Every beginner in the weight room always experiences the same thing, PR’s! Just about every week, you can come into the gym and hit more significant numbers than the week prior. Suddenly, the numbers come to a halt, and you’re stuck in a plateau. As...
Your motivation may be the thing that’s keeping you from being successful. I know that sounds super crazy, right? Because we always tell ourself, I just need more motivation to wake up at 5:30 in the morning and go to the gym. I wish I had the motivation to eat...
How long has it been since you’ve been excited in your day to day life? It’s so easy to get caught up in the day to day and let life pass by. One thing comes right after the next, and before we know it, we haven’t met any of our goals. If we want to...
Eating clean is not what you think it is. I hear this phrase all the time. People end up getting frustrated because they “eat clean”, but do not lose any weight. Eating clean does not mean that you cut entire food groups out of your diet. Those who cut out...
There are so many different ways to train and it can be hard to figure out which is best. While each method has its perks, it comes down to the goals we set. If we want to get strong, we have to lift heavy. If we want to get big, we have to lift heavy and do a lot of...
The worst thing you can do for your knees and for your life is not have the ability to squat. Think about how much you squat throughout your day. You get in and out of a chair, you get off the bed, on and off the toilet. All of these things require squatting. As we...
If you have ever bought into doing juice cleanses, you got your money stolen! I know that it’s a big hype and I know that people think, well, if I’ve been eating a bunch of junk that I need to go and to cleanse out my body and get these toxins out. Juice...
There are three main focuses when we’re talking about a proper warm up. We are trying to prime the muscles, prime the central nervous system, and increase blood flow. So when you’re looking at your warm up, it needs to prepare the muscles that you’re...
One of the things that I see that happens the most is that when people get excited to get into the gym they are always maxing out. They start lifting weights and seeing those numbers creep up and then they want to keep doing it over and over again. Generally, what...
There is a lot of people that shy away from lifting weights, especially women, because they think it will make them look like a bodybuilder. And I’m here to tell you that lifting weights does not do that. If you believe that lifting will turn you into a muscle...
All fad diets work in the beginning, but after a while, those bad habits kick in and leave you feeling hungry, irritable, and only wanting to binge eat on all your favorite greasy foods. Sooner or later all the weight you lost in the beginning comes right back. Your...
