Author: Shawna Kaminski

  I know that many of you are looking for ways to improve the quality and quantity of your push ups. I have a tip that will not only help you push ups, but it will help you with your pull ups as well. It doesn’t sound wildly sexy, but it’s effective to help stabilize … Continued

A good videographer is hard to find. Sometimes things just go wrong. Seriously, when filming guerrilla style videos in the gym or at a park, what can you expect? Often I’ll accost some random passerby who looks sort of like they wouldn’t run off with my camera and hope that they shoot a decent video. … Continued

I’ve been getting asked the question ‘what’s a hardcore finisher’, so I asked Travis to enlighten us. Here’s some good info for you. But don’t bother if you’re sort of a wus 😉 What is a Hardcore Finisher? Travis Stoetzel, CSCS   If you’re not yet using Finishers as apart of your training routines, you’re … Continued

Finishing your workout with a bang is important. Squeezing every ounce of energy out of your bones not only strengthens the body, but builds mental toughness too. I can’t say enough about Mike Whitfield and Travis Stoezel’s Hardcore Finisher program. If you’re NOT mentally tough, if you don’t have an “I can do anything” attitude, … Continued

Remember my good friends Mike Whitfield and Travis Stoezel? You can see them in challenge workouts with me here and here. They teamed up to create something called ‘Hardcore Finishers’ that’s off the hook. I had to bust out the program and give a few of the finishers a go. The finishers are actually intended … Continued

You may not think that you’d ever be able to do a pull up. Well, guess what? I have news for you. I have several clients from the Female Fat Loss Over 40 community that are doing pull ups now. Whoop whoop! If you hadn’t heard, my alter ego is ‘The Pull Up Queen’. I … Continued

I’m here with ‘Mr Finisher’ Mike Whitfield at Petco Park in San Diego.   We had the day to hang out and goof off. Part of goofing off included doing some videos for you. We did an a$$ kicking circuit for you and a fun one.  Good times. First some serious stuff:

Who doesn’t want to bang out a ton of quality push ups? Along with being a total upper body toner, the push up is down right impressive when you do multiple clean reps. I wanted to give you a few sneaky push ups secrets to help you to that end. Now I like to train … Continued

The assisted pull up can be done in a variety of places. Do you have a set of bleachers close by? Lots of hockey rinks, soccer centers, baseball diamonds etc have these. Check out the back of the bleacher to see if there’s a cool ‘X’ like frame that you can use to step up … Continued