If you have seen my video “SH*T Personal Trainers Say”, you should remember my fast food scenes–those were my favorite skits to shoot. Of all the fast food joints out there, Wendy’s happens to be my favorite…not that I visit often or anything! Wendy’s actually happens to have some good healthier options on their menu. [...]
This being my birthday week (February 20th) I wanted to pay homage to my fitness roots: sports! Back when I was a rookie trainer, my goal was to be a professional sports team strength and conditioning coach and work with athletes. I never did work with a professional team–I found out that they pay sucks [...]
THE ABS-OLUTE TRUTH ABOUT ABS I recently had a friend of mine from high school ask me what was the best way to work her abs. Despite what most of those cheesy infomercials and gimmicky abdominal machines claim, there really isn’t a “best way” to work your abs. I am both appalled and amazed by [...]
This weeks workouts will require no equipment–only your body weight will be your resistance. Any exercise that involves only your body weight is known an calisthenic exercise. Some of the better known calisthenic exercises–which are also included in this weeks workouts– are push-ups, pull-ups and sit-ups. Cardio-Core 1 | Advanced Body-Weight Timed [...]
Traveling always presents many challenges when it comes to staying consistent with your health and fitness. Being away from home means not having access to your usual workout routine, equipment, trainers or classes. In addition to taking you out of your workout comfort zone, being on the road requires many of your meals needing to [...]
This weeks workout program is designed to keep you on your toes and promote muscle confusion. Each day will be a completely different workout so you won’t need to take any notes to refer back to. With each workout choose a weight, pace or intensity that you know your comfortable with for the first round [...]
It’s the middle of the day—somewhere between lunch and dinner—when all of a sudden you hear your stomach growling. Uh oh! You just ate a few hours ago but it’s too early for dinner so what do you do?? Grab a healthy snack of course! Throughout the course of day—particularly between breakfast and lunch or [...]
This weeks workouts is comprised of timed workouts. Each workout is broken down into rounds, sets and reps. Each round is for a set period of time and every exercise has a set number of reps. Complete as many sets as possible in each round. If you complete the whole circuit of exercise before the [...]
If you have driven past the Ganzavort recently you may have noticed something missing…Philippe. But no need to worry, Philippe hasn’t left Miami. In fact, I think they made an upgrade to the South of Fifth neighborhood, specifically the old Tavrena Opa location. This means you don’t have to park your car valet anymore—unless you [...]
DUMBBELL TIMED FULL BODY WORKOUT 2 The Timed Full Body Workout 1 is a series of 6 dumbbell exercises done for a designated number of reps for as many sets a possible in a round. The length of time per round varies on your fitness level. For example, a beginner level workout would start with [...]