Mr. Man is 2!

It just seems like yesterday when I used to rock Mr. Man four in the morning and Kate and me were so sleep deprived that we couldn’t see or think straight. It also seems like yesterday when I could hold him in the palms of my hands. Unbelievably, he is now almost 30 lbs and

Pandicular Reflex: How to release Your Tight Muscles by Yawning

​​ Have you ever noticed when your four-legged best friend gets up from a good long nap, it yawns and stretches out? Well, there is a name for that, it is called pandiculation. Pandiculation is a way your Fido instinctively resets his muscles after being still for a long time. So how does that help

Specific Training needs for the Equestrian

It seems to me, from the reading I have done so far, that equestrian sports are far more demanding than first meets the eye. It takes stamina, strength, finesse, and muscular coordination to team up with a very large and powerful athletic equine partner. It is also clear that equestrian sports pose risks to riders

Barbell Strength vs. Bodyweight Strength

While I was training my clients the other day, there was a young member that was working out in the gym. The exercises that he was doing took me back to my glory days of lifting iron. Back then my goals were Popeye arms that measured at least 15”—if not 17”, a 400 lbs barbell

Physical Literacy: Revisited

For as long as I can remember my main form of training myself was either bodybuilding, Olympic lifting, or powerlifting. I always thought that there was a need for external weights barbells and dumbbells and brand name weight equipment like Cybex, Lifefitness, etc to get a good workout. In 2014, however, I made a paradigm

Fitness Ruts and Burnouts

One of the worst things that can happen to your fitness progress is mental burnout and over-training, which then can lead to nagging injuries–or worse, serious ones. I was starting to feel the mental burnout creeping in two weeks ago and what did I do: NOTHING. Trainers often say you have to “push through”, or

Training the Horsey Riders

My client’s awesome daughter doing the horsey thing With the return of the Preakness once again to B-more, everyone is buzzing about all things equine. Also a few weeks ago, while I was being a total couch potato, I happened to stumble upon the FEI World Equestrian Games. So that got me thinking: how and

Diet Adjustment: Two Meals a day, Oh My!

It’s been few days after my I went from eating three meals to two meals a day. Here are pictures of what Kate made me for din din this past week. With this latest change, I have to admit I was hungry as hell starting at 4 pm; I was so hungry it felt like

Week 12 Update

It has been week 12 of my IF experiment; boy, the time has flown by. During the last three months a few momentous things have occurred: My 9 month-old baby boy has gone from wearing 12 months clothing to 18 months. Kate’s weight has dropped down to 111lbs from chasing Mr. Man (Christopher) around the

Postprandial Somnolence, English please!

Ever since I made the change to one “clean” meal and a nightly carb-up, I’ve been falling asleep after my evening meal like Goldilocks. My redheaded intern has been suffering from the same food coma (some call it a “carb coma”) phenomenon himself. I knew part of the reason we’ve been going into a comatose