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15 years of good training can turn a boy into a man. Here's what I'd go back and change.

When you subtract the years I spent as a teenager, messing around in my bedroom with a weight set and no clue of what any semblance of a workout should look like, the total amount of years I’ve spent training “well” has been about 15.

Your relationship, gains, and happiness will all suffer if you don’t get over yourself. Come back down to earth.

Side hustle or not, the fitness industry is only just beginning to get some respect. But the amount of people who look down their nose at the industry from outside in, in ways represent the root problem that can make many fitness myths spread.

You're looking at progress through the wrong lens. And it's killing your confidence.

Whether it’s a sensationalized popular culture report, or a hungry personal trainer or product pusher, one thing remains very consistent: The fitness industry has made its billion dollar revenue stream largely off of leveraging hot button topics and telling the people what they want to hear.

It seems like it's getting trendy to be offended.

It’s 2021, and lots has changed with the global landscape. Fitness has certainly been one industry that’s been hit hard by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that’s no surprise. It’s made for some time to think about the condition of the industry, especially since 3 quarters of my city doesn’t have access to a gym to work out.  Amid the frenetic scramble to makeshift gyms or rummage together old workout equipment as a means to an end, living room workouts have become the growing norm – cause, let’s face it – It’s either that or sedentary living.

This is the most vanilla fitness article you didn’t know you needed to read. Cause the name of the game is sustainability.

 When I thought about releasing a blog intended to get people motivated to make changes to help their fitness, I deliberately avoided doing so in the first couple of weeks of January, 2021. It would have been a little too contrived. The whole “new year’s fitness resolution” thing usually begins to fade come February, and that’s most often the case because of the way “fitness” is approached in the name of resolve.

And a different spin on the movie thing, since this year was a wash.

I could go into a lengthy disquisition about my professional experiences or achievements from this year, but I’d have a feeling that I was ignoring an elephant in the room.

There’s no secret: There’s something that has frustrated not only me, but the entire world – at least to some degree. It’s disrupted our normalcy and tampered with everyone’s ability to function, recreate, and work without some form of adjustment. And we all know what that is.