Learn to Integrate Heart Rate Training into Your Workouts Training based on your heart rate or using your heart rate as feedback during workouts is UH-MAZING and has potential to take your training to the next level.  There seems to be a misconception that heart rate training is for conditioning and cardio only.  I am […]

I get asked weekly, “How do you stay motivated to workout?” Motivation is a word that gets thrown around A LOT in the fitness industry.  Quite frankly I hate it. I am NOT motivated everyday to workout. In fact I would say 20% of the time I am motivated. 80% of the time I have […]

Perspective is a VERY powerful thing. It literally shapes the way you view a scenario, process it and act on it. Today I plan to help you thrive by getting you to think long term. A long term perspective is quite possibly the most grounding practice for remaining steadfast in life and training. Listen, I […]

What season of life are you in? How is your stress level? What is your schedule like?  How are your 24 hours used? Where is your mind at, your spirit at? What is your life OUTSIDE the gym currently looking like? It all matters and it all has an effect on your training. Unless you’re […]

My Body Image Issues: The day I discovered my cellulite. Are you a human? Okay cool, so you have image issues. At some point in your life: you’ve felt insecure, disliked the way you felt in your skin, thought negatively about your body, been envious of someone else’s body or wanted to change something about […]

Is your squat up to par? The squat may be a natural, functional movement for human beings; but somewhere along the way we begin to suck at it. This is not completely our fault. Our culture, in America anyway, does a superb job of eliminating the squatting pattern after early childhood. By kindergarten we are […]