Well after a first mishap we will try again. As a trainer, the most difficult aspect of our job (especially in when you're a fit little spot in a big fat state) is letting people know that when you are looking to lose weight, it's all about calories. When a client comes to you already … Continue reading Client Results: Michelle
Category: Folly
Reader Q&A – Strength Without Size Plus More
Reader Jeff had a series of questions for me after viewing my 21 Convention talk. I thought it would be a good opportunity to share with you, my amazing readers, the answers as I think you'll find it helpful. My response will be normal text while Jeff's questions will be in italics: ... Hey Skyler, … Continue reading Reader Q&A – Strength Without Size Plus More
My Presentation at the 21 Convention
Recently Anthony posted my speech from this summer's 21 Convention in Orlando, Florida. After my quasi-manifesto post, "The Six Year Itch," Anthony contacted me to do a live version, expanding what I had been through and adding some wisdom about potential, training, and the hype that so many marketers like to put on strength training … Continue reading My Presentation at the 21 Convention
Product Review: Tibia Dorsi Machine
It is often stated in strength training: get good at the big movements and you won't have to worry so much about the small movements. This is due to the indirect effect of strength training: doing a barbell squat takes strong abs, arms, back, stomach...oh, and strong legs too! This is also why you might … Continue reading Product Review: Tibia Dorsi Machine
Motor Learning and Exercise Physiology
So this semester I'm taking 2 courses to fulfill my leveling requirements for entrance into my M.S. program. While I find motor learning and exercise physiology terribly fascinating, I'm even more fascinated by the the fact that so few trainers and fitness enthusiasts have anything beyond a mere clue when it comes to these subjects. … Continue reading Motor Learning and Exercise Physiology
Locomotive Breath
First, give a listen: Now, this doesn't have to do with rock or flutes or being a ham for the camera. Rather this is about a device I recently picked up: the Expand-a-Lung. What this (rather simple) device allows me to do is increase the resistance against which I breath. Over time I increase the … Continue reading Locomotive Breath
There Are No Shortcuts
I hate traffic. Not that I think anyone in the world actually *likes* being traffic (which is the case, as opposed to being stuck "in" traffic), but I think some people handle it better than others. Traffic used to irritate me to the point of intense rage. I would quickly find myself in a very … Continue reading There Are No Shortcuts
Ancestral Health Symposium 2011
There are approximately a gajillion posts about this event (hell, just crank through the twitter hashtag #ahs2011) but I thought I should throw my 2 cents in. First, I'd like to show you the greatest thing I've ever seen: Right in the fat of the UCLA campus no less. Keith and I presented with what … Continue reading Ancestral Health Symposium 2011
Hypothermia: The Best Way to Activate Brown Adipose Tissue
So among the many adventures in bizarre fitness/health rituals I have embarked upon in my time is the idea of dousing. That is to say: get in your trunks first thing in the morning, take nearly freezing water and dump it on your head. You have to (HAVE TO, so say the gurus) be standing … Continue reading Hypothermia: The Best Way to Activate Brown Adipose Tissue
You have limits…what will you do when you reach them?
Steve Prefontaine was an obscure distance runner made famous by Jared Leto... Actually "Pre" was a record-setting distance runner that is cemented is mythology by tragically dying in a car crash. "Pre" believed that there was no such thing as talent: it was a myth and he was merely willing to suffer more than anybody … Continue reading You have limits…what will you do when you reach them?
