Mornings, early mornings. Early, early mornings. No not 7am. I get up at 7am on the weekends, please. If you work in this industry there is a good chance you’ll have some very early shifts or appointments. I’m at my gym at 5:30am, the alarm clock goes off 4:45am. It’s dark, year round, at that [...]

This strange day ends with a bittersweet feeling. Today is the second-to-last day of my current job and training location. I am leaving my downtown location to explore other opportunities. “Explore other opportunities” may be an over-used phrase but I can’t think of a better word than “explore” to describe what is next for me. [...]

Tomorrow is one of the best holidays for me, Thanksgiving. I just love the food. I love sides and if you love sides the traditional Thanksgiving feast is right up your alley. Turkey is really an after-thought somewhere at the bottom of my plate,  the base camp on ground level of the mountain range of food [...]

One of the most important aspects of personal training is keeping the trainee or client interested in exercise and the trainer’s programming. We know that maintaining an exercise program is necessary to achieve  improvements in our fitness. To continue and maintain an exercise program, like anything else we continue to do, we need to be [...]

If you follow my blog you have noticed that sometimes I am less than serious. I’ll put horrific lifting accidents, display how disgusting American’s eating habits are, and trash Jillian Michaels (you know, the dude from  The Biggest Loser). My grammar is rather poor and I have a master’s degree in sarcasm.  Compared to other health [...]

It’s good to know that I’m not the only one that likes to vent or release about their job, well, I think we all do but I get to blog about it.  Physical Therapist Mikes Scott DPT wrote this article that I feel would fit in my Confessions of a Personal Trainer  perfectly. Here Mike discusses [...]

I just had a long weekend which means I’m starting a short work week today! Whyam I all upset? I’m annoyed I guess. A physical therapist and friend of mine asked me where I wanted to be professionally in 5 years. I replied by saying that as long as I build my business with integrity I [...]

I want to talk about goal setting. Yes, I know that you all know how important goal setting is. Instead I wanted to discuss unlikely goals that we can set for ourselves. Goals do not need to always be tallied as pounds lost, body fat percentage, miles ran, weight lifted, etc. Goals can be obscure as [...]

Ever ask yourself why you don’t look like the men or women on the infomercials?  You’ve seen the results of participants who followed the P90x program, Kettle Worx, TRX, etc. How come you don’t look like them? They have the before and after pictures. It’s impressive to see people change. Every guy standing there with [...]