OrganicFitness Mission Statement

        Organic Fitness intends to light the path of health and fitness to the world.  Organic Fitness has a mission to increase awareness of nutrition and exercise science utilizing seminars, lectures, articles, and one-on-one training.   The progression of everlasting health should be an effortless challenge as we all should abide by the laws of nature, respecting movement as we forage for nutrients in our food.  Organic Fitness leads the

evolution of nutrition and fitness completely dependent upon love and gratitude with only positive thoughts and intentions.  Organic Fitness will adapt to any goal of any individual, and will use any and every method needed to accomplish this. 

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My name is Keith Lopez. I began my journey of everlasting health upon completion of high school. It was a rough start, but I enjoyed every minute of it...the journey itself was the true adventure. I was severely de conditioned during that time period; it was a long slow climb to physical fitness. I began by running around the block and playing basketball. As I tried to speed up this process of fitness, I joined some friends at the local gym. It was a big corporate gym that brought intimidation into my mind, but I just followed my friends who were avid weightlifters. They pushed me and encouraged me to lift more weight that I thought I would be able to lift. I lifted it, but I was sore for weeks. I never wanted to go back to a gym again in hopes of avoiding this terrible feeling of pain and discomfort that was disabling my daily movement. However, this intense intimidation and pain faded over time with the power of knowledge. This newfound knowledge made the difference and I realized that a person could spend 2 hours a day in the gym to obtain 30% body fat and another person could spend 2 hours a week exercising to obtain 10% body fat. In other words, time is not the only factor of a workout program. Instead of letting time rule my life, I made time adapt to my life. And to make sure it became a part of my habitual routine, I told myself that if I could find time to brush my teeth, then I could find time to work out.

I began truly enjoying my workouts when I first went to college in Georgia. While in college, I studied exercise and health sciences with a concentration in health promotion. In class, I had the privilege of hearing fact after fact of how exercise and nutrition can help you in every day life. The facts of health motivated me and propelled me to stay active. I could no longer let a day go by without activity. I could not let myself become sedentary, even for one day, after learning that the physical and mental impact can be more life –threatening than any other modality.
This life changing knowledge was not the only reason I began to love my workouts and look forward to them. The enjoyment and passion also came from the type of exercise and the person who guided me through those workouts. That person was Dr. Wayne Van Horne. Dr. Van Horne instructs Koshiski Sakagawa Shorinji-Ryu Karate Do at my college campus with passion and complete dedication. I had no choice but to absorb this passion and dedication. He changed my life.

I realized that I can change my body to look better, feel better, and react better. I also experienced my mind working better, with more clarity and a greater ability to focus. This increase in blood flow to my brain certainly reflected in my grades, which confirmed that exercise and nutrition increase the brain’s the ability to learn. The exponential benefits of exercise enabled me to stay committed to a progressive fitness program that is still evolving.
Upon completion of college I moved back to Connecticut to start my internship at a nutrition center for a large inner-city school system. I was shocked that this was called a nutrition center since the food offered possessed little nutrition. No fresh fruits or vegetables were offered due to the ease of storing frozen or canned produce. The meals did not look appetizing, so I didn’t even opt to eat a free lunch! This could easily explain why children eat french fries and soda or a pre-packaged cup cake in lieu of a healthy balanced lunch. That’s unfortunately what I ate for the majority of my high school career and I fear I’m not alone. These eating habits might also explain the stomach pain I experienced daily for most of my life.

I constantly spoke with the nutritionist that developed the menus in hopes of spurring change. She agreed that we needed to include fresh produce and more appetizing meals in the menu, but unfortunately this was not accomplished during the duration of my internship. However, I have witnessed schools that have increased the nutritional quality of the food served and there was a direct correlation with increased productivity, focus, and overall test scores.
After my internship, I started my first job out of college with high expectations. I worked with a large company that outfits fitness centers in the corporate work place. I was able to experience two large, multimillion dollar companies named UBS Warburg and Ford. During this time, I witnessed many different teaching and motivational styles of fitness. Instructor techniques varied when motivating a bodybuilder versus someone that has over 30% body fat. I learned quickly and my training as a great motivator began. I found myself teaching unorthodox fitness routines and encouraging my clients to do more than working out in the gym. My clients would constantly speak with excitement regarding the wholesome foods they had been eating. I recently spoke with one of my clients from a community center where I worked after my experience with corporate fitness. She told me that she still hears my voice pushing her to capability. She still practices many exercises that I had taught her in addition to her current workouts with a personal trainer.

