Sit back, relax & recover!

Sit back, relax & recover!

When you are training hard, working hard, and just generally busy you body needs rest. There are 2 types of rest/recovery in my book. Both of them being important in their own way. #1 Active Rest This is the type of activities that you do to enjoy life. You’re...
Better Planks = Better Training

Better Planks = Better Training

During your training, what do you think about? Many times when we are exercising we get mentally lazy. I know I’ve done this, and I ALWAYS regret it later in the forms of aches and pains where there shouldn’t be. Training takes energy, training takes...
7 Core Moves (without a single crunch)

7 Core Moves (without a single crunch)

Let’t talk about the core While studying to become a personal trainer my mentor had a great way to keep core training at the front of our minds. If we wrote CORE at the top of any paper, assignment, or test we got extra credit. While we would be teaching or...

Resting Heart Rate and Overtraining

To follow up with my last blog I want to talk about another issues. With the rise of the “Train Insane or Remain the Same” trend has come a dangerous consequence: *Dun dun dun*….Overtraining This is a serious issue that even I myself have dealt with myself. We...