A Full Day

I personal coached my clients this morning, boxed at Wildcard Boxing, worked on Indian Clubs with Army Maguire, then took a swim lesson, now eating dinner with my beautiful wife. What a day! What a life!

More Vegetables!

A plant based doesn't doesn't necessarily mean no animal products. It just means your diet is based around plants. But just because you eat animal products doesn't mean you have to eat it every day. Balance.

Videos Like These

Do videos like these really need to exist to make parents send out their kids to go play?

Talent

Talent is some unperceivable innate thing now but originally it used to be a measure of weight. Talent is measurable. You can measure it in hours of work you've put into a goal.

No Such Rule

There is no such rule that states that you should ever eat until you were full. Being full and being done eating are not the same thing.

Gandi Quote

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will - Ghandi

Amy's Testimonial

"When I first met with Sam I was looking for someone to help me keep my body fit, however, now I realize that is only half the equation. You need to have a healthy mind as well, and he works hard to teach you that..." Read More!

Motto

On The Radio

Heard someone on the radio say, you don't need much to make dinner. You just need a bag of flour and a bag of sugar to start...What kind of meal is this going to be?

My New Toys

My new toys. My clients will hate them! But in a good way...

Personal Training Nowadays

Nowadays personal training looks a lot like a crappy step aerobics class, a crappy version of body building, or even more recently a crappy version of a strong man work out.

Every Day

The Term Obese

Nowadays in some parts of the country and in your very own city or circle of friends, you have to basically be morbidly obese for anyone to just consider you just obese.

Run Wild

Dietary Tracking Tool

http://cronometer.com/

It tracks the nutrients you are in-taking as well. That's why I like it, it's also free.

My Dog Is Sick

Dog ate some people food and got very sick. Read up on all the things that dogs can't eat...

If dogs get sick from people food, what happens to people who eat a lot of "people" food?

With Proper Technique

Anything is possible!

Mind and Body

It's 5AM. Time to give my clients a stronger mind, body, and kick ass moves!

The Zone

The Temporary Source of Power

Nothing in this world lasts forever. Even power. All power does is buys you time. You got a degree, that gives you about 5 years of power, in that time you can get a good entry level job. That job now gets you a few more years, hopefully in that time you learn a new skill, get certified, get a new degree, etc. If after ten years, all you did was get a degree and get a job, of course you are the first one likely to get cut and the one hardest to employ.

Most people lack any kind of foresight. The universal form of power every culture understands is beauty. That gives you instant power. You somehow use that to buy nice things, be very selective in your mates, etc. Never looking ahead or assuming that this source of power was temporary. Years pass, your beauty has faded and you never created another source of power for yourself, now what?

You used to own the top oil company in the world. Let's say 40 years have passed. What do you have now? You still going to be the top oil company in a commodity that is running dry? Or in that time did you create a new power source like solar, natural gas, wind, etc?

Health is the same way. You used to be healthy years ago, you used to be an athlete. That's gone and done with and there's no point in talking about it now. Who cares what you used to be or what you used to have, that was a temporary source of power, a temporary source of health and now you have to create the next source of power and health unless you want to diminish your value continuously. No one wants to grow older, get fatter, and get poorer.

You have one good day last week, one good meal...who cares. You have to continuously one up yourself. You did 10 push ups? Well what can you do today?

You worked out once last week? Well what about this week?

Keep increasing your health, by physically wealthy. That's all out effort. That's power.

If the best thing you can do is what you've done yesterday, then you've got other problems.

Barefoot Running Article

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/running-christopher-mcdougall.html?_r=1

Our Sewage System

Our digestive system is basically like the sewage system of our body. And they say a city is as healthy as it's sewage system. Since Roman times when the sewage system got overloaded, it's citizens got sick. Pollution in a global sense is making us very sick along with our planet.

Our sewage system was never meant to be full every day. Neither was our digestive system. Think about it, you overload the thing every day for years and years and it never has a chance to repair, deal with backed up mess, flow optimally...I mean what do you think will happen to you? Do you think you will live a healthy life?

Our digestive system is like the sewage system of our body. It was NEVER meant to be consistently full.

Even He Can Do It!

Time Is Valuable

A lot of people are not about saving time, they are about saving movement. They will wait 10 minutes for a parking spot to save themselves a 2 minute walk.

These same people will also complain about never having enough time. I wonder why? 

Minorities

We are not all created equal. Hispanic and black children are 80-90% more likely to see advertisements for sugary drinks than their white counterparts.

Something A New Client Said

When I told her to sprint, she gave me a weird look and asked, "what is sprinting?"

Review From Jonathan L.

"Sam is a fantastic trainer. I worked with him for close to a year and I've never felt better about my health and how my body looked..." Read More!

Working Out

If you work out really hard but don't move the rest of the day, it sort of becomes a wash...

Things My European Client Says

"In Europe we ride our bikes as a form of transportation. Here only bikes I see are on top of SUVs. And if someone I know does want to ride, they have to drive somewhere far, and take a long time getting ready and put on all their gear with the logos."

How's Yer Diet Bro?

Kids Don't Try This At Home

You always hear warnings about kids not trying something at home. You don't have to tell adults this because they would never think to do it. But kids on the other hand feel so liberated in their bodies, they feel like they will never tire, they feel like they can fly. They feel like they can do everything. So they can climb a fence on their first try, climb a tree, jump over a bench, swing on monkey bars, run all day.

A lot of adults nowadays are trapped in their own bodies. They would second guess themselves on any new action, twist their ankles stepping off of a curb, snap a knee just by looking at a basketball hoop. 

What have we done to ourselves?

The Cabinet

With a few exceptions, avoid eating out of the cabinet.

I May Not Be There Yet

Very Interesting Daily Change

This guy is an internet legend. It's very interesting to see what it looks like if you were to change your body and take pictures of it every day.

My Own Quote

This is something I often say to my most successful clients.

"You think like a rich person but you eat like a poor person."

What that means is, they can have all the money in the world but when its time to eat, you would think they weer a starving homeless person who was afraid they would run out of food, or one day lose the ability to pay for food.

When those things are out of sync, you can never truly be successful.

We Are Awesome

Moving, dancing, happiness, joy, celebration. These are the best of traits of humanity. Go out and dance, play, celebrate, move! Live your life, do not distract yourself from it.

Amazing Runner, Triumph Of Will

I Can Totally See This

Go Out And Play

Idea Of Beauty

This is what a beautiful woman looks like in Brazil. How different it is here.

Things My Client Says...

Actually had a new client ask why there isn't kibble food for humans? It would make life so much easier...

Wow so many things wrong with this.

A Biased Review...

"I had been telling Sam that I wasn't comfortable with my weight and how I looked. He told me I looked great and that I was wonderful just the way I was. Of course he would say that though, he's my husband..." Read More!

Ben's Review

"I'm a long time fan of the UFC/MMA and first contacted Sam about training MMA, and have been training with him twice a week for the past seven months.

Let me rewind a little..." Read More!