News Flash: Anxiety, depression, and hypertension are on the rise! I bet you knew that already didn’t you? As someone who has experienced all three and let me tell you, they are no fun. In In this article we will discuss how chasing the pump in your daily life can help improve your health and fitness. […]
She stopped doing “this” and 4-weeks later had lost fat, built muscle, and felt better! I bet you know someone like this. Perhaps that someone is you. Quick transitions into improved health and fitness flood our inbox, social media pages, and in-person conversations. That all sounds great, except, many of these images contradict one another. […]
Ever met someone always on edge and flat out too intense? It’s as if they are hooked up to an IV drip of stimulants they carry around with them. If you could choose your response without repercussions, you might say, “Listen, you need to chill out already!” Usually fitness is the analogy for life, but […]
Six out of every ten people who visit a doctor admit to struggling with sleep. This number is wrong. You may instinctively believe that a more accurate number would be less lack of sleepers, but it is actually more. The people who admit to poor sleep, are actually aware that they are not getting enough […]
The number one excuse people use to defend themselves, is that they do not have enough time to workout. This is an immediate indication that what they have determined to be a workout, is a lengthy, grueling, physically and emotionally destructive period of time. Only the brave few of us desire to make time for […]
I grade the exams of future personal trainers. To be more specific, I grade the same exam over and over and over again. Certain terms have been beaten into my skull and sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and scream “gliding, condyloidal, ball and socket, hinge, saddle, pivot!” OK, that doesn’t […]
Do you ever wonder why you have such a problem letting go of certain foods or bad habits even when you know they are disrupting your fitness objectives? The answer lies in the history of your life. Let me give you an indirectly related example that I recently had an “aha” moment about in my […]
When reviewing the fitness programs of the thousands of people I’ve been fortunate to work with, I see them too often get caught up in what science says is the “perfect plan” that they fail in its infancy. The fact is, these clients have been so caught up in creating a perfect plan that they […]
You will hear myself and other fitness professionals utilize science to validate our point. Often times, this information is used for good and helps you understand why we are making such a recommendation. I wish I could say that science always gave us the answers we needed, but this is just not the case. Science […]