It’s Olympia Weekend,…How to Make it Better
Its time to step out from behind those Instagram filters and the goon lighting to lay it all on the line on stage next to the best in the world. …
Ask All the Dumb Questions
“It’s better to remain quiet and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain (maybe) Ole Sammy-boy may have been discouraging us …
Lifting Weights Does Not Build Muscle
“Lifting weights does not build muscle.” Depending on your level of knowledge and experience, that statement is either shocking, bordering on blasphemy or you are thinking, “No sh*t Sherlock.” Even if you are in the “Sherlock” response camp, you probably ignore that fact. Let me explain.
Checking All Your Nutrition Boxes
When we act to be the advocates for our own health, be its most rigorous defenders, and give ourselves every opportunity for success,… a large part of that is the …
Winning the Mind Game (part 1) – Set Your Focus
The concept of target fixation is the idea that you go where you look or where you set your focus. It certainly seems to work. Have you ever heard the analogy that worry is negative prayer? That is, when you obsessively focus on negative outcomes,…
What to Add In and What to Keep Out
Some fundamentals on what to consume and use to feed your machine the right way, eliminate any toxins, and all other nonsense from your world. Clean Water Not really a …
Supplement Stack
Daily Essentials This first set of five are your daily essentials and could be used by just about everyone who wants to have better health and vitality. Nothing magic here …
Behavioral Modification Matters Most
Many of us seek ways to improve our lives. When it comes to fitness, we need to understand that our health, our bodies are the net sum of what we …
Making the Complex Simple
Keep it Simple and Focus on Purpose
This is so we have no excuse for overcomplicating things, going off path, buying into fear, getting distracted by wild goose chases or falling for marketing/influencer nonsense. Further and maybe more importantly,…
The Premise of “Gen-X Elite & Strength for Life”
The Machine,… If you owned a machine like that Ferrari in the image above, how would you treat it? The fact is that you do own a machine that is …
Calories, What to Know and How to Use Them
Calories Calories to Pounds The calorie to bodyweight conversion is 3,500 calories = 1lb of bodyweight. So, for every 3,500 calories of surplus or deficit, your body will add or …
The Real Secret to Health and Fitness
A couple times a month I will encounter college-aged guys who will approach me in the gym seeking the secret to “getting ripped.” Also, occasionally at the hardware store etc., …
Are You “Walking Yourself?”
I was out for a brisk walk just last week, a walk that I take a couple times each day. One of my neighbors caught sight of me from about …