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...

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...

I have participated in Jennifer Tedford Zuba’s Lifestyle Kickstart program 3 times over the last two years. Each time I have come away with tons of delicious, clean recipes and volumes of customized, challenging workouts that I can do at the gym, at home or on the road! But it is the knowledge and mental...

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...

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...

Resistance Bands are not just for the elderly and those traveling anymore. One of the most athletic and successful quarterbacks in history, Tom Brady, routinely uses resistance bands in his training. It’s no surprise! Bands come in all different widths and resistances. They allow for resistance on the positive and negative  movements of the exercise...

 Many people slave through workouts with the intent of looking better.  I think this is a byproduct of society today. We are bombarded with images that show that beautiful things can make us happy and feel fulfilled. In my experience, looking your best is only achieved when FEELING your best shines inside out. I have...

Functional training means training like you move in every day life. To boost your metabolism and your athleticism plus prevent joint injury you want to train your body in all planes of motion. Including sagital, front to back, frontal, side to side, and transverse which is diagonal. Rotational movements which are diagonal movements mimic every...

I know I say this too much to my clients; “Find your rhythm”. All too often people come to me saying they are doing their best following menus and workouts from magazines, or counting macros, or calories, or flexible dieting. Yet they still are frustrated in that they do not see the results they are...