Building a balanced meal with your hands isn’t just another meal plan. It’s a skill you can develop. Some people don’t struggle with nutrition because they “don’t know what to eat.” They struggle due to inconsistent meal times and portion … Read More
Author Archives: Balance Guy Training
What Result Are You Expecting?
When you exercise, you expect a result. A result like muscle gain, fat loss, improved cardiovascular fitness, or enhanced performance. When you look down at the scale or pose in the mirror, you want to like what you see. You … Read More
Take Your Time
“Take your time” is what I say when a client is running late. It sounds counterintuitive because they’re running late, so they should hurry. But by saying take your time, they do, and the pressure is off. We live in … Read More
Get Stronger, Faster with Combo Exercises
When your life is a juggling act of work, family, and other responsibilities, workouts can fall to the bottom of the priority list. Combo exercises are ideal for busy adults seeking effective results in the limited time they have, without … Read More
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Eating
Sustainable eating involves choosing a way of eating you can maintain over the long term. Do you believe that mainstream diets, with all their rules, achieve that? Ponder that for a moment. When we see an unflattering scale weight or … Read More
How To Find A Deeper Exercise Connection
Many people fail to make the connection between what they do in the gym and what they do outside it. It’s only for getting sexy. That’s it There’s often a rush every New Year’s Day to gyms worldwide to make … Read More
Making The Best Out of A Bad Situation
We’ve all been in a bad situation. Situations that are out of our control, situations where we’ve made a mistake, or situations where we face the repercussions of someone else’s mistake. Once the initial shock wears off, reality hits. What … Read More
The Anti-Diet Diet
The USA diet industry, and I use that term loosely, makes $135 billion per year. If those diets don’t work, Americans spend an estimated $4.6 to $7.0 billion on weight-loss surgeries. Do you think that if dieting truly worked, the … Read More
Stress + Rest = Growth Part 2
Part one explains what happens when too much or too little stress is applied, and the same with rest. Part two discusses how growth occurs between the two and how you go about finding it. Where Growth Lives Growth depends … Read More
Stress + Rest = Growth
Many people do one or the other but not both. Stress and Rest One side never quits while the other sits on the couch. The grinders and never-quitters see stress as a badge of honor, filling their days with hard … Read More