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You got up early. You made breakfast. You went to work. You remembered to bring your lunch. You took care of your kids. You paid your bills on time. You…

I’m a good communicator. I pride myself on this characteristic, as it’s been a significant catalyst to any career success I’ve achieved. It’s been a cornerstone to my work. The…

15 years ago, I started this blog with the intention of doing my part to provide a voice of balanced reason into a fitness industry that knew nothing but extremism.…

  It’s year 19 in the industry, and I’m probably entering the 1000 mark for clients I’ve worked with in a face-to-face setting. Regardless of what “era” of fitness I’ve…

Year 14 – what could be new and different compared to the last 13 instalments of this article? A whole lot. The amount that’s changing in the fitness world seems…

Walk into any gym, open any fitness app, or scroll through your feed for five seconds, and it becomes very clear: we’re living in the noisiest era in fitness history.…

In the fitness world, the concept of “discipline” has become a catch line we wear like a badge. We preach it like a religion. And we post about it like…

CrossFit. Hyrox. Tough Mudder. Spartan Races. All of these and more represent a challenge culture in the fitness space that has absolutely exploded.  These aren’t just workouts — they’ve become…

The city was dark. The community was stressed, and the atmosphere created a system of unwelcome high pressure. You could feel it in the way the potholes in the streets…

Talk to a grand majority of personal trainers and they’ll be able to pull the same story out of their personal archives: The classic social gathering scene – a dinner…