weight management … athletic performance … living life with intention

It’s pretty darned difficult to narrow your life’s work into three simple phrases, so there you go, that is my crack at it. These three things are inseparable though, and why I love doing what I do.

1. Weight Management – just as we are managing our finances, our households and the relationships in our life, all of us will always be managing our weight. I offer strategies to learn from and enjoy this journey and to discover why doing so leads to so many other great things in life to many of us miss out on.
2. Athletic Performance – we are all athletes, or in the least, should be training with purpose, fueling our bodies with food that helps us perform and minding our performance. Whether on the playing field, at the office, or running around after the kids, we all have to perform every day, and discovering your inner-athlete is a great perspective for maintaining a healthy, strong body.
3. Living With Intention – living in reaction, instead of with direction and purpose, is one of our society’s biggest epidemics. You have two choices in life: get busy living, or get busy dying. Period. I offer strategies to help other develop their intention, their reason for achieving their goals. As Stephen Covey puts it, to help others “live out of our imagination, not our history.”

Someone recently asked in a networking group, “fitness professionals, what do you do and why do you do it?” They then instructed us to answer as if we were talking to a 10 year old child. My answer was:

 I help others feel better because I can.

“relate to, educate, and motivate others.”

James Harris and I doing a few test shots for an upcoming video (series.)

So having pointed out just a few things about me personally, if there are two things I want to master and share with others, they are:

1.  daily balance and fulfillment - specifically through improving the relationship we have with our body, our food, and our primary support group (family, friends, etc.)
2. communication skills – the future belongs to those who can communicate effectively!

(As today’s American culture is suffering at epidemic levels a shortage of both of these things.)

You will rarely find a recommendation or blog post here that tells you the way it is.

Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it. – Voltaire

The difference between a personal trainer and a fitness coach (me and my awesome team!) is that a personal trainer is (gulp, hopefully) an expert in fitness technique and programming, whereas a professional coach, is (at least working hard to become) an expert in communication, in building rapport, and facilitating a healthy, progressive, and productive dialogue with those we coach. Improving one’s awareness, alone, often results in leading to the (desired) behavior and goals.

So other than all that ramble, all I know is that George Lucas either got really lucky the first time around or lost his mind in the last two decades; we have an horribly unfortunate cultural epidemic that is eroding our country, resulting from each generation taking the one before it, for granted; and finally, one day I will be in a basketball gym with my son, (now 17 weeks old) and together we will both dunk a basketball.

So please visit and revisit, and PLEASE comment, as I promise to reply either through post or video to your comments. My coaching approach is “co-active”, so never are these posts meant to be a one way street, or the end all solutions to your health and fitness goals. Instead, there are here to encourage learning, encourage body awareness, to encourage the acceptance of your body and it’s changes as you achieve your goals, continue to age, compete on the playing field, manage your daily stresses, and live day to day.