You Don’t Have Enough Time…
Today is my daughter's 11th birthday. You may be wondering why I'd write a post about this, but it is very important. Not just to me, but to you, too. You see, there's something that we need to remember in the back of our minds at all times. We only have a certain amount of…
October 16, 2019
Can You See the Forest?
I run into this problem a lot with clients. They're so busy focused on the minutia of their programs, while simultaneously overlooking the biggest players in their success! I call that not being able to see the forest, as they're so busy looking at individual trees. When it comes to wellness, forget about exercise and…
October 10, 2019
How You Do Anything is How You Do Everything
Hit the snooze button this morning? Rush through your workout? Grab a coffee on the run at Starbucks? Speed through the light because you're running late for work? Check your social media every time you reach for your phone? You get my drift. How you do ANYTHING is how you do EVERYTHING. If you start…
September 24, 2019
The Absolute Minimum Equipment You Need for Your Home Gym
Believe it or not, even as a fitness professional who makes money seeing clients in person, I'm a huge proponent of people creating an exercise space or home gym in their houses. You don't need a lot of space, much equipment, and you definitely don't need to spend a bunch of money. Craigslist, LetGo, Facebook…
September 13, 2019
Pressed For Time? Increase Your Workout’s Density!
Getting a quality strength training workout in over a short period of time can have its challenges. Increasing the DENSITY of a workout session is a great way to use time and accomplish a large amount of volume in a fairly short period of time, while still following the principles of rest between repeated sets…
September 4, 2019
Why Fitness Participants Should Care About the Environment
It's real. The Earth is sick. There are more humans, producing more carbon, than in the history of the planet. And we should all care. A lot. https://www.britannica.com/science/climate-change If you exercise outdoors, you will notice. Since I've lived in Florida, in my relatively short lifetime, we've experienced a greater number of Major Hurricanes than have…
August 28, 2019
Metrics That Matter
My client came in this morning, fuming. "I got on the scale and I'm UP 3 pounds since last week!!!" she said. That's not an uncommon experience for some fitness professionals, by the way. We get this stuff from time to time. The important thing is to realize, and be able to effectively identify the…
August 19, 2019