Many aspiring bodybuilders and strength enthusiasts want to know what’s the most important factor for making progress in the gym: training, nutrition, genetics, or drugs. The question can’t be adequately answered in one sentence, so allow me a few paragraphs… If your primary goal is to get healthy and/or lose...
Listen to Your Body… Say What?!
Have you ever wondered what fitness experts mean by “listen to your body”? What if your body is telling you to get off the treadmill and go eat pizza and donuts? In this post I’ll explain what the saying means and how to use it to improve your results in...
8 Things I Wish I Knew when I Started Lifting
Spare yourself some pain and frustration with these eight tips I wish I knew when I started... You can’t out train a bad diet. As the saying goes, you are what you eat. If you overeat junk food, you’ll look like junk and perform like junk no matter how hard you...
The Cheeseburger Diet
Just about everyone loves a good cheeseburger. Unfortunately, cheeseburgers have gotten a bad reputation and are generally shunned by the fitness community. I’m here to tell you that cheeseburgers are not bad and can be a central part of your regular diet if you apply a little common sense. In...
Top 5 Reasons You’re Not Making Gains
As a gym owner I see hundreds of people walk into the gym each day with intentions of changing their bodies. Some of them improve so quickly they’re barely recognizable after 6 months. Others look the same year after year. What makes the difference? Why do some successfully race towards...
