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Change is not going to be easy, you’re going to fail, but how you deal with that failure can make all the difference in the world. I’ve already covered a Growth or Be Better Mindset mindset back in E…

Today is a must read episode, Atomic Habits: An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones. As soon as I listened to an interview with the author James Clear I knew I was going to re…

I usually like going to these events, I mean who doesn’t want to go to a function where you hardly know anyone and sit in a corner by yourself, while you use wheat thins to slowly shovel brie cheese …

I used to hate fitness challenges - 30 Days of Plank, the 12 Days of Lunges,  The Burpee Challenge, you know, the ones that periodically show up on your facebook or instagram feed or an over exuberan…

Last Wednesday night was Halloween and even though I’m generally anti-chips and chocolate bars, I try not to be anti-fun and recognize that getting dressed up and going to people’s houses, getting ca…

About eight months ago I started working with a new client, a woman in her mid-50s who had just gone through several breast cancer surgeries and treatments. She’s in remission for now and wanted or w…

Topic suggestion from Krysta on our Facebook Page. I’d love to hear about set\rep amounts and the weight of the weights for different goals such as losing weight vs building muscle ... I’ve been told…

Have you ever set a goal and then felt like you’ve fallen behind on achieving that goal?

It’s a phrase I hear all the time,

I’m behind on my weight loss goal…..

I’m behind on my training…...

I’m behi…

You are here (x). Your future self is there (y). How do you get from here to there without crashing and burning.

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Today is a must read episode Endure: Mind, Body and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance by Alex Hutchinson. Hutchinson tries to tackle this complex question, why is it that more people …

Let’s picture this for a second, you’re in the gym you’re exercising, you do a bit of jump rope, then you quickly shift to lunges, then to a plank, you hop up into squats, then you hit the floor to d…

I was training a client the other day and she was talking about how dissatisfied she was with how she felt, she wasn’t happy with how things were going, as in how she’s not able to do some of the thi…

I started hitting the gym back in September 2017, I was very weak back then so I started with 30 lbs overhead press and now have made very little progress, that is after 11 months I've reached 80 lbs…

I was working with one of my clients the other morning and they were talking about how during the week they had tried to or had good intentions of doing some exercises on their own, but they were una…

I’ve lost some weight, but when I look in the mirror all I see is my fat and how fat I am.

I’m in smaller clothes, but I’m still disgusting. If only I could lose all my weight then I would be happy. …

‘I’m not as strong as I used to be. I really need to start exercising, but exercising is so hard’

‘I know I shouldn’t eat this, but it tastes soooooo good’

‘I wish I could get out of bed early, I kno…

I have a client I’ve been working with for about 6 months now, she had been working with another trainer for about a year before that and lost a lot of weight right out of the gate, but had plateaued…

Here’s the email question from Slow Progress Sam we’ll call him,

I’m a 33 year old male that weighs 167 lbs. and is 28% body fat. I’ve been dieting for 71 days and lifting weights for 40 days, follow…

Of course this is all well and good, but what if you’re red lining all the time or you’re maxed out from the time you wake up in the morning until the time you go to bed at night? If that’s the case …

When we do an assessment or an initial intake with a new client we go through their goals, expectations and generally what they’re looking to get out of our relationship and an exercise program or fi…