30-DAY CHALLENGE TO CREATE HEALTHIER HABITS FOR THE NEW YEAR
It’s the New Year, and that means New Year Resolutions. It can be hard or overwhelming on where to start to be successful. Read my new blog and take on the challenge to be successful.
WHAT IS STRENGTH AND WHY IS IT IMPORTANT IN LIFE?
What is strength? First thing that comes to my mind is how heavy you can lift? Being strong looks a little different for each person. One person might feel strong to finally get that push up, the other might be chasing a pull up goal, and another person might feel strong when they finally can get out of the chair without assistance. Everyone has a different meaning of what strength…
HOW TO GET STARTED WITH YOUR HOME GYM FOR AMAZING RESULTS
I want to help you build your home gym and help you avoid the mistakes I made. Your home gym should be personalized based on your needs and with the space that you have. When I first started my home gym, it was grabbing whatever piece of equipment that I could find at the cheapest price. The problem was that I couldn’t do all the exercises I needed with this…
WHY TRAINING TO FAILURE IS KEEPING YOU FROM SEEING GREAT RESULTS
When it comes to training for failure, there will be quite a bit of it depends. With this blog post, I will do my best to cover the nuances, so bear with me. First, what is training for failure? There is a couple of ways you can define this. You can either do an exercise till you can no longer lift the weight, or you can perform an exercise till…
3 AMAZING UNILATERAL EXERCISES FOR STRONGER AND BETTER LEGS
Why unilateral exercise to build strength and size? I go into detail on the benefits of unilateral training in an earlier blog post, which you can read here, What is Unilateral Training and Why it’s Important. You can expect to get more than what you are looking for. Better stability, better mobility, and overall move and feel better. It is a win-win situation. Even better, the carryover of unilateral strength…
5 DEADLIFT TIPS FOR BETTER FORM AND PERFORMANCE
Deadlifts are a great exercise for overall strength, low back health, posture, and building muscles. It is an exercise work developing the skill and getting strong. Before you get started with a deadlift, you need to know how to hip hinge. If you are not sure what a hip hinge is, check out my past blog on hip hinges. With this blog, I want to help you get stronger. When…
4 REASONS WHY YOU NEED A TRAINING PROGRAM FOR BETTER RESULTS
What is a training program? A training program is a plan to help you improve your health or physical characteristic. Physical characteristics include muscle hypertrophy, speed, vertical jump, more explosive, better endurance, and more. Your goal could be finally getting a pull-up, and your training program will help. The training program provides you with goal-driven results. This means your program should be personalized based on your wants and needs. You…
WARM-UP: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TO PERFORM BETTER
What is a warm-up? A definition straight from the dictionary says this, a period or act of preparation for a game, performance, or exercise session, involving gentle exercise or practice. A couple of keywords should stick out to you, preparation and practice. Ideally, your warm-up should prepare you for moving your body. The warm-up should also let you practice the movements you will be performing for that training day. Think…
DON’T USE EXERCISE TO PUNISH YOUR BODY
Many people exercise so they can burn calories and lose fat. Unfortunately, this mindset is setting you up for failure. How often have you heard others say, “I ate a ton of food yesterday and need to burn it off with today’s workout”? I will be honest I used to say this all the time or something similar. Hard truth. Exercise doesn’t burn a lot of calories. This mindset of…
WHY YOU SHOULD BE SPRINTING FOR BETTER HEALTH
Sprinting is a fundamental component of being human, a locomotive movement. It’s a natural movement that we all do, especially as kids. As adults, sprinting is not as standard unless you are in sports this should not be the case sprinting is a natural movement you learn as a kid. At first, it was awkward, but the more you ran, the better it felt. Movement is a skill. Sprinting is…