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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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8 Things I Wish I Knew Before I Got Into Fitness

I’m probably eligible for an award for learning things the hard way. Case in point: I started training when I was eleven years old – lifting weights and doing calisthenics in my parent’s basement, usually late at night. I worked hard, but I still made every mistake in the book. I completely wrecked my body, and

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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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Epic 500th Blogpost: 100 Fitness Lessons I’ve Learned About What’s Really Important (Do This Stuff to Succeed)

note: make sure you don’t miss my NEW training compilation video that I put together to celebrate this milestone. You’ll find it at the end of this post! This is my 500th blogpost on PhysicalLiving.com, and I can hardly believe it. Over 3.7 million people have visited this site since it first started in 2008,

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