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“I eat pretty healthy, but I’m still not getting results.” I hear some version of that all the time (once from a guy who had 2 energy drinks and a Pringles can in his trash can.) Maybe you cook most of your meals at home. You don’t eat much fast food. You buy foods you consider healthy, try to make good choices, and generally feel like your diet is better than the average person’s. So why aren’t you losing weight, building muscle, or seeing the changes you expected? The answe

People spend a lot of time looking for the perfect workout program. Should you train full body or split your workouts by muscle group? Should you use machines or free weights? Should you lift heavy or do more reps? Should you run, take classes, do circuits, or combine everything together? There are countless ways to exercise, and you'll find people getting great results with almost all of them. That's because there isn't one magical workout program that works for everyone. Wh

Getting healthy has become way more complicated than it needs to be. Decide that you want to improve your health and it doesn't take long before you're buried in questions. Should you lift weights or do cardio? How many days should you work out? Should you fast? Do you need to track your macros? Which supplements should you take? How many steps do you need? Should you be using a sauna, cold plunge, fitness tracker, or some other tool that promises to optimize your health? The

A lot of people treat health like something they temporarily do. They go to the gym for an hour, follow a diet for a few weeks, complete a challenge, or decide that they’re going to “get healthy” for the summer. They make a concentrated effort for a period of time, but eventually that period ends and they go back to normal. The problem is that if your normal life consistently works against your health, temporary periods of healthy behavior can only accomplish so much. That do

When people decide they want to improve their health, one of the first things they think about is exercise. Maybe I need to start working out. Maybe I need another training day. Maybe I should add more cardio. If you aren’t exercising at all, adding regular exercise is one of the best things you can do for yourself. But if you’re already working out consistently, another workout may not be the thing that improves your health the most. There are only so many hours in the day,

You go to the gym four days a week. You spend an hour lifting weights, taking a class, or doing cardio. You work hard, break a sweat, and leave knowing you did something good for your health. So you’d probably consider yourself an active person. But what happens during the rest of your day? Maybe you drive to work, sit at a desk for eight hours, drive home, eat dinner, and spend most of the evening sitting on the couch. Outside of those few hours you spend exercising each wee

A good workout can do a lot for you. It can make you stronger, improve your cardiovascular health, help manage your weight, reduce your risk of disease, and make you feel better physically and mentally. If you’re consistently getting into the gym three, four, or five times per week, you’re already doing something incredibly valuable for your health. But even if every workout lasts an hour, that’s only a few hours out of a 168-hour week. What happens during the rest of those h

It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through the year. For some people, that thought is exciting. They’ve built momentum, developed better habits, and are starting to see the results of the work they’ve put in over the past six months. For others, it’s discouraging. The goals they set in January feel farther away than they expected, and it’s tempting to think they’ve fallen too far behind to catch up. No matter which group you fall into, I want you to look at the second

One of the biggest misconceptions in fitness is that achieving a goal will somehow transform you into a different person. People often think that once they lose the weight, build the muscle, or hit the milestone they’ve been chasing, everything else will fall into place. They’ll finally be confident. They’ll finally be disciplined. They’ll finally feel successful. But after years of coaching, I’ve noticed that the process usually works in the opposite direction. The goal does

Now that you’ve taken an honest look at the first half of the year, it’s time to decide what comes next. For a lot of people, this is where they make things harder than they need to be. They sit down to make a plan and end up with a list of everything they want to improve. “I need to lose weight.” “I need to eat healthier.” “I need to meal prep.” “I need to drink more water.” “I need to work out five days a week.” “I need to get more sleep.” “I need to do more cardio.” Every

Last week, we talked about taking an honest look at where you are. Not just the number on the scale or whether you’ve hit your goals, but whether you’re actually closer to the life you want than you were six months ago. This week, we’re taking the next step. Because once you’ve figured out where you are, the next question becomes: How did you get here? A lot of people finish a mid-year review by deciding whether they’re happy or unhappy with their progress. Then they move on.

We’re halfway through the year. For a lot of people, that realization immediately leads to a review of the goals they set back in January. Maybe you wanted to lose weight, build muscle, get stronger, improve your health, or finally become consistent with your workouts. Whatever the goal was, there’s a good chance you’re now comparing where you are to where you hoped you’d be six months ago. And if you’re like most people, the first thing you look at is the outcome. What does

One of the biggest reasons people struggle with fitness long term is because they treat it like a temporary project. They’re either “on track” or “off track.” They’re “being good” or “falling behind.” Every few months they restart, get motivated again, push hard for a while, then slowly drift back into old habits once life gets busy or progress slows down. A lot of people spend years stuck in that cycle. Not because they’re lazy. Not because they don’t care. But because their

A lot of people think they’re training correctly because they constantly feel exhausted. They leave the gym completely drained. They’re sore all the time. Their joints hurt. They need caffeine just to function throughout the day. They struggle to recover before the next workout, but they wear it like a badge of honor because they think feeling destroyed means they trained hard enough. Sometimes it does. But a lot of times it just means the balance is off. The goal of fitness

One of the most common questions people ask in fitness is: “What’s the best workout program?” People want to know whether they should do bodybuilding splits, full body workouts, CrossFit, running programs, strength training, hybrid training, or some new trend they saw online. The problem is that most people are searching for the “perfect” program without ever asking whether that program actually fits their life. Because the truth is, the best program isn’t the one that looks

We’re just finishing up the Beat Your Best challenge, and over the past couple months we’ve talked a lot about pushing hard. A lot of people were chasing aggressive goals. Bigger lifts. Weight loss. Better conditioning. More muscle. Faster times. Better performance. And there’s nothing wrong with that. There’s absolutely a time to push hard toward a specific goal. Challenges can be extremely valuable because they force people to focus, stay accountable, and push themselves fu

When a challenge ends, most people fall into one of two categories. The first group goes all in while it’s happening, then completely falls off when it’s over. The structure disappears, the urgency is gone, and within a few weeks they’re right back where they started. The second group keeps going, but not in the same way. They take what worked, adjust what didn’t, and keep moving forward. The difference between those two groups has nothing to do with how hard they worked duri

Most people feel like they’re working hard. They leave the gym tired. They broke a bit of a sweat. They feel like they did something. And for a lot of people, that’s enough to assume they’re doing what they need to do. But feeling like you worked hard and actually pushing hard enough to improve aren’t always the same thing. A lot of people think they’re stuck because their plan isn’t working. In reality, they’re stopping short of the level of effort required to make that plan

Once you’ve taken an honest look at what’s going on, the next step is figuring out what to do about it. This is where most people make a mistake. They realize something isn’t working, and their first reaction is to change everything. New program, new diet, new routine, new approach. They go from one extreme to another, hoping that a complete reset will fix the problem. It usually doesn’t. In most cases, the issue isn’t the entire plan. It’s just one or two things within it th