General Fitness Companycast

A lot of people ask me what the best exercise is for ______. Fill in the blank there. I answered that question a few times today on social media and it made me think about what would be the best overall exercise for everyone. So today, we talked a lot about functional training and its various benefits as well as the most beneficial exercise you can do consistently. The answer might surprise you, s...

Around this time of year, people are either shutting it down and relaxing to enjoy the holidays or are beefing up their fitness game in preparation for all the holiday treats they'll consume. This is not without its drawbacks, however. When you work out vigorously, you can often get sore and achy. Many people don't know what to do to alleviate this without simply popping some Advil. In this episod...

This is the time of year when people start getting bombarded by sales, coupons, and deals. Meal plans, gym memberships, holiday cleanses. It can be overwhelming, but today we're gonna help you solve that problem and get you moving forward to a healthier and happier new year. 

This is a revisit to a previous episode about safety. I wanted to go a little deeper because a lot of people think about success in the wrong way. Many people think that once they get a Bentley or a Lamborghini they'll be good. I can tell you from personal experience that a fancy car or fancy clothes don't do anything for your mental game. You can still be crying in a Lamborghini and it's actually...

It's important to take care of your body because it's the only one you've got. But you also have only one life. Taking care of yourself doesn't always mean going on crazy diets, but it also doesn't mean eating anything you want. Today we're gonna explore what it really means to love yourself. 

Someone was asking me the other day about a dance move I had executed. I had gotten it from Michael Jackson, so it was pretty sweet, but I learned how important it is to ankle health many years after I learned the move. How do you dance your way to healthier ankles? Let's moonwalk together and find out how we can improve your gait.

This is the time of year when diets get ruined. Every year, people work all spring to get ready for summer; as the temperature drops, their weight increases. Very common and very relatable for most. The thing for most people is that they stay in ruin. Today I'm dropping some "Monday Motivation" to pick you back up and get you back on your horse so you can ride out the year strong or at the very le...

Here's another episode about what you should or shouldn't do in the gym. Should you use the leg extension machine? Listen to this episode to find out.

Doctors have been telling my clients for years that they shouldn't do overhead presses. Why should(n't) you do them? Are they valuable? These are just some of the questions I will answer in the fitness gem filled episode. 

The problem with cancel culture isn't that it's obnoxious, but it teaches us some ineffective ways of dealing with others. It essentially leads us to all be robots and to annihilate one another with swift and reactive judgment. Let's have a conversation about a more productive way to be compassionate. 

In our last episode, we talked about running and being pushed away from failure. It's a great motivator, but we're going to talk today about the second half of that equation that makes it an even more effective formula for success. Today we're going to look into what it looks like to follow success and be pulled along by a healthy vision.

What is failure? It's usually an issue with execution. But it's more than just that. Failure is something that can teach us a lesson, just as long as it's not fatal. In today's episode, I talk about the role that accountability plays in your endeavors and what that has to do with your overall vision of success. 

There are a lot of variations to that old saying that pertains to the smartest person in the room. Who is the smartest person in the room? What do they look like? What are they achieving? We're going to talk about that supposed smartest person because we might just be talking about someone you know.

Do you get enough rest? How about enough sleep? There's actually a difference and I want to talk about how some of the most successful people in history used sleep (rather than staying up late) to improve their creativity and reasoning to solve problems, create new society-changing devices, and improve their focus. How do you ask? Well, listen to this episode where I talk about the difference betw...

Halloween is a special holiday that has a very peculiar history. We're going to look into its origins today and see if we can pull something of value out of what was formerly referred to as All Hallows' Eve. 

This is a supplement to my last episode about Ye and his fans blaming other people for their misfortunes. Jay-Z was one critical point I didn't get into as much as I would have liked. He was Ye's mentor and has been really quiet about the whole situation. Meanwhile, he has probably twice the net worth and he's doing more every single day. I believe that to blame others for you not being happy in y...

Talking about Ye on this episode and how Mr. West might have to wake up and watch what he's saying. Whether he means it or not, we may never know, but what we will talk about today is not following in his footsteps and following his hateful remarks with more feelings of hatred. 

If you ever feel like the things you do in the world don't matter, well this is the episode for you. What you do matters. Not only to others, but to yourself into the future and I'll tell you why what you do is so important in today's episode. 

Tragedy has happened or will happen to all of us at some point in life. One thing you can do besides work on prevention is work on mitigating by impact by being a human being. How does being a good person mitigate the impact of tragedies? Well, you gonna have to listen and find out. 

I've been training for almost 20 years now and the question people pretty much always ask me is "what is the best method to get fit?" Diet and exercise are 2 really good places to start, but today I'm going to briefly talk about 5 ways to get stronger that aren't normally talked about in the fitness industry. 

Not enough people ask themselves that question, I think. More people are concerned with what everyone else is doing. It's almost like we're being distracted from our lives so that we can not notice the fact that we don't really have a way to judge how we're even doing until it's too late. Maybe this episode will be a good gauge for all of us today.

In this episode, I talk about why Vaseline was a thing that united a particular group of people and how it can possibly unite the world. 

Stories connect us. Before we were writing, we used to communicate our reality using spoken stories. These stories helped us to understand our world and we still tell stories to the people around us as well as ourselves. Today we're going to talk about the effect stories have on our lives.

This was the last rule in the General Rules For Life and I have to say I ended it with a bang if I do say so myself. We've got a half-hour thought piece not on simply being you, but contemplating what it really means to be you. It's not as easy as just doing what feels good. It's more than that, but more importantly, it ends with the realization that you being the best you, will help the planet, i...

In this short episode, I talk about why opinions of you both good and bad, are none of your business. Happiness lies in your ability to ignore everyone else and do what you think is right for you.