If you want to live the happiest, healthiest life possible, get your mind right first. Write down your goals. Analyze your dreams and why you want to achieve them. Focus on your vision and see it so clearly in your mind's eye that you can imagine every single tiniest detail of what you want your dream to look like. Imagine what it would feel … [Read more...]
How to Use Stick Massage for Runners
The Stick is an excellent complement to running and weight lifting because it can help you prevent injuries, speed recovery time, and improve mobility and flexibility. The Stick can be used solo or with help from a partner. For self-massage, it’s best applied to the lower body while you should ask a partner to do the upper body. The purpose of … [Read more...]
Thank You High School Strength Coaches
This is an open letter to thank high school strength and conditioning coaches everywhere. Your tireless efforts and dedication to helping high school kids build character and discipline in the weight room is commendable and certainly not acknowledged enough. But I know you're not in it for the recognition, and certainly not for the money! Many of … [Read more...]
A Brief History of the Fitness Business
Can you remember a time when there weren't 24 hour gyms in every strip mall? Or P90X infomercials every hour on the hour? If you can say yes, you’re at least as old as me. If you can't, you should know there was once a time in our not so distant past that the "health and fitness" industry was not always the multi-billion dollar empire it has … [Read more...]
