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What Does a Personal Trainer Actually Do During Your Workout?

“Eight…nine…ten!”   If that’s your picture of personal training, it raises a fair question: Why do I need someone to count repetitions for me?   You don’t.   The valuable part of coaching happens around those repetitions: deciding what you should do, watching what actually happens, making small adjustments and...

Why You Should Fail

Today we are going to talk about failure.   We are going to talk about why you probably should fail.   Failure is important because without failure we will never grow and get better.   The reason this is on my mind today is that we just started a new...

The Best Hack To Create More Variety

Today I want to share with you a simple trick you can use if you find yourself getting bored of eating the same things.   We have seen over and over again that if you make it easy to eat foods that are in line with your goal the greater...

Can You Feel It?

Today we’re going to stick with the theme of workouts and specifically things I am learning and reminding myself during my venture into a virtual workout program.   Being a coach involves a lot of question-asking and listening. A great coach will talk less and listen more.   One of...

Are you going through the motions?

If you remember a few weeks back I made a post opening up about my lack of workouts. I felt like I was too busy, I had no energy, and I just was failing to get my workouts in. I decided to make a goal of simply getting 2-3 workouts...

How To Overcome New Challenges

Remember back to psychology 101 where you learned about our basic instinct of flight’ or fight.   Recently I picked up a new hobby and have mixed feelings about just wanting to give it up and keep on going so I can continue to get better.   As I am...

The Easiest Way To Get Started

Today I am going to open myself up and be vulnerable.   It is easy for me to come up with every excuse under the sun, I am too tired, I don’t have enough time, my workouts are too long, I get frustrated because I can’t lift as much weight...