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10 Lessons I’ve Learned From 10 Years of Fitness Coaching (About The People Who Succeed)

Every year, zounds of people make heart-felt New Year’s resolutions to get in better shape. THIS IS THE YEAR, they say. Unfortunately, most of them will have given up within weeks of starting, and it’s usually because they’re going about it all wrong – making the same mistakes over and over again before failing and […]

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30 Years, 30 Fitness Lessons (Get This Stuff Right)

I turned 30 this year. I don’t remember exactly when it happened, but about ten years ago, I started to realize how little I actually know. It’s called “growing up,” I guess. And while the sheer magnitude of what I still don’t know is beyond human comprehension, with roughly twenty years of training under my

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5 Fitness Lessons You Need To Learn By The End Of Your 20s

If I could go back to my years as a teenager and teach myself what I’ve learned about fitness throughout adulthood and my career, it would have been a complete game-changer for me. My life would be totally different. Of course, I probably wouldn’t have listened to my “future self” because I’ve always been stubborn.

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15 Lessons I’ve Learned From 15+ Years of Fitness About What Really MATTERS (Do This Stuff to Succeed)

Today, I’m going to share 15 things that 15 years of fitness has taught me about what really matters when it comes to physical training, among other things. I think that this will be a nice change from the endless argumentation and bickering over mostly insignificant or otherwise inconsequential issues that is so rampant in

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