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We live in a world that is more obese, stressed out, inactive and has a higher rate of chronic disease than EVER before. If you don’t believe me, just look at the statistics that state that 1/3 of our CHILDREN are overweight and at risk for type-2 diabetes! This is[…]

Should you pick unilateral or bilateral lifts? YES. Should you pick offset or symmetrical loads? YES. Should you pick long or short range of motion? YES.   Look, it ALL works. There are benefits to each, and so you should be doing it all. The challenge is fitting it all[…]

There isn’t a super secret formula to getting really strong. I mean, there may be some techniques here and there that people debate about but when you look at it from a bird’s eye view, it’s all very similar. If you want to get strong you are going to need[…]

  BREATHING – THE MOST FUNDAMENTAL MOVEMENT PATTERN Breathing or Respiration (the two will be used interchangeably from here on out); is an action that we do upwards of 20,000 times a day. Unfortunately, many of us don’t give much thought to it. At the bare minimum, we need to[…]

It’s more common than ever to see people with exercise specific goals. While I am not the biggest fan of exercise based goals, what it has done is opened up the world of fitness to an entirely new demographic – the disempowered. Yes, you read that right, DISEMPOWERED. Pull ups[…]

Long before I was a trainer, I saw the devastating effects of losing balance and falling. My grandmother not once but twice fell and broke both of her hips on separate occasions. Her mobility was severely affected for the rest of her life. As a certified trainer and a Silver[…]

Perhaps no exercise rose to infamy more quickly than barbell good mornings when, in 1969, Bruce Lee reportedly blew out his back while performing them. He had to take a layoff from training for a long period of time thereafter, and while he did get back to training (to no[…]

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW **Soft skills (communication, critical thinking, leadership, attitude, etc) are extremely hard to quantify but extremely important to develop in the health and wellness industry. **The way you talk and interact with your clients will have a profound impact on their performance. **Learning to be good[…]