By placing emphasis on core and leg exercises with real-life benefits, we can develop your functional strength, improve your balance, and help you reach your optimal healthspan.
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General Grant was stone-cold committed to winning every battle—shutting out distractions, and focusing on the victory. Can we approach functional fitness with that same unwavering focus?
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What stands in the way becomes the way. But there’s an antidote to resistance: Taking action, no matter how small.
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Make healthy changes that stick by not just beating your temptations, but avoiding them from the start. If the slope is slippery, just stay away!
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Exercise, cognitive flexibility, and creativity. They’re deeply linked—and Leonardo da Vinci is the proof. Learn how his active lifestyle and surprising physical strength fueled his best masterpieces.
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Discover the 7 healthy habits successful midlifers use to prioritize their fitness, function, and food—and see motivating results in the process.
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Loosen your muscles, increase your flexibility, and get more comfortable in your own skin with the magical mechanism called Myofascial Release (MFR).
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Vodka is “fat-free.” Does that mean it’s better than beer—and fits into your nutrition plan? Let’s unpack common misconceptions about your favorite after-hours beverage.
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To lose weight in middle age, creating a sustainable calorie deficit through a balanced approach of reducing calorie intake and increasing physical activity is key.
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To break free from the two thieves of progress—regret and fear—make peace with your past, release the anticipation of the future, and take action on your midlife fitness.
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Perhaps the most effective but underrated exercises for balance are the humble Goblet Squat and Lunges. But, the catch is that we must train them through their entire range of motion (ROM) and develop neuromuscular control of the movement through the entire ROM.
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Another effective Core Strength exercise that we've come to love - Stability Ball Wall Press.
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Here's a simple core strength exercise that I've come to LOVE!
KB Suitcase March (probably has another more sciency name, but this is what we've been calling it)
It's super effective at building dynamic core stability - maintaining rigid core stiffness while moving our limbs. It's also massively beneficial for balance training.
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Simply put, picking things up and putting them down is invigorating, empowering, and... healing.
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Strength is one of the few gifts in life that we can't get too much of. There's no downside to having more than enough.
What's even better than an abundance of strength are the many additional rewards that accrue from its development.
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About 70 years ago, a forward thinking British scientist, Dr. Jerry Morris, confirmed the adverse effect of chronic immobility in a now famous paper published in the eminent British medical journal, Lancet.
He compared the incidence of heart disease in drivers versus conductors in London's double-decker buses. His team determined "that highly active conductors... were at lower risk of cardiovascular heart disease than drivers who sat through their shifts at steering wheels. If conductors did develop the disease, it was less severe and occurred at later ages." The drivers had a 61% higher risk of heart attack.
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Errold was 28 years old when he gave his life for our country in 1918, just nine days shy of the Armistice that ended the war on the Western Front.
He wrote these words in his journal a few days before he died, "I shall never forget these days here, as long as I live, and if I get home again I will never get blue or discouraged. I shall only have to compare my feelings then with those of this time to realize how good the world is if only one is in America."
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Meet Brian - father, husband, financial sage, community leader, and all-around awesome dude. Brian shares his experiences with or Small Group Personal Training membership.
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We work to develop Strength and lean muscle mass every day. But it's our main focus on Weightlifting Wednesdays.
Developing ample Strength, Power, and Muscle Mass is critical to preserving optimal healthspan.
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We have to TAKE it from competing priorities or from mindless distractions which we allow to erode what little we have.
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