How I Trained Hard for 20 Years and Still Missed What Mattered The cost of action in fitness can be high, but there is an overlooked cost that is much higher: the cost of inaction. Most overestimate the consequences of action while underestimating the consequences of not taking action. Working out has never been difficult…
Build Your Body Adding lean muscle is the number one thing, within your control, to improve your metabolism. More muscle means more calories burned at rest. More calories burned at rest means less time wasted with extreme diets or excessive working out. More muscle is the easiest and most enjoyable path to looking better and…
What 100+ Kilometers of Daily Walking Lunges Taught Me (And Why Lunging at 4am with a Flashlight Was a Terrible Idea) “But why would you do that?”That’s usually the first question I get when I tell someone I spent eight months doing daily walking lunges—sometimes over a mile at a time. And it’s a fair…
How do you fit workouts into a busy schedule? You probably don’t have time to work out. I certainly don’t have time to work out the way I do. But I do it anyways. Time and money are easy excuses. “I don’t have time to…” and “I can’t afford to…” have stopped many people from…
How This Minimalist Fitness Strategy Was The Mindset Shift I Needed To Transform My Body One simple shift in my thinking transformed my body forever. There was a key mistake I made over and over again, for almost two decades, that kept me from seeing the results I desired in my body. You’ve probably made…
If I Lost My Health and Fitness Overnight, Here’s Exactly What I Would Do to Hit Reset and Get It Back If my entire health and fitness progress was erased overnight, would I be able to get back to where I’m at right now? If so, how long would it take to reset my health…
How To Stop Overcome Self-Doubt and Holding Back in Your Fitness I’ve succeeded at a few things in my health and fitness career: But that list pales in comparison to my failures. I could bore you with the list of things I’ve tried and failed at, gave up, or didn’t see all the way through….
It took me over 20 years to finally reach single-digit body fat percentage. Thanks to sports, I fell in love with fitness at a young age.I’ve been seriously training since age 14.I’ve been strong. I’ve been fast. I’ve played sports at a high level. But I never cracked the code to getting lean — even…
I desperately needed a new vacation fitness strategy. There were seasons of my life where traveling—or even just a vacation—wrecked my progress. I’d be ultra-restrictive leading up to a trip, only to go completely off the rails once it started. I mean, I earned it… right? Too much drinking, binging on food and sugar, skipping…
Deload Week Benefits: Train Smarter, Gain More This year I’m doing something I’ve never done before in my fitness journey. I’m trying to go all in on the deload week benefits. This might be the craziest thing I’ve ever done — crazier than training for a 100-mile race in 3 months. Now don’t laugh at…