You have to love a squat challenge. Well, love it and hate it…for me, somehow the squat challenge was the hardest of all the body weight challenges I did. With the dead lift challenge, the hardest part of was holding the bar. When I try it again, I’ll use straps to see what kind of … Continued
Here’s challenge number two. It started with the deadlift challenge: bodyweight on the bar for two sets, one set for max reps without rest, one set for max reps in three minutes. Good times all around. A day after this challenge I tackled the bench. Now I love to bench press. Here’s a secret: I’ve … Continued
With the new year just around the corner, I thought it would be cool to give you the actual FORMULA for quickly and easily getting clients into your fitness business. Mind you, these are not marketing strategies or tactics… I’ve given you plenty of those in past articles and you can find many more of … Continued
Challenge workouts: I’m not sure where I dream these ideas up. They seem like a good idea at the time, but then I get these butterflies in my gut at the thought of actually hitting the gym and doing the workout. I figure this is a good thing…my way of living on the edge since … Continued
Back by popular demand is my pal Rick Kaselj. Do you have shoulder pain when you try to do push ups or planking? Rick Kaselj has a few tips for you here: You can check out Rick’s shoulder program here. He’s got a ton of practical things you can do to dramatically improve … Continued
Recently I was at a meeting with some of the top fitness pro’s in the biz. We planned on getting together on the first night after our meetings for a killer workout. As it turned out, San Diego and the surrounding area had a power outage for over 12 hours. So instead of training, since … Continued
Here’s my pal Rick Kaselj who has shared some insights on how to avoid knee pain on the blog before. You can check those posts out here and here. Today Rick shares a few thoughts on stretching and knee pain: You can check Rick’s program for those of you with knee pain out … Continued
Cardio workouts for women often tend to be the long duration, low-intensity cardiovascular exercise that everyone dreads. Cardio workouts that take up half your day and bore you to tears should be a thing of the past. That is, unless you like spending hours barely sweating and being bored silly. Think about this: … Continued
I wanted to re-introduce you to my fellow Canuck and all round good guy, Rick Kaselj. He’s been on the blog before talking about how to avoid knee pain. We often meet at ‘mastermind’ meetings where top fitness trainers gather to share their knowledge, and lately we were in San Diego. My elbows were screaming … Continued
If you wanna use your body weight as an excuse for NOT being able to do pull ups, don’t read this post. You may look at me and say, ‘easy for a 120lb person’, but you definitely can’t look at Josh Carter and say the same. Josh runs about 245lbs. He’s a monster. I recently … Continued