Happy Friday Yinz! AND OH MY GOD IT FEELS SO GOOD TO SAY THAT! I am keeping this blog post, show, sweet, yet SINISTER today as I will be releasing one of the toughest body weight training workouts that are a part of the Minimal Effective Dose program. If you haven’t registered for the Minimal […]
Mind Over Matter: Full Body Strength From the Inside Out
Mastering our instincts and refining our strengths happens when we make the commitment to eat smart, train hard, and enjoy our lives. Establishing strong, healthy habits can be challenging though, and keeping commitments we make even to ourselves may prove a bit more challenging if we don’t have a plan of action and the accountability […]
WELCOME TO THE PULL UP PARTY! Get Your First, Your Reps, Your MAX Weighted Pull Up
Ohio Spartan Beast 2017: In the books! I am incredibly thankful for the good times, the scary times, and the victory we all experienced as we crossed over to the finish line. The entire experience had me thinking about training, taking my own training a HELL of a lot more serious, and realizing that the […]
Programing Your Press: Submaximal Training for Maximum Results!
We have a saying in our lifting community: “The meaning of life is pressing heavy shit above your head!”. If there is one lift I absolutely LOVE, it’s the military press. In fact, over the years I believe the military press as become my favorite lift of all time, the kettlebell snatch being a close […]
Say A Difficult Thing
Interruptions. Set backs. Travel all over the effing place, resulting in loss of time. Cancellations, rescheduling, worky worky work. This was me every day last week, and you may have seen my instagram post on Saturday when I decided to swing away all the rage. Life is beautiful, amazing and a precious gift, but it […]
Redefining “Strength”
Over the weekend I spent some time with some close friends of mine talking shop on hardships, personal struggles, and finding strength when you just feel like you can’t possibly keep going on day in and day out. Some of the stories I heard this weekend were of troubling relationships that have since ended, the […]
The Narrative We Tell Ourselves Determines Our Reality
I cannot tell you how often I have heard the phrase “I am stuck” these past few weeks. As a coach, I take that to heart considering it is my job to get you where you want to be physically through eating smart and training even smarter. I can remember a coach of mine a […]
The Season for Strength
A friend of mine recently told me that change can be a very frightening thing if we don’t have support to walk through the changes in the seasons of our lives. Having worked with hundreds of clients all over the globe, I got to thinking about change, and the changes I have seen both in […]
The Serenity and Strength Retreat- Become Who You Know You Are
There are three important questions that you must ask yourself in order to become successful in anything that you do. Who are you? What do you want? Where do you want to go? Just a few months ago, I found myself in a state of mind that left me lost, overwhelmed, and utterly confused as […]
Beaten Into Submission: External Vs Internal Negativity, and How to Break Through it All
How’s that for a mouthful of a title? What a week last week was in the life of the avid strength athlete! Yours truly travelled across the states to spend time at the Women’s Fitness Summit, and had some time to talk shop on the Motivation and Muscle Podcast with Eric Fiorillo. While I would […]