How To Develop The Abundance Mindset: Finding Your Freedom
On Saturdays, I get to sleep in. It’s a glorious feeling to not set my alarm at 5:30 AM. My eyes close at around 10 PM on Friday night, and I sleep the deep, uninterrupted sleep of a man with a zillion responsibilities……………and 6 mg of melatonin flowing through his veins. Each Saturday morning, as […]
Stress Management: Control The Perception Of Your Fitness Regimen
I would give anything to go back to high school and start all over again. I’ve always been tall – I hit 6′ in 7th grade, and I was the tallest student at my Catholic, co-ed high school the first day I walked through the door at 6’7″. The coaches of the Big 3 sports […]
Get Your Life Back: Defining Facebook
There I sat in “parents’ row” of my daughters’ swim class with my phone in my hand. My 5-year old, Brooklyn, and my 3-year old, Ava, take swim lessons at the same time during the summer. They are in different classes, but they are both held at the same time – 10:45 am on Tuesdays […]
Building Better Habits: Re-Framing Your Fitness
There is no way to sugar coat the first fact of self-improvement: Staying the same just isn’t going to work. Whether you are talking about fitness, your relationships, your mindset, your job performance, or any other aspect of your life, in order to make improvements, you will likely need to do something differently. Without striving […]
Why Is Fitness So Difficult?
Information and knowledge is at an all-time high. A quick Google search of “how to lose fat” will net you a cool 131 million unique hits. 131 MILLION pages – indexed on Google – on the topic of fat-loss advice. And yet we are losing the fight. What are we doing wrong? How are so […]
I Am Blue Eyes
The first six pictures are silly. They make no sense. You read them and you likely wondered their purpose. We all know our birthmarks, our legs, our arms, and any other body characteristic we have isn’t a reflection of who we are. Those items don’t define us. It doesn’t make “us us”. But our body weight? […]
Respect Your Elders – Especially If They’re Jacked
The following piece is a short excerpt from the article “Respect Your Elders – Especially If They’re Jacked”, an article I wrote for my buddy, Bryan Krahn. Enjoy. Jason I distinctly remember one particular day, sitting in the gym thinking to myself: “Jason, what the hell are you doing here? You’ve been training three years. […]
The 66 Laws of Lifting and Life
The following is a short excerpt from an article I wrote for Jason Maxwell of JMaxx Fitness. Enjoy. Jason Life has rules. Some are quite obvious. Never hit on a friend’s ex-girlfriend, always put the toilet seat down at your lady’s house, and always make sure your fridge is stocked with beer in case […]
It’s Not The Dad “Bod” That’s The Problem – It’s The Dad “Mindset”
If it’s on the internet, then it must be true, right? Isn’t that what we are lead to believe? I know you have friends like this. The ones who annoyingly drop random internet articles on your Facebook wall, and then justify those articles as true. As if we need to take everything at face value, […]
Seeing Through The Fitness Lies
Anyone with a 6-pack, or a nice set of glutes, and the right Instagram filter can be a fitness professional these days. It’s actually rather simple. You post inspirational pictures about fitness – often of a runner in the mountains or a lifter with chalk dust flying through the air – and you hashtag the […]