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    Strength of Seduction: The Modern Couple's Guide to Building Intimacy through Fitness
    Strength of Seduction: The Modern Couple's Guide to Building Intimacy through Fitness
    Strength of Seduction: The Modern Couple's Guide to Building Intimacy through Fitness
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    Strength of Seduction: The Modern Couple's Guide to Building Intimacy through Fitness

    By Micah Morgan and Daniel DiPiazza

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    Connection. Confidence. Intimacy. Seduction. What qualities do you look for in a relationship? How do you strengthen these qualities and cultivate universal values so your bond stands the test of time?

    In Strength of Seduction, Micah Morgan and Daniel DiPiazza show you how their number-one couples' workout program utilizes principles of physical fitness and overall wellness to help you develop intimacy, express emotion, and abandon insecurity. Focusing on nine values, like trust and patience, Micah and Daniel explore the importance of each value and how it manifests emotionally, physically, and spiritually in your relationship. Improve emotional resonance with your partner in exercises designed to increase dialogue. Learn to push your physical limits with signature Strength of Seduction workouts. Finally, use each chapter's prayer, meditation, or affirmation to spiritually bring yourself and your partner closer together.

    This is more than a book; it's an interactive experience and a journey of enlightenment. Embark on this journey and find yourself fitter, healthier, and more connected to the one you love.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateFeb 16, 2021
    ISBN9781544518305
    Strength of Seduction: The Modern Couple's Guide to Building Intimacy through Fitness

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      Book preview

      Strength of Seduction - Micah Morgan

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      Copyright © 2021 Micah Morgan & Daniel DiPiazza

      All rights reserved.

      ISBN: 978-1-5445-1830-5

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      From Micah:

      To my family, friends, and gym family: my life’s work is love and fitness. This book is dedicated to both aspects of my life in which you all have helped me develop. I am forever grateful.

      From Daniel:

      To my wife, Sara: thank you for being my mirror and my teacher. You’ve taught me about love and loving myself. Thank you for being my rock.

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      Contents

      Introduction

      1. The Program

      2. Trust

      3. Integrity

      4. Honesty

      5. Open Communication

      6. Affection

      7. Empathy

      8. Friendship

      9. Humor

      10. Patience

      Conclusion

      Appendix A

      Appendix B

      Appendix C

      Acknowledgments

      About the Authors

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      Introduction

      Hi, my name is Daniel DiPiazza—and the book you are holding in your hands almost never saw the light of day. It sat on my mental shelf, collecting dust for nearly a decade, while life waited for the perfect time to reintroduce the idea to me.

      The honest truth is Strength of Seduction began as a personal plan to get my then girlfriend (now wife), Sara, to work out with me. And it worked. Really well!

      The year was 2010, and I’d just met my new love.

      We both had busy lives, and it was hard to carve time out for each other and for exercise. Since I belonged to a twenty-four-hour gym, I suggested we try going there together. I knew if we went late at night, it wouldn’t be crowded, and we’d be able to focus on each other without being distracted by other people or feeling pressured to use a machine quickly while some stranger waited for it.

      We discovered the perfect time for us was around one o’clock in the morning; often we were the only ones working out.

      While maybe not a traditional date-night activity, it only took a few weeks for us to realize our late-night training rendezvous were perfect bonding experience. Seeing each other sweat from the hard work, feeling that mixture of pleasure and pain, and sensing the hormones and endorphins that training released in our bodies all combined in such a way that a deeper level of intimacy between us formed. And that intimacy spilled over into our everyday lives outside of the gym, too.

      The effects of our training were most palpable in the way we treated each other. As we grew into better physical shape, we grew closer. Perhaps it was because we were too tired from the good stress of all the physical activity to worry about petty details, but we also had fewer arguments. That gym time had a synergistic, life-changing effect on us.

      I knew something really good was happening with us. It was so good, I wanted more—more from our relationship and more from the exercise. Our workouts had helped us get into excellent physical shape. We enjoyed them and considered them as special alone time together. But, even though we were not in a bad place, I was curious about something. Spending all that time cultivating our new physiques was helping us draw closer together seemingly by happenstance. Would it be possible to intentionally cultivate a more loving relationship with the exercise? Could a fitness program be created for couples that would use exercise as a conduit between physical health and emotional health?

      To help me answer those questions, I turned to the best personal trainer I knew—my friend Micah Morgan. We’d attended the University of South Florida together and had remained in touch. He was just in the process of starting his own gym in Tampa when I came to him with the idea for a unique couples workout program called Strength of Seduction in 2012.

      Micah was immediately intrigued, and we began meeting up to work on what would become the first manuscript for the book that you’re now holding. I began doing research on how increased physical touch and quality time can lead to greater intimacy in relationships. Micah began designing elegant bodyweight exercises to help partners get in shape while maximizing touch time with each other.

      We spent about six months working on the first version of this book and even did a mock photo shoot. By the end of that process, we had about half a book and a passable prototype for the original Strength of Seduction workout program. We were very excited about our idea—but also young and pulled in a million different directions.

