Metabolic Resistance Training

My mentor and good friend Craig Ballantyne has a program that I highly recommend.  There’s so much fluff out there, I want to turn you onto the best so you don’t waste your time and money. CB’s program’s are the best…why would I choose a mentor unless I felt this way? Now over to fitness … Continued

At Home Workouts for Women

At home workouts for women can be simple and include as few as three exercises:   squat jump push ups painful push away (one arm)   You’d be surprised at how much your body will tone up with these three exercises in an at home workout for women.   Often times, ladies will want to … Continued

Fitness and Your Better Half

Guess what? If you’re married or have a significant other, your biggest ally and enemy are one and the same: your spouse. Of course this is something that you already knew. Have you thought about it in terms of your fitness and fat loss journey? Not surprisingly, your spouse can be the missing link to … Continued

Best Leg Exercises

Good news: the best leg exercises are the most challenging. I say that’s good news for you because I’m assuming since you’re on this blog that you’re up for any kind of challenge to improve your leg strength, endurance and fit in your jeans better. Have you seen those dudes in the gym that have … Continued

Best Tummy Toning Exercise

You may be surprised at what the best tummy toning exercise is. Most people think it’s a crunch or sit up of some sort.   In fact, the best tummy toning exercise doesn’t involve any type movement and is actually quite static in nature. The best tummy toning exercise is an isometric contraction, or pose. … Continued

3 Best Leg Toning Exercises

What are the 3 best leg toning exercises? There are so many leg exercises to choose from, how do you narrow it down to the ‘3 best leg toning exercises‘? I’ll do it for you… Any kind of leg work should be using compound movements. By this I mean, you shouldn’t be seated anywhere, and … Continued

Timed Full Body Blaster

Do you have 20 minutes? Then you have time for this quick and dirty full body workout. You’ll need a mat, dumb bells and water on hand cuz you’re gonna work up a sweat. You’ll see my apprentice, Allie, putting a few campers through their paces at an outdoor boot camp. I’m on the other … Continued

Exercise Tips for Women

If you’re going to exercise, you may as well do it right so I’ve compiled 17 exercise tips for women for you. These are simple tips that you can put into place right away. These exercise tips for women can also be applied to men, they’re just great ways to burn more fat and build … Continued

1000 Rep Workout

How high can you count? Well, you don’t really have to count up to 1000 for this workout. Basically, you’re going to take the list and get 100 reps of each the exercises listed. You can do any combination of reps: 10 x 10, 4 x 25, 5 x 20…what ever you can do. Start … Continued

Squats = Knee Pain?

Clients always are saying to me that they get knee pain when they squat. They tell me that they want to give up squatting, so my next question is ‘Will you give up going to the toilet?’ Squatting is one of those functional movements that you MUST be able to do if you want to … Continued