Monthly Archives: March 2015
Day 5: Ballina, Sydney, Pokolbin, Success!
Lisa’s daily dairy of our Australian Adventure continues (cue old-school 1960s Batman music here. Dah-na-na-na-na-Dah-na-na-na-na)…. For no reason whatsoever I woke up at 4:00am and couldn’t go back to sleep. I think it’s because it feels like Christmas every morning since a few days before we even left for the trip! We enjoyed a quiet… Read more
Day 4: Seminar Sunday
Lisa’s daily dairy of our Australian Adventure continues…… Greetings! Tony and I made it all the way to 5:30am, so our clocks are just about re-set to Aussie time. Since we’re quick to acclimate to local culture, we waited until 7:00am before heading out for brekkie. As directed by Shannan, we went to The Gallery… Read more
Day 3: Aussie Sunrise, Turkish Toast, and a Big-Assed Mackrel
Day #3 of Lisa’s diary of our Australian Adventure. We made it straight to 4:00am! 8 hours of sleep is nothing to complain about, and Tony and I enjoyed a quiet morning while I worked on this little travel blog, and Tony reviewed some of his slides for today’s seminar. We were starving, but forced… Read more
Day 2: Goonsacks, M.A.M.I.L.’s, and Brekkie.
Lisa Continues her daily dairy of our trip to Australia. We Made it! Local time 7:05am, out of the plane and hugging our first host, Shannan by 8:00am. (A quick synopsis of who Shannan is: he’s a former distance coaching client of Tony who own his own strength and conditioning facility in Ballina. This trip’s… Read more
Getting Your Female Clients to “Woman Up”
Today I have an excellent guest post by CT based strength coach, Erika Hurst, covering a topic I’m very passionate about: Encouraging women to lift heavy things. Before we jump into the article: We made it safely to Australia, and if you’d like to keep tabs on our trip Lisa is writing a daily blog…. Read more
Day 1: 20 Hours On a Plane
What follows is Lisa’s daily diary of our musings and doings while visiting Australia. Hello Friends! Tony and I just spent 6 hours in a plane from Boston to LAX, and then 14 hours from LAX to Brisbane. The journey has begun. Thanks for joining. Here’s Tony, as excited as can be as we boarded… Read more
Are You Part of the Resistance (or the Assistance)?
T-minus eight hours before Lisa and I hop on a plane and make our way to Australia and never come back. It’s a 20-hour long trip from Boston to Brisbane (where we land), and then a bit of a car ride to Ballina where I’ll be conducting the first of TWO workshops while there. One… Read more
Stuff to Read While You’re Pretending to Work: 3/3/15
Before I get into this week’s list I wanted to share with everyone a cool event coming up in the very near future that I’ve been invited to participate in. No, it’s not the NorthEast Regional Star Wars Geek Fest Extravaganza. But it is something just as nerdtastic…….. Movement and Motivation LAB Let my good… Read more