Shoulder Pain Trick

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

The Gauntlet

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

Save Your Knee Stretches

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

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

Sore Elbows?

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

Josh Carter’s Challenge Workout

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

Shawna 24/7 Progress Report 2- JoJami

I love my coaching client JoJami Tyler. She’s the style expert at Fabulous After 40 and she’s on day 2 of my coaching program.   As you’ll see by the video, JoJami is NOT overweight by any stretch, however, she’s unsatisfied with how she looks and feels. She wants to feel strong and toned again. … Continued

Elbow Pain

My elbows and I aren’t on speaking terms. We used to be good buddies, but ever since I decided it would be a good idea to do the human flag, my elbows have revolted. Here I am learning to do the human flag. I was hoping that I’d be able to hold this for 30 … Continued

Overtraining?

Are you training enough? Are you training too much? For some of my clients, training is like breathing or eating…just a necessity of life.     And with this sort of attitude toward exercise, you’re likely to have to deal with injury and the possibility of over training at some point in your athletic career. … Continued

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