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...

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...

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...

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...

Election got you down?? All those negative ads and attacks? Sometimes we just need to do the best for ourselves in our worlds and get the positive energy and focus flowing. I needed a “reset” yesterday morning. A good Monday Morning Ass-Kicking workout to remind me how lucky I am to be able to move...

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...