Training Basics

Anything but running shoes

eventually they ask the question, “what kind of shoes should I wear in the gym?” My answer is pretty consistent, “anything but running shoes.”

Training Basics

What would your 14 piece fitness equipment circuit look like?

This was a quick decision and I tried to not include big ticket items like a functional trainer. You can accomplish a whole lot with the 14 items I selected! I suppose technically I cheated as I didn’t include collars for the barbell. Realistically I would have included a chin up bar instead of the plyo box…

Injury prevention, Low back, Training Basics

The one truly horrifying image that will make you reconsider wearing heels

There are often articles that pop up in newspapers and blogs, and on the health segments of television news shows that explain the health problems people who wear high heels will likely face. Inevitably they include a stylized x-ray image of a woman’s foot with highlights of the pain and damage points. Probably the people who write, produce, and share those images and articles think it will scare women into wearing more sensible shoes. I wonder if anyone has been convinced by those messages? My guess is very few.
Maybe there’s a better way. What if this was the message:

Training Basics

The downsize of weightloss

But there was a downside to the downsize. I had always been a B cup, and even though I was fine with downsizing all of my other clothes, I was not ready to become an A cup. More accurately, I wasn’t ready to admit that I had become an A cup. So I continued to wear B cup bras that were a bit big.

Nutrition, Training Basics

Should I take this supplement?

Never make a decision about whether you should take a supplement based on a flyer. If you already know that you want to take a supplement, and you receive a flyer showing it is on-sale then great, but even then, make sure it is a brand that you trust.

Nutrition, Training Basics

Eating and travel days

That’s why being mindful on travel days is so important: I’m going to enjoy my food indulgences, but I can’t say the same for the extra calories I would get on a travel day. So I have adopted a new approach to travel days: Enter Operation Low Waistline Impact (OLWI). Here’s the implementation plan:

Training Basics

Best ever scapular stability exercise

The reason I had been looking for an exercise like this in the first place is that I have been really questioning a common approach to addressing scapular stability, which is to give the person some combination of open chain rotator cuff and serratus anterior activation exercises. The reason I’m not a fan is that I just don’t think they work.

Training Basics

Be careful with the “I’m fat” comments

Here’s the thing: You don’t have to have a perfect body to have a nice body.

Let me repeat that, because I don’t think you really get it: You don’t have to have a perfect body to have a nice body.

I still don’t think you’re buying it, so I’ll repeat it again: You don’t have to have a perfect body to have a nice body.