Most fitness experts will tell you that spending your money on nutritional supplements is a waste of money, but I disagree.  There is definitely a place for supplements provided your at minimum 70% compliant with a good nutrition plan.  Besides, with the unfortunate lower quality of our foods these days, a sensible supplementation program will [...]

Why do we stick to some goals and drop the ball hard on other goals? Why is motivation so short lived? From my experiences I’ve come to learn that most people’s motivational reasons are external versus internal.  When it’s a very personal internal reason, it becomes more of an inspirational factor, and creates a bigger [...]

It’s easy to fall into the trap of mindless working out.  Thousands and thousands of people exercise just to exercise, and sometimes that’s a good thing because honestly everyone should be exercising to reap the benefits.  However, just like any endeavor in life, if it doesn’t have a purpose then the activity will come to [...]

Alright, so like I said in the previous blog post, I’m going to switch gears here and talk more about more lessons learned in the fitness arena and how to be more awesome in 2011.  Get ready for the Barney Stinson quotes 10 Minute Workouts Are Legit – If you have the appropriate combination of [...]

Yesterday I shared my reflections on 2010 and some of the lessons I’ve learned.  So today, I figured I’ll just lay out the rest and get on with it. * Technology Is A Double Edged Sword – with today’s coolest gadgets from the iPhone, iPad, Droid’s, etc you would think that the ability to multi-task [...]

This blog post is a reflection on the many lessons learned and relearned in my frenzied and furious year of 2010, in which, if you also follow the Chinese zodiac was the Year of the Tiger. The year of the Tiger represents explosiveness, disagreement, disasters, but also big and bold moves, and that no task [...]

These days everyone is looking for the holy grail of diets, or that secret food to help burn more belly fat.  Let me just end it now by saying you’ll never find it, ever.  So get over it. Now there are certain foods that when combined appropriately with other foods, can create close to the [...]

If you’re struggling to lose fat or if you’ve hit a plateau in your fat loss program, but know that your workouts are appropriate for your fat loss goals, you may need to take another look at your nutritional macronutrients. Macronutrients are simply the nutrients that provides your body calories for energy, such as protein, [...]

It was a crazy busy weekend for me at my gym. Saturday we hosted an “Intro to Kettlebell” workshop, held our popular boot camp, supported my good friend Marisa with her “cult like” group ex class, and promoted our bridal boot camp at a local wedding expo. Each event was high energy and I met [...]

It was a busy weekend with my wife’s family celebrating three birthdays and the blessing of my son. It almost felt like Thanksgiving and Christmas all over again with all the awesome food, gifts, and most importantly the gathering of family in which there was a lot of catching up to do with everyone. When [...]