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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...

Easy Grocery Shopping Tips

Making a list before heading to the store can be for more than making sure you don’t forget anything. It can be a great teaching tool and an easy way to control what you’re eating. It’s hard to eat something if you don’t buy it.   Let’s start with...

Why Cardio Is Not The Answer!

You are frustrated because you are going to the gym and not seeing the results that you want. You may feel a little better and have some more energy but you are so focused on the scale and you don’t see it moving. ...

Life Doesn’t Stop and Neither Should Your Fitness

Life doesn’t stop and neither should your fitness. Epic statement, I know. I believe that people and the person is capable of so much when the mindset is geared towards a goal and uses strategies to seek out those goals, even during moments of great stress and days of endless...

Who Controls Who? Your Mind Or Your Body?

Recently I have been listening to a book about a guy who pushes his body to the limits, far past the limits of what seems humanly possible. The big thing he talks about is being able to control his mind and tell himself that he can do certain things.  ...

A Goal Without A Path Is Just A Wish

We often talk about how to set a goal and reach it. We talk about the different steps to get there and outline a few strategies to help.   Today I want to share with you a strategy I am using to work with a client to reach his goal...

Lucy’s Back(Injury, should not stop you)

If you have ever done athletics or even been active, you know that sometimes you cannot avoid injury. Injuries happen. It’s just a strict fact of life. Sometimes they occur because you have done something too intense for too long, or sometimes because you haven’t done enough and your body...