When you hire a good personal trainer, you may shrink back wanting less discomfort from the training after the first few workouts. No surprise, exercise gets hard past a certain level of intensity, typically when you’re no longer able to
We just wrapped up a great holy week and it prompted a fun small group lesson that I sent to about 100 high schoolers and their adult leaders. The feedback has been great, so I thought I would share it
WOMEN’S INTEREST/NUTRITION: It’s important to be realistic about how much change you can effectively take on all at once. In the Eat, Live, Thrive Diet Danna Demetre and Robyn Thomson present a three-phase nutritional journey that offers powerful God-centered principles.
They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and it’s 100% true. Eating a nutritious breakfast helps to set the tone for your entire day by helping to promote healthy weight maintenance and weight loss by maintaining
FAMILY FITNESS: Most people think about fitness as hard work, body image, goals, pain, suffering and sacrifice. I see it as play. Both magical and sacred, play is a blessing from God. The places where you find Him are the
To say I was struggling when this picture was taken is a massive understatement. People often ask me how I capture images in the gym because they know I lift alone, usually with the lights off and the doors locked.
Today, physical therapy and performance are integrating in facilities and training philosophies around the world. God is all about ‘bridging the gap’ for us as well. He wants us to perform at our highest level but knows there is pain
Sometimes it seems like it’s almost inevitable – you’re working out consistently and making great progress and then BAM! An injury strikes. Maybe it’s your shoulder that starts to pinch, or maybe it’s your knee that starts to give out
CULTURE: Here is a new word to add to your fitness vocabulary: ACCOMPANIMENT. The first step to a richer workout is living alongside each other and the first step toward that is SEEING who is beside you. Linda Staats outline
PUBLISHER’S LETTER: At my granddaughter’s birthday party I laced-up some rollerblades to join my adult children and young grandchildren go around the roller rink. It was rough at first but they were pros by the end. Doing things like this
People say the hardest part of going to the gym is…going to the gym. I suppose there are many reasons this could be the case, but one I have struggled to understand as a strength coach is people telling me
YMCA FOCUS: The Y – Is it really a place for all? You’ll find toddlers in childcare, teens in after school programs, moms in workout studios, seniors in Silver Sneakers programming and “the most devoted” in iron clanging spaces. However,
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