Saturday marked the end of the 14th edition of our Langley Weight Loss Challenge known as the Biggest Winner. So now what? First we check out some results! Our Female Winner was Bev!!! Here are a few words from Bev: “Signing up for this challenge for me was only meant to be another step in…
These are the 20 rules of intelligent fitness training you can put into practice next time you are in the gym. 1. The goal of intelligent training is to improve your ability to contract your muscles harder, NOT simply to complete reps. You don’t want to put out reps with bad form or reps that…
If you aren’t tracking your BEFIT workouts how do you know you are making progress? Sure you can track progress with: How you look. How much you weigh. How your clothes fit and feel. But an amazing way of tracking and analyzing your progress is to make notes of the weights, time, reps, and sets…
It’s easy to get excited for events or challenges eat great for 12 weeks, lose 20lbs, then gain it back when stress and life and vacations take hold… And then you do it again, and again, and every time you do this, it get’s harder to lose the weight, and easier to put it back…
This post is a quick one for you today and the focus is on 3 observations that we can turn into lessons that can be applied to your life inside and outside the gym. Let’s go… So here’s the scenario. I noticed a member continually grinding through a shoulder issue in their training. Instead of…
Dear Member, I wanted to write this letter to you as I’m an advocate of the statement: Awareness Precedes Change And by writing this to you, I hope we can begin to bring more awareness to the client-coach relationship. So what is a coach? By definition it is an individual that guides another through a…
Why is this important and why do some gym owners not do this? What would be their reasoning??? To me, the reason gym owners follow their own program is that they believe in their programming. So if you don’t believe in your own programming, you are going to follow somebody else’s… If you believe your…
ARE YOU INTERESTED OR COMMITTED? This was Sunday, Super Bowl Sunday and I was in Victoria in an ice bath an hour before it snowed. AKA I was working. Working on getting 1% better. Working on bringing down mental hurdles that could possibly stop me from growing my mindset. See, most people are stuck when…
The biggest thing missing in your workouts (and the 5 new rules of lifting) The more I help people with habits, the more I find it boils down to daily discipline and winning the day. If you win 6 days out of 7, odds are you are likely moving the needle forward and seeing some…
This past weekend marked the end of our 13th instalment of The Biggest Winner. The Biggest Winner is a 12 Week Weight Loss Challenge that focuses on building sustainable healthy habits for the long term. And I stress long term… Because rather than putting this challenge at the easiest time of year, we put it…