In late spring Colleen came to me with one goal in mind: improved triathlon times. She had started racing last year, fell in love with the sport and decided this year she was going to take it to the next level. With race season still a few months away, her initial program included personal training [...]
Learning how to lose 100 pounds isn’t the same as dieting to lose 10 or 20 pounds, it’s actually a very different journey. Yes weight loss is the common denominator between these two goals but the numerator (10 vs. 100) requires solving these two equations in very different ways. If you want to lose 100 [...]
Creating an effective fitness exercise program is a daunting task for anyone living in today’s fast paced society. Taking care of a home, children, and maintaining a job leaves very little time for finding and then learning the proper methods required to get in shape. In this article, I’ll show you how to create your [...]
If you want to become a better sprinter, you can do so by incorporating various strength training workouts into your training plan. Particularly, workouts focusing on the posterior chain will help you improve sprint ability. The posterior chain includes your spinal erectors, glutes, hamstrings, and calf musculature. These muscles are often referred to as the [...]
One of the great things about having clients as dedicated (or more) to fitness is that they often send me interesting little tidbits about fitness related media stories and research. One of my best clients Cliff recently sent me this email: Hey Jes, Check out http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/magazine-archive/2010/july/food/protein-drinks/overview/index.htm. The new Consumer Reports magazine has a good article [...]
As you know, effective strength training workouts are an important part of producing fitness results. A favorite component of my chest strength training workouts is push-ups. It may surprise you to know there are a lot of different ways to perform a push-up. Most often, push-ups are performed with momentum with little attention given to [...]
A bosu ball is one of those half-balls with a flat platform on one side and a dome that looks like half a stability ball on the other side. The word BOSU is an acronym that stands for “both sides up”. Both sides up means you can use this piece of core strength training equipment [...]
I think my favorite core strength training exercises are those I do with any type of workout ball (ie: exercise ball, stability ball, or medicine ball). Of all the various forms of core strength exercises, I find that the simple movements using any type of exercise ball and body weight, or an exercise ball with [...]
I think each person faces a slightly different challenge when it comes to living healthy and getting fitness results. Some people struggle to balance family, work, health and leisure time while others face the psychological challenge of overcoming lifelong obesity. While the nature of our challenges and even the path we choose can be vastly [...]
Eating healthy on the go is a challenge requiring good planning and creative ideas and snacks are an important part of daily healthy meal plans. Keep these healthy snacks in mind when your at the grocery store then incorporate them into your healthy eating plan as snacks that will keep your blood sugar stable and [...]
If you’ve worked with me for any length of time, you know that I have a tendency to sort of throw things together at the last minute. A lot of my close pals know this about me all too well. Usually I have a concept floating around in my head for a while and then [...]
Over the years I’ve helped many people overcome the roadblocks they encounter on the journey to reaching their fitness goals. One of the main obstacles people face is consistently doing their cardio training. Most people seem to either hate cardio all together or they just get bored with doing the same routine all the time. [...]
It’s time for a major shout-out to my pal Jes Reynolds. I’ll try not to sound overdramatic about how important Jes is to me as a trainer and friend, but it will be hard. I can’t overstate the impact Jes has had on my physical fitness and (because they’re closely linked) my emotional well-being. I [...]
I saw a guy at the gym the other day benching three plates on each side of the bar…what’s that about 315 lbs.? This was a pretty regular size guy and all I could think the entire time was…why not do a squat instead? Ok, ok that’s just me staying true to my style of [...]
Actually, the name of this soup is Ribollita. The one I’m cooking probably isn’t worthy of the title since I got the recipe from a friend, written on a piece of scrap paper from her checkbook. I decided I could at minimum call it vegetable soup, adding the dirty part based on the fact that [...]
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