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 ...
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!
No one should get upset. It’s simply a question. “Why are you fat?”
What does SUCK IT UP actually mean? The term actually comes from World War II fighter pilots. During the 40′s, oxygen masks were not as sophisticated as they are today. Back then, “in the good ‘ol days” as my dad used to say, if a pilot performed an aggressive aerial maneuver which caused him to… ...
I’m a huge believer in the necessity of stretching, especially as I get older. I stretch all of my clients, I teach three stretch classes each week at Trainer’s Club; I’ve even appeared on AM Northwest to speak specifically about stretching. Click here to see David discuss the topic of Stretching on KATU’s AM Northwest. ...
