First, grow up and stop that snickering. One of my clients told me she’d taken a Fartlek Class and asked what I thought. Me: “A Fartlek CLASS?? What’s a Fartlek CLASS? (Politely, in my head) “How can Fartlek even be a class?” (Less politely in my head) “What kinda’...
One of my clients this morning was telling me how happy she was that her son got to come home from college for Easter. Me, half-jokingly: “Wait – how can you possibly have a son in college?” You see, we started working together when she realized she...
One of my clients just asked me a question I get virtually every day from women over 45: “How do I lose this [grabs body part – in this case, her upper arm].” I told her what I’ve been saying for years – my erstwhile signature sound bite: “You have more control...
My old friend and former co-worker, Nick Tumminello* just wrote a post that ended: “ … to many clients, “getting results” from exercising isn’t about achieving impressive deadlift numbers or to build a wider back – those are gym-rat goals. It simply...
You know how you gorged yourself on that pizza the other day? It’s completely natural to eat that second (third?) piece of pizza today because the negative weight and health consequences are so far off in the future. Psych nerds call it “Delay...