      Micah was about to have his first son. I was getting ready to move across the country from Atlanta to California. We didn’t have the time or resources to pursue the project seriously—so we shelved it. But the idea was too good to rest for long.

      Three years later, in 2015, Micah dusted off the manuscript, looked at all the awesome couples exercises he’d created, and decided to take another stab at it. While I was off in California working on my career and growing a business, Micah shot three different beta versions of the Strength of Seduction exercise DVD based on the material we originally created for the book.

      He launched these early versions of the SOS workout DVD on his personal Facebook page, and they blew up! The trailers he shot shook the internet and got a few million views on Facebook—back when that really meant something!

      People loved the fact that Strength of Seduction promos showed sexy but effective moves for couples of all shapes and sizes. It didn’t hurt that we were specifically focused on showcasing and uplifting the Black community, either.

      As the DVDs began to sell, Micah could barely keep up with the demand. Remember, he was running a gym and family full-time. For the next few years, he sold the DVDs out of his house as a side project. He was literally labeling everything by hand. The Strength of Seduction book was never finished; the DVDs were selling, but there was a lot of room for growth.

      During this time, I’d started a business and grown a lot as a man. I was learning what it truly meant to be in a partnership. Sara and I married in 2018. By the time 2019 rolled around, it’d been nearly a decade since I’d conceived the idea for Strength of Seduction and several years since Micah had produced the original DVD. Yet the idea still wouldn’t die in my heart. Those are the ideas you must pay attention to!

      As luck would have it, I saw Micah’s face pop up on my timeline one evening in late 2019 and decided to give him a call to catch up. We started talking about Strength of Seduction because it’d been a few years since I’d even asked about it. The conversation instantly reminded me of why I’d loved this idea so much in the first place—and I knew it was the right time to go all in on this idea.

      In my early twenties, I did not have the knowledge, resources, or patience to follow through with the project. Now that I’d written my own book and had some business experience under my belt, I knew how to tackle the challenge. We went all in and decided to build Strength of Seduction into a real company—starting by releasing this book and completely revamping the workout program. You can check that out on our website: www.strengthofseduction.com.

      This book is the culmination of over a decade of experience, exploration, and experimentation on the behalf of both Micah and me. As such, it reflects our personal journeys. We hope it now becomes the starting place for an exciting new chapter in your own life—and in the health of your relationship. There’s nothing more satisfying than feeling healthy inside and out. The way you nurture yourself and the way you allow others to nurture you in return both play a role in your quality of life.

      But you’re reading this book to find out about the program, so let’s get to it.

      The Program

      Through surveying more than 3,000 members of the Strength of Seduction audience, we discovered there were nine common core values healthy relationships shared.

      Trust

      Integrity

      Honesty

      Open communication

      Affection

      Empathy

      Friendship

      Humor

      Patience

      We then created a program that would explore each one with exercises to strengthen a couple’s spiritual and emotional bond as well as their physical one. We test drove it and made some tweaks. And now you’ll find what we think works in this book.

      In the pages that follow, we’ll share a ninety-day program that is intended to create and build what we call Love Habits. It will deepen your partnership emotionally with communication exercises that will guide you to connect or reconnect with your partner from the heart. You will both benefit physically, with fitness exercises that encourage you to engage in active, healthy time together. And you will bond like you never have before with our spiritual exercises, which are an assortment of teachings from the Kama Sutra, tantric practices, and meditation practices. Combined together, you will both feel safe enough to drop your inhibitions and allow for a deeper, more fulfilling connection to build and become the foundation of your relationship.

      While we believe in this program, there is a catch: we’re not relationship gurus. We’re not marriage therapists or couples counselors, either. Instead, we’re just normal men who are intent on having the best relationship we can with the women in our lives. The advice we’re about to express is not intended to be the be-all and end-all perfect solution for every couple’s problems. The opinions we espouse are based on our lives’ experiences and observations, not necessarily scientific fact.

      Having that said, since this program has had such life-altering positive effects on our relationships, we believe it can do the same for you. Before we dive into the nine common core values found in healthy relationships, we’ll explain how we set up our program in the next chapter.

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      Chapter 1

      1. The Program

      Being in a successful relationship means learning to adapt to another person’s needs and supporting them in many different ways—as they do the same for you. It means overcoming emotional, financial, sexual, or spiritual challenges together. It means enduring the deaths of family members and friends together. And it means celebrating life’s highest highs together.

      In short, it means you are emotionally resonant, physically intimate, and spiritually aligned in your relationship.

      We thus took each of those important elements and structured our program around them.

      Emotional Practices

      For a couple to be emotionally resonant, each partner must become skillful at navigating their own feelings as well as each other’s. They must be good at conflict resolution and at listening to (not just hearing) each other. And they must be self-aware and confident enough that neither ever indulge in drama of any kind. The only way for any of that to be possible is if the couple is comfortable with open, honest communication where not only do they define their needs and wants but they set clear expectations. Each partner is heard and understood.

      That primary need for good communication forms the backbone of the emotional practices in this book. You will each be asking open-ended questions for your partner to answer fully and completely. There will be no response from you other than confirmation that you understand, which might be the hardest part. These exercises are based on dyadic communication practices (you’ll find a full explanation in

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