Monthly Archives: June 2016
Deadlift and Chill: Appearance on the Fit Info Club Podcast
Guy Bortz was kind enough to invite back onto his show for a second time this past week, and the link is now live. I know there are a lot of fitness podcasts out there jockeying for your attention, but Guy is building quite the empire with the guests he’s been able to line up:… Read more
The Secret to Getting Good At Anything
I’m not a good writer. In fact, I don’t consider myself a “writer” in the first place. I’m a strength coach who happens to have the ability to write sentences that don’t suck. Sometimes back to back; and sometimes including the proper usage of the semicolon. Full Disclosure: I don’t even know if I used… Read more
Stuff To Read While You’re Pretending To Work: 6/10/16
REMINDER: Strong Body-Strong Mind Workshop – Austin, TX (Saturday, June 18th) Hey fitness pros/fitness enthusiasts in the AUSTIN, TX area. I’ll be down there next weekend (Saturday, June 18th) – along with my wife, Dr. Lisa Lewis – for our inaugural Strong Body-Strong Mind Workshop. Topics covered include: 1. The Art of Coaching & Behavior… Read more
Disfluency and Why It Can Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals
In the Spring of ’96 I made my first collegiate start as a pitcher. I was playing for Onondaga Community College out of Syracuse, NY, and we were down in Florida for our annual Spring Training trip. Can you find me? Not only was it the first time I saw green grass in several months… Read more
Stronger Back = Better Everything
What’s more impressive or baller than a muscular, strong-looking backside? Any Joe Schmo can walk around with decent sized biceps or a six-pack that would make Tyler Durden jealous. Walk into any commercial gym and you’ll see both. However, it’s a bit of a rarer occurrence to see someone with an impressive upper back. Not… Read more
Porcelain Post: Exercise Variety
NOTE: the term “Porcelain Post” was invented by Brian Patrick Murphy and Pete Dupuis. Without getting into the specifics, it describes a post that can be read in the same time it takes you to go #2. Huh, I guess that was more specific than I thought. Enjoy. Know what I say about exercise variety?… Read more
Stuff To Read While You’re Pretending To Work: 6/3/16
Do you ever get caught in the trap of reminiscing? I’m not referring to the Pete Rock and CL Smooth 1992 hip-hop classic “They Reminisce Over You.” Probably one of my top-10 all-time favorite hip-hop songs. No, I mean “reminisce” in the sense of remembering where you were or what you were doing 24 hours… Read more
Getting My Athleticism Back
The saying “if you don’t use it, you lose it” can be applied to many facets of life. Vacation time for some people applies here. Within some companies here in the U.S, if you don’t use your vacation time, you lose it. Which is BS. And, of course, I could easily toss in an obligatory… Read more