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What this disgusting toothpaste flavor has to do with confidence
Posted on May 17, 2017
You may or may not know I’m currently living in China. If you didn’t know, why aren’t you Facebook stalking me harder!? Sheesh!
Anyway, so I’m living here to teach English to wee little folks, widen my perspective by immersing myself in a new culture, and learn how to speak Mandarin Chinese. Mainly though because, oddly enough, moving to China was the most practical way of being in the same country as my English citizen of a wife.
So now you’re all up to speed! On with the show!
Last night, I finally decided to buy more toothpaste because my wife and I had finally managed to eek out every s...
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Health: What you can't control and what you can
Posted on May 11, 2017
Health doesn’t always equal fat loss, but fat loss is one of the few health related things you can control to some extent.
I almost died from pneumonia in high school. Two months later I got shingles in my eye-hole (my f*cking eye-hole!) and almost lost vision in said eye-hole. Last year I passed out in an NYC subway station and busted my head open on the super gross floor.
Oh, and by the way, I was quite lean when all of those things happened.
Health doesn’t always equal fat loss.
I try to make that clear in my writing but I feel like it deserves it’s own post because writing is hard i.e. ge...
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How you should put weights away to look like a genius and spare your back + an embarrassing story
Posted on Apr 28, 2017
I’m excited to share today’s post with you because it’s a simple trick, but it’ll make a huge difference in how comfortable, confident, and badass you feel in the gym. Because you’re way more likely to go to the gym and crush your workouts when you feel like you know what you’re doing.
That, and I want you to be able to hit your workouts hard without getting injured. So this post is a real double whammy.
What I’m not super excited about is sharing an embarrassing story of mine. I’m sharing it anyway because I think it’s important for you to hear about all of the stupid shit I’ve done while wo...
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Absolutely everything you need to know to start lifting
Posted on Apr 21, 2017
My goal here is to give you everything you need to know to make informed, intelligent decisions in the gym for any fitness goal -- whether you want to lose those last 10 lbs, run your first 5k, or climb Macchu Picchu when you’re 80.
I want give you everything you need to start your strength training journey with confidence, and assurance that you know what you’re doing. And I want to give you enough knowledge (knowledge it’s taken me years of working with clients to attain) to continue to reap great results from strength training for years to come.
I want you to be able to reach your goals c...
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How I accidentally turned into a jock
Posted on Apr 13, 2017
I was scrawny growing up. I also had some of the shittiest social skills known to man. I felt terribly anxious and uncomfortable if there were people around, pretty much always.
I was a stick figure-esque skateboarder who wanted a girlfriend really bad. I thought I would literally never get one -- I honestly thought I’d be a virgin for my entire life. Because I thought I was ugly and had no idea how to talk to anyone. I didn't know how to not completely withdraw into myself around new people.
It was a really rough time for me -- things seemed pretty hopeless, and by “things” I mean being ha...
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A surefire way to pick the right weights for your workout
Posted on Apr 06, 2017
For about the past 6 months I’ve been posting workouts every Wednesday on my Facebook page because I want people to be confident in the gym and have access to intelligent, effective, and safe workouts.
This last week someone bravely asked if it would be OK to do the same workout with tiny weights. To which I replied, “Of course!”.
Every body is different, and adjusting your workouts to best serve you is what defines an amazing workout! Plus, I was really stoked to hear they wanted to try the workout!
This exchange got me thinking. What does “heavy” really mean. I’ve written tons of pieces tr...
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3 signs your workouts are working
Posted on Mar 31, 2017
Because it's hard to stay motivated when you don't see progress, I wanted to show you a few ways my online clients know they're making progress to stay motivated and committed to burning fat, building muscle, and feeling better in their bodies.
And here we go!
1. You’re showing up
Even if you stay at the gym for 5 minutes you’re doing awesome. Seriously.
Sometimes you just have to be patient with yourself and accept where you’re at right now. Sometimes that means testing the waters by tip-toeing into the pool.
Building the habit of going to the gym entails so much more than just working out.
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Epic exercises: ab wheel rollouts
Posted on Mar 29, 2017
I wanted to write about this exercise because it’s truly one of the best exercises you can do for building a strong, hard set of abs.
Ab rollouts also are done incorrectly all the time so I wanted to show you how to them nice and proper.
So if you feel these heavily in your lower back, it's time to reinvent the wheel :P
Why It’s Awesome
It trains proper core alignment and stiffness during hip and shoulder movement. It's a total-body core exercise, which gives the ab wheel tons of carry over to other exercises.
Simply put, this is one the best exercise for a crazy strong core. This means you ...
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Epic exercises: mobility yoga-plex thingy
Posted on Mar 22, 2017
In this new weekly series I share with you my favorite exercises for getting my online clients to move better, lift heavy shit safely, and get strong and fit AF.
Today's is the aptly named, "Mobility Yoga-Plex Thingy", which is the latin name for whatever the hell the actual name of this exercise is.
Why it’s awesome:
The hips and shoulders get pretty beat up from sitting hella hours per day.
Tight hips + Tight shoulders + Lack of core strength and control => Tight, achy lower back.
This drill stretches and mobilizes both the shoulders and hips, with the added bonus of building core control a...
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Stop making fat loss harder than it has to be with 1 simple diet trick
Posted on Mar 15, 2017
Fat Loss is hard. Objectively. But, lots of people make it unnecessarily hard.
You don’t get extra points for making things more difficult than they have to be.
There’s a fine line between lazy and efficient.
And for fat loss, we want to skirt the fuck out of that line.
Because the easier it is, the more successful you are -- the more fat you lose, the leaner you get, and the more confident you feel in your favorite dress.
Fitness follows something called the Law of Diminishing Returns. A quick Google search defines this as:
“The principle that a continual increase in effort or investment d...