It feels rather impossible. We’re almost 9 years to the day we opened up sweatlocal to a completely EMPTY 5:30am class. Not exactly a “grand opening” for a new gym in Huntsville amiright??? Forgive me for being a wee bit harsh on this birthday blog, but the reality is, I had no business being in …
My kiddos have outgrown the pool. At almost 17 and 12, they’ve lost interest in spending their entire summer cannon balling off the diving board and swimming aimlessly from end to end with goggles they’d surely lose by the end of the day. However, back in 2017 when I originally wrote this post, spending short …
Happy 2022. If you’re like most people, you might be feeling the immense anxiety of 2-3 months of solid partying and forgetting about some of the pillars that keep you looking and feeling Hot, Healthy and Happy. More often than not, when people feel like this, I see them dive into some wild ass diets …
It’s the Holi-DAYS. Not the Holi-MONTHS. 3-4 Works Out/Week! 20g+ of protein at breakfast AND BEFORE your par-tay. Don’t track your veggies/fruits. Go back to NORMAL, HEALTHY eating the next day. Happy Holidays Friends!!! It’s that time of year again where even the most disciplined of fitness fanatics will find themselves tempted to break their …
People ask me, how do I have time… uhm, I don’t… but that’s not going to stop me. Ya’ll, the fast paced life that we seem to endlessly criticize, we’ve purposefully designed and secretly enjoy. Positive psychology research tells us that people have fun REACHING for a goal more than accomplishing the goal. In other words, we …
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THEIR NOT CHANGING THEIR WORKOUTS DAILY: So let me explain… If you’re NOT working out and all of a sudden you begin working out, cherry picking a new workout you found on Instagram daily WILL absolutely change your body. You went from NOT putting stress on your muscles to CONSISTENTLY presenting a new work load. …
Do this instead… HOMEWORK below… I don’t care how S.M.A.R.T. your goal is, “I will lose 7 lbs in 8 weeks” ain’t nothin’ but a DESIRE. It’s an outcome. It’s not actually a GOAL! Nothing, and I mean NOTHING, about the Specificity, Measurability,Attainability, Relevancy, or Timeliness of that goal drives results. Results are achieved through consistent ACTIONS. This …
Oftentimes, people will email me about a “stubborn” area they are having a hard time slicing and dicing. Back, shoulders, and triceps are the top three upper body areas I most often hear about so I wanted to offer you guys some tips on how to get these areas to budge and invite anyone to …
Travel is a NORMAL part of our work and family life. More often than not, I see folks peg their vacation plans as a “bump in the road” or a kink in their fitness journey so I wanted to focus on the ADVANTAGES behind not being in your normal gym element. 1. JOJI – The …
