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I listen to a lot of podcasts.

Mainly health and fitness related, but also sports and pop culture.

Yes I listen to Joe Rogan – sometimes. 

Depends on his guest but I find him to be interesting, infuriating, and perplexing - many times in the same episode. 

Maybe that’s why he’s the most listened...

I love the movie Road House with Patrick Swayze. 

It’s an absolute classic and great example of a movie where you can’t tell whether it’s awesome or awful.

 So many times throughout you’re thinking Did they want this part to be hilarious?

Did Jimmy really just say “I used to fuck guys like you in...

I’ve taken a lot of courses in the training, coaching, and fitness space.

 A lot.

 Mostly because I’m always looking to advance my knowledge in this field and because I just generally find most of this shit really interesting.

 Early in my career there was one part of these training courses I wou...

In the 1970’s there was a breakthrough in the American education system.

Students for decades had been previously taught in a very uniformed way – almost like factory workers working on an assembly line.[1]

This method just didn’t work for some students.

The prevailing theory was that they weren’...

The Eagles are one of my favorite bands and the documentary History of the Eagles is one of the best musical docs ever made.

They were an uber talented band with two legendary frontmen who were kind of dickheads (RIP Glenn Frey), ushered in the SoCal sound of the 1970’s, and, like Freud, did enough...

Olivia arrives at school at 7:15am every morning on the dot. 

This girl is never late. 

 She’s always the first kid in the class and the teachers celebrate her arrival like she’s JLo walking into the Met Gala.

Good for Olivia right?

Well, no - because Olivia is not my kid, and I need to figure o...

One of the big questions when you start out training is very simple - where should I train?

You could train at a big box gym like Equinox, at a private training studio, or move around to different gyms or train people in their homes.

When you first start out, training at a big box gym can be...

One goal of a trainer is to simplify the training process for your clients.

This shit ain’t rocket science. 

It’s pretty self-indulgent to think you’ve discovered the secret rep range that guarantees results or the training split that is going to revolutionize your client’s training.

Tim...

The word optimal gets thrown around a lot in fitness.

Optimal type of training.  Optimal time to train.  Optimal angle of bench press.  Optimal amount of protein intake.

Do you ever think how silly it is to have two really jacked guys on the internet arguing over whether it’s better for you to use...

Sleep hygiene is all the rage, especially around January 1 when people are examining their habits and things to improve on for the coming year.

It’s the most important part of you and your clients health that can be improved upon the quickest – essentially the lowest hanging fruit out there to be p...