Today’s Topic: Balance, The Trinity, Overtraining, Recommendations, Just Read it Goal: Become aware of your training and balancing The Trinity How: Mindset, Psychology, Recommendations It’s near impossible to track where our beliefs originate. And once they take hold they can be notoriously difficult to change. To further compound the issue, humans have a handy psychological trick that we [...]
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The Manifesto The Gym Life is about better. It is a mindset and lifestyle rooted in becoming better. It is not about being the best, just better than before, better than yesterday. It is a journey, a practice. No matter where you are at, or where you want to be, you are always trying to [...]
Today’s Topic: Weaknesses Goal: Start training them until they aren’t weaknesses anymore, destroy them, exterminate them, make them not exist How: Developing a plan and as always: mindset I’m good at snatching because I have a deep squat and enough hip mobility to get under the bar fast. I can lift well above my bodyweight. Ironically [...]
Today’s Topic: Training your ass off but fucking it all up with your diet Goal: Get you to make better food choices How: Simple mindset shifts, informed decisions, and a damn Crockpot Training Hard And Not Eating Well I see this all the time: Athletes work their ass off in the gym (some everyday) They [...]
Today’s Topic: Living a Better Life Goal: Live a better life one day at a time How: Mindset, daily effort I’m a huge fan of personal development. Each day gives you the opportunity to become better. “Each day provides its own gifts” -Marcus Aurelius Each day you are given the opportunity to improve a skill, [...]
Today’s Topic: Why You Still Don’t Have Abs Brah Goal: Get You Abs Brah How: Understanding the root cause and why you probably give up too soon I work with over 250 clients on a daily basis that are training towards one or more fitness goals. For four years now I have noticed some themes among [...]
People like lists apparently. Because of the amazing success of 50 Ways To Get Better at CrossFit I have decided to do an entire series of ‘50 ways’ list posts. Please share this content with anyone that you think will benefit! Let’s keep fighting the good fight..Here is a snazzy click-to-tweet link. Overall, you will lead a better [...]
It’s simple: Read the list and choose tips that resonate with you. Then implement the idea(s) and get better at CrossFit (and life). That’s it! How to get better at CrossFit (in no particular order): 1. Gear up. Get oly shoes, some inov-8s or nano’s, a speed rope, some wrist wraps, and some good workout clothes 2. [...]
A Training program is a major life commitment - Don’t mess around Are you looking to start a new fitness program? Or are you ready to re-start a fitness program? Maybe already train and just need a refresher of the important fundamentals that come with any program? Either way, the following points are of paramount importance and will help [...]
The beautiful thing about functional training is it can be done anywhere. It is also possible to achieve a high level of fitness using just body-weight exercises and metabolic conditioning. While I do recommend everyone utilize a fundamental strength program, it is important to showcase how easy it is to get a workout in wether you have access [...]
