(BlackFitness101.com) Fifty push-ups before breakfast will not melt the ring sitting around your midsection. I have coached people long enough to watch a bunch of them believe it would, so I am telling you straight before the mirror tells you the hard way in a month. You know that viral ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Somebody in my class last week held up two little dumbbells and asked me flat out, “Do these actually do anything, or am I just carrying decoration?” I laughed, because that question lands in my lap more than any other. People want their stroll to count. They crave the ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Physical fitness deserves a fuller definition than the narrow one most of us inherited, and broadening it changes how well we actually live. So here is the question I put to new clients when they walk in glowing about a smaller number on the scale. You dropped the pounds, ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Weight loss after 50 carries a hidden cost that most men never account for, and that cost is lean tissue. Now let me talk to you the way I talk to my clients at five in the morning, before anybody’s coffee has kicked in. A gentleman walked into my ...
(BlackFitness101.com) After more than a decade of training couples, the pattern is impossible to miss. The plans that fail are rarely the ones people are too tired for. They are the ones that never fit the calendar in the first place. Two jobs, a mortgage, a family group chat that ...
(BlackFitness101.com) I have spent better than twenty years training men in iron rooms, and let me tell you, there is no creature on God’s green earth quite like a fellow who just turned forty walking back into a gym. His frame used to do certain things, and he remembers every ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Something happened in one of my classes about three years ago that I still think about. A woman, probably 52 or 53, came in for the first time and before she even put her bag down she said I know I have a lot of work to do. She ...
(BlackFitness101.com) A lot of folks make chest training sound like something that has to happen in a gym with loud music, benches, mirrors, and somebody walking around with a gallon jug of water. I have been around fitness too long to believe that. I have seen people get stronger in ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Folks keep acting like hybrid training just fell out the sky with a new pair of leggings and a fresh podcast name. I hear it all the time now. Somebody lifts on Monday, runs on Wednesday, takes a boxing class Saturday, then suddenly they have discovered something brand new. ...
(BlackFitness101.com) Most of us remember jumping jacks from somewhere. School gym, summer camp, football practice, basketball warmups, maybe even a coach in the neighborhood counting loud with a whistle hanging from his neck. Nobody gave a long speech about the move back then. You just opened the feet, raised the ...