One of my favorite fitness authors is Tom Venuto. If you haven’t heard of him, he wrote an insanely popular book some years back called Burn the Fat, Feed the Muscle. It was my “bible” for nutrition info and I implemented his strategies into my own diet and for many of my clients with great [...]
As a fitness professional, I am bombarded with questions about everything health related but there is one topic that comes up more than any other. Workout Supplements. It's a industry that produces tens of billions of dollars annually and there is a good reason for it. No, it's not because they work, but rather because [...]
As men, we all love tough, bad ass guys. Guys like Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry, Robert DeNiro in Heat or Cape Fear, Arnold in Terminator 2, or Mel Gibson in Braveheart. And while they're all great actors, they probably aren't all that tough in real life. So I found some who are. Here are [...]
When it comes to eating healthy, most of us are familiar with the typical healthy foods that are associated with getting fit and trim. For many years, these were the staples on which I lived and while they do work and are plenty good for us, they're boring. Chicken breasts Fish Fruits and vegetables Lean [...]
I'll be the first one to admit it; the thought of trying to get lean, fit, and trim after years of doing little to no exercising, is daunting. The thought of all the hard work and sacrifices that need to be made, stops many guys dead in their tracks even before taking one step on [...]
Back at the end of 2012, I was a shell of a man. I had just gotten separated and was away from my 7&4 year old daughters for the first time ever. And it was hard..really fucking hard. I drank too much beer, ate too much junk, and stopped doing anything remotely active. And my [...]
