Category Archives: Life

5 Ways to Optimize Your Home Gym

1. Create space to actually move.Skip the giant, single-use machines that eat your floor like Pac-Man. Make room for the stuff you’ll actually do: walking, crawling, squatting, lunging, hinging. Leave enough room so you don’t smack your shin on a bench every time you try to move around. 2. Choose tools that do more thanContinueContinue reading “5 Ways to Optimize Your Home Gym”

Prevention vs. Treatment

I was sitting in the Doctor’s office sick with a cough, a few months back. It had been a regular thing for my body when weather patterns shift. It gets cold, new allergens in the air, a couple months into football season and my immune system decides to lag behind. I fall behind on sleepContinueContinue reading “Prevention vs. Treatment”

Your Fitness Routine is Set. Now What? – Bracing for the Next Steps

After consistently exercising for three months, it’s crucial to reassess your fitness goals and understand what your body needs. Whether it’s aiming for improved health risk factors, weight loss, enhanced mobility for sports, or consistent movement outside of training, the objective is tailored to each individual. It’s also essential to set meaningful goals that resonate on a personal level, fostering motivation and resilience. This process can vastly improve different aspects of your health.

Oral Hygiene is like Fitness

Let’s talk about good days and bad days for a minute. We’ll do it in the context of brushing your teeth relating to commitment to self. There are some days you brush your teeth three times, floss them before gargling some mouth rinse, exactly as your dentist suggests. Being realistic – most days don’t endContinueContinue reading “Oral Hygiene is like Fitness”

Fitness and You – The Three Levels of Fitness

It’s been 10+ years now. Thousands of hours and dollars spent learning with some of the best people I’ve met. Friends, bosses, colleagues, clients, family – there is a different need for every individual out there. I’ve got a running count of different ideas, concepts and plans built for single every person I’ve ever hadContinueContinue reading “Fitness and You – The Three Levels of Fitness”

Improving Your Environment

This world is wrought with chaos, new ideas, old ways of thinking and superfluous noise. The constant barrage of stress from news that breaks, ignorance and a deteriorating mother earth leads each and every one of us to wonder, what’s going to crumble next? Let’s take a step back and take a breath. Head down,ContinueContinue reading “Improving Your Environment”

What happens to Muscle as we Age?

Santa’s jacked One of the most important things to recognize and realize, is that in older age we will inevitably see a decline in muscle mass, strength and power. Once you hit 70, there is a 2% decline in muscle mass per year in active adults from age 70-79. At the same time, the functional abilityContinueContinue reading “What happens to Muscle as we Age?”

An Eye into my Coaching Ethos

Hey, Here’s the thing. I’m not a coach who’s going to yell at you or shame. And I think that’s because I did that to myself for years. It hurt to hear those thoughts in my head, and tear myself down. It makes me feel like I’m not good enough to feel good about who IContinueContinue reading “An Eye into my Coaching Ethos”

Try Something Difficult – Change Your Life

The fitness world is fraught with inconsistencies. Butter used to be bad. But now it’s good. Eggs are terrible for your cholesterol. But actually it’s not! Squats kill your knees, don’t do them. But actually, do them because you have to every time you poop! It’s a world full of noise. It makes living aContinueContinue reading “Try Something Difficult – Change Your Life”