If 2017 has turned into a year where you are dragging your feet, and you are eager for a lifestyle change involving health and fitness, one of the biggest hurdles to overcome is getting started. I have found that sometimes it’s not just entering the gym for the first time— it’s actually continuing during those…
If you are new to working out, you may not consider what your core (everything except your extremities) are doing when working out. It’s easy to forget. You may be focused on lifting with your arms or focused on a leg workout, but in almost every single strategic motion during heavy lifting it is important…
When you are doing a set of reps, simply put, do not consider yourself done until you are truly done, and the weights or bands or your mileage goal on the treadmill are truly reached. There’s so much to be said for the last 10% of a given portion of your workout. If you are…
…is consistency. Whether you are purely dieting, or utilizing an ongoing regiment of fitness, or a combination of the both, the most important thing to keep in mind is that it takes consistency to see change. There are a large assortment of diets out there, and just as many customized workouts. While some do work…
If you are continually being pushed by a personal trainer through a proper workout, that workout should be challenging. Safe, but challenging. This is because sometimes we require the precise kind of encouragement that pushes us to new heights. Whether your goal is to get lean or to increase your strength, your workout should be…
Goal setting is important, and it’s not always necessarily about going lean. Already this year I’ve had a few clients who have come to me with lifting goals. They want to be able to bench more than they ever have before, for example. There are a few key ingredients you can add to your workout…
The month of February is arguably the most important month of fitness. This is because more people than any other month start to taper off their regiment. This is mostly due to the fact that getting motivated around the New Year is easier than actually maintaining a fitness lifestyle long enough to actually start to…
Ask any gym owner and you’ll always hear the same thing. Attendance for gyms always rises in the early parts of the year. It’s easy to see why; people yearn to shake off the holiday pounds, and many people spend New Years thinking about goals. Why is it that goals do not remain as high…