5 cool pieces of fitness equipment you might be lucky enough to see in your gym soon

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5 cool pieces of fitness equipment you might be lucky enough to see in your gym soon. Here are some of the standout pieces of fitness equipment and tools that peaked my interest and are now on my Fitness Wish [...]

Hidden Injuries. Listen to your joints when they speak to you.

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Exercise-related injuries are sneaky and can creep up without you ever knowing what happened. Listen to your joints when they speak to you. The subtle shoulder twinge, inflamed elbow, or grinding knee just might be your joints letting you know they aren’t very happy with your [...]

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3 awesome custom Ugi workouts

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This silly squishy ball has transformed this personal trainers business to the point where I have actually started a growing waitlist of people wanting to do my Ugi workouts. Here are some of my custom 30-minute Ugi [...]

A fitness gadget skeptic finds a new training tool. Meet UGI.

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A fitness gadget skeptic finds a new training tool. Meet UGI, the squishy fitness ball that this personal trainer has fallen in love [...]

Sneak some fitness into your winter family fun!

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Here are a couple of ways to sneak a workout into your winter family fun (and your kids won’t even [...]

Train like a CEO for ultimate fitness results

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Have you ever noticed that CEO’s of many of the larger and more successful companies are relatively fit and healthy looking? Is there something that successful CEO’s know about fitness that the rest of the company doesn’t know? [...]

Surprise! The unexpected benefits of becoming physically active.

Surprise benefits of becoming physically active

One of my favorite things is to hear about the surprise benefits people discover after becoming more physically active. I have collected them from my clients over the years and share some of them [...]

7 reasons why I will not kick your butt on your first training session

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7 reasons why I will not kick your butt on your first training session. Why I do not do full intensity workouts for one-time clients or on the first [...]

Feeding muscle. 10 crazy stories about protein consumption

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Feeding muscle. 10 crazy stories about protein [...]

Is your workout a 'flow experience'?

Does your workout 'flow'?

Csikszentmihalyi speaks of the ‘flow experience’ that drives creativity in artists, poets, musicians, athletic performance and even CEO’s. Does this apply to fitness also? Can we enjoy a ‘flow experience” from our workouts? Absolutely!
Here are seven of Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘conditions that accompany an experience of flow’ applied to your [...]





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