I’m standing in line at Starbucks when a morbidly obese woman orders some HUGE multisyllabic coffee drink WITH WHIP!!! Diana and I watch the barrista prepare her drink and finish it off with an enormous pile of whip cream. I look at this poor lady and I can see the whip cream hanging off the ...
“Do you offer a discount on your training services?” This was the question asked to me a few years ago by a lady, a surgeon’s wife, when she was shopping me for my training services. She had never tried a moment of training with me. We didn’t even have an initial consultation to discuss her ...
I had never seen cocaine before… It was the summer of 1985 and I was on break between my sophomore and junior years at Manhattan College. Going into my junior year, I knew I’d be taking courses more specific to my Exercise Physiology Major. I figured some exposure in a health club setting would be ...
Sometimes… the only way to figure out what we want, is to determine what we don’t want. Too often people set emotionally weak goals as their motivation. I’m all for setting positive goals. When I ask prospective training clients, “Why are you here? Why do you want to train?” They’ll say any or all of ...
It’s 4:45 AM! Time to get up and get to the gym. It’s still dark… The air is cold… The bed is warm… My shoulder is stiff from sleeping on my side. I bring my arm out from under the covers to release my shoulder. Good Golly – my hands feel a bit cramped as ...
“Keep Your Head Up!” might sound like a cheery, positive affirmation to help you have a positive outlook, and perhaps a positive affirmation is what you need right now. However, “Keep Your Head Up!” means exactly that – KEEP YOUR HEAD UP while you train! All of my clients and all the members of my ...
Ponce de Leon was looking for the secret to staying young and being immortal. He was looking for a lie; something that doesn’t exist!
Do you understand, really understand, the creative power you hold in your words? In your thoughts? We truly are masters of our destiny. With our thoughts and our words, we create our triumphs… or our tragedies!
You may have seen Amy Roloff training with kettlebells during her fitness episode of ‘Little People, Big World’. Some of you may already be familiar with kettlebells as they have regained popularity in many gyms around the world. (They’ve actually been around for a very long time!) The Kettlebell or Gyra as they are called ...
Are you keeping your body in a constant state of adaptation? Make sure you are regularly changing your exercise routines because, as they said in the movie Dodgeball, “You’ve got to keep the body guessing!”
