General Fitness Companycast

Do you know what the qualities of a successful person are? If you wanna be successful, you gotta know what actually makes success. Listen up as I talk about one of the most important factors for success that I personally am working hard to improve for myself and my personal training clients. 

Breathing is important, but proper breathing is the key to high performance. It's science listen in on how correcting your breathing can help  you in just about every aspect of life. Also stay tuned till the end for a short 10 min meditation segment. 

You ever thought to yourself, why am I even doing this? Well there were some famous philosophers throughout time who wondered the same thing. We're gonna try to get to the bottom of this in today's episode with a few thoughts from Will Durant, Charlie Munger, and even Darwin. Don't forget to share this episode and subscribe if you already haven't. 

I had a nice chat with the manager of Philadelphia Runner today. He's done some work with us before in helping my clients out with a gait analysis at our facility so today, I went over to give him some gift cards to encourage people to take a more 360 approach to running. 

I got a bit fiery and distracted with this one because it had to do with family. One of the main reasons why I try to seperate the two. This time however, the opportunity to draw parallels with parenting, philosophy, and partnership was just too big to be ignored. 

I wish there was a magic pill that I could give to everyone so that they had self confidence so that we could execute with power. Unfortunately, I don't so, I'm gonna try to use words to help you understand how important you are to this planet. 

Learning Curves can be steep, but don't let that stop you or distract you from your goals. You have to start and you have to be bad (at first) if you want to eventually be good. 

Another disappointment today. A big one. Let's talk about how to deal with disappointment and why I seek to be disappointed over having high expectations

It's pretty much crunch time! People (mostly women) always ask me how they can get rid of their "bingo arms" and men always ask me how to get their arms to look bigger. In this episode I mainly addressed the women's issues, but they are pretty much universal.

Recorded this one in my car after having no one show up to our first Monday boot camp....

Sometimes you have to be reminded of your capabilities by stepping outside of your comfort zone. It doesn't have to be something that will blow your mind because it's so challenging, sometimes it's just great to try something that you've never done before. 

Why is it that we're fascinated by muscles? Simple. Responsibility. Lifting a load in the gym parallels the responsibilities that you have in real life. Don't believe me? Listen for more insight. 

Came up with this while searching for breakfast in my refrigerator then accidentally cursed in the conclusion...opps. Don't let it take away from the broad point though.

It's important to be happy, but not as important as creating value for yourself and others. Here's why.

What are your dreams saying about you? What do your dreams mean? Where do they even come from? This is a throwback from a few months back that I'm gonna try to tackle again with just a little more perspective this time. 

Many people these days seem to oscillate between the two extremes of chaos and order. In certain aspects they seem to be so rigid in their philosophy that they can't even fathom deviating from their current path. In other ways, they are so chaotic and disorganized that life seems to get the best of them and they are left scrambling trying to create a path that leads them somewhere outside of their...

My friend Chris and I were having a little talk about movement and exercise and it sparked a few ideas that I wanted to share with you about adventure and living your life to the fullest. A lot of people don't live up to their potential and we talk about how and why, in respect to exercise. 

One of my asked me a very profound question today during our training session and my answer made her tell me that I should start a church. I don't know about all that, but I do know that all these people chasing happiness are in the wrong race. Find out what the real meaning of life is in this "Fulfillment Friday," episode. 

Jumped the gun a little on this Fulfillment Friday type episode, but this was on my mind today as I was running. I think about dealing with complications in life and if there really are any valid excuse to fall short of your aspirations. Listen as I work it out in my mind on air today. You might be surprised by my perspective on this one. 

I broke my leg and ankle about 10 years ago. I rehabbed it and it got significantly better. Lately it's gotten a little worse, so I've been thinking about how I can prevent ankle pain and get it stronger. Here are a few ideas from my practice. 

A lot people say they want to be happy, but they don't really even know what it looks like to be happy. We're going to talk today how you can permanently rid yourself of procrastination and fear of taking action towards your goals. Here’s the link to episode 100: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/general-fitness-companycast/id1330347917?i=1000420868492

Today we talk about conflict on a few different levels and finish the discussion with a thought or two on why conflict actually makes you smarter and how you can utilize that knowledge to improve your ability to handle everyday struggles. 

This is one of my personal favorite episodes from last year about your personal heaven and hell.

Today we meet Lucero Gutierrez. She's starting a podcast about life, love, and the lessons we can learn from it. We had a great conversation talking about the loss of individual identity in our culture and how we can learn to follow in love with ourselves through dedicated work. 

Pain is something that we've all learned to avoid, but what if I told you that it's all in your mind and that for the most part it's helpful. Foam rolling everyday is one of those things that we avoid that we should do and I'm gonna talk about the scientific reasoning behind why we should foam roll as well as why we should stop avoiding discomfort.