What is Progressive Overload?
Adding more resistance, stronger bands, heavier dumbbells, heavier sandbag or med ball. These are all means to the same end. We want to break down muscle to rebuild and increase strength....
Why is recovery important?
To get better at a sport or to enhance your personal fitness, you must expose your body to stresses. Different stresses include training and exercise programs like weightlifting, sprinting, endurance and runs....
Don’t start with Unrealistic Expectations
If your big fitness pledge is to hit the gym five times a week when you've had little to no prior experience working out, you're most likely going to fail....
An excuse is an excuse!
An excuse is just that an excuse. Squash all potential excuses immediately. Between work, family and personal time, it's easy to run out of hours in the day. Using lack of time or a busy schedule as an excuse is just that, an excuse....
Should I do cardio before weights?
To lean out your body you needs to use your stored fat as fuel for exercise. In order to do this, you must burn off your glycogen stores first. When you weight-train, you typically use glycogen as fuel....
Progress over perfection
I believe too many times people set out for these amazing goals however some are super unrealistic and usually end up crashing and burning in the end this feeling poor about themselves and the cycle repeats again....
Am I working hard enough?
When we have spent absolutely all of our energy in the gym, we’re usually out of breath, can feel our heart pumping out of our chest, and can’t fathom another rep or set....
Setting Up an Environment that Motivates You
One way to stay motivated is to set up your environment in a way that it supports an exercise habit. Here are a few options to consider....
Accountability
There are so many factors that play into the never ending quest to get healthy or loose the weight. Especially with the New year approaching so many of us are hoping on board to make this “the year” to change....