You Eat Well All Week. Then the Weekend Happens. Now what?
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training A common things I hear: “I eat really well during the week, but weekends are a different story.” First — good. You should enjoy your weekends. The goal is not to be perfect. That’s not sustainable and frankly a draggg. But here’s what most people don’t realize: the weekend […]
Why Daylight Saving Time Hits You Like a Brick Wall After 40
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Every year, without fail, it happens. The clocks change. You think, “It’s one hour. I’ll be fine.” And then you spend the next week dragging yourself through life like you got hit by a bus. You’re not being dramatic, or lazy. Your body just hates you and this time […]
Why Your Doctor’s Fitness Advice Is Probably Wrong
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Let me say something that might get my medical license revoked. Your doctor (most likely) knows little about your fitness. Not because they’re bad doctors, or don’t care about your health. But because most physicians receive somewhere between zero and four hours of exercise science education in medical school. […]
How To Bounce Back After a Training Pause: Part Deux
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Welcome back. If you missed Part I — go read it first. The short version: your gains didn’t disappear, your body is reorganizing. Or in the reference of savings, the money’s still there, it just moved around. So how do you get it back. Because here’s where most people […]
How To Bounce Back After a Training Pause: Part I
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training If I could wave a magic wand, I would rid most people of the chaotic mess that is health and fitness. We hope the journey is on the straight and narrow, only to find ourselves lost, off track, confused, and wondering “how in the hell did I get here.” […]
Almost Nothing: The Most Productive Thing You Can Do for Your Fitness
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Let me put on my nerd coat for a second. You may think you need more training and to bang your head against more walls to create change. Wrong. Your central nervous system doesn’t adapt during training. It adapts during recovery. The workout is just THE stimulus. Here’s what […]
How to Actually Sleep: The Complete Guide of What Not To Do
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Let me tell you about one of the worst night(s) sleep I’ve ever had. Annual fishing trip to Erie. Sixteenth year running with my dad. One of my favorite weeks of the year. We have to be on the lake before 5am which means waking up before 4:30. Which […]
Stop Training Like You’re 25: The Right Prescription for Women Over 40
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training If you read our last piece on menopause — about what’s actually happening to you, and that you’re not broken — this is the natural next step. That was the WHY. This is the WHAT Specifically: what does training actually look like for a woman in perimenopause or post-menopause? […]
I Went Through All of This For You
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training I get this a lot. “You’re a young guy in great shape. You have no idea what I’m going through.” Oh yeah? Hold my beer. The Kid Nobody Picked I grew up a fairly active kid who loved food. My genetically gifted sister loved food too — but there […]
Feel Like Yourself Again (A Menopause Conversation Worth Having)
By Doc | Stronger Personal Training Here’s a topic most won’t touch with a ten foot pole. Menopause is not a weakness. It’s not an excuse. And it’s definitely not something you should be navigating alone with a Google search and a Facebook group full of conflicting opinions. It’s a physiological shift that affects everything […]