Keep Showing Up
Last week, one of my clients messaged me feeling off. Her sleep had been patchy. She’d been stuck in meetings all day. The gym was packed. Her usual squat rack was taken. And she forgot her pre-workout. 😅 She said, “Everything felt off. I almost didn’t train.” But she did. She trained anyway. She adjusted. She…
Train Your Hamstrings Properly
A client came to me for a program audit and said, “I don’t get it… I train legs every week, but my hamstrings aren’t growing.” When I looked at her plan, I saw the problem right away. The only hamstring work she had was RDLs once a week, and even RDLs don’t train the hamstrings that…
Stop Changing The Recipe
Imagine you start cooking a chicken based meal… You’re halfway through and it smells amazing. Then you see a video that says beef is better. So you stop, grab some beef, and start over. Then, bam! Another video says turkey is better. So you stop again and switch to turkey. Now it’s been hours… and you’re still…
More Was Better
I still remember this one workout I did back in my parents’ garage. My friend came over, and we did German Volume Training for back squats—10 sets of 10. Then we did Romanian deadlifts… another 10 sets of 10. After that came walking lunges up and down the court outside. I swear we did like…
Feelings Don’t Matter
You don’t need another motivational quote. You need a standard for how you show up. Because let’s be honest—if you trained only when you felt like it,you wouldn’t be half as strong as you are now. That physique you want?That barbell you want to finally dominate?That confidence that bleeds into every other part of your…
Single Limb Training
The other day, I was watching one of my clients do Bulgarian split squats. She crushed her first leg, then jumped straight into the other side without a break. I didn’t pull her up as I wanted to use it as a teaching moment. Halfway through, she looked at me and said, “Why does this…
Time Under Tension?
Last week, a new client proudly told me she has been dragging out her sets so they last 90-second sets “to maximize time under tension.” She said, “I figured the longer the tension, the better the growth, right?” It makes sense on paper—but the truth is, time under tension is overrated. Yes, your muscles need…