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If you want to bake a cake and the recipe calls for 45 minutes at 350 degrees, you can't crank up the heat to 400 degrees for 30 minutes and expect perfect results   This same concept applies to reaching your fitness goals    If you have goals that will take 10 months to a year to reach, you can't train extra hard or go on a super strict diet and expect to reach those goals in 4 months    It is unrealistic, it is cutting corners and it is unsustainable which will lead most people to giving up    If you...

Whether you want to lose fat, build mass, increase strength, become lean, or gain weight strength training is the best option for any of those goals. Dream physiques are made up of all of those, but the mental benefits from weight training are incredible as well      Your goal does not have to be to join a bodybuilding or powerlifting competition. But most goals people want to reach can and should be through resistance training      Weight loss/ fat loss- resistance training requires lots of energy and uses lots of different muscle groups. The more muscle groups you train, the...

  Looking back over the last 7+ years of my personal lifting experience after all the knowledge and experience I've gained...   I realized there were many mistakes I made that made the process much harder than it had to be   I hope if you can relate to any of these topics they help you to avoid making the same mistakes I made       #1. Ego lifting  Don't sacrifice your form to lift more weight. It is the easiest recipe for injury and the risks are not worth the rewards. I see so many young people who feel...

Do you feel like you've hit a wall with your progress?   So many people do all the right things but still aren't seeing the results they want   In this post I will go over the most common mistakes why people hit plateaus and how to break through them to crush your fitness goals!      #1. Inconsistency This feels like something that gets written in every post, but only going to the gym when you want to is never going to produce results. It takes a long time and you must stay consistent to move the needle forward. ...

I see lots of mistakes made in the gym every single day when it comes to form, dealing with injuries, exercise selections, not warming up, programming, and so much more...    But as a trainer the #1 mistake I see has nothing to do with those believe it or not...            The biggest mistake people make is not giving the process enough time to see progress or reach their goals       Inconsistency- You don't get to only workout when you feel motivated and expect to see results like you work hard everyday. You are tired. You...