General Fitness Companycast

We've been doing testing here at the studio over the past 10 days. I want to tell you a little more about it and why some people are afraid to test themselves. Our challenges have helped my clients gain more confidence and gauge where they are physically. So I would encourage you to find a way to test yourself on a consistent basis.

Sometimes we make moves in life that seem like an idea, but in the long run they often lead to unintended consequences. That applies to health and fitness as well. Today, I'm talking about three exercise myths that have been debunked as shortcuts to living a healthier lifestyle.

There's good stretching and bad stretching. Most people unknowingly are doing more harm than good with their stretching routine. If you want to learn how to stretch in a way that will actually lengthen your muscle fibers without injuring your joints or weakening your muscles, then this is the episode for you.

Today, I wanted to talk about the joy of doing something new. I'm currently finishing the first part of the fire academy and I'm enjoying the refreshing sense of perspective and new thinking that it has brought into other aspects of my life. This episode will be a very helpful perspective if you feel like you're sort of stuck in a a rut.

Today, I wanted to talk a little more about stoicism so I talked about the ultimate stoic exercise...running! I talk about how I train my clients to be runners even though a minority of them are actual runners. In this episode, you'll find the essentials of running, or the 3 elements I think we all need to be better runners. From knee drive, to recoil, I talk about all of what you need to be a...

Today I want to talk about a stoic belief that has carried me in my life. It's not an original thought, however it's something that I think can be very inspiring to those that are facing or will face challenges in their lives. It's important to remember that we're all a little fearful of something, but it's how we respond to that fear that's important.

Today we have our last segment with Megan talking about our hormones and nervous system. Today, we talked sleep and how sleep deprived many of us actually are. Some may not realize it, but we're going to be talking about how to tell if you've been getting enough sleep and how you can help yourself regulate your nervous system through sleep.

We all reach a time in our lives when we feel like we're stuck. We feel that something or someone is preventing us from moving forward. Well, I'm here to tell you that it's likely your fault that your stuck. And if that's the case (it very likely is) then you can also get yourself unstuck. Let's talk about how to be "unstuckable" in this episode.

Today, I'm going to talk of an allegory about getting what you want in life and how it sometimes can seemingly fall into your lap...with a little work of course. This is a special story that some may already be familiar with, but I'm going to give you my take. Buckle up for this palindrome episode.

When it comes to running, you can separate it into three different movements. There's jogging, running, and sprinting. Today we're going to talk about the benefits and mechanics of running.

A client asked me today how much running do they need to be a better runner and I answered, "technically none," to their dismay. Today we're going to address that question and likely continue it on our next episode as we talk about a more specific form of running. Sprinting.

In this episode, I tell an anecdote about how we sometimes do something that's inefficient and sometimes ineffective because that's "just the way we do it." If this is you, I encourage you to explore your options. The time you spend, will be much less than the time you waste in doing whatever it is you're doing the wrong way. In other words, keep an open mind.

In this episode, I talk to Megan Dupree about what external factors regulate or dysregulate our hormones. She had some very interesting insights about caffeine and marijuana and how our body reacts to it. If you're looking to regulate your nervous system because you are eating too much sugar or not getting enough sleep, this is the episode for you.

Today, we're talking posture and all it indicates for your body. Did you know that everyone has some degree of scoliosis? It's the level of curvature, if it gets to be to high of a degree, then you tend to have issues. Today, we're going to learn a few exercises that will help you strengthen and stabilize your spine.

Today we're going to talk about the difference between passive and active stretching. More people need to know what they are doing because stretching incorrectly is leading to an increase in back surgeries among younger adults.

Back in the 80's there was a diet called the "water diet." It was a diet where they would give you water and vitamins and you would lose weight. People would say it was because it kept you satiated so you didn't want to eat, but there is a little more to it than that. Today, I'm going to investigate this water diet and we're going to find out what the fattest animal on th...

In this episode, I talked about the struggles of plateauing in your performance. Performance can be more than just the gym. However, how you do some thing is usually how you do everything. So we're going to talk about using some strategies that I use for my clients as well as my own business to help with success.

Today, I wanted us to think about this phenomenon that we've been seeing in the fitness field lately related to mobility training. You see a lot of people mistaking mobility training for skill work, but more importantly, you have people (mostly influencers) teaching people how to create mobility through instability. That's a big no-no! Hopefully, in this episode, the takeaway for you would...

Did you know that there are two ways to build muscle? Today's episode is a short one about building muscle mass. Most people think that you can't build muscle mass with straps, especially since most of the training videos are of high intensity core workouts. But today, I'm going to tell you how you can double your results with less effort.

Today, I'd like to tell a little story about my evolution as an athlete and as a trainer. In this episode, I talk about how I went from World Champion powerlifter to mobility aficionado in less than a decade. I changed my philosophy for many reasons, one of them being that I wanted to move without pain for the rest of my life. This episode will help give you some of the tools necessary to do t...

In today's episode, I took what we've been talking about over the past couple of episodes and broke it down further to talk about you as an individual. Everyone is different, so they should absolutely be paying attention to what makes them different.

Today, I wanted to expand on what I was talking about in the last episode on rotations. It seems that there was confusion as to what I meant by your body needing to rotate and control that rotation. I'm going to break it down as best I can so that you can design a better workout that is based on intelligent movement that helps you move better.

Today, I'm talking to all the runners out there that want to be faster. You need to be more mobile and you're not going to be able to do that through stretching. I'm going to talk about the body's natural way of moving especially as it pertains to running and I'll talk about a simple way you can train yourself to be a better runner without having to even take one step on the tr...

In today's episode I went a little more esoteric and talked about freedom in your life through authenticity. However, I brought it back to fitness with a little talk about freedom of movement and how many people are thinking about mobility in a way that makes their joints unhappy. This was a spin off from an email I sent to my email list. If you'd like to be a part of that, you can sign up...

I wanted to make a correction to a previous episode. I had misspoken about the amount of protein an average person should have. I accidentally converted the pounds to kilograms and back to pounds when I read my notes. To make up for it, this episode is an ultimate myth buster about exercise and how so many people (especially in my industry) have been preaching something that is ultimately harmful...