Recently, two of my mentors, Pat Rigsby and David Bayer, wrote/talked about the same topic...a topic that I think about and deal with a lot as a fitness professional… TIMING Often when someone is considering a fitness program (or improvement they’d like to make or goal they’d like to achieve) they’ll stop themselves and [...]
This morning was one of those mornings… The alarm went off. I was not excited to get up. I got up anyway. Then I contemplated… ...standing in the dark… ...for about 3 minutes. “I’m just not feeling it today. Maybe I need the extra rest. What’s one workout? I’ve got an important meeting today [...]
How many times have you fallen off the wagon in the latter part of the week and just said, “I’ll start over on Monday.” Maybe you went to town on a pizza and some drinks on Friday night and that turned into a weekend bender… Or, you missed your Wednesday workout...Thursdays don’t work for [...]
Besides 22 years of experience as a fitness professional, I have a degree in physical education with a concentration in adult fitness, I have a nationally recognized personal training certification with the National Academy of Sports Medicine, and I have accumulated a number of specialty certifications over the years as well. They’re all meaningless. [...]
When I was a kid if I wasn’t out on my BMX bike or playing pick-up sports with my friends, I loved watching afterschool and Saturday morning cartoons! Some of my favorites were Transformers and Duck Tails, and of course GI Joe… At the end of every GI Joe episode there’d be a short public [...]
