Up-front disclaimer: I don’t expect daily weigh-ins from all of my clients, and certainly not regardless of the phase of their training. It takes a certain level of emotional detachment from the scale number (a skill worth learning) to make this worth the...
There’s a lot of debate going on in the fitness/health industry about dieting styles. I figured it’s worth a couple minutes to cut through the garbage and propaganda and have a reasonably intelligent conversation about the options. At the extreme ends of...
Welcome to installment #1 of what will be an ongoing blog series: the Keys of Success! It should be noted that whenever anyone asks me what the key is to success, I always tell them that there isn’t one. This is a much easier answer, since the person asking...
When you go through the certification process to be a personal trainer, you learn about various ways of assessing the body to determine progress. We’re taught to take measurements with a tape (waist, hips, etc), get a scale reading, and how to determine someone’s...
I love my parents, don’t get me wrong. They are awesome and have done absolutely everything for me that they could possible be expected to, and then some. When I moved across the country from Oregon to Asheville, it was probably a bit of a shock to them as it...