When I worked at a local community center in Connecticut, I found that it was a great balance to my past career experience. It was an opposing setting from the previous job I had in the corporate world. I taught many fitness classes and trained people from ages of 8 to 83. I began molding my own fitness techniques though research and experience. I constantly worked to refine my fitness program to mold to any goal, body type, age or gender. Regardless of conditioning or time schedule, I was determined to create a fitness program that would make anyone and everyone healthier. I can now guarantee this claim to better health for anyone and this is why I created this website. Welcome to the website that will change your life; these theories are guaranteed to make YOU healthier regardless of your current health.

October 2008

The Long awaited and intricately studied raw food culture is completely incorperated to Organic Fitness.  Sprouting, garden set-ups, and wheatgrass growing is fully incorperated into Organic Fitness. The full spectrum of health is now available upon demand of what the people need.  Contant research is done while Organic Fitness is in its first years with primary attention from founder Keith Lopez.  Concentrations on existing clients, farming, botany, herbilism coarsework, studying of wild edibles such as flowers, roots, barks, and herbs. 

November 2008

The Garden of JAH is being laid out with the help of Mike and Family. Compost has been created with fruit and vegetable scraps to become dirt which has nourished to life sunflower and daikon radish sprouts. Sunrise productions has released a limited edition Organic Fitness Beach Workout.   Contstant revisions have been made to the OGFit.com and OrganicFitness Books are now available for free download.

December 2008

The Garden of Love was created with help of Healthy Marcus.  BlessedLoveHealthCare has showed her community garden to Organic Fitness and work has been done!  Organic Farming Books studied and farm-warming parties are celebrated.  A Local orange distributor (oalkland and 56th) is found, named Gonzales #(954-746-2289)...wild and fresh!

Hugh Birch Park hosts a drum circle in which free spirited organic workout dance is practiced.  The Buddist Meditation Center is founded in Fort Lauderdale of pospect, and thanks is givin every Thursday at 7:30pm.  The reading enlightment club is formed at the kavakava bar on sunrise in Fort Lauderdale every Wednesday night.  A Half Marathon is ran by Organic Fitness in sunny SoFlo.  Another drum circle is celebrated with the winter solstice at the pompano peir with an amazing synergy between drummer and OG dance.  Connecticut gives a warm welcome with 30 degree weather and organicFitness visits the J.C.C.S. to share secrets, along with a 6 mile run in the snow!

January 2009

What a beautiful world with beautiful people- as Organic Fitness celebrated the new year in the Netherlands to unite with France, Germany, Austria, Russia, Japan, England, New Zealand, Australia, Spain, Holland, Dubia, Italy, Ireland, and many other blessed countries...thank you all.  Visited the Hortis Botanicas which houses over 6,000 different species of medicinal plants started in the 1700's being one of the 3 oldest and largest in the world.  Stepped food in buildings from the 1200's.  United with Jay's Juice of Amsterdam to stay healthy in the city- go see him for a shot of homegrown wheatgrass and tell him Organic Fitness sent you!  Mr. Keith Lopez of Organic Fitness becomes a wellness teacher at Broward Community College!   ...since one aspect of wellness is envirmental wellness, a veggieBenz is in order...100% vegetable 84 Benz is how Organic Fitness travels to class!!! Call me 954-654-8419 if you have a deep fryer and want to help the earth!  Be carefull when you eat it though, that stuff is dirty!!! Books studied: Ghandi Peace  , Don Miguel Ruiz the Mastery of Love ,  Thich Nhat Hanh  True Love  .

January 2010

An entire year of Love and Gratitude!  So much has gone on there has not been an update!  Organic Fitness has continued the curriculum throughout 2009 and again in 2010 with Introduction to Wellness.  Jamaica was outstanding throughout the month of September in Little Bay, Westmoreland.   The month of October was a prize as well in Uvita, Costa Rica at Cascada Verde Organic Permaculture farm.  To many stories to tell, and so much learned.  Here are some pictures from this great adventure of farming, permaculture, and Organic Fitness seminars.

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Pictures and poems are the closest attempt to explaining the ever present joy released in Jamaica and Costa Rica.  One month spent in each destination learning about the culture, myself, nature, and everything else as I traveled instead of vacationing making homes for Organic Fitness.

Poem of the Blessed time in Jamaica