Are You Sabotaging Your Health And Fitness Goals?
A fitness goal isn’t always easy to accomplish. Common ones include: losing excess weight, getting 6-pack abs, performing your first pull up, or deadlifting your own bodyweight. These types of goals can take weeks, months, even years to accomplish. I’d venture to say that the majority of our society has some sort of health and fitness…
28 Tips To Improve Your Health And Fitness
I’ve worked with a lot of clients over the past few years. Each one of them being different than the next. They’ve had their own struggles and challenges and had to learn how to overcome them as they attempted to accomplish their health and fitness goals. The cool thing is, I’ve learned a lot along…
One Unbelievably Easy Strategy To Break Any Habit
Habits, habits, habits. It’s seems like that’s all I talk about. 🙂 While this may be the case, the reality is habits either drive success or failure. If you’re holding on to bad habits, they can destroy any chance you have of accomplishing your goals. As I’ve talked about before, a habit has three distinct…
True Strength: The Difference Between Success And Failure
Over the past weekend, I attended my first ever Perform Better Summit in Orlando, Florida. If you don’t know anything about Perform Better, they’re a fitness equipment company that hosts seminars on the side. They heavily emphasize education for health and fitness professionals. Since I had never been to one of their events before, I…
Do You Need To “Earn Your Carbohydrates”?
The health and wellness industry is expected to be worth 1 trillion dollars by 2017. Yes, you read that right. 1 trillion dollars! This industry is home to categories like fitness, nutrition, supplements, clothing, and wearable tech. The market has a huge reach, not only in America, but around the world too. And within any…
A Guide To Creating Long-Term Motivation
According to the dictionary, motivation is defined as “the reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way”. Motivation to accomplish any goal is very important, but unfortunately it’s often fleeting. We wake up one day with all the confidence and vigor in the world only to have it come crashing down…
One Ridiculously Easy Way To Make A Habit Stick
I have talked many times on this site about how important developing habits are toward accomplishing your health and fitness goals. The reason habits are so crucial is because they become hard-wired within our brains as we repeat them. This makes them extremely easy to perform. We don’t have to think, we just do. The…
Creating A Plan For The New Year
This is the time of year when all the New Year’s resolutions begin. Everyone starts off with a can-do attitude and it seems like nothing will stand in their way. But just like every year, life happens. They get busy and finds ways to discontinue their resolution efforts. That’s why most resolutions (and anything for…
Two Things You Need To Do To Crush Any Goal
A goal is defined as “the object of a person’s ambition or effort; an aim or desired result”. Goals are very important in life, because they push us to do something we otherwise may not have attempted. But they can be tough to accomplish. Working with clients week in and week out has given me a…
What Personal Training Is Really Like
With all the tv shows and movies out there today, personal training has gotten a bad rap. Think about it. In every movie that has a personal training character, they usually are some sort of drug dealer or creep looking to hustle people. And I know you have seen the tv shows like biggest loser.…