WORKOUTS AND EATING RIGHT IS OK….BUT

This may be really odd coming from a lifestyle fitness coach, but there is much more to life than health. Yes it’s very important to take care of your body; it is the only one you get. And the only way we can do that is to stay in shape and eat right. But I [...]

Complete your workouts – Give.

We live in the greatest country on earth. We have been blessed with generations of hard-working, inventive and passionate individuals that have made this a country of plenty, if you can’t get it in the U.S. it probably doesn’t exist.  But unfortunately over the years it has become a country of anxiety, depression and loss [...]

Pushing Through

Sometimes you wake up and just don’t want to move.  Maybe it’s because of a restless sleep, hard work week or just plain not feeling it. This  is where the true athlete in you should come out.  You already know when you get to the gym chances are your workout isn’t going to be up to its normal standard, [...]

Stinkin Thinkin

I was listening to an evangelist talk about the workout her personal trainer was putting her through. It was five cycles in a circuit of exercises for 30 minutes, no breaks.  She told him right of the bat that she didn’t think she could do this, “I am 50+” she proclaimed, but that didn’t stop [...]

Sweat Myths

YOU BURN MORE CALORIES DURING A HOT WEATHER WORKOUT:                 YES – But not because of sweating but because your heart needs to work harder to both keep your muscles well oxygenated during cardio and to send extra blood to the surface of your skin to keep your body temperature safe. But don’t to get to [...]

Bad Use of Ankle Weights

I remember back in high school my basketball coach would have us run laps and jump up to touch the backboard with ankle weights on as part of our practice.  He even encouraged us to wear them throughout the day during school.  The idea was to strengthen our legs to help us jump higher and run faster.  It was all [...]

My Surgery

I recently had a large softball size non cancerous cyst taken off my lower back, no big deal; at least I didn’t really think so.  But the day of the surgery the doctor saw me in pre-op and told me that he blocked off two hours in the OR and an overnight stay. This news [...]

Merry Christmas Happy Holidays

However you say it, this is the season of hope, remembering past and present loved ones and the regeneration of our beliefs. The Christmas season is so powerful it causes almost everyone to search for spiritual answers, ways to change and improve their lives in some deep and long lasting way.  Its odd to me, [...]

What is the right workout?

I have been asked this question in general conversation, and have read a lot of blogs, some with way too many opinions and not much common sense.  So I’m going to add my two cents now.  First I will tell you what I say to people who ask me this question during general conversation.  The first [...]

Paying It Forward

Any of you that know me personally or through my newsletters already know I talk  a lot about changing the world around you. Also how there is no need to change the world at large, but just making a difference in your small but very important world.  So in a rare moment for me, I am about to not only share [...]