The Strategy Session Upon setting an appointment with a potential client, one of the first things we set out to accomplish is deciding where we want this exercise program to take us. Are we looking to improve strength? Do we desire to lose more around the midsection? Or are we interested in improving endurance? It…
A Written Account of Some Experiences, Lessons, and Losses That Came With Running a Fitness Business… The year 2020 was a big year for me. Not because of a certain virus that came along with a certain shutdown; but because for the first time in my life I faced and overcame one of the biggest…
Goodbye New Year, Hello Spring The gym parking lot does not appear as full as it did in January. We are either completely enamored with our results or are smacking our heads, disillusioned with why we began in the first place. Rather than remain stagnant, I would encourage you to enlist some Spring Cleaning with…
Program Design Program Design is a concept which is oftentimes explained to the client, but they usually interpret this as ‘exercise selection based on ability or preference.’ Recently I made the choice to invest in learning more about program design. Though this, I had one really big Ah-ha moment when I realized that program design…
Passion By the dictionary, passion is defined as strong and barely controllable emotion. If that’s not powerful I don’t know what is. With passion as it relates to love, I believe we can relate to an image of a soppy romantic movie and the verbal/physical interaction of its characters. The subject of training, however, may…
You are frustrated at your current progress (or lack thereof). Did you expect too much? Do you have what it takes? Should you find another gym altogether? Perhaps not. Instead, these are some points to highlight and focus on instead… Age is more than just a number. Commonly clients will become frustrated…
In my previous blog post I Need a New Year (link) I drew a comparison of Fitness not being a part of the ‘real’ world, and in order to accomplish fitness-related goals you need to plug yourself in to an alternate reality for chunks at a time. You may not have powers such as…
You’ve laid out your New Years resolutions in perfect harmony. One or two might even be fitness-related. If you feel yourself ‘stuck’, here are five effective steps towards getting back on track that never fail… Five Steps Step 1 – Ask yourself what you want to accomplish, why that is, and how long do you…
There are few realizations as scary as you no longer have ‘control’ over your Fitness. Some might argue that Fitness is more closely correlated with fate than control; but not for purists. This is innate. We do it for the passion. What IF I told you that it was both, while informing you that Fitness…
Time and Time Again Your body is beat up, and yet you approach your workout as if everything is 100%… Progress is stagnating, yet you decide to not look at your food intake or training log for reason(s) why… You seek motivation as the answer, and yet you cannot remember the last time that motivation…