BODYWEIGHT movements are a great way to build a strong core foundation, improve your strength training movement mechanics, increase your range of motion, and master moving like an athlete. Ways to progress simple bodyweight movements: ✅ Change the tempo – slow down or speed up. Slowing down helps to engage the muscles and speeding up...
As someone with 20 plus years deep in the game of “physique transformation” and health, I can speak to the crazy that ensues in the minds of fitness enthusients during the Holidays, namely Thanksgiving. Over-exercising to compensate for increased intake, negative narratives about gaining fat due to enjoying oneself, punishing behaviors such as limiting intake...
Through my coaching I employ the philosophy of Intuitive Eating and Training. Basically, “following the feeling”. The fitness coaching world is full of trainers who preach “compliance” to rigid programs and meal plans, to me this serves to rob a client of the empowerment, authenticity, and sustainability of a healthy and fit lifestyle. The Intuitive...
Ahhh, the feeling of riding your A-Game. Eating well, working out like an athlete, making good lifestyle decisions. Jeans button easily, or are even loose, thoughts are clear and ideas zippy, mood is high, and noone or nothing can dampen your spirits. It is late November and ……. screeeeeeaaaaaachhhh, Holidays are here and your time...
Like our body temperature, sleep schedule, blood pressure, the make up of our body craves balance, normalcy, and stability. Our habits and lifestyle dictate where we settle. Despite the variations from day to day, week to week, and even month to month, in the amount that we eat and how much we workout, typically the...
What a gratifying and rewarding experience to have been a part of The Winnicunet Warriors State Championship year. The Beach Boys worked hard for me throughout the summer and the season, crushing their functional workouts. Training like you move is a #gamechanger!
The drinks are flowing, the cheer is abundant, the small plates are passing and your inhibitions are low. It is the holiday season, so why not indulge and just start fresh January 1st, right? #wronganswer!! When you follow a strong and healthy fitness philosophy the small decisions you make every day define you. The sum...
Food!!!…carbs!!!…calories!!!!…for so long popular fitness culture has demonized these beautiful nouns. Labeled with such adjectives as “good”, “bad”, “off plan”, with such feelings as “guilt”, “punishment”, “remorse”. Food is simply another variable in play to use for your benefit in moving, looking, and feeling your best. The best athletes have all these variables in check...
Ironically a simply formatted and short duration workout can have the biggest impact on your metabolism. Metabolism, simply stated, is your bodies engine that is fired up when you are at rest. The more muscle you have the higher your metabolism, the more you work outside your comfort zone, in a precise, form based, and...
Most days I am highly intune with my body, in control, eat what I want within the parameters of the foods that my body thrives on, free of negative thoughts about food, and flying high with my health and wellness. You can find me spooning a hearty amount of peanut butter into my calorically dense...
