Personal Training/Coaching/Writing: Why You’re Not That Special
Sorry for the slight gap in between posts from last week to today. While I’d like to sit here and say something honorary like I decided to prep my food for the week, or I don’t know, I spent my Friday morning reading scripture to orphans, what I really ended up doing was making the… Read more
A New and Better Butt? Why Not a STRONGER Butt?
Today’s post comes courtesy of my internet buddy, Emily Giza Socolinsky. Some of you might recognize her since I’ve linked to several of her articles in the past. She sent this one my way last week, and after reading it (and doing a few cartwheels down the street because 1) why not? and 2) this… Read more
5 (Simple) Ways To Make Your Workouts More Effective
So we’re what, three weeks into the New Year? As I suspect, most reading this site have made your New Year’s resolutions three weeks ago, and whether it was to try to read more, watch less television, eat less cheese, smile more, put 10% of your paycheck into a savings account, drink more water, eat… Read more
Mondays: A Fitness Professional’s Worst Enemy (Behind Tracy Anderson)
LOL – see what I just did there? I burned Tracy Anderson right from the get-go! Oh man this day is off to a good start already. The only thing that could make it better is if by some miracle it started raining bacon. And, you know, I drove a tank to work. But I’m… Read more
Everyone’s Goal for 2013: Train With a Purpose
Happy New Year everyone!!! Hope you all had a fun, safe, and eventful New Years. Lisa and I kept with our own tradition and spent our New Years in Boston’s historic North End eating bread with olive oil, pasta, and there might have been a few (dozen) pastries thrown into the mix. Basically it was… Read more
My Goals for 2013
I don’t know about you, but yesterday FLEW by. I hope everyone reading had an amazing and well-rested Holiday full of family, friends, and fudge. Lisa and I kept it fairly low-key, which is exactly how we wanted it. We made reservations at Fogo de Chao Christmas Eve night, which was amazing. But really: how… Read more
A Critical Reply to an Uncritical Coach
Today’s post comes from the one and only Bret Contreras. As he’ll note below, I received an email from a fan of my blog asking me for my opinion on some candid remarks she overheard one of the strength coaches at her university regurgitate to a few other students. And by using the word regurgitate… Read more
Everybody, Never, & Always
I mentioned yesterday that I had to head into the facility a littler earlier than usual because we were taking part in a pretty baller staff in-service revolving around some of the key principles and ideologies behind the Postural Restoration Institute. While trying to squeeze their philosophy into one sentence or paragraph would be doing… Read more