Category Archives: Hitting the gym
How To: Flipping Tires and Pulling Cars Like a Badass
Hate cardio? Love working out outside? What if I told you I had a couple of awesome exercises that will not only get you into shape fast, burn calories like crazy (especially fat), but will make you feel incredibly badass? How about flipping tires and pulling a car or truck? With the nice weather, it’s […]
Your butt will thank me for this
I remember back in the day I used to hate doing “floor work” exercises. You know, the kind you’d see in exercise videos that didn’t seem to actually DO anything besides put you in questionable positions. Before I became a personal trainer, I’d suffer through donkey kicks, leg lifts, hip extensions, glute bridges and think, […]
Crush your goals with this simple mindset shift
This deadlift cure will save your back and neck [Video]
Why does leg day hurt so much?
A peek into why Peak Week has me feeling verklempt
Sometimes when I see my bikini/figure/bodybuilding clients enter the final week before their shows — “peak week” — it’s all can do not to start blubbering. Maybe it’s partially out of empathy because I know what they are going through: the workouts, the diet, the nerves, the waxing and the tanning. Kidding! (Well, kinda.) It’s […]
Your iPod workout playlist can make your workout better
What’s on your iPod workout playlist? Today I cranked through a leg workout with a crazy combo: Audioslave, Skrillex, U2, Pitbull and Rage Against the Machine. I know for a fact that the music made me go harder and faster. In fact, I am not sure I’m capable of a hard workout without a musical […]
Check out this bodyweight butt burner exercise
Here’s One Sneaky Reason the Scale Won’t Budge
Have you ever felt frustrated when it seemed like no matter what you did, you couldn’t lose weight? When the scale simply refused to budge? That happened to one of my fitness coaching clients recently. My client (we’ll call her Tammy) had been killing it in the gym nearly every day for weeks, lifting weights […]