool that helped me do this...

SBI! is the only product that takes the time to prepare you to build a profitable work from home business, before you jump into building your site. For the beginner, your learning curve will be shorter and you'll bypass any show-stopping errors. For those experienced in site-building, SBI! deepens your level of understanding. No matter who you are, you are guided all the way until you succeed.

Continuous mentoring via the Action Guide and online help is always available. Learn by reading (written guide) or watching (video guide)! You are carefully guided every step of the way, which make success that much more do-able. Advanced help is also available (when you are ready for it), all designed to save you time and keep you moving forward.

Support and guidance to get your work from home business started...

SBI! comes with unlimited Customer Support. SBI! owners often call it the best they've ever experienced. And the SBI! Forums complete the picture. They are the most friendly, help-and-be-helped set of e-business forums in the world.

Ken Evoy (SBI's founder and all round top bloke) provides a rare level of dedication to his customers. He's extremely active in the SBI! forums with over 5000 posts to date. He makes a tremendous personal effort to help people succeed and is highly passionate about helping people build businesses online. Anyone who owns SBI! can benefit from this extraordinary Internet business visionary.

Build a profitable E-business with SBI's help, how? Read on...

Monetize It! helps you choose the best monetization options for your site concept. Creating a diverse monetization mix will help you maximize your site's profitability and ensure long-term growth.

Too many non-SBI! sites start without profits being "built into" the process from DAY 1. It all begins with the right process. Content Traffic PREsell Monetize is the underlying, logical and powerful process that capitalizes upon the fundamental realities of how people use the Web.

C T P M puts you on a solid, profitable business foundation.

How do you do this? By building content (like this about me page for example)...

Page creation is as simple as riding a bike with its training wheels still attached. No need to know HTML. The block-by-block builder trains you how to write a page that is both "Search Engine and human effective." It's simple, do-able and most importantly, effective site-building. The block-by- block builder is perfect for beginners, but even many "advanced" users should start with this tool. It's an excellent way to break bad habits!

When it's time to create your site's Look & Feel, SBI! provides fully customizable, easy-to-use templates. You can choose and create a professional-looking presentation, even if you have no design skills. And if you're a designer, you can create and upload your own. This page shows a range of styles.

The power of Social websites and SBI...

You can also take advantage of the latest web technologies and popular trends such as social websites as Content 2.0 allows your site's visitors to create content for you. Turn any page on your site into an invitation for your visitors to add content. C2 then allows other visitors to comment and rate the page much like on a blog. This means your site will have more Search Engine attractive pages. Having more site pages means the Search Engines will rank your pages higher and that leads to more traffic. A chain of events that simply started through the contributions of your visitors!

And as well as that Automatic site blogging turns your site into a blog easily. You'll enjoy all the benefits of a blog without needing extra skills or additional software. For those experienced with blogging, auto-pinging for your SBI! blog keeps your site on the Search Engines' radar. All of this helps attract more traffic.

Have a look for yourself and see what it can do for you.

In the mean time thank you for reading and visiting my site. I look forward to building and sharing even more quality information with you and help improve your health and wellness.